Category: Highlights

Building Beloved Community with Microvalidations

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In our recent Connecting Conversations we explored, together, microaggressions and their grievous harm. A possible counter strategy to their cumulative burden is small, affirming declarations. In a 2023 Harvard Business Review article, authors Roberts, Grayson, and Rosser presented several microvalidations to incorporate into interactions. Each can begin subtly to move a marginalized “outsider” into a sense of inclusion as an “insider.” Here, … Continue reading Building Beloved Community with Microvalidations

Environmental Justice and Building Our New Grid – Where Should It All Go?

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Saturday, January 20th, 2024 2pm – 3:30pm Join Green Sanctuary Committee members in WUS Parlor to attend via Zoom: (In person at First Parish Concord – 20 Lexington Rd.  We START at 2pm, please arrive before. There is plenty of parking. Please wear a mask.) ZOOM LINK: https://bit.ly/EJ-Table-Forum?source=email& Join the MA Environmental Justice Legislative Table … Continue reading Environmental Justice and Building Our New Grid – Where Should It All Go?

Love In Action January 2024

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Our LOVE IN ACTION event for January is preparing and distributing care kits for those experiencing homelessness at “Mass and Cass” (Massachusetts Avenue and Melina Cass Boulevard) through the organization Moms on the Mile. Here are the many ways you can participate! Bring a NEW hat/scarf/pair of gloves/pair of socks to WUS on January 7th, … Continue reading Love In Action January 2024

Beginning, Becoming, Belonging

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Beginning, Becoming, Belonging The Membership Committee and the Rev. Heather Janules are inviting you to one remaining session open to everyone, but especially helpful to those new to Unitarian Universalism and/or Winchester Unitarian Society (WUS). “Beginning, Becoming, Belonging”