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Start mapping out the fun you’ll have by clicking on Journey Maps then on a Girl Scout grade level. You’ll find an interactive map with ideas about how to tie your Girl Scout activities into your journey. These are just suggestions to get you started; have fun coming up with your own. After all, it’s your journey — customize it!
The New Girl Scout Leadership Development Experience: Journeys
From the very beginning, Girl Scouts has been about developing girls’ leadership. Now we’re doing it better than ever with national, outcomes-based program activities that give girls the specific knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that will make them leaders in their own lives and in their communities.
So What is a Leadership Journey?
A leadership journey is the exciting new way Girl Scouts is moving from single interest badges to a series of themed activities focused on building specific leadership skills. Journeys generally run from six to eight sessions and are fully customizable by girls and volunteers. In partnership with girls, volunteers can add outings, celebrations, and explorations that suit the journey’s theme and the girls’ interests. Journeys can be stretched over a Girl Scout year or done over the course of a few weeks or months. While journeys offer plenty of choices for girls, facilitator guides will provide the roadmap volunteers want. The journey, which follows a designated theme, has a clear starting point (an invitation to explore and take action) and a definite ending point (opportunities to enjoy closure through reflections, rewards, and celebration.
The New Girl Scout Leadership Experience features “journeys” in which girls:
Getting Started with Journeys:
Introducing the second series Journey books:It’s Your Planet – Love It!
The second series of journey books issues a call for action to the environment, inviting Girl Scouts of every grade level to explore the natural wonders of the world, become stewards of our fragile planet, and investigate the science that keeps our Earth spinning.
Books in the second exciting series include:
• Between Earth and Sky (for Daisies): Sunshine, fresh air, new places to see. When flower friends travel,they enjoy all of these. So come along for the trip. Meet new friends and old. You’ll taste, touch, and smell what fun travel can hold!
• WOW! Wonders of Water (for Brownies): Water does so much for you! Can you return the favor? On this Wonders of Water journey, you will love water, save water, and share water! That’s a really big WOW!
• GET MOVING! (for Juniors): Energy puts the sparkle in fireworks, the giddy up in a pony, and the oomph in the everyday. So get moving! Energize, investigate, innovate. Get all the energy in your life
flowing in the wisest ways.
• Breathe (for Cadettes): Take a deep breath. How do you feel? What do you see? Hear? Smell? Get set to focus all your senses on air. This is one airy journey and it’s full of flair!
• Sow What? (for Seniors): So, what do you hope for from your food? Great taste? Pleasing smell? Good looks, too? As you dig into Sow What? and get down to the roots, you’ll crave a whole lot more. You’ll
see how your food network can serve up what’s best for Earth—and best for you!
• Justice (for Ambassadors): We all know what it is. Why is it so hard to achieve? Maybe it needs a brand-new equation—your equation. On this journey, doing the math + some very sage ways = real hope for inspiring justice—for all of Earth and her inhabitants.
The first series of Journey Books:
The first series of the journeys are united by the theme…It’s Your World- Change It and were launched during the 2008 – 2009 Girl Scout year. ! The first books for girls are all part of the It’s Your World—Change It! series of leadership journeys. This series features one new book for girls at each grade level in Girl Scouting:
Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
Brownie Quest
Agent of Change (for Juniors)
aMAZE! (for Cadettes)
GIRLtopia: Toward an Ideal World for Girls (for Seniors)
Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy (for Ambassadors)
Journey books take girls at every grade level through a series of Discover, Connect, and Take Action experiences, with emphasis on inviting girls to “Take Action” on issues they care about. These books also contain stories; inspirational ideas; information about Girl Scout history, traditions, and values; facts and games; and provide space for girls to collect their own ideas and memories.
“How to” books—or guides for adult volunteers—that correspond to each of the girl books have also been created. These guides offer plenty of support, including sample sessions to tailor with girls, to help carry out the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.
What you may have called “age-level training” is now offered as “The New Girl Scout Leadership Essentials.” This fact-filled 3-hour training workshop is exactly what Leaders need to have to work with the new Journey programs. Please click onLeadership Essential Workshops] to see the upcoming training dates.
