The Unity Center of Port Townsend will be hosting a special guest speaker during the church’s Sunday programs on Oct. 27. Author Christina Baldwin will address the 11 a.m. morning service and lead a  two-hour workshop from 1-3 p.m.

Baldwin’s workshop is intended to support the art of listening for guidance in addition to “designing meaningful spiritual practices, and tools for embedding them in our daily lives.”

Baldwin has taught seminars internationally for more than 20 years. She is the author of “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing,” “Life’s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest” and New World Library’s “The Seven Whispers: A Spiritual Practice for Times Like These.”

Baldwin also co-founded PeerSpirit, an educational company, with fellow author and naturalist Ann Linnea, with the aim of “building and sustaining a culture of conversation.”

In Baldwin’s view, “all crises are spiritual crises,” whether they’re political, societal, or driven by climate change, natural disasters or a sense of feeling “overloaded” by one’s technology. She said she sees them all as “disruptions” that “challenge our core values, identities and capacity to hold steady.”

Amid such confusion, Baldwin advocates spiritual practices “that hold us to centeredness,” which she’s outlined as a set of spiritual instructions that she refers to as “The Seven Whispers,” per her book. It encourage readers to consider “their own whispers from the heart,” as well as “how to listen to the soul’s code.”

Now in her 70s, Baldwin synthesizes decades of “gentle guidance” in her writing, speaking and workshops.

All of Baldwin’s books will be for sale at the Unity Center church, at 3918 San Juan Ave. in Port Townsend, on Sunday, Oct. 27, including “The Seven Whispers” and her recently released novel, “The Beekeeper’s Question.”