May Classes
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New! Creation Workshop – Songwriter’s Circle
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, April 7 thru May 26
With Wanda Harland
Experience the synergy of having numerous musicians and poets sharing their songs and talents together. Participants will be invited to write a song each week inspired by topics and themes included in the Sunday Celebration Services at UCOP. Guest speakers and discussions on topics relevant to the creative arts will also be offered, including the areas of Copywriting, Recording, Performance Venues, Ministry, and more. Join facilitator Wanda Harland for this workshop to revive the creative poet and songster within you. Love offering.
Wanda Harland, a member of Unity Church of Overland Park, has been sharing her creative energies and works with small groups for nearly 25 years. She has a passion for dwelling in a creative flow and a strong desire to inspire and help draw out the creativity within others. She believes that musical moments that inspire and encourage in life are eternal. Quoting Dr. Wayne Dyer, "Don’t let your song die within you."
Heart-Centered Metaphysics: Harmonizing Our Lives with Spiritual Law
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, April 28 to May 26
With Barbara Hadley, L.U.T.
During this course, you will explore some of the fundamental principles of Spiritual Law and how they can be applied to our lives for greater love, health, and prosperity. Specific topics include: Life is Consciousness, Spiritual Evolution, Our Purpose, Divine Will, Divine Plan, Divine Guidance, Meditation, and Prayer.
This is a core SEE (Spiritual Education and Enrichment) Course and 10 credit for Metaphysics I, Part 1, are available. Required Texts (‘Heart-Centered Metaphysics’ and ‘Talks on Truth’) may be purchased in the CommUnity Bookstore at a 10% discount and are needed at every class meeting. Minimum class enrollment is 6 and pre-registration is most appreciated. Love offering.
Barbara Hadley is a Licensed Unity Teacher and is certified by Spiral Pathways Ministries. She works at Silent Unity and is a ministerial student at Unity Institute.
The Expression of the Soul Through Flowers
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 8
With Kevin Joel Kelly
In this quiet place we will enjoy the company of flowers. Flower arranging is an elegant art deeply rooted in soul. As we make a flower arrangement (no previous experience is necessary) we will meditate on the relationship of soul and creative power. The purposeful use of creative power is so simple it can be demonstrated in the creation of a flower arrangement; so profound it can empower one’s entire life. Just as a lotus explodes from the mud so does the fulfillment of our dreams and ideas burst from our souls through creative acts. Love offering.
Cost: Pre-registration is required. Registration and a pre-paid materials fee of $30 are due no later than Saturday, May 1.
Tools : Please bring a pair of scissors for the class. All other materials will be provided.
Kevin Kelly has been a professional floral designer for nearly four decades and is author of the book Letting the Lotus Bloom, the Expression of Soul through Flowers with forward by best selling author Thomas Moore. Kevin has also been arranging the flowers for our platform each Sunday for 23 years.
YOGANETICS: One Breath at a Time
Mondays & Thursdays, May 10 - July 29
Mornings: 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. / Evenings: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
With Wyatt Townley, E-RYT 500
The Yoganetics program is a breath-based system of yoga done on the floor in slow motion with the eyes closed. Gentle but deep and transformative, Yoganetics tends body, mind, and spirit and moves beyond the mat to affect all areas of life. Beginners are welcome; people of all ages, sizes, and levels fill the classes, offered morning and evening. For those who can't get to class, the Yoganetics book (HarperCollins) and DVD are available in the CommUnity Books and Gifts Bookstore. For more information, call 913.381.1984, or visit www.yoganetics.com.
Fee-based class. Register online at www.yoganetics.com/newclass.html.
Energy of Healing/Energy of Prayer
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, May 11 and 18
With John Hoefer
In this class you will explore the connection between Energy Healing practices and Prayer practices and experience ways to in which you can enhance your personal prayer/meditation life as well as become a more effective prayer partner with both in-person and distant prayer. Participants will look at the energy behind practices such as “holding space” and “aligning with an intention” in order to gain a conscious understanding of what is happening and how to more powerfully achieve the results you desire. The class will be about 15% information and 85% e xperiential to give you the ability to implement these practices into you everyday life. Love offering.
John Hoefer, a member of Unity Church of Overland Park, has been a practicing energy healer since 2002. He is a former UCOP Prayer Chaplain and member of the Board of Directors. He is the director, lead teacher, and a graduate of the 3-year Core Star Energy Healing School and the founder of the Kansas City Healing Project, which has provided energy healing services to cancer patients in the Kansas City area since 2005.
In the Presence Meditation
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 12
With Debra Baker
This meditation provides the opportunity to go into a deep, deep experience of the Presence. Meditation does wonderful things to our human bodies, giving them vital time to revitalize and heal themselves. At the same time, our souls experience their real, true selves, going to the place inside that is timeless and eternal. After the meditation, there will be a sacred prayer circle to share and honor one another’s prayer intentions. You’ll experience such serenity you won’t want it to end. Love offering.
Debra Darpel Baker has been helping people to heal their lives for 20 years as a spiritual counselor, energy worker, Reiki Master and teacher. She is a gifted medium and intuitive whose readings have been described as “life changing,” “profound,” and “extremely accurate.”
Leaders Walk The Talk – Living Our Ministry’s Core Values
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Mondays, May 10 to June 21 (no class on May 31)
With the Walk the Talk Implementation Team – Terri Evans, Danielle Keith, Tom Hadley, Tamie Rising and Russ Swift
Living the core values empowers you to act from your inner spiritual leader.
Unity Church of Overland Park’s core values are: “Spirit-Led”, “Love”, “Inclusiveness”, “Abundance” and “Joy”, and are the foundation of our actions as a ministry and as an organization. This class is designed for those who consider themselves to be leaders, or for those who wish to expand their impact on our ministry and in our world.
This 6 week class has been created as a result of our goal for leaders of our ministry to fully live the core values. As a participant at the end of this class, you will understand why the core values are the foundation of our ministry, will have experienced living them on a soul-ular level and have formed rich connections with other leaders. Love offering.
Charles and Myrtle on Healing and Wholeness
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, May 25 thru June 29 (no class on June 8)
With Rev. Kelly Isola, M. Div.
This course is based in the spiritual laws and universal principles that support the expression of health and wholeness in our minds, bodies, and affairs. Working with the teachings of Unity co-founders Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, participants will learn practical tools to help in the use of healing principles in their daily lives. Three main topics presented in the course are ‘The Source of Healing’, ‘The Consciousness of Healing’, and ‘The Practice of Healing.’ Love offering.
This is a core SEE (Spiritual Education and Enrichment) Course and 10 credits are available. Required Texts are ‘How to Let God Help You’ and ‘Myrtle Fillmore Healing Letters’, by Myrtle Fillmore; ‘Christian Healing’ and ‘Jesus Christ Heals’, by Charles Fillmore. These may be purchased in the CommUnity Bookstore at a 10% discount. Minimum class enrollment is 6 and pre-registration is most appreciated. Love offering.
Rev. Kelly Isola is an ordained Unity minister with a Masters in Divinity. She currently serves as the Minister and Director of Spiral Pathways, a research and teaching organization and alternative ministry of the Association of Unity Churches International. She is a Certified Transitional Minister and Peace Worker for the Association of Unity Churches International , working with church communities toward conflict transformation. She hosts her own Unity.FM radio show, “Evolutionary Spirituality,” and co-chairs the Spiritual Social Action Ministry Team for the Association of Unity Churches International.