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Sunday Morning Forum

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Contact:  adultre@uufp.org.
Sunday Morning Forum began many years ago in complement to minister led worship on Sunday mornings. With our Unitarian Universalist values as both foundation and springboard, the Forum has grown into a well moderated, high quality, adult discussion group that promotes learning on a wide variety of topics. It is a classroom of people who trust each other's good intentions and value each other's diverse opinions.

Together, UUFP's pastoral and laity-led educational opportunities nourish the mind and spirit and infuse us to be Light in the world!
Join us!
Every Sunday at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon 
UUFP Office Building  *  13136 Warwick Boulevard, Newport News
Parking is available in the Office and Sanctuary lots and on both sides of Youngs Mill Lane.
Visit Sunday Morning Forum Archive 2019 or 2017 - 2018 
​to view our library of stimulating discussions.
Upcoming and most recent Forums are highlighted below.
Upcoming Highlights

This Sunday:  November 24, 2019
“Facing Your Own Mortality”

Presented by the Adult Religious Education Team
The Adult Religious Education (ARE) team will introduce at Forum a proposal for a new series of workshops called "Facing Your Own Mortality.”  These five or six workshops are tentatively scheduled for Thursdays in Spring.  Sessions, much like chapters from many of the insightful references on this subject, will include: Identifying personal values, advanced care planning, the family conversation, the costs of dying, and the psychology of death.  ARE members will hear and incorporate in the Spring series the advice from this forum's participants on their concerns and areas of interest.
November 24, 2019:  Topic to be Announced
December 1, 2019:  "Be Free or Die"  - Presented by Mason Moseley
December 8, 2019:  "Responding to a Medical Crisis"  - Presented by Parker Stokes
Previously at the Sunday Morning Forum

​"The Law of Attraction"

Presented by Lehni Lebert
November 7, 2019
Being a well received Sunday Morning Forum (SMF) from four years ago, “The Law of Attraction” (LOA) has received an encore request from Forum attendees.  This Sunday, Lehni Lebert will expand on this topic, to include hearing directly from one of the leaders in the LOA movement, Abraham Hicks.

Light attracts Light...let us “attract’ you to join in this Sunday’s and other stimulating SMF discussions!

​"How to Talk With Someone Who Doesn't Want to Listen"

Presented by Gary Ott & Kathryn Ozyurt
November 10, 2019
Gary and Kathryn will facilitate a practice (risk communication) session in four categories:  1) family, 2) neighbors, 3) potential new UUFP members, and 4) special needs children/adults. After an introduction to the risk communication basics, participants will be asked to join one of these groups.  As a team, they will practice the basics (trust, perception of risk, mental noise, negative dominance, outrage), and then discuss their potential for increased communication success with their group. 
​Gary retired as the Science Coordinator to the Coast Guard continues to support the Coast Guard in training for their senior executives.  Gary also continues training children and some children and adults with special needs at the Peninsula Fine Arts Museum.
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 Kathryn is a longtime UU member and Cochairs the Adult Religious Education Committee with Gary.

"God and Energy"

Presented by Susan Schneider
November 3, 2019
During Susan and daughter Heather’s study of spiritualism, they thought their husband/father, Lenny, needed to have a spiritual path.  So, when Joseph Lee, a Jungian Psychologist, offered a conference on Western Mystery Kabbalah, they took Lenny.   As Lenny would say, they got, “hooked."  Ever since that early 1990 workshop, Susan has been studying with Joseph, in person, and with Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), though the mail.
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Susan relates:  “The Kabbalah explains the idea that God is light, or as we would say, energy--energy that was forced by pressure through the different worlds or “dimensions” into Malkuth’s solid energy forms where we live.  These energy pressure points of color energy waves and sound waves are known as the Tree of Life. The tree of Life can be experienced through meditation and chanting by mutilations of these wave forms.
Want to learn more about the mind and spirit expanding Forum exchanges?
Visit:  SUNDAY MORNING FORUM ARCHIVE 2019 or 2017 - 2018
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