About Us

The School for Synodality is a project to help support the synodal conversion of the Church in England and Wales in our day to day practice.

Through conversations, the development of resources and our programmes, we hope to enable an openness to the Holy Spirit in our Church through listening, sharing and discernment.

Our Team

  • Dr Avril Baigent

    Director and Co-Founder

  • Fr Matthew Nunes

    Director

  • Helen Jones

    Operations Manager

  • Bishop David Oakley

    Patron

  • Sorcha Connell

    Communications Specialist

  • Chris Knowles

    Co-Founder

Our areas of work

  • Resources for formation and training

    We create and make freely available a rang of resources, such as our parish council starting packs; the basics of spiritual conversation; resources for school councils, synodal leadership, reaching the margins - and whatever else you might need.

  • Theological and theoretical

    Facilitating an academic resource group to discuss some of the most important questions that arise as we walk the synodal path together.

  • Networking

    We help to bring together and engage those working on similar themes in the area of synodality.