BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Unity Eastern Region - ECPv6.15.17//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://unityeasternregion.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Unity Eastern Region REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270310T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270310T123000 DTSTAMP:20261019T145906 CREATED:20260924T165217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T130143Z UID:10004470-1804674600-1804681800@unityeasternregion.org SUMMARY:Who Really Belongs? (Morning Edition) DESCRIPTION:Who Really Belongs? A Workshop on Othering in Spiritual Community \n\n\n\nVia Zoom with Rev. Dr. Michele Synegal & Rev. Victoria Bomberry\, Ph.D \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 10\, 2027 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm \n\n\n\n(This workshop will also be presented on Thursday\, March 18\, 2027 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm) \n\n\n\nWe say “we are all one.” We build our communities around welcome\, worthiness\, and the truth that every person is an expression of the Divine. And yet\, in nearly every spiritual community\, including ours\, someone is quietly treated as less “us” than everyone else. Not through cruelty. Often through habit. \n\n\n\nA ramp that never got built. A “we don’t see color” that lets real inequity go unspoken. A leadership table that never quite widens. A newcomer who visits twice\, doesn’t come back\, and nobody’s sure why. This is othering. And it thrives precisely in communities built on belonging — because that’s where it’s hardest to see. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a working session built for the people who shape the tone of our communities from the inside. This isn’t a lecture on what your community is doing wrong. It’s a practical\, honest working session for ministers\, board members\, Licensed Unity Teachers and other lay leadership who already care about belonging and want the language and tools to notice exclusion before it becomes someone’s quiet reason to stop coming back. \n\n\n\nWhat we’ll explore together: \n\n\n\nHow “positive thinking” language\, offered with the best of intentions\, can end up silencing grief\, anger\, or hard truths that deserve to be heard \n\n\n\nThe invisible architecture of exclusion\, who our buildings\, our leadership tables\, and our Sunday mornings were actually designed for \n\n\n\nHow class\, familiarity\, and social cliques quietly sort “insiders” from “outsiders\,” even in the most welcoming rooms \n\n\n\nConcrete leadership language and practices that widen the circle instead of narrowing it \n\n\n\nWhy now? \n\n\n\nOur congregations are growing more diverse\, in age\, background\, ability\, and belief\, at the very moment the wider world is growing more divided. The communities still gathering ten years from now will be the ones who learned\, in rooms like this one\, how to actually practice the oneness we preach — not just affirm it from the platform. \n\n\n\nWho should attend? \n\n\n\nSenior and associate ministers · board and leadership team members · Licensed Unity Teachers · anyone who shapes how a newcomer experiences their first fifteen minutes in the room. \n\n\n\nCome ready to look honestly at your own community. Leave with a clearer eye\, a fuller toolkit\, and a renewed commitment to belonging that includes everyone it claims to include. \n\n\n\nThis workshop features all new content designed especially for Unity Eastern Region\, and satisfies the DEI CEU requirements for credentialed Unity leaders. \n\n\n\nCost is $75 per ministry$25 individual and scholarships available \n\n\n\nMarch 2027 Training FlyerDownload\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter Bio: \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Michele is the Senior Minister of Temple of Light Centre for Spiritual Living in Kingston\, Jamaica. Her leadership is rooted in radical compassion\, conscious guidance\, and an unapologetic quest for excellence. She served the Spiritual Empowerment Center in Baltimore\, Maryland\, as Senior Minister for ten years. She was ordained in 2012 by the Centers for Spiritual Living\,  \n\n\n\nRev. Michele has served as a facilitator for Unity Eastern Region for more than ten years. She’s presenting a workshop in March 2027; Who Really Belongs? A session on ‘Othering” in Spiritual Community. She has become a voice for DEIA within the New Thought Movement. \n\n\n\nSynegal is a minister for people who are tired of surface-level inspiration and ready for meaningful evolution. A bridgebuilder. A disruptor. A healer. A visionary voice calling individuals and institutions alike into deeper integrity with themselves\, each other\, and the Divine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter Bio: \n\n\n\nRev. Victoria Bomberry\, Ph.D\, is an ordained minister of Centers for Spiritual Living. She served as the Spiritual Director/Senior Minister at Center for Spiritual Living Menifee Valley. Before that she served at Riverside Center for Spiritual Living as the Minister of Transformation. As the Spiritual Director of the emerging focus ministry Winged Spirit her sight is set on perfecting love on the planet. She is the former Chair of the Diversity Equity Inclusion Committee of Centers for Spiritual Living. She is currently on the Sacred Activism Task Force of Centers for Spiritual Living. Dr. Bomberry recently joined the board of the Natalie Cole Regan Foundation that focuses on cancer research and early childhood literacy.A lover of collaboration she works with Spiritual Enlightenment and Truth Focus Ministry where she leads a Power of 8 group that has been active for 9 years. She appears on New Thought Media Network’s Science of Mind and Spirit Lecture Series. She completed her ministerial studies at Holmes Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She received her B.A. in Biology and her M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.Exploring and developing ways to serve the world\, teaching\, working with individuals and small groups are her passions. She has more than 45 years teaching experience\, including the California State University and University of California systems and private universities\, in local CSLs\, Native American Communities in North and South America. She is retired from the University of California System.Her ministry focuses on peace and the joy that accompanies it through inspired service. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n 2027 March – Registration – Who Really Belongs? (Morning Edition)\n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Name of Your Ministry(Required)Event Cost(Required)Group Registration – $75 (for 3 or more registrants)Single Registration – $25Group Registration – $75 (for 3 or more registrants) | Single Registration – $25\nWould you like to contribute to the Unity Eastern Region Scholarship Fund?If yes\, please enter an amount below.\n \n Total\n \n Credit Card(Required)\n Coupon URL:https://unityeasternregion.org/event/who-really-belongs-morning-edition/ CATEGORIES:CEU,Continuing Education Units (CEUs),DEI Offering,Ministry Consultant,Modern Ministry Innovations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://unityeasternregion.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/March-2027-Training.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270318T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270318T200000 DTSTAMP:20261019T145906 CREATED:20260924T165240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260930T130139Z UID:10004471-1805392800-1805400000@unityeasternregion.org SUMMARY:Who Really Belongs? (Evening Edition) DESCRIPTION:Who Really Belongs? A Workshop on Othering in Spiritual Community \n\n\n\nVia Zoom with Rev. Dr. Michele Synegal & Rev. Victoria Bomberry\, Ph.D \n\n\n\nThursday\, March 18\, 2027 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm \n\n\n\n(This workshop will also be presented on Wednesday\, March 10\, 2027 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm) \n\n\n\nWe say “we are all one.” We build our communities around welcome\, worthiness\, and the truth that every person is an expression of the Divine. And yet\, in nearly every spiritual community\, including ours\, someone is quietly treated as less “us” than everyone else. Not through cruelty. Often through habit. \n\n\n\nA ramp that never got built. A “we don’t see color” that lets real inequity go unspoken. A leadership table that never quite widens. A newcomer who visits twice\, doesn’t come back\, and nobody’s sure why. This is othering. And it thrives precisely in communities built on belonging — because that’s where it’s hardest to see. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a working session built for the people who shape the tone of our communities from the inside. This isn’t a lecture on what your community is doing wrong. It’s a practical\, honest working session for ministers\, board members\, Licensed Unity Teachers and other lay leadership who already care about belonging and want the language and tools to notice exclusion before it becomes someone’s quiet reason to stop coming back. \n\n\n\nWhat we’ll explore together: \n\n\n\nHow “positive thinking” language\, offered with the best of intentions\, can end up silencing grief\, anger\, or hard truths that deserve to be heard \n\n\n\nThe invisible architecture of exclusion\, who our buildings\, our leadership tables\, and our Sunday mornings were actually designed for \n\n\n\nHow class\, familiarity\, and social cliques quietly sort “insiders” from “outsiders\,” even in the most welcoming rooms \n\n\n\nConcrete leadership language and practices that widen the circle instead of narrowing it \n\n\n\nWhy now? \n\n\n\nOur congregations are growing more diverse\, in age\, background\, ability\, and belief\, at the very moment the wider world is growing more divided. The communities still gathering ten years from now will be the ones who learned\, in rooms like this one\, how to actually practice the oneness we preach — not just affirm it from the platform. \n\n\n\nWho should attend? \n\n\n\nSenior and associate ministers · board and leadership team members · Licensed Unity Teachers · anyone who shapes how a newcomer experiences their first fifteen minutes in the room. \n\n\n\nCome ready to look honestly at your own community. Leave with a clearer eye\, a fuller toolkit\, and a renewed commitment to belonging that includes everyone it claims to include. \n\n\n\nThis workshop features all new content designed especially for Unity Eastern Region\, and satisfies the DEI CEU requirements for credentialed Unity leaders. \n\n\n\nCost is $75 per ministry$25 individual and scholarships available \n\n\n\nMarch 2027 Training FlyerDownload\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter Bio: \n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Michele is the Senior Minister of Temple of Light Centre for Spiritual Living in Kingston\, Jamaica. Her leadership is rooted in radical compassion\, conscious guidance\, and an unapologetic quest for excellence. She served the Spiritual Empowerment Center in Baltimore\, Maryland\, as Senior Minister for ten years. She was ordained in 2012 by the Centers for Spiritual Living\,  \n\n\n\nRev. Michele has served as a facilitator for Unity Eastern Region for more than ten years. She’s presenting a workshop in March 2027; Who Really Belongs? A session on ‘Othering” in Spiritual Community. She has become a voice for DEIA within the New Thought Movement. \n\n\n\nSynegal is a minister for people who are tired of surface-level inspiration and ready for meaningful evolution. A bridgebuilder. A disruptor. A healer. A visionary voice calling individuals and institutions alike into deeper integrity with themselves\, each other\, and the Divine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter Bio: \n\n\n\nRev. Victoria Bomberry\, Ph.D\, is an ordained minister of Centers for Spiritual Living. She served as the Spiritual Director/Senior Minister at Center for Spiritual Living Menifee Valley. Before that she served at Riverside Center for Spiritual Living as the Minister of Transformation. As the Spiritual Director of the emerging focus ministry Winged Spirit her sight is set on perfecting love on the planet. She is the former Chair of the Diversity Equity Inclusion Committee of Centers for Spiritual Living. She is currently on the Sacred Activism Task Force of Centers for Spiritual Living. Dr. Bomberry recently joined the board of the Natalie Cole Regan Foundation that focuses on cancer research and early childhood literacy.A lover of collaboration she works with Spiritual Enlightenment and Truth Focus Ministry where she leads a Power of 8 group that has been active for 9 years. She appears on New Thought Media Network’s Science of Mind and Spirit Lecture Series. She completed her ministerial studies at Holmes Institute. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. She received her B.A. in Biology and her M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.Exploring and developing ways to serve the world\, teaching\, working with individuals and small groups are her passions. She has more than 45 years teaching experience\, including the California State University and University of California systems and private universities\, in local CSLs\, Native American Communities in North and South America. She is retired from the University of California System.Her ministry focuses on peace and the joy that accompanies it through inspired service. \n\n\n\n \n\n \n 2027 March – Registration – Who Really Belongs? (Evening Edition)\n \n \n Name(Required)\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email(Required)\n \n Name of Your Ministry(Required)Event Cost(Required)Group Registration – $75 (for 3 or more registrants)Single Registration – $25Group Registration – $75 (for 3 or more registrants) | Single Registration – $25Would you like to contribute to the Unity Eastern Region Scholarship Fund?If yes\, please enter an amount below.\n \n Total\n \n Credit Card(Required)\n Coupon URL:https://unityeasternregion.org/event/who-really-belongs-evening-edition/ CATEGORIES:CEU,Continuing Education Units (CEUs),DEI Offering,Ministry Consultant,Modern Ministry Innovations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://unityeasternregion.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/March-2027-Training.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR