There are a lot of new faces since the beginning of 2020 and I’d like to welcome you.
I’ve had some questions and I’d like to make a general post so you know what’s going on here.
The Enrichment Project was stared in July 2010 to address the issue of large Girl Scout councils where adults had problems getting to supplemental trainings. I started writing badge programs to help adult leaders learn new things that they could take back to their troops / groups. I was creating the trainings anyway, so why not just change them over to badge programs? Over the last ten years, it’s been expanded into helping any adult who works with kids and even some self-help badge programs.
Each badge program has a series of steps you can do to learn the basics of the badge subject. There are links for additional resources. If I can’t find a good site or resource, I create one and these are called supplements. Some badges have very few. Some have a lot.
Normally, I put up a badge program for a week so everyone can get a copy of the resources if they want. The idea was to take it down and make it available on the membership site . . . which I’m getting closer to accomplishing each day. I’ve gotten all of the files reviewed and I’m working on building a database so that I can do sorts to create pages to find things in multiple ways because we all think differently. But . . . I digress.
Since the chaos of COVID-19 is affecting us all, I haven’t taken anything down since the beginning of the year. I’ll leave everything up until the end of May and then get back to our normal schedule. This means the following badge sets will remain available:
- Harry Potter
- Card Games
- Bingo
- Dice Games
The Fairies badge set, which will start to release June 2020, will go back to one week.
I prepare my initial badge release schedule for the year in December. This year, I put it up on Trello so everyone could follow it. If you want to know where I am, check it out . . .
- Enrichment Project_Tracking > https://trello.com/b/ObcPN79v
- Enrichment Project_Working > https://trello.com/b/JUoJAlVV
If you’ve looked through past posts, you’ll notice that sometimes I do a slew of badge program posts that aren’t part of the schedule. I am frequently inspired and I outline / write badge programs all the time. I just post a bunch to clean out the backlog. For example, I listened to the Little Humans (Mindvalley.com) session on helping kids with emotions. It has some great tips and I wrote out a brief outline of a badge program already.
Badge releases (or re-releases) happen on Tuesday mornings. If I end up adding a badge or I’m running late, I may use Thursday as well. For example, the Bingo badge set was originally designed to only have two badge programs. Since I ended creating three, this Thursday the third badge will be released to keep me on my schedule.
I’m sorry, but I cannot provide individual past supplements. They will be available with the membership site which should start testing in May and will hopefully be available on July 1st to celebrate ten years of badge programs!
I have a very rigorous schedule. Unlike many, I am still working full time, so I hope you understand I’m limited in the time I have available.
The full steps for the badge programs themselves are available on larajaenrich.com. It was too much for one site . . . and the membership site will be there.
Please keep your family safe. I wish everyone the best.
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