Through the Years: Journey of Empowered Filipina Girl Scouts

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study focuses on the journey of the empowered Filipina Girl Scouts. This tackles their experiences from the very beginning of their service as a girl scout leader until now, the challenges that they encounter and how to overcome it, the importance of their role and how they became empowered. From these experiences, the researcher draws out meanings and clusters their meanings into themes. Finally, based on the consolidated findings and personal reflections of the research, she derives an inspirational material that may benefit other girl scouts leader in their quest to provide meaningful learning experiences for the new generations of Girl Scout leaders.

METHODS

Phenomenological method is particularly effective at bringing to the fore experiences and perceptions of individuals from their own perspectives and therefore at challenging structural or normative assumptions.

RESULTS

The following are the consolidated findings based on the interviews with the co-researchers and emerging themes that arise from the phenomenological inquiries on the testimonies of empowered Filipina Girl Scouts.

Girl Scouts Leaders share different situations on their unforgettable experiences from the very beginning of their service until now that make them more motivated to do their best. Most all of the shared experiences were good that is why until now they are all in the service and called as an empowered girl scouts leader.

Girl scouts leaders describe their challenging experiences since they encountered other GS leaders with different attitudes in the organizational management. In order to overcome them, they make sure that they have the heart to face the challenges and do their duties positively.

DISCUSSIONS

The unforgettable experiences of the empowered Filipina Girl Scouts help them a lot to become successful. Experiences makes them a better leader of today. Everyday is a challenging day for the empowered Girl Scout leaders since they come across with different people with different attitude and organizational management. They overcome those challenges by leading with a heart for their works and people surrounds them. Having the mindset of leadership with a heart for the girl scouts leader, and enjoying what you are doing are enough to come up with best accomplishments.