AHA! offers once-monthly AHA! for Adults groups and once-weekly AHA! Connect groups. AHA! for Adults groups are designed primarily for parents and guardians, but we also welcome educators and others who work with youth. In these groups, adults connect with each other around shared joys and challenges, gain skills and knowledge for enhancing their own social-emotional […]
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Social-Emotional Learning Trainings and Workshops
AHA! delivers trainings to educators, youth program providers, and other stakeholders seeking to improve young people’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Our offerings cultivate first-hand experiences of learning and connection for participants, with a focus on developing tools to enhance self-awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. AHA! adult trainings have two […]
Summer Intensive Program
Three-hour groups gather for summer learning and fun in 2-3 week, four-day-a-week cycles in AM (middle school and junior high) and PM (high school) groups. Youth take part in field trips, creative and service projects, team-building games and activities, and Connection Circles and Councils—all in service of building social-emotional intelligence and positive relationships with peers […]
Carpinteria After-School Group
Fall 2021 session serves teens at Carpinteria High School, in person, from October 4 – December 13. AHA! has conducted an after-school program in Carpinteria since 2004, working with teens to help set goals, interrupt bullying and cruel behavior, support their peers, and serve their community. The group now meets once a week on the […]
EQ Vibes Music Group (Grades 7-12)
This group explores how music relates to our self-expression, relationships, life hurdles, and ability to connect. Share, appreciate, and play music in a safe environment that encourages healthy risk-taking. All levels of musicians and music lovers are welcome. Offered in collaboration with the Turner Foundation. For more information, please get in touch with our Enrollment […]
Creative Group (Grades 9-12)
Youth practice self-awareness and creative expression through different mediums of art while learning to prize connection as the backbone of creativity. The group explores creative outlets like writing, visual art, music, and theater, all with the intention of overcoming the inner critic’s attempts to suppress our unique and joyful creative voices. No artistic skill or […]
Ally Group
At Santa Barbara High School and San Marcos High School, ALLY After-School groups inspire personal growth through a fun, interactive curriculum. Through discussions, activities, and social-emotional/life skill building, teens practice approaching differences in opinion with curiosity and empathy, exploring their shared humanity, and learning valuable skills for giving and receiving support. As allies and members […]
Girls Relationship Wisdom Group (Grades 9-12)
Provides experience and information to guide young women toward knowing themselves and others and supports them in being authentic, assertive, and emotionally, physically, and relationally healthy. Participants build a sisterhood founded in trust, vulnerability, respect, and love. Enrollment for spring AHA! After-School programs will begin in January 2023, with groups starting the first week of […]
Professional Development
Leaders in the world of education and work agree that social and emotional competence is essential for all who wish to be relevant, competitive, and contributive in this globally connected century. Most of us spend the bulk of our young lives in school and our adult lives at work. With social and emotional competency in […]
AHA! Peace Builders (Grades 6-8)
In once-weekly meetings, AHA! equips junior high and middle school students to be inclusive allies and leaders. Students cultivate self-care, emotional intelligence, management, listening skills, mindfulness, and social awareness, and work together to learn to facilitate their own small Connection Circle groups. Current AHA! Peace Builders (supported by AHA! staff) invite students not in the […]
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