Links to accompany the
Diocesan Assembly Toolkit
Links in Individual Sheets
Sheet B - Options for Synodal Formation
Our Getting Started page:
https://www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/getting-started
Introduction to Synodality: 3 minute animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckg8GSzvc8
Final Document Bookclub Series:
https://www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/our-resources/final-document-book-club-2025
A Feast for All Peoples small group resources: https://www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/small-group-resources-feast-for-all-peoples
Individual Passages of the Final Document for prayerful reflection https://www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/our-resources/final-synod-document-reflection-resources
Coming soon (autumn 2026) Beloved Retreat
SHEET E - Links to Resources on Listening in Particular Contexts
Listening with Love resource: specific to the impact of abuse
https://www.cbcew.org.uk/listening-with-love
Produced in collaboration with Pax Christi - conflict management
https://www.synodresources.org/resources/how-to-manage-conflict-in-local-communities
WUCWO and Women’s World Observatory - various
https://www.worldwomensobservatory.org/en/resources-synod
Adapting synodal listening for people with physical and learning disabilities
https://rcan.org/disabilities-listening-session-suggestions-and-adaptations-with-simple-language-and-pictures
Accompaniment Guide produced by the Diocese of Broken Bay Australia
https://www.bbcatholic.org.au/pastoral-discernment-and-accompaniment/pastoral-discernment
Diocese in Australia school synodal listening: https://thesoutherncross.org.au/news/2025/10/31/schools-having-a-say-in-local-churchs-future
A youth social hackathon in Thailand: responding to the Synod listening by empowering young people
https://www.synodresources.org/resources/synodgoodpractise-mission-impossible-in-thailand-a-youth-social-hackathon
Synodality and community organising
https://www.ctcuk.org/what-we-do/congregational-development/working
SHEET C - Crafting Questions and Prompting Conversations
Another approach is that of a “Questionnaire for a Synodal Parish”, available on the Synod Resources website:
https://www.synodresources.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Questionnaire-for-a-Synodal-Parish.pdf
SHEET D - Forming Facilitators
We hold regular courses throughout the year, and are now offering Introduction to Synodality and Forming Facilitators courses particularly with the Assemblies in mind. Find out more here:
SHEET F - A List of Study Group Reports
Study group 1 – Some aspects of the Relations between the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Latin Church (awaiting final report)
Study group 2 – To hear the Cry of the Poor and the Earth
Study group 3 – The Mission in the Digital Environment
Study group 4 – On Seminary Formation
Study group 5 – Women’s participation in the Life and Leadership of the Church
Study group 6 – On the relationship between bishops, consecrated life and ecclesial associations (awaiting final report)
Study group 7 – The selection and function of bishops from a missionary perspective
Study group 8 – The role of papal representatives (awaiting final report)
Study group 9 – Emerging doctrinal, moral and ethical issues
Study group 10 – The fruits of the ecumenical journey for synodality (awaiting final report)
Additional Commissions
The liturgy in a synodal perspective (awaiting final report)
Statutes of episcopal conferences and ecclesial assemblies (awaiting final report)
Canonical Commission (awaiting final report)
Eastern Canonical Commission (awaiting final report)
Links to Individual pdf Sheets for Printing
SHEET A - Reflection on the Parable of the Sower
SHEET B - Options for Synodal Formation
SHEET C - Crafting Questions and Prompting Conversations
SHEET D - Forming Facilitators
SHEET E - Links to Resources on Listening in Particular Contexts
SHEET F - A List of Study Group Reports
