UU Growth Lab members and friends, you're invited to register for our April 14th live session on "Fast Tracking AI Community Conversations."
This session will include a template you may use for hosting events on other topics. We're focusing on Artifical Intelligence because it is urgent, reshaping human civlization, and is on track to impact nearly everything we hold dear. Think of it as a topic of universal relevance.
NOTE: UU Growth Lab Members, I got sick last week and will be recording our on-demand March training shortly. Pardon delay. No one wants a sick Peter presenting! So many insights were sparked by our last live session. Can't wait to share with you!
Know anyone who might appreciate this session? Please consider inviting them as your guest.
In cooperation,
Peter
Focus: Fast Tracking Community Conversations on AI
Host & Trainer: Peter Bowden
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Time: 1:00PM Eastern
Duration: 120 Minutes
Zoom Registration: See registration link below
Cost: Sponsored by the UU Growth Lab Membership Program. Invited guests may attend at no additional cost.
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly reshaping society, from work and education to media, democracy, and even military policy. Urgent ethical and civic questions are being raised that congregations are uniquely positioned to explore.
In this session, we will work through a practical, congregation-ready “Community Conversations on AI” template that leaders can use to host local conversations.
We’ll also discuss how to extend these events into sustainable ongoing conversation groups, small group ministry sessions, and related programming that helps congregations engage.
Leading conversations shapes attention, interest, activates values, and makes space for imagining the future we want.
If we aren't proactive about designing the future we want, a very different one will 100% guaranteed be shaped by these technologies.
Our congregations, and Unitarian Universalism at large, have always helped people navigate big questions of meaning, ethics, and change.
We can't meet this momement, to use UUA framing, if we aren't attending to AI's immediate impacts, potential benefits and harms across all aspects of human life and society, the role of associated power and profit, and very real existential risks.
Think of "meaningful connection and conversation" as a core Unitarian Universalist superpower and relational technology that results in stronger community, deeper understanding, synthesized wisdom, and energy to take action.
We'll apply this to AI in this session, but the approach and template is content agnostic. You'll be able to use it to hold similar events on most any topic of interest.
Hope you'll join us!
