Built on the Model of the Person from Divine Mercy University. Formation, accompaniment and care, measured every session.

For organizations that work inside or alongside churches

Bring trained presence to every community you serve, without replacing any of them.

Dioceses, faith networks, universities, schools, counseling centers, ministries and civic organizations. Six things an organization can do, below: bring our courses to the communities you serve, publish your own, run their needs through Midst, spread helping through Raphael, connect your licensed professionals through Mindspirit, and scale it all as an implementing partner, under your own name if you want.

Water lilies floating on a pond that reflects the sky
Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1906 Art Institute of Chicago
1 Companions 2 Professionals 3 Credentialed helpers 4 Licensed caregivers
An organization can serve any level, and often spans several: a diocese forms Level 1 and 2 helpers while its counseling center works at Level 4.

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Bring our courses to the communities you serve.

Formation for the people who help and the people who lead them: leadership, the Model of the Person, scope, compassion fatigue, the research behind STEP. Run them across a diocese, a campus system or a network of ministries through Emmaus, with completion and outcomes visible to you.

Catholic Free

Failure Is Not an Option: Leadership, Decision-Making & Virtue Under Pressure

Leadership is what your character does when control runs out.

An asynchronous, six-lesson formation course that uses six scenes from the film Apollo 13 (1995) — set beside the real April 1970 mission — as a case study in how good decisions get made and good character is revealed when everything is on the line.

3 hrs · 8 lessons · Beginner

Catholic Free

The Examined Leader: Character, Trust, and Christian Anthropology at Work

Leadership isn't a technique. It's a life.

Forty years. Remarkable results. One Catholic CEO's conversation on character, trust, and what Christian anthropology actually looks like at work.

45 min · 1 lesson · Beginner

With Robert Luddy

Catholic Free

When Fear Becomes Faith: Fr. Groeschel on Childhood Wounds, Trust, and Prophetic Living

Your fear has roots. Your faith can have wings.

What if your difficulty trusting God began long before you understood what trust was? Fr. Benedict Groeschel — one of the most beloved Catholic psychologists of our time — explores the childhood roots of fear, the saints who found their way through, and what it looks like to arrive at genuine surrender. Three lessons. Real tradition.

2 hr 30 min · 4 lessons · Intermediate

With Fr. Benedict Groeschel, C.F.R.

Catholic Free

More Than Qualified: Women in Leadership through the Lens of Catholic Psychology

Have you ever been invited into a leadership role and wondered: Why me? I'm not qualified for this. You are not alone — and you are almost certainly wrong. In this 15-minute interview-based lesson, Dr. Tammy Tenaglia, Ph.D., shares what she discovered when she joined a Catholic foundation board surrounded by corporate executives: her distinctiveness was the point. Her psychological expertise was exactly what the room needed. Drawing on Catholic anthropology, the science of impostor syndrome, and the spiritual practice of daily self-examination, this lesson equips Catholic women to step into leadership from a place of clarity, confidence, and conviction.

45 min · 1 lesson · Beginner

With Dr. Tammy Tenaglia

What we have built

For dioceses, networks and institutions, we have built 58 courses.

two things. The first is leadership formation for the people who carry an organization: character and trust at work, decision-making under pressure through the Apollo 13 story, self-awareness and the use of self for those who lead helping professionals, and women in leadership through the lens of Catholic psychology. The second is shared formation in the Model of the Person that a whole staff, seminary cohort or counseling center can take together, so that a chancery, a campus ministry and a clinic are describing the same human being: the eleven premises, the call to flourish, and how the Model transforms clinical care. Beside those sit courses an organization will want to put in front of specific teams, on compassion fatigue, group facilitation, trauma care after disaster and co-occurring disorders. And the rest of the catalog, more than eighty courses, is available to the communities you serve through Emmaus, under your own name if you want it, with completion and outcomes visible to you.

See every course

By topic

Courses for leaders and teams, sorted.

Leadership first, then formation in the Model, ethics and scope, and pastoral care.

Leadership and the use of self

Catholic Free

Failure Is Not an Option: Leadership, Decision-Making & Virtue Under Pressure

Leadership is what your character does when control runs out.

An asynchronous, six-lesson formation course that uses six scenes from the film Apollo 13 (1995) — set beside the real April 1970 mission — as a case study in how good decisions get made and good character is revealed when everything is on the line.

3 hrs · 8 lessons · Beginner

Catholic Free

More Than Qualified: Women in Leadership through the Lens of Catholic Psychology

Have you ever been invited into a leadership role and wondered: Why me? I'm not qualified for this. You are not alone — and you are almost certainly wrong. In this 15-minute interview-based lesson, Dr. Tammy Tenaglia, Ph.D., shares what she discovered when she joined a Catholic foundation board surrounded by corporate executives: her distinctiveness was the point. Her psychological expertise was exactly what the room needed. Drawing on Catholic anthropology, the science of impostor syndrome, and the spiritual practice of daily self-examination, this lesson equips Catholic women to step into leadership from a place of clarity, confidence, and conviction.

45 min · 1 lesson · Beginner

With Dr. Tammy Tenaglia

Catholic Free

The First Person You Lead: Self-Awareness, Servant Leadership, and the Use of Self in the Helping Professions

The best leaders are not the ones with the most impressive résumé. They are the ones who can see themselves clearly.

1 hr · 1 lesson · Intermediate

With Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, J.D., J.C.L. and Dr. Tammy Tenaglia

Formation in the Model

Group work

Catholic Free

The Whole Person in the Group — Facilitation Through the Catholic Christian Meta-Model

What changes in a group when you see the whole person.

A group is more than a room where people work on their problems. In this panel, Dr. Harvey Payne, William Nordling, Gabriel Dy-Liacco, and Su Li Lee show how the Catholic Christian Meta-Model reframes group work as the formation of the whole person — through vocation, virtue, self-giving, and shared suffering — and what it asks of the leader who bears the group’s burden.

55 min · 1 lesson · Intermediate

With Harvey Payne, Psy.D., Dr. Su Li Lee, Dr. Gabriel S. Dy-Liacco and Dr. William Nordling

Christian Free

Goals That Move the Group: Setting Direction Across Group Therapy Models

How direction actually emerges in process and psychoeducational groups.

Goals matter in every group, but they are not set the same way in every group. In this conversation, Prof. Gabriel Dy-Liacco shows Dr. Harvey Payne how direction emerges in a psychodynamic process group — through honest expression, linking, and shared themes — and how that differs from the direct goal-setting of a psychoeducational group. You will leave able to read a group’s design and set direction accordingly.

1 hr · 1 lesson · Intermediate

With Dr. Gabriel S. Dy-Liacco and Harvey Payne, Psy.D.

Catholic Free

When Children Grieve: Helping Kids and Families Through the Death of a Loved One

Whether you sit with grieving families professionally or you are simply the adult a child turns to, this course gives you what to say and what to do.

When someone dies, children take in far more than the adults around them realize, and they grieve in ways that look nothing like adult grief.

1 hr 30 min · 1 lesson · Intermediate

With Paula Darcy and Khris Ford

Trauma and disorders

Catholic Free

Two Diagnoses, One Person: Treating Co-occurring Disorders

Two diagnoses. One person. One hour.

Most clients don’t arrive with one clean diagnosis. Dr. Kathie Erwin, a licensed counselor who has practiced and taught for nearly twenty years, walks you through what actually happens when two diagnoses live in one person: how to use the DSM-5 to aim, why trauma and culture and a client’s spiritual strengths belong in the plan from day one, and how a whole-person approach turns five separate problem lists into one coherent plan.

1 hr · 1 lesson · Intermediate

With Dr. Kathie Erwin, Ed. D

Catholic Free

Guarding the Gift: Pornography, Gender Differences, and the Restoration of Marital Intimacy

A Catholic Clinical and Pastoral Perspective

What drives pornography use — really? This 1-hour NBCC CE course brings together clinical psychologists and spiritual directors to examine the emotional and relational roots of pornography use, with close attention to how those roots look different in men and women. Grounded in Catholic anthropology and current clinical practice, Guarding the Gift gives counselors and pastoral ministers a framework for accompanying individuals and couples with compassion, precision, and hope.

1 hr · 1 lesson · Advanced

With Harvey Payne, Psy.D., Lisa Klewicki, MAT, Ph.D., Julia Hogan, LCPC and Dr. John Hopkins

Catholic Free

What Your Child Isn't Saying: Recognizing Childhood Anxiety, Bullying, and Digital Risk — A Clinical and Catholic Formation Course

Recognizing Childhood Anxiety, Bullying, and Digital Risk — A Clinical and Catholic Formation Course

Ian Masson, LPC, NCC, RPT, Director of the IPS Center at Divine Mercy University, presents clinical warning signs of childhood anxiety across developmental stages — including bullying, digital safety risks, and the role of family relationship and faith community as protective factors.

45 min · 1 lesson · Beginner

With Ian Masson

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Bring your own content to your people on Emmaus.

Emmaus is the only learning platform with Regular Outcomes measures and mentorship built into the LMS itself. Publish your organization's formation, pair each learner with a mentor who can listen in with consent, and see whether the people taking it are getting better, not only whether they finished. White-label it under your name if you want.

Regular Outcomes inside

Every course can carry the ORS and RRS, so formation is measured by the same record as care.

Mentorship inside

A mentor is part of the course: supervised listening with consent, debrief, deliberate practice in Melete.

Your name, your network

Your courses and branding, shared with every community you serve or with the whole network.

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Use Midst to manage the mental health needs of the communities you serve.

Midst coordinates each community: a need surfaces inside a ministry it already runs, a coordinator verifies it and responds within eight hours, the person is matched at the right level, and the person's own feedback moves care up or down. For an organization, Midst is also the view across communities: who is being helped, by whom, and whether it is working.

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Matthew 18:20

1. Surface

A friend, pastor, school or caseworker flags a need

2. Verify

A coordinator confirms it and responds within 8 hours

3. Match

Paired with a vetted helper at the right step

4. Measure

A one-minute rating every session

5. Step

Feedback moves care up or down

Communities start free. Nothing is charged to a parish, campus or community group for the companion tools.

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Spread the ability to help each other with Raphael.

Raphael is the app Level 1 and 2 helpers help through: the conversation, the one-minute measures, the warm hand-off. Across a diocese or a school system it is how good will becomes capacity, one formed person at a time.

Invite

The people who already walk alongside are formed and equipped, not replaced.

Listen

Trained listeners, ministers and staff take conversations with the measures built in.

Step

When someone needs more, the next helper is already known inside Midst, and the record follows the person.

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Connect your licensed professionals.

Midst integrates with the Mindspirit practice-management system. A counseling center, a clinic or a network of therapists works in its own EHR while the person's record and measures stay in one place with the community that referred them. Referrals arrive warm, and nobody is discharged into nothing.

Built-in outcomesORS · SRS · RRSevery session, one recordPresence+ appFor anyone who wants helpRaphaelFor Level 1 and 2 helpersMidstFor communitiesEmmausFor every helperMindspiritFor Level 3 and 4 helpersMeleteFor deliberate practiceOpen API: health records, parish and campus systems, or a partner's own app can connect to share referrals and outcomes

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Scale it as an implementing partner, white label, or through the API.

Implementing partners recruit communities and train coordinators while we form helpers and run the suite; that is how STEP goes from dozens of communities to thousands, on the model CarePortal proved for verified need. White-label partners run the suite under their own name. API partners keep the systems they have and connect them.

Three phases: prove it, implementing partners, open network
Phase 1, Prove it: pilot parishes, campuses and community groups, with outcome data from every helping relationship. Phase 2, Implementing partners: dioceses, faith networks, universities and civic groups recruit communities and train coordinators. Phase 3, Open network: white-label partners, other developers and all major languages join a shared system.

Evidence

Outcome data on every helping relationship, open to independent evaluation.

STEP measures every relationship at every level with licensed PCOMS instruments, and we are looking for an outside research partner to test whether it works, with funders willing to pay for the answer either way.

Four targets: a response within 8 hours, a pathway for helpers, evidence at scale, a network that outlives us
A response within 8 hours in every participating community, for anyone who asks for help. A pathway for helpers from Companion to coach to clinician, formed in the Model of the Person at every step. Evidence at scale: outcome data on every helping relationship, open to independent evaluation. A network that outlives us: self-funding, open to other builders, and available in all major languages.
Evidence and honesty

Partner with us

Tell us who you serve and how. We will be plain about where the network is today and what an implementing partner, a white label or an API connection would involve.