Monday, Jun 16 - Thursday, Jun 19
Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, Overland Park, KS
Theme: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center, Overland Park, KS
Theme: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Registration Options
Registration Options
Full Convention + Banquet
$750
Includes Friday LUT Event
$750
Includes Friday LUT Event
International Registration (incl. Canada)
$500
$500
Friday LUT Event ONLY
$75
Open to LUTs only
$75
Open to LUTs only
Guest Banquet Ticket
$80
$80
We are not offering online only convention this year.
Kid's Camp is Back for a Second Year!
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Give your kids a joyful, enriching experience while you enjoy the convention!
We’re thrilled to bring back Kids Camp for children ages 3 to 12, happening Tuesday through Thursday during the 2025 Unity Convention.
Your child will enjoy:
- Uplifting and age-appropriate spiritual activities
Creative play and crafts
Engaging games and social connection
Healthy snacks included each day
Cost: $150 per child
Lodging at the Sheraton
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The 2025 Unity Convention will be held at the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel, conveniently located at the Convention Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
Group Rate: $169 per night
Booking Deadline: May 26, 2025
Staying at the Sheraton ensures easy access to all convention activities and helps us meet our contractual room block requirements.
If you choose to stay elsewhere and are not a local commuter, a supplemental fee of $200 will be applied to help offset the costs outlined in our hotel agreement. We appreciate your support in helping us keep the event affordable for all attendees.
Download the Whova App!
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Get the most out of the app and have a more productive experience!
1. NAVIGATE the event agenda and logistics, even without Wi-Fi or data. Access useful information like ridesharing and local attractions through the Community Board
2. NETWORK effectively. Plan whom to meet by exploring attendee profiles and sending out messages
3. PARTICIPATE in event activities through session likes, comments, ratings, live polling, tweeting, and more
FAQS
Q: What if I've purchased a ticket for 2025 but cannot attend?
A: 2025 Convention tickets are non-refundable and do not roll over to future years. Please email Joy Perrie if you wish to donate your ticket or sell your ticket to someone else.
Q: When does registration open?
A: Registration will open at the end of January 2025 at an early-bird rate of $650.
Q: If I'm already registered, can I purchase additional ticket options?
A: Absolutely! Additional ticket options will be available at the end of January 2025.
Q: Will there be a business meeting during Convention?
A: No. At the business meeting held during the 2023 Convention, a vote was cast to separate the Annual Business Meeting from future conventions going forward. This was affirmatively passed, with an amended stipulation the business meeting will always be in hybrid or online-only formats. The 2025 UWM Annual Business Meeting will be held on: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm CENTRAL
Meeting held via Zoom and streamed on Facebook Live.
Q: How do I connect with other attendees, see if anyone can share a room, and schedule times to meet up with my ministerial colleagues?
A: All of this can be done through Whova, the official Convention app and use the community forum, post pictures, ask questions, etc. Download details are above.
Schedule
Tuesday, June 17 - 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Leading from Your Whole Self, An Ayurvedic Journey – Pamela Gutierrez
Unity Metaphysics describes Personality and Individuality. Ayurveda, an ancient medical system from India, has similar terms: vikruti, one’s current state, and prakruti, one’s perfect state of balance and health. Healing is the movement from where you are today to realization of your Divine Nature. Living into your Individuality brings awareness to your strengths as a leader. In this workshop, each learner will discover their vikruti and prakruti and leave with tools for healing and leading.
Tuesday, June 17 - 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Latin Dancing: Moving Your Soul to Your Soles – Johannys & Jack Hartog
This “Latin Dance” class is for those who want to experience and try their hands (and feet) at dancing to various Latin rhythms with Johanny’s original spiritual music. The workshop will stress fun exercise through dance. This class is less than one hour. It will be bilingual (in Spanish as well as English).
Somatic Intelligence – Linda Hancock
Take action to become a better leader by developing your somatic intelligence. It starts with being more fluent in the language of the body. Discern how your body talks to you, and empowers you to make wise choices. Attune to your body-mind, heighten your awareness, sharpen your senses, stimulate your creativity and deepen your intuition as you mindfully reconnect with yourself. Prepare to move in this sensory workshop. Wear clothing that allows ease of movement. Bring a yoga mat or blanket to class with you.
Sacred Play, Our DNA of Play – Marcia McCartney
The community that plays together stays together and thrives! Bringing Sacred Play into all our interactions as leaders and congregates creates harmony and joy into all our connections as a community of faith. Sacred Play is a value that cultivates trust, deep joy and connection. When we remember how to ‘play together as the family of humanity’ we create the shared value of respect and joy at our core. “When we put more Joy/Play back into religion there will be more joy in our world.” Charles Fillmore
Wednesday, June 18 - 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Integral Ethics – Jane Simmons & Joanne Burns (Ethics Credit)
Exploration of integral Ethics through the lens of the spiral dynamics, the four-quadrant model, the four pillars of transformation: wake up, grow up, clean up, and show up.
Shifting from Tier One to Tier Two Ways of Being – Charlotte LeHecka
Our ministries are Living systems in which incongruences can show up. It requires our spiritual community to ask itself:
- How are our leaders exhibiting/not exhibiting emotionally and spiritually mature behavior?
- How does our mission impact the kinds of structures and systems we put into place?
- How effective have we been in shifting our culture, healing our shadow sides as a congregation?
- How does the community now choose to relate to one another?
The Contemplative Leader – Joni Lorraine & Robert Brumet
Join us for this experiential workshop, where you’ll explore how Contemplative Leadership enhances spiritual growth, can inspire transformation in Unity congregations, and in our movement. By cultivating a contemplative mind set, leaders can navigate complex issues with patience and openness that permits growth, connection and deepening of self. Using and integrating mindfulness and intuitive decision-making, Contemplative Leadership emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and empathy. Its approach fosters creativity and compassion by encouraging ministers and spiritual leaders to engage deeply with their divine nature, their congregations and with the world around them.
Growing Younger Ministers – Miranda Koberg (Diversity)
Cultivate a deep love for Unity teachings in youth and young adults and learn essential steps to inspire them to explore ministry as a passion and career. This workshop will provide practical tools and insights to help nurture future spiritual leaders, guiding them from curiosity to commitment in pursuing a path within Unity ministry. Empower the next generation to lead with purpose and heart!
Where Do We Go From Here – Vernelle Nelson
We all have opinions about the election results. For the first time since the 19th century, the nation is more divided than ever. Where do Unity principles fit in? As leaders, we must be agents for healing our congregants and therefore, be healing agents in the world. We cannot do that before first looking within and making a commitment to honor and validate the feelings, thoughts, ideas and beliefs that aren’t necessarily our own.
Wednesday, June 18, 4:00 to 5:30 pm
Moving from Predict & Control to Sense & Response – Gary & Jane Simmons
This workshop looks at Emergence as Leadership Intelligence. Ministry leadership by default focuses on predict and control strategies to minimize stress/discomfort. In these liminal times where planning and goal setting can be upended by life circumstances and alternative approach is needed. Emergence as leadership intelligence, enables leaders to access the field of infinite possibilities and leverage the disruptions of life to be evolutionary drivers rather than problems to solve.
Expressions of Unity: Small Group Ministry Reimagined – Glenda Walden
Applying present-day information on ministry development and growth with the ancient wisdom of small group ministry, the UWM Education Team has reimagined Unity Small Group Ministry. This workshop will encourage participants to imagine the benefits of small group ministry within their communities and prepare them for the implementation of small group ministry in dynamic and innovative ways.
Transcending Language & Cultural Differences – Johannys & Jack Hartog (Diversity)
The workshop will focus on overcoming language and culture obstacles to integrating Spanish speaking (Hispanic) populations and American English speakers into Unity ministries. The workshop will stress the importance of addressing leadership issues before taking on these challenges and then creatively and organically over time creating and integrated ministry.
Flourishing Ecological Leadership – Kathy Harwood Long & Eliasa Sabogal
Participants will explore and engage new ideas for interactive ministry which fuels personal ownership and engagement in sacred ecology values. As leaders in ministry. Rev. Kathy and Rev. Eliasa share tried and true ideas to inspire and engage ecological leadership on Sunday’s and beyond.
Principles for How We Treat One Another – Roxanne Graves & Diana Kennedy (Ethics)
Teaching the principles of peaceful, inclusive, and equitable communication.
Thursday, June 19, 1:30 to 3:00 pm
Beyond our Walls – Daybree Thoms (Diversity)
Beyond Our Walls is the focus of expanding our traditional special services, events and teachings beyond the walls of the church to the community-at-large, exposing more and more people to the core teachings of Unity. Beyond Our Walls is being Unity; subtly or not so subtly, presenting Unity concepts and Truth teachings outside the church building, by being who we are and spreading the gifts of love, acceptance & affirmations. This is accomplished by taking Unity to more public locations, also expanding inclusivity.
Answer the Call – Glenda Walden
Have you had the call to do more, be more, to become a Unity Minister? Now what? Explore the purpose of ministry and the many facets and unique expressions of ministry with the Unity movement. Identify your unique gifts to ministry and begin discerning which ministry path is the right one for you.
Transitioning from Y.O.U.er to Congregant – Miranda Koberg
Learn practical strategies to keep Youth of Unity (Y.O.U.) graduates engaged in your Unity community, whether they remain local or head off to college. This workshop will explore effective ways to foster continued involvement, build meaningful connections, and create a supportive environment that encourages young adults to stay connected with their spiritual home after high school. Discover how to make this crucial transition seamless and successful.
From Me to We: Practices for Deep Connection – Stacey Guenther
What happens when we intentionally shift our focus of awareness and spiritual practice from vertical (between me and God) to horizontal (between all of us and God)? We traditionally think of spiritual practice as a means to build a relationship with the Divine while learning to know and love ourselves fully. Dr. Stacey invites us to build on that foundation by widening to include finding deep connections with other people. This workshop is based on her research and consulting work.
Business Hours:
Monday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Tuesday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Other times are available by appointment only
Monday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Tuesday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 7:30 am - 5 pm
Other times are available by appointment only
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