Go Girls! Leadership Team

RISING 7th - 9TH GRADErs

GIRLS AND GENDER NON-CONFORMING KIDS

Are you in a dance company or choir?  Do you perform in plays, play instruments or study visual or digital art?  Do you have experience working with younger kids? Do you babysit? Do you tutor or read books to littler kids at your school? Are you a classroom helper? Have you worked as a camp counselor or intern at a camp before? Do you want to use your gifts to make a difference in the world? If so, you are perfect for Go Girls! Leadership Team.

Rising 7th - 9th graders learn to EDUCATE, INSPIRE, & ACTIVATE campers at Go Girls! to take center stage and will affirm their boldest and bravest self as they learn advocacy and allyship for others in their family and community.  

Along with leadership and ally-identity development, participants will experience self-care, expressive arts, drama, music/dance and creative media production for the current realities for tween-agers at the GGLT Retreat and while supporting campers at camp.

What will you experience:

• HOW TO PROJECT CONFIDENCE: How to be your brightest, boldest self even while feeling insecure or worried

• BOUNDARY SETTING AND KIDPOWER PEOPLE SAFETY SKILLS: How to stay emotionally safe when working with others

• COLLABORATION: How to build performances and make decisions as a team

• CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: How to support younger kids through conflicts that may arise

• MINDFULNESS: How to stay calm when things feel chaotic and manage our emotional triggers

• RADICAL SELF CARE: How to ask for help, notice when you have a need and do what you can to meet it with the Go Girls! SHINE Self-Care Club curriculum

• EMOTION COACHING: How to express and manage your big feelings as well as help younger girls express theirs without trying to fix it or solve a problem for them

• the GRAMMY-nominated Alphabet Rockers "We Got Work To Do" anti-racism curriculum

• ARTISTIC SKILLS: Working closely with professional teaching artists and learning skills across visual and performing arts modalities

• FLOOR TIME PLAY THERAPY TECHNIQUES: How to be an “expert player” and role model for younger kids