Webinar Recordings​

New recordings posted monthly, so be sure to come back and check out new offerings on a regular basis.

Brilliant Bulletin Boards

Bulletin boards help make our RE programs come alive. Join three thoughtful and creative Directors of RE as they share how theme-based ministry has altered the way they design bulletin boards. See examples of boards they’ve created. Hear strategic as well as practical tips. Get excited all over again about designing your own!
 
Thanks to our three presenters: 
  • Cory Ness, DRE at UU Church of the Shenandoah Valley, VA  
  • Leah Hickerson Purcell‎, DRE at 1st U of Albany, NY  
  • Barb Friedland, DRE at Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church, Louisville, KY

Bringing Theme-Based Ministry Home
In this webinar, leading “beyond Sunday School” consultant, Kim Sweeney shares the many ways that theme-based ministry can be a bridge to bringing our faith home. Designed for congregations using Soul Matters as well as other theme-based approaches, the presentation offers theoretical grounding as well as practical strategies. Along the way, leaders are given advice about effective communications to parents, offering conversation prompts and helping parents weave themes into activities families are already doing together.

This purchase includes a recording of the webinar, a pdf document with the slides used in the presentation, and a Word doc that includes recommended follow up resources.

Learn more about Kim Sweeney and Courageous Faith Consulting here 

Creating Theme-Based Whole Congregation Worship

 In this webinar, leading “beyond Sunday School” consultant, Kim Sweeney helps us explore how theme-based church makes whole church worship easier and more compelling. She offers strategies and tools for meaningfully engaging and involving young members in theme-based whole congregation worship. 

​This purchase includes a recording of the webinar,  slides from the PowerPoint presentation, chat-box text, audio recording and suggested resources document 

Learn more about Kim Sweeney and Courageous Faith Consulting here

Leading Meditation with Children and Youth

Rev. Jaelynn Scott helps us navigate leading meditation with children and youth. Rev. Jaelynn offers tools to help grow your students' capacity to meditate and deepen their connection to meditation. Includes developmental theory as well as practical tips. In addition to the hour-long presentation, the recording includes the 30 minutes of Q&A that followed the presentation. Useful to a wide audience, including DRE’s, RE teachers and parents.

Rev. Jaelynn is our Soul Matters Youth Meditation Consultant. She is a Buddhist community minister, former UU Director of Religious Education, speaker, preacher, and meditation instructor. She resides in Edmonds, WA where she  teaches transgender theology, directs queer and gender non-conforming programming for youth, and worships in the cold rainforests of the Pacific Northwest.

​New Subscriber Orientation

Watch a recording of one of our orientation webinars for new subscribers. For leaders and new subscribers who are unable to attend one of our live orientation webinars. While this recording is a useful resource, we encourage all new subscribers and leaders to also attend one of the live orientations offered three times a year. New content is also added and the in-person webinars provide a chance to ask questions and explore issues related to your unique environments.

Introduction to Crossing Paths

Crossing Paths is a Soul Matters version of the impactful Neighboring Faiths youth program used throughout our UU congregations. Here's a recording of our  Introduction to Crossing Paths Webinar to get a better sense of its distinctive components. 

Crossing Paths Leader Orientation 
This webinar provides Crossing Paths leaders with tips about how to run the Crossing Paths program and adapt the curriculum to one's unique setting. In addition to the hour long presentation this recording includes the question and answer time that occurred afterwards. An essential resource for anyone leading Crossing Paths.

Social Media Toolbox "How To" Webinar

For those who have purchased our social media toolbox or are interested in learning more about it. This webinar explains how our toolbox can transform your congregation's social media presence from a message board to an outreach ministry, from something that  informs to something that inspires. It also covers the detailed step-by-step processes of using and altering our graphic images as you use them on your social media platforms and video screens.

Starting Point Orientation Webinar
View the recording of our orientation webinar for our Soul Matters UU101 curriculum called Starting Point. If you’re wondering about purchasing the curriculum, this is a great way to help with your discernment. If you’ve already purchased the curriculum, re-watching the webinar is a great support. Learn more about Starting Point here.

More Recordings Coming...

Many of our webinars will be recorded and shared here for later viewing. So bookmark this page and check it out every once in a while. We will also send out email and Facebook announcements as new recordings are made available.