Welcome to the Relationship Toolshop® International Training Institute

This is our vast one-stop training & resource library featuring current, research-informed content from top-rated family life educators and Certified Toolshop® Experts worldwide. They have collaborated to co-create courses and resources on topics that will help you improve all your relationships. 

You can customize your browsing experience by using the decision tree below, checking out our Toolshop® sites, OR browsing all our categories at the end. 

Every Second of Every Day, You are in a Relationship.

You are part of a family, with parents, maybe siblings, and extended family. You might be a parent with your own children or caring for someone else’s children. You might have a partner and in-laws. You either have friends or want them. You also need to get along with the people where you work and any strangers you encounter along the way. But first and foremost, you have a relationship with yourself.

Practical Programs & Resources

Wherever you are in the world and in whatever relationships you have, you want them to be healthy and effective or they’ll just drag drama to your doorstep.  Relationship Toolshop® is here to support you in that goal. We partner with a wide variety of qualified professionals who have expertise in certain relationships or relationship issues. They curate the most current, relevant, research-informed information into articles, resources, and programs that you can access anytime, anywhere. Some are offered live and offer group or private coaching, to support you in applying what you learn to your individual needs. 

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Choose Where You Want to Start Exploring...

I want to Improve my Relationships with CHILDREN

Families are diverse, all children are human beings who have certain universal needs, and each child is unique. Parents, teachers and other professionals who live or work with children need to know how to meet these universal needs in ways that honor or address the unique, special needs of each child and family. Our research-based programs and resources can teach you our universally-effective secret-sauce system for improving relationships with children and how to apply it to different types of challenging issues that can arise when you live or work with children.

I want to Improve my Relationships with ADULTS

You encounter other adults everywhere you go, so you want to know universal skills for getting getting along with others and resolving conflicts in healthy ways. Then, each relationship has unique dynamics, like life partners, friends, co-workers or colleagues, supervisors or leaders, clients, or extended family members like in-laws or your parents. Our programs and resources can teach you our secret-sauce system for improving relationships with adults and how to apply it to different types of relationships and issues that can occur in adult relationships.

I want to Improve or Expand my PROFESSIONAL Services to Families

- If you already have advanced knowledge and practical experience in a particular type of relationship or relationship issue, let's talk!
- If you already have a research-based program or resource to share, you might offer it here! If you don't, we'll teach you how to develop them!
- If you want to teach Toolshop® programs, just learn the Universal Blueprint® and how to teach it to others, through our trainer and coach certification training. If you want to develop a niche-specific Toolshop® service division, we'll partner with you to co-create it all!

The Universal Blueprint® Success System

Programs and resources that carry the Toolshop® brand teach part or all of the unique “Universal Blueprint® for Relationship Success System.” This simple step-by-step formula allows you to prevent common problems and plan helpful responses to challenges that arise. Once you know the system, it takes just a matter of seconds to know what’s happening, why it’s happening, and exactly what to say or do that is specific to that situation, with that person, at that moment, to get the best outcome.

If you want to have relationship that are real and fulfilling, our programs, resources and services will support you in Building Healthy Relationships --- in all areas of your life --- from the Foundation Up!

OR... Browse our full Library by Categories

We also offer programs and resources for are provided by family-life coaches and educators who are not Toolshop® certified, but are Toolshop®-informed (are graduates), or teach content consistent with Toolshop®  teachings. You will find their resources in this section organized by categories. 

RTITI's Founder/CEU Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS

Jody, the Founder/CEO of RTITI, is a Licensed Social Worker, Certified Family Life Educator, and a Certified Trauma Support Specialist. She is the author of an award-winning parenting book and evidence-based curriculum called The Parent's Toolshop® and has created over 100 multimedia parenting resources. Jody has trained and certified over 100 Toolshop® Instructors worldwide and over a dozen Relationship Toolshop® Experts, with whom she co-authors new Toolshop® training programs and resources that support people in using her unique “Universal Blueprint® for Relationship Success” to improve other relationships in their lives. Jody is a top-rated speaker who has trained over 50,000 parents and family-service professionals worldwide. She also has served as a parenting expert to the media for over 30 years, including being the Co-Producer and Parenting Expert for the Emmy-nominated “Ident-a-Kid” television series. Learn more about Jody here.