Welcome to Girls Leadership Institute summer camp, a transformational summer experience! At GLI, girls in grades 6-12 live in a dorm with roommates and spend their days in fun self-discovery workshops, playing wild theater games, sharing stories in small groups, making films, playing sports, and enjoying evening activities like extreme scavenger hunt or mask making. Every three days, there’s a field trip to a high ropes course, lakeside, or arts event.

Girls come away from GLI with the confidence to be themselves and build lasting friendships. GLI helps you gain skills to face the challenges life throws your way. Click here to watch our video, check out a typical day, get hooked up with a GLI family and register now!

Each session is 90 minutes long, once a week, for four consecutive weeks.  There are two programs: one geared toward girls in grades 2/3 and one for girls in grades 4/5.  For more information regarding schedule and registration click here or call (410) 878-2258.

• Leadership for Rebels: A Recipe for Courage and Personal Authority – Participants examine how the pressure young women face to be “Good Girls” – unerringly nice, polite, modest and selfless – limits the development of a set of skills necessary to reach one’s personal and professional potential. In this workshop, participants develop their “inner resume:” skills to help them connect and act on their most important thoughts and feelings; advocate for themselves in their most important relationships; and explore their relationship to apology and blame.
• Residence Life Workshops – Professional and student residence life staff identify communication challenges for young women in college housing, apply new communication skills to these conversations, and set goals for effective problem solving.
• Athletics – Coaches and team leaders explore communication patterns on women’s sports teams, including whether or not each participant tends to be avoidant, aggressive or assertive in the face of conflict related to her team. Participants learn and practice new communication skills, especially those associated with emotional self-awareness and expression; “owning up” or taking personal responsibility; and assertive self-expression.

Educators, mentors and volunteers around the country are using “A Girl’s Life” to start conversations with girls and educate adults. Get your copy, along with a discussion guide and other useful resources, here.

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Welcome to GLI summer camp! Enrollment is well underway, and some programs are already sold out! If you’re looking for a transformational summer experience for the girl in your life, look no further. At GLI, girls in grades 6-12 live in a dorm with roommates and spend their days in fun self-discovery workshops, playing wild theatre games, sharing stories in small groups, making films, playing sports, and enjoying evening activities like extreme scavenger hunt or mask making. Every three days, there’s a field trip to a high ropes course, lakeside, or arts event.

Girls come away from GLI with the confidence to be themselves and build lasting friendships. GLI helps you gain skills to face the challenges life throws your way. Click here to watch our video, check out a typical day, get hooked up with a GLI family and register now!

By banding together to launch a national media campaign, web site and action projects, the Confidence Coalition brings awareness to the factors influencing the confidence of women and girls. Partner organizations, which include the Girls Leadership Institute, encourage women and girls to stand up to peer pressure and media stereotypes, say no to risky behavior and abusive relationships, and put an end to relational aggression. Rachel is delighted to join forces with this important initiative.  To learn more, visit the official website at www.confidencecoalition.org.

The Circle of Respect Book Club will feature Rachel’s book, Odd Girl Out, for the month of December.  Odd Girl Out depicts a hidden culture of girls’ aggression that is as widespread as it is painful.  Also in December, Rachel will be featured in Circle of Respect’s author led podcast, which you can listen to here later this month. Rachel and NCPC share the common goal of equipping children, youth, and adults with the tools to prevent bullying and ultimately stop it altogether.

The Circle of Respect initiative will start by addressing both bullying and cyberbullying to fundamentally change the notion that bullying is a rite of passage to one where bullying is unacceptable. The Circle of Respect is a multi-phased initiative that will eventually expand in scope to include harassment, vandalism, theft, alcohol and other drug abuse, date rape, and hate crimes. For more information on the Circle of Respect Book Club, visit http://www.circleofrespect.org/.

A subscription to New Moon magazine is an empowering gift for the girl in your life. To subscribe or get more information on this empowering organization, please visit New Moon Girls.