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THIS GIRL CAN. Program
THIS GIRL CAN.
8-weeks program for boosting self-esteem & self-confidence for young girls
You feel like you are a FAILURE or that you are letting yourself, your friends and/or your family down?
You STOPPED thinking about the FUTURE or making plans for it?
ONLY 14% OF GIRLS IN GRADE 10
SAY THAT THEY FEEL CONFIDENT.
This is why we wanted to create this program. It is for those 86% of girls that do not feel confident in themselves.
With the constant exposure to images coming from social medias, girls are taught to compare and compete with each other on almost everything. They feel they must meet unrealistic standards in order to feel good about themselves and they learn that the only thing that matters is what is apparent to their peers.
Most of all, it is this lost of time, energy and thoughts used towards finding what is wrong with oneself that could be used to MAKE A DIFFERENCE in this world.
LET'S CHANGE THAT.
This program was created for girls feeling like...
You are not good at anything or that everyone around you is better than you?
You are always comparing yourself to others and that just makes just feel even worse about yourself?
You always want to be perfect or that you feel like you are letting people down when you can't be perfect?
You ended up not doing certain things because you think that you are going to do mistakes or that you won't be good at it?
You don't like meeting new people because you are afraid of rejection or that they won't like you?
You feel bad about yourself after being on social medias?
WE CAN HELP.
INTRODUCING THE PROGRAM FOR TEEN AND PRETEEN GIRLS
THIS GIRL CAN.
With this 8-week program, the goal is to empower teen and preteen girls to be ready to reach their very own potential!
This program has been created by an experienced child and youth psychologist that has close to 20 years of practice. Dr. Martine Roberge is specialized is helping with clinical depression, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, learning disabilities and behavioral problems. Dr. Roberge has also worked closely with a yoga teacher for this program to develop activities that will help develop mindfulness and meditation skills and practices.
This program consist of 8 sessions of an hour each every week in a studio in Westboro, Ottawa. There will be around 8 participants in the program at the same time facilitated by Dr. Roberge and a certified yoga teacher.
With this program, we will work towards...
Discovering what makes them unique and what they bring to the world
Learning strategies to be more confident and less socially anxious
Learning mindfulness and meditation based strategies that they will be able to use their whole life
Understanding the effects of social medias
Reconnect with what they really want to accomplish and to stop letting the bullies in their head win
THE PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
PROGRAM BREAKDOWN
Each class has their own activities and lessons and has been created upon building trust, reassurance, knowledge and reflexion. You will be guided along the way by a registered psychologist and a certified yoga teacher.
Here's a sneak peek of what is waiting for you...
CLASS 1
CLASS 1
(RE)DISCOVERING YOURSELF
A lot of people tend to judge themselves in a very negative way and it's especially true for those struggling with self-esteem. A common mistake is to get attach to your mistakes and your failures and then ending up defining yourself around it. This class is to allow yourself to look at yourself from a different light and realize that you can be free from all those limitations and you can just be the awesome person you are.
CLASS 2
ACCEPTING YOURSELF COMPLETELY FOR WHO YOU ARE
Class 2 is all about learning how to accept yourself fully for everything you are and everything you're not. Nobody is perfect, so stop striving for perfection! You are enough the way you are and you're allowed to be happy. Letting go of those really high expectations is the first step towards being free.
CLASS 1
CLASS 3
SAYING GOODBYE TO YOUR INNER BULLIES
Now that you have understood that you will never be perfect and that mistakes are part of being a human, you can let go of those on-going self-critic thoughts. They do not serve a purpose and they are only hurting you. It's now time to stop saying ''I can't'' and start saying 'I CAN!''.
CLASS 4
PROJECTING THE CONFIDENCE YOU WANT
Confidence is seen and felt. It is in the way you sit, walk, talk and look at people. That's why that we will be learning in Class 4 how to project the confidence that you ant to have. Eventually, it will become natural for you and you will attract positivity around you easily.
CLASS 5
BEING KINDER TO OTHERS, MAKES YOU KINDER TO YOURSELF
The majority of the things that you say about yourself in your head, you would never say out loud about your friend. That is why cultivating a much more kind approach to others, will help you be kinder to yourself. After all, if you can accept the weaknesses and the mistakes of others, why wouldn't you be able to do the same about yourself?!
CLASS 6
BUILDING TRUST-WORTHY FRIENDSHIPS
Friendships can be scary when you have been hurt or rejected before. This class will be all about trusting again letting people come close to you and also the ways to build healthy friendships that could last a lifetime.
CLASS 7
HANDLING MISTAKES AND FAILURES (BECAUSE THEY HAPPEN)
As much as we would like them to never happen again, mistakes and failures are part of life. You can't change that part but what you CAN change is the way you react to them and how quickly you get up again after them. Class 7 will be all about how you can learn from every mistakes and how to not go into a negative vicious cycle after it happened.
CLASS 8
LIVING AN AWESOME PURPOSEFUL LIFE
This last class is all about finding a purpose that calls you. Self-esteem is often self-evaluated as how well you did in life and how good you were to the people around you. That is why it is so important to live life purposefully: you will feel on the right track and it will be easier to keep a head high when obstacles do come your way!
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