This year we offer the Congregational Leadership Track workshop. This is a new program; it is part of Summer Institute but with separate programming beginning with an orientation on Sunday evening and running from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday. Participants will take their meals, attend late afternoon activities, if they wish, and and socialize in the evening with the rest of the SI community.
Register on the centerfold form of this brochure, adding the $50 additional fee to your total. Family members should be registered on the same form.
1. Leadership Track Classes Rod Thompson, OMD District Consultant
Schedule: Orientation, Sunday, July 16, 8 - 9 p.m.
Monday through Friday: 9:30 a.m.- Noon; 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.This is leadership training for those who don't think they can go to EAGLES this year. We can't give you the whole Leadership School experience but we can give you the Organizational Development part. This will be a "Learn by Doing" workshop, with each participant assigned to a group that will function as a church board and deal with real life situations under the mentorship and guidance of a trained facilitator. The full schedule still leaves you free for meals and late afternoon and evening programs with your family and friends. Limit 21
The workshop will be led and coordinated by Rev. Rod Thompson, OMD District Consultant. Rod has been active in leadership development work and leadership schools for most of his professional life.
2. The Art of Loving Self-Care: Gentle Yoga and Massage Kari
Gunderson & Heidi Schaffer
On Monday and Wednesday, Heidi will do body awareness and mechanics: breathing and gentle yoga stretches. Tuesday and Thursday, Kari will lead clothes-on massage for the back, face, hands and feet. Friday will be the class's choice, perhaps "Yogassage." Limit 15Kari is a licensed massage and neuromuscular therapist in Columbus. She believes in the physical and emotional therapeutic benefits of massage. She is also a performing artist who plays and teaches violin. Heidi has been teaching yoga for three years while continuing to study yoga. She is certified in the gentle, health-based Integrative Yoga Therapy.
3. Serious Fun with Theater Laure Swearingen
Participants will have an opportunity to play in a safe place to explore facets of self that may go unused most of the time. It's a chance to take liberating, creativity-enhancing, community-building risks. Limit 18Laure has an MFA in Acting and is on her way to the Ph.D. She's taught games to many different groups, none more open and creative than UU's.
4. Continuing our Conversation about Our Theme Rev. David
Herndon
This workshop offers participants an opportunity for deeper exploration of the themes and ideas and stories presented by Reverend Sinkford. Limit 15The Reverend Dr. David Herndon, a lifelong UU, has been minister of First Church, Pittsburgh since 1990. Currently he's working on a degree in non-profit management at Carnegie-Mellon University. He's a familiar presence at Summer Institute, where for several years he led the Folk Orchestra.
5. Finding Your Own Walden Liz Erickson and Jim Scott
Dust off your old copy of Thoreau's Walden, pack long pants and shoes for wading, and join Liz and Jim as they explore the woods, streams and meadows around Kenyon College. Liz and Jim are experienced guides in how to see, hear and experience the outdoors. In addition to Thoreau, you'll be introduced to works of Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver and other heirs of the Thoreau tradition. Limit 15Liz is an Australian who found what "the bush" really meant to her when she left it. At Kent Church, she is part of a group which organizes an organizational exploration of our spiritual connection to nature each session (Where's Walden?). Henry Thoreau always attends these sessions. Jim is an amateur naturalist and avid outdoorsman. At Kent, Jim often appears as the "reincarnated" Henry Thoreau at Where's Walden?
6. From Captain Video to Star Trek: Sci-Fi Culture and Influence
Charlotte
Huszdza
"May the force be with you." "Beam me up, Scotty." "We Are Your Future." For over seventy-five years, media science fiction has intrigued and entertained us, perhaps even provoked us. We'll look at the effect sci-fi TV series and movies have had on our culture: gender issues, discrimination, sexuality, science education, management theory, and much more. Has it helped us progress socially or has it been just a fanciful way of maintaining the status quo? Limit 20Charlotte started watching media science fiction with Captain Video. A biologist by education and a public relations/marketing/communications professional by training, she's had a lifelong love of speculative fiction. For several years she published a science fiction news magazine, Cleveland Ansible.
7. MultiCultural Art: Magic and Mayhem Fran Mulkins
Let's make artistic magic and find the ARTIST within. People throughout the world have created wonderful art and artifacts and we can too! We'll learn about the world and ourselves through art. Limit 15Fran is a veteran art teacher, long-time UU, and world explorer. She has visited and studied in a number of places, including recent trips to Canada, Alaska and Japan as a Fulbright Memorial Fund recipient.
8. Exploring Simple Living: Developing Your Own Simple Living
Plan Cindy Eubanks Cochran
Simple living: it's not just for old hippies, aluminum recyclers or organic gardeners. It's a choice, a way of life, and anyone can do it. Explore the benefits of "downsizing" your life and increasing contentment. Find your way to living simpler. No limitCindy, a member of the UU Church of Akron, has led workshops on creativity, goal setting, size acceptance, and simple living at her church and at district activities for the past five years.
9. "How I Learned to Drive" and Other Coming-of-Age Stories Laura
Adams
We will read Paula Vogel's award-winning drama "How I Learned to Drive" to set the stage for discussions of our own and others' stories dealing with loss of innocence. Adolescence for many of us was a time of confusion on one hand and excitement and adventure on the other. How we navigated these waters and how we can help our young people navigate them now will be the focus of our discussion. It's a timely subject in the year the OWL (Our Whole Lives) curriculum is being introduced into UU church schools. Limit 15Laura counseled adolescents and their parents for twenty years. Earlier, as a teacher, she had come to appreciate the complications of adolescent rites of passage for both her students and their parents. She and husband Dave and their blended families experienced many familiar traumas...and lived through them.