Train: Discover You™ Training and Curriculum

Discover You™ offers train-and-impact solutions to equip adults with evidence-informed skills and strategies. Learn the core concepts, practice engaging workshop activities, and discover how to effectively integrate the curriculum into your program.

All trainings follow a clear, intentional process designed to create consistency and understanding across all learning experiences whether in-person, virtual, or a hybrid approach. Fostering Resilient Youth, the core foundation training, may completed as a self-led course within the Discover You™ Community; however, participation in live or virtual training sessions is strongly recommended to fully benefit from cohort connection and shared learning. Participants become Certified Coaches through Youth Development Program training, which provides the curriculum, materials, and guidance to successfully implement each workshop. While the training is intentionally defined, Certified Coaches are empowered to adapt and integrate the content seamlessly into their existing programs, systems, and settings. To ensure thorough preparation and effective delivery, this training is offered exclusively though live or virtual sessions. Browse the course descriptions below and sign up for the training that best fits your goals today.

*Fostering Resilient Youthis a prerequisite and must be completed prior to, or alongside aYouth Development Program.

Fostering Resilient Youth

Fostering Resilient Youth teaches foundational principles of a strengths-based approach to youth development, growth mindset and resilience, and the power of positive relationships. Focusing on adult development, this training emphasizes the value of meaningful interaction with others, adults and youth alike.

Recognizing Strengths

Character Strengths are the positive parts of your personality that make you feel authentic and engaged. According to the VIA Institute on Character, you possess all 24 character strengths in different degrees. We will explore personal strengths and ways to leverage and develop them.

Practicing a Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is the belief that improvement comes through effort, patience, and intentional practice, not just intelligence or talent. It is foundational to Discover You™ programs and can be developed through specific skills. This course helps participants understand, practice, and intentionally model a growth mindset in their work with youth.

Understanding Behavior

People behave in response to the way they are treated and in response to situational influences experienced throughout life. Behavior is driven by thoughts and feelings, which provide insights into core needs and values, which drive behavior. Understanding our reactions and responses to the behavior of others will help us understand ourselves and them.

Communicating Expectations

Expectations of behavior can be communicated in a meaningful, effective and respectful way. The ability to provide support through understanding the impact of behavior helps others be motivated to change. Understanding the importance of language as we communicate our expectations will help us get our needs met while setting expectations that others can meet.

Creating Connections

Relationships are vital to our wellbeing. Humans are wired to connect and healthy relationships matter for lifelong success and happiness. Empathy and active listening are two critical aspects of creating a connection with others. This session will explore the importance of empathy, aspects of listening, and the use of powerful questions to increase connection.

Developing Relationships

Positive teacher-student relationships create learning environments that support students' emotional, developmental, and academic needs. When students feel known and supported, they are more engaged, behave better, and achieve at higher levels. Strong relationships are associated with improved attendance, grades, engagement, discipline outcomes, and reduced dropout rates.

*Fostering Resilient Youth is a prerequisite and must be taken prior to or in conjunction with a Youth Development Program.

For more information on each curriculum, click the course below.

Youth Development Program Training

Youth Development Program training focuses on implementing the core concepts learned in Fostering Resilient Youth through train-and-impact lessons that are ready to utilize instantly with youth within your span of care.

In addition to 6 hours of live training sessions and all resources necessary to implement programming, you are provided with an enriched virtual learning environment that connects you with other participants and encourages collaboration. Our specifically designed and validated survey tool from the Search Institute™ included with the curriculum, measures change in Resilience, Positive Identity, Internal Developmental Assets and Growth and Development, allowing for easy data collection and presentation.