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The Journeys Are Coming!

The new Girl Scout Leadership Experience is based on research about today’s girls and enables caring adults to guide girls through their own leadership journeys. Journeys support the Girl Scout mission of building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

New Grade Levels!
Based on the latest research of what girls need for healthy development, GSUSA has changed to six (6) grade levels:

What's a Journey?
Journeys unfold through a sequence of activities and discussions that add up to one giant adventure. No matter how much time girls spend on a journey, the whole is always greater than any single part. When a Girl Scout journey comes to a close, girls and their adult guides truly feel a sense of accomplishment—and come to cherish the awards they've earned along the way.

Each Girl Scout grade level—including the new highest level, Ambassadors—will have the opportunity to enjoy its own unique journey from the It's Your World—Change It! series. In these premier journeys, Taking Action has a starring role.

In each journey, fun and challenging experiences mingle in that special way that makes Girl Scouting unique from school and other extracurricular activities. Journeys reach to the core of Girl Scouting and its mission of girl leadership. They dip back into beloved Girl Scout traditions—and take time to create new ones. Journeys also reach forward, with cutting-edge information and design.

Journeys invite girls to:
• explore leadership the Girl Scout way (Discover + Connect + Take Action)
• develop leadership skills they can use immediately and all their lives
• reflect on their adventures and apply them to daily life

What's in the girls' book?

The girls' book is a unique journey companion that is rich in Girl Scout history, traditions, and values. It offers opportunities to imagine and create through:
• Stories, quizzes, games, and amazing facts and discoveries
• Open spaces to collect ideas, memories and mementos
• Reflections and questions that get girls thinking about their own lives and the world around them
• Team-building experiences that foster that special sense of belonging so integral to Girl Scouts

These books can be enjoyed by girls and their friends and family.

What's in the adult books?

The companion "how-to" guide for adult volunteers offers key information about the journey, its awards, and its leadership benefits, and step-by-step sample plans for how journey sessions can unfold as girls meet. Adults in partnership with girls can expand or condense these plans as they like because there's plenty more to do and it's all built right into the journey books.

The adult guides also feature sections on Girl Scout history and traditions, as well as tips on safety and understanding girls at each particular grade level. And they contain information on what to do if a girl misses a session or an award step. They also offer inspirational quotes and ways for volunteers to consider their own thoughts on leadership.

It's Your World—Change It!
Introducing The First Series of Journeys


Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden
In this journey for kindergarteners and first-graders, a favorite pastime—gardening—meets the Girl Scout Law. The result is a storybook world of flowers and little girls who, together, do great things. Girl Scout Daisies will especially enjoy meeting the colorful, global characters who teach them to live the Girl Scout Law. The adult "how-to" guide offers Garden Story Time tips, key ideas for garden projects, and all the Girl Scout history and traditions needed for an adventure starring Amazing Daisy, a new flower friend for Girl Scout Daisies.


Brownie Quest
What are the most important keys for a Girl Scout to own? This quest, which has second- and third-graders traveling along two colorful trails—one they can enjoy on their own and one they explore with their Girl Scout group—answers that question in a very special way. Along the Quest, Girl Scout Brownies will meet three new friends and a bright and shining elf—in a brand new Brownie story meant to inspire their own Take Action Projects. The accompanying adult guide offers all the tips needed to create and maintain a sense of fun and mystery along the entire Quest. Instructions for a Brownie Brainstorm, Brownie Team Trade, and other activities ensure a quality and fun time for the girls.


Agent of Change
Power. In this journey, there's a whole spiral of it waiting for Girl Scout Juniors. The journey is filled with ceremonies and circles, real-life heroines, and special new characters, including the fashion-savvy spider named Dez. Along the way, girls learn how their own power combines into team power and then moves out to become community power (kind of like how Dez weaves her web from the inside out). The journey's centerpiece is a comic story, of girl heroines who will inspire the Juniors as they take action to improve their own community.


aMAZE
Life is a maze of relationships and this journey has Girl Scout Cadettes maneuvering through all its twists and turns to find true friendships, plenty of confidence, and maybe even peace. The adult guide offers tips for talking about relationship issues with girls, and pointers for understanding Cadettes' development and creating a safe, welcoming space.


GIRLtopia
Girl Scout Seniors know the world is not ideal. This journey is their chance to imagine a perfect world—for girls. They're invited to create their vision as an art project—in any medium they choose. Then they'll take action to make their vision a reality. Leaders, after all, are visionaries!


Your Voice, Your World: The Power of Advocacy
How often have you seen something that really needed to be changed and wondered, "Why isn't someone doing something about that?" This journey gives Girl Scout Ambassadors a way to be that someone—an advocate with the power to start the first flutter of real and lasting change. While creating their own "butterfly effect," they'll gain an array of skills—such as networking, planning, and learning to speak up for what they believe—that will benefit them as they prepare for life beyond high school.