Here you will find information about our various adult learning programs, their dates and registration (if any).
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We commit to lifelong learning and spiritual practice that enriches our lives and those around us. We offer balanced content and spiritual practices from the world's great religions and wisdom traditions, informed by our distinct Unitarian Universalist perspective. Throughout the year, we may offer this content in various formats such as workshop, retreat, forum, or discussion group.
We schedule adult lifelong learning classes and workshops throughout the year. They are led by expert volunteers, staff and outside guests. To register for adult learning exploration classes you may signup online, or contact the class facilitator or our Program Ministry staff. UU Santa Fe Adult lifelong learning is a cooperative adventure. If you would like to facilitate a program, contact our Program Ministry staff. |
Fall 2021 Offerings
2020-2021 Offerings
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ADULT LIFELONG LEARNING OFFERINGS
Our Adult Learning Program mostly takes the summer off. New programming resumes, fall 2021. Join us then!
At-A-Glance
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”―Mahatma Gandhi 
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Our Remaining 2020-2021 Program
Our Fall 2021 Program
Program facilitators may cancel any program that does not have at least 5 registrants. For more information about these programs scroll down this page.
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upcoming classes • Adult Learning • All stated meeting times are Mountain time
The UU Blessing PathEight Sessions Beginning March
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 The Three Vinegar Tasters
The UU Blessing Path - A UU Framework to Spiritual Maturity
Dates orientation February 24, Eight sessions thereafter, 4th Wednesdays, 3-5 pm MT Location online Facilitated and created by Steven Mead, Lifespan Religious Educator Sponsored by Adult Lifelong Learning Cost none Registration required; click here so we can send you the Zoom Meeting ID link Through a curated reading list (see list, left) of eight contemporary works (fiction and nonfiction) and intentional spiritual practices, we will explore what it means to be human through the perspective of Unitarian Universalism. What does it mean to be in right relationship with the self? With others? With the world? With the Ultimate? What insights might be gained from these works? What is spiritual maturity? What balance should we seek between contemplation and action? How might the UU Blessing Path transform you? Join us reading and discussing these works and our various spiritual practices; meeting online monthly. You may either commit to the whole program or join us ala carte for those sessions that appeal to you. Complete your reading before the discussion session!
“Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.”― Richard Rohr, Immortal Diamond | ||||||
Justice-Making Book Discussion Series
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” |
Justice-Making Book Discussion Series, 2021-2022, led by our Justice Issue Teams
Location online Facilitated by our Justice Issue Teams Sponsored by Adult Lifelong Learning and our Justice Council Cost none Registration required so we can send you the Zoom meeting ID link
This fall. Bullets into Bells - Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, Beacon Press, led by Kathryn Holladay. Fall date TBA. Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence brings together the voices of poets and citizens most impacted to call for the end of gun violence with the activist power of poetry.
This fall. Inconspicuous Consumption, the Environmental Impacts You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg, led by Maj-Britt and Jim Eagle. Fall date TBA. This urgent call to action will empower you to stand up to climate change and environmental pollution by making simple but impactful everyday choices.
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Other Resources
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Harriet Kidder Memorial Library
You may like to visit the UU Santa Fe Harriet Kidder Memorial adult library to check out print materials on a variety of topics. Checkout is simple—write down the title, your name, phone/email and date you checked material out on our clipboard. Keep it as long as you need it then bring it back and put it on the shelf with the checkout clipboard. It's simple. Specific donations may be made to our adult library and for other program needs through UU Santa Fe's AmazonSmiles Gift List. Sign on and browse through our Gift List. Give UU Santa Fe an UUnBirthday Present! |
And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home.―Sarah York (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)