For youth to succeed in school and life, they need a network of caring, connected adults to guide and help them thrive amid life’s challenges. Join us for this two-day professional development workshop hosted by Unity High School in Burnsville, MN on February 4-5, 2020.
Creating Resilient Youth: The Power of Webs of Support
Who should attend?
Anyone who works with children and youth, whether in a school, family-serving organization, faith-based community, parents, relatives, or friends of teens.
Relationships matter! Join Derek Peterson, internationally renowned youth development expert, to learn how to amplify each youth’s strengths and help them self-activate their complex system of support.
Based on extensive social-emotional and other research, this workshop will equip you with innovative tools and strategies to help youth build protective factors to mitigate trauma and decrease risk behaviors, such as bullying, drugs, alcohol, suicidal ideation, and more.
Using a strengths-based approach, you will learn to recognize, appreciate, and magnify what is right about youth, assuring their chance to flourish.
During this interactive two-day workshop, you will …
✓Learn about a framework that builds Webs of Support to help students thrive socially, emotionally, and academically;
✓Apply proven practices that will encourage positive outcomes and decrease negative behaviors;
✓Receive tools and practice tangible strategies for connecting with all students, including those with trauma and other challenges, to enable them to positively engage.
✓Learn how to collaborate beyond the classroom and throughout the community to deepen connections with youth, change social norms, and provide a common, easy-to-share language that focuses on support and connectedness;
✓Discover the online Student Support Card assessment, identifying strengths and empowering students for growth.
Registration
Register by January 15 to receive early-bird discounts. The registration fee covers hands-on training and materials.
Adult only: $250 until 1/15 then $349
Student only (high school or college): $79 until 1/15 then $89
Adult + Youth together: $320 until 1/15 then $415
10% discount for 4 or more registrants on one order.
“(This workshop) had such a profound effect on me and the way I look at student support and how we all need to help them and support them. I always knew this, but you’ve opened my eyes even more. I can’t thank you enough.”