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The top resource requested on our needs survey continues to be small group session plans. On this page you can find sessions that people like you have written and chosen to share with this community. Some of these sessions are posted on this site, others are links to other websites. The sessions below are posted in order of submission and in the format submitted.Thanks to all of you who have written and shared sessions!

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Sharing Sessions Plans for small group ministry or covenant groups is a major reason for coming to the UU Small Group Ministry website. You need more sessions and so do all your fellow group leaders and participants. And you may have plans to share. If every congregation accessing this page shares one session per year we will have a never ending source of sessions. Please send sessions plans to: office@smallgroupministry.net. They may be sent in MS Word, RTF, Simple Text or PDF files. Please give your name, congregation and city/state. Sessions plans are posted as they are submitted and there is a variety of styles. Let us know if there is a collection of session plans on your congregation’s website, and we will note this in the Collections section on the UUSGM Network website. Didn't write it down? A number of people say that they have come up with session plans but have not written them down. PLEASE take a moment to write up a draft of what you did. There is a template for doing this. If there is a session plan on the site that is the same topic as one you would like to share, send yours anyway. There are many ways to consider a topic. We have been asked about copyright considerations in creating session plans. *Always document the origin of the material as completely as possible, including author, identification and location of the original material (including web sites and links). This includes noting the author of original material as a session plan is developed, even if it is initially intended for use just within a congregation. *Give a complete reference so that people can find the original source, rather than copying material into the text of the session plan. For example, the UU hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition, is usually available to Unitarian Universalists congregations and individuals. The number of the selection used is noted.

*Contact the author or publisher, especially contemporary authors and their publishers. Permission may be given gratis or there may be a fee (usually small) for using material. Publishers such as Skinner House may be interested in having people use excerpts of materials or actually developing session plans based on their publications. Contact the publisher for permission to use the material. *There is material that is considered to be in public domain, or no longer having copyright concerns. There is also material that can be taken from internet sources. Look for copyright notation or other statements regarding usage of materials. At the very minimum, document the sources. Copyrights relating to the Small Group Ministry Network. The copyright considerations are the responsibility of the authors of the material that is being submitted. Ownership of material that is submitted for the website remains with the submitter or writer. The Network is providing a vehicle for distribution of the material rather than claiming the material as part of the Network. For further information and guidelines, see “Copyright Office Basics” on the U.S. Copyright Office’s website at http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html DIRECTORY OF SESSION PLANS The Directory of Session Plans on or linked to this site is arranged by title, also giving the source and the date that it was posted to the web site. Click on the title of the plan that you want to review, and you will obtain the plan or a link. Plans are posted as received. About every 3 months, plans will be integrated into the master Directory. Links to COLLECTIONS of session plans given following the Directory of session plans.