A reference and resource that will assist parishes in the threefold task of establishing pastoral councils, training pastoral councillors, and enabling the councillors to serve the parish with faith-filled confidence. Topics include: Practical ways in which a diocese promotes and sustains Parish Pastoral Councils; how a parish might form a pastoral council; a formation course for members of the pastoral council that explores what a Parish Pastoral Council is, what it does and how it fulfills its tasks; 'wisdom-ways' of working together; A planning process with tools that can be adapted and varied to the needs of individual parishes.