WordShine Writers’ Retreat

Grab your pen and get ready to be INSPIRED at the 2025 WordShine Writers’ Retreat!

• Saturday November 1st, 2025
• 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
• Unity Commons, 1901 NW Blue Pkwy, 100 Bldg. Unity Village MO. Located behind the Fillmore Cafe. 

Enjoy a day of creative community, inspirational guest speakers and hands on workshops. Featuring presentations by Rev. Chris Jackson, Ashley Nicole Audette and Rev. Nhien Vuong. Activities will take place at the Village Commons in beautiful Unity Village, MO. Hosted by members of the WordShine Writers’ Group.

Tickets: $50. This is a fundraiser event. All proceeds go to support the mission and vision of Unity Arts Ministry.

Please bring your own non-perishable lunch or plan to purchase your lunch at the Fillmore Cafe

PRESENTATIONS

Writing With Spirit, presented by Chris Jackson

A key to life is the recognition that we can willingly and gratefully release anything that seems to impede our being a clear channel through which the magnificence of Spirit shines brightly. This is especially true when it comes to writing about spiritual subjects. As we surrender the plans and ambitions of personality, a higher dimension of intelligence and creativity begins to work through us. We serve not as originators of articles, essays, or books, but as inspired instruments through which timeless, eternal truths are expressed through words.

Chris Jackson is a third generation Unity student, ordained Unity minister, speaker, and writer who has served the Unity movement for 50 years. He is former Executive Vice President of Unity World Headquarters at Unity Village, where he was employed for 26 years. He also served Unity ministries in South Florida for more than 20 years. Chris retired in 2022 and returned to Kansas City to be with his family.

FIND THE LIGHT: Writing through Grief presented by Ashley Nicole Audette

With prompts and purpose, FIND THE LIGHT: Writing through Grief, will dive deep on inspirations, how to get started and how to connect our personal journeys with the stories we wish to tell. This collaborative experience hopes to share process, inspiration, storytelling techniques and much more. Join us for an afternoon of creative freedom, self reflection and inspiration. Everyone has the power to make meaningful art. Can’t wait to see what worlds you create!

Ashley Nicole Audette: (Playwright) is a New York-born, Missouri based playwright. Latest productions include Home Town (KC Fringe Festival- KC Emerging Artist Award), Bird (Queens Short Play Festival), (Crashing (Fabled Fox Theatrics), Better? (LCK Productions), Lights (MITF Summer), Second Chances (Grange Playhouse), Fishbowl (MITF Fall), Lights (Midwinter Madness), Free Love, (Actor’s Theatre Company), Light and Dark (Distilled Theatre Company), Happily Ever After (Short Play lab), The In-Between (Manhattan Theatre Rep), The Twisted Cross (Perchance to Dream). She has also had her first radio play Bluebird released on iTunes. Ashley is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, a past student of ESPA and a recent graduate of the 24-25 Kansas City Public Theatre Playwrights Round Table. Ashley currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri.

Creativity, Synchronicity, and the Enneagram of the Soul presented by Rev Nhien Vuong

Get an inside look at Unity minister and author Nhien Vuong’s book writing & publishing process. Hear inspiring and illuminating stories around the synchronicities and re-birthing pains behind how her new book, The Enneagram of the Soul: A 40-Day Spiritual Companion for the 9 Types, came to be released this April 2025.

Also, learn the basics of Enneagram not merely as a personality typology but as a mandala of wholeness and map of our conscious awakening. Discover how a contemplative–even poetic–approach to the Enneagram can help to unleash your soul’s unique, creative splendor.

Founder of Evolving Enneagram and the author of The Enneagram of the Soul: A 40-day Spiritual Companion for the 9 Types, Reverend Nhien Vuong, JD, MDiv, is an international Enneagram presenter, retreat leader, and transformational soul guide. Nhien has been studying the Enneagram since 2002 and teaching it since 2007. She earned the IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction mark in 2024 and is certified in both the Somatic Enneagram™ and the IEA-Accredited Awareness to Action programs. Nhien has presented professionally in countries including Egypt, the United States, Mexico, Denmark, and Sweden and at online global summits and workshops that have reached upwards of forty thousand people in over 150 countries.

An ordained Unity minister, published poet, and writer, Nhien served as a regular contributor to Unity Magazine^© and Daily Word Magazine^© for six consecutive years. More recently, she has been commissioned to write a series of Enneagram articles for Spirituality & Health^®: A Unity Publication. Nhien’s personal vision is for a more compassionate, awakened, and unified world.

Website: evolvingenneagram.com

Buy the book: https://evolvingenneagram.com/enneagrambook

The Enneagram of the Soul Book Endorsements 

“The Enneagram of Soul is a masterpiece. It is a treasury of wisdom, filled with spiritual insights and practical exercises to help you live a more soul-centered life. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to you!” ~ Robert Holden, author of Shift Happens! and Higher Purpose 

“The Enneagram of the Soul invites us on a journey of profound self-discovery. This beautiful book helps us remember that the real and original Enneagram work helps us shed concepts of ourselves and others that no longer serve us so that we may prepare ourselves for the mysterious and fantastic changes ahead—that we all know are upon us.” Russ Hudson, co-author of The Wisdom of the Enneagram 

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