Girl Boss & Maker Camp

Radiant Girls offers empowerment camps and leadership programs for tween and teen girls. Our camps focus on teaching yoga, cooking, leadership skills, emotional intelligence, confidence, kindness, mindfulness, self-esteem, and team building. Our goal is to help young women grow into confident, kind, and empowered individuals.

This Girls Boss event is a unique leadership camp designed to teach girls the basic fundamentals of being an entrepreneur. Through fun and exciting games and activities, girls will design a product or service and practice creativity in marketing, collaboration, and team activities. The week builds up to set the stage for their pop-up event. Activities include art & design, photography, acting games, team challenges, mindfulness, outdoor activities, and just downright fun! The event will close with a group celebration to recognize each girl for their hard work, unique skills, and dedication to the project and reflect on the fun and friends they made along the way!

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This is NOT actually a camp!

This is a personal development program designed specifically for girls.

Our program's essence comes from the desire to teach girls the framework for success and happiness to start off right! Each segment of the day incorporates strategies from NLP, CBT, DBT, and the best minds in psychology - like Tony Robbins, Byron Katie, Brene Brown, and Abraham Hicks - just to name a few! Our programs are not intended to be fun and easy. We will push, challenge, and stretch girls to discover their strengths, and face their fears. Some of our activities are designed to have them struggle, get stuck, and maybe even fail. Experiential learning is the basis of everything we do. It's designing a controlled environment for learning by experience and guiding reflecting for understanding. Bringing a group of girls together, and getting them out of their comfort zones isn't always smooth sailing (especially on day 2!), but by the end of the week, these girls are genuinely proud of themselves, with new skills, tools, and solid support system of friends! Imagine what the world would be like if all girls had the chance to discover these skills!

Making Memories

Although each week is unique, below are just some of the fantastic activities she will experience at camp. With all of this packed into a week, you can be confident our camp will shift the way she sees the world and lays the foundation for girls to grow into healthy young women.

• Creating a Pop-Up Store
• Designing Products
• Cricut Maker Demos
• Store Theme & Design
• Photography
• Bracelet Making
• Grand Opening Celebration
• Leadership Games
• Tie Dye
• Decision Making
• Skills & Passion Workshop
• Cooking & Baking
• Team work games
• Dream Boards
• Making Smoothies and Desserts
• Creative Art Design
• Mindfulness & Meditation
• Board Breaking
• Partner Yoga
• Creating Dream Catchers
• Making a Commercial

Typical Day at Radiant Girls

Every day has a special theme, leadership skills, life skills and relationship skills built into each segment of the day. These important lessons are carefully interwoven into all of our activities, making learning both fun and experiential.

9:00 Morning Welcome & Icebreaker Games

9:30 Smoothie Challenge & Daily Leadership Theme

10:00 Morning Movement - Pilates, Yoga, Zumba, or Forest Trek

11:00 Personal Growth Games/Activity & Coaching Debrief

12:00 Lunch & Free Time

12:45 Afternoon Ice Breaker & Empowerment Theme

1:15 Team Building Game/Activity & Coaching Debrief

2:15 Art Project & Journal Writing

3:15 Afternoon Snack & Daily Coaching Wrap Up

3:45 Girl Talk & End of Day Fun

We will have inspiring special guests join us each week. They are typically women with an inspiring story, professionals in their field of expertise, and teach a skill and its value to our campers. Guests include Olympic Athletes, Authors, Acting and Improv Teachers, Nutritionists, Holistic Aesthicians, Self Defence Instructors, Mindfulness Teachers, Trades Professionals, Musicians, Entrepreneurs, Teen Influencers, Art Professionals, and more!

Our Mission & Philosophy

How our programs improve girls lives

Our programs were designed to create an environment that brings girls together in a safe space to discuss the things that matter most to them at this stage of life. We recognize that some girls stumble through this stage, trying to figure out how to understand themselves and the world around them with little skills or support. We incorporate girls' hot topics into our teachings while providing them with a framework to navigate these challenging years ahead. Having a healthy foundation to build upon through your teen years has been a game changer for so many of our girls.

Some of the girls who attend our programs secretly suffer from anxiety, depression, struggle with friendships, or poor self-confidence. We have girls who may struggle to make solid friendships, trust others or find it hard to open up and ask for help. Some girls have anger issues or have resentment that is bottled up. And some are yearning to get comfortable in their changing bodies.

In addition to personal growth, our programs give girls opportunities to develop leadership skills. In a safe environment, we challenge them with strategy, communication, creativity, decision-making, self-advocacy, and teamwork experiences.

Our special guests are a big part of our experiential leadership development. We partner with successful women from our community who are passionate about introducing girls to their skills and expertise. These incredible opportunities provide experiences and connections to inspire their future endeavours.

Our philosophy is grounded in Neurolinguistic Programming, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Family Therapist Chloe Madannes, Tony Robbins, Brene Brown, Louise Hay, Byron Katie, Heart Math Institute, the Success Institute and many others. Our staff continues to grow and learn each year, improving our programming over the past 15 years.

Our programs have been vetted locally by youth organizations such as The Reach Out Centre for Kids, Nelson Youth Centre, Girl Guides of Canada and Children's Aid Society to name a few. Our programs have been taught in both Private and Public Elementary and Secondary Schools in Ontario, Quebec and Calgary, and Internationally in USA, Europe and Indonesia. And we offer internship opportunities for students in Child and Youth Development Programs at Humber and Brock University.

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