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LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2007
San Antonio, TX
October 12-15
Doubletree Hotel San Antonio Airport
“Weaving
the Fabric of Our Faith”
Unitarian Universalism is a transforming faith that is held
in communities and in the hearts and minds of those who claim it. How can we provide programs across the
lifespan that meet our need to seek meaning, to be held in love, to channel
our passion for justice, and satisfy our quest to know more deeply the
diversity and wholeness of our Unitarian Universalist
faith?
The Lifespan Faith Development staff group of the UUA
invites you to join them as they share steps of their current journey from
inquiry to actualization of Tapestry of Faith, a series of programs and
resources for all ages.
Engage in deep consideration of how we can equip and
empower congregations to provide experiences across the lifespan that nurture
Unitarian Universalist identity, spiritual growth,
faith, and ethical development.
Together we will ponder philosophical and pragmatic
issues. How can we honor
individual and community development at once? How can we give definition to
what it means to develop Unitarian Universalist
identity while honoring diversity?
How can we deepen our theological understanding of growing in
faith? How can we reach seekers
of all ages?
Presented by UUA Lifespan Faith Development
Staff: Judith A. Frediani, Rev. Sarah Gibb Millspaugh,
Dr. Tracy L. Hurd, and Jessica York. With special speaker, UUA President,
Rev. William Sinkford.
Canadian Unitarian
Council’s Lifespan Learning Community Program Powerpoint
Presentation
LARGE Add-On Day
Monday Oct. 15 noon-Tues Oct. 16 noon
“Spiritual Leadership”
How do we merge our
leadership with our faith principles?
From defining roles and responsibilities, to crafting and implementing
policy, to managing conflict, our Unitarian Universalist
values provide us with not only the tools but the inspiration to lead with
confidence and authenticity. Join us as we welcome Gini Courter, dynamic Moderator
of the Unitarian Universalist Association!
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LREDA Fall Conference 2006
Orlando, Fl October 20-23
Crowne Plaza Orlando Airport Hotel
“To Honor the Many Gifts We Bring”
The
LREDA Integrity Team tempts you to prepare your heart and soul for the 2006
LREDA Fall Conference in Orlando,
Florida. The topic is Linked Oppression. We will be looking at common threads
that run through the many forms of oppression that prevail in our society
today as we try to surface, name and grapple with the forces that prevent us
from achieving the diverse communities we claim to want. To help us articulate our journey, we
have invited Dr. William R. Jones, scholar, educator, philosopher and
activist to be our keynote speaker.
The tragedy of oppression is alive with emotionally charged stories of
people’s experiences. We
invite you over the next few months to expand and deepen your understanding
of oppression.
We’ve provided a
link to what we hope will be an expanding list of books, movies and music
from popular culture that touch on issues of racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism and gender stereotypes. Integrity Team List
Most of all, though, we’d like you to engage in a discovery
process, expanding and deepening your own skills and understanding so that we
may truly “honor the many gifts we bring.”
**These
resources have been reviewed and recommended by Fall Conference 2006
presenters, allies, and/or members of the LREDA Integrity Team. Please read the materials on the
Foundation list, AND choose at least one resource from the topic area you
plan to focus on at the Conference, and read, view, listen to or use it
before you arrive at the Conference.
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Foundation List
Resources
Canadian
Materials
Canadian Timeline – Nunavut
Canadian History
Resolutions of the Canadian Unitarian Council
(CUC)
Canadian Unitarian Council’s Views on
Racism
Canadian Resources
Race and First Nations Equity, by the Rev. Mac
Elrod
LREDA
Integrity Team
Annie
J. Scott, Chair
Helen
Bishop
Gail
Forsyth-Vail
Chris
Parker (liaison, LREDA Board)
Lisa
Rubin
Jessica York
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LREDA FALL CONFERENCE 2005
Philadelphia, PA October 21-24
Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia
“Mapping
Uncharted Territory:
New
Directions for Growing Learning Congregations”
Our
presenter, Rev. Lawrence Peers has provided consulting and
training to new and established congregations of various sizes, boards of
trustees, nonprofits, judicatories, young adult conferences, and national
denominational organizations across North America. He has served as a
congregational development and growth consultant with a national
denominational office, as a minister and as a religious educator in local
congregations, as a therapist and as a program coordinator in a nonprofit
agency. He draws from a rich array of insights and methods developed in his
work in congregational studies, organizational development, and spiritual
discernment processes. Larry has worked extensively on inter-denominational
projects and we are very pleased to have him as our LREDA fall conference
2005 presenter.
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LREDA Fall Conference 2004
CHICAGO, IL October 22-25
Sheraton Gateway Suites
O’Hare
After the conference in Chicago, there were many
requests for handouts from the presenters. The following are the documents that
the presenters were willing and able to share on the web:
Todd
Strickland/Catherine Farmer: WAY
COOL
Way Cool Sunday School is
an experiential RE format, incorporating
regular
Worship, Social Justice, and Arts Sundays as well as curriculum-based
Classroom
Sundays, all grounded in a common focus on our Unitarian Universalist
principles
and values. At its heart lies the
conviction that children are
best
served when integrated into the whole life of the church,
and
that RE is where congregational transformation happens.
Nita Penfold: SPIRIT PLAY
Spirit
Play is the Unitarian Universalist adaptation of
Jerome Berryman’s
Montessori-based
religious education program, Godly Play.
Spirit Play
honors multiple ways of learning in a concrete environment
rich with story,
spirituality,
and art, where children can live into their own answers to
existential
questions while learning to live out their values in a community
of multi-aged children.
Gail
Forsyth-Vail/Helen Zidowecki: SMALL GROUP MINISTRY
Small Group Ministry and Relational
Religious Education
This model of religious education puts the emphasis on relationship.
Children/ youth and the adults who work with them connect with each
other and connect their own lives with the meaning found in sacred or
wisdom stories. The presentation will include the philosophical and
theological underpinnings of the model as well as practical information
on implementation in the local congregation.
Kathy
Keith/September Gerety: Workshop Rotation
(no materials available for web as of
2-15-05)
Workshop
Rotation is a multidimensional approach to religious education
based on
Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. Each lesson
is presented in several workshop
forms, allowing children to experience and
interact with
the topic in a variety of ways.
The result is learning and a degree of
understanding and retention that
can come only from actually experiencing the
lesson. As it engages all the senses, it also
engages a broad cross-section of the
congregation, with multiple
opportunities for adult participation in short-term commitments.
“Religious
Education:
Models for the 21st Century”
Keynote
Speaker—Vivian Gussin Paley
Macarthur
Fellow and author of many books including White Teacher; You Can’t
Say you Can’t Play; Kwaanza and Me and
new in Spring 2004 The Endangered Occupation: A
Defense of Fantasy Play
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Interactive hands-on learning…
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Featuring a variety of models…
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Hear about all four models during theme
presentations on Saturday morning, then choose two
for more in depth learning through demonstration workshops!
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