UU Wellspring Overview
UU Wellspring Vision
Develop personal and communal depth to fully live Unitarian Universalism.
UU Wellspring Mission
UU Wellspring provides tools to create inclusive, accountable, spiritually deep religious community. Personal inner work evolves in covenanted relationship to create a path toward spiritual wholeness and faithful action that is essential to our collective liberation.
UU Wellspring is a series of spiritual deepening programs for Unitarian Universalists. The core programs span a congregational year with additional shorter programs to either add to the year-long programs or to use as a starter program. However, most congregations delve into the year-long program called Love at the Center: UU Values and Covenants or Sources. Either can be a prerequisite for additional year-long UU Wellspring programs. Cohorts of about 10 people with a volunteer facilitator is most typical, with online programs offered by UU Wellspring for individuals to participate. People who engage in UU Wellspring programs consistently tell us that their lives are transformed. This is a way to deepen your faith, your connections with others, and your spiritual lives. It’s a gift.
UU Wellspring includes:
- A commitment to daily spiritual practice
- Participation in small group community
- Individual work with a spiritual director is strongly encouraged
- Readings and resources for knowledge and reflection
- Reflection and commitment to live our values in the world
UU Wellspring Associations: Please note that UU Wellspring inc is a UUA-affiliated organization, but we are not the UUA. We welcome donations to UU Wellspring through the UUA. You can do so by identifying UU Wellspring as a designated affiliated organization. The UU Wellspring Board has adopted the Eighth principle and is continuing the work to incorporate this principle into our work and live into all that it inspires to bring an anti-oppressive lens to all that we do.
UU Wellspring Provides
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Our Programs
Where to Start
There are several UU Wellspring programs you can take first as a newcomer. If you’re looking for the full UU Wellspring experience, Sources and Love at the Center serve as the foundation to our richly rewarding year-long programs. We also offer shorter programs that do not require UU Wellspring Sources, including our UU Wellspring Reads series and our special programs on Proposed Article 2.
UU Wellspring Sources
Start with Sources, the first of the UU Wellspring 10-month transformational spiritual deepening programs or Love at the Center. Bring to your congregation or join an online cohort. For an advanced program, consider online Sacred Arts.
Love at the Center: UU Values and Covenants
Love at the Center is a transformational 11 session program that explore the values and covenants within the context of your personal experience, your local community, identity cohorts, and the world. Included with your congregational membership and can be your first entry into UU Wellspring.
Youth and Emerging Adults
Youth and Emerging Adult (YEA) programs range from 6-8 sessions. Cohorts of youth or emerging adults use the same materials to deepen their connections with one another and their faith.
UU Wellspring Reads
Or, try one of our 6-Session UU Wellspring Reads Programs. From book group to a spiritually deepening UU experience. Crises of Life available online and all available to bring to your congregation.
Programs for Congregations
Members of a UU congregation gather to deepen their spiritual lives online or in person. Led by facilitators from the congregation every two weeks for 10 months to explore spiritual practices, covenant, and spiritual companionship. Note that it is seamless to move from online to in person, or in person to online during the year.
Programs for Individuals
Individuals yearning for community and spiritual sustenance gather online to meet with Unitarian Usniversalists from various congregations! Facilitated by expereinced UU Wellspring facilitators. 2024-25 are all Love at the Center Cohorts. See the home page for details and enrollment.
Where to Go Next
For a comprehensive overview of all of our programs for congregations and individuals as well as a suggested curriculum for all year-long programs, check out our Programs page. You can also dive deeper into information on programs for congregations on the Congregational Programs page or visit the Individual Programs page for more information on programs for church laity and others who may be interested in participating in a UU Wellspring program outside of a congregation.
If you would like to speak to someone about our programs, please get in touch at director@uuwellspring.org.
Bring UU Wellspring to Your Congregation and Be Transformed!
Are You Looking for Adult Programing that Rocks Your Participants and Provides Everything Needed for Your Facilitators?
Are you in need of the program that will bring deep connection to your congregation during these times of distancing?
UU Wellspring provides a clear curriculum with easy to use materials, quarterly support for facilitators, and a deep dive into participants' spiritual lives. The program delivers!
Participants may have participated in entry level or shorter-term UU programming and yet there is a yearning for more. If you want to connect deeply with others and your own soul, you are ready to explore your spirituality in a deeply covenanted small group community where you can explore your Unitarian Universalist identity, sustain your faith, and connect with your inner wisdom.
Lay leaders and religious leaders alike find UU Wellspring to be the experience that sustains their work for justice, brings joy to their lives, and inspires work in their Unitarian Universalist communities.
Youth who are in UU Wellspring congregations will also be able to participate in our new UU Wellspring for Youth or Emerging Young Adults 8-week and 6-session programs.
Testimonials
“My time in Wellspring was among the most powerful small group experiences I have ever had as a UU. It helped me to deepen and solidify my spiritual practice, learn more about UU history and theology and I made some new connections to wonderful people in my congregation!”
“I am more committed to my spiritual practices. I am less anxious about my future, and I look forward to openings in my life for further exploration in my spiritual life, my congregational life and my family life. I love to learn and deepen.”
“UU Wellspring really helped me think through and reinforce where I am in my spiritual journey, particularly regarding spiritual practice and my personal definitions of god, prayer, etc. It has softened some of my stances and helped me see things from various unique perspectives.”
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