CuriosiTea

Empower your daughter to navigate puberty and periods with confidence through our once-in-a lifetime CuriosiTea experience.

“CuriosiTea” events will resume in March 2025.

Please join our mailing list to be the first to find out when registration opens.

Each registration is for one child, aged 7 to 12, and one adult.

If an event is sold out, please email Konika at info@girlpowerscience.com to join our waitlist.

Stay tuned for more “CuriosiTea” offerings in San Francisco in 2025!

We all want our daughters to have the best possible start when it comes to puberty and periods. Studies show that girls' confidence often takes a dive during this time, which is why it’s crucial to build up her positive self-image proactively.

Our CuriosiTea experience offers a unique approach to puberty education that goes way beyond what is typically covered in schools.

We’ll celebrate growth and change and provide your daughter with the tools and knowledge she needs to embrace this important stage of her life with a growth mindset and excitement.

CuriosiTea is a special 3-in-1 celebration of growth and change combining our most popular kid’s workshops in our treehouse with a special girl and grown-up tea ceremony.

Part 1: Puberty Power (Just for the Kids)

We will reframe the changes associated with puberty as superpowers. From mood swings to breast buds, building body confidence is all about having an attitude of gratitude that our bodies are healthy and growing.

We will foster self care and good hygiene by playing the guess the deodorant scent game and doing our infamous growth mindset group juggle team challenge.

Part 2: Go with the Flow (Just for the Kids)

Konika will read her children’s book, “One in a Million - A First Book About Periods.” Using a wide variety of visual aids, we will explore the science of menstruation and all of the new and old inventions that help us manage our periods. 

We’ll celebrate our cyclical superpowers with two fun science experiments.

Part 3: CuriosiTea Ceremony (Grown-Ups & Kids)

Parents and caregivers will join us for the final part of this session: a special tea ceremony. This unique opportunity creates a safe and supportive community, fostering open conversations and shared wisdom. By modeling how to discuss growth and change with confidence and openness, we help our daughters experience a dialogue that is both empowering and free of shame.

We’ll  sip our chai lattes and nibble on small bites while Konika answers the questions submitted by the children into the curiosiTea pot. Then each girl and grownup will create a cycle tracker bracelet together.

What to expect at a CuriosiTea experience

We start with a two hour session just for the kids to connect, have fun, make new friends, and learn scientifically accurate information about puberty and periods. Our time together includes a team building game, mini lesson in the treehouse, bath bomb making project, and two hands-on science experiments! 

The mini lesson will reframe the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty as superpowers and put a spa-time self-care spin on hygiene to keep our bodies healthy. Konika will read her children’s book, “One in a Million - A First Book About Periods.” We’ll investigate and get silly with menstrual products including pads, period underwear, tampons, and menstrual cups. The students will submit anonymous questions into our curiosiTea pot.

After the kids session, one parent or caregiver per child is invited to join us for a short afternoon tea to celebrate this powerful rite of passage. Our time together as a community will help pave the way for you and your daughter to be able to speak freely, comfortably, and openly for months to come.

Each girl and grown-up pair will create a cycle tracker bracelet together to take home to remember the four seasons of our cyclical lives. Grown-ups are invited to share positive guidance and hopes and dreams.

Each child will leave feeling more confident in their knowledge of what’s to come and more comfortable discussing these topics with their grown-up afterwards. If friends attend together, then they gain the added benefit of solidarity and a supportive sisterhood within their social circle.

What’s Included - Topics Covered:

• Physical, social, and emotional changes associated with puberty and periods.

• Tools and techniques to navigate these changes with confidence.

• Self-care spa time, including our popular candy-scented deodorant guessing game.

• Normalizing variations in personal timelines and journeys.

• How to choose and use different menstrual products.

• The superpowers and vulnerabilities of each menstrual cycle phase.

• Features of different bra styles and factors to consider when deciding if and when to wear a bra.

Meet your Facilitator:

Konika is an author, science teacher, and a mom on a mission to flip puberty positive. She founded GPS with her daughter during the pandemic when it was obvious the world needed more girl power and science education!

For over two decades, Konika has been a kindergarten through sixth grade science educator. She is currently the body literacy specialist at Red Bridge School in San Francisco. She was the Lower School Science Specialist at the Hamlin School for Girls for sixteen years.

Konika’s best-selling children’s book, “One in a Million - A First Book About Periods”  sky-rocketed to #1 new release on Amazon within twenty-four hours of publishing.

She has a Masters in Education and California teaching credential from the University of San Francisco and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic University. She is a Common Sense Media certified educator and attended the Institute for Social and Emotional Learning. She also has extensive training in teaching mindfulness from Mindful Schools, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center.

She is passionate about body literacy, destigmatizing periods and puberty, and building communities of empowered learners that confidently celebrate growth.

Private CuriosiTea Experiences

Did you know our “CuriosiTea” experiences are available for you to book as a private event just for your child, their friends, and parents and caregivers? Groups of friends feel safe and comfortable with each other and form a strong, supportive sisterhood. If you are interested in booking a private event, please email Konika at info@girlpowerscience.com.

Dads are always welcome at our sessions! In fact, the photo on the right was a dad and daughter private booking and we had so much fun.

Each child will receive:

• A girl power period kit perfect for fitting in her backpack for school or summer camp.

• An autographed copy of “One in a Million - A First Book About Periods” by Konika Ray Wong, M.Ed.

• A hand-made glass bead cycle tracker bracelet to remind her of her cyclical superpowers.

Once you register for this event, I will send you more details about what to expect so you and your daughter can prepare for this special experience.

Konika loves to get the kids to laugh and have fun during the session to take away the shame and stigma associated with periods.

“Is this how to wear a pad?,” she asks, and the kids break out into roars of laughter.

Making these important topics joyful and light can positively transform your daughter’s perception of periods for a lifetime!