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Support, Education, & Advocacy

Our mission is clear: Support of religious educators who have identified transition and change in their portfolio, provide continued education because learning never ends, and advocate for the valuable work of interim religious education.

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GIRE Executive Committee

De Anna Hoyle

With a desire of building community, De Anna shares guidance through all aspects of transitional leadership within programs for lifespan faith formation.

Karen LoBracco

Karen LoBracco is a Credentialed Religious Educator who entered the profession in 1996. She has worked in interim positions in Alabama, Ohio, and New York.

Lily Rappaport

Lily is an experienced interim religious educator and has served Unitarian Universalist congregations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Ohio.

From Our Members

Posted on March 18, 2021 by k1mboo

What a GIRE consultant is able to do for your congregation

From Michele Grove, DMin., MCRE – In the early days of the twenty-first century, a group of Unitarian Universalist religious educators looked at the changing landscape of lifespan religious education and discerned the need for intentional transitional leadership. Change happens quickly and often in congregations and many of these changes focus on the lifespan religious education program. This changes may center on religious education leadership transitions. It may also center on the fact that a congregation’s religious education mission and vision shift to meet a modern community’s needs. No matter the reason,… Read More

Posted on March 17, 2021 by k1mboo

Actions Have Consequences

From Deborah Weiner – “Actions have consequences,” my spouse would say to our children as they were growing up.  They were – as is the case with so may children and youth – focused on experimenting, gaining independence, and being ‘their own people.’ Sometimes the experiments worked.  Sometimes – not so much.  The stealing of a street sign one night was an example of an impulse that didn’t work out well…our daughter had to hear from us about why that was not a good idea, and was mortified when we brought her… Read More

Educational Opportunities

GIRE offers continuing education that is open to all religious professionals. Since we are constantly learning, it is our hope that we build short-term learning communities that can learn from each other as we study subjects of interest.

   
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Part One: Transitional Religious Leadership

Tuesday, March, 14, 2023 @ 01:00 PM - Tuesday, April, 4, 2023 @ 03:00 PM
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Adaptive Leadership Practicum (Part 2)

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If you are interested in taking previous courses and workshops, please contact us to let us know. If there is enough interest, we will consider offering them again.

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Thank you to LREDA!

The In Liminal Time portion of the website was made possible by a LREDA Twenty-first Century Grant. We are grateful for their vision and support of this work and all elements that support excellence in religious education leadership.

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