Practising Synodality: Toolkits for Churches, Schools, and Communities
A collaborative workshop organised by The Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College and The Margaret Beaufort Institute
What difference will synodality make? How can it transform our everyday lives? Join us in the Garden Room at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge as we explore the implications of our call to greater participation in local churches, schools and communities in the light of the multi-year Synod on Synodality, which concluded in October 2024.
In this afternoon workshop, we will begin by reflecting on what happened at the Synod with one of its theologian participants, Sr Prof Maria Cimperman RSCJ.
We will then build a ‘toolkit’ of synodal best practices and shared wisdom, both in conversation together and informed by a diverse panel of local community members. Our time together will conclude with our own practice of Conversation in the Spirit, using one of the prime vehicles of discernment at the Synod.
By the end of our time together, we hope to better recognise what is calling us in our localities and to ask how this might be lived.