Dear friends of YIP, The new YIP year has started and Ytterjärna has welcomed YIP14 with warm sunshine, trees full of apples and migrating geese. This place is now becoming home to 35 new participants, waking up to a warm orange sun rise above the Fjord and going to bed with a purple sunset behind the Kulturhouse. After a week …
Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021
Dear friends of YIP, I hope this long over due newsletter finds you well, wherever and whenever you happen to read it. It got a bit lost in the excitement of the final weeks of YIP13 and the summer holidays, but here it is – an account of the Outdoor Experience by Jelmer Verhagen, some reflections post YIP by Anna Morter, a …
From Participants to Organisers News from YIP May 2021
Dear friends of YIP, It has been a while. We hope you are soaking up the summer sun in the North and enjoying the cosiness of winter in the South. A lot has happened here in Ytterjärna since the last Newsletter. Nineteen curious, passionate, unique individuals have made it to the other side of YIP – alumni territory! We …
Learning Placement News from YIP April 2021
Dear friends of YIP, We hope and trust this newsletter finds you well. This edition is all about Learning Placements! In mid March, YIP13 set off to their various placements to experience first hand what it is like to work within an Organisation/Community/Enterprise with positive social change at its core. They left equipped with a question or lens through which to …
Community and Collaboration News from YIP February – March 2021
Dear friends of YIP, Greetings from Ytterjärna. I write this newsletter from the upper floor of Tallevana, the buidling Yippies call home. The sun is shining, the little birds are serenading the apple tree, and the fjord no longer frozen, glistens in the distance. The trees are still naked, but with a closer look tiny buds show signs of Spring. …
Welcoming the New Year News from YIP – January 2021
Dear friends of YIP, We hope you had a peaceful transition into the new year. It is with great pleasure that we share our first newsletter of 2021. Here in Ytterjärna, snow covers the fields, icicles adorn the rooflines and the fjord has become a tempting playground. As the cold of winter brings nature to stillness, the Yippies colour the environment …
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness – December 2020
Dear friends of YIP, Greetings into the last days of December! Half-way through the Winter Break by now, resting, rejuvenating, getting ready for what is coming next, we’re looking back at what happened during this last month of the year. You can get a glimpse of how the courses were through the writings and creative expressions of the YIP participants. …
Inner Exploration – November 2020
Dear friends of YIP, Greetings from Yttejärna! I hope you have all been well in this season of darker, colder days that invite cozy evenings with a cup of tea and a book. Here, in YIP, we have been diving deeper into the inner awareness courses and working on the Initiative Forum preparations as the days turn shorter and grey …
Diving deep(er), wrapping up, moving onwards – October 2020
Dear friends of YIP, Here we are, October behind, November knocking on the door. Frosty mornings, misty afternoons, beautiful clear-night skies, the trees getting ready for winter, letting go of their yellow and dark-red leafs – it’s clear that the seasons have shifted. In this context, the past month here in YIP was spent moving through the last few Global …
Opening YIP13 – September 2020
Dear friends of YIP, Here we are, September behind, the nights getting longer day-by-day, the leaves turning different shades of the autumn colours and the air feeling a bit colder every morning. Here, where we are, in Ytterjärna. A place that became home for the twenty-one YIP13 participants more than a month ago now and has been warmed by their …