UU Writers

Congregational Subscriptions
Explore our monthly themes and engage spiritual discernment through the art of creative writing!  

The Vision
Writing is a long-loved path to personal insight, spiritual discernment and self-expression. By bringing the practice of writing to the exploration of our monthly themes, we hope to provide participants not only with another channel of self-discovery, but also with the gift of being witnessed in a new and precious way.  

What You Get
The subscription comes with two packets per month - a facilitator's guide and a participant packet. These follow all ten of our 2024-25 monthly themes. The Participant Packets includes personal warm up questions and 5-6 richly-developed writing prompts/exercises to choose from.  The Facilitator's Guide includes extra material to support facilitators as they lead their groups, such as centering words, check in options, warm up activities, and tips for guiding the discussion of the writing exercises.

Format and Approach
Groups are encouraged to adapt the material as best fits their group culture, but the suggested structure involves participants picking one of the writing exercises and working on it in advance of the group meeting. During the meeting, the facilitator, using the facilitator packet as a guide, leads the group through a warm up exercise, group sharing, and a closing ritual. 

Sample
The best way to get a sense of the curriculum is to explore a Facilitator's Guide and Participant Packet directly. So here are samples of those:
Packet Creators
​Our packets are co-created by Rev. Scott Tayler, our Team Lead, and Dr. Andrea Natalia Naranjo Erazo. Andrea runs a journaling group at the National Institutes of Health.  She is ​a member of the UU affiliated Washington Ethical Society.
Pricing
For congregations with 150 members or more: $140
For congregations with 150 members or less: $110​

​Questions?
Contact Rev. Scott Tayler at [email protected]​ 

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​You can also join a UU Writers group run by Soul Matters!
We know that some congregations can't always pull together critical mass to run a group. And some UUs don't live close to a UU congregation. So we offer a monthly online UU Writers group that anyone can join.

To learn more and sign up to participate, visit our Online Groups Page or click HERE.
  For more information contact Susan: [email protected].                           Soul Matters Sharing Circle LLC