Girls Circle : How Girls Grow

The Girls Circle Activity Guides provide everything you need to run a strengths-based program for girls and create a safe space to address risky behaviors, build on protective factors, and improve relationships. The user-friendly guides contain step-by-step instructions on leading discussions and creative activities. Simply gather your materials, begin, and your girls will thank you! Easily adaptable to your own unique setting.
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Price: $234
Product Code: FOUNDSET

	$78.00
Ages 9-14. 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. Product Code: FRACTVYGD
	$78.00
Ages 11-13. 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. Product Code: BAGRL
	$78.00
Ages 12+. 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. Product Code: BDYIMG

Price: $310
Product Code: COMMTYSET

	$116.00
Ages 11-18. 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. Product Code: HONRGDIV
	$116.00
Ages 12-16. 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! Product Code: MBS
	$78.00
Ages 11-15. 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! Product Code: EXPRSINDV

Price: $299
Product Code: UNITYSET

	$105.00
Ages 13-18. 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 journaling, role-play, sculpting, and more. Highly engaging for teen girls. Product Code: RLTNSHPS
	$78.00
Ages 14-18. 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. Product Code: WHOIAM
	$116.00
Ages 12+. 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. Product Code: PATHS

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Material for Boys!
Boys Council has become The Council for Boys & Young Men!
The Council is a twin venture of the Girls Circle Association. After years of requests from service providers around the nation to create quality group curricula for boys, we have partnered with experienced and knowledgeable professionals working with boys to bring this material to you. For more information, visit www.BoysCouncil.com.

Complete Set of The Council Curriculum:

$407.00

Now including The Council Facilitator Manual in addition to all The Council Facilitator Activity Guides — three fully developed 10-week male-responsive curricula to engage, challenge, celebrate, develop, and unite boys.

For 9 -14 year old boys’ groups:

Growing Healthy, Going Strong
Standing Together:
A Journey Into Respect

For 14 – 18 year old boys’ groups:

Living A Legacy: A Rite of Passage

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Print this 2-page program flier to share with your community or view a detailed Week by Week Overview of all three material in PDF format.

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The Council Facilitator Manual

$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, Responding to the Stages of Group Development, and more. Prepares agencies and individuals to offer boys a solid pathway toward healthy masculine identity development and encourages boys’ solidarity through personal and collective responsibility.

Growing Healthy, Going Strong
10 WEEKS. Ages 9 - 14

$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.

Standing Together: A Journey Into Respect

$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
$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.