NEWS from SouthWest UU Women

2010 Conference

2010 SOUTHWEST UU WOMEN’S CONFERENCE

February 26-28, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER GINI COURTER, Moderator of the UUA

Music by Amy Carol Webb, Singer/songwriter, www.amycarolwebb.com

“I will stand with you.  Will you stand with me?  We will be the change that we hope to see.
In the name of Love, in the name of peace, will you stand, will you stand with me?”

These words are from Amy Carol Webb’s song, Stand.

Please join us for a weekend exploring justice issues while having fun with music, movement, and art at the

Holiday Inn Select North, Dallas, TX. Room rate $79.
MAKE RESERVATIONS ONLINE!
or call 800-972-2518 and give them the 3 letter group code: SU1
Free parking and shuttle service from DFW Airport

For more information, contact Co-conveners Mary Overton and Kathy Calhoun at conference@swuuw.org

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Be sure to choose your WORKSHOPS!!

2010 SWUUWCON TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

(As of 12/17/2009)

Friday 2/26

3 PM         Registration begins

7-8:30 PM  Opening Ceremony

8:30-9:15   Music with Lou Mitchell

9:30-11      Movies and Drum Circle/ Earth Centered Ritual

Saturday 2/27

7:30-8:45 AM      Breakfast

9-9:30                 Worship

9:30-10:30           Key note presentation

10:30-11             SWUUW annual meeting

11:15 -12:45       Workshop 1

12:45-2:00          Lunch

2-3:30                Workshop 2

3:30-4:30           SWUUW Visioning

3:30-6:30           Break/ Movies

6:30                  Cash bar opens

7-8                    Dinner

8:30 -10             Program and Amy Carol Webb

10:30-midnight   movies and Earth Centered Ritual

Sunday 2/28

8-9:30 AM          Breakfast

9:30-11              Closing ceremony

11-noon             Goodbyes and Checkout

Noon                 SWUUW Board meeting

WORKSHOPS

Karen Lewis	Domestic Violence and Modern Day Slavery	AM
Carrie Stewart	Exploring diversity: How to love yourself and others	AM
Laura Nagel	Stories from UU Women Around the Globe	AM
Liza Ely	Four Years, Go!	AM
Amanda Robinson	Doing Interfaith Justice in Your Congregation	AM
Barbara Rodman	Writing the Spiritual Autobiography	AM
Mary Kay Hamilton	InterPlay with Love	AM
Maia Cudhea	Beyond Pro-Choice: Making Reproductive Rights a Reality	AM
Judith Ann Anderson	The Beauty of Anger	AM
Susan Hamilton	Collaborative Leadership Skills	PM
Amy Carol Webb	Finding Your Voice	PM
Cathy Brock	Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking “Is it Really a Choice”	PM
Rita Cusack	Standing on the Side of Love for the Homeless	PM
Jill Waggoner	Stress Success	PM
Marilyn Mehr	Speaking for the Right to Love:	PM
Ingrid Martine	Waging the Peace; Regaining the Peace	PM
Margaret Christensen	Creating Hormonal Harmony and Healthy Longevity	PM
Teri Portillo	Credit Building/Repair	PM
Linda Vanblaricom	SWUUW Future – Where do we go from here?	Late pm

T-SHIRTS

You may pre-purchase your SWUUWCon t-shirt for $15 when you register online!

 

SWUUW Board Seeks Nominations

The SWUUW Board is actively recruiting new faces and energies to serve a two-year term on the SWUUW Board beginning March 2010. We need women who represent the Southwest District from Louisiana, southern Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, western Tennessee, and Texas. We 'meet' monthly via telephone conference calls and/or the internet, and we gather a couple times a year in a face-to-face setting. We are in the process of revisioning ourselves and will have a workshop about this at the Feb. 26-28 SWUUW annual conference in Dallas. Please consider nominating yourself or someone you know. Contact Linda VanBlaricom, Nominations Chair and President Elect, lvbuu2@juno.com or  501-309-4858 / 501-309-4858.

SWUUW and ICUUW Agree to Separate
Southwest UU Women (SWUUW) successfully served as the administrative organization behind the International Convocation of UU Women (ICUUW) that took place last year in lieu of the regular SWUUW conference. There was great energy for the ICUUW, which drew over 600 participants nationally and internationally, to continue as an organization beyond the convocation. Following the convocation, the SWUUW Board held a retreat and continued discussion as how best to go forward in its relationship with ICUUW. It was decided that, while SWUUW supports the ICUUW and wants to see its continued success, there was a desire to continue as a district-level organization. SWUUW Administrator, Laura Nagel, who also served as ICUUW Administrator, has chosen to continue in her role as Administrator/Director of ICUUW and has stepped down from her position as SWUUW Administrator. The UU Partner Church Council (UUPCC) agreed to be the sponsor organization for the ICUUW and assumed grant management for the ICUUW.

Re-Visioning SWUUW

The SWUUW Board has been in dicussion as to where and what we would like to see SWUUW be in the future following the great success of SWUUW's work with the International Convocation of UU Women (ICUUW). We met face-to-face on two occasions, in the spring and again in the fall, to discuss, as a board, what our vision and goals are. While we agreed we are all very pleased and excited about the ICUUW, we also are concerned that it diverted focus from what SWUUW has been for women in the district. At our fall meeting, we started a visioning process. Some things the board envisions for the future of SWUUW are:

   - a vibrant conference of 200-400 women

   - 30 SWUUW chapters by 2014

   - enough financial resources to get nationally known speakers

   - annual service / social action events

It was clear to us that the visioning work we did all focused on bringing women together in relationship at the district and cluster level. We would really like to see SWUUW unite women throughout the district and provide them with resources and support. To do this and to see if you share in this vision, we are inviting members to attend a visioning session at the SWUUW Conference in Dallas, Feb 26-28. Linda VanBlaricom, VP/President Elect and Gail Tittle, President will lead this session.

I hope you will join us so that we can be the organization you want us to be for you!