A Movement of Ideas for
Growth Results
London, November 2015
Girl Guide & Girl Scout experience:
the fundamentals
Andii Verhoeven
“Innovation is change
that unlocks new value”
Jamie Notter
“The value of identity, of
course, is that so often
with it comes purpose”
Richard Grant
“An innovation, to grow from within, has to
be based on an intact tradition”
Yo-Yo Ma
“Today’s innovation is tomorrow’s tradition”
Lidia Bastianich
PURPOSE
VALUES
METHOD
IMPACT (PURPOSE)
LEARNING (& VALUE) OUTCOMES
METHOD
ACTIVITIES
“education of the on-coming generation to international goodwill”
(Scouting) “encourages self-development on the part of the individual from within.”
“the end is character with a purpose.”
“get each pupil to learn for himself instead
of instructing him by driving knowledge
into him in a stereotyped system”
“by encouraging the child in its
natural desires, instead of instructing
it in what you think it ought to do”
“Let us…keep the higher aims in the forefront, not let ourselves get
too absorbed in the steps... Field efficiency, backwoodsmanship,
camping, hiking, good turns, jamboree comradeship are all means,
not the end.”
All girls and young women are valued
and take action to change the world
To enable girls and young women to
develop their fullest potential as
responsible citizens of the world
INTEGRITY
CITIZENSHIP
SPIRITUALITY
ENDS
Our purpose and the outcomes our method creates for young
people, are as relevant today as 100 years ago. But we must
articulate them clearly in modern context and make them heart of
our strategy.
Our purpose is not to change the world.
MEANS
Method is everything – do your Leaders understand the outcomes it
creates? Do they use it effectively?
Our activities can, and must change, to best meet the ends in a
modern world, for today’s girls
If young people don’t want the experience,
we won’t grow.
“The craft and ceremonial and paraphernalia…has its appeal for
every lad…It is by using these attractions as the gilt that the pill
of education can be administered.”
“Motion pictures have an enormous attraction for boys…the point is
how to utilise films to the best advantage for our ends…we should
endeavour to see what there is of value in motion pictures and
should then utilise them for the purpose of training the boy”
“A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes.
He uses food the fish likes.”
Innovating on the “means”
In small groups: (15 mins)
1) Choose an “end”; a learning outcome
that contributes to achieving our
purpose.
2) Brainstorm ways you currently meet
that end in your Association
Move to another group’s “end” (15 mins)
Innovate on the “means” suggested by the
previous group…
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Is it effective?
How could we do it differently to better meet the
end?
Is it fun? Do girls today want to do it?
RECONSIDER
REFINE
RETAIN
Is it most effective and relevant way to achieve purpose today?
Do girls today want to do it?
youthlearning@wagggs.org