Beyond Categorical Thinking Workshop - January 19

A Workshop Sponsored by Your Ministerial Search Committee

Beyond Categorical Thinking

Sunday, January 19, 2014

UUA Facilitators will present the workshop in the Chapel

from 12:30 pm till 3:30 pm.

Lunch is provided and child care is available during the Workshop.

On January 19^th, members and friends of First Unitarian Church are invited to participate in the Beyond Categorical Thinking (BCT) workshop offered by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) for congregations involved in the search for a new minister.  Our facilitators will be Danielle DiBona, from Rockland, MA, and Donna Dolham from Union, ME. 

The BCT program is designed to promote inclusive thinking and to help prevent discrimination in the search process for a new minister.  The program will include elements in our Sunday morning worship service with Rev. Tracey Robinson-Harris in collaboration BCT facilitators, as well as the workshop where we will:

• Consider the hopes, expectations, and concerns we have for a new minister
• Learn more about the ministerial search process
• Explore how thinking categorically about people sometimes interferes with choosing the best candidate
• Consider issues regarding age, gender, gender identity, nationality, physical ability, race, and sexual orientation.

Members of the Prudential Committee and the LLPC are urged to participate.  All members and friends of the Church are welcome. The Beyond Categorical Thinking workshop is another opportunity for everyone in our congregation to be part of the search process. 

We would like to know how many people intend to participate.  Please sign up on the clip board at the Search Committee table in the Bancroft Room.  If you plan to have you children in child care during the workshop (A Hogwarts program will be provided!!) please sign up.