Today's effective leaders stress collaboration, inclusion, and committment to improving the world around them. Girls themselves tell us that a leader is defined not only by the qualities and skills she hones, but also by how she uses those skills and qualities to make a difference in the world -- to achieve transformational change! The Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE) -- borne out of years of research and development -- provides the framework for defining what girls do in Girl Scouting, how they do it, and who will benefit. For a quick overview, click here.

When you are ready for more, here are two additional resources:

• Intro to the GSLE from GSUSA
• A detailed look at the Girl Scout Leadership Experience

The new program curriculum, Journeys, were designed with the Girl Scout Leadership Experience built in, so by doing Journeys, we are effortlessly delivering the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Here are grade-level guides that show how we can become more intentional about facilitating the Girl Scout Leadership Experience in all of our Girl Scout activities:

• Facilitating the GSLE in Daisy Activities
• Facilitating the GSLE in Brownie Activities
• Facilitating the GSLE in Junior Activities
• Facilitating the GSLE in Cadette Activities
• Facilitating the GSLE in Senior Activities
• Facilitating the GSLE in Ambassador Activities

For those of you who have completed the Journeys Training (Course #203) where we practiced becomming intentional about applying the GSLE, here is the worksheet we used.

• GSLE'ing Worksheet (PDF format)
• GSLE'ing Worksheet (Word format)