We appreciate that this professional training requires significant commitment from you in time and money.  We’re dedicated to ensuring every Rites for Girls facilitator is capable of providing a high quality of delivery for her girls.  Working at this level with adolescent girls requires in-depth training and we strongly encourage you to come along to a training taster day or sign up for a live chat session to help you appreciate what is involved.

We want to make this as accessible as possible so we have designed the course to enable you to begin earning halfway through your training.  You have the potential to have earned back the training fees within a year of qualifying.  If you feel called to this work then be creative in finding a way to finance your dream.

We encourage you to use your head to follow your heart.

Absolutely.  As soon as women attend one of our training taster days they understand why this is necessary.  The training is intense and covers a lot in a short space of time.  You will need to revisit your own pre-teen years in addition to learning how to deliver the Girls Journeying Together programme.  The girls’ groups are different every time, so you will need to acquire the skills to be responsive to the needs of each group of girls and have many tools at your disposal so you can adapt to what they bring to each month’s meeting.

Engaging in the dual process that this training requires will be demanding but rewarding work.  Facilitating a Girls Journeying Together group can seem deceptively simple to the untrained and inexperienced.  In reality, this simple appearance is rooted in a complexity of psychotherapeutic skills and personal psychological competences — hence the length and the format of this training.  Just as the girls attending the groups experience themselves changed by the end of the year, so you also will experience yourself and each other differently by the end of this training.  Expect to emerge as the women the young girl inside you was waiting for!

We understand that for many women leaving your children presents a challenge.  Running Girls Journeying Together groups can fit well alongside family life but to attend the training will require the support of your family and friends.  Previous apprentice facilitators report unexpected benefits to having sorted out this important part of being able to commit to the training.

Although not ideal, in exceptional cases you could make up what you miss by paying for individual tutorials.

Normal membership fees will be £120 per annum to cover website administration to promote your Girls Journeying Together groups and our organisational membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

In addition you will be asked for the monthly license fee of £35 for each group you run.  Your fee will be used to develop the work of the Rites for Girls Association and create a bursary fund for less privileged girls.  We are not driven by financial ambition; our mission is to widen our reach and bring the benefits of our groups to more girls.

Once you’re accredited you can charge £35 per girl per month, so with a group of 12 girls that’s £385 per month or £4,620 per annum per group (having paid your £35pm license fee).  If you ran four groups a month you would earn £18,480pa.

We also want to reach girls from less affluent families and we’re aware that some of you will want to offer girls’ groups to less advantaged girls so we have plans for a bursary fund to subsidise their membership of your groups.

Initially, when you run your first supervised group as part of your training, we suggest a maximum of ten girls charging them no more than £20 each, potentially earning you £2,400pa.

Aside from your investment in your training there are minimal costs in establishing yourself as a Girls Journeying Together facilitator.  Within one year of being qualified to run girls’ groups you can recoup what you paid to train and set up.

That’s fine, there’s no hurry.  You can start when you’re ready.  You’ll still participate in the group supervisions and learn from your peers who do start running their own groups.

We give you all the training, materials, and support needed to run your first group.  We help you publicise it and set it up and we’ll give you mini-group supervision every month.  We want you to have everything you need to be able enjoy this work and we’re committed to making sure that everyone in a Girls Journeying Together group has a top quality experience.

On completing all three residential modules of the Rites for Girls Facilitator Training programme you may be ready to run your first group, with us providing close monthly supervision.  On successful completion of all the training requirements and when you finish running your first year-long group you will become an accredited Rites for Girls facilitator qualified to run Girls Journeying Together groups.

Kim developed Girls Journeying Together groups alongside home-educating three children.  If you do have children it helps you become a better informed parent and, once you’re qualified, this work balances really well with raising a family or other commitments.  All you need is someone who can look after your children for three hours on the days that you run the group; everything else, the admin and planning, can fit around family life.

Understandably many women are challenged by the idea of leaving their children for the residential training modules.  Our current apprentices have had to call on the support of family and friends and have been amazed at the unexpected benefits to all on discovering that the family can manage without them!

Your first year of running a Girls Journeying Together group, closely supervised by us, will be your most intense part of the training.  Expect your organisation time to be greatest in this first year as you prepare to run each session for the first time.