Emerging Futures
Collaborative Limited

A ministry of Religious Institutes in Australia

Emerging Futures Collaborative Limited (EFCL) has been established to support and serve Religious Institutes in transition, to provide access to a Canonical Delegate if needed and to provide shared services. 

The narrative of EFCL is underpinned by deepening awareness, of coming together in relationship, of collaboration, of transformation and of expanded thinking. We are profoundly aware of the cosmological and ecological interconnectedness and of humanity’s small place within the 14 billion-year-old universe story. 

In his apostolic letter to all consecrated people (2014) Pope Francis expressed his hope “for a growth in communion between the members of different Institutes,” calling on Religious Institute members “to step out more courageously from the confines of our respective Institutes and to work together, at the local and global levels”. This he says, “would make for a more effective prophetic witness”. Pope Francis goes on to invite Religious Institute members to be “part of a true communion which is constantly open to encounter, dialogue, attentive listening and mutual assistance”.