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Canadian Advisory Youth Adult Committee
May 2007 Canadian advisory youth adult committee—CAYAC  

Youth Observer to the Board: Nick Nesbitt-Larking                                                                                
Youth Rep, BC Region: Annelise Iversen                                                                            
Youth Rep, Western Region:  Rose Roberts                                                                                                       
Youth Rep, Qu/On: Marissa Hill-Keast                                                                                               
Youth Rep, Atlantic Canada:  Chelsea Gibson                                                                                                       
YRUU Canadian at Large:  Hazel Gabe                                                                                                  
Adult Rep, West: Duff Bond                                                                                                                                    
Adult Rep, East:  Carlene Gardner                                                                                                                 
Director of Lifespan Learning: Sylvia Bass West

YAG Adult East Application 2007

Election of CUC Youth Ministry Leadership Positions

 

At the Youth Advisory Group retreat in December 2005 Consultant Monica Bennett and DRS Linda Thomson facilitated an Appreciative Inquiry Session with us.

With careful and appreciative questioning of one another we each spoke to the best of what UU Youth Community is for us and came to a place where our cups were indeed half full! 

The focus of our questions was “What is the essence of why you are engaged/stay engaged  in UU youth community? What is the best of youth community that you ?” 

Covenantal community * Common Goals * Safety in community * Stay with community for several years * Freedom to be true to self * Limitless* Find own beliefs * Loving * Comforting * Supporting* Empowered * Stretching and growing * Challenging and challenged * Loving friendship 

Feeling alive * Subtle ministry when you are ready * Positive energy created * Build on the good and open to change * Creativity Inspirational worship * Worship as it needs to be for any given situation  * Creating ministry together in many ways 

Building cross generational relationships * Respectful community between youth – adult, adult – youth, mutual support * Way more adults know who we are * Adults as observers, support us * Youth as Leaders * Youth supported in trying on leadership roles

YAG Adult East Application

Yag Documents

YAG Meeting Minutes
Who’s on the YAG? - Youth Advisory Group (YAG) Members

Youth Observer to CUC Board - Election Process, reports, candidates
Results of Youth Observer Election:
Alex Dundas is  declared Youth Observer to the CUC Board of Trustees for the term 2005-6.
The First Ever YAG (2002):

CUC YAG Mission Statement

YAG Vision Statement, (the why) Developed Dec 2003, affirmed May 2004The CUC Youth Advisory Group fosters the passion and dreams of Canadian UU Youth; linking our voices toward vital, empowered and supported ministry with youth at all levels. 

YAG Mission Statement, (the what) Developed Dec 2003, affirmed May 2004

In pursuit of the YAG Vision we endeavour to provide leadership for the purposes of:

  • connecting youth groups, congregations, youth governing bodies, the CUC and its Board,
  • supporting YRUU community,
  • advocating for youth empowerment,
  • advising CUC Lifespan Learning office, UUA Youth Office, Regional YACs, CUC Board and YRUU Steering Committee on Canadian youth issues,
  • encouraging discussion around ministry with youth,
  • ensuring opportunities for youth participation in all levels of our faith

Looking up!

 YAG Covenant, re-visited and affirmed, May 2004
The members of the CUC Youth Advisory Group will:

  • participate in good faith and assume good intentions

  • be mindful of power differentials

  • use “I’ statements

  • refrain from interrupting others

  • be respectful of everyone’s right to speak and contribute

  • contribute wisely

  • stay focused and on task

  • take responsibility

  • follow through on promised action items

  • honour  time sensitive action items

  • use consensus for decision making

  • think big, act small

  • think nationally on behalf of Canadian U and U*U youth

  • think outside the “shape” (or conservative “box”)

  • act as a voice of and to the regions

  • represent the vision and mission of YAG

  • exist in the space between realism and optimism

  • remind each other to follow our covenant

  • remind the group that this is a living document and thus never finished

  • re-address the covenant at CUC AGM and every time we meet

  • live our Unitarian Universalist Principles through our YAG work

  • engage in conflict lovingly

  • uphold an “attitude of gratitude”