As Parker Palmer reminds us, "Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood." This is how we do it at UU Santa Fe. You will find on this page information about our various spirituality small groups.
Spirituality Groups
“No fixing, no saving, no advising, no setting each other straight.”―Parker Palmer
JOIN A COVENANT GROUPUU Santa Fe Covenant Groups
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Join with others to enhance your connection to your deepest self, your life's gifts and needs greater than your own. UU Santa Fe covenant groups consist of 7-10 people meeting monthly who intentionally and regularly gather to build a sense of community with one another and to share the process of personal spiritual growth. A covenant group offers opportunities for friendship, spiritual growth, mutual responsibility, leadership and service. So, if you're looking for intimacy (fellowship) and ultimacy (meaning), join a Covenant Group!
Questions To Walk With, Not Talk Through All of our covenant groups have access to Soul Matters convenant group content and may elect to use this content or not as groups may decide. Soul Matters takes a unique approach to questions—using questions as tools for individual exploration. Questions that lead you to deeper, personal learning. That's the Soul Matters approach. Experience Our Monthly Theme, Not Just Talk About It Unitarian Universalists want to do more than just read and talk about spiritual topics. Soul Matters participants are challenged with a “spiritual exercise” each month that relates to our topic. That's the Soul Matters experience. There is no charge, everyone is welcome to participate in a Covenant Group but if you commit to a covenant group, it's important that you commit to regular attendance, too. To register your interest, click here or discuss with Steven Mead, our Consulting Lifespan Learning Director. About 60 people participate in our covenant groups. Some of our groups have lasted for 20+ years. |
Elder CircleElders serve as conduits between the divine realm and the mundane world, making the abstract truths of spirituality accessible to the community by embodying them in their everyday behavior.―Zalman Schachter-Shalomi |
*NEW* Have you ever wondered what the difference is between just getting old and becoming an Elder? This is the question central to the Elder Circle. Through books, film, storytelling, guest speakers and discussion, Elder Circle explores how we can live our best lives while facing the inevitability of death. The Elder Circle meets on the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 3:15 pm in the Library. Facilitated by Cindy DuBois. This new group forms January 27! This is an open group―anyone welcome at any time.
Youth is wasted on the young.―George Bernard Shaw |
Zia Spirituality Group
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*NEW* Zia Spirituality Groups are an inter-spiritual community of small groups of 10-12 people who come from diverse spiritual backgrounds and who gather to support one another on our spiritual journeys in a supportive and affirming environment. Our Zia group is open to those who are involved at UU Santa Fe, from another faith community, and those who might not feel called to a faith community, but desire a supportive community as one grows in their spiritual life. Facilitated by Rev. Tony Thieman-Somora, retired MCC minister. This is an open group―anyone welcome at any time.
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Rev. Victoria Stafford reminds us, "not in the binding language of contract, but in the life-sustaining fluency of covenant, from covenir, to ‘travel together’...covenant is the work of intimate justice.”