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Evin's Next Chapter

✇ UUA.org Updates
21 August 2023 at 09:00
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
headshot of Evin Carvill-Ziemer

Evin Carvill Ziemer

This summer, I switched regions beginning as the New England Region Developmental Lead. This has meant saying good bye to the Central East Region. Not really goodbye, I’m still UUA staff and I’ll still surely see you at various online programs. But, still, it is a goodbye of sorts.

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The Spiritual Practice of Untangling Perfectionism, Urgency, and Individualism

✇ UUA.org Updates
12 June 2023 at 10:44
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
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Evin Carvill Ziemer

This is a story of two moments online and how some of the ways we white UU’s show up can cause harm.I’m writing this now because General Assembly is around the corner ...

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Where Are the Children and Families?

✇ UUA.org Updates
14 November 2022 at 12:33
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
image of an old wooden church, with someone on a ladder looking at the window and another adult holding the ladder and 2 children assisting nearby

Evin Carvill Ziemer

It’s a common question right now. It’s not just your congregation! What can congregational life look like for the children and families attending now?

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Welcoming Neurodivergent Folx to Our Congregations

✇ UUA.org Updates
25 July 2022 at 10:23
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer， Darrick Jackson， Alex Sherwood， Sarah Gettie McNeill， Jennica Davis-Hockett
Neurodivergence Series

Evin Carvill Ziemer

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Darrick Jackson

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Alex Sherwood

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Sarah Gettie McNeill

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Jennica Davis-Hockett

The five of us have all known for some time that we, collectively, need to learn how to do a better job welcoming and fully including neurodivergent people in our congregations. As UUA and UUMA staff, we haven’t known how to do this or how we should help.

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Widening the Welcome

✇ UUA.org Updates
7 June 2022 at 08:46
By: Megan Foley， Sana Saeed， Evin Carvill Ziemer
cartoon of people lying in a circle from widening the welcome

Megan Foley

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Sana Saeed

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Evin Carvill Ziemer

Our mandate as Unitarian Universalists is to build Beloved Community in our congregations, and learning to draw our circles of welcome wider and wider is a growth opportunity for our churches.

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A Time to Simplify

✇ UUA.org Updates
10 January 2022 at 12:52
By: Megan Foley， Evin Carvill Ziemer
A minister speaks during online worship on a home laptop.

Megan Foley

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Evin Carvill Ziemer

January 2022 is a time to simplify. Your regional staff have been saying “now is the time for easy programs” for months now. This month we mean it more than ever. We don’t know how this omicron surge will impact every congregation, of course, but the very high case numbers mean we’re all...

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Telling Our Stories to Cope with COVID

✇ UUA.org Updates
3 January 2022 at 12:28
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
four yellow balls, one with a frown face, one with a smile face, one with a worried face, one with an angry face

Evin Carvill Ziemer

As the omicron surge–tsunami–hits the United States I am grateful for the protection of vaccination and yet I am braced against less deadly, but still deep impact. The impact of a form of trauma called “moral injury” or “moral distress”. I’m worried for all of us.

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Dealing with Anger

✇ UUA.org Updates
22 November 2021 at 12:12
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
ocean waves hitting rocks and creating spray

Evin Carvill Ziemer

If you’re a congregational leader, you may be wondering why you can’t do anything right and it seems like someone is always angry with you right now. It’s not you. You’re not alone.

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Resilient Is a Verb

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10 May 2021 at 16:00
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
Close-up of child's face wearing mask

Evin Carvill Ziemer

I keep hearing the word “resilient” and keep wondering what people mean by it. From a trauma-informed lens, resilience doesn’t mean we aren’t impacted. People who go through trauma are changed. Just as all of us have been impacted over the last year.

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In-Person, Online or Both? Which Direction Will We Go?

✇ WWUUD?
1 March 2021 at 19:00
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
A minister speaks during online worship on a home laptop.

Evin Carvill Ziemer

Many congregations have been hoping to do a form of “hybrid” or "dual-platform" worship as a way of getting back together in person once we near the end of the pandemic. We are called to be inclusive-and each congregation will

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Building Resilience for After the Election

✇ WWUUD?
9 November 2020 at 19:45
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
adult with sparkler celebrating

Evin Carvill Ziemer

If there’s a knot in your stomach still; a dread of what else may be coming; fears about the Supreme Court; worry about your safety; feelings about your neighbors, family, and fellow citizens who support racism, fascism, and misogyny; this is an offering from me to you.

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Online RE Safety Webinar

✇ WWUUD?
25 September 2020 at 18:40
By: Evin Carvill Ziemer
Safety spelled out in big letters with people carrying each letter

Evin Carvill Ziemer

This workshop was given by Evin Carvill Ziemer on September 19, 2020 focusing on safety guidelines and protocols as congregations prepare to launch religious education programming in an online environment.

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