workshops for girls

 

 

Girls & Sex: Telling It Like It Is
Participants of this workshop will view Barb's DVD, The Wisdom of Girls: Teens, Sex & Truth and engage in a discussion that will invite them to:

  • discuss reasons why girls have sex when they are not ready emotionally or physically
  • list the many pressures girls face regarding sex
  • explore the emotional and physical consequences of having sex
  • strategize regarding birth control
  • examine what constitutes the "right time" and "right person"
  • identify the positive outcomes in waiting to have sex


workshop length: 1.5 or 2 hours
* not suitable for elementary age

Is This Really the Body I'm Stuck With?
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • identify thoughts and behaviors that lead to poor body image
  • explore environmental sources that affect body image
  • explain how poor body image affects success in all areas of life
  • establish strategies toward positive body image

workshop length: 1.5 or 3 hours

 

Why You Overeat and How to Stop
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • define binge eating / compulsive overeating
  • understand the experience of compulsive eating
  • explore reasons why people engage in overeating
  • learn ways to break the cycle of overeating
  • discover how to have a healthy relationship with food for you and your daughter

workshop length: 1.5, 3 or 6 hours

 

Be Funky, Be Fearless, Be Fabulous, Be You
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • explore what girls would like to change about themselves and why
  • challenge the belief "If I change ____ about myself, I will be happy."
  • identify what brings the girls happiness
  • establish each girl's strengths and talents
  • practice positive self-talk through role-playing

workshop length: 1.5 or 3 hours

 

I Want to be Different, Just Like Everyone Else *
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • define pressure/peer pressure
  • identify kinds of relationships in life and how their level of importance effects the amount of pressure
  • using different scenarios, characterize subtle vs. blatant pressure
  • establish tools to handle pressure

workshop length: 1.5 or 3 hours
* not suitable for elementary age

 

What Do I Do About the Mean Girls at School?
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • define ways in which girls bully
  • understand why girls bully
  • discuss how bullying hurts girls now and in the future
  • learn ways to respond to bullying behavior

workshop length: 1.5 hours

 

Dating: There is so much to think about! *
This workshop will enable participants to:

  • explore what they want in a significant other
  • share their positive and negative dating experiences
  • examine the pressures they feel regarding intimacy
  • learn tools to deal with dating pressures in a healthy, positive way

workshop length: 1 1/2 hours
* not suitable for elementary age