1. Dating
Discovery
Facilitator Trainings
June 2-5, 2015 December 1 - December 4, 2015 at Wise Women Gathering Place, 2482 Babcock Rd, Green Bay WI
“...begin with the end in mind”
“I just want to say that Discovery Dating is the best training that I have attend- ed. The last thing I expected was to work on myself. You are a fabulous team and I think our community is craving this type of healing…I think people want a better way.”
Training Participant, Summer 2011
In this highly interactive four day training, partici- pants will test out lessons hands-on, gain easily transferrable facilitation skills, and explore theory behind the Discovery Dating Method.
Discovery Dating has been used with full or partial imple- mentation in myriad settings, including classrooms, educa- tional sessions for mothers, youth clubs, high school en- richment offerings, and support groups.
Discovery Dating is a prevention tool that has been used to prevent teen pregnancy, domestic violence, and sexual assault by decreasing risk factors and promoting healthy relationship skills.
Call us to reserve your space today!
(920) 490-0627
Check us out online for more information at www.wisewomengp.org

2. Wise Women Gathering Place
2482 Babcock Rd, Green Bay WI 54313 ~ www.wisewomengp.org
Office: (920) 490-0627 ~ Sexual Assault Help Line: (902) 883-8303
Wise Women Gathering Place (WWGP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, staffed by Native American midwives and educators. Our mission is to promote Peace, Respect & Belonging in our community, and our efforts include community classes and groups, engaging youth programs, facilitation training and services, and a transi- tional living program for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
WWGP incorporated in 1998, however, we have been operating for decades as a home-based women’s circle. With children in tow, women gathered around the kitchen table to discuss issues around childbirth, midwifery, breastfeeding, parenting, and more. Out of these women’s circles, Discovery Dating was born.
Where was this when I needed it?” is always the initial statement after anyone is shown Discov- ery Dating materials. Authored by WWGP Executive Director, Alice Skenandore, Discovery Da- ting is a healthy relationship tool that engages youth and adults to explore and clarify their goals and personal values, discern character traits of others, and practice decision making. Skenan- dore states “We believe everyone has their own best interests at heart.” If given complete in- formation and access to choices, everyone will choose well.
Discovery Dating provides a process for learning personal prevention skills. The curriculum details steps that enable participants to foresee both the predictable pitfalls of certain choices and the benefits of true partnership based upon discernment of facts and information combined with compatible goals.
Implementations
Discovery Dating has been used with full or partial implementation for over 10 years in myriad settings, including ele- mentary, middle, and high school classrooms, TANF educational sessions for mothers, court-ordered parents’ groups, prison, youth clubs, high school enrichment offerings, mentor-mentee programs, and women’s support groups.
Personal Agency
The Theory of Personal Agency is the rationale that explains how Discovery Dating impacts change in participants. Per- sonal agency is about both participants’ self-efficacy (belief in their ability to do something) and their self-regulatory skills (belief they have the control to accomplish it.)
People with an increased sense of self-efficacy are more resilient to new challenges, are better able to constructively problem solve, and less likely to pass on the hurt and pain of oppressive behaviors. Therefore, they are more likely to participate in healthy relationships.
In 2010-11, personal agency findings suggest that students significantly increased their personal agency by 12% (p = .006) as evidenced by increases in their pre- and post- test scores.
Because Discovery Dating works to help people make healthier decisions about all harm-risk behaviors, Wise Women Gathering Place is currently assessing the impact of Discovery Dating on intimate partner violence prevention, alcohol, and other drug abuse prevention. Discovery Dating helps the user increase protective factors and reduce risk factors.
Publication & Promising Results
An article regarding Discovery Dating was published in February of 2012 in the Journal of Family Social Work. Adoles- cent Pregnancy Prevention in a Rural Native Community (Hagen, Skenandore, Scow, Schanen & Clary, 2012), chronicles the use of Discovery Dating as part of a Community Based Abstinence Culture (C-BAC) project in 2002-2005.
157 C-BAC students experienced 5 pregnancies in the 5 years following implementation of the curriculum. Of 136 students who did NOT receive C-BAC, there were 32 pregnancies in the same timeframe.