Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

Coming of Age

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AUUF offered COA (Coming of Age) during the 2024/2025 school year. It will potentially be offered during the 2026/2027 school year. This class is typically taken during late middle school/early high school years. 

Additional information can be found at:

https://www.soulmatterssharingcircle.com/coming-of-age.html

 

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Belonging

 

      Heart of it:  

• What values, beliefs, attitudes, practices, views, habits, and ways of viewing the world have been passed on to you by your communities of belonging?

 

• This stage of the journey is about uncovering and noticing! i.e., bringing awareness to your passed-on views and values so you can move on in the next stage of the journey (Becoming) to discern which views and values you want to hold on to and which you want to let go of. 

 

• It’s about noticing not only the gifts you’ve been given but also the problematic and inauthentic “inheritances.”

 

Becoming 

 

      Heart of it: 

• What is my unique form of becoming? How will I navigate the challenges of becoming?

Where Belonging focused on uncovering and noticing, this stage of the journey focuses on equipping and differentiation. i.e., achieving a sense of authentic identity and unique self & discerning what from your given communities you want to hold on to and let go of.  This is the stage of asking questions such as, What feels like it is “mine” What am I questioning? What of my heritage do I want to take with me, and what do I need to leave behind?

 

Beyond

 

      Heart of it: 

• What is beyond me? What is my relationship to that which is beyond myself?

 

• Whereas Becoming focused on equipping and differentiation, Beyond focuses on exploring and committing. 

The first three sessions in this section focus on youth exploring a few of life’s big questions. The last three sessions focus on three of life’s big commitments.