You can help young girls become confident young women
Many girls learn to associate periods with secrecy, shame, humiliation and disgust, which impacts their maturing sense of self, body awareness and confidence. This then diminishes a girl’s outlook at school, at home, in her relationships and her general wellbeing. Celebration Day for Girls is designed to powerfully transform this deep cultural wound at it’s source.
By facilitating this workshop in your community you can help young girls become confident young women. Does this opportunity light you up?
Apply now to train as a Celebration Day for Girls facilitator
This training is offered to small groups of women who have the skills, background and passion to embrace this role.
While no specific prior professional training or practice is essential, it is expected that you have experience facilitating groups, and have explored menstrual cycle awareness in at least one of many possible ways. For instance, by tracking physical signs of fertility to understand fertile and infertile times in the cycle, by journaling with an awareness of the cycle to deepen your understanding of yourself, or by observation of the cycles of nature and how they may reflect your lived experience of the menstrual cycle.
2021 Facilitator Training Dates
EN PRÉSENTIEL Narbonne, France, 22-24 May 2021
avec Brigitte Laurent
Pour postuler en français en ligne, RENDEZ-VOUS ICI, or you can use the English application form above and below.
Vous pouvez télécharger le LIVRET D’INFORMATION 2021 FLP ici.
Pour en savoir plus sur la formation sur le site français CLIQUEZ ICI.
Remote Training by LIVE-WEBINAR
Fridays 16th April to 18th June 2021
Live sessions 7.00-9.00pm, AEST
Remote Training by LIVE-WEBINAR
10 weeks starting the week of 6th September 2021
Lodge your interest …
with an email or fill in an Application Form and we’ll keep you posted.
Our trainers
Australia: Kath Callinan-Moore and Janoel Liddy
New Zealand: Angela Fraser
UK & Europe: Emily Stewart (except French/ Spanish speaking areas)
Canada and the US: Rachel Pilgrim
France and French speaking territories: Brigitte Laurent
Spain and Spanish speaking territories: Mariana Zavery
WHAT DO FACILITATORS SAY ABOUT CELEBRATION DAY FOR GIRLS?
As a holistic health practitioner and birth doula, I feel the Celebration Day for Girls program is excellent preventative health care for women. Learning to listen to and trust the natural cycles of the body at the threshold of menarche, creates a strong foundation of wisdom for the girls to reference as they journey through the life spectrum as women – whatever challenges may present. Melinda Whyman
The workshops are a joy to facilitate. I love watching girl’s confidence grow and their curiosity develop until they are walking out at the end of the day with their hearts full and their heads held high. Empowering girls and fostering their connection with their mum is a privilege and a gift that just keeps on giving. The research states it, these workshops prove it – and the Mum’s feedback reinforces it every time – that a positive introduction to menstruation really supports ongoing mother daughter connections. Ange Fraser
HOW DID IT BEGIN?
In 2000 Jane Bennett created the Celebration Day for Girls workshop for girls and their mothers in her local community of Castlemaine in Central Victoria. Through word-of-mouth the popularity of this workshop grew and by 2012 the need for more facilitators had become urgent. Now in 2020 Celebration Day for Girls is available in over 20 countries, with facilitators adapting this celebration of the near-universal female experience of menarche and menstruation to a variety of cultural needs and backgrounds.
As facilitator numbers grow and their reach into different communities spreads, more and more girls and their mothers are able to enjoy this unique day and the many benefits it offers.
The inherent transformational significance of puberty and menarche, coupled with the intention and commitment to offer our very best to girls and their mother/carer, has seen this workshop evolve into a unique and powerful day offered widely by an exceptional group of women.
I believe A Celebration Day for Girls meets a vital need at a very specific time of life, for girls as well as for their mums and families. I am incredibly proud of the women who have joined us to offer this workshop in their communities. They are inspired and creative and manage the sensitivities of this subject with grace, skill and empathy. Jane Bennett
WHAT DO TRAINEES SAY?
The CDG facilitator training was absolutely fantastic!! I had pretty high expectations but I have to say that it was even better than I could ever have imagined. There was warmth, love, support, tears and so much laughter, and I believe that it was healing for all of us there, even though that wasn’t the intent. I feel I now have the tools and skills to run my own workshops and I have the support and network of some truly amazing women to help me deliver the course to it’s full potential. I cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone who wants to work in this field, it was amazing!” Kate
Thanks for providing an absolutely fantastic, supportive, inspiring, and thought-provoking training. Jac
The CDG training expanded my world and empowered me. I drove home feeling as if I had so many more options, both professionally and personally. I felt even more passionate about the importance of this work. I feel the potential of deep cultural change from our training together and for every CDG that will flow from it. The training offered a safe and nourishing space in which connections, confidence and supported growth were natural outcomes. I now glow with the thought we share the vision of this work with clarity. Ingrid
Attending the facilitator training for A Celebration Day For Girls was both a culmination of many years personal work leading me there and an exciting new beginning all in one. The days were filled with delicious information presented in the womanly art form of circle. There were many spaces of sharing created between all the wonderful women present and Jane so wisely held the space prompting our sharing and learning and moving us through the great wealth of knowledge she has to offer. If this work calls to you, then this is one of the most exciting and satisfying experiences you will find. It was a training so full of generosity that I left replete with my creative juices burning and the confidence to begin the sharing of A Celebration Day For Girls. Anne
Can I make an income running Celebration Day for Girls?
A REALITY CHECK: Anticipating bookings and income from running Celebration Day for Girls workshops
We understand that your interest in the role of Celebration Day for Girls facilitator derives from your commitment to women’s and girl’s wellbeing, and the importance of positive and skilful preparation and support for menarche and cycling life.
That said it’s likely that you’re also interested in adding this workshop to your suite of professional offerings, or as an extra to your day job, and for the supplementary income it may provide. And this may indeed come to pass.
In the same way that it takes time, for a newly trained herbalist or acupuncturist to develop a reputation and a reliable income, establishing a regular calendar of Celebration Day for Girls workshops takes time and effort and a willingness to take many small steps.
In time some facilitators regularly run 5 to 8 workshops a year, while others only ever planned to run 1 or 2 a year for specific groups. What is unlikely to happen is that you will quickly and easily fill monthly CDGs soon after you train. This is no reflection on the value of the workshop or your ability or marketing skills, though all these help of course.
As an indication of possible income the current fee per mother/daughter pair is $AU165, or $AU125 concession, in Australia.
