Connecting This Week

Online Connections by and for Disabled UUs This Week (June 9-14):

This week, EqUUal Access adopts the theme, “Ready”

This week we take up the final part of this year’s General Assembly theme: Ready.  What does it mean to be ready, when life and society are unpredictable? In what ways are we ready to be part of the transformations happening in our faith communities?

Online Connections by and for Disabled UUs

NEW: Tuesday 6/9 @ 1:00 PM Eastern: Pastoral Conversation
Small group and one-to-one conversation with a UU minister. With Rev. Helen McFadyen and Rev. Barbara Meyers (see Note for more information)
Join using Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/ybretotq
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Tuesday 6/9 @ 3:00 PM Eastern: Weekly Theme Chat: Ready
Drop in to the EqUUal Access virtual space to connect and chat. With facilitator, Rev. Suzanne Fast
Join using Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/y7qk3caz
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Thursday 6/11 @ 8:00 PM Eastern: OASIS- a spiritual gathering for disabled UUs
A spiritual gathering space for disabled Unitarian Universalists. EqUUal Access worship team: Revs. Suzanne Fast, Barbara Meyers
Join using Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/y7xanjar

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Friday 6/12 @ 1:00 PM Eastern: Craft & Chat

Bring a project you’re working on and we’ll chat about this week’s theme.  With facilitator, Suzanne Fast
Join using Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/yanfgj67

Notes

1) NOW AVAILABLE — EA Pastoral Conversation

Tuesdays at 1 pm Eastern, 10 am Pacific.

These are challenging, often difficult times.  Stress, anxiety, worry, fear, difficulty sleeping or eating, and emotions that can overwhelm, these are what many people, including UUs with disabilities, are experiencing in response to immensely hard new realities.

EqUUal Access is piloting a trial online outreach effort for our community folx to access supportive, pastoral conversation with a UU minister.  We are going to attempt to make two options available for pastoral conversation; one is going to be a small group (up to 5 individuals) with a UU minister, and the other, one-to-one conversation with a UU minister.

These two different ways of having supportive conversation will hopefully create safe space for individuals who seek an empathetic listener to what’s happening around and to them.  Using Zoom’s ‘break out room’ feature, we’ll use two private “pastoral pods” (the small group and meeting one-to-one). This will contain the conversation to those pods, though anonymity will not be possible.

Note: Only those participants who arrive in the Zoom ‘waiting room’ by the start time will be ‘admitted’ to the larger zoom room to enter one of the pastoral conversation options.

Rev. Helen and Rev. Barbara (week one pastors) will welcome all in the zoom room and ask which “pastoral pod” (break out room) each person prefers (one-to-one or group).  Up to five individuals may join one of the ministers for a 45 minute talking circle which will begin with forming a simple group covenant for the duration of the sharing time.  And, up to three other individuals may opt to have one-to-one conversation (each of 20 minutes duration) with the other minister (some waiting involved for the second and third individuals — so make tea, read, sing….).

Letter from Rev. Suzanne Fast

On-line Gatherings This Week

EqUUal Access’ theme this week: “Hospitality in Times of Distance”

Tuesday 3/24 @ 3:00 PM Eastern: Weekly Theme Chat: Drop in to the EqUUal Access virtual space to connect and chat. We’ll watch a short music video together and talk about how UUs (who love our pot lucks and coffee hours) give and receive hospitality in these times of ‘social distance’ and isolation. With facilitator, Rev. Helen McFadyen
Join using Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/169464502Thursday 3/26 @ 8:00 PM Eastern: OASIS- a spiritual gathering for disabled UUs
A spiritual gathering space for disabled Unitarian Universalists. EqUUal Access worship team: Revs. Suzanne Fast, Helen McFadyen, Barbara Meyers
Join using Zoom  https://zoom.us/j/763653476

Friday 3/27 @ 1:00 PM Eastern: Craft & Chat: Hot Chalice Buns! Join in this creative, lighthearted conversation to explore ideas about the intersecting notions of food, faith, and hospitality. With facilitator, Rev. Helen McFadyen (former naval chef)
Join using Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/157632228

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