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.
Engaging Families: A Relationships-Centered Approach
Families and parenting adults are vital to young people’s learning and development. Yet it can be challenging to engage with families, especially as young people enter middle and high school. Engaging Families: A Relationships-Centered Approach provides a positive youth development perspective and focuses on the developmental relationships that help young people grow and learn.
Workshop
Virtual Via Zoom
October 1-2, 2025
2 days
12 - 2pm
- $245.00 registration
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
October 27-28, 2025
2 days
- $795.00 Standard Registration
Developmental Relationships Booster: Share Power
Sharing power with young people may feel uncomfortable, but it’s a critical part of building developmental relationships. By sharing power, you can foster a sense of agency and help youth understand and activate their capacity to contribute to the people and places around them.
Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
November 18
1 day
11:00am - 12:30pm
- $125.00 Regular Price
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
November 20
1 day
10:00am - 11:30am
- $125.00 Regular Price
Developmental Relationships Booster: Expanding Possibilities
Expanding possibilities is the Developmental Relationships element that youth experience least often, but it’s incredibly important. By expanding possibilities you can support young people in cultivating social capital, a web of relationships to help them reach their life and career goals. By finding new ways to connect young people to new people, experiences and resources, they can begin to imagine possible futures, discover new interests, and build connections that enable them to thrive.
Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
December 9
1 day
12:00pm - 1:30pm
- $125.00 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
December 11
1 day
2:00pm - 3:30pm
- $125.00 Regular Price
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