Developmental Relationships in Real Life
A video highlighting the effects of implementing Search Institute’s developmental relationships framework with five organizations working with young people.
Developmental Relationships in Real Life is a five-minute video that shows practitioners from five organizations that have partnered with Search Institute to implement the elements and actions of the developmental relationships framework: Camp Fire, City Year, Communities in Schools, Generation Citizen and the National Center for Families Learning.
It shows how leaders, youth, and practitioners grew as they put into practice the five elements of the developmental relationships framework:
- Express Care
- Challenge Growth
- Provide Support
- Share Power
- Expand Possibilities
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"Having that common language really allows you to grow and have conversations."
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Resources to Learn More About the Developmental Relationships Framework
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Letter for Your Future Self
Activity where participants write a letter to their future self about what they can do in the present to work toward their goals.
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Spider Web
Activity where participants stand in a circle and work together using yarn to create a web that can support a ball or balloon.
Relational Practice
Approaches to Expanding Possibilities
Ten approaches that can be integrated into program activities that build the Expand Possibilities element of the developmental relationships framework.