EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique is a super-simple tapping technique you can use to reduce and eliminate stress, trauma trigger buttons, stress-related health conditions, phobias, and almost anything else that has an emotional cause behind it. Jody is trained in the original, classic EFT technique developed by Gary Craig. She teaches it in several of her courses and has courses showing other EFT variations deve...

Today, parents face more stress than ever but might not have learned healthy coping skills from their own parents. Doing the opposite can also be unhealthy. Break the cycle for the next generation by learning how childhood created subconscious patterns and trigger buttons and get tools to reduce stress, deprogram triggers, stay calm and communicate effectively.

Have you ever thought about starting or growing your practice? Does it feel overwhelming, not knowing where to start or what to do next, or how to do it?  Watch this free one-hour webinar of the 6 Key Steps you will need to take. It is a great preview of our comprehensive 6 module course with optional coaching.   

Starting and Growing a Family Life Education & Coaching Practice may seem like an overwhelming idea, unless you understand what steps to take, the importance of each step, and have easy-to-follow directions for moving from one step to the next, in a logical order. Whether you want to start a non-profit or for-profit business, are just starting out, or want to fill in gaps in your business plan, you’ll find ey...

WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below is a descr...

 WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below is a descr...

WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below is a descr...

WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below is a descr...

WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below is a descr...

WHICH LESSONS DO YOU WANT? Starting and growing any business is best done using proven systems. The "6 Steps to Starting and Growing Your Professional Family Life Practice?" course is just that, a system.  Although each topic stands alone as a presentation, they work best when used together as a system, each step building on the other.  That said, you may register for individual content sessions. Below are descri...

If you want to provide live virtual Continuing Education webinars and have them turned into online courses through which you can continue to educate and serve, but don't have the tech skills to produce them, partner with RTITI! We provide the CEU approval and course production. You just apply, tell us what you want to provide, then show up and present! We'll do the rest.

If you are an experienced in-person trainer or public speaker who presents programs related to parenting and family life, foster-adoptive parenting, trauma-informed care, protective service casework and/or supervision, or relevant/related personal-growth topics AND would like to train more often virtually, let’s talk!  Whether you already have your own speaking practice or offer your training other places, traini...

Only the "preview" information below is visible to the public. If you want to get a sneak preview of our proprietary business model, our proprietary systems, and some of the processes you will receive and/or follow, you will need to sign/submit the non-disclosure agreement, complete a pre-application screening process. (See blue "preview" buttons below). If screened through, we can have a screening interview wher...

Preventing Child Sexual Abuse (CSA), with Lindsay Burkhardt of Families Flourish of N. Dakota. She will tell you what you can do to prevent CSA, risk factors, red flags to look for, and what to do if you suspect CSA. EVERY parents, grandparent, and family service professional will benefit from attending this FREE webinar!

How many people need your services? How many of them can you personally serve? What you do is so valuable it could help countless people, but with 24 hours in a day and a need for life balance, you are limited to how many clients you can personally serve. This is why you want multiple streams of income. Learn where these streams are, how to create or access them, and strategies for creating The Millionaire Trifecta.

This workshop discusses how to build strong family foundations by focusing on identifying values, communication, and having intentional conversations to enhance the family unit.  Participants receive the Creating the Family Manual  e-book for guided application. 

There are many cultures that offer mindsets and practices that have existed for generations because the “work.” Now, science is explaining why. Attend this webinar to learn what some of these practices are while assessing your mastery of qualities that will reduce your stress and increate your effectiveness as a practitioner.

You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family or co-workers. Most families and office teams are dysfunctional somehow & almost everyone knows someone they dread seeing. So, why not learn some skills for preventing them from getting under your skin and responding helpfully, when needed. Then you can be around them without draining your energy and leaving angry and hurt. This multi-media resourc...

The first Essential Element of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) Trauma Toolkit is “Maximize the child's sense of safety.” It is not enough for children to be safe - "felt safety" only registers in the children’s physiology and neurochemistry if the children know they are safe.  This workshop will help participants understand the impact of complex trauma on feelings of safety and how to apply ...

Feeling stressed? Relief is literally at your fingertips! Almost everyone is feeling super-stressed these days, with all the stressors that are impacting our health, economy, children and family relationships, communities, country, and world. Such prolonged stress takes its toll on your physical, emotional and mental health, while drama can drain you or even trigger old traumas, hurts, fears and phobias.

Feeling stressed? Relief is literally at your fingertips! Almost everyone is feeling super-stressed these days, with all the stressors that are impacting our health, economy, children and family relationships, communities, country, and world. Such prolonged stress takes its toll on your physical, emotional and mental health, while drama can drain you or even trigger old traumas, hurts, fears and phobias. This webi...

This 3-hour session includes an introduction to the rules and terminology for Training Supervisor Designation in the ethics code. Content includes how ethics might be addressed in training supervision with an individual or group. The third section will use Trauma as an example of content and practice of developing proficiency.

Below, you can see some parts of this free preview course. If you are serious about considering trainer certification, you can sign the non-disclosure agreement below (see blue "preview" button) to access every document in the free preview course. All forms and checklists in this free preview are also included in the FAPT TIPS4Leaders discounted training bundled package, with live links and discount codes (which ...

When life feels overwhelming, it’s easy to lose sight of your needs and hit burnout. In this empowering webinar, Women’s Empowerment Coach Andrea Amador, CEC—M.N.L.P., shares practical tools to help parents and caregivers turn self-doubt into self-trust, set loving boundaries, and choose themselves first without guilt—through self-love, mindfulness, and simple grounding practices.

Explore modern fatherhood in this engaging, research-based course. Learn how today’s dads navigate evolving roles, build strong co-parenting relationships, model healthy masculinity, and parent with purpose. Gain practical tools for connection, discipline, and emotional growth—ideal for fathers and those who support them.

If you would like to receive continuing education training hours for any of the following professions, please add your email to this list.Counselors/TherapistsMarriage & Family TherapistsSocial WorkersNursesCertified Family Life EducatorsWe will only send this list information about online CEU training, both live and evergreen (pre-recorded), that have been approved for CEU hours by the Ohio Counselor Social ...

NEVER BEFORE have we held ALL training programs for Parents Toolshop coaches and trainers ALL AT ONCE and LIVE! This week-long training includes 2 days learning the UB GPS system as parents do and as you'll teach it, then 3 days getting training to USE the system as a coach and teach it to parents. The products below serve as previews and feature recordings of past live training. We will video these to update those.

If you provide parenting skill training programs, this packet is for you. You will learn 30+ interactive activities that will spice up your groups and let participants have fun while learning. Activities include cooperative games, partner activities, role plays, and dramatic demonstrations that drive a point home or make a profound analogy that help parents remember what they learn. ISBN: 0-9659119-7-7

 If your family life feels like it's shattered, it's time to put the pieces back together again. These 15 printed master puzzles and answer keys offer a different puzzle for each parenting skill from the Parent's Toolshop® book. Parent educators can use this handy resource as an interactive class activity or homework assignment to build literacy skills and make learning fun. See a sample HERE! 

Are your programs not finding an audience? If your marketing plans aren't amounting to much, let us help you stop wasting time and put your professional strengths to good use. Become a savvy marketer and learn the secrets of tweaking traditional marketing tools to boost your program's visibility and success. This 35-page workshop handout includes dozens of ideas in over a dozen different strategies

In a sea of questionable resources, this one-stop resource gives you accurate, current, research-based, trauma-informed parenting information that's proven effective with diverse families. Prevent common challenges and find customized responses that fit each situaton and child. Heal your trauma and re-parent yourself while becoming the best parent you can be to your children.

Your 1 Brain controls the data your brain takes in and how it’s interpreted. Your 2 minds, the Conscious and Subconscious, influence your perceptions, beliefs, decisions, and behavior about 95-97% of the time. So, learn what is happening outside your awareness so you can consciously use your inner powers to change old habits, deprogram trigger buttons, and achieve your goals with less self-sabotage.

Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE and special guest expert David Zidar, LISW-S will discuss the most common symptoms of ADD/ADHD, and offer practical skills parents can teach their children to help them improve problem areas such as: What can parents do to help improve their ADD child's difficulty in paying attention? How can parents help their ADHD child mange their hyperactivity? How can parents teach their ADD/AD...

Did you take the Parenting Styles Quiz on our blog?  Want to know what your results mean? Are you familiar with all FIVE parenting styles, or just 3 or 4? Want to know how parenting styles research has evolved, with the latest research (2015-2017) validating what The Parent's Toolshop® has been teaching for 25+ years, even coining the term that is now the standardized term used in the field? You can get those an...

Are your programs not finding an audience? If your marketing plans aren't amounting to much, let us help you stop wasting time and put your professional strengths to good use. Become a savvy marketer and learn the secrets of tweaking traditional marketing tools to boost your program's visibility and success. This 193-page e-book comes includes dozens of ideas in over a dozen different...

For 60+ years, Parenting Education has been available, but stigma keeps parents away. Instead, they turn to social media, where unqualified “experts” spread misinformation. Even some “evidence-based” programs prove ineffective or harmful. So how can parents access credible, research-backed advice? Join us to find out.

In this highly experiential virtual course you'll learn the evidence-based Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also called Tapping. Mental Health professionals use EFT with their clients to address stress, anxiety and trauma relief. Now you can get in on this brain/based technique that is easy to learn, works automatically and quickly.  Expect to interact more in the second half of the course where we will practic...

This outcome-focused assessment process was developed for The Parent's Toolshop® by a United Way Ph.D. specialist. Now, any professional who works with parents, teaches parent education programs, or provides a skill-based prevention program that needs outcome-focused evaluation results can use this useful tool. Just download the complete packet, which includes:the pre-post skill assessment tool, all the needed fo...

This webinar explains recent research on how smartphones affect youth mental and emotional well-being, and how proactive caregivers can support healthy habits by following the AAP's "5 C's." Participants will share their insights, ideas, and practical tools, in addition to those from Parents Toolshop®, to help children maintain balance in this high-stress world with lots of digital distractions and addictions.

Given the stress of everyday life these days, parents and children are more stressed than ever. It’s important for children to know how to handle stress and express their anger in constructive ways. So how do you teach these skills to children? Join Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE for a segment of her top-rated, always-booked-with-a-waiting-list workshop on how to “Keep Your Cool and Help Kids Calm Down.” She’ll s...