GIRLS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC

At Girls Leadership Summer Camp,  girls are given the opportunity to feel independent and strong away from home. They gain confidence while building amazing friendships that celebrate what makes them feel unique, powerful, and loved. Summer camp is for girls entering Grade 6-12, and sessions range from 2-4 weeks long.

Girls Leadership's Summer Day Camp is a transformational camp for girls entering fourth of fifth grade, where they get to be silly and play while learning to build healthy and rewarding relationships. Every day starts with community games, then we have leadership workshops that are taught through theatre and role play, daily art projects, physical play, and theme days. The girls might not even realize they are learning skills to speak-up, stay true to themselves, and create change in their world.

Our acclaimed parent education talk "Raising Resilient Girls” focuses on practical, actionable advice that you can use at home to help support the girl in your life.

Girl Meets World (GMW) is an intensive three-day training program taught by social entrepreneurs and girl experts Rachel Simmons and Simone Marean designed to equip participants with the latest research, tools, and interventions to support girls’ social-emotional development. For over ten years, this GMW curriculum has been taught at locations such as Girl’s Leadership’s Summer Program and other settings across the world including the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.

Girls Leadership's Girl & Grown-up Book Club was created to support girls through the challenges of modern childhood and beyond. We choose books about standing up for one’s self, healthy friendships, and facing conflict. Reading and discussing these books helps your girl develop empathy for others, and the characters’ situations will give her a scaffold for growing ideas about the world and her place in it.

Our toolkits give advice not only for book club discussion questions, but also ideas for how girls can facilitate parts of the meetings. Girls will get to practice communication, facilitation, and healthy risk taking in the fun context of the book club. At each book club, girls will articulate their thoughts, encourage quiet voices, disagree respectfully, and take turns facilitating group discussion. We give book club members tips for how to support the girl in their life as she transfers these skills to her relationships, classrooms, and larger communities.