Welcome to Journey Of Young Women!

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About Journey Of Young Women

We train women to lead Mentoring Circles for cis girls, trans girls and non-binary kids ... so young people everywhere may thrive on their journey to adulthood.

Journey of Young Women connects and supports a global community of mentors who guide young people on their transformative journey through puberty and adolescence. Our mentors offer circle-based mentorship and rites of passage to their mentees

We also aim to engage, educate and inspire the general public with information, ideas, resources and conversation.

To learn about our Mentor Training, read on!

Mentoring Circle by JOYW artist Karen MacKenzie

JOYW's Mentor Training

Our Mentoring Circles transform young lives.

In JOYW's Mentor Training, you'll learn to create  welcoming, lively spaces for girls and non-binary kids to learn skills to navigate the oft-fierce terrain of puberty and adolescence. Because children shine as we:

• encourage them to be who they truly are
• help them claim their voices and their values
• advocate for healthy relationships & boundaries
• show them how take charge of their well-being

The difference is palpable to all who meet them.

Our Mentoring Circles transform families and communities.

The ripple effect is astounding.  Your mentees' new skills directly impact family, friends, and schoolmates. 

When other adults catch on to the positive changes in these young people, they will ask you to start Mentoring Circles in their neighborhood, school, community center or youth group...

... and so we also train and support you to lead Mentoring Circles for boys and all-genders. 

Every young person needs and deserve guidance from a wise, caring adult ... and each of us has gifts to offer young people!

Ripple Effect by Ryann Carey

JOYW Mentoring transforms YOUR world.

Gain confidence with new skills and knowledge.

Revel in insights, healing and personal transformation

If you're a parent, expect your relationships to feel more connected, mutual, and joyful.

Earn a sustainable income as you become a community change-maker.

What will you learn in the Mentor Training?

You’ll learn everything about Mentoring Circles for girls and non-binary kids aged 8-14: logistics, safety, rhythm, prep, teaching messages, activities, fee-setting, and marketing.

If you wish, we'll also help you lead boys groups, all-genders groups, and Parent Circles. All of this is included.

You'll learn how to help your mentees take charge of their physical, emotional and social well-being: positive body image, expressing emotions, healthy relationships, consent, sex and reproductive literacy, menstrual literacy, cultivating intuition, and more.

How does the Mentoring Girls Certificate Training work?

Our core content is the thirteen Teaching Videos which you may watch as many times as you wish at your own pace.

You receive over 100 handouts which supplement the Teaching Videos.

To earn a Certificate of Completion, take notes of the Teaching Videos and complete three assignments.  JOYW Instructors offer a detailed review of each.

Students also may join as many of our optional Zoom meetups as they wish. Called "Virtual Red Tents", offered several times each month. Most are recorded and those videos can be viewed anytime.

"Ask Me Anything" meetups are a time for questions, requests and feedback of all sorts.

How does the Mentoring Girls Essential Training compare?

What's exactly the same as the Certificate Training:

• Teaching Videos

• handouts

• assignments

• personalized note-posting document

• Zoom meetups

What's different about the Essential Training: 

• We do not review your notes and assignments, so you do not earn a Certificate of Completion.

• You do not have access to the Red Tent Video Library, the recordings of our Zoom meetups

• Tuition is substantially lower.

Is leading Mentoring Circles the most rewarding and impactful social enterprise on the planet?

Our graduates and active mentors say so!

Won't you join us to discover this for yourself?

Let me know if you have other questions! I'm happy to help.

I, Katharine, live on Dakota and Anishinaabe land near Bdoté, the meeting of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, in Mni Sota Makoče (called Minnesota, USA by colonizers). Thank you to the Sovereign Nations upon whose lands these teachings are practiced. JOYW team members also live in the UK and Australia.

I would love to hear from you!

Please write me at [email protected].