Cycle Show
What is the Cycle Show Workshop?
The Cycle Show Workshop is an educational, interactive, multi-media, fertility awareness workshop for young girls, ages 9-12. It is a desirable addition to the standard reproductive health education given in schools; its aim is to equip young girls with the knowledge of what is going on inside their bodies in relation to puberty. This knowledge then supports and prepares them in a positive way for the wonderful changes they will experience within their bodies over the coming years.
Today, it is more important than ever for young girls to have high self-esteem regarding their bodies, not just when they are in the middle of puberty, but well before the onset. The beginning of sexual maturation is the ideal time for girls to learn about and appreciate all the amazing changes that are taking place within their bodies. Participation in the Cycle Show gives girls a healthy respect for their bodies and helps to protect them as they move into their teenage years.
Parent Presentation Webinar
Parents like the Cycle Show because they get help addressing their daughters’ concerns by learning new vocabulary and context that they can easily use at home. Talking about this topic won’t be that difficult anymore. LIVE Parent Presentation Webinars available monthly! Adults, parents, teachers, administrators or youth workers interested in the Cycle show or hosting a Guiding Star Cycle Show locally, are welcome to attend the Parent session.
Host a Cycle Show in your Community
Don’t see a workshop in a town near you? Consider becoming a Cycle Show Workshop host, today! Contact us to learn more on how to set up a Guiding Star Cycle Show Workshop in your community.
What Happens During a Cycle Show?
The Cycle Show illustrates to girls what is happening inside a woman’s body in a loving way with a respectful style using colorful materials, scarves, music and fun games.
In the first part of the workshop, the girls are introduced to the “equation of life” (sperm + egg = new life). The girls themselves take on the roles of hormones and experience how the Messengers of Spring (FSH), the Estrogen Friends, the Ovulation Helpers (LH), and Progesterone Teamwork in the body of a woman to create human life.
After gaining a basic knowledge of the actions of the hormones and seeing them as her friends, the second and main part of the workshop is focused on each girl understanding how these hormones act within her own body. She learns that with each cycle a new Luxury Suite (lining of the uterus) is prepared for a potential guest (baby) and if the guest doesn’t arrive (and shouldn’t for her until she is older) she will not worry about the loss of the luxury suite, knowing that each month her body prepares a new one because her healthy body can afford it.
Finally, the girls recognize fertility codes within their bodies, such as the ‘magic potion’ (cervical mucus). Menstrual hygiene options are discussed; girls are taught what to expect and how to manage their first bleed.
Why a Cycle Show?
Like a theater audience staring at the red curtains that frame an empty dark stage waiting for something to happen, many women in our society do the same for their menstrual period. They are completely unaware of what actually takes place in their bodies leading up to menstruation. We explain these events in an impressive behind the scenes show.
Meet our Cycle Show National Coordinator
Kari Beadner and her husband Aaron have 3 living children and call Twin Cities, MN home. Kari is a certified FertilityCare Practitioner and has been teaching the Creighton Model FertilityCare System since 2012. She became a Certified Labor Doula in 2015 and is now the Coordinator of
the Guiding Star Cycle Show. Kari is passionate about teaching women of all ages about how their bodies work and function naturally while providing all of their options for natural, holistic, life-affirming health care.
Meet our Cycle Show Instructors
Elessa Marker
Orange City, IA and Prescott, AZ
Linda Jacobs
Marshalltown, IA
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Available exclusively through Guiding Star Project, What’s Going On In My Body? . The perfect complement to the Cycle Show workshop or guide for any parent of a daughter.
American English Edition Coming Soon!
Girls learn in the Guiding Star Cycle Show that “I’m a Double Champion”! One of our attendees inspired the design of this fun T-Shirt to keep sharing this good news after the workshop! Purchases of Cycle Show Logo gear helps to spread this great message across America. Thank you for your support!
