Building the World We Dream About

This brand-new yearlong class uses film, video, arts projects, dialogue, and readings, along with the work of our own hearts, heads, and hands, to take us much deeper into how we want to be together as one Beloved Community of many colors, many languages, many cultures.

This curriculum will help our congregation to do the deeper “soul work” of understanding systemic oppression, especially racism and ethnocentrism; we will come to see how these systems affect us all, person to person, whether we are part of the dominant culture or not, and we will learn how we can undo their effects in our lives at home, at work, and at church.

The course takes into consideration all our identities—because no one of us is just one thing ( Latina or Angla, Korean or Black, First Peoples or Asian, gay or straight, married or single, young or old). The ripples of this work will spread outward as we share our learning with the whole congregation.

First Unitarian has the honor of pilot-testing this curriculum with a group of other committed congregations across the country. Come join in this adventure, led by a multicultural team of facilitators, including Rev. Nancy and Marla Scharf.

• Senior youth and adults welcome! Class size: 24 people.
• Classes will be held the first and third Sundays of the month, 1:30 to 3:30 pm, beginning October 7 and continuing for 24 sessions (skipping July and August 2008).

Learn much more during our worship services on September 16!

For more information, contact:
Iris Gonzalez, FUCSJ Office Administrator
fucsj@sanjoseuu.org or
408-292-3858, ext. 10