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Care about the futureThe Green Girl Guides towards new leader types,
strong networks and great challenges
Care about the future
• We are losing members, especially the 10-14 years old
• Other associations experience the same• We have made all necessary organisational
changes
• ReD Associates make their entry– We need a view from the outside– What do they do? – How do we maintain the 10-14 years old?
• Presentation of their results and debate
The Green Girl Guides has a future if we can offer the girls…
… unique, challenging and barrier-breaking experiences within a safe environment, which allow them to play and be children in a period of their life where the demands of adulthood and responsibility is approaching rapidly.
Seven insights Three stratgies Six concepts
Insight #1The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength
Insight #2Each local group is an cultural island
Insight #3The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital
Insight #4The girls want to be challenged
Insight #5The girls need an adult at the steering wheel
Insight #6Personal invitation & flexibility is
important tools to engage new leaders
Insight #7The girls need a place
where they are still allowed to be children
Insight #1
The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength
De grønne pigespejdere
Fritidsklubben
Why be a girl guide if you can join a club?
Insigth #1
The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength
Focus at…
… the green girl guides being a place, where you can be anybody rather than do anything.
Change from being the generalists to being the specialists.
Insigth #2
Each local group is a cultural islands
”The group of leader that we have today … Well none of us live in the city any more. But we still go to
Copenhagen every Wednesday. I do not think that I would be a guider where I live. I am a guider because
of our group and what we have together. We have been together for 20 years now and they are my best
friends.” [Group leader]
”There are different cultures in different guide groups just as there are in different communities. The traditions and
values are different and they are not always easy to compare. It can be hard as a newcomer to get into the
group if you are used to an other culture – do you understand? It can be a large cultural chock.”
[Troop leader]
Insight # 2
Each local group is a cultural island
Focus at…
… strengthening the mutual identity across the sections
Insight #3
The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital
The Green Girl Guides
Time lineBuilding up/The reward
A ’dangerous
’ experience
Life 07
To learn some-thing
difficult
= badge/prize given in connection to activity
Insight # 3
The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital
Help me by…
Stopping the ”inflation” in badges and by giving me something, which can be used as symbolic capital both in and outside the guide movement
Insight #4
The girls want to be challenged
Top 5 Camping Nightly relays (a little
scary) Climbing/Rappelling Camp fires Playing (games)
Insight # 4
The girls want to be challenged
Help me by…
... Giving me the possibility to concur myself by doing things which I thought that I could not do.
Give me experiences which I can share with others.
Insight #5
The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel
Choices in school
Choices about the future
Choices around friends
Choices at home
Choice of spare time activities
The every day life of young people today
Choices at guide meetings
”What are we going to do today?”
At guide meetings
”This is what we are gouing to do today”
What the girls’ need look like
Insight #5
The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel
Help me by…
... creating the structure, in which I can unfold my talents, and give me the feeling that a grown up has made a plan for the day.
Insight #6
Personal invitation and flexibility are important tools to engage new leaders
The girls
Solving a specific task (here-and-now)
‘Expert/heroine for a day’, short term
perspective
Responsibility for the actual meeting situation
(activity based)
“The one with the notes”
– here-and-now commitment towards
the patrol
What is it to be a (patrol) leader
Adult leaders
First step in a life long development (future)
Gaining skills, long term perspecitve
Responsibility for the development of the patrol and the single girl’s development
(organisatorial, pedagogical)
“To be a leader is a job”Long term commitment
towards the organisation
View on the leader job
View on result/’reward’
View on responsibillity
View on commitment
Insight # 6
Personal invitation and flexibility are important tools to engage new leaders
Help me by…
... ”noticing” me and my ”wanting to lead” , but allow me to be a guide in a way that don’t demands me to come each Wedensday.
Insight #7
The girls need a place, where they are still allowed to be children
Child
Adult
Insight # 7
The girls need a place, where they are still allowed to be children
Help me by…
... Taking good care of the room, where I can feel that I can relax and be myself.
INSIGHT STRATGIES1. The broad spectrum of activities is
a weakness rather than a strength
2. Each local group is an cultural island
3. The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital
4. The girls want to be challenged
5. The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel
6. Personal invitation and flexibility is important tools to engage new leaders
7. The girls need a place where they are still allowed to be children
1. Create a stronger ACTIVITY PROFIL Focus on the challenging experience
2. Strengthen the NETWORK Break with the sections ”island culture”’
3. Create a new LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE Think ’peer to peer’ in a new way
GIRL LIFE
GIRL LIFE
’HOME’’HOME’ ’OUT’’OUT’ ’HOME’’HOME’
Introduction to acitivity
Reflection over
activity
Welcome Round offActivity
Activity
Seven developing concepts
• Guest stars and young leaders• Challenging- and “time to reflect” activities• The expert club• “Excitement field” and “High excitement”• The group's annual report• The Birthday Relay
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