“The purpose is to inspire girls, to support them and to encourage them to take their femininity and to celebrate it in a beautiful way,” said Pilarski, who also writes a family life column for The Catholic Register. “Some of the role models that girls have right now are extreme and girls in this day and age are faced with so many pressures.”

Pilarski said the event was inspired by one of the young participants she met at a corporate seminar where she was speaking years ago. The young student, attending the seminar as part of her work as a part-time secretary, approached Pilarski after her talk and told her about all the pressures to drink and party she was experiencing from her peers at school. But she told Pilarski she knew in her heart she was meant to become the world champion of Irish dancing. She wanted Pilarski’s advice on whether she thought this was a crazy idea. Pilarski told her to follow her heart.

“That really stuck with me,” said Pilarski. “It almost haunted me that she was actually wondering if she was crazy. I think God has planted in the hearts and minds of many girls many holy aspirations to do good and beautiful things and I think that very often we don’t stay loyal to the seeds that God has planted in our hearts.”

The girl went on to become world champion of Irish dancing, said Pilarski. She has since opened a dance school in Vancouver.

“You think of how many girls would have got caught up in the drinking and the partying and wouldn’t have become the world champion of Irish dancing. And now she’s helped create other Irish dancers and world champions.”

Topics discussed will include what it means to dress with dignity and the qualities to look for in a good friend.

“There will also be some group discussion about mistakes that girls are making in our culture and how we can avoid those mistakes,” she said.

Some of the pressures affecting girls right now are the pressure to be extremely popular and the pressure to expose more skin, said Pilarski.

“A lot of girls I know are being pressured to become more authoritative, more aggressive or more outspoken and not every girl is called to be those things. Just because you’re not authoritative, aggressive or outspoken doesn’t mean there’s something wrong. In fact, there’s a tremendous amount of beauty in that person.”

Seating for Calling All Girls is limited. Cost is $25. For more information, see www.dynamicwomenfaith.com.