The UU Growth Lab

The New UU Growth Lab (2023)
Hi friends! I’ve relaunched the UU Growth Lab as a combined learning community, training center, UU media studio, and ministry innovation lab. All the details and invites are being sent out via my UU leader email list. More details will be published publicly after the initial launch.

Invitations
The first round of invites will be sent on August 31, 2023 to those on my UU email list. After that, invites will be shared automatically as people join my email list.

To get your invitation, subscribe here:
https://www.peterbowden.live/uuleaders-subscribe

Members may access the UU Growth Lab at www.uugrowthlab.com.

Live Launch Announcement
Below is the 8/29/23 live launch announcement.

Background – UU Growth Lab version 1.0

The first version of the UU Growth Lab was a Facebook that I launched to serve as “a free space and think tank for Unitarian Universalist Change Agents, primarily within the Unitarian Universalist Association.”

In early 2011 I launched the lab in response to minister colleagues expressing to me that they didn’t feel safe sharing opinions on a public blog that might go against institutional norms, power structures, and so on.

I had read the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard which discusses the need to create a space for reformers to gather, exchange ideas, and organize.

The Growth Lab grew rapidly as a community and ended up spawning multiple Facebook labs.  It was one of the first large UU groups on Facebook.  After the various sub groups launched, the lab energy shifted.

In August 2018, I launched a group tied more closely to my training and coaching work. My UU PLANET Leaders Facebook group is the hub for my work with UU congregations on Facebook.

NOW, in 2023, I’m relaunching the lab!  I hope you’ll join us. Please sign up for my UU email list and you’ll get all related updates and invitations.