A Small Group Ministry
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This is for parents and caregivers of children in elementary through high school. As the primary sexuality educators for the children in your care this small group ministry can help you to gain comfort, develop communication skills, create a group of parent friends and support around the topic of human development, relationship skills, and human sexuality. These are the parents and caregivers of your children’s friends. What a great chance to enhance your community support for each other and experience OWL as a ministry of our UU faith.
The small group ministry format provides a spiritually grounded space to approaching sexuality in a secular way that is grounded in science, in tune with the OWL lifespan sexuality education programs on which it is based.
Feeling ready to talk about challenging topics gives parents and caregivers the confidence to broach ideas and conversations that might never come up in regular discussions with children and youth. These sessions aim to help parents and caregivers feel ready.
Our Unitarian Universalist values, that we affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person—guide us to affirm our youth in a way that allows them to grow into adulthood in a healthy and positive way, including their sexuality. Exploring our values with other parents allows us to open ourselves to new ideas and lose some of the negative scripts we might be carrying from our upbringing and past experiences. Talking through the ways we might approach challenging topics before we begin conversations with our youth gives us a chance to practice finding the right words, the most positive outlooks, ensuring that our conversations have a chance to be open and helpful to our children and youth.
I hope you will join us. If you have questions, please reach out to at
TOPICS
Hopes and Concerns for Kids’ Sexual Health
Communication: How Do We Talk about Sex?
Gender Identity: Exploring Emotions around Gender
Sexual Orientation: Supporting
Self-Discovery
Relationships: Guiding with Wisdom Sexual Health: Be a Trusted Source Social Media: Integrity in a Changing World Consent: Building Healthy Boundaries Ethical
Non-monogamy
Pornography: It’s Not Sex Ed Unintended Pregnancy
Decision Making: Ready, Set, Let Go!
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