Girls Rising A Guide to Nurturing a Confident and Soulful Adolescent

This guide for adults working with adolescent girls will help them explore and develop their emotional, social, and spiritual selves.

Young people are hungry and capable of engaging in meaningful explorations of themselves and the world around them. Adolescent girls especially have a deep desire and capacity to know themselves and explore their own spirituality. Girls Rising is a workbook of activities designed for educators, mental health clinicians, youth workers, parents, and, in some cases, peer educators working with girls ages 13 — 17 that provides a process for them to explore and develop their emotional, social, and spiritual selves. The curriculum comprises of four themes surrounding self–awareness, empathy and communication skills, social engagement, and transpersonal exploration. Incorporates drawing, writing, music, media, role–playing, storytelling, and deeply penetrating interactive activities to help incite self–discovery, enhance relationships, and connect girls to a cause, principal, or source greater then themselves. Jackson’s guide offers teenage girls a unique opportunity to engage with their changing selves and their environment from a deeply soulful and creative place.

Urana Jackson has a Masters in Counseling Psychology and has worked with youth and their families for more than 20 years. She has impacted over a thousand youth from various backgrounds as an educator, trainer, and mental health clinician in public schools and the private sector. She has a private practice working primarily with girls and woman, ages 12-35. Urana is also an artist and her personal practice of meditation and involvement in the Native American spiritual community has influenced her work tremendously. She lives in Oakland, CA.

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Introduction



Chapter One: Getting Started

Setting the tone, creating space, establishing guidelines, and a word about the pedagogy


Chapter Two: Looks Within

Expanding and supporting girls’ self–awareness, self–identity, and personal development


Chapter Three: Empathetic Attunement

Building the capacity for empathy, learning skillful communication


Chapter Four: Necessary Action

Examining issues facing women and girls around the world, envisioning change, developing a personal plan for meaningful action


Chapter Five: Sacred Living

Introducing mindful meditation techniques, asking big existential questions, exploring the sacred


Chapter Six: Closing Ritual

Reflecting on the journey and marking the transition


Chapter Seven: Conclusion



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