January UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
2027-01-14 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago)
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January UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

January 14
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2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
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Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life
by Viktor E. Frankl (2024)
At the turn of the calendar year, we engage profound questions of meaning, freedom, responsibility, and hope. Frankl’s reflections emerge from both suffering and deep spiritual insight. Rather than offering easy optimism, this book asks what it means to live purposefully and humanely in difficult times.

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Session 2: The true cost of spiritual connection
2027-01-18 18:00 - 19:30
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Session 2: The true cost of spiritual connection

January 18
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6:00 pm
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7:30 pm

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Many spiritual directors have never calculated what it actually costs to offer this work sustainably. In this session, we move from story to numbers—without losing the soul. You’ll learn to distinguish fixed costs (platform fees and professional memberships), variable costs (marketing, continuing ed), and hidden costs (emotional labor, preparation time, unpaid admin). Together, you’ll discern your financial needs from your practice, not from greed but from faithfulness to your own calling and your real needs.

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January UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

Session 3: Accessibility without apology

Session 3: Accessibility without apology
2027-01-25 18:00 - 19:30
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Session 3: Accessibility without apology

January 25
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6:00 pm
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7:30 pm

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Many spiritual directors have never calculated what it actually costs to offer this work sustainably. In this session, we move from story to numbers—without losing the soul. You’ll learn to distinguish fixed costs (platform fees and professional memberships), variable costs (marketing, continuing ed), and hidden costs (emotional labor, preparation time, unpaid admin). Together, you’ll discern your financial needs from your practice, not from greed but from faithfulness to your own calling and your real needs.

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February UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

February UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
2027-02-11 14:00 - 15:30
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February UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

February 11
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2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
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Queering Contemplation: Finding Queerness in the Roots and Future of Contemplative Spirituality
by Cassidy Hall (2024)
This month we explore contemplation through the lenses of queerness, embodiment, liberation, and expansive spirituality. Cassidy Hall invites readers to question binaries and reimagine contemplative traditions with greater honesty, hospitality, and freedom. This conversation may stretch many of us in fruitful ways.

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March UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

March UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
2027-03-11 14:00 - 15:30
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March UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

March 11
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2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
by Four Arrows and Darla Narvaez with multiple voices (2022)
As spring begins, we widen our lens beyond individual spirituality toward relationship, community, ecology, and interdependence. This collection invites readers to examine the assumptions of dominant Western culture and consider Indigenous wisdom traditions that emphasize reciprocity, kinship, and balance.

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Supervision Connection: Research and Practice
2027-03-16 12:00 - 13:00
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Supervision Connection: Research and Practice

March 16
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12:00 pm
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1:00 pm

Do you supervise others as part of your ministry? What makes for a “good” supervisee/supervisor relationship? How does this component affect formation for ministry? Rev. Jules Taylor shares their research on the landscape of supervision practices, focusing especially on supervision with ministerial interns. Across multiple traditions, ministerial formation includes a supervised ministry (i.e. internship) component, and the relationship between supervisee and supervisor cannot be overlooked as a component to learning. This workshop shows what all supervisors can learn by thinking about formation and education as part of the work of supervision. The session will include both discussion and an opportunity for internship supervisors to participate in a research study.

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Rev. Jules Taylor
Cost: $30
Rev. Jules Taylor is pursuing a Doctor of Ministry, with research focused on supervision of intern ministers across difference. Taylor has been the Senior Director of Contextual Ministry at Meadville Lombard Theological School since 2018, where they have overseen close to 100 ministerial internships. Taylor has been working with seminarians since 2009 as the initial coordinator of the In Care, In Covenant program of the (then) Metro NY District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and an adjunct professor at the Starr King Ministry and Eden Theological Seminary.

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April UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

April UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
2027-04-08 14:00 - 15:30
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April UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

April 8
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2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
CDT

Sage Warrior: Wake to Oneness, Practice Pleasure, Choose Courage, Become Victory
by Valarie Kaur (2026)
Valarie Kaur weaves activism, spirituality, embodiment, grief, joy, and collective liberation into a compelling call toward courageous living. This book asks how we remain awake and loving in difficult times without abandoning ourselves or one another.

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May UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
2027-05-13 14:00 - 15:30
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May UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion

May 13
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2:00 pm
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3:30 pm
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The Tears of Things: Prophetic Wisdom for an Age of Outrage
by Richard Rohr (2025)
We close the year with a book wrestling honestly with prophecy, lament, anger, contemplation, and public life. Rohr explores what spiritual wisdom asks of us in an era marked by polarization and exhaustion. This feels like an appropriate concluding conversation for spiritual directors living and serving in complex times.

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April UU Spiritual Direction Book Discussion
