Embracing the Vision: Learning and Growing

"Without the joy and support that come from acknowledging the mutality of responsibility, being loved as well as loving, the will for fundamental change cannot be sustained. People are empowered to work for justice by their love for others and by the love they receive from others."
~Sharon Welch, A Feminist Ethic of Risk

At our October MDD Annual Meeting in Ogden, we'll be learning together about Adaptive Leadership - the practice of mobilizing ourselves and others to tackle tough challenges and thrive. Whether in our congregations, familes, or workplaces, changing new realities offer us all a choice: to respond out of fear or out of love. As Unitarian Universalists, we choose the latter and Adaptive Leadership can provide the concrete framework for manifesting that choice.  Plan now to send multiple teams from your congregation. The full program will be posted here soon. You can register for the Annual Meeting here: Embracing the Vision: District Conference 2010.

Last week, following their civil disobience arrest, UU clergy and laity were referred to as the "love people" by members of the local police force. If you haven't been following the Standing on the Side of Love presence in Arizona, you can catch up on the website: www.standingonthesideoflove.org.

Even though a U.S. District Court judge blocked key points of Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant law from taking place on July 29th, achieving humane and comprehensive immigration reform legislation looms ahead. In addition to protesting against current enforcement policy, adaptive leadership asks that we also raise up constructive alternatives such as the long-term economic benefits that could accrue to states, nation, and society through legalization of undocumented Latino/a workers. For example, just in Califronia alone, legalizing undocumented workers is estimated to result in a total gain of $16 billion annually. Let's raise up these adaptive policy alternatives!  For more, visit the Center for Immigrant Integration at csii.usc.edu.

See you in Ogden!

Posted Tuesday, 03 August 2010 10:32 Written by Deborah Holder