Learn to lead Mentoring Circles for girls
and offer an adolescent Rite of Passage
A phenomenal collaborative Training Circle is open for enrollment
Partial Scholarships are available!
Join us to transform your life and the lives of young people.
An amazing community is gathering!
Join with a single payment ... or choose a payment plan.
Begin as soon as you wish.
What would you like to pass on to the next generation?
- ☽ Reverence for - and understanding of - the changes of puberty, menstruation, sexuality, pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding
- ☽ Knowing that all of our emotions are OK - that they are allies with important messages.
- ☽ Knowing the difference between passivity, assertiveness, and aggressiveness.
- ☽ Understanding of healthy touch; healthy boundaries; healthy relationships.
- ☽ How to tune into one's Inner Compass - one's Inner Knowing.
- ☽ A sense of honor for all the stages of a person's life including Elderhood.
Jodi Nemeth Photography
How this course works
- Watch the Thirteen Teaching Videos as many times as you wish through December 1, 2022.
- To earn a Certificate of Completion, submit satisfactory notes and three assignments, for review and comments, by December 1, 2022.
- Join as many or as few Virtual Red Tents as you wish. There's no end date for joining these optional Zoom gatherings - or for browsing the Red Tent Video Library - or for enjoying the conversations, projects and resources within the JOYW community of students, graduates and mentors.
Teaching Videos
Certificate
Virtual Red Tents
Maria Greene
Step into mentorship
- and an amazing tribe of women -
when you join the
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training.
Sister Circle by Karen MacKenzie, detail
Share the lore of humanhood with tweens and teens – and embark on your own transformative journey!
This work is empowering and life-changing for girls and (we think) for gender non-conforming youth.
And it will be for you too – starting with this training, which is both practical and deepening.
Learn to lead Mentoring Circles
Mentoring Girls
Certificate Training
Tuition: $895*
* Partial scholarships are available (for a limited time).
Payment plans are always available.
Learn about partial scholarships and payment plans here
Learn how your tuition payments support LGBTQ, black, indigenous and people of color here
Includes immediate access to the Teaching Videos, plus our live Virtual Red Tents,
Red Tent Video Library, student Facebook group, JOYW Global, JOYW Active Mentors, dozens of handouts, and - if you earn them - your Certificate of Completion and graduate logos.
Join with a single payment or choose a payment plan
Tuition is denominated in US dollars.
Watch Teaching Videos, download handouts, and submit notes and assignments through December 1, 2022.
With a payment plan, receive the first two videos immediately then two more each month. After your fourth payment (4-pay plan) or sixth payment (8- and 16-pay plans), watch all thirteen videos as many times as desired through your completion date. We offer no refunds but you may cancel future payments.
No expiration date: Virtual Red Tents (optional Zoom meet-ups), Red Tent Video Library (dozens of titles), and heartfelt, practical support of JOYW staff and our amazing community of students, graduates and active mentors.
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Thirteen Teaching Videos ~
Watch the recording if you miss
The Teaching Videos are the core of the training. Learn everything you need to know about Girls' Circles - logistics, safety, prep, teaching messages, activities, marketing...
Enjoy the aliveness of handouts, tools, art, guided meditation, humor, even singing.
Learn every aspect of mentoring girls aged 8 - 14 based on an adaptable framework applicable to younger and older girls.
Also learn to work with the parents of the girls - which dramatically increases the effectiveness of your work with girls.
Dive into your own transformative journey as a trainee and mentor.
The Thirteen Teaching videos average a little over 1.5 hours each. Learn more about the Teaching Videos here.
Desere Pressey
Video 1.
The Ancient Container
Video 2.
The Map
of Well-being
Carolyn Rondthaler
E. Baltisberger
Video 3.
Rhythm
in a
Girls' Circle
Video 4.
Guiding Principles
Helena Nelson-Reed
Voluptua Art
Video 5.
Mom's Circles
Video 6.
Emotional & Social
Well-being
Donna Webb
Quim Fàbregas
Video 7.
Body Sovereignty
Video 8.
Honoring Menstruation
Ben Hodson
Georgia O'Keeffe
Video 9.
Puberty & Sexuality
Video 10.
Cultivating Intuition
Boris Pelcer
Elizabeth Black
Video 11.
Ceremony
Video 12.
Charting
Your Course
Gaia Orion
Gail de Marcken
Video 13.
The Gift
What you'll learn
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
- Everything about circle-based mentorship - logistics, safety, rhythm, prep, teaching messages, activities - focusing on Girl Empowerment Circles and Coming of Age Circles.
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Photo by JOYW Mentor Raina Gardner of Maiden Star
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Virtual Red Tents ~
Our Red Tents are optional
Zoom gatherings. Learning, collaboration, and practical inspiration on topics that matter to mentors, parents and humans.
Ask questions, share stories, explore training topics, and develop your practical vision of empowering girls and gender non-conforming kids. Attend as many as you like. Watch the recording via the spectacular Red Tent Library if you miss the live gathering.
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Most Red Tents are one hour long. All Red Tents are optional. If you enjoy an alive connection and diving deep, you'll love these.
Art by Tamara Adams
.... and much more Sisterhood Collaboration
Each Training Circle also gathers on a private Facebook group where we feed one another in so many ways. Ask questions, tell stories, request support, share ideas... It's a juicy, vibrant community of students, graduates and active mentors, with swift and thorough staff support for everyone.
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Certificate of Completion ~
To earn your Certificate, submit notes for the 13 Teaching Videos and complete 3 assignments by December 1, 2022.
Your notes cover the main and supporting points, demonstrating that you absorbed the material and giving you a road map for your Girls' Circles. You'll receive a private, formatted Note-Posting Document for posting the text of your notes, which are reviewed and commented on by an instructor. Most students take 2 - 3 pages of notes for each Teaching Video. You will need a gmail address or a free Google account for your Note Posting Doc.
Students on a payment plan must be paid in full prior to receiving their Certificate.
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Timeframe ~
. Art by Brian Giberson
This is a go-at-your-own-pace course.
Start right away - or whenever you like. Watch the Teaching Videos as many times as you wish through December 1, 2022. Retrieve handouts and turn in notes and assignments by that date.
Power through the course in 4 weeks or meander through ...
Take a break when you like ...
It's up to you.
Our collaborative Training Circle has no end date. Our aim is to freely provide supportive community space with Virtual Red Tents for as long as you wish. You will also have continuous access to dozens of videos in the JOYW Red Tent Library, as well as JOYW's Special Topic, Regional and Global Facebook groups. JOYW continuously develops and refines its resources which are freely offered to current and former students. We want to be with you every step of the way as you plan, launch and lead your Girls' Circles.
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Community, Heartfelt Collaboration and Activism ~
Sisters! If you love community and collaboration, it’s waiting for you here. You’ll meet women from around the world with diverse experiences and skills to share.
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Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
~ Making a difference for girls and non-binary youth~
Girls' Circle by Karen MackKenzie
Community! I can't begin to tell you how powerfully impactful a Mentoring Circle is for every participant and for their family as well. My early mentees are still thanking me for what I passed onto them during their middle school years.
I supported my eldest in a mentored Rites of Passage process.
It changed both our lives. And then I knew that I had to step forward to make sure that every girl and gender non-conforming kid has this opportunity.
You can be part of empowering the next generation. Join us!
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
Learn to guide girls and lead Mentoring Circles now
Join with a single payment or a payment plan
Immediate access to course materials plus JOYW's vast resources and incredible community of students, graduates and mentors
Still from the JOYW-Maiden Discovery Circle Rite of Passage film
"What if every girl worldwide
could easily join a Mentoring Circle?"
Girls are hungry for guidance, mentorship and circling.
Every women has gifts to offer to girls!
The path of mentorship is transformative for us as mentors.
Every woman called to empower girls,
as a mentor or a mother,
deserves guidance and support.
So voilà, here is learning and here is a community of sisters.
Here are the skills and knowledge you need
...to circle with girls…
...to raise and mentor radiant girls …
...and to deepen your journey as an adult woman.
Here is a space for collaborative learning. Please know how truly welcome you are here – and how needed.
An amazing tribe of soulful women from around the world
awaits you,
eager to share stories and ideas,
and to hear yours.
Our common intent is to empower girls on their journey to womanhood.
Together we rise!
Mentoring Girls Certificate Training
We're eager to welcome you to this new circle of sisters
on a learning and deepening journey
in support of our collective daughters.
Join now for immediate access to
Teaching Videos, Virtual Red Tents, and the Red Tent Video Library.
Start this self-paced course when you like.
Watch Teaching Videos as often as you like through December 1, 2022.
No end date to a treasure trove of resources, support and community.
Photo by Ly Huong Long
Sisters! Thank you so much for your interest in empowering girls and non-binary youth.
Please contact me about group discounts.
I would love to hear from you, if you have questions, suggestions, or just want to let me know what's real for you right now. Please write me.
in sisterhood,
Katharine Krueger
Founding Director and Guiding Teacher
Journey of Young Women
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