Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder/CEO of Glitter & Razz Productions, spoke at Learning in Afterschool's How Kids Learn Conference in San Francisco on January 9, 2013 about igniting a compassion revolution by putting girls center stage.

1. This is what our kids are facing
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2. Our kids are facing:
• Bullying, relational aggression, other incidents
of power imbalance and misuse
• Paralyzing perfectionism and a fear of making
mistakes
• Isolation from their feelings & extreme self-
focus
• Intolerance and misunderstanding others from
different cultures and communities
• A serious compassion deficit
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3. A Serious Compassion Deficit
“The most important
problem our world faces
is a lack of compassion.
Compassion is a
prerequisite for building a
happy individual, a happy
society.“
- Dalai Lama
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4. The Compassion Revolution
“The seeds for
compassion were
sown by my mother.”
-Dalai Lama
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5. Why Girls?
“The evidence for a female
advantage in empathizing
comes from many different
areas. For example, given a free
choice of which toys to play
with, more girls than boys will
play with dolls, enacting social
and emotional themes…. This
suggests the girls are being
more sensitive to others.”
- Simon Baron-Cohen,
Cambridge University, “The
Essential Difference: The Male &
Female Brain”
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6. Why Girls?
“Here's where women differ from
men. If the other person is upset, or
the emotions are disturbing,
women's brains tend to stay with
those feelings. But men's brains do
something else: they sense the
feelings for a moment, then tune out
of the emotions and switch to other
brain areas that try to solve the
problem…Neither is better - both
have advantages.”
- Daniel Goleman, author of
“Emotional Intelligence” and “The
Brain and Emotional Intelligence”
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7. These are Go Girls!
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8. The Compassion Revolution
Putting Girls Center Stage
to Change the World
• Go Girls! Camp
• Shows & Retreats for
Kids & Families
• Girl Advocates
• Starring Celia
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9. Teaching Girls to be Emotional
Superheroes: Curriculum Partners
• Kidpower ® - People
Safety Skills
• Dr. Christine Carter –
Raising Happiness
• Vicki Dello Joio – The
Way of Joy
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10. Teaching Girls to be Emotional
Superheroes: The Skills of Go Girls!
• COLLABORATION
– Putting ideas together
– Say “YES!” to keep the fun going
• MANAGING BIG FEELINGS
– Noticing and labeling feelings in your body
– Kidpower ® Techniques of: walk away power, closed mouth power and
calm down power
– Mindfulness and Breathing
– Asking for help
– Saying “oh well, next time” to navigate disappointment
• BUILD POSITIVE SELF CONCEPT:
– Identifying as a “Go Girl!”
– Belonging to the group as part of the whole
– Taking compliments into your heart
– Positive self talk, celebrations, “I Feel Good About Myself”
• GRATITUDE & GENEROSITY :
– Key happiness practices countering entitlement & self-focus
– Gratitude = The power to turn around any situation
– Sharing your gifts with each other and the audience
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11. Teaching Girls to be Emotional
Superheroes: The Skills of Go Girls!
• MISTAKES ARE PART OF LEARNING
– Using the “Tower of Oops” as a place to hold mistakes
– Developing a growth mindset for success
• MANAGING CONFLICTS
– Kidpower ® Techniques to solve problems, confront
bullying, stand up for each other
– Emotion Coaching
– Developing healthy boundaries to dissolve barriers
• IMAGINATION
– Seeing a variety of choices
– Identifying multiple ways to solve a problem
– Expressing possibilities
• EMPATHY
– Noticing and interpreting facial expressions and body
language
– Perspective taking around how others might be feeling
– Practicing pro-social language
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12. Why Theater?
“Theatre is a form of
knowledge; it should and
can also be a means of
transforming society.
Theatre can help us build
our future, rather than just
waiting for it.”
– Augusto Boal, innovator,
politician, director &
founder of Theatre of the
Oppressed
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13. Why Theater?
• Imagine yourself as
Beanyone or anything
Anyone You Want to Be
• Take in the “goodyour voice,
Share stuff”
body & imagination
Share Your Creative Ideas
• PutPractice, Make
Your Ideas Together
Mistakes & Practice
Practice
Again
• Be witnessed by a
Perform for Others
loving audience
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14. Lynn Johnson, Co-Founder/CEO
gogirlscamp.com
glitterandrazz.com
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