Adult Spiritual Development

So many of us are struggling or seeking to feel calm or grounded. Join us for a gentle yet powerful way to support body, mind, and spirit during these challenging times.

Led by Ken Yamaguchi-Clark and Carol Collins. Sunday mornings 9:30 AM in person. No registration required--Just join in!

Join us for an introductory session of the Death Café, a space where honest conversations about death and end-of-life issues are welcomed and encouraged. Around the world, Death Cafés have brought people together in small social groups to “drink tea, eat cake, and talk about death and grief.”  Death cafe groups are NOT grief support groups nor counseling. Rather, they are a place to talk, listen and discuss our thoughts and feelings around death, creating a space for meaningful reflection on mortality, memory and community connection.

Led by Leslie Tolf. First Sunday of each month after service. No registration required.

TBD

Leads: Rev. Anastassia Zinke & Mary Beth Hatem

A 10-month spiritual deepening  program for UU’s, UU Wellspring is a commitment to explore your own spiritual life, spiritual practices and understanding of Unitarian Universalism with a group of companions who support each other in the journey. Groups meet twice a month to discuss UU history and theology and the “big questions” of our lives, asking throughout how we can put our faith into action.

No charge; Please contact Libby Moore for further information/to register: libbymoore81@gmail.com.

This course provides a space for white people and/or people who have benefited from white privilege to explore concepts, language, and skills needed to do anti-racism work at All Souls and beyond. It’s a powerful opportunity to reflect, learn, and build relationships in a supportive environment. It’s also a chance for white people, and those benefitting from white privilege, to educate themselves to avoid placing the burden for that work on BIPOC congregants.

Led by Bob Wittig, Jennifer Keller, and Bill Kane.

This introductory course will explore the framework of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which supports the development of skills to respond to conflict with compassion, care, and hopefully a mutually beneficial resolution. NVC supports individuals in identifying and understanding the feelings and needs that underlie our conflicts and in learning how to make requests to move interactions forward that can address the conflict. We will explore how our various identities and their resultant power over/power with/power under can influence how we observe a situation and communicate with others. We will take an intersectional approach, considering the effects of different identities and social positions such as race, gender, national origin, social class, gender, and disability on our interactions.

This is a highly interactive class with time devoted to practice and reflection. Please be mindful that regular attendance promotes the building of relationships and skills.  These classes will not be recorded.  To learn more about the class, please contact Bob Wittig at bobwittig@gmail.com.

Build skills for conflict transformation, hosted by the Committee on Right Relations.

Explore our individual histories with prayer and talk about the many forms that prayer can take.

Forthcoming.

The Common Read is a community-building exercise where everyone who is part of the All Souls community is invited to come together around a shared text that inspires meaningful conversations, connections and, possibly, actions. Past Common Read works at All Souls have included On Repentance and Repair by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg; No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit; and White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

Forthcoming.