UULTI 2008: Live the Promise • Turn Outward in Faith

UULTI (Unitarian Universalist Leadership Team Institute) is a remarkable week-long residential learning experience. Its practical tools and powerful ideas will help you renew faith, embrace congregational growth and change, welcome and nurture all, and fulfill the hopeful loving promise of Unitarian Universalism in the wider world. Individuals will forge new partnerships, teams will be strengthened, and all will be inspired and empowered. Return to your congregation and help it grow into a more loving, thriving community of prophetic word and deed.

Who should attend?
Board members, ministers, committee chairs, religious education professionals, treasurers, administrators, musicians, and other current or emerging leaders. In particular:

• Individuals from smaller congregations, encouraged (by discounts!) to form geographically-based learning teams.
• Teams from larger congregations that include lay leaders, part-time or full-time ministers, and all other congregational staff.

Special care will be taken to satisfy the needs of ALL kinds of congregations.
From small to large, stable and transitioning, rural and urban, struggling and thriving . . . AND everyone in between! All congregations benefit from covenanted teamwork. Did you send a team last year? Send the same or another team. Repeat tracks or select alternate ones. Build a critical mass of leaders who share the UULTI experience.

Each participant will select one of five learning tracks.

• Governance: Structure community life and polity to “Nurture Your Spirit. Help Heal Our World.”
• Growth: Lead to and through change, reverse declines and “break through” plateaus and beyond.
• Lifespan Faith Development: Enhance faith and action through religious education and small group ministry.
• Stewardship: Connect pledging to vision. Awaken responsibility, interdependence and hope.
• Worship Arts: Foster compelling, transcendent experiences. Create sacred space for all church activities.

→ All tracks address aspects of small, mid-sized, and large congregations.
→ All tracks address public witness, community outreach, and social justice.

Each participant will enliven their personal growth journeys by working with experts in:

The Multigenerational Community • Congregations as Dynamic Systems • Leadership as a Spiritual Path
The History of UU Evangelism and Social Action • Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression, and Multi-Culturalism

Cost: $595 per person. Cost-sharing by individuals and their congregation is encouraged. Discounts from $20 to $70 available for early registrations and individuals that form teams.

Visit www.uulti.org to register and for more information.

Download a flyer about this event by clicking here.

Sponsored by the Northeast Regional Group (NRG) of the UUA, comprising the Joseph Priestley, Metro New York, Ohio Meadville, and St. Lawrence districts.