A Million Dreams | Celebrate Uniqueness
A Million Dreams — the 3rd Annual BIO Girls Gala presented by Crown Jewels.
September 30th 2021, we will host an evening of celebration.
A celebration for the past 9 years of BIO Girls programming.
A celebration of the 10th year upcoming in 2022.
A celebration of the next 10 years to come.
For this celebration, we landed on the theme of The Greatest Showman. Why? Well, we have more than one explanation.
REASON #1
A circus is made up of unique individuals.
BIO Girls teaches girls that uniqueness is worth celebrating.
We teach girls that showing up as yourself can be difficult, but it’s so important to be true to who God made you to be. Your flaws, imperfections, hobbies, style, personality, background, humor… they all make you, you.
How do we teach this?
One example comes from our “Be Yourself Not Your Selfie” lesson. We asked participants to journal about the pressures they feel to be “perfect”.
Through this journaling, we are able to spark up in conversations in small groups about the standards they find to be perfect: in school, in the way they look, in sports…
Our volunteer mentors are then able to connect with participants to tell them that these standards aren’t attainable. Moreso, spending all of your time focusing on these standards will cause you to miss out on life happening all around you.
We teach participants that instead, it’s important to show up as you are. Empowering each participant to be imperfect. We always end by telling each girl that there is only one you, and this world needs you.