Unity and A Course in Miracles
2025-09-07 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | At the UPA Learning Center, Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
With Rev. Paul Hasselbeck
In the Learning Center
$25 Suggested Love Offering
RSVP below and in the Courtyard on Sunday
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.

Experiencing Affirmative Prayer
2025-09-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-16 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-09-30 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-07 18:30 - 20:00 | 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
2025-09-10 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-09-17 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-09-24 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-10-01 08:30 - 09:00, 2025-10-08 08:30 - 09:00 | 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.
We support each other with our heart agreements:

Center – I will center myself before joining the Zoom.
Be Fully Present – I will be fully present during each meeting.
Visualize – I will visualize the highest and best for myself and every other person based on their expressed desires.
Advice-free Zone – I practice sacred listening and refrain from giving advice.
Trust – I will keep all that is said in confidence. I will not speak to or reach out to another person unless explicitly asked.

Zoom Registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Pr6O08-7RimPETdvmrwsKA

World Day of Prayer 2025
2025-09-10 18:30 - 19:30
Be Still and Know
With Your Prayer Chaplains
In the Learning Center and on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86270232857?pwd=[REDACTED]
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.

Sunday Morning Meditation
2025-09-14 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-21 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-09-28 09:00 - 09:30, 2025-10-05 09:00 - 09:30 | At the UPA Learning Center & on Zoom, Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
Begin your week centered, focused, and empowered at our Sunday Morning Meditation.
Join us in the UPA Learning Center or Register for the Zoom

Sunday Celebration Service
2025-09-14 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-21 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-09-28 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-10-05 10:00 - 11:00 | At Unity Palo Alto & Live Stream
Fresh and modern spirituality, speakers, and music
In-person and on live stream
Sunday mornings are uplifting, inspirational, and fun! The forward-thinking, practical spiritual messages you’ll hear on Sunday will help you with the real-life issues you face during the week. Celebrate with us on Sunday in person or at www.UnityPaloAlto.org/live. Catch up on a previous service at unitypaloalto.org/service-recordings.

Thresholds of Becoming
2025-09-14 12:00 - 14:00
With Rev. Dr. Paul Hasselbeck
In the Learning Center
$25 Suggested Love Offering
RSVP Below and in the Courtyard on Sunday
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.

Caribbean Food & Music Fest
2025-09-20 12:00 - 14:00 | At the UPA YES Hall, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, 94306, United States
Hosted by Paula Edwards & Karen Friedman
Cost: $25
Join us for a Caribbean “feast and festival” including Paula’s delicious hibiscus tea. Feel free to wear colorful clothing and a straw hat!
Tickets on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/caribbean-food-music-fest-tickets-1588582826999?aff=oddtdtcreator

Unity Women's Group
2025-09-21 11:30 - 13:30
Love Offering
Coming up!
7/27 – Nature Hike (see Patricia)
8/17 – Games and dance party in the Learning Center & Zoom
9/21 – We will be attending the workshop with Rev. Linda Martella-Whitset
10/19 – Women’s Group Tea Party in the YES Hall, Refreshments provided by volunteers.
11/16 – BINGO! Everyone welcome. Includes 1 free Bingo Card in the YES Hall
Meeting ID: 840 9228 8179
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtfuuqpjMrHd3sWbIbPvqExfMniUp_uwrc
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the meeting.

Moving Prayer
2025-09-21 12:00 - 14:00 | At the UPA Learning Center, Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
With Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
$25 Suggested Love Offering
RSVP Below and in the Courtyard on Sunday
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, by Linda Martella-Whitsett and DeeAnn Morency, Available in the Bookstore.

Board of Trustees Business Meeting on Zoom
2025-09-22 18:30 - 20:00 | 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

Bring Your Own Lunch Brunch
2025-09-28 11:00 - 12:00 | At Unity Palo Alto, 3391 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
On the Fourth Sunday of the month, after the Sunday service
One hour | Ice Breakers | Topic suggestions | Seat Rotations
Meet, Greet, Get to know more people better and in a fun way
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THE PROGRAM
BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH BRUNCH
Opening Blessing: Rev John Riley
ICE BREAKER DU JOUR:
What is your favorite time of the day and why?
TOPICS DU JOUR:
Round 1—Fixed-Every time
5 Good Things from this morning / yesterday / this past week
My 3 Good Things……
Round 2—Changes- Every time
Favorite food/drink……. The grand story
The best story about you experiencing this food or drink
ROTATION
Every other person raises their hand-They are the Movers.
Don’t want to move—ask someone to swap with you
KEEPING TIME
Stationary Table Ambassadors:
Keep conversations on topic and moving
Round 1: ½ Hour
Round 2: ½ Hour
I call ½ Hour Change
Set Phone Timer

Discover Your Power, Claim Your Wholeness, and Heal Your Life
2025-09-28 12:00 - 14:00
With Rev. Linda Martella-Whitsett
$25 Suggested Love Offering
RSVP Below and in the Courtyard on Sunday
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.
Based upon This Life is Yours: Discover Your Power, Claim Your Wholeness and Heal Your Life, Linda Martella-Whitsett and Alicia Whitsett, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2021.
And
Divine Audacity: Dare to be the Light of the World, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2014

Let Them Small Group Signups
2025-10-05 08:00 - 17:00

Women's Group on Mondays @ 5:15 - 6:45 on ZOOM with Casey Wicker, Licensed Unity Teacher
2025-10-06 17:00 - 18:30 | On Zoom
This small group is for women and meets on Zoom on Mondays from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m. After you sign up, Zoom information will be emailed to you.

Tuesdays 11am-12:30pm at the home of Patricia Gill-Thielan in San Mateo
2025-10-07 08:00 - 17:00
