Let's connect on Tuesday, January 20 from 7:00 to 8:30pm ET. Join with your peers to share ideas, strategies, questions, concerns, and to receive and offer support.

This gathering is open to current New England Region Board members and those who will be on the Board within the next several months.

The Zoom link and our pre-gathering survey will be sent to all Board members. To ensure receipt, please check that all information for your congregation on my.uua.org is current and correct. Latecomers and early departures are welcome.

We look forward to gathering with you!

Let's connect on Wednesday, January 21 from 12:00 to 1:00pm ET. Join your peers to share ideas, questions, concerns, and support.

This gathering is open to all New England Region congregational administrators.

The Zoom link and our pre-gathering survey has been sent to all congregational administrators. Reminders will follow. To ensure receipt, please check that all information for your congregation on my.uua.org is current and correct. Latecomers and early departures are welcome.

We look forward to gathering with you!

We had a wonderful first session of our newly re-launched RE gathering in November! We will continue in January. We meet next on Tuesday, January 27 from 1:00 to 2:15pm ET. Please note, this date has changed from the originally scheduled Tuesday, January 20. For our second gathering, we will explore Faith Formation Through Community Building Using Deeper Joy. We hope to see you there!

Please review this mini newsletter that went out in mid December for upcoming RE events and resources. One update: the registration link for the UUA Faith Development Co-Lab's Winter RE Meet-Up is now live!

The newsletter linked above went out to all RE folks - if you are a professional or lay religious educator, please check that your congregation's personnel listings are up to date on my.uua.org to ensure delivery. If you are interested, generally, in youth and emerging adult (YEA) ministries please sign up (Google) for our YEA mailing list.

Would you like to be involved in Synergy 2026? We are recruiting for 3 or 4 youth groups to commit to being a part of planning and recording for the pre-recorded Service. Learn more and fill out the interest form (Google)! 

What Webs Require: Restorative Approaches to Conflict is an introductory learning series for congregational leaders. The learning sessions will convene on four Thursdays, February 12 and 26 and March 12 and 26.

Explore how we can mend the bonds that connect us, experience accountability with compassion, and feel connected in disagreement with one another. In this four-session introduction, we’ll look at what it takes to move from a paradigm of right and wrong to one of responsibility and care for how we impact and are impacted by one another and the world. Together, we will explore how we can trust our relationships in the face of disagreement, rely on them to support us in conflict, unlearn punishment, and experience accountability that feels humanizing.

Registration is required and available on a sliding scale. Registration closes on Thursday, February 5 or at maximum capacity.

Save the date for Saturday, April 18! Building Beloved Community Beyond the Binary returns.

This upcoming online event includes a keynote presentation given by a transgender/gender nonconforming person, workshops from and for the trans community only, as well as additional workshops for cisgender people who are ready to learn more about how to be an ally. This event creates a space and time where transgender people, allies, advocates, and accomplices can bravely (and with more safety than usual) explore, learn and grow, bear witness, and be witnessed. Attendee registration details are coming soon.

Interested in being a host site for this event? Sign up on the interest form (Wufoo) for more information. Signing up on this form is neither a commitment to host nor approval to host, but an expression of interest in hosting. We will forward your information to your regional staff, and they will reach out to you with next steps.

Does the idea of talking to reporters fill you with dread? What’s the difference between Instagram and TikTok, anyway? In the midst of social instability and other challenges, are you wondering how you and your congregation’s public presentation matters? The UUA’s Communications Staff Group is presenting a Communications Foundational Webinar Series to help your congregation build your communications skills and capacity, share your stories, and manage crises. Join on Thursday, February 5 at 11:00am ET. Find out more and register via Zoom.

Designed for small congregations, lay-led congregations, congregations with part-time ministry, and any congregation that is seeking resources for worship... Congregational Life’s Sermon of the Month Series is a monthly subscription service that provides recorded sermons congregations can download and use for worship. Along with a transcript of the sermon, each month’s offering will include suggested readings and hymns. You can access all the recordings from earlier in the year if you register now.

We are noticing that it is becoming more common again for religious professionals to serve more than one community / congregation. Some are doing this through an intentional partnership with the sites, while many put together a few part-time positions on their own. Either way, you are doing multi-site work.

We want to gather folks doing this to learn together about what's working, challenges, opportunities, and more. This is for ministers, administrators, religious educators, membership professionals, musicians, and other staff serving more than one community or congregation. We also welcome lay leaders from congregations who are doing this intentionally as a "yoked" ministry.

Mark your calendar! The UUA’s Congregational Life Small Congregations Team is hosting a month of learning for small congregations in March. This year’s theme is Small Congregations: We’re Doing the Work. There will be four webinars over four weeks. Registration opens in late January, links coming soon.

Join Side With Love’s monthly event to strengthen your spirit, make sense of the threats to democracy, and take meaningful action alongside others! We have two live versions every month, and you can watch or share the recording with your congregation afterwards.

The Gathering is on the second Monday monthly at 8:00pm ET. Register for the upcoming event on Monday, January 12. This month join for 'Economic Non-Cooperation' with Rev. Mykal Slack and more.

Find this and many more events from Side With Love on their website.

This month join for Glitter Blessing What is Sacred with Rev. Sean Neil-Barron and Rev. Jami A. Yandle on Tuesday, January 27 from 7:30 to 9:00pm ET.

Registration is free and required. Please note, registration is only required once for the series. More information about this conversation and future dates is available on the UUA website.

The Woodlands is a monthly online gathering designed for trans/nonbinary children, youth, and adults—as well as the parents and caregivers of trans people. The next gathering is on Sunday, January 11 at 4:00pm ET. Registration is required. Find out more on the UUA website.

The Unitarian Universalist Mental Health Network is running Become a Companion Workshop on Saturday, January 24 from 1:00 to 4:00pm ET. Companionship is a relational response to isolation and distress, supporting healing and recovery through community. The Pathways to Promise’s Become a Companion Workshop is a three-hour training on how to build authentic relationships with people in need, especially those living with a mental health condition.

Registration is required for a $30 fee. Email questions to the UU Mental Health Network.