Who Are We
Kit and Caroline Dollard are a married couple, with a family of 5 children - three
at University, one new graduate job hunting, and one in her last year of school.
Caroline has worked in the field of Adult Christian Formation since 1987 in catechesis and liturgy. For the last 11 years, she and Kit have been based at Ampleforth Abbey as members of the Pastoral Team, providing retreats, courses and spiritual accompaniment for people from all walks of life, at varying times of need. Caroline has a special interest in the multi-dimensional catechesis at the heart of Christian initiation. She is a member of the RCIA National Executive, and shares responsibility for supporting the development of the adult catechumenate
in Middlesbrough Diocese. She also serves on the Bishop’s Councils for Liturgy, and Evangelisation & Adult Formation, and together with Kit runs the Diocesan Catechists’ Formation Course. She has a Masters Degree in Liturgy.
Caroline continues in her role as member of the RCIA National Executive and
from September 2007, began a new national role on the Bishops’ Conference Department for Christian Life and Worship Formation Sub Committee, preparing a syllabus/formation material for liturgical ministers and contributing to the national conversation on liturgy in the life of Catholics in England and Wales.
For the last eleven years, Kit has worked in Adult Formation, both spiritual and pastoral, in collaboration with the monastic hospitality team at Ampleforth Abbey. He is a member of the Middlesbrough Diocese Bishop’s Councils for Liturgy and Evangelisation & Adult Formation. His special interests are ecclesiology, leadership and psychology, and he is a Fellow of the IPD. He has a Masters Degree in Theology & Ministry from Durham, and is co-author with Abbot Timothy Wright of “Doing Business with Benedict” published in 2002 by Continuum.
Kit continues his consultancy in MBTI, and personal development, and his work
as an on-line tutor for the Catholic Certificate in Religious Studies (CCRS).
Kit & Caroline are both Members of the International Institute of Facilitation.
