UU Institute
The UU Institute is an online learning community offering trainings and other learning experiences that support members, leaders and professionals in Unitarian Universalist communities. The UU Institute’s trainings and other learning experiences include readings and video presentations that people can access online at their own pace, paired with discussion questions and activities which can be shared with others in “real time”.
Coursework focuses on the mission of equipping congregations and communities for vital ministry to create ever-widening circles of belonging and love. UU Institute trains and supports leaders, both lay and professional, as they do the work of adaptive and sustainable ministry. Courses also focus on advancing UU values in the world in service of justice and liberation.
The trainings with highest levels of participation in 2024 were:
- Tending Congregational Life: Guiding the Membership Journey
- Facilitation for Transformation
- Worship for Transformation
- UU Board Foundations, and
- Tending Covenant: Training for Right Relationship Teams
(l) Lillian Drab-Braddick, UUA Southern Region staff and (right) Kathryn Homblette at First Unitarian Church of Orlando
“Our congregation has been working this year on a strategic plan, and this course has been just what we needed. Now we are on to the next step: building something concrete, with strategies and collaboration among different group ministries in our congregation. It’s perfect timing for us, and I just want to say how grateful I am.”
–Kathryn Homblette, First Unitarian Church of Orlando, Leadership Development Committee and Strategic Planning Task Force