Events
LREDA Fall Conference
Our Fall Conference generally occurs in the fall with over three days of special programming, including a keynote speaker, worship, a variety of workshops, and special interest meetings, Good Officer training, and the latest resources- all with the goal of educating, networking, and connecting religious educators from across the continent. Your ideas for future themes and names of speakers can be emailed to Nicci at continentalevents@lreda.org , and they will be considered by the Board and the Fall Con Planning Team.
Resources & videos from past Fall Cons are available to members in the portal
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Fall Conference 2024
Online + Informal Regional Hubs
BlanketFort Con: Cultivating Cozy Community Care
Keynote Presentation: Radical Rest with Rev. Leela Sinha
Featured: Post-Curricular Faith Formation with Jennica Davis-Hockett and Rev. Tandi Rogers; Building Blocks for Coming of Age: Crowd Sourcing Structures for a New Era with Rev. Sierra Marie Gerfao and Jen Shattuck; New / Newer DRE with Rev. Sarah Gettie McNeill and Adena Danouff; Reexamining Women’s Work with Antoinette Scully; BlanketFort Space with Jenn Blosser and Sam R.F. Wilson
Fall Conference 2023
Milwaukee, WI + Online
Make a Joyful Noise! Celebrate / Play / Resist
We celebrated the power of rest, play, and resistance through multi-platform worship, workshops, and identity programming that helped us engage with some of the most pressing issues in UU religious education today: creating spaces for meaningful & joyful connection, leading for anti-racism in majority-white spaces, and supporting LGBTQIA+ families & resisting anti-trans legislation.
We offered curated rest & play spaces for IBPOC attendees, and trans attendees, respectively, while those with majority identities learned. Social and spiritual time together rounded out our annual conference, along with the UU Identity Renaissance Module offered immediately following the conference.
Fall Conference 2022
Online + Birmingham AL
Faith Made Real: Living the 8th Principle
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Paula Cole Jones and Sheila Schuh
Featured: This conference was a deep dive into the work of the 8th Principle, grounded in Civil Rights History and included a visit to the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The conference content supported Religious Educators in their individual and congregational anti-racism and anti-oppression work. We engaged with strategies to dismantle white supremacy within our Unitarian Universalist spaces, and where our power lies to create a Unitarian Universalism where faith can be made real. Rev. Denise Graves was our Spiritual Care Director, supporting our members through the conference. Beverly Horton and the Rev. Chris Long lead our worship services.