Year Schedule

YIP is a full-day intensive program with a one-year curriculum. Below is the Curriculum of the 2012–2013 YIP Year. The 2013–2014 Curriculum has not yet been finalized, but it is expected to be similar, though not identical.

Schedule for the YIP Year 2012–2013

(TBC) = To Be Confirmed. Some items in the schedule are not yet confirmed or not yet available. 

Date/Time Event
27 Aug - 31 Aug
Week 35

Community Mapping

With: Organizing Team
Course
03 Sep - 07 Sep
Week 36

Community Building

With: Organizing Team
Course
10 Sep - 14 Sep
Week 37
Place Making

Place Making

With: Kiara Nagel
Course
17 Sep - 21 Sep
Week 38
Playing to Change the World

Playing to Change the World

With: Edgard Gouveia Júnior
Course
24 Sep - 28 Sep
Week 39
Harvesting & Media

Harvesting & Media

With: Nanna Frank, Pieter Ploeg and Thijs Moonen
Course
01 Oct - 05 Oct
Week 40
Sustainability Leadership

Sustainability Leadership

With: Alan Atkisson and Stuart Pledger
Course
08 Oct - 12 Oct
Week 41
Art of Hosting and Chaordic Design

Art of Hosting and Chaordic Design

With: Solveig Zophoniasdottir and Pieter Ploeg
Course
15 Oct - 19 Oct
Week 42
Theory U

Theory U

With: Jason Meek
Course
22 Oct - 26 Oct
Week 43
Dialogue for Peaceful Change

Dialogue for Peaceful Change

With: Colin Craig and Zora Molyneaux
Course
29 Oct - 02 Nov
Week 44

Autumn Break

Holiday
05 Nov - 09 Nov
Week 45

Entrepreneurship

With: Pieter Spinder
Open Course
12 Nov - 16 Nov
Week 46

Project Management

With: Carolyn Ferreira
Open Course
19 Nov - 23 Nov
Week 47

Project Week

With: Organizing Team
Project
26 Nov - 30 Nov
Week 48
Initiation & Initiative

Initiation & Initiative

With: Orland Bishop — Orland Bishop combines a deep dedication to human rights advocacy and cultural renewal with an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies.
Course
03 Dec - 07 Dec
Week 49
Open Course: Study of Man (Alumni Only)

Open Course: Study of Man (Alumni Only)

With: Marcel de Leuw This course will focus on the practical side of education, the methodology, didactics and the way in which to meet learners proactively and regularly as a cohesive faculty.
Open Course
10 Dec - 14 Dec
Week 50
Biography Work

Biography Work

With: Annie Meijer — How can we read the language of the events and circumstances that weave the thread that runs through our biography, revealing intention and meaning? How can we become the writers of our own story and so shape our future more responsibly and creatively?
Course
17 Dec - 21 Dec
Week 51
Portrait Painting

Portrait Painting

With: Rachel Miller — Through struggles we get to know ourselves better and through knowing ourselves better we get to know the world better. We will start the study of portraiture first by painting a self-portrait. What do we see?
Course
24 Dec - 28 Dec
Week 52

Winter Break

Holiday
31 Dec - 04 Jan
Week 01

Winter Break

Holiday
07 Jan - 11 Jan
Week 02
Theatre Slava Workshop

Theatre Slava Workshop

With: Viktoria Siwek
The course will consist of Theatre Slava's basic physical theatre training with song and voice. The main focus will center around the dramatic song, choir singing and different folksong techniques.
Course
14 Jan - 18 Jan
Week 03
Political Economics

Political Economics

Where are we coming from and what are the challenges from the future? — With Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen
Open Course
21 Jan - 25 Jan
Week 04
Walk Out Walk On - Part 1

Walk Out Walk On - Part 1

Deborah FriezeSergio Fernando Beltrán ArrutiAerin M Dunford will be hosting two back-to-back modules focused on the Walk Out Walk On pattern.
Open Course
28 Jan - 01 Feb
Week 05
Walk Out Walk On - Part 2

Walk Out Walk On - Part 2

Sergio Fernando Beltrán ArrutiAerin M Dunford will be hosting two back-to-back modules focused on the Walk Out Walk On pattern.
Course
04 Feb - 08 Feb
Week 06

Internship Preparation

With: Organizing Team
Project
11 Feb - 15 Feb
Week 07

Internships

Project
18 Feb - 22 Feb
Week 08

Internships

Project
25 Feb - 01 Mar
Week 09

Internships

Project
04 Mar - 08 Mar
Week 10

Internships

Project
11 Mar - 15 Mar
Week 11

Internships Arrival

Project
18 Mar - 22 Mar
Week 12

Internship Presentations

With: Organizing Team
Project
25 Mar - 29 Mar
Week 13

Preparation Initiative Forum

With: Organizing Team
Project
29 Mar - 03 Apr
Week 13
Initiative Forum

Initiative Forum

WE SEE a world where people strive towards positive global change... WE CONNECT with one another to bring about the change we envision.... WE CREATE change.
Forums
08 Apr - 12 Apr
Week 15
Reconnection

Reconnection

With: Orland Bishop
Project
15 Apr - 19 Apr
Week 16
Storytelling

Storytelling

With: Roi Gal-or
Course
22 Apr - 26 Apr
Week 17

Participant Designed

Course
29 Apr - 03 May
Week 18
Soil & Food

Soil & Food

With: Summer of Soil
Course
06 May - 10 May
Week 19

Sustainable Cities

Course
13 May - 17 May
Week 20
Transition Economics

Transition Economics

With: Charles Eisenstein
Course
20 May - 31 May
Week 21
Permaculture Design Course

Permaculture Design Course

With: Richard Perkins
Open Course
03 Jun - 07 Jun
Week 23

Outdoor Experience

Project
10 Jun - 14 Jun
Week 24

Presentations

With: Organizing Team
Project
17 Jun - 21 Jun
Week 25

Graduation

With: Organizing Team
Project