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Soul Matters / Creativity Matters 2022-23
Soul Matters small groups begin again this month!
Last Thursday you received a separate email with more information about the nature and purpose of Soul Matters groups (and our new Creativity Matters format).
The email contained important information on groups you can join and copies of the Participant guide - as well as copies of the Soul Matters and Creativity packets on the September theme of Belonging for you to look through.
This week, we’d like to invite you to dive more deeply into the Participant Guide, which explains both the theology behind the Soul Matters format, and the actual processes for individual exploration and sharing in your group.
And we invite you to check out the spiritual exercises that comprise the second part of the individual exploration of the month’s theme. (Each month, participants choose one, with the goal of coming step into the “nitty gritty work of engaging our lives” rather than simply “analyzing life.”)
Soul Matters spiritual exercise prompts for September include:
- welcoming difficult parts of our life back into Belonging
- thinking about food or a recipe that takes you back to a memory of deep Belonging
- how the practice of land acknowledgements invite us to reorient our understandings of Belonging
- exploring the possibility of a deeper and wider Belonging through the voices of Black Unitarian Universalists in the BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation.
- choosing one quote that articulates where you are on the path of Belonging right now from the additional resources in the packet
- taking the time to explore the topic of Belonging in conversations with others over the course of the month
For the full prompts, see the September packet on Belonging:
Although groups are starting to get underway, there is still plenty of time for you to join one!
Have questions? Ready to join?
Contact Kat Norman
at graennholt@gmail.com or 909-856-9945
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