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 Jan
Carlsson-Bull
Jan Carlsson-Bull
serves as Assistant Minister at All Souls, with responsibility
for the church's myriad outreachactivities and shared responsibility
for pastoral counseling. She preaches periodically, conducts rites
of passage, and shares fully in the team ministry here. While
attending seminary in the 1960s, she took a circuitous root to
the professional ministry, joining All Souls in 1997 as Director
of Community Ministry. She was ordained into the Unitarian Universalist
ministry by the Congregation of All Souls on April 11, 1999 and
is in her second year of preliminary ministerial fellowship with
the UUA.
Jan's formal
education includes a M.Div. (1969) from Union Theological Seminary,
with a concentration in Psychology and Religion, and a Ph.D. (1986)
in Developmental Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of
Psychology of Yeshiva University. Her doctoral work focussed on
imagination and creativity in young children and female adult
development. The topic of her dissertation was: "Adaptation
Variables for Women in Separation, Divorce, and Post-Divorce."
Dr. Carlsson-Bull earned her B.A. in 1964 at the University of
Colorado/Boulder, with a major in philosophy and minors in music
and German. The American University of Beirut in Lebanon was the
site of her 1962-63 Junior Year Abroad.
Her clinical
pastoral education was completed at Boston's Massachusetts General
Hospital in 1965. New York City's East Harlem was the venue of
a year-long internship during her years at Union Theological Seminary.
While working with youngsters at the Washington Houses Community
Center of Union Settlement, she lived in the neighborhood and
engaged in regular seminars with fellow interns from UTS.
After seminary,
marriage, and children, Dr. Carlsson-Bull embarked professionally
on a 20-year career in the private and non-profit sector, routed
by "a map she hadn't counted on." While working full-time
designing corporate training programs for Automatic Data Processing
and functioning as a single parent, she completed her doctorate.
Remarriage and professional entry into the non-profit sector came
in 1986. Two daughters increased to three (now Shana, 29; Sarah,
25; and Lisa, 24).
Her non-profit
work included seven years as Associate Director of The Partnership
for New Jersey, an association of the CEOs of New Jersey's leading
corporations and non-profit organizations. She directed statewide
alliances between member corporations and school districts and
played leadership roles in programs addressing public school reform
and early childhood health and education. In the years immediately
preceding her arrival at All Souls, Jan was Director of Development
for the Princeton Center for Leadership Training, an independent
non-profit providing customized leadership training for teams
of adult educators and community activists.
Common threads
in her professional life include forming collaborations across
sectors, group facilitation, writing, public speaking, and conference
planning. Activity on numerous committees and boards and in ventures
addressing education, the arts, social justice, and the quality
of community life has occupied both personal and professional
time. Jan's commitments have included serving as President of
the Montclair (NJ) Educational Resource Council, the Governing
Council of the Alliance for Arts Education/New Jersey, the Steering
Committee for a community-wide Future Search Conference, and membership
on the New Jersey Ethics Commission--an appointment by the Chief
Justice of the State Supreme Court.
For twenty
years, Dr. Carlsson-Bull was an active member of The Unitarian
Church of Montclair. She has served on the Board of Trustees,
the Committee on Ministry, and as Chair of the Religious Education
Committee. She has been active on the Undoing Racism Committee
and has participated in the UUA's Pilot Project on Anti-racist
Multicultural Congregations of the Metro/ New York District.
Currently
Jan serves on the Metro/NY District's Committee on Anti-racism
and Diversity and the District Committee on Growth and Extension.
As a member of the UUMA, she serves as co-chair of the Program
Committee of the district chapter. She has participated in General
Assembly for the past three years.
A native
of Iowa, Dr. Carlsson-Bull has lived in the New York metropolitan
area since coming to Union Theological Seminary in 1964. She resides
with her husband, Dr. Daniel Bull, in Montclair, New Jersey. Jan
has been at The Unitarian Church of All Souls since 1997.
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