Brave Space Groundwork:
Learn practices and mindsets to create brave spaces for the youth you serve.
This professional development experience is for youth-serving professionals.
Date:
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Time:
3:30 – 5:30 PM Pacific
4:30 – 6:30 PM Mountain
5:30 – 7:30 PM Central
6:30 – 8:30 PM Eastern
Price
$10, $25, or $50 – Includes curriculum you can use right away.
The cost of Brave Space Groundwork for us is $50 per participant. We understand that different folks are navigating varying levels of access to funding for professional development opportunities. Our sliding scale offers you the opportunity to pay the amount that aligns with the funds that you have available to cover the cost.
In this professional development workshop, we’ll explore what youth serving professionals have told us they need most right now: practical strategies for creating brave spaces and centering students’ social-emotional learning needs.
Receive the following four lessons you can use right away to nurture warm and authentic partnerships with youth and center racial and gender inclusion in social-emotional learning. The lessons include:
- Generating community agreements
- Identifying comfort zones
- Modeling vulnerability through a hot seat activity
- Guiding youth to explore what makes them unique.
Participants will:
- Define what a “brave space” is and explore best practices for creating one in the spaces where you serve youth
- Engage with activities and use practices, lessons, and activities that cultivate a brave space for youth
- Identify how brave spaces foster community, build accountability, and promote healing
A foundational piece of our work at Girls Leadership is creating brave spaces — communities where girls feel seen and accepted by peers and adults — in person and online. Brave spaces are crucial because they allow for vulnerability, the courage to take risks, mess up, reflect, and recover, all while still belonging in the community. All of us can learn and grow as humans and leaders if we have supportive relationships that give us the ability to be brave.
This experiential module will equip educators with lessons, instructional practices, and mindsets to create brave spaces for their youth.
Brave Space Groundwork and all Girls Leadership curriculum are co-created with girls and developed by Girls Leadership’s training and curriculum experts to equip youth-serving professionals with the tools to bring the curriculum to life with youth. Rooted in the voices and experiences of girls, the curriculum has been tested with educators and students to ensure it meets their needs and supports meaningful and inclusive communities.
Need resources right now?
Try 26 SEL check-ins for In-Person Learning This resource is intended as a foundation to ground students in a brave space.
Join us for an upcoming Professional Development Training or Learning Retreat.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I receive credits for this professional development?
If your supervising organization approves this professional development to meet CEUs, we can approve documentation that certifies your hours of participation.
Who is the professional development for?
The sessions are designed for educators, administrators, district leaders, youth-serving professionals, counselors, and formal volunteers who work regularly with youth in grades 6–12/ ages 10-18.
I’m not sure if I’m ready to register, who can answer my questions? Thank you for your interest in this training. Please fill out this form if you have questions or need additional information to support your registration and our National Engagement Director, Amal Aziz will get in touch with you.
“So far, this has been the best workshop I have been to. Why? Because they made it safe; gave us data and taught us important concepts through visual & auditory tools; had us reflect; was interactive and gave us tangible lessons to implement in our work environment. Hit all markers! Thank you. ”
-Participant from a previous Brave Spaces workshop
If you’re looking for additional resources and curriculum to support your work, here are our professional development programs and free resources.
