The attached calendar and sign-up sheet is designed to help you plan how you intend to participate in both the virtual sessions and apply the practices in your context. 

While a member of the Auburn Leadership Team will guide key elements of each session – with monthly recaps, framing and check-in, helping folks to dig deeper into the topic for each section, and setting participants up for the following session at the end of the two hours – the bulk of the leadership will be the responsibility of the cohort participants. 

A grounding and closing practice are included in each of the areas. These are leadership opportunities where members of the cohort get to practice anchoring the group during the opening and closing of each session.  

Unless otherwise indicated all practice sessions will take place in small breakout rooms. This means there should be a dedicated leader for each breakout. The leader acts as the overall facilitator for the given activity and is not a participant. All practice leaders will be provided with detailed instructions on how to lead the practice in advance of the session.  

Did you miss a session? Do you want to revisit a conversation or insight from a member of your cohort? What about that great grounding or closing practice? Could their words inspire and equip you on your leadership journey? 

Come here to access video clips from past sessions. This content is meant to support your process as a healing centered leader by sharing the powerful sources of wisdom and knowledge emerging from the cohorts' reflective engagement with the practices and skills explored in each session and throughout the entire curriculum. 

Come here for additional resources related to each session.

SESSION ONE - Building Community - Lens to Mirror Practice

Video clips

• Building Community in my context - Community check in and reflections
• Grounding led by Tyler Cole - Breathing Practice and a reading offered from the Unitarian Universalist tradition
• Closing led by Amany Darkaoui offered from the Islamic Tradition 

Additional Resources 

• Peter Block, Community: The Structure
  of Belonging (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc) 2018.
• adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy, (AK Press) 2017.
• Kaitlin B. Curtice. Native Identity, Belonging and Rediscovering God. (Beacon Press), 2020.
• bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism (Holt Paperbacks), 1996.
  
  

SESSION TWO: Scriptural Reasoning

Video Clips:

Community Check in & Reflection

• Grounding Exercise, led by Jael Brothers
• Digging Deeper Conversation
• Closing led by Sarah Kaplan

Additional Resources

• Peter Ochs, Religion Without Violence: The Practice and Philosophy of Scriptural Reasoning, Cascade Books, 2019 

• The Rose Castle Foundation https://www.rosecastlefoundation.org/scriptural-reasoning 

SESSION 4: Bridging Divides--Talking Circles Practice

Here you will find worksheet, guides and instructions for the various practices we will engage throughout the program year.  These tools are designed to help you lead practices in your context. 

Building Community Practices

• Beloved Meditation
• 2X2 Conversations
• Lens to Mirror Practice
• Opening Practices Worksheet
• Scriptural Reasoning Practice 

Overall Evaluation

• Context, Impact, Action Worksheet 
  • Use this sheet to offer feedback to members of your cohort
• Shared Stories of Practice in Context Worksheet
  • Use this sheet to record your experience with the practices and tools in your context

Each virtual session will follow a similar structure, intentionally designed to facilitate learning and build community within the cohort. 

Each month will include the follow elements:  

• Framing, recap - Auburn team led overview of the monthly session and recap of where we have been on our learning journey
• Community check-in - This is our "what's up," moment
• Grounding ritual  - Cohort led opportunity for folks to center our community of practice with resources informed by our religious/spiritual traditions
• Digging Deeper - Auburn team led opportunity to add depth to the theme and practice of the month, through focused conversation, resource sharing and reflection
• The Practices - cohort led opportunities for folks to lead practices and methodologies on building community, bridging divides and pursuing justice introduced during the intensive in preparation for sharing them in your context
• Report Back - Highlights and insights from small groups for the good of the whole 
• Wrap- Up  - Auburn team led "housekeeping," in preparation for upcoming session 
• Closing ritual  - cohort facilitated session closing that, like the grounding at the beginning sends us forth with a word from our traditions.