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This on-going Adult Enrichment group meets every week on Tuesday evenings for one hour of meditation including a reading. Come, sit, listen, and meditate with us.
Yoga is a multipurpose tool for improving a lifetime: the essence of Yoga is nonphysical inner development. To varying degrees for each individual, Yoga brings inner quiet, peace of mind, character strength, and spirituality. We each relate to it and its many physical and inner benefits in ways that suit our individual needs and personalities.
This Mindful Yoga program cultivates the abstract benefits. It encourages a quiet, mindful awareness while doing a full range of classical postures. Postures improve health through strengthening, purifying, and toning of the body, as well as of the nerve, and energy systems. Improved health, self-confidence, and a feeling of well-being, foster the inner results. Although the postures are a valuable tool, their improvement of the body is a byproduct, not the goal of Yoga practice.
Appropriate for a range of students, the approach is sufficiently safe, gentle, and even-paced for new students, while providing depth, variation, and practice options for experienced students.
Led by Beck Anamin
Meets Thursdays, weekly
An Adult Enrichment Program
We meet the third Friday of each month from September to June with the exception of December. Each month has an Ethnicity or Country as the focus of the meal. All are welcome. Please bring a meal, drink, desert or other; but, feel free to join even if you haven’t a dish to bring. The following is the schedule for the season.
February: Turkey
March: Bhutan
April: Czech Republic
May: Italy
June: Jewish or Hebrew or kosher
“Service for All Ages: Metamorphosis”
Presented by the Youth Group.
A time of change in our lives while making the world a better place.
“Whose Are We?”
Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger
What happens to our sense of identity and purpose when we reframe the question "Who are we?" and
instead ask "Whose are we?"
“Food Fights”
John Warner
It is easy to think about food only within a very narrow context - it's what you grab from the refrigerator when you are hungry. But have you considered that what you eat affects the future of our planet? How should we as UUs deal with the complexities of "ethical eating?"
This service offers a time for meditation, reflection, and renewal through music, brief words, and silence. Come sing, light a candle, and nurture your spirit during this nontraditional worship experience - and bring a friend! There will be a rehearsal from 6 to 6:45 pm for singers who would like to learn the harmonies to the chants we will sing.
We are also looking for instrumentalists interested in participating, but would need to know in advance who is able to come. For more information, please contact Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger at 603-410-4830 or michael@concorduu.org.
This ongoing study group meets to study the Bible in all its many facets. New students are welcome; this is a wonderful way to meet in a small group with our new minister.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MSBR) is an 8- week intensive seminar that teaches you ways of living directly with your life experiences in an open, honest and affirming way. The program teaches participants how to consciously and systematically apply mindfulness, in order to connect with what is genuine, true and healing within each of us.
In this program, participants work to improve their ability to face difficulties, to manage the challenges of life, and to improve the ability to be with and enjoy all that life has to offer. MBSR training provides a proven means for helping people to reduce discomfort associated with physical and emotional pain and to improve participant's ability to comfortably be with stressors and pain that can not be eliminated. Commitment to a daily 45-60 minute guided home practice is necessary for participation. Those who are curious can attend the orientation to learn more about this program and decide whether to participate.
NOTE: Materials fee of $35.
Led by Margaret Fletcher
March 6, 6 to 8:30pm
March 13 to April 17: 3:30 to 6 pm
April 24: 6pm to 8:30pm
Sat., April 16 all day 9 am to 4 pm
To sign up, contact the office at 224-0291 or office@concorduu.org
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MSBR) is an 8- week intensive seminar that teaches you ways of living directly with your life experiences in an open, honest and affirming way. The program teaches participants how to consciously and systematically apply mindfulness, in order to connect with what is genuine, true and healing within each of us.
In this program, participants work to improve their ability to face difficulties, to manage the challenges of life, and to improve the ability to be with and enjoy all that life has to offer. MBSR training provides a proven means for helping people to reduce discomfort associated with physical and emotional pain and to improve participant's ability to comfortably be with stressors and pain that can not be eliminated. Commitment to a daily 45-60 minute guided home practice is necessary for participation. Those who are curious can attend the orientation to learn more about this program and decide whether to participate.
NOTE: Materials fee of $35.
Led by Margaret Fletcher
March 6, 6 to 8:30pm
March 13 to April 24, 3:30 to 6 pm and
Sat., April 16 all day 9 am to 4 pm
Sign up after services in Fellowship Hall, February 6th and 13th, or contact the office at 224-0291 or office@concorduu.org
See prayer in a new light. Learn a new method of prayer that can be done almost anytime anywhere that will unleash the secrets of your soul. This is something you can do on your computer, so stop playing solitair and pray. Basic art supplies iwll be provided or you may bring a journal and favorite art suppplies from home. You will not want to miss discovering this amazing new process!
Sign up for classes in Fellowship Hall after services on February 6th and 13, or contact the Church Office - 224-0291, office@concorduu.org.
This month: The Power of Forgiveness
This beautiful and challenging documentary explores the unsentimental and hard-won practice of forgiveness as a means for iterrupting the otherwise endless cycle of harm-for-ham, violence-for-violence. The film features Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hahn, and Amish and 9/11 family members who lost children to violence, as well as others who have made the difficult choice of renouncing revenge in response to experiences of great harm and loss.
The film includes interviews with behavioral scientists about their r3esearch concerning the impact of forgiveness on health, and takes viewers into elementary schools and colleges experimenting with the impact of teaching forgiveness and reconciliation skills to their students.
FREE and EVERYONE WELCOME
What age is appropriate for your child to be on facebook? What age should your child have a "smart phone"? How many hours per day should your child be able to be on the computer? How many text messages per month should your child be allowed to have? Where's the boundary between monitoring your child's messages and their privacy and how should it change at what age?
These are tough questions. Come to our Family Ministry Dessert and Discussion Night on Saturday, April 2 at 6:30pm and let's look at these problems together. Children and Parents will have ice cream sundaes at 6:30 then from 7:00 to 8:30 the children will have a fun time in our children's program while the parents sit down for discussion.
Please RSVP to Marianne F, or to the church office (office@concorduu.org) so we can plan for child care and food. See you there!
(needs projector and screen)
Annual Conference and Meeting of the Northern New England District of UU Societies, North Conway, NH
Registration information at the District website: nned.uua.org
The UU Church of Concord, NH has been working with Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and Restorative Circles (RC) for the past three years to create in our congregation a culture of listening, tolerance and acceptance of differences. The language of nonviolence and the methods of NVC and RC are slowly becoming a part of the culture of our church in ways that help to diffuse conflict before it becomes serious enough to damage long-term relationships. We are learning to use the RC methods of “deep listening” and “reflecting back” in our interpersonal relationships as well as in our committee meetings.
We are holding another introductory workshop in Restorative Circle methods here at the Concord church the weekend of April 8-10, 2011. Our church is inviting selected area UU churches to participate with us in this event.
Program Details
The Friday night session (7-9pm) is an introduction to restorative methods and we encourgage every interested member of our church to attend so as to learn more about restorative circles and about our successes and failures and what we have learned from them. The Saturday (9am-4:30pm) and Sunday (1-5pm) sessions are designed to have participants gain a working knowledge of the restorative circle process so that they can decide if they wish to continue on and become a facilitator of the process.
For further information: contact Concord UU RC facilitators John Warner [603-456-2740 or jwwarner@mcttelecom.com] or Laurel Horne [603-227-9374 or laurelwh@comcast.net. Childcare will be available if requested in advance, in Room 8/9 from 8am to 5pm. (setup 8am, cleaned up by 6pm)
What Are Restorative Circles?
The Restorative Circle process, developed by Dominic Barter, offers ways for individuals, groups/organizations, and communities to create community spaces for conflict that are safe and constructive, not destructive. Restorative Circles does this by creating a forum through which communities can reach agreements in a way that helps sustain effective and nurturing relationships, both personally and within society. For those already knowledgeable of the process known as Nonviolent Communication, Restorative Circles can be understood as using NVC in group settings. In a circle, one sets up a process of speaking and reflecting back that promotes the discussions of feelings and needs to create hearts that are open to mutual empathy and change and, eventually, to mutually accepable requests. The ultimate goal is to encourage deep listening and direct communication in order to allow the participants to get themselves into a place where they can each make the decisions need to resolve the conflict. Circles are led by trained facilitators who focus primarily on making certain that everyone gets a chance to be heard and insuring that true listening is occuring.
The Restorative Circle workshop will be facilitated by Duke Duchscherer, a certified facilitator from the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Duke's training and experience reflects a growing level of capability integrating Nonviolent Communication (NVC) in areas of peace-building, conflict transformation, trauma healing, restorative processes and reconciliation. This experience is reflected in his work with a depth and breadth of peoples and groups from the grassroots to the United Nations on four continents.
Introduction to Unitarian Universalism
Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger offers this class for people new to Unitarian Universalism and those who have been UU's for years. The course will offer an overview of our Unitarian Universalist history, our theology, and our evolving identity as a religious tradition. We will discuss how the way we govern ourselves is an expression of our faith, and we will talk about worship, religious education, and the rituals and symbols you are likely to encounter in our churches.
While the class starts at 1 pm, anyone who is interested can gather at 12:30 to share a light lunch. Please register at the membership table, email membership@concorduu.org or call the church office.
John Warner will give a presentation to local ministers (Friday Meditation Group).
video projector & screen
If you are considering membership in the Earth-Centered Spirituality Group, or would just like to help out with the Beltane ritual, you are welcome to join us in our planning meeting. The only pre-requisite is that you have attended at least two of our public rituals in the past, so you have an idea of how we do things.
The ritual itself will be held on May 1.