Upcoming Classes
Deepening and Connecting in UU: Adult Programs at ERUUF
Would you like to contribute your time and/or skills to support ERUUFians in connecting with one another while understanding UU and themselves better? We're looking for folks who might want to hold space for discussion, help facilitate a zoom room, and more. Find out the possibilities here.
Working Towards Justice When Time is Short
Sunday, October 26
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Chapel
Format: Drop-in (Registration optional)
Facilitated by Kaleb Graves, Justice Coordinator
Authoritarianism is rising very quickly, and our lives feel like they've gotten busier. Join ERUUF Justice Coordinator Kaleb Graves to learn how to get involved in justice work to make a difference, even when time is short. We will discuss the difference between organizing and activism, discernment in choosing justice work that fits your skills, time management, and building your confidence to do more. By the end of this session, you will have all the tools you need to start your journey into action.
Class with the Minister: Meeting Our Religious Past
Wednesdays, October 8, 15, 29, and November 5
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location: Fellowship Hall
Format: Drop-in (regular attendance encouraged)
Facilitated by Rev. Jim Lewis
What would it be like to process your religious past, acknowledging where there is pain and considering if there is anything you might want to integrate into your current experiences? Through personal reflection, discussion, connection, and activities, we will examine where we have been. Open to all, newer UUs, life-long UUs and everyone in between.
Living UU Values in Today's Challenging Times
Sundays, October 5, 19 and
November 2
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Chapel
Format: Drop-in (Registration optional)
Facilitated by Adult Programs Team
What does it mean to you to live your UU values right now in this world? Reflect together with other ERUUFians on some of the current challenges of our lives and how we can live our values as Unitarian Universalists, finding hope, solidarity, and potential avenues for action. We will visit the words and actions of UUs in our history in connection with each topic, examine what we ourselves believe, and get some information on how we might connect with action on each topic.
Topics:
- October 5: Challenges to separation of church and state and living our UU values
- October 19: Loosening of environmental protections and living our UU values
- November 2: Loss and defunding of programs and living our UU values
Registration is encouraged as it helps us plan better.
Class with the Minister: The Practice of Centering: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life
Wednesdays, November 5, 12, 19
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Fellowship Hall (Zoom available)
Format: Drop in (regular attendance encouraged)
Facilitated by Rev. Daniel Trollinger
Life is full of situations that pull us off center. What helps you to connect and center? There are practical exercises that can enable us to respond and reset in the face of everything going on in the world. The capacity to self-regulate, in a healthy way, is one of the most important life skills we can learn. In this three-week class we will engage practices to activate our inner compass, the part within our being that guides us to a place of greater knowing, greater giving, and greater peace.
Death Café
Sundays
September 14, October 12, November 9, December 14
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
Chapel
Format: Drop-in (Registration optional)
Facilitated by the Pastoral Care Team
Death Cafes are spaces for people to gather and talk about death, shifting fear and nervousness around the topic to acceptance and familiarity. Bring your lunch and join others in conversation.
Note: A Death Cafe does not offer grief support. If you are in need of grief support, please contact Rev. Jim to meet one-on-one or for resources surrounding support for grief.
Registration encouraged as it helps us plan better.
Looking Inward, Outward, and Onward: Discerning our Meaning-Making and/or Spiritual Path
Dates: Winter/Spring TBA
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Format: In-person cohort of 5-10 people, RSVP required
Facilitated by the Adult Programs Team
In this course, you will gather with a cohort of other ERUUFians to share about your own journey of spirituality and/or meaning-making. From there, we will engage together in exercises to center ourselves and discuss what is most important to us now. The course culminates in sharing with the cohort an expression of one’s beliefs and/or meaning-making, be that through writing, art, music, or other form of meaning-making. Join us for a time of connection, depth, discernment, and sharing.
RSVP will be available at a later date. Please let us know if you are interested in being in the group by filling out this form.
