After morning worship, the conference programs begin around 9:30 a.m. Children are sung out of the Meeting Hall to their programs and adults remain to listen the theme speaker. At about 10:45, adults break into small discussion groups.
Eliot conferences include a morning program of supervised activities for children from infants through high school.
The children's and MAGs' (middle schoolers) morning programs follow themes consistent with the UU Principles and Purposes. At noon, they join their parents for lunch. Each grouping of children has a teacher and a number of helpers, depending on the number of children in the group.
The Youth have their own Youth Director, plus additional staff members, who are responsible for their program. The Youth also have a dedicated meeting space which is available to them throughout the day.
==> Had an amazing week in the Young Adult Program! It tied in really well with the theme of the speaker, while also being quite unique. The coordinators were so great and kept things very fun! We had tons of variety in the activities we did each day, and when we had group discussions they both contributed comments and thoughts as well which I found really amazing and have never experienced that in the program before so that was great!!!Young Adult from British Columbia