The Science and Power of Hope provides participants with important skills to nurture hope by way of a deep understanding of goal setting, creating and selecting pathways, and building strategies to manage willpower. The workshop allows participants to experience hope and provides useful tools to find, enhance, and model hope in any setting. Participants will advance from an awareness of hope to the application of hope in their own lives.

Dr. Angela Pharris is an Associate Professor in the Anne & Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma, Director of the Child Welfare Impact Institute, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hope Research Center. Her research is focused on the application and implementation of hope-centered and trauma-informed practices that impact human service programs. Angela’s current research is in child welfare and human service organizations and the application of the Hope Centered and Trauma-Informed framework.