Train-the-Trainer Program

Since 2015, Girls Gearing Up has been bringing our innovative, holistic leadership program to teenage girls around the world, built around four pillars: build confidence, get equipped, be inspired, and take action. Now, we're making our expert curriculum available to you and your community.

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What you'll get

Bring GGU's proven, holistic leadership curriculum into your own community, with the training and support to implement it with confidence.

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Access to Our Curriculum

ABURY GGU's proven holistic leadership curriculum, crafted over 10 years by expert psychologists, educators, and teen coaches specifically for teenage girls.

Expert Training & Support

Expert in-person and online training that supports you as you implement our curriculum with young people in your community.

Resources to Launch & Sustain

Essential resources to help you successfully launch and sustain your program. Materials include publicity and advertising resources, tools to measure your program’s impact, and practical resources to help you manage logistics and plan everything you need to run your program effectively, including custom participant workbooks and t-shirts.

A Global Network

Join an international network of educators, trainers, and organizations working to empower the next generation of female leaders.

The curriculum

26 sessions | 90 minutes each | 5 modules
Every session is ready-to-use with goals, a materials list, a timed plan, scripts, and facilitator notes.

Module 1: Creating Community

Create a safe space where girls can step outside their comfort zone and grow, building trust, belonging, and shared community guidelines.

Module 2: Unleashing Our Unlimited Potential

Build confidence, resilience, self-belief, and a growth mindset.

Module 3: Cultivating Leadership Skills

Develop and practice essential real-world leadership skills such as public speaking and project management.

Module 4: Leading and Changemaking

Explore your leadership style and and learn about the UN Sustainable Development Goals, deciding what type of leader you want to be and what type of change you want to make.

Module 5: Preparing Your Personal Path Forward

Practical, future-oriented skills such as time management, financial literacy, and job interviewing.

The ripple effect

The curriculum is built so its impact reaches beyond the sessions and into the community.

Group Impact Project

Participants work together on a project that makes a positive impact in their community, putting leadership skills into action.

Personal Changemaker Action Plan

Each participant leaves with a personal changemaker action plan, a concrete step toward making a difference on an issue that she cares about.

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Who it's for

Whether you're a teacher, youth worker, or nonprofit employee, our Train-the-Trainer program equips you to deliver GGU's leadership curriculum as an afterschool program, academy, or another format, adapted to your own community's context.

Flexible training, built around you

Every Train-the-Trainer partnership is customized to your needs. The GGU team works with you whatever your local context may be, with curriculum and materials adapted to your local context and resources.

Ready to bring GGU to your community?

By equipping you to deliver our curriculum, we multiply our impact far beyond what we could reach alone, reaching more girls, in more communities, in ways adapted to their own context.

Email us at info@girlsgearingup.org or fill out the form below to start the conversation.