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

[Rev. Joan Javier-Duval]

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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