Ongoing to April | Zoom only
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/greatdecisions

Great Decisions, the Foreign Policy Association’s (FPA) renowned nationwide group discussion program on world affairs, will kick off for the 40th year at All Souls on Wednesday, February 8 at 7  pm via Zoom with co-leaders Mack Vanderlip and Earl Goodman as moderators.

Weekly | Hybrid | bit.ly/wednesdaycircle
Joe Nurre and Jim Gillispie moderate this conversational ministry from a spiritual point of view, governed by a commitment to our covenant. Topics change weekly and generally follow those chosen by the Circle the Sunday preceding. All are welcome to join in person or by Zoom!

Weekly | In person
Take part in empowering, restorative yoga for every body type. Come expand your mind and stretch your body. With Stacie Beckert.

February 8 & 15 | In Person
Spend two evenings in February with the Kabalans, the family from Syria that All Souls and its members are helping as they fled from the civil war in their home country.
February 8: Mohammed Kabalan will share his family’s experience in leaving Syria and coming to Tulsa.
February 15: Join Fatouh Kabalan as she demonstrates how to make her Syrian tabouli and shares her recipe with us. All ingredients provided.

February 8-15 | In Person
Gather to share a bit of yourself and make connections as we learn to craft our own individual true stories around All Souls’ monthly themes. These workshops will be facilitated by Julie Tattershall, award-winning community theatre director. Our stories will be around five minutes and shared in an intimate performance setting after having the opportunity to workshop them twice each month. Story tellers of all levels are welcome from old pros to first-timers.

February 15 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/belonging

“Still, no circle of belonging can ever contain all the longings of the human heart.”

—John O’Donohue      

Sunday mornings can be a bit overwhelming at All Souls. On Wednesday evenings, we have more time to get to know each other. You are invited to join Rev. Barbara on Wednesday the 15^th, for a Small Group experience on the theme of Belonging. Wherever you are on your journey with All Souls—

“We come to gather strength from each other.
We come to give strength to each other”

—Rev. Marta Valentin

February 22 | In Person (Presidents’ Room)
All members of All Souls who have joined since March of 2020 are invited to a special session during the February 22nd Wednesday Connection.  Following dinner, we will tour the building and learn about ways to get involved in the church.  We’ll finish the evening with a time to connect through conversation.  Please contact Christy Emig at (405) 202-2218 if you have any questions.

February 22 | In Person
If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories we hear. Join the Women of All Souls in mapping meaningful connection in the language of the human experience through Brene Brown’s New York Times Best Seller, Atlas of the Heart. Facilitated by Quanah Scoggins.

February 22-March 8 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/foundations
Join Rev. Marlin Lavanhar and Randy Lewis on this three-week exploration of the roots of Unitarianism and Universalism and how they came together to form the basis of Love Beyond Belief that we experience at All Souls today. This “Path to Membership” class is a great way to deepen your connections to fellow congregants, get to know your ministers, and learn about the exciting history of our chosen faith! 

March 1, 8, 22, & 29 | In Person
The Enneagram is a tool that can be used to connect deeply with others and ourselves, developing an understanding of the nine ways of seeing the world and interpreting reality. As we explore our shadow sides, we can become consciously aware of our patterns of behavior and perhaps choose differently out of a place of wholeness. The Narrative Enneagram incorporates psychology, spirituality, and somatics. As preparation for joining the class, here is a link to an Enneagram typing test that costs $10: www.narrativeenneagram.org/enneagram-test/.

March 1, 8 & 22 | In person
Gather to share a bit of yourself and make connections as we learn to craft our own individual true stories around All Souls’ monthly themes. These workshops will be facilitated by Julie Tattershall, award-winning community theatre director. Our stories will be around five minutes and shared in an intimate performance setting after having the opportunity to workshop them twice each month. Story tellers of all levels are welcome from old pros to first-timers.

March 15 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/firststeps
First Steps is a sustainability program for faith-based communities being launched this year by The Sustainability Alliance. The group will meet the third Wednesday of March, April and May. If you think sustainability programs need to be part of our vision for the future of All Souls, please join us!

The March meeting will be held at 5:30 pm. A green salad and hors d’ouvres will be available – bring finger foods to share!

March 22 – April 5 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/recovering
In this class, participants will share and support one another with healing from painful religious experiences and explore faith development and grief as it relates to these experiences. This important process may continue in other forms as participants’ needs dictate.

April 5-26, returning in June | In person

Join SACReD, a new, national interfaith initiative created through a unique collaboration of individuals and organizations which has an overall goal of cultural and political transformation. Since the late 1960s All Souls has had an active group of courageous women and men who planned, advocated, protested, and WORKED for Reproductive Justice. Their actions gave rise to Oklahoma Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Roe Fund Oklahoma, Tulsa Women’s Clinic, and the Roe v Wade ruling in 1972. The rights they fought for fell in the Summer of 2022 with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. Today’s All Souls for Reproductive Justice (ASRJ) Team is active again to right this wrong. Join us for this 6-week series which will guide participants to:

1. Create and hold space for courageous conversations free from shame, judgement, and stigma
2. Engage faith, spirituality, and theology through the Reproductive Justice framework to develop a compassionate approach to reproductive decision-making
3. Apply the Reproductive Justice framework to historical and current events
4. Promote the values and work of SACReD throughout the congregation and broader community following the energy and interest of the congregation.

April 5 – 19 | In person
Gather to share a bit of yourself and make connections as we learn to craft our own individual true stories around All Souls’ monthly themes. These workshops will be facilitated by Julie Tattershall, award-winning community theatre director. Our stories will be around five minutes and shared in an intimate performance setting after having the opportunity to workshop them twice each month. Story tellers of all levels are welcome from old pros to first-timers.

April 12 | In person
Meets in the Chapel

Most parents today find themselves completely exhausted by all that they think is expected of them by society, other parents, and their own kids. It’s as if somewhere along the line, we received a memo that said, “Protect your child at all costs. Never let them feel uncomfortable, sad, or bored. Fix everything. Their ultimate happiness depends upon you.”

With such inflated expectations, it’s no wonder so many parents feel completely overwhelmed!

In her presentation “Raising Resilient Kids in an Era of Bubble-Wrap Parenting,” Stacey Leigh helps parents examine how they can let go of hyper-parenting and embrace a parenting style that builds resilience.

Resilient kids, according to social worker and psychotherapist Lynn Lyons, can step into an unfamiliar situation and “have a sense they can figure out what they need to do and can handle what is thrown at them with a sense of confidence.”

This workshop is suitable for parents with children of all ages and abilities. Parents will leave the workshop with three tools they can put into immediate use to help their kids develop resilience. As the kids take on greater responsibility for themselves, they gain confidence, pride, and self-esteem; parents find that they can relax and enjoy family life more. They even find greater fun and joy!

This workshop is presented at no cost to parents. 

April 12 – 26 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/reimagining
Most Unitarian Universalists can easily say what they don’t believe, but how many can clearly state what they do believe? Many people who have found the UU faith have come from other faith traditions, or from none at all. In this series we will begin an exploration of individual beliefs and the “big questions” seeking a deepening and expanding understanding of ourselves and our world.

April 19 | Hybrid
Meets on Zoom at allsouls.me/firststeps
First Steps is a sustainability program for faith-based communities being launched this year by The Sustainability Alliance. The group will meet the third Wednesday of  April and May. If you think sustainability programs need to be part of our vision for the future of All Souls, please join us!

April 26 | In person
From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. This will be a ticketed event hosted at All Souls.