Love at the Center: UU Values and Covenants
Explore UU Values and Covenants
Included in Annual Congregational Membership
UU Wellspring is delighted to embrace and promote UU Values and Covenants with Love at the Center. We offer this new transformational 13 session program that is an in depth exploration of our shared faith, within the context of our personal identities and experiences, diverse communities, and the world.
This new engaging program will provide a core foundation of spiritual deepening in the quality you have come to expect from UU Wellspring programs. Congregational membership will include access to both Sources and Love at the Center. Congregations can offer one, or both programs, as an initial offering of year-long UU Wellspring programs.
The features of Love at the Center: UU Values and Covenants are like other UU Wellspring programs. It includes opportunities for small group ministry, deep listening, spiritual practice, spiritual companionship/direction, study of UU theology, and transformational self-awareness. Additionally, participants will experience personal storytelling and varied activities to deepen spiritual life.
An optional companion journal will be available for participants.
The required books are all accessible from the UUA Inspirit Bookstore, in e-book format and at online booksellers.
- Beyond Welcome: Building Communities of Love, edited by Linnea Nelson (Skinner House Books, 2022)
- Faithful Practices: Everyday Ways to Feed Your Spiritedited by Rev. Erik Wikstrom, (Skinner House Books, 2018)
- Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with Natureby Karen Armstrong (Knopf, 2022) Also available in many public libraries.
As a bonus offer with this new program all facilitators are asked to participate in a 2-hour training, called “Facilitation as a Sacred Opportunity” This program will be provided by UU Wellspring as part of membership.
Congregations who have not yet enrolled as member congregations can join the facilitator training for $50 per person.
We are pleased to offer this new program to online Cohorts. The dates found on our home page, will be facilitated by UU Wellspring and will begin:
- Summer 2024: Religious Professionals Cohort
- Fall 2024: Clergy Cohort
- Fall 2024: BIPOC Cohort
- *Seminarian Cohorts with Oct 2024 and January 2025 start dates.
Individual cohorts for the year are $600 with a sliding scale of $400 or 500 if requested.
*Seminarians will have a student fee, subsidized by the Ministerial Foundation Network.
Download the Love at the Center Calendar | Video Overview of the Love at the Center | Sample Session to Come