A Kaleidoscope Conversation Exploring
Resilience & Resistance
In a season marked by shifting ground, how do we find our footing?
Join our Executive Director the Reverend Julie Boleyn and Dr. Janice Marie Johnson, Director of Ministries and Faith Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association for a conversation about resilience.
Resilience is often talked about as personal — but what about communal, systemic, prophetic resilience?
Together we will explore
- What is true resilience?
- When does “resilience” become “accommodation”?
- What helps us stay grounded without giving up?
Timing
Tuesday, September 23rd
5 pm pacific time/ 7 PM Eastern
We will & We will nots
We will honor complexity and nuance.
We will resist quick answers and easy resolutions.
We will listen deeply and speak truthfully.
We will attend to both our resilience and our wounds.
We will ground ourselves in Scripture, community, and courage.
No preparation or theological background is required. All are welcome.
About the Facilitators
Dr. Janice Marie Johnson
Dr. Janice Marie Johnson is the Director of Ministries and Faith Development for the Unitarian Universalist Association. She joined the Ministries and Faith Development staff group in January 2019 as Co-Director and serves as its sole Director as of January 2024. She supports, sustains, and advances multicultural, anti-oppressive, justice-centered, and innovative Unitarian Universalist lay and professional leadership and ministry for all ages. Janice supports the professional lives of religious professionals, especially those of color, those from the trans community, and other marginalized groups.
Since joining the UUA in 2009, Janice has served as Director of Racial and Ethnic Concerns, Multicultural Growth Director, and Multicultural Ministries and Leadership Director in the former Multicultural Growth and Witness staff group.
Janice is excited about the UUA’s commitment to dismantling white supremacy culture and building the Beloved Community.* Committed to making multiculturalism “real,” Janice is a Jamaican, a New Yorker, an internationalist, and a “third-culture kid” who grew up all over the world. She has worked with UU congregations worldwide.
As an educator. she previously served as Director of Lifespan Religious Education at the Community Church of New York for many years. Janice—mother, grandmother, aunt, sibling, and so much more—treasured a unique relationship with her twin sister, Rev. Dr. Hope Johnson. *Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. popularized the notion of the “Beloved Community,” a term coined by philosopher Josiah Royce. King envisioned the Beloved Community as a society based on justice, equity, and love of others.
The Rev. Julie Boleyn
A seasoned facilitator, strategic thinker, and public theologian, the Rev. Julie Boleyn is the Executive Director of the Kaleidoscope Institute, where she equips communities to engage in brave, transformative conversations around faith, justice, and culture. With over two decades of experience leading workshops across the country, she has become a trusted guide for churches navigating leadership transitions, intercultural development, and sustainable ministry.
Rooted in a passion for community organizing, intercultural communication, and systems thinking, Julie holds a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College. She is a Qualified Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory® and a long-time ELCA pastor, committed to building communities where difference is not just welcomed, but honored.
In addition to her national consulting work, Julie co-founded Awake and Project 88 Music Academy, and accompanied the development of, Unidad, a Spanish-language LGBTQ-affirming ministry in Berwyn, Illinois.
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