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Girls
Circle Association Girls Initiate staff are using the
Girls Circle Facilitator Activity Guides in their Girls Circle
Programs. This strengths-based, skill building approach creates
a safe space for girls to address risky behaviors, build on
protective factors, and improve relationships in a format that
interests and engages girls. The leading provider of gender-specific,
research-based programs for girls, Girls Circle offers the best
Materials and Trainings for Facilitators dedicated to improving
the lives of girls ages 9 - 18. more |
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Women
Of Motherearth's Bounty Selena
Gallen is an interfaith minister,
she runs women's circles where "We gather in a safe and sacred
space to explore the special connection we as women have to the
Earth. We celebrate our feminine nature and empower each other
in the process. Circles are open to all women seeking to re-member
who we truly are. These teachings are handed down through a lineage
of Women's Ways which is grounded in ancient wisdom." She
served on the board of the Vermont Wilderness School for 5 years
and continues her involvement with the youth programs there. more |
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Flying
Deer Nature Center Daughters of the Earth ~ Michelle
Apland is a wilderness educator who has broken new ground in female
oriented wilderness programming, facilitating girls and women
to feel more at home and empowered on the earth, with themselves,
and with each other. As a director of Flying Deer Nature Center
she began Daughters of the Earth programs in 2003, and soon after
began leading coming of age programs for girls. Programs use wilderness
skills such as making fire without matches, gathering wild edibles,
and making medicine from the forest as tools to develop inner
strength, awaken aliveness, and build authentic sisterhood among
participants.more
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Empowerment
Arts Initiative............ Jeanne-Marie
Sutherland is the founder and director of Empowerment Arts Initiative.
Empowerment Arts offers a “process” oriented experience
as well as skill development. Serving those that may or may
not identify themselves as artists, dancers, actors, musicians,
storytellers... Opportunities are offered to participate in
meaningful, empowering expressive experiences in a supportive,
nurturing and affirming environment. Programs utilize mythic
metaphors and archetypes in themes to explore the Mysteries
of life and our interconnectedness. more
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Girls
For A Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers
thousands of teen girls to create and lead social change. GFC
provides girls with professional female role models, leadership
training and the inspiration to work together in teams to solve
persistent societal problems in their communities. They are launching
a toolkit online that anyone can use and they have invited Girls
Initiate to be part of this "partnership". They'll
offer virtual GFC support and stay connected to groups using the
toolkit about how women and girls can create social change in
their own community. The staff is working on national expansion
and upcoming exciting events to launch GFC more nationally following
March or April 2008. more
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The
Rose Circle is a community of women who provide a safe
and empowering place for young women to explore and understand
themselves, each other, and the world. Girls ages 11-17 meet
in small circles every other week for two hours during the school
year. Each girls' circle is guided by two women Mentors who
are in turn supported by the larger Rose Circle community. The
Rose Circle also supports and matches up one-on-one mentoring
relationships. They are dedicated to honoring and embodying
the natural rhythms of life and the particular ways that this
lands for women and girls. They are in the process of developing
a program guide to help other organizations like Girls Initiate
to create a similar program. more
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ALisa
Starkweather became a women's empowerment trainer in
her mid twenties with her mentor, Sandra Boston, a woman twenty
years senior to ALisa who was generous in sharing her years of
wisdom and knowledge. ALisa became a certified Shadow Work®
facilitator in 1995 and has been actively involved since 1993.
She is part of the founding Shadow Work® Guild. ALisa is a
co-founder of Women in Power and known for her passionate
archetypal work that focuses on empowerment, healing, community
and ritual. more
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