Summer Opportunities 2024!
Rising 3-5th REGISTER HERE
Rising 6-8th REGISTER HERE
July 22-26, 2024
Monday 8:15 am early arrival for Travel Time to off site ropes course – 3:30 Pick Up Time
Tuesday- Friday 9:00 – 3:00 (before and after care available)
*NEW* GLC’s High School Leadership Institute
Registration open! (Scroll all the way down if on mobile device to register.)
Rising 9-12th grades
2 Days. June 26 & 27 9:00 – 3:00 Providence, RI
GLC Teen Mentor Program 2024 Interest Form HERE!
GLC is committed to your continued growth and development as 9th -12th grade high school students to join camp 2024 as part of our Teen Mentors Program. We have a limited number of slots and we appreciate your interest. Please fill out this form if you are interested in being selected as a Teen Mentor. We will select our Teen Mentor Program participants after the High School Institute June 26/27.
Our Signature Programs: Contact GLC to bring one to your community
Planting the Seed for Learning to Lead
A creative, experiential program designed specifically for girls in Grades 3rd- 5th. This program exposes participants to several critical themes of leadership: self-awareness, altruism (unselfish concern for the greater good) and communication. Participants explore their leading strengths, discover effective verbal and nonverbal communication strategies and collaborate through play. Girls gain the knowledge, confidence and tools to initiate and lead in group settings. Applying the latest research to the teaching of leadership, we offer ever-changing activities, a variety of content delivery methods, and new opportunities to hone their skills in a fun environment with other girls.
Planting the Seed for Learning to Lead – Virtual Edition
Learn how to take a strengths-based approach to developing leadership capacity and creating a community service opportunity.
Come join Girls Leadership Collaborative for our first virtual after school program. New and returning girls are invited to join us as we explore the power of strengths, what it takes to become a leader, and other signature activities unique to the GLC experience. The 7-week program will begin with an introduction and exploration of strengths, using the Clifton StrengthsExplorer tool. Girls will learn how being aware of their strengths can grow their leadership skills and strengthen their relationships with others. The program will then shift its focus to using strengths in everyday situations, and more specifically, to create a community service opportunity. Working together in small groups, girls will get the chance to go through the design process and learn what it takes to put together a successful service project. Not only will they be working with each other, but they will also get the chance to collaborate with other GLC facilitators who already have projects that are making big impacts on their communities and the lives of others. Upon registration, participants will receive a care package full of all of the things that they will need to successfully participate in the program from home. Included will be supplies for certain activities, as well as some fun surprises, and a code to take the StrengthsExplorer assessment. We hope that you will join us as we work together to create an interactive and exciting virtual program that not only enriches the lives of our GLC-ers but gives them the tools they need to make a difference in their communities.
You, Me, & We: Leveraging the Power of Girls to Create Community
In this community-focused course, we will dive into student-centered themes each week, while offering our new and returning participants opportunities to explore their strengths, step-up in a fun and safe environment to lead group challenges, fun activities and learn powerful facilitation skills and critical mindsets to impact your communities. We will bring together girls across the grades to develop a network where you will feel safe, significant and included. Girls are provided with a set of tools and communication skills to facilitate groups, take initiative, learn outcome oriented conflict resolution, and collaborate with others.
Leadership Through Service
This fun, experiential leadership development program translates complex theory of group dynamics and social hierarchies into accessible knowledge that is easy to understand. We challenge girls to redefine the top-down social systems that exist in peer groups. Participants will identify personal leadership styles and individual strengths, and emerge prepared to translate interests or passions into tangible service opportunities. Throughout this class, girls will participate in, and practice designing passion-based service learning projects, demonstrating new leadership and collaborative skills. Leading a few is as important as leading many. Focus on Finding Purpose and what moves us is a consistent theme explored throughout.
Short, focused, multimedia based mini-seminars will reveal developmentally relevant topics of interest, such as: the effects of popular media messaging on self-image, leadership potential and social and professional aspirations, or the effects “success or failure” vs. a “success and failure” mentality on general well-being and productivity.
As a final product, girls will design and implement a passion-based service learning project, revealing new leadership and collaborative skills. Girls build confidence, competence, and community, setting the foundation of change-making and an altruistic future.
GLC’s Monday Summer Lunch Bunch & Book Club!
Empowerment through Race and Diversity Multimedia Book Club:
Using fiction, journalism, and video to guide conversations around race and diversity.
Conversations around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are ever more important in our lives and the lives of our children. They help us to envision how we can take action, giving us the courage and motivation to do so. However, it sometimes feels easier to avoid these conversations because they can feel challenging and confusing. Book clubs are a great, non-threatening way to learn about the history of diversity and privilege so that we can embrace the challenge of having conversations around these topics. In this group, girls will explore books, articles, social media posts, and videos that discuss race, diversity, unconscious bias, and white privilege. We will dig deeper into these issues and examine the intersectionality between these topics and female empowerment. Through our discussions of these books, articles, posts, and videos, we will lean into frank and open conversations around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Join us for this facilitated series to learn, engage, and develop the capacity to take initiative as an ally and an activist. When you sign up, you are able to join all meetups in the series. This series is designed to build capacity and practice engaging in meaningful and sometimes difficult conversations. This takes time and thus, consistent engagement is best. However, if you must miss one, each are designed to be focused on a different piece of multimedia. This program is being offered for FREE. GLC is committed to designing anti-racist learning experiences. To help us offer scholarships for our 2021 camps and programs, please visit our Pay-It-Forward page to make a donation if you are able. Thank you
Immersive Summer Leadership Camps
This fun, experiential leadership development program translates complex theory of group dynamics, social hierarchy, neurobiology, and developmental psychology into accessible micro-sessions that are easy to understand. The new content and skills are supported through activities and challenges that amplify the learning. Young leaders will apply this knowledge to uncover and examine the collaborative and altruistic behaviors of leaders in a fun and dynamic way. Participants will design, implement, and assess team challenges and identify personal leadership styles and individual strengths. Participants will emerge prepared to translate passions into service opportunities, collaborate effectively, and utilize appropriate skills in order to lead others in a variety of settings.
Program highlights
Outdoor challenges utilizing the expansive shoreline campus, ocean kayak experiences, discussion & multi-media mini-seminars in a fun, yet professional atmosphere, game-changer speaker series with women sure to inspire, art projects, fun improvisational games, and refreshing snacks. High Ropes course experience used as a teaching tool in a challenge-by-choice framework.
Customizable Speaker Series & Workshops & Trainings
Want to learn from and with our experts who can share this work with your community, company, or school? We offer a wide variety of workshops, presentations, and trainings for anyone interested in gender parity at all levels of leadership.
Coaching and Mentoring Services
Need help uncovering your strengths, finding purpose, and developing a plan for the future? Lifelong educator, coach, mentor, social enterprise founder, education administrator, and parent of two adult daughters, Meg has worked one-on-one with hundreds of youth and adults to help design a purpose-driven life, where one can learn, grow, and thrive. The magic happens through building relationship and facilitation, rather than creating checklists that are extrinsically driven. Meg works with youth and adults to help unlock the power and purpose within everyone.