Over the last several years, a cross-section of people have been gathering at The Meetinghouse. Gathering because we love our community—and because something in us knows that this moment is asking more of us than business as usual.
Many of us feel it: a quiet ache, a growing concern, a sense that while things may look “fine” on the surface, something essential is fraying underneath. Relationships feel thinner. Systems feel strained. The pace of life leaves little room to listen, reflect, or remember what truly matters.
You don’t need to be an artist or an activist. You don’t need the right words or a polished plan. What you need is a willingness to listen, to be honest, and to stay curious. In this space, Poet and Prophet aren’t titles—they’re ways of being we practice together.
The Poet helps us notice what we’ve been rushing past. Through conversation, story, reflection, and creative practices, we listen beneath the noise and reconnect with what we love. We remember how to belong—to ourselves, to one another, and to the world around us.
The Prophet helps us respond. Not with blame or shouting, but with courage and care. Together, we explore how to speak truthfully, act wisely, and participate in the healing and flourishing of our community—one conversation, one relationship, one small step at a time.
Our time together weaves reflection and dialogue with moments of stillness and shared inquiry. We make room for questions that don’t have easy answers. We listen across differences. We learn how inner awareness shapes outer action—and how change rooted in love tends to last.
At its heart, Poets & Prophets is about becoming a community that can hold complexity without closing down, act without losing tenderness, and care for one another and our shared future with courage and imagination.
Beginning in March, we will be taking a formational journey to attend to the slow, human work of becoming—becoming more present, more whole, and more capable of care. Rather than asking us to fix ourselves or rush toward solutions, it invites us to pause, pay attention, and listen deeply to our own lives and to one another. As we tend our inner landscape—our stories, wounds, longings, and hopes—we discover that change on the outside begins with formation on the inside. Over time, this way of traveling together shapes us into a community able to respond to our shared challenges with wisdom, courage, and love.If you feel a quiet yes when you read this—if you sense that this might be a place to breathe, to belong, and to contribute—you’re already part of the conversation. To learn more about the shape of this year’s gatherings, you can check it out below or follow the link to register.
With anticipation,
AN INVITATION TO A JOURNEY
This is an invitation to a journey in response to a collective longing for wisdom and for courage in these times. These longings are not incidental; they are signs of a threshold moment—a time of both exile and emergence. In such times, the Formational Journey becomes our compass: an ancient path made new, guiding us from the reclamation of Core, through the shaping of Character, toward the embodiment of Community for the sake of communal flourishing.
Throughout history, such moments have called forth Poets and Prophets—not as titles, but as capacities of the soul formed over time. They help us remember what matters most and call us toward the world that longs to be born.
The Poet: Knowing and Being Known
The Poet emerges as we reclaim our Core—our true identity in Source. The Poet listens beneath the noise, attends to the subtle, awakens imagination, and restores our capacity to see. This is the Know of the inner journey: remembering deeply, locating ourselves in story and belonging, and discerning truth from illusion, presence from performance.
The Prophet: Giving and Acting in Truth
The Prophet emerges as Character is formed—through surrender, courage, shadow work, and the refining fire of love. The Prophet reads the signs of the times, discerns what is breaking and what is being born, and speaks truth in service of shalom. This is the Give of the outer journey: living with integrity, acting justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God and neighbor. Nurturing both Poet and Prophet brings alignment between what we profess and how we live.
Why This Journey Matters Now
We are living at a social, spiritual, and ecological inflection point. Our systems are strained, our communities fragmented, and our imaginations fatigued. The response is not simply new programs or institutions, but a return to formation—to journey together toward wholeness, wisdom, and courageous presence.
Formation teaches us to:
- Connect with Source, one another, and the living world
- Read our context with discernment and hope
- Shape communities where belonging is nurtured and responsibility is shared
This is a practice that becomes our path.
The Invitation
You are invited to respond in these times as a Poet–Prophet—a fellow traveler on the Formational Journey—by joining a 12-week cohort weaving together:
- Poetry of the soul: attentiveness, imagination, presence
- Prophetic courage: truth-telling, discernment, hopeful action
- Communal flourishing: connection, place-making, and the shaping of a sacred commons
To register, simply email Deborah@Meetinghouse.life to register.
