COA Friendship and Decentering Self

6301 River Road
Bethesda MD 20817
(entrance on Whittier Blvd.)
Directions

RRUUC is an easy-access facility.

Resolution on Racial Justice
As individuals, we commit to a new level of engagement, to continually seek ways to use our voices, our privilege, our standing in the community to effect change.
As a congregation, we commit to turning a new page. We declare the obvious—that Black lives matter to our beloved community. We affirm the need for powerful words and collective action, both to call out injustice and to call in love.

RRUUC Land and Labor Acknowledgment
We acknowledge that the land on which we worship is the traditional land of the Nacotchtank and Piscataway people and the land through which other Indigenous Peoples traveled. We acknowledge that enslaved African people and their descendants likely labored and lived on this land. We recognize these and other people displaced, enslaved, or harmed by past injustices.

We pledge that we will follow our faith in love and work to make our congregation and our larger community more accessible, inclusive, and equitable. We pledge that we will be good stewards of the land by encouraging healthy ecosystems. We pledge to remember the past while building a more just and welcoming future for all.

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The Ideal Friend

Makes a list of ten characteristics that you associate with an ideal friend.
Thinking of two or three best friends, put your friend’s initials next to the characteristics on the list.
Place a star next to the characteristics that you believe that you possess.
Circle any characteristics that you feel that you need to work on.

Decentering Yourself

Characteristics of decentering are accountability with others, giving encouragement, and sharing experiences (both good and bad.)

Another characteristic is deep listening. Watch this video Then:

Get together with a friend and practice listening without fixing, saving, or advising them. Listen without thinking about what you’ll say back.
Set up a check-in with a friend to encourage each other on something you are working on like a sport skill, homework, art project, etc.

River Road UU Congregation

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation