In this episode, led by guest host Lillian Drab-Braddick, we are joined by Maria Talero, PhD and Rev. Dr. JJ Flag to discuss the theme of Interdependence.

We are not above creation. We are creation.

We are not above the world. We are the world in its ongoing complexity.

~Báyò Akómoláfé, philosopher, author, and founder of The Emergence Network

In this episode we explore what it means to acknowledge our place in the interdependent web rather than assume we're at the center, as well as examine what thriving interdependence looks like in a community.

May the stories you  hear today become new threads in your own life, strengthening the fabric of love wherever you are.

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Group Stories in Bonding Harbor

Music: JUUst Breathe Medley by Robert Buonospina

In these short mini-episodes, panelists share captivating stories from their lived experience.

Maria Talero, PhD and Rev Dr JJ Flag discuss a moment where they witnessed interdependence and what has changed for them because of that experience. In other words, what threads from that experience are they still carrying today?

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Music:  JUUst Breathe Medley by Robert Buonspina

In these short mini-episodes, panelists share captivating stories from their lived experience.

For the first ever Testimony, Nao Bethea and Natalie Briscoe tell about a time that a faith formation experience was particularly meaningful for them and, what changed in them because of that experience. In other words, what thread from that experience are they still carrying today?

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Music:  JUUst Breathe Medley by Robert Buonspina

In Season 6 of JUUst Breathe, we’ll be exploring the ten lifespan religious education themes from Woven Faith, e.g. Interdependence, Living the Questions, Equity, Justice, Generosity, etc. 

Lifespan Faith Engagement Co-Director, Nao Bethea, and Director of Congregational Life, Natalie Briscoe, introduce Woven Faith to us and share about its origins, goals, and desired impacts.

From Nao: As an approach, Woven Faith is the practice of learning who we are as UUs, emphasizing what practices and wisdom are important for us to meet this moment in time. It is a process of the creators learning and creating together.

Come weave with us in Season 6.  It will be truly transformative!

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Opening Up Beach Name Game

Woven Faith Orientations

Music: JUUst Breathe Medley by Robert Buonospina

We are excited to have you join us for the Season Finale of our journey through the Deeper Joy Community Building map. Today we’re arriving at the Canyons of Deeper Sharing! 

In this episode, we are joined by Kitty Kalebarn and Lenore Bajare-Dukes to explore the Canyons - where we practice vulnerability in sharing and receiving the gifts of community, whether that is witnessing one another's life experiences or the challenges we're grappling with, or through making meaning together - listening to each other's stories and moments of awe and wonder. 

Join us on this final exquisite Journey of Deeper Joy!

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In this episode, we are joined by Rev Erin Walter and Rev Justin Almeida to explore the Healing Spring — a place of rest, repair, and reconnection.

If the Stretching River is where we grow through challenge, the Healing Springs are where we pause, tend to what’s been stirred up, and reconnect to what sustains us.

The springs are made up of many pools: some for individual healing, some for collective repair, and others that overflow into the wider world.

And at the source of all of them is connection , connection to ourselves, to one another, to the earth, to our values, and to something larger than us.

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In this episode we are excited to be joined by Lillian Drab Braddick and Moritz to explore the Stretching River — a place where communities face challenges, decisions, and opportunities that ask something new of them.

Sometimes those things that stretch us are challenges that arise naturally — in thinking about congregations this might be a board leadership transition, a new minister or staff person, or some moment that calls the community to respond together.  But other times, they’re intentionally created — through games, learning experiences, or collaborative projects designed to stretch what a group can do together.

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In this episode, we are joined by Jen Shattuck and Lena McCain to explore the Forest of Affirmation — a place where community pauses to notice and affirm what’s growing.  

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Our exceptional panelists Soyal Smalls and Mylo Way examine the times in community where boundaries, access and exclusion can actually be utilized to seed more belonging in our communities.

We mentioned:

Priya Parker Generous Exclusion

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Today we’re stepping into Bonding Harbor — the place on the Deeper Joy map where we begin to come together as a group. It’s that early moment where we learn names, get a sense of the group’s energy, move together through shared tasks and even play, and begin building the trustworthiness that makes community possible. Bonding Harbor is where we learn what we can do together.

Panelists Shannon Harper and Jocelyn Soules give their perspectives on how communities deepen their connectedness and build the trust necessary for crafting profound and lasting relationships.

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We mentioned:
https://www.uua.org/lifespan/curricula/deeper-joy/deeper-joy-rpg