GA EduCenter: What’s Emerging

Explore the GA EduCenter Program Guide

We’re excited to share the GA EduCenter Program Guide with you, a look at 50+ workshops you can explore throughout GA 2026.

These programs are part of the GA EduCenter in the GA app powered by Whova. Many are on-demand videos you can watch anytime, and several also include live webinars where you can connect with presenters and other participants in real time.

The GA app opens on May 29, and that is when on-demand videos will be available to start watching. Live webinars will take place throughout GA, and most will also be recorded and available in the EduCenter.

Recordings will remain available to GA registrants for at least three months after GA, so you will have time to watch or revisit what interests you.

You’ll find programs across a wide range of topics, including:

• Climate justice and environmental action
• Racial justice, equity, and anti-oppression work
• Trans justice and LGBTQ+ organizing
• Congregational leadership, governance, and administration
• Worship, music, and creative spiritual practice
• Justice work, mutual aid, and organizing
• Youth, identity, and multigenerational community
• Disability justice and accessibility
• Stewardship and financial sustainability
• Technology, AI, and digital ministry
• Pastoral care, trauma, and healing
• Global UU connections and perspectives
• Theology, mysticism, and spiritual deepening
• Community building and volunteer engagement
• Democracy, advocacy, and meeting this moment

There’s a lot here, and a lot of different ways to engage depending on what you’re looking for. Take a look and see what speaks to you.

Seeking Experienced Facilitators to Propose and Lead Wave Cohorts at GA 2026!

Are you an experienced facilitator with a passion for Unitarian Universalism, interested in gathering Unitarian Universalists to build, discern, and move together on an important topic or shared identity that is especially relevant in this moment?

Meet the Moment: Together Everywhere is the theme for our 2026 General Assembly! We are embracing this ethos by offering the chance for all GA participants to gain skills, build community, and engage in faithful preparation for this moment by joining a live, interactive, topic-focused, collective skill-building Wave Cohort from wherever they are! These 3-hour, condensed experiences will be offered in both in-person and virtual formats, and they will be facilitated by teams of 2-3 people with expertise in their subject matter.

The UUA’s Meet the Moment team is requesting proposals from teams of folks who would like to plan and facilitate these Wave Cohorts, on a topic of their choosing and in a location that works best for them- virtually or in-person at one of our GA locations across the US.

By inviting participants to dive into three guiding questions related to their topic, teams facilitating the Wave Cohort process will bring together leaders, volunteers, and religious professionals across the movement in a container to harness shared wisdom and collective power to move strategically and adapt to the shifting seas around us.

We hope both experienced and first-time Wave Cohort facilitators will propose GA Wave Cohorts, as together we engage faithful skill building, support deeper community connection, and generate power as Unitarian Universalists.

Click below for more details and to submit a proposal by Friday, April 17th!

You’re Invited to “UUs Meeting the Moment: Learning from 2025-2026 Wave Cohorts”

Wave Cohorts are one practice of our Meet the Moment framework. Waves bring together groups of people who are invested in and working on the same “issue” to develop a shared analysis and understanding that, in turn, leads to taking strategic action together. Whether they gather to focus on Queer and Trans Communities in Crisis, Congregational Administration, Whole Church Religious Education, Risk Assessment, or any other timely and urgent topic of this Moment, Wave Cohorts are all asking: What do our shared values call us to do in response to this moment?

The Unitarian Universalist Association has been shepherding these Waves over the course of the past year, beginning with our staff and expanding outward to include UUs from across our movement. Since the Spring of 2025, UUs have gathered in Waves that brought together leaders, congregants, and professionals to build shared analysis, align strategy and action, and create synergy across our UU ecosystem.

Join us on Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 from 8-9:30pm Eastern/ 7-8:30pm Central/ 6-7:30pm Mountain/ 5-6:30pm Pacific to learn more about this dynamic practice! We will hear from some of our facilitators about the Wave Cohort they led, the collective discernment of the participants, and how the energy from that Wave is shaping their ongoing work. UUA Senior Leadership will also share how the learning from these Wave Cohorts is driving the strategy and focus of our Association in this Moment.

Six Ways to Participate in GA 2026

There are many ways to take part in General Assembly, depending on what works best for you and your community.

1. You can join online from home and participate in live sessions as they happen.
2. You can attend a Satellite Site, where a congregation hosts a shared local experience connected to GA programming.
3. You can gather with others through a Community Gathering, whether that is a single watch party or a full weekend of shared participation.
4. You can attend in person at the Studio Site at the Galt House in Louisville, the largest in-person gathering of the Assembly and the location where worship and major GA moments are produced and shared with participants everywhere.
5. You can explore learning opportunities through live and on-demand programs in the EduCenter.
6. Or you can combine approaches, joining live events when you can and watching recordings later.

There is no single right way to attend GA. Participate in the way that fits your schedule, energy, and community.

Plan Your GA Experience