April 7th & 8th: YIP Days During the YIP days, we invite participants, alumni, contributors, network and friends to revisit the vision and purpose of the International Youth Initiative Program and to co-create the future of the program together; building on the outcomes of the previous YIP Days.
April 9th – 14th: IF Days Initiative Forum provides a fertile space for collaboration and inspiration between people, ideas and initiatives through open conversations, presentations and cultural events.
Optional Morning Activities
Several optional morning activities will be available for participants, however you are welcome to lead other activities if you wish.
Pro Action Cafe
We will be hosting a Pro Action Cafe on Monday afternoon, the first of the IF days during the forum! This is a social technology using the power of conversation to serve existing initiatives, ideas and personal dreams. We would like to encourage you to think forward about what you might like to bring as this will be a great opportunity to ‘host’ a table, receive input from other participants and work with collective intelligence on something that is alive in you or your group. For more information on what a Pro Action Cafe is and how it works, please visit http://artofhosting.ning.com/video/proaction-cafe
Lectures
There will be lectures related to the theme of Initiative(s) and Emergence, to inspire and encourage participants to more deeply develop theirs and others initiatives. The lecturers we are planning to host are Edgard Gouveia JR, Silas Beardslee and Shelley Sacks, however these people are yet to be confirmed.
Speed Dating
This is a fast and fun way to get to know some of the other participants.
Initiative Presentations
These two blocks will provide participants with a more formal platform for short presentations of their initiatives, to the rest of the forum.
Money Experiment
As the title suggests, we are experimenting with new ways of working with money. Participants will be invited to add what ever they can afford above their participant fees, to a collective fund. This fund will then be divided equally among every participant, to be used by individuals as they see fit; whether you want to buy coffee, contribute to one of the initiatives or needs raised by other participants, or use it for some other purpose.
Open Space
This is a time for participants to self-organize around different themes, topics, discussions, projects, and workshops that they bring to the forum. This is what the forum is all about. This is where you have the opportunity to present your initiative(s) and learn about what others are up to.
Working Labs
Initiative Forum has a history out of which various initiatives –like Yip – were born. Many people are part of this network and will, together with our new friends, shape the future of this network and its role in society and the global challenges we all face.
The working labs try to meet both the need of this network to take collective next steps, and the challenges we face today in all spheres (cultural, political, economical and financial, environmental,…). Where previous Initiative Forums mainly used the Open Space Technology to bring initiatives further, we will now add the working labs to the program of this upcoming Initiative Forum 2012. Together with Open Space Technology, there will also be working labs like think tanks, research units,… Basically there will be an active working environment created to shape possibilities to really take some challenges or inspirations which this network has been carrying for a while, to a next level.
Comparable to the Yip-days, those working labs will have a fixed theme or question to which every participant can contribute through joining those working labs. For example: New forms of education; Real sustainable development; Consciousness and new forms of research;… (or more concrete: Yip USA; Second Yip year; Individual studies; Region for change: We Sea and the Baltic Sea;…). But these are only examples. You can help us finding the right themes for IF 2012 working labs!
