Start with the idea of sisterhood and try to define what that really means. The Girl Scout Journey, Mission: Sisterhood!, starts us on that path but loses its way. This is my attempt to make it relevant to teens and help them discover who they are without feeling like some one is pandering to them or speaking down to them.
Month: September 2016
Remaking the Girl Scout Journey–Mission: Sisterhood!
My daughter may not think I do anything all day, but she’s wrong. I spent most of this Fall rewriting the curriculum for the Senior Girl Scout Journey, Mission: Sisterhood! That being said, I don’t think you need to be a Girl Scout to take advantage of the information provided here. I suspect that any…
GS Mission: Sisterhood! Journey Session 4- The Image Myth
Any time I thought to myself, “Do these pants make my butt look big?” I was perpetuating the Image Myth. It never occured to me that those kinds of questions were messing with my psyche, forcing me to judge myself. It didn’t help that I was a tomboy who grew up in LA, periodically checking out fashion magazines and comparing myself to tall, skinny models. I didn’t see anybody who looked like me so I grew up thinking that I wasn’t beautiful. Only later did I come to embrace my strong body and all that my muscles let me do and, yes, that I am at beautiful, especially after a grueling workout.
GS Mission: Sisterhood! Journey Session 5-Know Thyself
Everyone says that girls need to have high self-esteem but if you are like me, I never learned to think that way about myself. Good girls didn’t think that way and it was somehow conceited to say that you had a lot of self confidence. Over time, I’ve found myself and discovered that I do give value to society and that in turn builds self-esteem in an authentic way. I hope that any girls I’ve worked with are faster learners that I was.
GS Mission: Sisterhood! Journey Session 6-NO More Body Talk!
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GS Mission: Sisterhood! Journey Session 2–What is beauty?
So what is beauty? Is it a striking sunset, a waterfall, a piece of art that moves you? It is a man or woman in a magazine who radiates physical perfection or is it looking at yourself in the mirror and appreciating what you see–after a hard workout with a red face but a glow of satisfaction? Or is it impossibly tiny feet or an oval shaped skull? This session looks at beauty as it has been defined through the course of human history.
GS Mission: Sisterhood! Journey Session 3- Finding Inner Beauty
Some of my favorite magazine photos occasionally show celebrities without makeup. Those photos remind me that what the rest of the world sees isn’t the real person at all. It’s a construct, a lie or a moment frozen in time, possibly with lots of makeup who didn’t eat breakfast. But it’s not the real person. The real person is what we don’t see in two dimensions. It is a cliché and it’s taken me a long time to discover, but real beauty truly is found inside.
Remaking a GS Journey--Mission: Sisterhood! 