1. Flexible Brownie GuidingOr
How to do things differently

2. Aim of the session
The aim of this session is to look at different ways we can offer Brownie Guiding to all the girls who wish to join

3. Objectives
At the end of this session, you will have had the opportunity to:
Think about other ways we can do Guiding
Come up with some radical solutions for your area
Take away ideas and agree an action
Ask questions

4. Guiding in 2015
Girl-led Guiding
Good Guiding
Growing Guiding
Flexible Guiding

5. Eliminate the negative!
They won’t all get in!’
‘We have run out of venues’
‘Brownies want weekly meetings’
‘It’ll never work!’

6. Accentuate the positive
Statement cards on table Tell rest of group Respond – positive statements only!

7. Rules of the game!
No ‘More leaders – more units’!!
No ‘They’!
No complaints about ‘Join Us’ or GO

8. Obstacles & barriers
Not Girlguiding policy
Making up own ‘rules’
Outdated practice
Lack of communication
Lack of flexibility

9. How flexible can we be?
In pairs: Choose one of the two scenarios. Come up with as many radical solutions as possible.

10. How flexible can we be?
Now share your solutions with the rest of your group. What are the benefits? What would you need to think about?

11. Your role
Local solutions to local issues
Innovation & imagination
Removing myths, legends and barriers
Taking action – getting on with it!

12. Your tasks
Think about your priorities
Think about radical, innovative solutions
Resources (remember no ‘more leaders, more units’!)
Selling it – to parents, girls, leaders

13. Your ideas, your solution
What would work in your area, and why? What support would you need, and from whom?