Directions: Every question will rotate to the next person and participants are encouraged to answer these questions honestly and to the best of their ability. Participants are encouraged to be as unique and unapologetic with their answers. There are absolutely no wrong answers :)

What is your favorite memory of yourself? A moment that made you proud to be you.

What does being a black girl mean to you?

What does care look like for you? How do you take care of yourself?

When do you feel most loved?

How do you celebrate the little Black girl that lives in you? If you don’t, what steps can you take to start?

Share one of your dreams.

Participants go to the special table to pick from a variety of different colored silk bonnets.

*They will get to customize their bonnet and add jewels or letters to it to personalize the piece while this seminar is going on*

Open a conversation about Hair, talk about hair discrimination (Crown Act)

-Play Elizabeth Acevedo’s poem “Hair”

-Have ambassadors start talking about their hair journey’s, what their hair means to them

-Open the floor for everyone to come up and talk about their own experiences

Participants go to the special table to pick from a variety of different colored silk pajamas and slippers.

*They will get to accessorize their pajama sets with crowns, costume jewelry, feather boas, and sunglasses*

Activity Directions:

When is the last time you felt confident?

Do you walk into a room with your head high, do you own that room you walk in?

With your family, you all will perform a runway walk, pose or dance on stage. On stage, you will strut in your bonnet, silk sets, and glam and show us what it means to as the Cheetah Girls say “Strut like you mean it.”

You will be allowed to pick the song you as a group want to strut as. You will introduce your family name, your birth name, and the name you have created for your inner black girl on stage. You will do this as you are spotlighted and do not be shy to give it your own personal style. It is important to project and to show us your confidence in not only yourself but the black girls who surround you. This is scary so dont forget that when you're watching, to hype up the other girls on stage! You got this, goodluck!

Here are some songs you might consider using:

Strut by Cheetah Girls

Flawless by Beyonce

Cocky AF by Megan The Stallion

Good as Hell by Lizzo

Grown Woman by Beyonce

Cozy by Beyonce

Golden by Jill Scott

-Open up the snack bar, spinach artichoke dip, wings, motterzella sticks, pizza rolls, pretzels, ice cream, cake, smores.

-Screenings of Girls Trip, Lemonade, Homecoming,, Set it Off, and episodes of Insecure or Living Single

Talk about bell hooks “All about love”

Have an open conversation about receiving and giving love. Participants will share their personal experiences and open floor for others to add to the discussion.

Guiding Discussion Questions

What is your favorite passage?

In past romantic relationships, how have you received love?

Have you ever been in love, what was that like?

How did you find self-love?

What was the last thing you did for yourself?

How do you give love?

-Encourage these girls to dream about their future and create a vision board

-Play music, laugh, and just envision a beautiful life

-Then remind girls the importance of their girlhood, and their right to being kids a little bit longer

Directions: Encourage participants to reflect and write a letter to their younger self, present self, or future self. Consider any affirmations you would like to share with your younger self, present self, or future self. Consider the lessons that your younger self has taught you? How have you changed? What about you has remained the same? What is most special/sacred about you?

Participants are encouraged to share what they wrote, reflect on their sleepover experience and anything they enjoyed. Everyone says goodbye.