Adult Religious Education

The Adult Religious Education Committee is happy to offer you a range of curriculum-based class opportunities for personal and spiritual growth and development over the course of the church year. Please contact the MVUUF office if you would like more information or if you would like to contact the group facilitator. Unless noted otherwise, registration and/or commitment is not required. However, it will help to know who is coming so that facilitator/s can be better prepared. Meeting rooms will be determined when we have an idea of how many attendees we will have. For some classes, there may be a book recommended or required.

Nonviolent Communication

Simply put, Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a way of relating to ourselves and others, moment to moment, free of past reactions. By learning to identify your needs and express them powerfully, as well as to bring understanding to the needs of others, you can stay connected to what is alive in you and create a life that is more fulfilling.

Nonviolent Communication study and practice group will be held Sundays March-May, 2010. We'll meet 7-8:30 p.m. in the Founder's Room. Books are strongly recommended, including Nonviolent Communication: A Language Of Life by Marshall Rosenberg and the Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook by Lucy Leu and can be purchased through www.cnvc.org/en/bookstore/cnvc-store-printed-items or your favorite used-book seller.

The group is welcome to all, whether this is new to you or you have been practicing NVC for some time. I am looking forward to improving my own skills as well as sharing this very helpful tool with others. If you would like to participate, contact the fellowship office.

UU Parent

Our Unitarian Universalist Parent class will start up again this Sunday, Feb. 7. This parenting class will follow the curriculum called, Parents as Resident Theologians. Garlene Hamilton will facilitate this wonderful group. This class will run the first and third Sunday of each month, through the end of May. The UU parent class will meet before service at 9:45 to 10:45 am, and childcare is available.

What Moves Us

"What Moves Us" is a UU curriculum dealing with UU theology and its meaning in our lives. This seminar provides a framework for deep and longtime UUs to engage in theological reflection, not as an intellectual exercise, but as a process of meaning-making that equips one for living in the world as a UU person of faith. This program explores the life experiences of both historic and contemporary UU theologians, highlighting that which caused in them a change of heart, a new direction, new hope, and a deeper understanding of their own liberal faith. This course will be offered Tuesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., January 26-March 30. It will be led by Rev. Amy Russell.