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.
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 Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $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 Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $125.00 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
November 24-25, 2025
2 days
12 - 1:30pm CST each day
- $199.00 Early Bird Price
- $245.00 Regular Price
Keep Connected Institute for Strengthening Family Relationships
Keep Connected Institute is an interactive workshop series that strengthens youth-parent relationships during the middle school years. It offers a shared family experience in which youth and parenting adults reflect on, practice, and commit to shared relationship-building actions that bring—and keep—families connected as they learn and grow.
Workshop
Virtual via Zoom
December 1-5, 2025
5 days
12:00pm-2:00pm CST each day
- $695.00 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 Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $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 Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $125.00 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
January 21-22, 2026
2 days
12 - 1:30pm CST each day
- $199.00 Early Bird Price
- $245.00 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
January 27-28, 2026
2 days
12 - 1:30pm CST each day
- $199.00 Early Bird Pricing
- $245.00 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
February 10
1 day
10:00am - 11:30am Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $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
March 10
1 day
12:00pm - 1:30pm Central Time
- $99.00 Early Bird Price
- $125.00 Regular Price
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