Girls Circle: Product List

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	Growing Healthy, Going Strong Code:BC_GHGS Price: $105.00		Boys will have fun identifying social-emotional messages, experiences, attitudes, and smart options for growing up male in our culture. Competition, bullying, recognizing and expressing emotions, male and female role expectations, self confidence, and teamwork are highlighted through games and team challenges. Boys develop vocabulary and skills to expect and enact fairness, healthy competition, and respect for self and others.
	The Council Facilitator Manual Code:BCMANUAL Price: $92.00		This manual outlines the facilitator skills needed to implement the strengths-based Council program within their organizational settings and is a potent tool that is full of practical, useful information presented in our workshop. Includes: Resiliency and Strengths-Based Principles, Masculinity Identity Theories, the Male Brain, Outline of The Council Model and Format, Role of the Facilitator, Responding to the Stages of Group Development, Building Ownership in the Council, How to Reduce and Respond Effectively to Challenging Behaviors, and the Experiential Model. Prepares agencies and individuals to offer boys a solid pathway toward healthy masculine identity development and encourages boys’ solidarity through personal and collective responsibility.
	Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect Code:BC_STNDTOG Price: $105.00		This guide provides engaging ways to address common themes which pre-teens and early adolescents encounter, including breaking down social-cultural barriers, motives and actions around put-downs, knowing their personal rights, defining assumptions about male power, respecting others'' physical boundaries, understanding and using the energy of strong emotions, and standing up for each other in community.
	Living A Legacy: A Rite of Passage Code:BC_LAL Price: $105.00		Young men gain skills and knowledge to navigate growing up male in today’s society through the introduction of topics and experiential activities that address a myriad of relevant challenges - safely, powerfully, and within a spirit of “council” connection. Boys will explore: relationships, conflict resolution, education, leadership, community service, diversity, mass media messages, personal values, integrity, and future goals.
	The Council Complete Set Code:BC_CS Price: $407.00		Now including The Council Facilitator Manual in addition to all three Council Facilitator Activity Guides — three fully developed 10-week male-responsive curricula to engage, challenge, celebrate, develop, and unite boys. It includes Growing Healthy, Going Strong; Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect; Living A Legacy: A Rite of Passage; and The Council Facilitator Manual.
	Friendship Activity Guide Code:FRACTVYGD Price: $78.00		Groundbreaking guide that addresses exclusion, intolerance, and feuding. Confronts relational aggression and shores girls up with strong interpersonal skills; knocks down barriers to pride, confidence, and empathy. Themes include topics such as "Being Included, Being Left Out," & "Feuds, Followers & Fairness." Increases caring and relational competence.
	Being A Girl Activity Guide Code:BAGRL Price: $78.00		Introduces girls to the positive experience of a support circle addressing topics such as "Growing Up Female," "Growth and Self-Care," and "Female Role Models." Activities include collage, affirmations, and theme-related crafts. Great kit for middle-school girls new to support groups.
	Body Image Activity Guide Code:BDYIMG Price: $78.00		Examines cultural messages and personal beliefs that influence body image. Themes emphasize raising awareness, recognizing body signals, and exploring underlying causes of poor body image. Topics cover physical awareness, health, and emotional balance through media exploration, imagery, art, personal story telling, and more. Excellent prevention program.
	Honoring Our Diversity Activity Guide Code:HONRGDIV Price: $116.00		Recognizes girls’ varied cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds emphasizing positive identity and alliance building. Includes discussions and activities that cover topics such as “Stereotype Busting,“ “Beyond Fear,“ “Cultural Treasures,“ “Culture Clash,“ and includes a community advocacy exercise. Themes focus on appreciating diversity in girls lives by identifying biases, developing navigational tools in a multi-cultural society, and promoting understanding and respect within and between groups. Guide includes a girls'' journal for weekly reflection.
	Mind, Body, Spirit Activity Guide Code:MBS Price: $116.00		This excellent prevention program addresses alcohol, tobacco, and drug decision-making as well as healthy sexuality, promoting abstinence and/or reduction to high-risk behaviors by exploring the realities of risk and the power of self-care. Helps girls examine and evaluate choices through affirmations, role-play, media influence, journal writing, videos and more. Addresses sexuality decision-making and definitions of "infatuation, desire, and love" through real teen stories, music messages, and personal standards activity. Outstanding prevention program that promotes critical thinking and is much enjoyed by girls!
	Expressing My Individuality Activity Guide Code:EXPRSINDV Price: $78.00		Explores topics such as celebrating individuality, diversity, getting along with others, and addresses goals, conflict styles, feeling good about ourselves, and taking time to relax. Activities include values exploration, "How Others See Me," making dream catchers, potting a plant to symbolize personal growth, and finally culminates with a girls'' compliment circle. A variety of topics and activities for middle and high school girls!
	Relationships with Peers Activity Guide Code:RLTNSHPS Price: $105.00		Enhances girls'' awareness of their relationships with themselves and others. Themes include "Expressing Myself," "Accepting Different Parts of Myself," "Giving Voice to Feelings,” Romantic Relationships, ” “Girlfights or Girlfriends” and are complimented by activities such as journalling, role-play, sculpting, and more. Highly engaging for teen girls.
	Who I Am Activity Guide Code:WHOIAM Price: $78.00		Works with girls to examine identity, assertiveness skills, and goal setting through role-play, mandala-making, relationship to music, and more. Themes include "Journaling and Self-Disclosure," "Song About Me-Who I Am," "Personal Growth/Assertiveness," and "Life Goals/Personal Goals." Very well received by high school girls.
	Paths to the Future Activity Guide Code:PATHS Price: $116.00		A skills-building support circle for use with at-risk or court- involved girls. Examines thoughts, beliefs, and actions about friendships, trust, authority figures, mother/daughter relationships, sexuality, dating violence, HIV, drug abuse, stress and goal setting. Opens up girls to important exploration regarding their choices and behaviors and examines ways to promote self-care and healthy decision-making through lively, prepared discussions and activities. Creative activities include assertiveness role-plays, collage, progressive relaxation, writing, creating "Lifemaps" and more.
	Girls Circle Complete Set Code:CMPLTSET Price: $880.00		$980 worth of material, receive 10% off: $880 The Complete Set of all nine Girls Circle Activity Guides that are rich with skill-building themes and activities that promote critical thinking in all areas of girls’ lives. Receive over a year’s worth of well-planned program material and curricula that you can mix and match as needed. Includes the Girls Circle Facilitator Manual and Evaluation Tool Kit. (Does not include the Mother-Daughter Circle Activity Guide.)
	Mother-Daughter Circle: "Heart of the Matter" Code:MODA Price: $116.00		In this Activity Guide, mothers or female caregivers and their daughters join together in combined and age-appropriate groups to strengthen their bonds through shared listening, creative expression, and skill building. "Heart of the Matter" promotes empathy, communication skills, stress reduction, setting limits and honoring boundaries, exploring meanings and messages about female identity, identifying relationship accountability, and experiencing affirmation together and within their broader female community. Co-facilitation recommended.
	THE FOUNDATION SET Code:FOUNDSET Price: $234.00		Buy ALL three programs designed to meet girls where they are and develop a healthy foundation with female identity, friendships, and body image:
	THE COMMUNITY SET Code:COMMTYSET Price: $310.00		Buy ALL three programs addressing innovative ways to cultivate respect, build alliances, and examine beliefs, values, and choices about girls’ lives and the world around them:
	THE UNITY SET Code:UNITYSET Price: $299.00		Buy ALL three programs designed to strengthen girls’ skills to move into more complex definitions of relationship to self and others - exploring feelings, goals, assertiveness, and achieving success:
	Girls Circle Facilitator Manual Code:MANUAL Price: $72.00		Start your Girls'' Circle journey here by learning the guiding principles, theoretical framework, and foundational structure of the Girls'' Circle program, a research based model proven to increase girls’ self-efficacy, body image, and social support. Facilitators and organizations that serve girls in any setting or culture will find this one-of-kind facilitator manual rich with practical, useful information presented in our workshop.
	Girls Circle Evaluation Tool Kit Code:GCEVAL Price: $65.00		Contains all the materials you need to measure outcomes with your Girls Circle program in conjunction with any combination of the Girls Circle Activity Guides. This comprehensive Toolkit and Administrative Manual provides the Girls Circle Survey, a measurement instrument designed specifically for use within organizations using the Girls Circle model, and integrates a validated self-efficacy instrument. Additional contents include step-by-step instructions for program evaluation, consent forms, information sheets, and options for collaboration with a national Girls Circle Association study. Spanish language Survey and forms also included. Reproducible within purchasing organizations. Measures the following: * Developing positive relationships with peers and adults * Communicating feelings and needs effectively, i.e. using words * Showing empathy * Treating self and others with respect * Exploring options before making decisions * Making healthy choices regarding nutrition, self-care, and activities * Avoiding sex or using protection if choosing sexual activity * Avoiding drugs and alcohol * Creating a positive female identity * Setting goals for self related to education and the future * Seeking adult help to reach goals
	The One Circle Set Code:OCSET Price: $1200.00		A Value of $1,503 - NOW $1,200 Save $300 and fulfill your organization’s need for male and female-responsive programming with this complete set of all Activity Guides from our Girls Circle and The Council for Boys & Young Men programs! This powerful package has the capacity to transform the culture of your organization or community into one that truly empowers youth. Includes all nine Girls Circle Activity Guides, the Mother-Daughter Circle Activity Guide, all three Council Activity Guides, in addition to the Girls Circle Facilitator Manual, the Girls Circle Evaluation Tool Kit and The Council Facilitator Manual. Implement these strengths-based programs across the board and see results!