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  • Sing-a-Long Sunday

    At the UPA Courtyard Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Join your Spiritual songbirds in the Courtyard (or Fireside Room, depending on the weather) after the service for a community sing-a-long feature of your favorite Unity or folk song. 

  • Presence & Potential Tuesday Group

    Presence & Potential Tuesday Group

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    A 7-Week Small Group
    With Rev. John Riley
    Tuesdays @ 7:00 - 8:30 pm, 2/25 - 4/8
    In the Learning Center or Zoom
    Space is limited. Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presence-potential-tuesday-small-group-tickets-1235177893329?aff=oddtdtcreator

    During the six weeks, Rev. John's Sunday Service talk will be about the book "Presence & Potential - Experiencing Your Higher Self and Live in Wholeness" by Martha Creek, available in the Unity Palo Alto Bookstore. Rev. John will provide a reflection guide, and we will come together to share our insights from the book.

    • More deeply engage in our spiritual teachings
    • Support each other in our personal and spiritual growth
    • Practice loving-kindness by serving others together
  • Presence & Potential Wednesday Group

    Presence & Potential Wednesday Group

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    A 7-Week Small Group
    With Rev. John Riley
    Wednesdays @ 2:00 - 3:30 pm, 2/26 - 4/9
    In the Learning Center or Zoom
    Space is limited. Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/presence-potential-wednesday-small-group-tickets-1235198083719?aff=oddtdtcreator

    During the six weeks, Rev. John's Sunday Service talk will be about the book "Presence & Potential - Experiencing Your Higher Self and Live in Wholeness" by Martha Creek, available in the Unity Palo Alto Bookstore. Rev. John will provide a reflection guide, and we will come together to share our insights from the book.

  • Holy Week Meditation Service

    At the UPA Sanctuary & on Zoom

    With Casey Wicker, Licensed Unity Teacher
    In-person and on Zoom>

    During this meditation service, we will examine Holy Week through the lens of metaphysical interpretation. Through readings, music, and times of silence, we will be invited to release error thoughts and beliefs that hold us back from opening to the fullness of our divine light. We will travel with the way-shower, Jesus, on a journey to Jerusalem, our metaphysical “habitation of peace.”

    Zoom Information
    Meeting ID: 825 7415 5072
    Passcode: 302489
    or click:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82574155072?pwd=WzLxbUmyZnBdFvoN4Jutv89f0VI6pl.1 

  • Blessing Easter Flowers & Brunch

    At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United States

    Join Rev. John Riley as we cut, assemble, and bless the flowers for our Easter Sunday flower-cross experience. Please bring your favorite pair of pruners to the YES Hall (we'll have extra). When we are finished, we will be treated to a delicious brunch. Everyone is welcome! Please RSVP by 4/16

    Free

  • Easter Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Celebrate Easter with your spiritual community! After the service, you are welcome to brunch in the Courtyard and YES Hall, courtesy of the UPA Easter Bunnies.

  • Envision with the Board of Trustees

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.

  • Dinner With Friends

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    You are invited to dinner! Celebrate our spiritual community. Whether a long-time member or a first-time visitor, you are welcome as we celebrate our spiritual community. Chef Paul Wcislo will be cooking lasagna! Love offerings will go to support our Center.

    Chef Paul Wcislo will be cooking lasagna! We hope everyone will come.

    Please RSVP to help us plan how much food we need!

    Free

  • The Power of Profound Gratitude

    A state of profound gratitude is a joyful, connected state of being. In this interactive workshop, you discover how it feels, practice reaching it, and experience the tranquility, peace, and joy it brings. Sign up today!

    Free

  • *New* Women’s Group Brainstorming Meeting

    At the UPA Fireside Room Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Unity Palo Alto Women are invited to a brainstorming meeting in the Fireside room to talk about forming a UPA Women’s group.

    We’ll meet to talk about:
    What, When, Where, Why,
    and volunteer leaders for the group.

    Interested? Please join and invite your friends.

    See Frances in the bookstore if you have questions.

  • Board of Trustees Business Meeting

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.

  • Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    The Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service

    One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations

    Opening Blessing: Rev. John Riley

    Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way. What to expect...

  • Special Board of Trustees Business Meeting

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    During this special Board of Trustees meeting, we will be reviewing the proposed Marketing Plan and discussing Fundraising.

    During the Business Meeting, you have two opportunities to participate: at the beginning, after the approval of the previous meeting's minutes, and towards the end, after the action item review.

  • Community Member Orientation

    At the UPA Fireside Room Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    with Rev. John Riley

    Are you ready to take the next step? Come to the Community Member Orientation with Rev. John Riley. In this round-table style discussion, you will learn more about Unity, Unity Palo Alto, and how to deepen your connection with our spiritual community.

    RSVP Today!

    Free

  • Unity Women’s Group Gathering

    At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Bring Your Lunch
    Get acquainted!

    In the Learning Center

  • Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    The Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service

    One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations

    Opening Blessing: Rev. John Riley

    Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way. What to expect...

  • Board of Trustees Business Meeting

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.

  • ACIM Group Brainstorming

    Are you interested in forming A Course In Miracles group at Unity Palo Alto? We are having a group brainstorming meeting in the Learning Center. Join the discussion!

  • UPA Day!

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    BBQ  |  Games  |  Music  |  Raffle
    ...and more!

    Please RSVP today!

    Free

  • Sinking Into Spirit

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    <emA Music Meditation Experience
    with Margo LeDuc & Rev. John Riley

    Sink into an experience of Spirit with Rev. John Riley & Margo LeDuc. During this meditation experience, we will have four meditation segments, each with a guided meditation, original chants written by Margo, and time in the Silence. The entire experience will last approximately 45 minutes.

  • Vocal Connection Workshop

    At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United States

    Presented by Voice by Margo

    $165 Registration - Sign up today at Eventbrite

    A workshop to help you discover freedom in your speaking and singing, and a deeper connection with yourself and others

    "Thank you!!! It was amazing. Everyone ADORED you!! Everyone felt really good and empowered. So many of these folks would never have thought to do something like this and definitely would not have thought they could."

  • Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    The Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service

    One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations

    Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way.

  • Board of Trustees Business Meeting

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. We meet monthly, alternating between a Business Meeting and a Visioning Meeting. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.

  • Voting Member Special Meeting

    The Board of Trustees approved adding two seats to the Board, bringing our total to seven members. In alignment with our bylaws, we are holding a special Voting Members Meeting to vote in two new Trustees brought forward by the Nominating Committee to 18-month terms ending in February 2027. This will be a short meeting beginning immediately after the service and will conclude in time for coffee!

    Everyone is welcome, and Voting Members are invited to vote for new Board of Trustees members.

  • Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    The Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service

    One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations

    Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way.

  • Art & Lunch

    At the UPA YES Hall 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United States

    With Christine Oliver
    Click here to sign up on Eventbrite or in the Courtyard on Sunday
    Cost: $25 or Love offering

    Create your own personal postcards and/or notecards. Just imagine sending your friends and family a work of art that you have created yourself. Challenge your sense of humor or add your poetry to the card. All art materials will be supplied – you just have to bring your creativity! We will provide lunch at 11:30 am after the Sunday Service in the YES Hall, and you can create your masterpieces until 2 pm.

  • Board of Trustees Business Meeting

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. All meetings are held in the Unity Palo Alto Learning Center and on Zoom.

  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • Unity and A Course in Miracles

    At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With Rev. Paul Hasselbeck
    In the Learning Center
    $25 Suggested Love Offering
    Reserve your seat today!

    Finally!!! A way to understand and align the teachings of Unity and A Course in Miracles. Explore their similarities, distinctions, and synergy with Unity’s leading metaphysics authority, Rev. Dr. Paul Hasselbeck. Whether you are a student of Unity, A Course in Miracles or both, you are sure to learn something for your own spiritual awakening.

    Free
  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • World Day of Prayer 2025

    Be Still and Know

    With Your Prayer Chaplains
    In the Learning Center and on Zoom:
    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86270232857?pwd=tuCAH74mT19qdlaaxab1UkSchsfc5J.1

    Affirmation: As we unite hearts and minds with others from around the globe, we affirm together: In the stillness, I awaken to divine wisdom.
    It is in this stillness that we pause…we rest.

    Join your Prayer Chaplains in the Learning Center or on Zoom for an hour of prayer, music, and stillness where we gently quiet our minds and settle our hearts, opening to divine wisdom and love. Come immerse yourself in an oasis of calm, leaving the world outside.

  • Thresholds of Becoming

    With Rev. Dr. Paul Hasselbeck
    in the Learning Center
    $25 Suggested Love Offering
    Reserve your seat today!

    You are not fallen—you are forming. Join us in a sacred exploration of what it means to live as fully human / fully DIVINE, where every breath becomes an invitation, and every moment a threshold. Together, we’ll awaken to the beauty of consciousness unfolding, not as something to attain—but as who we already are, becoming more fully expressed. This workshop is based on some new material Paul has created. 

    Free
  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • Moving Prayer

    At the UPA Learning Center Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
    $25 Suggested Love Offering
    Reserve your seat today!

    Reimagine Unity’s Affirmative Prayer not as a formula or set of steps but as a flow or a spiraling out or an expansion of consciousness. Rev. Linda, author of prayer texts and former leader of Unity’s global prayer ministry, Silent Unity, shows you how to move and to be moved every time you pray. Based upon Discover Your Divinity: A Modern Guide to Affirmative Prayer, available in the Bookstore.

    Free

  • Board of Trustees Business Meeting on Zoom

    On Zoom

    Our Board of Trustees is a model for implementing Unity Principles at our Spiritual Center. Striving to put Spirit first, we lead from a consciousness of abundance, love, and understanding. This month, we are meeting on Zoom only.

    During the Business Meeting, you have two opportunities to participate: at the beginning, after the approval of the previous meeting's minutes, and towards the end, after the action item review.

    Zoom Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/5732499223

  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch

    At Unity Palo Alto 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    The Fourth Sunday of the month after Sunday Service

    One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations

    Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way.

  • Discover Your Power, Claim Your Wholeness, and Heal Your Life

    With Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
    $25 Suggested Love Offering
    Reserve your seat today!

    That nagging feeling of something wanting to come out into the light of day to be noticed, honored, and healed? We will encourage you and convince you that you are never powerless; you are powerful. You can distinguish between “I feel” and “I am.” You can heal at the level of thought. You can pivot between intellectual and intuitive wisdom. You can discover your power, claim your wholeness, and heal your life. Let’s begin.

    Free
  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • Let Them Small Group Signups

    Change Your Life
    With These Two Words:
    LET THEM

    Join our free 7-week book study program based on Mel Robbins’ LET THEM theory.

    Discover the freedom, peace, and happiness that comes when you stop focusing others, and start focusing on yourself.

    Explore the program

  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • Unity Palo Alto Pet Blessing

    At the UPA Courtyard Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    With Casey Wicker, Licensed Unity Teacher
    in the Unity Palo Alto Courtyard

    Join us for Unity Palo Alto's Annual Pet Blessing. Bring your furry, feathered, or scaly friends to celebrate the joy they bring to our lives. Our pets enrich our lives. This is a chance to honor the special bond we share with them. Each pet will receive a unique blessing during the ceremony led by Casey Wicker, LUT. There will also be a memorial table for you to display a photo of a pet that has passed away. Let’s gather to show our love and appreciation for our pets. Animal lovers and pets of all faiths are welcome.

  • Community Member Orientation

    At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, United States

    with Rev. John Riley

    Are you ready to take the next step? Come to the Community Member Orientation with Rev. John Riley. In this round-table style discussion, you will learn more about Unity, Unity Palo Alto, and how to deepen your connection with our spiritual community.

    RSVP Today!

    Free
  • Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    Experiencing Affirmative Prayer

    On Zoom

    With your Prayer Chaplains
    Tuesdays, 9/2 through 10/14
    Love Offering
    Register on Zoom

    To experience the Divine is to feel at One with the Allness of life, love, and wisdom. This is the true purpose of affirmative prayer, and it lights the spark of divinity within each of us. This illumination helps us remember and express our inherent qualities – peace, joy, and light.

    Joyfully, this experience is available to each of us! How? Join your Prayer Chaplains in a seven-week deep dive into the understanding and experience of affirmative prayer. Inspired by Discover Your Divinity, Come Apart for Awhile, and How to Pray without Talking to God, this is an opportunity to enrich and deepen your personal prayer practice, whether you are new to or a seasoned practitioner of affirmative prayer. There may be opportunities for in-person prayer practice.

  • UPLIFT Prayer Circle

    On Zoom

    Get your mid-week spiritual UPLIFT on Zoom with Rev. John. We will begin with the Daily Word and meditation and then hold each other in affirmative prayer.

    Zoom Registration:
    Register for the Zoom