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Shine Strengths Programme

Shared Stories Mentoring. Built at Woodford House. Co-designed with girls and mentors. Globally unique.

Shine helps each girl to Shine Brighter.

The Shine Strengths programme is a unique mentoring initiative at Woodford House, designed to unlock each girl’s inherent strengths, foster confidence, and equip them with essential life skills for a successful future. This programme is integral to Woodford House’s commitment to holistic education, fostering resilient and confident young women. 

Our inspirational mentors share diverse experiences, providing girls with practical insights they can apply to their personal and future pathways.

The Shine Strengths Programme focuses on connecting girls with Navigational Strengths that already exist within each of them. The programme endeavours to not only identify these strengths, but provide clarification around what they are, how powerful they can be and how to further develop them.

This self-awareness journey is delivered through Shine Pathfinder and Summit for younger students, and Shine Workshops and Connect for seniors. It is reinforced through tailored Pop-Ups, where mentors share real, relevant stories, alongside Shine Star Awards recognising strengths in action and embedded experiences across school life, including camps.

At the heart of Shine, there is one simple truth: Life is not linear. That’s a good thing.

Very little unfolds exactly as planned. There will be changes, challenges, and unexpected opportunities. There is magic in the detours. We discover strengths we didn’t know we had. We meet people who influence us in unpredicted ways. That’s what our girls learn through Shine and its ground-breaking shared stories mentoring approach.

Learning through shared stories

At Shine, we’ve found the ideal way for girls to learn about their navigational strengths: shared, specific stories. We’ve built a network of over 400 Shine Mentors sharing stories from diverse industries, backgrounds and life experiences. Mentors meet our girls and discuss their unexpected detours; detailed, honest, human accounts of navigating change.

Research shows that stories stick with us.

Our Mentor Network

The universal reaction from our Mentors is that they get as much from the Shine programme as they give. Word-of-mouth has driven growth in the number of mentors, and has resulted in an incredible network of women and men from a variety of backgrounds, careers and experiences.

Join Our Network: Become a Shine Mentor Today.

We welcome all new mentors. Many of our mentors have no prior connection to Woodford House. If you or someone you know would like to join us, please complete the form below. Otherwise. if you have a question or need further information, please email [email protected] 

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