October 15, 2023, 10:00 a.m.
“Get Messy”
Lenore Bajare-Dukes

Join us for an invitation to get up close and personal with complexity, with insights drawn from the field of conflict transformation, with experiences out in our wide UU world…and from life with a four-year-old. As part of our Delaware Peace Week celebrations, we welcome guest worship speaker Lenore Bajare-Dukes, our new(ish) Primary Contact with the Unitarian Universalist Association. Lenore will share practical and spiritual lessons for practicing peace where it’s most challenging. And, in doing so, she will share how we can create more vibrant, just, and connected congregations and communities.

You are invited to stay after for a post-service practice of some of the principles we’ll be exploring in worship.

Lenore Bajare-Dukes (she/her), Congregational Life Field Staff with the Central East Region of the Unitarian Universalist Association, is a story worker, peacebuilding practitioner, and lifelong UU. Lenore joined the UUA in March after serving as a lifespan UU religious educator, with a prior background in the peacebuilding field. She has previously co-taught graduate courses on truth-telling, conciliation, and racial justice; served as a collaborating producer with the award-winning radio documentary project “Two Years: Diaries of a Divided Nation”; and developed conflict transformation programs with non-governmental organizations in post-revolutionary Tunisia and US communities. She holds a master’s degree in Conflict Transformation from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Lenore brings her spiritual practice of Playback Theatre, life stories “played back” through ritual and artistry, into her work building the beloved community within and beyond Unitarian Universalism.

• UUSD is requiring that only vaccinated individuals (who are eligible to be vaccinated against COVID) attend in-person services.
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