About Shared Ministry Days Wednesday - friday
Multicultural Renaissance Religious Education
Module
Location: , Surrey BC,
May 16-18
The goals for participants in this
module are:
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Creating a climate that invites, honours and celebrates diversity
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Fostering positive attitudes toward diversity as enriching and
enabling our religious community
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Enhancing the ability to value and affirm one’s own culture and that
of others
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Helping participants acquire knowledge and develop their willingness
to work toward change for social justice
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Promoting social structural equality and cultural pluralism
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Discovering how diversity and pluralism expand our understandings
and enrich our lives together
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Helping prepare participants for deeper meaning and authentic
participation in a diverse world
Module Coordinator: Sylvia Bass West
519-472-7073 lifespan@cuc.ca
Module Leaders:
Cathy Tauscher 360-579-6024 tauscher@whidbey.com
Cathy Tauscher has been a religious educator in the
state of Washington for the past 20 years, and is currently the DRE at
the Woodinville Unitarian Universalist Church. She has a masters’
degree in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College of Pasadena with
a specialization in Leadership in Education. A formative experience in
her program at Pacific Oaks, which led to a strong commitment to
anti-oppression work, was studying the social and political context of
human development. She is a trained leader of the UUA Renaissance
Program’s Multicultural Module.
Cathy is currently serving on the LREDA Credentialing
Mentoring Committee. For the past ten years, she has been the director
of the yearly Puget Sound Middle School Conference. Cathy lives on
Whidbey Island where she cares for her family’s miniature show horses
and a pony.
Audrey O’Callaghan (613) 283-6055 audrryoc@magma.ca
Using her Early Childhood Education and Social
Service Training, Audrey began a career as a welfare worker, then
continued training and became a life skills coach. Life Skills
coaching involved facilitating groups of adults who were re-entering
the work force. Audrey was the first Director of Religious Education
at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa. Audrey has held
many roles within UU community, including serving on the St. Lawrence
District RE Committee. She is now a CUC lifespan learning service
consultant.
Audrey writes, “It excites me to meet and create
friendships and shared kinship with others involved in religious
education. I can trace my enthusiasm in accepting challenges in life
as being directly related to my ongoing involvement with religious
education and how I feel about lifespan learning. I look forward to
connecting with you to share my experience and enthusiasm”.
Program details:
This module prepares us for the overall ACM 2007
theme of Diversity in Community. Renaissance training is a very
valuable experience for DREs, Program or Volunteer Coordinators
serving religious education, RE Committee members, ministerial
students and RE supporters in general. As with all trainings, you’ll
be sharing and learning with a group of UUs passionate about justice
and equity in human relations and building communities of spiritual
growth and lifespan faith development. Some attendees may have
familiarity with the issues and resources around multiculturalism, and
others may have done a number of related trainings.
Each participant brings their own gifts and understandings and takes
with them some new understanding of the value of community,
lifespan religious education, and collegial connections.
Registration:
Thursday
Welcoming and Celebrating Congregational Diversity
The CUC Racial and First Nations Equity Monitoring
Group will be unveiling this new congregationally-based program at the
ACM. The WCCD workshop is intended to be one step in helping
congregations be more welcoming to people of diverse racial and ethnic
backgrounds, and to encourage the development of relations with groups
representing such diversity.
For more information,
http://www.cuc.ca/social_responsibility/racial_firstnations_equity.htm
Facilitator: Rev. Keith Kron, Director of the
Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Concerns at the
Unitarian Universalist Association
(http://www.uua.org/obgltc/)
will be conducting this workshop to train WCCD leaders for cluster
events and individual congregations, based on his experience with the
UUA's "Beyond Categorical Thinking" program which is offered to
Ministerial Search Committee Members. Representatives of other ethnic
groups will be sought to participate.
Date: Thursday, May 17, 2006, Time: 9:30-4:30
Location: Unitarian Church of Vancouver
Sunday,
May 13 to Friday, May 18, 2007
Location: Unless noted,
sessions will be held at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 West 49th
Avenue (at Oak)
Conveniently located for those
flying into the Vancouver International Airport and with lots of parking.
Many of these events are open to both those attending the conference as
well as those coming for a particular event.
The pre-conference days prior to
the Annual Conference include sessions for congregational leaders in
various capacities. The Canadian Unitarian Council has formally endorsed
“Shared Ministry” and now call these events our “Shared Ministry Days”,
acknowledging that all share in our ministry within our congregations and
to our world. .
Ministry is the act of serving.
Shared Ministry is what we* do to serve our congregation and the broader
community, individually and together. Each individual brings unique gifts
to contribute.*includes members of the congregation, paid staff and
ordained minister(s).
This title nicely sums up the
purpose of the pre-conference sessions—to connect, educate, support and
encourage all those participating in our Shared Ministry.
Ecstatic Naturalism:
Nature, God, and the New Cosmology
Professor Corrington has developed his philosophic
perspective of ecstatic naturalism (link to a brief statement of the
categorial scheme of ecstatic naturalism) out of an ongoing dialogue
between Continental phenomenology on the one side and classical
Euro-American pragmatism on the other. The metaphysical perspective of
ecstatic naturalism is anti-supernaturalist while remaining open to the
religious dimensions of nature as these dimensions are manifest in sacred
folds (semiotic orders with special numinous and archetypal power).
Animating the dialectic between phenomenology and pragmatism (or
pragmaticism) is his work with depth psychology, especially that of Reich
and Jung. Professor Corrington not only writes on these issues but has
lectured on Jung at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland as well
as at Drew University. His book on Wilhelm Reich is forthcoming.
His metaphysics of ecstatic naturalism is concerned
with exhibiting the utter vastness of nature as that nature manifests its
own unconscious potencies and the religious orders of meaning that
intersect with the human unconscious. His seventh book, A Semiotic Theory
of Theology and Philosophy, (Cambridge University Press, 2000) extends his
categorial scheme into the foundational structures of the world and
presents a semiotic cosmology.
Currently he is working on a larger project for
Cambridge University Press as well as other book projects that will
further ramify and extend ecstatic naturalism. This involves a continuing
exploration of Hinduism, Buddhism, and theosophy as they all intersect
with the liberal strains in Western metaphysics and theology.
Professor Corrington is an active member of the
Unitarian Universalist Association and The Theosophical Society of
America. He lectures and gives classes for both organizations and travels
to India for the Congress of the International Theosophical Society in
Chennai (Madras).
Location: Vancouver School of Theology, UBC,
Vancouver, BC
Hours: Tuesday, May 15, 6:30-9:30pm; Wed, May 16 &
Thursday, May 17 - 9:30-4:30pm
Vancouver School of
Theology Associate Professor Sharon Betcher will be meeting with those
taking the course for credit and conducting the evaluation for the course
for those students.
Audit – register through Canadian Unitarian Council
018-1179A King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M6K 3C5
www.cuc.ca 1-888-568-5723/416-489-4121 fax: 416-489-9010 email:
info@cuc.ca
Registration Fees: $200
Early Bird before April 1, 2007: $180 for those
who are attending the CUC ACM as a full-conference
participant:
This course is available for
degree or certificate credit through Vancouver School of Theology.
Credit fees: $337.50 for degree students and
$387.50 for Continuing Education credit
Contact registrar@vst.edu
for more information
Participants are strongly encouraged to attend the
entire class. Those who are not able to do so will be on a wait-list and
if space and the presenter agrees, will be accepted. However, there is no
discount from the full-course fee.
Credit – register through Vancouver School of
Theology
Note. Dr. Corrington
will be sharing the pulpit with parish minister, the Rev. Dr. Steven
Epperson at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, 949 West 49th Avenue (at
Oak) on Sunday, May 13. All are welcome.
Books by
Robert S. CorringtonA Semiotic Theory of Theology and Philosophy
Singing Workshop with Brian Tate
Click for details
Friday, 9-4:30pm
Thursday
Welcoming and Celebrating
Congregational Diversity
The CUC Racial and First Nations Equity Monitoring
Group will be unveiling this new congregationally-based program at the
ACM. The WCCD workshop is intended to be a one step in helping
congregations be more welcoming to people of diverse racial and ethnic
backgrounds, and to encourage the development of relations with groups
representing such diversity.
For more information,
http://www.cuc.ca/social_responsibility/racial_firstnations_equity.htm
Facilitator: Rev. Keith Kron, Director of the
Office of Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Concerns at the
Unitarian Universalist Association (http://www.uua.org/obgltc/)
will be conducting this workshop to train WCCD leaders for cluster
events and individual congregations, based on his experience with the
UUA's "Beyond Categorical Thinking" program which is offered to
Ministerial Search Committee Members. Representatives of other ethnic
groups will be sought to participate.
Date: Thursday, May
17, 2006
Time: 9:30-4:30
Location: Unitarian
Church of Vancouver
CUC Board
Meeting
The CUC Board Meets Thursday and
Friday. Most of our meetings are open to observers. We appreciate a note
if you plan to attend to
info@cuc.ca so we can ensure sufficient space.
Multicultural Renaissance RE
Module, Surrey BC, May 16-18
Leadership Program
We often offer a one day program for congregational leaders. This year
we will be offering for the first time this new program which is part of
the Canadian Unitarian Universalist Leadership program.
Human Resources for UU Congregations
This one-day course will help congregational leaders, ministers and
staff understand human resources “best practices” and to lay a
foundation for developing your own tools and policies.
Information will be posted at: http://www.cuc.ca/programs/leadership.htm
Facilitator: Monica Bennett
Monica is a Service Consultant in Congregational Wellness & Vitality
(Growth & Conflict Management, Leadership) for the CUC in the Eastern
Region. She will enhance, nurture and promote the development of
Unitarian and Universalism in congregations from Sarnia to Peterborough.
She is available to provide workshops, training, coaching and
consultative services to congregations as requested by congregations.
Monica’s background includes the development and implementation of
resources, training and consultation services for voluntary
organizations and their volunteer programs. She has worked with many
Boards of Directors and their committees to establish policies,
procedures and program priorities including issues related to volunteer
management, screening and risk management.
Monica became a Unitarian Universalist in 1997. Since then she has
become a trainer for all five curricula of the positive, comprehensive
lifespan sexuality education program, Our Whole Lives. This work has
given her much insight into congregational life and a greater
appreciation for our denomination. Her background in sexuality includes
working as a volunteer at the University of Waterloo Birth Control
Centre and as senior staff at Planned Parenthood in both Hamilton and
Kitchener. She also has a strong background and experience in the
anti-sexual violence movement which she says grounded her in
anti-oppression theory and practice.
She has 20 plus years of solid experience in community development work.
“I believe in the power of community. I’ve seen myself how people
transform their lives through their involvement and personal investment
their community.”
Monica lives in Dundas, Ontario.
Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
Canadian
Unitarians for Social Justice (CUSJ) have their annual meeting and program
on the Friday before the CUC’s conference.
Check
www.cusj.org for details as they become available
Lay Chaplaincy Day
—for those who officiate at Unitarian and Universalist Rites of Passage
Open to
current , retired and prospective lay chaplains, ministers, ministerial
students and lay chaplaincy committee members.
Friday is
sponsored by the CUC’s Lay Chaplaincy Committee provides enrichment
training opportunities.9:00-5pm
(Some may
choose to have dinner together)
no fee for
current, retired and selected lay chaplains, ministers, ministerial
students and lay chaplaincy committee members (but must pre-register)
Others who are
members of CUC congregations are welcome. Registration fee is: $50 if
registered for conference; $75 if not.
Go to
http://www.cuc.ca/lay_chaplaincy/upcoming_training.htm for details of
this and other training events for Unitarians and Universalists who
officiate at rites of passage.
CUC Lay Chaplaincy Enrichment
Training Day - Friday
About
Shared Ministry Days
Ministry is the act of serving.
Shared Ministry is what we* do to serve our congregation and the broader
community, individually and together. Each individual brings unique
gifts to contribute.*includes members of the congregation, paid staff
and ordained minister(s).
This title nicely sums up the
purpose of the pre-conference sessions—to connect, educate, support and
encourage all those participating in our Shared Ministry.
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