What if the most marginalized youth in your community felt like they belonged? What if these youth felt seen, valued, and celebrated by both peers and adults, and not only participated but thrived while learning about themselves and their relationships? Girls Leadership’s free professional development webinar starts your journey to that future. We provide the teaching approach and curriculum to connect with all students. When you’re connected, you can teach them to build healthy relationships with each other, and they gain the confidence, skills, and ability to make change in the world.
You’ll get both practical tools and lessons to use right away. Practice addressing student anxiety by teaching them to connect with their environment (the floor, chairs, and table for example), deepen your understanding of effective community agreements, check-ins that build empathy, and demystify conversations about identity and culture. Experience and learn to facilitate the Girls Leadership curriculum’s Relax, Risk, & Reckless activity, where adults and students alike learn to identify when they are relaxed, when they are activated, and the potential for growth in that middle ground of risk.
Price
Free
Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Pacific
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Mountain
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Central
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern
Facilitator: Courtney Torres, Chief Program Officer
Why This Works:
- Concrete, experiential entry: Instead of abstract talk, this webinar will guide professionals through doing, which is a powerful way to shift awareness and belief.
- Low-language, full participation: As one educator shared, letting kids move to “snakes!” or “pickles!” zones enables quieter or cautious youth to show up on their own terms. See how the Girls Leadership curriculum’s Relax, Risk, & Reckless comfort zone activity was put into action by Ms. Anna
- Builds relational scaffolding: When everyone maps where their comfort begins and ends, it becomes easier to co-create safer, more inclusive group norms.
Testimonials:
“Sweet, connected space. Especially appreciated your explicit explanations of how you are using trauma-informed practices. This is good learning to understand how that is done in practice, not just words. Thank you!!”
“This was extremely thought-provoking and has really made me think about how I will interact with black and latinx girls in the future. The workshop also helped me understand different types of bias and to be aware of my own blindspots.”
“The push has been all around trauma informed care (it is a buzzword). To think about extending it and considering healing-centered is eye opening.”
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