April-May 2020: The Confidence Code for Girls
NCGS is thrilled to partner with journalist and New York Times bestselling author Claire Shipman for our spring 2020 Beyond the Book Author Series. Join Claire and NCGS colleagues to discuss her book, The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self.
This series will dive deeply into building girls’ confidence. More than ever, allies of girls are thinking about how to support girls and their morale at this critical juncture. How can we help girls find ways to build confidence while navigating their world and new terrain successfully?
Shipman will offer the broad contours of her work and research around the paradox familiar to educators and parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they’re consumed with doubt on the inside. Girls worry constantly about how they look, what people think, why they aren’t getting “perfect” grades, and how many likes and followers they have online. Cutting-edge science and research will be shared as well as proven methods of behavioral change to reach girls just when they need it the most—the tween and teen years.
Shipman will address the following issues and more from her book:
- How can adult allies work with girls, including virtually, to crack the “confidence code” and provide their female students with the time, space, and tools to embrace risk, deal with failure, and be their most authentic selves?
- How can adults boost their own confidence and morale, so we can be the allies girls most need?
- How does building a virtual community help boost confidence and well-being?
- What does risk-taking, an essential ingredient of confidence-building, look like for girls? What practical ideas work?
- How can we support and model mental and emotional health?
- What is healthy social media use?
- How can we help girls pivot and link into something larger so they can feel part of a movement, solution, and change, which is an essential boost for confidence and happiness? How do we do that for ourselves?
This series is designed to offer participants insight into specific research on how girls approach risk and failure and what they may be experiencing right now, and will provide concrete strategies for helping girls stretch outside their comfort zones and embrace uncertainty.
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About Claire Shipman
Claire Shipman is a journalist, author, and public speaker. An expert on confidence and women’s leadership, she’s written three New York Times bestselling books, The Confidence Code, The Confidence Code for Girls, and Womenomics. Her latest book, Living the Confidence Code, will be out later this spring. Her co-author on all three Confidence Code books has been the BBC’s Katty Kay, and on the books geared directly for the girls, they have worked with Jill Ellyn Riley, a children’s author. Shipman was with ABC News for 15 years, reporting on politics, international affairs, and social issues. Before moving to ABC, she covered the White House and the Clinton administration for NBC news. Shipman also spent a decade at CNN, where she covered the White House, and spent five years at CNN’s Moscow bureau covering the collapse of the Soviet Union. She’s received numerous awards for her reporting, including a Peabody, a DuPont, and an Emmy. Shipman holds a graduate degree in international affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Bachelors of Arts in Russian Studies from Columbia College.
Praise for The Confidence Code for Girls
“Wow!!! I love love love this book for girls. Every single day I work with girls who suffer so much because they don’t have the tools The Confidence Code for Girls provides. It gives tweens tips and tools to manage everything from stress to self-doubt to sticky social situations.”
—Phyllis L. Fagell, school counselor, author, and contributor to the Washington Post’s On Parenting section
“An essential read for every girl in her tween years…I am inspired by what the authors have done in offering such a tremendous guidebook that I am sure tween girls will reference time and time again in their journey to forming a solid, confident self.”
—Dr. Bonnie Zucker, licensed psychologist and author of Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children
“Girl power depends on self-confidence, but many girls struggle to see how awesome they really are…I wish I had this book when I was a girl—and I’m really glad today’s girls have it now.”
—Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of Lean In and Option B