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Topics are listed in order of their submittal to this site, most recent first.
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Soul Matters packets before September 2023 are also included here.
More recent packets are in the Soul Matters section.
Topics submitted before March 2020 are listed last, in alphabetical order.
*Topics that are helpful in bringing a newcomer into an established Circle or in launching a Chalice Circle season, when participants are new to each other
The Gift of Liberating Love11/9/23, MarySoul Matters November 2023
The Gift of Generosity10/8/23, MarySoul Matters November 2023
The Gift of Heritage
9/3/23, MarySoul Matters October 2023
The Gift of Welcome
9/3/23, MarySoul Matters September 2023
The Path of Delight
4/4/23, MarySoul Matters June 2023
The Path of Creativity
3/13/23, Mary, updated 4/9/23 with Creativity Gift Packets and ToolboxSoul Matters May 2023
The Path of Resistance
2/16/23, MarySoul Matters April 2023
The Path of Vulnerability
1/9/23, MarySoul Matters March 2023
The Path of Love
12/9/22, MarySoul Matters February 2023
Finding our Center
11/19/22, MarySoul Matters January 2023
Wonder*
10/14/22, MarySoul Matters December 2022
Change
9/23/22, MarySoul Matters November 2022
3/3/18, Kathey
Adapted from material at UUA small group ministries
Courage
9/23/22, MarySoul Matters October 2022
Belonging*
9/23/22, MarySoul Matters September 2022
3/01/21, Kathey
Adapted from material at Universalist Church of West Hartford, CT
Celebrating Blessings 4/24/22, MarySoul Matters June 2022
Nurturing Beauty 3/14/22, MarySoul Matters May 2022
Awakening 3/14/22, MarySoul Matters April 2022
Renewing Faith 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters March 2022
Widening the Circle 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters February 2022
Living with Intention 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters January 2022
Opening to Joy 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters December 2021
Holding History 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters November 2021
Cultivating Relationship 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters October 2021
Embracing Possibilty 1/9/22, MarySoul Matters September 2021
Story 3/17/21, MarySoul Matters May 2021
Becoming
3/17/21, Mary
Soul Matters April 2021
Decisions, Decisions*
2/13/21, KatheyAdapted from material at UU Fellowship of La Crosse, Wisconsin
Imagination*
1/3/21, MaryAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
- Imaginatively Replace Every Other Line
Imagination not only improves our lives, it populates them. - Imagine the Colors and Location of Your Happiness
Imagination pulls the sacred into our impoverished present. - Imagine Your Gravestone
Imagining how we want to be remembered - Listen to Shel Silverstein
Imagine the world we dream of to pull our imperfect present into an improved future. - The Imagined Story That Has Shaped Your Real One
All of us have a book or two that shaped who we are and how we live our lives.
1/2/21, KatheyAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
- Imagine Your Eulogy
"Imagining how we want to be remembered increases the likelihood that we will actually live in a way that is worthy of that."
Includes an exercise that may be used with this or another session - Our Stories, Imagined and Real
Could we use our imaginations to enhance future reality?
New Year Intentions* 1/2/21, KatheyAdapted from UUA small group ministry networkCompare with new year resolutions; includes a spiritual exercise
Stillness
11/19/20, MaryAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
- Find Stillness in Gratitude
"Filling our heads and hearts with gratitude 'softens our lives' and opens a still space free of worry and want...sinking into gratitude stills us." - Let Lectio Divina Lead You to Stillness
Deeply listen to a text by reading it multiple times, through a different reflective lens each time. - Sit Still With a Loved One in View
Our loved ones are miracles. Let’s try to be still and present enough to notice. - Take a Pic of Your Calming Place
Deepen your relationship with your “calming place” by capturing it with a picture.
11/29/20, KatheyAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUACollage of the four items adapted above
Renewal 10/24/20, KatheyAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
Healing
10/24/20, MaryAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUAFour sessions:
- Complete the Sentence
Remember what past healing required. - Let Lectio Divina Lead You to Healing
Deeply listen to a text by reading it multiple times, through a different reflective lens each time. Bring different discernment questions to the text, with each question inviting you to listen to the text in a new way. - Share Your Apt Words
Revisit the words you once held on to in order to hold yourself together and find your current “healing words” – the words you need right now to deal with today’s wounds and worry. - Wrestle with the Call of Reparations
Some argue racial healing requires it; others declare it unrealistic. But no matter where one stands, all of us can at least admit that the refusal to make space for the discussion drives us even farther from healing.
11/19/20, KatheyAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
3/3/18, MaryAdapted from the Facilitator's Manual and UUA small group ministry network
Deep Listening 10/9/20, KatheyAdapted from the Soul Matters program by the UUA
More sessions at UUA's The Small Group Ministry Network
Before March 2020:
Bucket List, 2/26/17, Kathey*Despite any differences of opinion we might have about what comes next, there is no question that we are faced with the same challenge: making the most of this lifetime.
Change, 3/3/18, Mary B.Includes quotes, discussion questions, a game, and readingsWhat a love/hate relationship we humans have with change!
Elitism vs. Eliteness, 2/9/20, KatheyThe first of our UU seven principles:
The inherent worth and dignity of every person
Gifts, Received and Shared, 12/8/16, Kathey
Reflection on our gifts/talents
The Holidays, 12/19/19, Kathey*
Solstice, yuletide, looking back, looking forward
Optimism, 2/2/18, Mary R.
Explores optimism, as compared to hope, from UU perspectivePlay, 12/9/16, Mary B.Play, leisure, work ethic
Prejudice, 3/3/18, Mary R.Understanding racism and prejudice as they affect institutions and as they are experienced in individual lives
Resilient Spirit, 12/9/16, Mary B.
Victims cry for help. Survivors cry for solidarity, for kinship. Suffering is relative; so is survival.Silence, 12/9/16, Mary B.Silence shared, includes a meditation
U and UUCF, 2/25/18, Mary B.*Our congregation: Why and how we are participating at UUCFThe liberal religious quest is neither trivial nor inconsequential, but of primary concern if we are to live well and fully.
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