[Coc] Join Me and other UCM Leaders for "Claiming Our Spiritual Leadership" Oct. 27 Workshop

[Barbara Thompson]

Thanks, Sue. This does sound good. Please put me on the list. Thanks,
Barbara

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:17 AM Sue Stukey via Coc <
coc at unitarianchurchofmontpelier.org> wrote:

> Hi, Joan,
> I would like very much to attend the workshop!
> As far as I know I am free and can drive myself and others.
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
> Sue Stukey's Phone
>
> On Sep 27, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Rev. Joan Javier-Duval <
> ucm.revjoan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear UCM Committee Chairs and Leaders,
>
> Thank you for bringing all of your gifts, skills, and care to your service
> to UCM! I am writing to share an exciting opportunity to deepen in your
> leadership in our community.
>
> The New England Region UUA is putting on an all day workshop called,
> "Claiming Our Spiritual Leadership." They will be offering this in multiple
> locations in New England including Woodstock, VT on *Saturday, October 27*
> from *9:30AM-3PM*. See more details below and attached.
>
> I plan to register a team from UCM. *Please let me know by Wednesday,
> October 3 if you would like to join us*. Feel free to share this with
> your committee/team members. There will be no cost to you for this
> workshop. I think this will be a valuable workshop for leaders in our
> congregation during this time of dynamic change and deepening our sense of
> shared covenant and shared vision for the future.
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions!
>
> Warmly,
> Joan
>
>
> Event Information
> DESCRIPTION
>
> *A workshop designed for boards, committees, church staff, newly nominated
> or elected leaders, and longtime volunteers who want to tap their
> individual and collective power for living into the mission and purpose of
> their congregation.*
>
> PRESENTERS: Your New England Region UUA Staff Team
>
> As leaders in your congregation, do you sometimes feel your church
> commitments are more like chores than a joyful expression of your faith?
> Are you collectively worried about having enough -- time, money,
> volunteers, members? Do your people long to deepen or recapture their
> connection to each other, to spirit, to purpose? Do you have a vision for
> change but feel unsure how to bring it about or express it in a way that
> will be welcomed?
>
> If you answered “Yes” to these questions, now is the time to claim your *spiritual
> leadership.*
>
> Spiritual leadership assumes that all people have gifts the world needs,
> that everyone has access to a power from within that can fuel the
> community’s collective creativity and action. Congregations can be
> purposeful communities where we celebrate and share our gifts, where
> covenanting is a practice, not just words on a website, where we take
> faithful risks together that liberate us from ruts and limits. Spiritual
> leadership transforms church work into spiritual growth, community
> building, and faithful action.
>
> In this workshop, come explore the nature and practices of spiritual
> leadership, which can be brought back and applied in your congregation.
> Together, we will:
>
>    - Distinguish spiritual leadership from other forms of leadership;
>    - Name our own gifts and imagine how our congregations might better
>    support everyone to discern and deliver their gifts for collective well
>    being;
>    - Recognize covenanting as an active practice that builds community;
>    - Identify essentials of the inner work needed to show up as your best
>    selves;
>    - Explore what it means to be inheritors and stewards of the Unitarian
>    Universalist religious tradition; and
>    - Outline a faithful experiment in spiritual leadership
>
> This program is designed for religious professionals and lay people to
> build collective practice for collective action. Because shifts in
> congregational practice require sustained group effort, you are strongly
> encouraged to attend this workshop with a team of five or more.
> *Rev. Joan Javier-Duval* | *Minister*
> Unitarian Church of Montpelier
> ucm.revjoan at gmail.com | 802-223-7861 x1 | Facebook
> <http://www.facebook.com/joaniemj> | Twitter
> <http://twitter.com/RevJoanUU>
>
> *"We are each other's harvest; **we are each other's business; we are
> each other's magnitude and bond." --Gwendolyn Brooks*
>
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