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 With: Kiara Nagel	Course
17 Sep - 21 Sep Week 38	Playing to Change the World With: Edgard Gouveia Júnior	Course
24 Sep - 28 Sep Week 39	Harvesting & Media With: Nanna Frank, Pieter Ploeg and Thijs Moonen	Course
01 Oct - 05 Oct Week 40	Sustainability Leadership With: Alan Atkisson and Stuart Pledger	Course
08 Oct - 12 Oct Week 41	Art of Hosting and Chaordic Design With: Solveig Zophoniasdottir and Pieter Ploeg	Course
15 Oct - 19 Oct Week 42	Theory U With: Jason Meek	Course
22 Oct - 26 Oct Week 43	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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 Deborah Frieze, Sergio Fernando Beltrán Arruti, Aerin 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 Sergio Fernando Beltrán Arruti & Aerin 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 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 With: Orland Bishop	Project
15 Apr - 19 Apr Week 16	Storytelling With: Roi Gal-or	Course
22 Apr - 26 Apr Week 17	Participant Designed	Course
29 Apr - 03 May Week 18	Soil & Food With: Summer of Soil	Course
06 May - 10 May Week 19	Sustainable Cities	Course
13 May - 17 May Week 20	Transition Economics With: Charles Eisenstein	Course
20 May - 31 May Week 21	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