UUC's Awakening Spirit team is delighted to announce that we will offer a new small group experience to members and friends. This year Reflection Groups will utilize the Soul Matters framework and resources to support spiritual deepening among members and friends. The curriculum is prepared by professional religious educators who work with UU’s across the country to select readings, videos, songs, spiritual practices, and questions that participants will chose from to engage deeply with a different topic each month.

How does it work?

One to two weeks before the first session of the month, participants receive a digital Soul Matters packet of resources for that month’s theme. Each participant chooses one of a dozen spiritual exercises to commits to practicing that month and one of a dozen questions to contemplate in relation to their own life. The first hour of each session participants listen deeply to each other as each shares the experience of using their chosen spiritual exercise; next, each participant responds as to how one of the sharings resonates with their own life. The second hour each person shares how living with the question they chose led to new insights about their life experience. The goal of the framework is that we give the gift of deep listening to each other so that each participant can reconnect with the “still small voice within”—that they may live their lives from that place of newfound connection to their own deepest wisdom.

The groups meet twice monthly Oct-Dec 2025 to explore the topics of Compassion, Gratitude and Hope. Another set of sessions will be offered Feb/Mar through May/June 2026.

Visit the Soul Matters Reflection Group Learning Station in Nathan Johnson Hall Sunday, August 24 to  see a sample packet, ask questions, and pick up an application.  Or visit our  Reflection Groups   page to learn more and fill out an application online.

The deadline for applications is 5:00 p.m. Sunday, September 14.

We hope you will consider joining a Soul Matters Reflection Group.