OUR MISSION: We support religious professionals who have identified transitions and change in their portfolio, provide continuing education because learning never ends, and advocate for the valuable work of interim religious professionals
With a desire of building community, De Anna shares guidance through all aspects of transitional leadership within programs for lifespan faith formation.
Karen LoBracco is a Credentialed Religious Educator who entered the profession in 1996. She has worked in interim positions in Alabama, Ohio, and New York.
Lily is an experienced interim religious educator and has served Unitarian Universalist congregations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Ohio.
From Michele Grove, DMin., MCRE – In the early days of the twenty-first century, a group of Unitarian Universalist religious educators looked at the changing landscape of lifespan religious education and discerned the need for intentional transitional leadership. Change happens quickly and often in congregations and many of these changes focus on the lifespan religious education program. This changes may center on religious education leadership transitions. It may also center on the fact that a congregation’s religious education mission and vision shift to meet a modern community’s needs. No matter the reason,… Read More
From Deborah Weiner – “Actions have consequences,” my spouse would say to our children as they were growing up. They were – as is the case with so may children and youth – focused on experimenting, gaining independence, and being ‘their own people.’ Sometimes the experiments worked. Sometimes – not so much. The stealing of a street sign one night was an example of an impulse that didn’t work out well…our daughter had to hear from us about why that was not a good idea, and was mortified when we brought her… Read More