Loughlan Sofield

Our books are based on our experience of working in almost three hundred dioceses on six continent. We have offered workshops, courses and facilitation for laity, clergy and laity. Two of our books, Collaboration: Uniting Our Gifts in Ministry, and Building Community: Christian, Caring, Vital, have been winners of the Catholic Press Association awards in the categories of Professional Books and Pastoral Ministry. I have been the recipient of a number of awards, including, the Lumen Gentium award conferred by the Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development on an individual "who has implemented the direction and goals of the Second Vatican Council in an extraordinary manner" and the National Association of Lay Ministry's Gaudium et Spes award presented to one who has given "evidence to the vision of Church articulated in the documents of the Second Vatican Council and who in a special way has advocated and fostered the enhanced role of laity."