Vision
Purpose of the YIP days:
- To look at the present and explore the future of the YIP program.
- To give feedback or ideas to share about the future of YIP, its financial stability and on-going success.
- Where has YIP been in its first four years and where could it go into the future?
Purpose of the Initiative Forum days:
- To co-create a diverse and international Marketplace for Collaboration and Inter-Initiative Exchange.
- To seek support, gain new inspiration and make connections with new collaborative partners.
- To learn about and support the work that is already being done in the world to bring about sustainable positive change.
Principles:
Minimal Structure for Maximum Collaboration:
YIP will provide a framework encouraging powerful conversations and dialogue around relevant themes, learning, skill development and capacity exchange. The content will be co-created by all participants.
Initiative presentations, initiative collaboration, workshops, cultural cvents, artistic exhibition … find more in the program.
Background:
When it began in 2008, the aim of YIP was to be a one year social entrepreneurs training that gave international youth the opportunity to explore themselves, the world, their own ideas and initiatives for change and what it means to live as an individual within the context of a rapidly changing global community. While this is still true today, it is only the beginning…
By the end of the first year it was clear that something miraculous was taking place. The quality of meetings, the growth and transformation within individuals, and the depth of love and trust for community and humanity as a whole, which was forged in that year, was astounding.
By summer 2012 we will have roughly 150 YIP alumni who have participated fully in the YIP program out in the world. There are 150 young people who responded to a call. There are 150 communities that are now impacted by the transformation these individuals have undergone and are bringing to the world. They are seekers. They are do-ers. They are a task force of the heart.
YIP is a growing community of change-makers and world-shakers. It is a summoning of those who are seeking to take up the call sounding in the world. YIP is a movement, an inspiration and an expanding point of light.
If you are an individual or organization working with your own initiative in the world to bring about sustainable positive change, or if you have a wish to learn about and support the work that is already being done in the world, than we want you here!
Mark your calendars, spread the word, prepare yourself to collaborate – We look forward to seeing you there!
