Welcome to our lifelong learning program at MLTS. Our one-of-a-kind program is called The Leadership Institute for Growth, Healing, and Transformation (LIGHT). LIGHT empowers individuals and communities with tools for meaningful personal and societal transformation. Rooted in Unitarian Universalist values, this dynamic initiative offers non-degree lifelong learning opportunities—such as certificates, micro-credentials, trainings, and workshops—that center healing, justice, and the dismantling of oppression. Whether you are a lay leader, an ordained minister, or a seeker on a spiritual path, LIGHT provides practical, visionary education designed to foster inclusion, belonging, and theological imagination. Join a vibrant community committed to growth and collective liberation—and let your values come alive with LIGHT.
Dr. Kate Lassiter, Sr. Director of Lifelong Learning, talks about the importance of lifelong learning
Our LIGHT programs offer transformative lifelong learning that equip individuals and faith leaders with tools for personal and social transformation. Through non-degree certificates, micro-credentials, workshops, and retreats, LIGHT fosters spiritual growth, justice, and community building rooted in Unitarian Universalist values.
Equips faith-based leaders with essential skills for effective and transformative organizational leadership.
Trains individuals to become compassionate, creative spiritual directors through a two-year, online cohort model emphasizing deep listening and spiritual presence.
Offers a structure for development as a leader through a 9-month cohort. Learners meet twice a month for discussion and collaboration.
The Fahs Collaborative Laboratory for Innovation in Faith Formation is a feisty cohort of religious educators who support people in living meaningful, socially conscious, and spiritually grounded lives. Our curriculum catalogue includes Beloved Conversations, Creating Theology Together, Sophia Fahs Sunday, and We Who Defy Hate.
Sophia Lyon Fahs was an early 20th-century Unitarian religious educator who pushed the boundaries of institutional religious life. She asserted that the church’s function is “to teach us how to put religious and ethical qualities into all kinds of experience,” and said that transforming education for the future of faith is our “great work.” The Fahs Collaborative continues Fahs’s legacy. We bring together unlikely actors and new ideas, developing resources and practices that deepen faith, build resilience, honor diversity, and strengthen communities. Our work is to help faith transform lives and the world we share—for good. Together, we are forging the future of faith formation.