The Art of Prayer is a regenerative learning approach exploring a core component of our shared human existence – our natural capacity for prayer. It is a framework of practices, in which people from all walks of life and traditions, religious and secular, prayers and non-prayers – are invited to reconnect and rediscover gateways into the field of prayer.
Our work fosters the possibility of opening us up to the wisdom active in various traditions, in new philosophies, in ancient stories, without limiting ourselves to only one of them. It is an engagement with prayer and praying that is beyond theology.
Together we reformulate and refresh pathways into the intimate experience of being in the world; of being in the field of prayer; of becoming creatures endowed with curiosity, kindness and a sensitivity to the yet unknown. It is about transforming our understanding of the act of prayer from a mere practice into a living model for existence.
The Art of Prayer stream includes different entering gates:
- The Art of Prayer – basic skills
- Prayer Oriented Focusing
- Living The Wonder
- Prayer in Times of Trouble
We live in a generation in which a prayer revolution is unfolding. Prayer, which was perceived as a religious duty learned by its practitioners during its very performance, is now being discovered as a life model for growth. In religious language, it can be said that prayer is a form of perception and practice that seeks to develop our “image of God”, and thus one’s life, and reality, are revealed in a new light.
For this purpose, we need to:
- Relearn the Art of Prayer
- Distinguish between the act of prayer as a ‘pure movement’ and between the prayer book, and synagogues.
- Understand anew how the prayer book and places of gathering can empower the act of prayer.
In this sense, prayer is primarily in its essence not a “religious duty” or “community event” or “belonging to tradition” but a radical action that can change the face of society and humanity.
