Who’s managing and supporting your seminarians over the summer? Too often, no one. Everyone’s too busy. We change that with a full suite of services: world-class human formation (individual or group); coordination with diocesan leaders and local pastors; evaluations and implementation of seminary recommendations; year-over-year tracking of growth; addressing real issues with real solutions by having difficult but pastoral conversations.

Summer isn’t downtime—it’s formative time.

Sure, you get psych evals, but is that enough? We offer the use of a level B psychometric Emotional Intelligence assessment to help you evaluate the emotional and social maturity of your applicants. Not only that, this assessment and report can be performed year-over-year, giving you insight into your seminarians’ human formation growth in the 15 most important emotional and social skills.

You likely have a newly/recently ordained program, but why are you seeing so many struggles with young priests? It’s because of emotional and social skills. We need to equip our young priests with the skills to navigate the transition to active ministry, a landscape that differs entirely from seminary life (no matter how good that seminary formation was). We supplement your newly/recently ordained programs to equip young priests with the emotional and social tools they need for real-world ministry.

Leading is harder than ever before, and we are asking our priests to do it with less experience and fewer support structures. You likely have a new pastor and parish administrator program, and while it’s good to teach skills in temporal administration, you know what’s better? Skills like assertiveness, flexibility, resilience, self-awareness, and reality testing. An information definition of emotional intelligence is “common sense,” or “street smarts.” Isn't that what your men need most when assuming leadership? We supplement your new pastor/admin programs by training your leaders in emotional intelligence skills scientifically proven to enhance leadership. We provide ongoing, individualized or group coaching, a much more in-depth process than a day at the Chancery.

Feedback channels generally shut down when one becomes a priest or leader. While it’s true that some people might be prone to criticizing priests, most tend not to offer their true thoughts and feelings. This can lead to an overly self-referential lifestyle affecting everything from personal life choices to decision-making in ministry. In the absence of a wife, children, or a direct supervisor (who are always happy to provide feedback!), priests need to be ultra-intentional about getting feedback. We reopen those feedback channels to foster growth, holiness, and better decision-making, all through the lens of emotional intelligence, because, without feedback, there is no self-awareness, and no growth, simple as that.

You likely have priests who are struggling (either in ministry or temporarily absent from ministry). Perhaps some of these priests are on structured wellness plans. What may be missing from your support of these priests is targeted coaching for the enhancement of emotional and social skills. Remember that everything depends upon a solid foundation of human formation. Chaste celibacy, for example, requires emotional and social skills as a prerequisite. We’ll partner with you to support these priests and get them to the next level.