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Be part of the body confidence revolution!

Action on Body Confidence – Share the Change: as part of your badge, tell the world about your group’s Action Project. Your story will help inspire and challenge others.

Free Being Me: Send us your stories, ideas, actions and shout-outs. You could…

  • Tell us your group’s Free Being Me story, blog-style
  • Interview your group about what they think a body confident world would be like
  • Challenge selfie – what can we do to help ourselves and our communities be ‘Free Being Me’? Write it down and take a picture of yourself!

Remember: Photos and videos will make the stories come alive!

miriam

We held a camp with girls from different districts of Malawi. On the second day after introducing Free Being Me, the Image Myth and body confidence we could hear the girls shouting in corridors ‘Free Being Me,’ and ‘I am … Continued

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ALIEZSYA

Yong, Puan Chempaka and Puan Hasanah was here in Sabah. All the slots and sessions were just great. Group Presentations were challenging but also fascinating. As a teacher and a Guider, i felt so glad to be in this programme. … Continued

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Ekat

Free Being Me was held on March 2019 in DIET Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India India. 25 Scouter and 25 Guider participated in the session. The participants shared theirs stories with confidence. The Free Being Me program has helped to increase young … Continued

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Marianne

We started to look at Action on Body Confidence as our Guides are reaching an age where body confidence starts to become an issue. “We talked about how it is fine to be yourself, and you are beautiful the way … Continued

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D.Nirmala

Free Being Me was held on January 2019 in The Ashok Leyland School, Hosur, Tamil Nadu, India. 17 Scouts and 19 Guides participated in the session. The participants shared theirs stories with confidence. The Free Being Me program has helped … Continued

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Mihoko

FBM Program was held on 10-11 February 2019 in Fukuoka , Japan. 36 Junior Girl Scouts participated the sessions and enjoyed them.

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A Free Being Me Camp with the Sudan Guides Association جمعية مرشدات السودان

اقامت جمعية مرشدات السودان بالتعاون مع وزارة التربيه بالمخيم 26 للدورة المدرسيه القومية التى تشارك فيها كل وﻻيات السودان 18 وﻻيه حيث تشارك المرشدات في هذه الفعاليه بعدد 200 مرشدة و30 قائدة تم تنفيذ انشطة حرة ﻻكون انا بالمعسكر لفترة … Continued

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Girl Scouts of Japan, Shimane

41 senior scouts and 4 ranger scouts from the Chugoku area and Shikoku area gathered in Shimane on September 16-18 to participate in sessions of Free Being Me. They learnt how images of ideal women, like models and actresses, are … Continued

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Jime

El Libre de ser Yo es una puerta a un mundo increíble, donde las niñas y jóvenes comienzan a entender la importancia de respetarse, valorar y amarse. El aprendizaje es compartido con su entorno, y eso hace la experiencia muchas … Continued

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