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

[Barbara Thompson]

Count me in!

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:56 PM Sue Stukey <susan.stukey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Barb,
> I’d be glad to have you join me for the drive down!
> Cheers, Sue
>
> Sue Stukey's Phone
>
> On Oct 1, 2018, at 11:02 AM, Barbara Thompson <tducksoup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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