Care about the futureThe 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

• 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

The Green Girl Guides has a future if we can offer the girls…

… 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.

Seven insights Three stratgies Six concepts

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

Insight #2Each local group is an cultural island

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

Insight #4The girls want to be challenged

Insight #5The girls need an adult at the steering wheel

Insight #6Personal invitation & flexibility is

important tools to engage new leaders

Insight #7The girls need a place

where they are still allowed to be children

Insight #1

The broad spectrum of activities is a weakness rather than a strength

De grønne pigespejdere

Fritidsklubben

Why be a girl guide if you can join a club?

Insigth #1

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 #2

Each local group is a cultural islands

”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]

”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]

Insight # 2

Each local group is a cultural island

Focus at…

… strengthening the mutual identity across the sections

Insight #3

The girls have a need to show off symbolic capital

The Green Girl Guides

Time lineBuilding up/The reward

A ’dangerous

’ experience

Life 07

To learn some-thing

difficult

= badge/prize given in connection to activity

Insight # 3

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 #4

The girls want to be challenged

Top 5 Camping Nightly relays (a little

scary) Climbing/Rappelling Camp fires Playing (games)

Insight # 4

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 #5

The girls need a leader/an adult at the steering wheel

Choices in school

Choices about the future

Choices around friends

Choices at home

Choice of spare time activities

The every day life of young people today

Choices at guide meetings

”What are we going to do today?”

At guide meetings

”This is what we are gouing to do today”

What the girls’ need look like

Insight #5

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 #6

Personal invitation and flexibility are important tools to engage new leaders

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

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

View on the leader job

View on result/’reward’

View on responsibillity

View on commitment

Insight # 6

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 #7

The girls need a place, where they are still allowed to be children

Child

Adult

Insight # 7

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 STRATGIES1. The broad spectrum of activities is

a weakness rather than a strength

2. Each local group is an cultural island

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

4. The girls want to be challenged

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

6. Personal invitation and flexibility is important tools to engage new leaders

7. The girls need a place where they are still allowed to be children

1. Create a stronger ACTIVITY PROFIL Focus on the challenging experience

2. Strengthen the NETWORK Break with the sections ”island culture”’

3. Create a new LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE Think ’peer to peer’ in a new way

GIRL LIFE

GIRL LIFE

’HOME’’HOME’ ’OUT’’OUT’ ’HOME’’HOME’

Introduction to acitivity

Reflection over

activity

Welcome Round offActivity

Activity

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