Join us on Saturday, October 19th at First UU Austin from 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. for TXUUJM’s Empowered Safety Training.
Lunch will be provided. Childcare available upon request. Teens are also welcome to attend this workshop with a parent.
From democracy work to campus protests to Sunday mornings in worship, we face questions of how — and what it means — to keep ourselves and our communities safe. Join the Texas Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry as we deepen our practical and spiritual tools for safety in our congregations, communities, and justice work. In this unique training grounded in UU principles but open to all, you will learn from local and national safety experts about how to respond in a crisis:
- What is an equitable and just definition of community safety, aligned with our values?
- What is needed from UUs, according to community members who face the most risk?
- When faced with creating a critical incident response, based on years of research, in the first few minutes before law enforcement is present, how do we empower ourselves to keep our communities safe?
- Most importantly: how do we make decisions about safety based on our values, and not out of fear?
The training will include a one-day in-person training, as well as two-hour Zoom workshops before the training and after the training, to provide collective grounding and reflection. UUs, partners, and friends are warmly invited, and you are encouraged to register with a group from your congregation or organization, so you may be thought partners in sharing your learning with your wider community after the training.
NOTE: This was a very popular and successful training with our Arizona UU justice network, and we are excited to bring it to Texas with the same facilitators, funded by grants from UU College of Social Justice and the New York State Convention of Universalists.
