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CatholicPsych Institute Webinar Series – Episode #2
15 Oct 2025 CDT @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

“The Art of Accompaniment: Enhancing Your Ability to Respond Effectively in the Face of Distress”
A multi-session Webinar Series conducted by Dr. Greg Bottaro of the CatholicPsych Institute.
Objectives and Main Takeaways
- Strengthen your ability to respond effectively to difficult students, teachers, and parents through a crash course in Catholic Anthropology.
- Receive practical wisdom on receiving and responding to difficult parents and students.
- Learn and practice the three steps to helping an individual in mental distress and the six skills of accompaniment.
- Build the confidence to identify mental distress along with the skills to intervene before it escalates to an emergency.
- Develop the tools to connect, assess, and respond to emergency, sub-emergency, and non-emergency mental distress until help arrives.
- Participants should be aware of what is and isn’t their responsibility so they can navigate boundaries, therapeutic frames, and appropriate self-care.
- Discover the origins of burnout, how to avoid it, and how to rediscover the joy of serving.
Full series description here. Number two of nine episodes.