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It Takes All of Us: Cultivating A Relationship-Rich Organization

The commitment to building positive relationships among adults and youth is strong and is considered a highly important part of youth-serving organizations’ missions. Yet, many schools, organizations and programs are lacking the supporting structures needed to make that commitment come alive. The relational climate and culture of an organization, how rooted it is in relationships, grows when barriers to thriving are removed and supporting structures are strengthened. In this learning experience, participants will reflect on adult-to-adult relationships and the program context as a relational ecosystem where young people can thrive.

Learning Objectives

  1. Interpret your program/organization context through the lens of the Rooted-in-Relationships Model: relational climate and culture, barriers,and supporting structures.

  2. Evaluate the strengths and growth areas of your team as you work together to build strong relationships

  3. Co-create and implement new mindsets and actions to influence the adoption of equitable developmental relationships into your organization’s mission and goals.

Working Together to Promote Thriving


In this learning experience, participants will experience a series of activities and be introduced to a collection of resources and strategies to effectively support young people through Developmental Relationships and promote youth thriving by working together with other adults across your organization.

  • Circles of Influence

  • Activities to better understand your program’s relational culture and climate

  • Case studies to explore the relational capacities your bring to your team

  • Relational Culture Check-Up

  • Developing Our Approach: Shared Relationship-Building

"Clear goals. Clear mechanisms for change."
Workshop Participant Professional Learning Experience

Who Should Participate in this Workshop?

Adults at schools, youth serving organizations, agencies or youth programs who are ready to evaluate relationship-building within their context and use these insights to construct ways of growing relationships across the school, organization and/or program.

  • Adults Working Directly with Youth

  • Managers of Youth-Serving Organizations/Schools

  • Leaders of Youth-Serving Organizations/Schools

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Delivery Method

This 3-hour workshop can be delivered in person or virtually to your organization or team. We also offer this workshop as one of our open enrollment opportunities.

Bring This Workshop to You

We support you in strengthening skills and mindsets among your team, initiative, or organization in a way that meets your needs.

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Open Enrollment

Register and attend this workshop through our open enrollment opportunities.

Open Enrollment Schedule

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