Connection Changes Outcomes
Bring Cassie Eads to your organization or community for practical, science-informed speaking and workshops. Participants learn how connection, felt safety, trust, emotional regulation, and healthy communication shape behavior and strengthen relationships.
Why Invite Cassie?
Cassie combines professional training with lived experience to make relationship and brain science clear, human, and practical. She creates space for honest reflection without shame or judgment. Participants leave with a deeper understanding of what may be happening beneath behavior, greater awareness of how their responses affect others, and strategies they can use immediately.
TBRI® Practitioner | Certified Life Mastery Consultant | Peer Support Professional
Making Sense of Your Worth Facilitator | Parenting for Positive Self-Worth Facilitator
Cassie Eads speaking with Mary Morrissey
Speaking Topics
Cassie’s presentations help audiences understand what may be happening beneath behavior and how connection, felt safety, relationships, and nervous-system responses shape outcomes. Each topic can be adapted for parents, professionals, organizations, and communities.
Connection Changes Outcomes
An Introduction to TBRI®
Explore the foundations of TBRI® and how felt safety, connection, and trust influence regulation and behavior. Participants are introduced to the Empowering, Connecting, and Correcting Principles and how they support everyday relationships.
Understanding What's Beneath Behavior
Explore how the brain, nervous system, past experiences, unmet needs, and relationships influence behavior and emotional regulation. Participants learn to look beyond immediate actions and consider what a person may be communicating. This shift creates space for curiosity instead of judgment.
From Awareness to Action
Build practical, relationship-centered tools for responding with greater awareness and intention. Learn strategies that support regulation, repair disconnection, strengthen trust, and create space for safer, more informed choices. Participants leave prepared to respond to behavior while preserving connection and supporting healthier relationships.
Programs We Offer
ROOTS offers structured programs for caregivers, families, professionals, and community partners. Program availability, format, and audience are determined by the requirements of each curriculum and the practitioner’s or facilitator’s authorized scope. Together, these programs support connection, understanding, self-worth, and stronger relationships.
TBRI® Caregiver Training
An attachment-based, trauma-informed approach that helps caregivers and professionals understand the needs beneath behavior. Participants learn practical ways to build trust, increase felt safety, support regulation, and respond through connection. For parents, caregivers, educators, and family-serving professionals.
Making Sense of Your Worth
A supportive program that helps teens and adults understand how experiences and relationships shape self-worth. Participants identify unhelpful beliefs and begin developing a healthier understanding of their value and identity. Available for teens and adults.
Parenting for Positive Self-Worth
A connected-parenting program that helps caregivers raise children who know they are valuable and worthy of respect. Participants learn tools for regulation, healthy boundaries, repair, and responding without shame. For parents, caregivers, co-parents, and blended families.
TBRI® Caregiver Training
TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of children who have experienced adversity. Caregiver Training helps participants understand how a child’s history and needs can influence behavior, relationships, and regulation while introducing practical strategies grounded in connection, felt safety, and trust.
Connecting Principles®
Build trust through connection. Explore how attachment, mindful awareness, and engagement shape relationships. Participants learn practical strategies for increasing felt safety, strengthening connection, responding to fear-based needs, and building trust in everyday interactions.
Empowering Principles®
Support the body and environment. Explore how physical needs, sensory needs, routines, transitions, and the environment can influence regulation and behavior. Participants learn practical strategies for meeting everyday needs and creating conditions that support felt safety and regulation.
Correcting Principles®
Teach while preserving connection. Explore proactive and responsive strategies that help children learn appropriate ways to communicate and get their needs met. Participants learn how to respond to behavior, offer choices and opportunities to try again, and guide children toward new skills while maintaining connection.
“Our kids just need one person to see them.”
Dr. Daren Jones, Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU
Making Sense of Your Worth
Making Sense of Your Worth is an experiential program that helps teens and adults explore how life experiences and relationships have shaped the way they see themselves. Through guided learning and reflection, participants begin identifying beliefs about their worth and developing a healthier understanding of their value and identity.
About this program:
Making Sense of Your Worth was developed by Cindy R. Lee, LCSW, through HALO Project International. The curriculum creates a structured space for participants to examine the experiences, messages, and relationships that have influenced their sense of worth. ROOTS offers this curriculum for teens and adults in formats consistent with the curriculum and facilitator requirements.
What participants will explore and learn:
Participants explore how early experiences and relationships can shape beliefs about identity and worth. Through guided reflection, they examine messages they have carried forward, recognize patterns that influence how they see themselves and relate to others, and begin developing a healthier understanding of their value and identity.
Parenting for Positive Self-Worth
Parenting for Positive Self-Worth is a relationship-centered parenting program that helps parents and caregivers understand how their responses, communication, boundaries, and connection influence a child’s developing sense of worth.
About this program:
Parenting for Positive Self-Worth was developed by Cindy R. Lee, LCSW, through HALO Project International. ROOTS Alaska offers this curriculum to parents and caregivers, creating opportunities to examine how their own experiences influence parenting while learning ways to strengthen connection and support healthy self-worth within their families.
What participants will explore and learn:
Participants explore how their own experiences and beliefs can influence parenting and relationships. Through guided learning and reflection, they develop greater awareness of their responses, strengthen communication and connection, and learn ways to support a child’s developing sense of value and worth.
Who ROOTS Serves
ROOTS works with the people and organizations who shape the environments where children, families, and communities grow.
Parents & caregivers
Parents, co-parents, caregivers, and families seeking practical ways to strengthen connection, trust, communication, and healthy relationships.
Schools & educators
Educators, school staff, and youth-serving teams working to create environments grounded in connection, felt safety, and understanding.
Helping professionals
Peer support professionals, family support workers, and other helping professionals who work alongside children, adults, and families.
Organizations & communities
Nonprofits, family-serving organizations, community partners, and teams investing in stronger relationships, families, and communities.
Designed Around Your Community
ROOTS trainings, workshops, and presentations can be adapted for parent groups, schools, conferences, community organizations, prevention programs, and professional development. Format, examples, and areas of focus are shaped around the people you serve while maintaining the integrity of the curriculum and core ROOTS principles.
Start a Conversation
Planning a conference, workshop, parent event, professional development opportunity, or community program? Tell us about your audience, your goals, and what you hope to accomplish.