How to unlock the power of Peer Education for girls in your unit

What is Peer Education?

Peer Education is when girls explore important topics with specially trained peer educators. They will visit your group during your normal unit meeting and run interactive sessions.

Who can book a Peer Education session?

Any Brownie, Guide, Ranger, or Inspire group can book a peer education session. Sessions are also available to non-guiding groups aged 7+, including adults.

What is a Peer Educator?

A peer educator is aged 16-25 and has attended training on delivering sessions and running the activities on the programs.

Photo of the activity and guide book with the region necker

Helping hand. Identifying who I can turn to when things get tough (family, friends, guide leader, school, childline)

Resilience see-saw. Learning how we can balance life's problems with resilience tools.

Checklist of the 5 skills taught within the think resilient session headed "When things are tough I can..."

Circles of wool containing sticky notes, symbolising: What can I control? Learning to problem solve different situations to understand we may not be able to get rid of the problem, but we can always do something to help ourselves.

What topics are available?

There are three topics available within peer education.

Think Resilient – building mental wellbeing
Safe the World – making a stand for safety
Breaking Free – challenging gender stereotypes

How do I book a Peer Education session for my group?

Head to https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-for-volunteers/programme-and-activities/peer-education/book-a-peer-educator/ to book sessions. The local coordinator will then contact local peer educators and assign someone to run your session.

Your peer educator will be in touch to discuss your unit, what will happen, and how much you’ll get involved.