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By Jennifer Rehbein and Marianne Alt Our faith is covenantal. What binds us together is not a set of dogmatic beliefs but rather a living, breathing covenant. Here at UUCWC, our Covenant of Right Relations is our agreement about how we want to be with one another when we are together. Creating a beloved community requires … Continue reading Spotlight on Right Relations
by Peter A. Rafle, Sr., Right Relations Committee In our current era of misinformation and raised rhetoric, it has become even more important to possess the tools to resolve conflicts and create a basis for ongoing communication. One way of resolving conflict is to use the process of Compassionate Communication. Compassionate Communication enables an exploration … Continue reading The Practice of Compassionate Communication
by Eileen Spedding, Right Relations Committee As UUs, we welcome, celebrate and honor diversity of people, beliefs and ideas. And yet, we often struggle with how to negotiate our differences when it comes to making decisions on behalf of our congregation. Important decisions around budgetary allocations, capital projects or even most recently pandemic policies can … Continue reading Resolving Conflict in a Covenantal Community
by Michelle Hunt, Right Relations Committee As humans, we are connecting all the time. We are drawn into relationships as members of families, organizations, work groups, and congregations. As members of a faith community, we assume involvement with soul work or inner work too. Who am I? What do I believe to be true? What … Continue reading Interconnection, Inner-Work and Covenanting
by Michelle Hunt, Right Relations Committee In June of 2018, our congregation approved the 8th UU Principle: “We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote: journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in … Continue reading Policies on When We Call the Police Under Review
by Michelle Hunt, Right Relations Committee Our UU principles are a straightforward articulation of our shared values. In turn, our eight principles inspire our covenants, which guide how we will live and relate to all existence. Covenants focus specifically on promises we make to each other. In our humanness, sometimes we fall short of our … Continue reading Living our Values through Restorative Justice
by David Thomas, Right Relations Committee What does that Right Relations Committee (RRC) do? This was exactly the question that I had when I was asked to join the committee in June. I was aware on a general level that this committee was dedicated to supporting the mission and principles that we have at UUCWC, … Continue reading What Does the Right Relations Committee Do?
by Clare O’Brien Doyle, Right Relations Committee “The purpose of the Right Relations Committee is to help restore harmonious relationships.” Each year the Right Relations Committee (RRC) welcomes two new members who will serve for three years. Bud Johnson and I recently joined Karen DiGeorgio, Chris Marietti, Ben Thornton and Susan Colket as part of … Continue reading Creating Covenants
by Lori Rahn, Right Relations Committee We UU’s are terrific at hugging- physical hugging that is, but are we equally as good at “psychological hugs”? According to Lawrence J. Bookbinder, PhD, a psychological hug is a feeling that one gets when one has been listened to and has been acknowledged for what was said and … Continue reading The Psychological Hug
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. – Rachel Naomi Remen Some of our most important work in Right Relations Committee is to listen. We are here to listen to you, not just … Continue reading Listening
