COA Session 1 Explorations - River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation

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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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I highly recommend that you choose a method for recording all of your explorations so that you’ll have them at the end of the year to use in your belief statements. We’ll have time for sharing in our zoom sessions. The options most every week are: Journal, video, audio, art, photography, or doodles. If you think of other things, check with Beth first.

Session 1 – Where do we come from? What are we?

Explorations:

Writing a Where I’m From poem. You can take a tour of inside and outside your house, interview family members, cook a family recipe, take a walk with a family member and talk about where you’re from. Make a list of strong memories you have. Then choose some to create a poem. For more ideas: https://iamfromproject.com/resources/

The original poem is here.

Complete a personality quiz online such as Myers Briggs or Enneagram. What do you think of the results? Spot on? Confusing? Totally wrong? What result do you think your family members would get?