Section Curriculum
What's Included?
4 SELF-ESTEEM LESSONS WITH ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
These four video-based lessons for professional and parent use with tween and teen girls help create positive culture and encourage teamwork and communication while teaching the basics of life skills. They help girls build lasting self-esteem without entitlement, resilience to self-esteem challenges, and positive body images. Fun, meaningful activities and games build confidence and positive sense of self.
. Life skill basics
. Self-esteem
. Positive body image
. Confidence
. Self-compassion
. Positive culture and teamwork
It is strongly recommended that women lead these lessons.
BUY THESE LESSONS TO EMPOWER GIRLS YOU CARE FOR
Your purchase provides a license for one professional or parent instructor (or parent couple) and helpers to use sessions in Section 1 of PowerUp Girls for Life for one year with one group of girls in one location.
Purchase confirms that you have read and agree to all of Youth Empowerment Group's Terms of Use. YEG would also greatly appreciate instructors filling out an online anonymous survey which will be emailed to you even if you opt out of YEG news and promotional emails.
Start-Up Guide for Instructors of PowerUp Girls for Life
This start-up guide for instructors and helpers provides written information and a video tutorial that overviews session structure and accompanying documents. It provides tips for teaching these plug-and-play lessons (sessions) with ease while creating meaningful, positive culture-building experiences.
Welcome Session
Builds confidence, respectful communication, connection, positive culture, and teamwork while explaining mental health and life skills and how these can make the difference between difficult and empowered lives. The fun game allows students to practice following directions and having positive, affirming interactions with other girls they may not know in a group setting and/or with their instructor(s). Outlines session flow and life skill benefits of feeling prepared, optimistic, worthy, empowered to be equal, and resilient under pressures girls face growing up today (the PowerUp acronym).
Session 1: Self-Esteem and How to Build It
Explores what good, healthy self-esteem looks and feels like, where it comes from, how it is very different from harmful entitlement, and how girls can start or continue building it. Explains how things such as empathy for others, self-compassion, recognizing strengths, valuing diversity, social engagement, optimism, and standing up for oneself and others feed self-esteem.
Session 2: Things that Can Break Down Self-Esteem if We Let Them
Reveals common stressful exposures that can reduce self-esteem, which are termed self-esteem breakers. Reframes things that may seem to support positive self-views but are unlikely sources of lasting self-esteem (e.g., body image, appearance, popularity), and things that may make us feel good temporarily but then lead to harm. Encourages ways to feel more in control, be optimistic and resilient, seek help, and not allow people or events to degrade self-worth. Ends with a brief review of self-esteem builders and sources of strength from session 1.
Session 3: How to Form Healthy Positive Body Images
Lists body changes that must happen in puberty for female body functions. Discusses that puberty often leads girls to compare their bodies to other girls’ and to images of women in media, which leads to feeling bad about normal bodies and sometimes illness. Defines body image and describes what having a positive body image looks and feels like, its positive effects, and ways to build it while rejecting ideal body images.
MEET THE CURRICULUM CREATORS
The Youth Empowerment Group
(YEG)
The nonprofit YEG's volunteer experts designed these plug-and-play video life skill lessons with activities and games to be taught by professionals and parents to support girls' mental and behavioral health, safety, equality, healthy relationships, and academic success.