Courses for Adults

Unitarian Universalism 101: Helen Burnett facilitates; Fall 2009

Adult Religious Education/Life Enrichment Courses

TO REGISTER FOR COURSES:

Email and provide course name, your name, your telephone and email
Stop by our registration table in Faith Presbyterian's Fellowship Hall after the services on Sunday morning.

ALL COURSES WILL TAKE PLACE AT FAITH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (FPC), 1314 East Oltorf Street, Austin, TX 78704

WILDFLOWER ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (ARE) AND LIFE ENRICHMENT (LE) - SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE

ARE COURSE - For information contact	FACILITATOR	DATES	DAY/TIME	PLACE
Evolution Is the New Gospel! - childcare provided	Gerry King	March 25, April 1,8,15,22,29	Sunday morning, 9:30-10:45 am	FPC Parlor
Deepening Spiritually: A Variety of Meditation Practices - childcare provided	Helen Burnette	May 6,13,20,(skipping May 27),June 3	Sunday morning, 9:30-10:45 am	FPC Parlor
Putting Love and Faith into Action	Rev. Eliza Galaher	April 1,8,15,22	Sunday evening, 7-9 pm	FPC Parlor
Promoting Civil Discussions	Mike Ignatowski	May 1, 8, 15	Tuesday evening, 7-8:30 pm	FPC Fellowship Hall

LIFE ENRICHMENT COURSE - For information, contact	FACILITATOR	DATES	DAY/TIME	PLACE
No Spring 2012 Life Enrichment classes are scheduled at this time.

Wildflowers' Courses for Adults

We provide both adult religious education and life enrichment courses and workshops for Wildflowers. The adult religious education courses support people on their spiritual journeys to have a place to explore Unitarian Universalism and other religious and spiritual traditions, engage in dialogue around critical questions that inform ones faith development, and explore current social justice issues.

Our life enrichment courses are much more diverse with learning experiences that are focused on developing us beyond the spiritual/religious dimension. We choose topics for courses and build our yearly schedule based on a periodic needs assessment (most recent spring 2011), their fit with the mission of Wildflower, and the willingness of facilitators to implement our ideas. Often courses are proposed by people who wish to teach a particular topic and share their enthusiasm with others.

ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION COURSES

CHILDCARE IS OFFERED FOR ALL ADULT RE SUNDAY MORNING CLASSES.

Contact for more information or to sign up for courses.

Evolution Is The New Gospel!

In these sessions we will engage in conversations with fascinating thinkers in the fields of cosmology, biology, physics, neuroscience, evolution theology and others. We will do this by reading and listening to their talks and then dialogue together on what we have learned to answer questions like: How can How Things Are inform Things That Matter? Can Science be Meaningful? What wisdom can be derived from the Great Story of Cosmic Evolution? Is there an intellectually respectable and meaningful alternative to Personal God VS Atheism? How do we create a Naturalism that is Inspiring? Join this opportunity to deepen your personal theology. *Childcare provided

FACILITATOR: Gerry King DAY/TIME/DATES/PLACE: Sunday morning, 9:30-10:45 am, March 25, April 1,8,15,22,29, FPC Parlor

Deepening Spiritually: A Variety of Meditation Practices

Exploring new techniques, sharing experiences with other meditators, and sitting together are good ways to invigorate a practice, begin anew, or begin at last. Whatever your relationship with your meditation practice, these sessions are designed to illustrate different techniques to strengthen practice. Each of the four sessions will explore a different way of sitting meditation: Emptying the Mind - Zen; Counting the Breath - Soto-Rinzai; Labeling Thoughts - Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen teacher; Learning by Heart - Laurel Hallman, Unitarian Universalist minister. Meditators with any amount of experience (including none) are welcome. If you customarily use a cushion to sit on, bring it with you, and all participants should wear comfortable clothes. *Childcare provided

FACILITATOR: Helen Burnette DAY/TIME/DATES/PLACE: Sunday morning, 9:30-10:45 am, May 6,13,20,(Skipping May 27),June 3, FPC Parlor

Putting Love and Faith into Action

The Unitarian Universalist Association's Standing on the Side of Love campaign is not just about standing. It's about walking, working, singing, marching, agitating, building relationships, building trust, creating change. In this four-session class, we will explore historical moments when people have acted in faith and love, knowing they had to change their lives in order to change the world for the better. Readings, video and group discussion will engage participants in exploring what it means to stand on the side of love. Rev. Eliza would like participants to have read Eboo Patel's Acts of Faith, Beacon Press prior to the start of the class. Books will be available at the Adult Programming table before the course begins for $14.00 or donation.

FACILITATOR: Rev. Eliza Galaher DAY/TIME/DATES/PLACE: Sunday evening, 7-9 pm; April 1,8,15,22, FPC Parlor

Promoting Civil Discussions

A well functioning democracy needs many people with the skills for engaging in constructive civil conversations about important topics in politics and religion. In this courses, we will review many techniques and examples of how to engage in meaningful conversations about such topics with friends and relatives,with the golal of achieving better mutual understanding. This is a great opportunity to practice those difficult conversations you have been wanting to have.

FACILITATOR: Mike Ignatowski DAY/TIME/DATES/PLACE: Tuesday evening, 7-8:30 pm; April 3,10,17,24, FPC Fellowship Hall

LIFE ENRICHMENT COURSES

Contact for more information or to sign up for courses.

No Spring 2012 Life Enrichment classes are scheduled at this time.