VIRTUAL: Thursday, April 27, 2023 | 7:00 PM Creating intellectual humility and reframing change as learning and growth (vs "flip-flopping" or failures of integrity). Building skill in changing our mind is an important step in creating change. Adam Grant suppoorts this skill with a description of what it means to re-think what we know, how we know it, and the skills we need to learn and integrate new information and perspectives. “What gets us into…
VIRTUAL: Thu, Mar 23, 2023 7:00 PM IN PERSON: Sat, Mar 25, 2023 9:00 AM A data-driven discussion about how we can measure both the problems of our world and the extent to which our strategies to solve them are effective. Practice embracing observation (of the data) without judgment, acknowledging the feelings that arise, and understanding the needs behind those feelings builds a foundation for subsequent conversations. Having spent time learning how to experience, acknowledge,…
VIRTUAL: Thursday, February 23, 2023 | 7:00 PM Central Communicating without judgment (of ourselves or others), following an emotion to the needs that give rise to it, and making requests that would meet those needs can lead us toward strategies that meet everyone's needs at once. Building habits of these actions enables us to be present to the things that are most important to us, even when they seem in conflict with the priorities of…
VIRTUAL: Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 7:00 pm US Central When we hide, suppress, and deny our own emotions (or others'), we blind ourselves to what we most desire and risk collateral damage when those emotions escape on their own. This month, we'll be giving ourselves permission to feel our own emotions so that we can be available to join others in their experience. Maybe you’ve heard people say, “facts don’t care about your feelings.”…
The ELCA’s Truth & Healing Movement is an opportunity for this church to increase our understanding of our colonizing impacts on Indigenous people in the past and present. Over the next several months, there will be opportunities to learn, raise awareness and engage in other ways to impact hearts and lives across this church. We believe that the truth, and our knowing and embracing it, is the first step toward healing for all of us.…