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These morning workshops are for the adults of the SI Community. Morning workshops are held everyday during the week. When you complete the SI registration form, be sure to select one workshop for the week and two alternate choices. Workshops fill up quickly and are on a first come, first serve basis, so register early.
FILLED - 1. Socrates and the 7 principles by Leo Nagorski
Socrates café type of discussion using the 7 principles. “What do we mean by inherent worth and dignity? How do we balance justice, equity, and compassion? Who decides what a free and responsible search is? Come and explore these questions in the spirit of Socrates.”
Leo has been a Humanist Minister for 22 years. He has been a member of the Allegheny UU Church for 32 years. He has been a member of the Pittsburgh Socrates Café for 10 years.
2. Quilting Your Personal Symbol by Natalie Isvarin-Love
Starting with some journaling and sharing, explore what symbols are meaningful to you. Then pick a symbol or two and create your own small quilted wallhanging using fabric, embroidery floss, ribbons, beads, buttons, embellishments and other objects to create a work of art (teacher will bring lots to share but please bring what is meaningful to you to incorporate into your piece). NO QUILTING EXPERIENCE NECESSARY, we will just create and have fun with no rules.
Natalie has been a quilter for twenty years and while her husband thinks it’s an obsession, she says it’s a healthy passion. Her training for the UU ministry led her to combine spirituality and quilting into short workshops. Natalie is a member of of the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights, OH.
CANCELLED - 3. First Person Singular—Spotlight on Yourself by Laura W. Adams, Ph.D.
Writing about oneself can be a rich source of personal validation. This class will help you begin the process by exploring facets of your life and bringing into focus some corners which you would enjoy sharing with the class and perhaps with your loved ones back home.
Laura has been writing memoirs for ten years. She taught English for 19 years and has been a mental health counselor since 1980. She is the founder of Passages, a counseling service for people in transitions. Laura is an active member of the First Unitarian-Universalist Church of Columbus.
FILLED - 4. Shake, Rattle and A Drumroll (once more with gusto)! by Rebekah Benner
Drumming! Tap into the rhythms of the body, mind and spirit playing in percussive harmony...or just drum ‘til we drop! Learn simple hand-drumming techniques, drumsongs, and how to host your own community drum circle, using a variety of songs based on African and cross-cultural rhythms. No experience in drumming is necessary, just a willingness to open to the experience. It is necessary for participants to bring their own drum.
A teacher of drum and drumsong for over 15 years, Rebekah enjoys bringing out the “inner drummer” which is usually discovered hiding behind the “inner child”. She learned from teachers Ubaka Hill, Layne Redmond, and Michael Markus of NYC, but truly found her own drum voice with the help of her mentor, and the most wonderful teacher on this planet, UU Sally Childs-Helton of Indianapolis. Rebekah, is an Interfaith minister, Earth-Centered ritualist, and a certified Death Midwife reclaiming the tradition of family-directed home funerals and Green Burials. Honoring her ethnic background, she practices Buryat Mongolian shamanism and hosts a weekly shamanic journey group and experiential meditation evening.
FILLED - 5. Rosen Method Bodywork ~ A Path of Spirit by Susanna Smart
Experience how mindful touch helps us access and accept who we really are and reminds us of our connection with all that is. Learn how Rosen Touch is a method of listening for what is true within. Feel how this gentle touch combined with massage supports the body in releasing life’s tensions. The body is sensitive and wise. When we open to who we are in an atmosphere of presence, appreciation and love, there is an easing within that is palpable, freeing, and joyful! Practice the art of giving and receiving this caring work. Relax, Re-connect, and Rejuvenate!
Susanna’s 35 years of massage/bodywork experience illuminate her holistic philosophy of mental health nursing and the path of joyful fulfillment! She is a Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner (since 1995) and her teaching cultivates a class experience that honors the unique contribution of each participant, welcomes a deepening of process, and invites personal transformation.
FILLED - 6. Listening For God 4 by Edie Schwede & Rev. Beth Marshall
Volume IV is the last book in the Listening for God series, which has been presented at Summer Institute since 1996. These collections are wonderful short stories by contemporary American authors, chosen because they reveal “flashes of the spirit” in the lives of ordinary men and women engaged in the mundane activities of everyday life. Short films of the authors are included. These stories stand alone; you need not have taken previous Listening for God classes.
Edie and the late Reverend Roy Phillips led LFG classes singly and together from 2000 through 2007. Roy and Edie’s friend Jane Dirks, member of the Allegheny Church, was Edie’s co-leader at SI 2008. This year the Rev. Beth Marshall of First Unitarian Church of Toledo will co lead. Beth was Edie’s partner in 1996 when together they offered LFG. On November 17, 2008 Beth was installed as the minister of First Unitarian Church of Toledo. We are so happy that she’s back in OMD!
7. The Bible for Biblical Illiterates by Rev. Rod Thompson
Have you been mystified by biblical references so often used (for good or ill) all around you? Assuming it was not dictated by God, have you wondered how it came about and how can a UU access it? What is to be found there for us? Come! All (well, some anyway) will be revealed.
Rod is currently Interim Minister of the UU Church of the South Hills in Pittsburgh. Originally ordained as a Disciples minister in 1968, Rod received UU Fellowship in 1985 and has served congregations in Kent, OH, Augusta, GA, Adelphia, MD, Raleigh, NC, Wayzata, MN, Toledo, OH, and served as the OMD Consultant.
8. Celtic Calligraphy & Celtic Knot by Mary Lou Wiegand
For all student levels. Basics of Celtic letter forms will be practiced as well as Celtic knot hearts and snakes. End result: a simply designed Celtic quotation/saying with
knots/snakes that is matted and ready for framing. There is a fee of $18 per participant.
Mary Lou has taught and shared her love of calligraphy for over 40 years. Her work has been juried into fine art shows. Mary Lou’s calligraphy and artwork is sold in many West Virginia venues and by commission.
FILLED - 9. SexUUality Throughout History – They used to do what?!? by Kat Holtz
Find out how it all began. We will continue the discussion of last year by looking at the sexuality of different historical eras and cultures with a particular focus on the 20th century to see how we got to where we are today. Has anything really changed? How creative were humans without the internet? You mean we weren’t the first to think of this? Prepare yourself for a frank discussion and lots of chocolate, humor and fun. You need not have gone to last year’s workshop to attend.
Kat is an OMD district trainer for the Our Whole Lives sexuality education program and a member of the UU Church of Kent. She has conducted numerous presentations on sexuality, HIV, and BGLT topics. Kat has presented past workshops at SI on chocolate and presented the new and fun sexuality workshop last year.
FILLED - 10. Swing Dancing for Dummies by Kathy Ke & Joe Meier
Anyone who thinks they “can’t dance” just hasn’t learned the steps! If you can count to two and can usually tell your left foot from your right, you can learn basic swing dance steps. You must sign up with a partner.
Kathy and Joe are members of the UU Church of the North Hills in Pittsburgh. Kathy has been dancing all her life and drags Joe along onto the dance floor whenever she can. During the rest of the year, Joe is a structural engineer, Kathy is a family physician, and they enjoy being parents to their 2 youth: Patrick and Helena Meier.
FILLED - 11. Learnings styles and yoUU! by Dianna Van Winkle
Learning Styles and yoUU! will explore each individuals learning style. Learning Styles affect our approach to our families, church, work and broader world. How to “bridge the gap” with other learning styles and what it means to have a learning style and the UU approach to life.
Diana is a life longer learner, member of the UU Church of Kent and an adventurer, albeit sometimes timid.
12. Reading the Rocks of Gambier by Jamie Martin-Hayden
After one morning in class looking at various rock types and deciphering the stories recorded in them, we will venture out to “read” the stories written in geology around the Kenyon campus with a series of short field trips around the Kenyon campus.
Jamie started teaching geology as a teenaged tour guide in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and continues this zeal for teaching and researching geology at the University of Toledo, Department of Environmental Sciences.
13. Alternative Energy - Around the House by Mark Schmiedlin
You don’t have to go very far to see the effects of our current energy situation. Just look at the gas pump or a utility bill. Come join us to see how people have had fun saving energy around the house and even made their homes energy independent using Conservation, Solar Ovens, Wind and Solar Power.
Mark, who attends the Olmsted UU Congregation, is an electrical engineer who has been following the Alternative Energy scene since back in the day when it was called “the energy crisis.”
14. Spiritual Growth through Effective Social Justice by Rev. Dave McFarland Nuttle
This workshop offers a process tool to develop actions toward Social Justice that are authentically grounded in Unitarian Universalist spirituality, and constantly move toward more and more effectiveness in fulfilling our Social Justice calling.
Rev. McFarkland Nuttle has served Allegheny UU Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s inner city for five years. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, trained at Harvard Divinity School, he moved to Pittsburgh from Jena, Germany, where he began his PhD in applied ethics. He lives near the church with his husband Tim, two sons, Tiger & Forrest Jayden, and Woody the Wonderdog.
15. Poetry for a Summer Morning by Dean Hazelton
This will be a course in reading (especially reading aloud) and talking about poetry, not writing poetry. I’ll bring a sheaf of poems on selected topics to get the discussion started, and I invite participants to bring a few poems on the topic of the day. This will give the chance to learn from each other. Likely topics: Poems about nature, structure and forms of poetry, poetry of Robert Frost, love poetry and poetry about poetry.
Dean doesn’t claim to be a professor of poetry, and certainly not a poet.(His education is in philosophy, and he works in a bank.) For the past 10 years or so he has led the poetry group at the UU Church of the South Hills. He says he has learned a lot from his friends in that group, and it has made him an avid reader of poetry.