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​Soulful Home

Supporting Families as They Explore the Sacred in Everyday Spaces
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It's not easy to bring our faith home. Family life is very, very full.  It's hard to carve out special time for faith-full family experiences, so we many of us try to weave spiritual exploration into the routine spaces of the day.  Helping parents with this work of weaving the spiritual into everyday moments is what our Soul Matters’ monthly Soulful Home Guides are all about.

Subscribing families get a guide at the beginning of each month that is organized around seven distinct family "spaces" and filled with ideas and resources to fill those spaces with UU theme-based exploration. It's about faith development and it's also about creating memorable and amazing moments, through a design that is manageable, faithful and fun!

Here’s an overview of the various family spaces we focus on:  

The Welcome Mat
The Welcome Mat section provides a brief introduction that parents can use to get their family thinking about the theme and what it might mean for them.

At the Table
The At the Table section engages the theme through discussion. Questions are designed for a family gathering, perhaps in the sitting room when everyone is together or during a meal. This section strengthens the bonds within a family as members learn more about each other by asking and answering questions.

Around the Neighborhood
The Around the Neighborhood activity engages families with their surroundings through the lens of the theme. Throughout the month, we ask families to keep their eyes open for what might seem like everyday sightings but which can be perceived in new ways through the monthly theme. Trips to the grocery store, walks, and drives make for excellent spaces to conduct these treasure hunts.

At Play
The At Play activities and questions are a way to joyfully, playfully and imaginatively experience the monthly themes. We offer a brief framework for parents to use to introduce the activity and another to then help one's family reflect upon it, so that the insights learned in play can stay with us throughout the month and beyond.

At the Bedside
The At the Bedside activities engage the theme through storytelling. This takes place during the dreamy, almost otherworldly hour or so before children or youth drift off to sleep. Through stories and the questions and realizations that they prompt, we come to understand the nature of our world and our unique place in it.

At the Kitchen Sink
At the Kitchen Sink supports sharing realizations, challenges, and hopes around the theme with other adults.  It connects parents with their co-parents, with their close circle of supporters, or both. Perhaps this happens as the dinner dishes are washed and dried, or perhaps this is where parents, cup of tea or coffee in hand, talk over the soulful parts of parenthood. At the Kitchen Sink has two parts that are explained in each packet: (1) High, Low, and Tomorrow check in ritual and (2) Kitchen Sink questions.

The Extra Mile
The Extra Mile section is for families who want to continue exploring the monthly theme through larger adventures, broader experiences, more complex projects or simply through additional modalities not otherwise included in the packets. The Extra Mile suggestions often surpass what is considered an “everyday moment” in a family and may involve more preparation, planning or time to accomplish. A bit more effort, but well worth it!.


Subscription Details:
  • Subscriptions are family-based - each family purchases subscriptions separately
  • Our New Launch subscription price comes out to only $5 per month.
  • The current subscription cycle runs from January - June (six months) and costs a total of $30. 
  • The guides are emailed directly to subscribing families on the first of each month.

       Pilot Congregational Subscriptions:
  • Since this is our kick off year for Soulful Home, we’re experimenting with a pilot congregational subscription to ten congregations. These pilot congregational memberships will allow a congregation to purchase subscriptions for their families at the reduced rate. If you are interested in being one of our pilot congregations, contact Susan Arnold,  our Membership Director, at susan@soulmatterssharingcircle.com.

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Check Out a Sample:
Download the December Soulful Home packet on the theme of Mystery by clicking here.
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