Empowered to Connect Conference Dates

Upcoming Empowered to Connect Conferences - a two-day conference designed to help adoptive and foster parents, ministry leaders and professionals better understand how to connect with “children from hard places” in order to help them heal and become all that God desires for them to be.

February 17-18, 2012, in Dallas, Texas at Irving Bible Church

 April 20-21, 2012 in Denver, Colorado at Mission Hills Church

To register for these conferences, click here.

Food Fights

I always love to hear what Karyn Purvis has to say about interacting with children.  In this video (another great resource found at www.empoweredtoconnect.org) she discusses the very common issue many parents face at dinner time.  I found this video very interesting and insightful.

Read more HERE.

New Empowered to Connect Resource

Check out this new DVD!

Trust-Based Parenting: Creating Lasting Changes

in Your Child's Behavior

This DVD released from TCU’s Institute of Child Development, is currently available at a substantial discount for a limited time.  It offers in-depth training for parents of children with trauma-based behavioral issues. The Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI) is a unique intervention model created by developmental psychologists Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, founders of the Institute of Child Development.  This new DVD is a must-have for adoptive and foster parents, as well as ministry leaders and professionals.

This is a truly phenomenal resource that parents and churches should all know about."

Michael Monroe Tapestry Ministry & Empowered to Connect

Find out more at empoweredtoconnect.org

ETC Success

I attended EmpoweredToConnect and it was -- amazing!  This is a content-rich conference, with valuable insights on parenting children from hard places. There are real challenges in parenting -- and ETC provides REAL solutions, with real HOPE!  The messages are shared with the love, care & compassion of your grandma, and at the same time...deep, meaningful counsel and guidance.

This is a must-attend for every adoptive or foster parent.

-Andy Lehman

 The Empowered to Connect conference, sponsored by Show Hope, was held at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN on September 10-11 and was an all around success.  Not only did the 400+ attendees, from 20 different states, receive powerful training and advice, but more than 150 child welfare professionals or adoptive families received Continuing Education Credits or Adoptive and Foster Parent Training Certificates for their participation in the event!  Very cool.

Big thanks to Show Hope, Dr. Karyn Purvis, and Michael & Amy Monroe for the huge amount of work that went into this event.

Empowered to Connect conference

Coming soon to Nashville, TN...

Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael and Amy Monroe (Lifesong partners through Tapestry) will be speaking encouragement and sound Biblical advice to adoptive and foster parents at their Empowered to Connect Conference on September 10-11.  Hosted by Show Hope this will no doubt be an event worth attending.

I have had the great privilege of hearing all three of these speakers only to be left (a little teary eyed) challenged and well equipped.  Want to know more?  

Take a look:

Empowered To Connect from Tapestry on Vimeo.

You can also go to empoweredtoconnect.org for more materials like study guides, articles, and videos!

Have you heard Dr. Purvis or the Monroes speak at a conference?  Maybe you've read The Connected Child or even gone through the Created to Connect Study Guide.  Leave a comment and share with us what you learned!  We'd love to hear from you!

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