UUCP offers adult classes on a variety of topics that are consistent with UUCP’s mission to be a spiritual community for our time: theologically diverse, radically Inclusive, and justice centered. Most of our classes are given on Sundays after the service, and many are offered in a hybrid format that allows in person and Zoom participation.
Classes are offered most weeks during the program year, September – May, with a reduced schedule during the summer. We post our classes as they become available. Please consider attending one or all of them! (Note: Some classes require registration, but most do not.) Feel free to contact us at afd@phoenixuu.org with any questions.
Upcoming Adult Classes
Dementia Care & Support: Important Health Decisions
This insightful workshop, led by Gillian Hamilton, Medical Director at HOV, and Karen E. Stewart, Dementia Educator at HOV, is designed to help us all understand the many challenges that people living with dementia face every day. Learn about tools and resources to provide the best possible care for loved ones living with dementia to keep them home for as long as possible. The session includes an interactive “Dementia Moments” exercise: an eight-minute experience that presses participants to perform some daily living tasks as if they were living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. While wearing gloves, goggles, and headphones blaring background noise, people will try to button a shirt, count coins, and follow other simple instructions. This exercise simulates the emotional experience of someone with dementia trying to perform normally while living in a world of distorted perception and diminished cognition. If you’d like to be involved in this exercise, please RSVP to events2@dementiacampus.org.
This is the second of a series of three classes focused on helping you and your family prepare for the important health decisions we inevitably face as we care for ourselves and others. All our speakers are experts from Hospice of the Valley (HOV). Friends and family are welcome to attend!
The other 2 sessions in this series are:
January 19: “Understanding Hospice & Palliative Care”: Lin Sue Flood, Director of Community Engagement
February 16: “Advance Healthcare Directives”: Cheryl Thomas, Hospice of the Valley
For more information, email afd@phoenixuu.org.
Advance Healthcare Directives: Important Health Decisions
Join us for the third of a series of three classes focused on helping you and your family prepare for the important health decisions we inevitably face as we care for ourselves and others. All our speakers are experts from Hospice of the Valley (HOV). Friends and family are welcome to attend!
The other two sessions in this series are:
January 19: “Understanding Hospice & Palliative Care”: Lin Sue Flood, Director of Community Engagement
January 26: “Dementia Care and Support”: Gillian Hamilton, Medical Director and Karen E. Stewart, Dementia Educator
For more information, email afd@phoenixuu.org.
