Parenting Educators
As a Parenting Educator, Home Visitor, or Family Advocate, you are more than a resource—you are a partner in a family’s growth. You stand at the intersection of a parent’s past and a child’s future, helping navigate the complex internal and external factors that drive behavior.
At Accrescent Institute we offer a deeper understanding of how memories and genetics influence every interaction. Below, you will find resources, insights, and trainings designed to help you empower the families you serve.
Join our founder, Thomas C. Rector, as he shares his experiences as a father of five, adoptive parent, a foster care mentor and trainer, CASA, and board member for child advocacy organizations.
Below are interviews we think you'll find useful in your work with a variety of family dynamics.
Why Adoption Doesn't Erase Trauma: The Role of Memories
Join us for a conversation with Thomas C. Rector, the founder of Accrescent Institute, addressing some common and important questions:
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How does an adopted child's past trauma influence their behavior today?
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Can an adopted child ever truly "get over" their past?
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What tools can adoptive parents use to help their children navigate their new life while honoring their past?
Thomas shares how BioSocial Cognition provides a framework for understanding that adoption does not erase past memories, experiences, or trauma...
Individuality Worksheets
How You Process & Interact
Learning Styles & Preferences
Download a PDF of the Individuality Worksheets, used in Beyond the System: Empowering Your Success Through Learning and other advanced or specialty workshops.
Accrescent Institute is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to sharing BioSocial Cognition through workshops, seminars, and one-on-one training to organizations and individuals.
Below are the Training and Workshops that have been developed and customized specifically for Parenting Educators, Family Support Professionals, Home Visitors, K-12 Educators, and Advocates working with families.
This workshop will introduce an understanding and methodology for determining where behavioral actions come from and how to create an environment that supports positive and productive parenting.
Using visuals, animations, real-world examples, and audience participation, this interactive session focuses on how to equip and empower parents to handle the situations they must resolve in their day-to-day lives. Participants will learn how our five senses influence the brain’s choice of memories to be used in determining the youth’s reaction to their environment.
Session participants will walk away with an understanding and a process that can be shared with parents for use in their day-to-day lives.
Why do teens make the choices they do? What could they possibly be thinking? How can we guide them into adulthood with the tools they need to lead healthy, productive lives?
In this interactive session, we’ll explore the development, neuroscience, and internal and external factors that impact teen choices and behavior…
So that you can help parents better understand where their teen is coming from, why teens are making the choices they are making.
You’ll also gain a methodology to share with parents for cultivating positive, productive communication and relationship with their teens. And a tool for communicating and reaching agreements through the teen years and beyond.
Youth face very real issues when communicating with the adults in their lives. Each wants to be heard and taken seriously, but struggle finding productive ways to communicate.
During this interactive session, we’ll identify barriers youth and adults face when communicating, delve into the impact memories, genetics, and development have on behavior and communication, and discuss the opportunity you have to empower productive communication.
You’ll walk away with a process and tool you can immediately use to share and implement with to impact the youth and families you serve.
In this session, we will explore fatherhood as shaped by personal experiences, memories, culture, and past relationships.
You will learn why fathers may experience parenting differently and how communication gaps arise.
Delve into how these factors uniquely influence a father’s communication style, parenting, and family engagement.
Attendees will walk away with insights they can immediately apply to strengthen communication, build trust, and engage fathers as valued partners - supporting stronger families and positive outcomes for children.
We'd love to work with you!
Please fill out our contact form to let us know more about yourself and training options you're interested in exploring.
Our Training & Workshops help you as a family support professional or advocate working with families to expand your understanding of the "why" behind behavior and equip you with additional tools for communicating with parents and strengthening families.
Training and workshops are available in a variety of formats:
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1:1 via Zoom
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Small Group Training
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Custom Training for Organizations
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On-Demand or
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See if Accrescent Institute is presenting a workshop at an upcoming conference you'll be attending
All sessions are engaging, interactive, and customized specifically to the audience.
Durations range from 90 min to half and full day training. For in-depth training, organizations and individuals may choose multiple sessions delivered over a number of weeks.
