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Girls Circle offers girls ongoing education, support and mentorship using the Girls Circle Association curriculum guides. These programs focus on everyday situations and questions facing girls today. 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 them. Diversity needs are considered to provide an inclusive and sensitive needs-based approach, instead of a one size fits all... more

Coming of Age Passage Programs for girls ages 12 - 17

There are many ways that girls throughout world cultures and in our own history have marked their passage from childhood to young womanhood. This collective of programs and offerings below are examples of what girls can include in their initiation. Girls do not need to choose one type of program, but can design a passage utilizing one or all programs. They are then part of a Girls' Passage-Circle program that they've helped to create. more

Girls Transition offers girls education, support and mentorship in a variety of formats. These programs focus on everyday situations and questions facing girls today. It is a contemporary examination and exploration of core issues and concerns of transitioning into womanhood in our society. Diversity needs are considered to provide an inclusive and sensitive needs-based approach, instead of a one size fits all... more
Girls Express offers girls opportunities to explore and express themselves creatively using Empowerment Arts. For example: Mythic Costuming, Goddess Dance, Bardic Arts (story), Theatre Arts, Music & Song... Through creative expression, they will find their voice, explore their evolving body image and allow their story to unfold. The emphasis is on expression, so no previous experience is necessary... more
Crescent Moon Mysteries offers deep and culturally diverse experiences of the Divine Feminine in Nature, in Mythic Archetypes, in our connection to the Moon in our cycles... We remember the ways in which women have come together in circles to honor themselves and each other... We look to ancient and current ceremony for inspiration to mark this passage... We help girls honor and understand their changing bodies and physical experiences.... more
Wilderness Mentoring offers an intensive nature experience. Girls learn skills to live, eat, breathe in the wilderness. It is in part about survival AND it is an opportunity to make a meaningful and resonant connection with the earth, animals, water, wind, fire, etc. Girls also develop an awareness of the rhythms and cycles in nature and in their own bodies. The modern noise of everyday life is left behind so they can listen to the sounds around them and within them... more

TO BEGIN the Coming of Age Passage Program
GIRLS GO TO STEP 1 -
COLLECTIVE CONVERSATION


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