Both questions worked well to get people into deep discussions. There is no shortage of good questions to ask. Telling stories from their own life is encouraged, and there have been some powerful ones. At the end of both evenings it was difficult to stop the conversation. The person who did the opening worship reads from a meaningful source, says a little about what those words mean to the individual, invites silence and then extinguishes the flame.
People tend to stay around for a while and chat with each other.
We also hope this group will become our Deep UU Committee. At our May meeting we will ask participants to give feedback about the group and help us plan for the fall. Our hope is that we will have four groups start in the fall and go through the year and that more leaders will come out of those groups for the following year until we take over the world. And the more effective the structure is, the more the ministry is shared between paid staff and volunteer leaders. Anything worth doing is worth doing imperfectly.