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Summer 2025

Teach GWN

In this journey, members of the GWN community will develop curriculum and facilitate a community studio for one or more cycles within GWN’s Collaboratory structure. Each cycle involves facilitating three community studios, one per month. Participants will gain valuable skills in leadership, teaching, and community building. Mentees and mentors can facilitate a community studio either solo (if they are 18 or older) or together as a pair.

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Teach GWN Courses

The Teach GWN journey offers three courses: one that supports you in developing your curriculum and facilitating community studios, another that focuses on enhancing cultural competence, and a third that covers best practices in mentoring, which will help you effectively guide and support participants during studio sessions.

Courses:

  • Teach GWN: Facilitating Community StudiosThis course provides training in the techniques and best practices for leading and managing community studio sessions. It focuses on creating engaging and productive environments that support learning and collaboration among participants..
  • GWN Toolkit: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging
    This course equips participants with essential strategies and tools to foster a more inclusive and equitable environment. Through interactive content and practical exercises, learners will develop skills to enhance diversity and promote a sense of belonging within their communities.
  • GWN Toolkit: Mentoring Best Practices
    This course provides participants with effective strategies and techniques for successful mentoring relationships. It covers key practices for guiding, supporting, and empowering mentees to achieve their goals and thrive in their personal and professional development.
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Teach GWN Mentoring

Mentees and mentors in the Teach GWN Journey will be paired for at least one cycle. Each pair will meet for a minimum of two hour-long sessions per month. Mentees will either develop curriculum for their community studio with guidance from their mentors or collaborate with their mentors to develop and facilitate a community studio together. This journey is open to mentor/mentee pairs, peer-to-peer pairs, and members who have been mentees or mentors in the past.

 

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Teach GWN Community Experiences

Mentees and mentors in the Teach GWN Journey are required to teach three community studios per cycle, attend one training session and one facilitator meetup session. Additionally, participants are asked to attend one community studios led by their fellow facilitators. The weekday, time, and exact dates for your facilitated studio sessions will be determined based on your schedule before the journey begins.

Please see below for the live virtual meeting dates for Teaching GWN’s 2024 Fall cycle.

Fall cycle:

  • Teach GWN Orientation: Tuesday, 10/15/2024, 7 pm ET
  • Facilitator Meet-up: Saturday, 12/14, 6 pm ET
  • November studio period: 11/12-11/25
  • December studio period: 12/9-12/20
  • January studio period: 1/13-1/27

Spring cycle:

  • Teach GWN Orientation: Tuesday, 2/18/2025, 7 pm ET
  • Facilitator Meet-up: Saturday, 4/19, 6 pm ET
  • March studio period: 3/10-3/21
  • April studio period: 4/14-4/25
  • May studio period: 5/12-5/23
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What Past Participants Have to Say

“The community that Girls Write Now has and how much I learn on a daily basis. Girls Write Now has helped me so much throughout the years with me pushing out work even when times are hard for me.”
Ruby Gabrielle Nicholson Mentee
“The most valuable part of Girls Write Now is the community studios, as they’re a perfect opportunity to connect with other GWN members while also working on your personal skillset. Many community studios also focus on other art forms other than writing or connecting them to writing, encouraging people to build other skills outside of just writing.”
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Mahjabin Chowdhury Mentee
“Girls Write Now provided me a welcoming, relieving, judgement-free space to explore my writing voice, decompress through vulnerable conversations, and build my confidence in teaching.”
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Ayame Huber Munemura Mentee
“My mentee specifically stated that she wanted to learn more about teaching and how to write lesson plans. We were able to work closely building our lessons together until she eventually was able to complete a lesson plan entirely on her own! She left being a more confident teacher and I watched her take control of our community studios and blossom into a fierce leader.”
Ashley-Anna Aboreden Mentor

Teach 360 Adventure

Teaching GWN is a Journey in the Teach 360 Adventure.

All Journeys within this Adventure focus on leadership to help mentees and mentors develop leadership skills and be inspired to create a better future together. Learn more about the other Adventures offered at Girls Write Now below.

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Independent Study (Spring 2027)

Create your own experience with our Independent Study Journey. Mentees and mentors meet as a pair, attend events of interest, and use coursework to support creative projects and personal goals. Along the way, you can connect with others during a mid-cycle mixer designed to spark inspiration, share ideas, and build community. The Journey culminates in a showcase where participants present the work they have developed throughout the cycle and celebrate their accomplishments together. Mentees and mentors will benefit by gaining greater independence in their learning, deepening their creative practice, and building meaningful connections while pursuing self-directed goals.

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Teach GWN (Spring 2027)

In this Journey, members of the GWN community will develop curriculum and facilitate a Community Studio for one or more cycles within GWN’s Collaboratory structure. Each cycle involves facilitating three Community Studios, one per month. Mentees and mentors will gain valuable skills in leadership, teaching, and community building. Mentees and mentors can facilitate a Community Studio either independently (if they are 18 or older) or together as a pair.

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Screenwriting: Crafting Short Film Stories (Spring 2027)

This two-cycle Journey guides participants from crafting a short film script to bringing it to life on screen. In the first cycle, mentors and mentees focus on developing compelling stories, dynamic characters, and engaging dialogue, learning the essentials of screenwriting for short films. In the second cycle, participants move from script to screen, exploring the practical aspects of video production, including planning, collaboration, and bringing their creative vision to life. By the end of the journey, mentees will have both a polished script and hands-on experience in producing their own short film.

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Life Lines: Crafting Memoir (Part 1) (Spring 2027)

In this three-cycle Journey, writers will get the support and expert industry insight they need to write their memoir. In the first three-month cycle, participants will outline, structure their book, and begin their first drafts; in the second three-month cycle, participants will write and workshop their drafts; and in the third cycle, participants will finish their drafts and write their book proposals.

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