Girls Leadership Collaborative (GLC) was developed to provide girls the experiences necessary to uncover their strengths, explore their interests, examine how and why they interact with others in group settings, and create purpose while working to positively impact their communities, a cause, or the world. GLC provides the necessary practice engaging in safe and developmentally appropriate risk taking as participants develop as leaders; girls who can and do take initiative.

We can only learn to lead WHILE leading in real-time with reflective practices alongside supportive facilitators. This requires an informed, yet fearless, experiential approach where failure is seen as an inherent part of the most powerful learning and is exactly what increases capacity to lead. Collaboratively discussing the intent, observable phenomena, and resulting impact of our actions, choices, and mindsets allows us to not position failure as wrong; rather collectively uncover the why behind the outcome, and thus create new opportunities for achieving and aligning intent and impact. This is most effective when facilitators share their internal dialogue and elicit the contributions of the entire team. Why did this work? Why didn’t this work? How might we have better generated the impact we had intended?

While engaging in collaborative challenges and our intentional reflective practices, girls explore such phenomena as group formation theory in action, design-thinking methodologies, self-expression, communication, outcome-oriented conflict resolution and so much more. Our unique programming and content ranges from neurobiology & brain research, to application of Gallup’s Strengths-finder tool and Mindfulness training, all made accessible through our developmentally supportive facilitation techniques using our unique GLC curriculum. Developing service learning projects or community initiatives as an outcome provides a meaningful context in which to examine and apply our human experiences in group while working toward a greater purpose.