Leadership Journey Series
Self-Esteem and Creative Expression
A Girl Scout leadership journey series, It's Your Story – Tell It! offers a fun, comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to building girls' leadership. Self-esteem is a natural by-product of this particular journey because, through storytelling and creative expression, girls gain a better understanding of themselves and their potential, and develop confidence to become leaders in their own lives and in the world.
Liked uniquely ME!? You'll love It's Your Story – Tell It!
It's Your Story—Tell It! explores many of the same important themes found in uniquely ME! such as developing a strong sense of self, learning about the benefits of a balanced diet and physical activity, developing healthy relationships, identifying ways to express yourself, and promoting well-being and confidence in others.
Healthy Living
The It's Your Story - Tell It! leadership journey series helps girls develop practical life skills around healthy living. Through activities that get the girls moving and thinking in creative and physically challenging ways, through role-play activities that allow them to become comfortable and competent taking part in real-life, age-appropriate social situations, and well as through recipes and general health and well-being content and discussion, the journeys offer girls content and activities to develop physically, socially, and emotionally healthy lifestyles now and for their futures. Accordingly, research from the GSRI shows that girls do not distinguish between physical, social, and emotional health but rather see them all as interrelated (The New Normal, What Girls Say About Healthy Living, GSRI 2006). Healthy Living activities are woven through all Girl Scout activities and It's Your Story – Tell It! is no exception! See some fun examples (PDF).
Media Literacy
At every grade-level, the It's Your Story - Tell It! leadership journeys get girls developing critical thinking and media literacy skills. Activities and discussions that get girls to think critically about the media, including its portrayal of girls and women, are woven into each grade-level journey with a variety of goals: At the youngest grade levels, the aim is to get girls to understand marketing tactics for young consumers. As the girls get older, the focus shifts to the limited roles and opportunities that media gives women and girls, and the narrow definition of beauty that media displays. At the highest grade levels, the girls consider the portrayals of relationships between girls and women. See more about leadership and media literacy for girls (PDF).
