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About the Lunch & Learn
AFF is welcoming back Michael P McGillicuddy, LCSW and founder of the Untying Knots organization on September 24, 2023. His presentation at 10:45 AM in Fellowship Hall, “Polarization in Politics, Religion, and Culture: Navigating Divisive Topics: Discussion & Workshop, Michael P. McGillicuddy LCSW” includes lunch and a workshop for making discussion of divisive topics less difficult. Childcare will be provided
Mike ran two in-person workshops at our church in 2019 for Elders & Deacons and for the Congregation. The topic was “Not Changing Minds, but Softening Hearts.” Since then, we have a completely new roster of Elders and Deacons, and have had many requests to take up this topic after the pandemic and before the next presidential election.
About Michael P. McGillicuddy
Michael McGillicuddy, MA ’72, MSW ’03, founded Untying Knots, an organization devoted to unraveling the knots of polarization that are strangling us as a society. He has offered more than 40 such workshops around the country, such as the online 2021 “Polarization in Religion, Politics, and Culture: Naming the Wounds, Beginning to Heal.”
A two time UIC graduate with a MA in Sociology from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1972 and a MSW in 2003 from Jane Addams College of Social Work, he is a member of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps and dedicates most of his retirement years offering educational and psychosocial groups to incarcerated women and men.
>> Link to an interview with Michael McGillicuddy