The Girl Scout Leadership Experience

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience engages girls in discovering self, connecting with others, and taking action to make the world a better place. All Girl Scout experiences are intentionally designed to tie to one or more of the 15 national leadership outcomes (PDF), or benefits, categorized under three keys to leadership.

The Three Keys to Leadership

• Discover: Girls understand themselves and their values and use their knowledge and skills to explore the world.
• Connect: Girls care about, inspire, and team with others locally and globally.
• Take Action: Girls act to make the world a better place.

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience provides three processes for adults partnering with girls to incorporate: Girl Led, Cooperative Learning, and Learning by Doing.

The Journeys

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is made easy and fun for girls and adults through the journey approach.

• Journeys provide an important foundation for each level in Girl Scouting for girls and volunteers.
• The journeys have been created to provide meaningful and fun experiences centered on the three keys to leadership for all girls.
• Journeys help girls to frame topical issues that are all around them, with Girl Scout values.
• In partnership with adults who utilize the Girl Scout processes, girls encounter a safe environment, both physically and emotionally.
• Girls become aware of women who have used their talents, skills, and abilities, including celebrity status, to take raise public awareness on issues such as discrimination and personal rights.
• Girls see examples of females who have spoken and acted with courage, confidence, and character.

As girls progress through the levels from Daisy to Ambassador, their awards signify attaining new and higher levels of knowledge and skills, and ultimately a deeper understanding of what it means to be a leader who makes a difference in the world.

Adults, learn more about the Journeys.
Girls, to learn more click on the Journey Maps picture or your grade level.

The Pathways

Girl Scout Pathways are the different ways girls and volunteers participate in Girl Scouting. Learn more.

National Program Transition

Girl Scouts of the USA is in the process of introducing new and revised program resources, with the goal of a Movement-wide transition to the new resources by September 2012. Learn more.