The Council Activity Guides
The Council Facilitator Activity Guides are fully developed male-responsive curricula to engage, challenge, celebrate, develop, and unite boys. The user-friendly guides contain step-by-step instructions on leading discussions, teambuilding, and creative activities. Simply gather your materials and begin! Easily adaptable to your own unique setting.
Credit cards, checks and purchase orders are accepted. Please order online at GirlsCircle.com or by calling
(707) 794-9477. You may also print the Order Form and fax it to (707) 794-9938. All checks should be payable to "GCA / Tides". Do you also work with girls? See our gender-responsive Girls Circle material.
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 Growing Healthy, Going Strong
 $129
Boys will have fun identifying social-emotional messages, experiences, attitudes, and smart options for growing up male in our culture. Competition, bullying, recognizing and expressing emotions, male and female role expectations, self confidence, and teamwork are highlighted through games and team challenges. Boys develop vocabulary and skills to expect and enact fairness, healthy competition, and respect for self and others. More
 Standing Together: A
Journey
Into Respect
$129
This guide provides engaging ways to address common themes which pre-teens and early adolescents encounter, including breaking down social-cultural barriers, motives and actions around put-downs, knowing their personal rights, defining assumptions about male power, respecting others' physical boundaries, understanding and using the energy of strong emotions, and standing up for each other in community. More
 Living A Legacy:
A Rite
of Passage
$129
Young men gain skills and knowledge to navigate growing up male in today’s society through the introduction of topics and experiential activities that address a myriad of relevant challenges - safely, powerfully, and within a spirit of “council” connection. Boys will explore: relationships, conflict resolution, education, leadership, community service, diversity, mass media messages, personal values, integrity, and future goals. More
 Journey of the Great Warrior
Empowering Minority and Disenfranchised Youth
$199
Recommended Prerequisite: Living a Legacy Activity Guide. Using the symbol of the Medicine Wheel of the indigenous people of the Americas and the metaphor of the journey of a great warrior, this guide takes young men further into a holistic process of growth and transformation that includes four areas of human development: emotional/spiritual, psychological, social, and intellectual. More
 The Council Facilitator Manual
$99
This manual outlines all a facilitator needs to implement the strengths-based Council program within their organizational settings and is a potent tool that is full of practical, useful information presented in our workshop. More
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Featured Activity Guide
for Teen Boys:
Journey of the Great Warrior - Empowering Minority and Disenfranchised Youth
 Ages 13 – 18. 18 Sessions including 8 Nature Sessions
Recommended Prerequisite: Living a Legacy Activity Guide
$199
Using the symbol of the Medicine Wheel of the indigenous people of the Americas and the metaphor of the journey of a great warrior, this guide takes young men further into a holistic process of growth and transformation that includes four areas of human development: emotional/spiritual, psychological, social, and intellectual.
The journey begins by exploring marginalized young men’s challenges, strengths, and coping strategies formed after a premature loss of love and protection in the family and the natural world. A “journey of return” invites council members to rediscover a sustaining internal resource of protection, security and belonging, or “Home Base.”
The journey continues to build upon individual and collective resources to reclaim or create dreams, develop goals, increase social and cooperative skills, and choose and apply transformative behaviors in their relationships and activities in order to overcome barriers and create lives of contribution, meaning, and connection. Group challenges include: the Great Warrior’s personal narrative, Trapped Inside the Dungeon - a cycle of addiction and exit strategies, Crossing the Bridge in nature, Vision Charting, The Voice of Nature, “Hardware-Software” and Personal Traits, Planning and Executing an Ecological Project, Role Play with a Leadership Style, and many more activities both indoors and in the outdoors to empower participants to recognize their interdependency and value within all of life’s systems- social, personal, and in the natural world.
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The Council is a twin venture of the Girls Circle Association (GCA), founded in 1996. GCA seeks to promote girls' resiliency and connection by equipping group facilitators with skills and resources to hold Girls Circles in their communities. For more information, view the program flier or to purchase Girls Circle materials, visit GirlsCircle.com |
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