The High School Set
Support deeper growth, exploration, and leadership development with the Council & Girls Circle® Set for High School.
With 13 titles chock full of themes and topics relevant to high school-aged youth, plus the Facilitator Manuals for both models and the Girls Circle® Evaluation Tool Kit, this set combines resources to foster self-awareness, healthy relationships, and a sense of purpose through engaging, reflective activities. Don't miss 15% off — use code NEWSET15 at checkout. Offer ends June 30.
Support deeper growth, exploration, and leadership development with the Council & Girls Circle® Set for High School. With 13 titles chock full of themes and topics relevant to high school-aged youth, plus the Facilitator Manuals for both models and the GC Evaluation Tool Kit, this set combines resources to foster self-awareness, healthy relationships, and a sense of purpose through engaging, reflective activities.
Through engaging, reflective activities, this set supports facilitators in creating safe, structured spaces where youth can explore identity, navigate relationships, and consider future pathways. Topics such as personal values, peer relationships, well-being, lived experiences, and life direction are explored through the Circle model, fostering self-awareness, confidence, and a sense of purpose during a pivotal stage of development.
Includes the following titles: Body Image, Empowerment and Identity on Social Media, Honoring Our Diversity, Journey of the Great Warrior, Living a Legacy, Men of Honor Sets 1 and 2, Mind Body Spirit, My Family My Self, Paths to the Future, Relationships with Peers, Who I Am, and Wise & Well. This, in addition to the Girls Circle® Facilitator Manual, Girls Circle® Evaluation Toolkit, and The Council for Boys and Young Men® Facilitator Manual. (The Council Evaluation Toolkit is available as a free download.)
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| 10 sessions | Body Image Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Examines cultural messages and personal beliefs that influence body image. Themes emphasize raising awareness, recognizing body signals, and exploring underlying causes of poor body image. Topics cover physical awareness, health, and emotional balance through media exploration, imagery, art, personal story telling, and more. Excellent prevention program. |
| 10 sessions | Empowerment and Identity on Social Media Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Empowerment and Identity on Social Media is a curriculum with essential tools and resources to promote healthy development for youth growing up in today’s digital world. Providing skills development for media literacy, digital citizenship, and more accurate information on how to use social media safely and in more of an emotionally healthy manner, this curriculum harnesses the relational strengths of youth to effectively explore the complex intersecting topics of technology, body image, cyberbullying, exploitation, and relationships. |
| 12 sessions | Mind, Body, Spirit Girls Circle® Activity Guide | This excellent prevention program addresses alcohol, tobacco, and drug decision making as well as healthy sexuality, promoting abstinence and/or reduction to high-risk behaviors by exploring the realities of risk and the power of self-care. Helps girls examine and evaluate choices through affirmations, role-play, media influence, journal writing, videos and more. Addresses sexuality decision-making and definitions of "infatuation, desire, and love" through real teen stories, music messages, and personal standards activity. Outstanding prevention program that promotes critical thinking and is much enjoyed by girls! |
| 12 sessions | Paths to the Future Girls Circle® Activity Guide | A skills-building support circle for use with at-risk or court- involved girls. Examines thoughts, beliefs, and actions about friendships, trust, authority figures, mother/daughter relationships, sexuality, dating violence, HIV, drug abuse, stress and goal-setting. Opens up girls to important exploration regarding their choices and behaviors and examines ways to promote self-care and healthy decision-making through lively, prepared discussions and activities. Creative activities include assertiveness role-plays, collage, progressive relaxation, writing, creating "Lifemaps" and more. |
| 10 sessions | Relationships with Peers Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Enhances girls'' awareness of their relationships with themselves and others. Themes include "Expressing Myself," "Accepting Different Parts of Myself," "Giving Voice to Feelings,” Romantic Relationships, ” “Girlfights or Girlfriends” and are complimented by activities such as journalling, role-play, sculpting, and more. Highly engaging for teen girls. |
| 8 sessions | Who I Am Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Works with girls to examine identity, assertiveness skills, and goal setting through role-play, mandala-making, relationship to music, and more. Themes include "Journaling and Self-Disclosure," "Song About Me-Who I Am," "Personal Growth/Assertiveness," and "Life Goals/Personal Goals." Very well received by high school girls. |
| 8 sessions | Wise & Well Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Addresses 21st Century challenges such as cyberbullying, social networking, binge drinking, marijuana use, the stigma of mental health and more. In this guide, girls and facilitators walk through the myriad of common 21st Century risks with discussions and activities that inspire eyes wide open, minds sharp and aware, and hearts willing to step up to leadership for their own health and safety. |
| 12 sessions | Honoring Our Diversity Girls Circle® Activity Guide | Recognizes girls’ varied cultural, ethnic, and racial backgrounds emphasizing positive identity and alliance building. Includes discussions and activities that cover topics such as “Stereotype Busting,“ “Beyond Fear,“ “Cultural Treasures,“ “Culture Clash,“ and includes a community advocacy exercise. Themes focus on appreciating diversity in girls lives by identifying biases, developing navigational tools in a multi-cultural society, and promoting understanding and respect within and between groups. Guide includes a girls'' journal for weekly reflection. |
| 8 sessions | My Family, My Self Girls Circle® Activity Guide | This essential guide gets at the critical importance of girls’ development within the context of their family relationships and offers girls the opportunity to safely and respectfully acknowledge and explore the many gifts and challenges of growing up within the family unit. Girls are invited to share the influence of their families and cultural values on their own social-emotional development, and build skills to strengthen their confidence in relationships with relatives and peers. |
| 10 sessions | Living A Legacy: A Rite of Passage Council Activity Guide | 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. |
| 18 sessions | Journey of the Great Warrior Council Activity Guide | Journey of the Great Warrior Recognizes the assets and barriers of marginalized youth. Using creative challenges, personal narratives, and the restorative environment of nature, it respectfully explores both effective and limiting survival strategies – such as addictions and aggression – and builds upon individual, collective and cultural assets to re-ignite young men’s healthy development and full potential. |
| 10 sessions | Men of Honor: Becoming Respectful, Nonviolent Leaders Set 1 Council Activity Guide | Explores “man box” messages promoted in the media and their effects on young men. Address topics such as: Masculinity in the Media, Exploring Emotions, Becoming Nonviolent Leaders, and Engaging in Education. Activities include use of digital media, media analysis, realistic scenarios in social and social media contexts, physical games, storytelling, art, an original school survival “board” game, journals, and an optional resume builder tool. |
| 10 sessions | Men of Honor: Becoming Respectful, Nonviolent Leaders Set 2 Council Activity Guide | Further expands the examination of male gender norms, their effect on young men and their relationships, and the development of respectful, nonviolent models of manhood. Includes Respecting Women and Girls, Respecting Intimate Partners, Challenging Homophobia and Becoming Allies, Forming Healthy and Safer Sex Practices, Digging into Substance Use, and Becoming Men of Honor. |
| Girls Circle® Facilitator Manual | Start your Girls Circle® journey here by learning the guiding principles, theoretical framework, and foundational structure of the Girls'' Circle program, a research based model proven to increase girls’ self-efficacy, body image, and social support. Facilitators and organizations that serve girls in any setting or culture will find this one-of-kind facilitator manual rich with practical, useful information presented in our workshop. | |
| The Council for Boys and Young Men® Facilitator Manual | This manual outlines the facilitator skills needed 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. Includes: Resiliency and Strengths-Based Principles, Masculinity Identity Theories, the Male Brain, Outline of The Council Model and Format, Role of the Facilitator, Responding to the Stages of Group Development, Building Ownership in the Council, How to Reduce and Respond Effectively to Challenging Behaviors, and the Experiential Model. Prepares agencies and individuals to offer boys a solid pathway toward healthy masculine identity development and encourages boys’ solidarity through personal and collective responsibility. | |
| Girls Circle® Evaluation Tool Kit | Contains all the materials you need to measure outcomes with your Girls Circle® program in conjunction with any combination of the Girls Circle® Activity Guides. This comprehensive Toolkit and Administrative Manual provides the Girls Circle® Survey, a measurement instrument designed specifically for use within organizations using the Girls Circle® model, and integrates a validated self-efficacy instrument. Additional contents include step-by-step instructions for program evaluation, consent forms, and information sheets. Spanish language Survey and forms also included. Reproducible within purchasing organizations. |