[Webinar] Growing in Restorative Practices: One Year Into the Synod on Synodality

In January 2022, Catholic Mobilizing Network’s webinar “Five Lessons From Restorative Practices for the Synod on Synodality explored how practices from restorative justice could enrich the synod listening processes taking place in Catholic parishes and dioceses nationwide.

In this webinar, Fr. David McCallum, SJ and Dr. Vanessa White illuminate the joys, hopes, sufferings and wounds revealed throughout the global listening sessions of the Catholic Church’s Synod on Synodality, and synthesized in “Enlarge the Space of Your Tent” — the 45-page working document released by the Vatican in November 2022.

Restorative practices can help us “enlarge the space of our tent” and navigate the polarities facing our Church and world. They can enrich the synodal discernment processes taking place in the Catholic Church worldwide.

Read: How restorative justice and synodality can help the church heal
Look at the list of additional resources shared during the webinar.

Featured Speakers

• Fr. David McCallum, SJ is a Jesuit priest and the founding executive director of the Program for Discerning Leadership, which provides leadership formation for senior Vatican officials and major superiors of religious orders. He is a consultant to the Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops, and a member of the Methodology Commission.
• Dr. Vanessa White is tenured Associate Professor of Spirituality and Ministry at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Director of the Certificate in Black Theology and Ministry. She is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the American Academy of Religion (AAR), and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. She also serves as an advisor/consultant for the USCCB Subcommittee for Certification of Ecclesial Ministry