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Care about the future

Care about the future. The 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

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Care about the future

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  1. Care about the future The Green Girl Guides towards new leader types, strong networks and great challenges

  2. 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

  3. The Green Girl Guides has a future if we can offer the girls… • Seven insights  Three stratgies  Six concepts … 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.

  4. Insight #1 The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength Insight #2 Each local group is an cultural island Insight #3 The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital Insight #4 The girls want to be challenged Insight #5 The girls need an adult at the steering wheel Insight #6 Personal invitation & flexibility is important tools to engage new leaders Insight #7 The girls need a place where they arestill allowed to be children

  5. The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength Insight #1

  6. Why be a girl guide if you can join a club? De grønne pigespejdere Fritidsklubben

  7. 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 #1

  8. Each local group is a cultural islands Insigth #2

  9. ”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] ”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]

  10. Each local group is a cultural island Focus at… … strengthening the mutual identity across the sections Insight # 2

  11. The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital Insight #3

  12. Life 07 A ’dangerous’ experience To learn some-thing difficult Time line Building up/The reward = badge/prize given in connection to activity The Green Girl Guides

  13. 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 # 3

  14. Insight #4 The girls want to be challenged

  15. Top 5 • Camping • Nightly relays (a little scary) • Climbing/Rappelling • Camp fires • Playing (games)

  16. 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 # 4

  17. Insight #5 The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel

  18. Choices in school Choices at home Choices at guide meetings ”What are we going to do today?” Choices around friends Choices about the future Choice of spare time activities The every day life of young people today

  19. At guide meetings ”This is what we are gouing to do today” What the girls’ need look like

  20. 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 #5

  21. Insight #6 Personal invitation and flexibility are important tools to engage new leaders

  22. 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 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 View on the leader job View on result/’reward’ View on responsibillity View on commitment

  23. 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 # 6

  24. Insight #7 The girls need a place, where they are still allowed to be children

  25. Adult Child

  26. 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 # 7

  27. INSIGHT  STRATGIES Create a stronger ACTIVITY PROFIL Focus on the challenging experience Strengthen the NETWORK Break with the sections ”island culture”’ Create a new LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE Think ’peer to peer’ in a new way • The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength • Each local group is an cultural island • The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital • The girls want to be challenged • The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel • Personal invitation and flexibility is important tools to engage new leaders • The girls need a place where they are still allowed to be children

  28. GIRL LIFE GIRL LIFE ’HOME’ ’OUT’ ’HOME’ Activity Round off Welcome Introduction to acitivity Activity Reflection over activity

  29. 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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