Open Enrollment Opportunities
Build your capacity to create relational spaces for all young people! Search Institute has professional learning opportunities that will help you prioritize positive youth development in your everyday practice.
Individuals or small teams can register for and attend pre-scheduled virtual and in-person workshops offered on an ongoing basis throughout the year. View a schedule of upcoming workshops below.
Rethinking Barriers to Partnerships with Families
We understand that there are often barriers to effectively engaging with families—transportation, employment and childcare are just a few. By naming and exploring historical, cultural, and institutional barriers, we can more effectively navigate the challenges of family engagement—and arrive where we want to be: a partnership with families based on trust and a mutual desire to help young people thrive.
Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
February 10
1 day
10:00am - 11:30am Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $125.00 Regular Price
Developmental Assets: The Power of One, the Power of Many
This professional learning opportunity is based on the Developmental Assets Framework, which identifies 40 internal and external factors that protect against risks and promote growth and learning for young people. Some of those assets are the relationships and opportunities that exist in families, schools, and communities (external assets). Other assets are social-emotional strengths, values, and commitments that are nurtured within young people (internal assets).
Workshop
Virtual Via Zoom
March 2-3, 2026
2 days
12 - 1:30pm CST each day
- $245.00 Regular Price
All Families Have Strengths
To effectively support thriving among young people, it’s important to ensure that both youth and parenting adults feel heard and present in their relationships with educators and other youth-serving adults in their children’s lives. Part of that work involves considering the assumptions we have of parenting adults. What language do we use to describe them? How can deficit mindsets toward other adults impact our work with young people? By addressing our own assumptions, we can shift to a strength-based approach as we work with parenting adults and work together to help young people thrive.
Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
March 10
1 day
12:00pm - 1:30pm Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $125.00 Regular Price
Essentials of Asset Building for Trainers and Facilitators
Learn how to build and deepen meaningful relationships in your community. Essentials of Asset Building for Trainers and Facilitators is a two-day “training of trainers” workshop, that will prepare facilitators and trainers from your organization to lead two Search Institute designed workshops that introduce the Developmental Assets Framework to their community.
Workshop
Court International Building
2550 University Ave W
St. Paul, MN 55114
April 23-24, 2026
2 days
9am - 4pm CST each day
- $795.00 Regular Price
It Takes Each of Us: Cultivating Developmental Relationships
Develop an individual approach to developmental relationships by reflecting on mindsets, actions and growth areas, while also planning next steps to build developmental relationships within your specific context to promote youth thriving.
Workshop
Virtual Via Zoom
May 4-5, 2026
2 days
12 - 1:30pm CST each day
- $245.00 Regular Price
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