» Inspired by Scripture and the Living Tradition:

The curriculum draws on the experience of biblical prophets and saints from the Carmelite tradition. The Carmelite values indispensable to the prophetic commission – solitude, silence, community prayer, contemplation, collaborative work, presence, listening, discernment, welcoming, and integration – are at the heart of the programme.

» Applying Prayerful Enquiry:

The programme encourages a prayerful engagement with current social reality, fostering critical thinking from a spiritual perspective that addresses causes, and not simply effects.

» A Participative Model:

The frequent on-line sessions allow for building relationships and confidence in a community growing and learning together how to witness the movements of the Holy Spirit at this time.

» Catholic, Ecumenical and Inter-disciplinary:

Prophets operate at the boundaries between the religious and the social. This requires gathering input from a wide spectrum of sources, contemplating and processing these within the rich guidance of scripture and tradition, and making God’s presence and desires alive in the world.

» Communal Emphasis:

Learning and growing together in our prophetic calling and encouraging one another in the demands that prophetic truth-telling engenders.

» Led by a Religious and Lay Team:

Programme facilitators bring their insights and lived experience as lay and religious members of the Church to enrich the conversation with course participants.

» Creativity – Inspired and Inspiring:

Prophets not only tell truths that in God’s name must be spoken. They also conjure the latent potential for healing, wholeness, and holiness that reside in each human person created in the image of God.