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.
Keep Connected Institute for Strengthening Family Relationships
Keep Connected Institute is a workshop series designed for people who work with middle school parents and youth to help everyone prepare for the changes they will encounter as young people enter their teen years. This series of six workshops will help prepare parents and youth for the changes they will be facing as they enter their teen years.
Workshop
Virtual
February 3-7, 2025
4 days
- $695.00
Igniting Sparks
This professional learning workshop helps educators, parents, mentors, youth workers, and community members learn Search Institute’s research-based approach to helping youth discover their sparks — their true talents, skills, passions, and dreams. Participants will learn to tap into young people’s sparks and to engage them to cultivate and express their sparks. Participants will develop strategies for engaging young people in conversations that are rooted in their passions and interests.
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
March 12-13, 2025
1 day
- $245.00
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