Join us for a special Sunday service and afternoon workshop on Preemptive Radical Inclusion with guest speaker and facilitator, CB Beal!

SERMON | Bear Witness: Save Lives
Sunday, June 1 at 10am in the Sanctuary and Livestream

As we build the Beloved Community, it is vital that we bear witness to one another, acknowledge and accept what we share, and be present with one another with empathy that honors our different life experiences. CB will share about the spiritual practice of bearing witness and trusting others to bear witness to us, with a focus on gender and justice.

*Masking strongly encouraged.

WORKSHOP | Preemptive Radical Inclusion I: Bear Witness
Sunday June 1 from 3:00-6:00pm in the Stearns Room

We will practice three skills of inclusion: The art of bearing witness, the practice of not believing everything we automatically think, and curiosity about our own thoughts. This workshop is interactive. There is a particular focus on gender in this workshop, though it is not an info session so much as a skills-building and relationship-building experience. And laughter. There is always laughter.

*Masking required.

CB Beal, M.Div. (they/them) specializes in facilitating transformative learning experiences that involve issues of marginalization, oppression, and privilege, helping participants hold the complexities of their lives in perspective, and co-creating a safe[r] brave[r] space within which people can be challenged to learn and grow.

They are a frequent presenter and consultant in congregations and schools in the northeast in Preemptive Radical Inclusion, safer communities and congregations, and supporting gender creative and transgender/non-binary children and youth in schools and youth-serving organizations.

CB is a short, fat, white, queer, trans non-binary person of faith who really means it that All of Us Means All of Us.  They thank you for masking as well as you can for the service and workshop. Your inclusion of them in this way means it may be safe enough for them to remove their mask to speak, thus increasing inclusion for deaf and hard-of-hearing folks. Thoughtful inclusion benefits us all.