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News from YIP February 2025
News, NewslettersThe End of the Outpost Dear friends of YIP, We hope this Newsletter finds you well, This month has been a time of transition for us at YIP with the Outpost coming to an end and the participants going off on their Internships. In the...
News from YIP November 2024
News, NewslettersTransition to Outpost Dear friends of YIP, We hope this Newsletter finds you well, Many who have known YIP for a long time would know YIP to be a permanent improvisation. Our desire to continue meeting the outer and inner circumstances...
News from YIP October 2024
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, We hope this Newsletter finds you well,The second month of YIP has gone by, and the colourful leaves have now nearly all fallen down, as the autumn here in Sweden is in full swing. The Yippies had a well deserved...
The Start of the YIP17 Journey
News, NewslettersNews from YIP: September 2024 Dear friends of YIP, We hope this Newsletter finds you well,The first month of YIP 17 has gone by already… After the initial landing, YIP has begun its rhythm; having contributors and lectures in the...
News from YIP: June 2024
News, NewslettersClosing of YIP16 Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. At the beginning of this month, we were spoiled with good and warm weather. The gardens were filled with flowers, the trees with blossoms, and the fjord...
News from YIP: April 2024
News, NewslettersLanding back on Campus and in the Community Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well, During the first weeks after the Yippies returned from their internships, the leaves on the trees became bigger and bigger....
News from YIP: March 2024
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well, While the Yippies were away on their internships, we had a little more winter here in Sweden. Throughout the month, the ice on the fjord started melting little by little...
News from YIP: December 2023
News, NewslettersWrapping up the Inner Awareness Block Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. Over the last few weeks, the daylight decreased to a minimum, but luckily, the snow brought brightness, joy and amazement amongst us and...
Inner Awareness
News, NewslettersNews from YIP – November 2023 Dear Friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. After some rainy gray weeks, the winter and coldness have fully found us here on campus, and the earth is covered in a thick layer of...
Community & Collaboration
NewslettersNews from YIP – October 2023 Dear friends of YIP We hope this newsletter finds you well. The weather is changing and the ground is covered with colorful leaves. With the darkness came rain and wind, but inside the...
Beginning of the YIP16 Journey
News, NewslettersNews from YIP – September 2023 Dear friends of YIP… Opening Ceremony Walking here on this path full of yellow birch leaved brings me back to the beginningThe opening of this new YIP year where seeds of inspiration came...
Reconnecting the YIP Network
News, NewslettersIt is time for celebration and initiation! For fjord dips and theatre skits! For inspiration and co-creation! For reminiscing, laughing, kissing, story-telling, dancing, singing. For old memories and new. What world do we want to move...
From Participants to Organisors
NewsGreetings from Ytterjärna in full bloom! The moment is here! The leaves have bursted out of the trees, dandelions are spreading their seeds in the wind and we are harvesting our first heads of lettuce. Swedish spring arrives late, but...
Societal Entrepreneurship in Action
NewsAfter months of preparation, finally the day arrived where the different groups set off to their various Internship locations. Mostly filled with excitement and some healthy nerves, the Yippies left Ytterjärna behind to embark on their...
Spark to Flame
NewsDear Friends of YIP, The Yippies have flown off to their internships and here in Ytterjärna the skylark and crane have returned. The sun is getting warmer and warmer, the days longer and the last layer of snow has yet again melted. In...
Community and Collaboration
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, Welcome to this first newsletter of 2023! We wish you a happy and mindful year ahead <3 During the winter break, some Yippies enjoyed the peace and quiet of an empty Tallevana, while others traveled with buses,...
Midwinter Messages
NewsDear Friends of YIP, I’m writing this overlooking the white fields and fairy tale-like frosty trees. December has been a very dark and cold month. A full, rainy week went by in which the sun did not show himself a single time. Icy...
Moving Inwards
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, As November comes to an end and the days are getting even shorter, it feels like winter is finally here. Last week the first snow fell and within just one day the green Ytterjärna landscape was transformed into a...
Wrapping up the Global Realities
NewsDear Friends of YIP, The trees are coloured in all different shades of yellow, brown and red, and some have already lost their leaves. A swim in the fjord is being reduced to a hesitant dip in the cold water and more and more often we...
Start of the YIP Journey
NewsDear Friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. The Yippies who we were so eager to meet, arrived together with the long-awaited rain. We received both with open arms. Ytterjärna is becoming home to 37 new Yippies. Apart...
Wrapping up the year
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, It is that time of year again. Ten dynamic months have flown by, and the people who arrived at the end of August as strangers are leaving each other as family. Hugs were given, tears were shed, stories were told,...
Self-Organised Time
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, Greetings from Ytterjärna in full bloom! As midsummer approaches, we at YIP are entering our final week of YIP14. So much has happened since the yippies returned from their learning placements, including six days...
Learning Placements
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, I hope this newsletter finds you well wherever and whenever this meets you. After wrapping up the Lighthouse Festival, where each yippie received a rose, signifying where someone saw them shine throughout the...
Community & Collaboration
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, I hope this newsletter finds you well. Here in Sweden we were gifted with the most beautiful sunshine throughout the last weeks. Now, here and there you can see the first spring flowers heading towards the sun....
Community & Collaboration
NewsDear Friends of YIP, The Yippies have gathered back in Tallevana after a two week winter break. We started by looking at the purpose of the Community and Collaboration block in the curriculum and the different course weeks,...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness
NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, Happy New Year from Ytterjärna! I hope this newsletter finds you well and with a fresh start in 2022. Before we go into the new block of Community and Collaboration we want to share with you how the Yippies closed...
Inner Exploration
News, NewslettersDear Friends of YIP, Whilst the days are getting shorter and darker here in Ytterjärna, we are enlightening our inner fires in the middle of the Inner Awareness block. Winter has fully arrived. Candle lights, warm cups of tea, bonfires...
Shifting Seasons and Moving Onwards
News, NewslettersGreetings from Ytterjärna where the autumn presented itself in the most beautiful colors during the last weeks. Incredible sunrises, frosty mornings, clear-night skies and shorter days allowed us to enjoy the last bits of this season....
Welcome YIP14!
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021
NewsDear 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...
From Participants to Organisers News from YIP May 2021
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Learning Placement News from YIP April 2021
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Community and Collaboration News from YIP February – March 2021
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Welcoming the New Year News from YIP – January 2021
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness – December 2020
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Inner Exploration – November 2020
News, NewslettersDear 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...
Diving deep(er), wrapping up, moving onwards – October 2020
News, NewslettersDear 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 –...
Opening YIP13 – September 2020
News, NewslettersDear 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...
News from YIP – June 2020
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Hej hej & cheerful Thursday.Before YIP goes on a summer break, we are excited to share some reflections with you on the past and last weeks of YIP12. As a community of learners, we took the time to bring the...
News from YIP – May 2020
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Cheerful Wednesday. I am sitting in the sun outside the Hive, looking over the lawn to the Kulturhuset. The grass is long and full of fluffy and yellow dandelions, tulips making way for purple flowers and seas of...
Q&A YIP15 (2022/23) and Covid-19
NewsWill YIP15 be in-person? Yes, it is our aim to continue offering YIP as an in-person and residential program. What measures against the spread of Covid-19 does YIP maintain? YIP follows the guidelines and recommendations from the...
News from YIP – April 2020
News, NewslettersCheerful Thursday. In these interesting and shifting times, I am writing to you from Ytterjärna, where the YIP community has settled again after the Outpost in Scotland and the International Internships. Nature and the land around us...
News from YIP – March 2020
News, NewslettersGreetings from Ytterjarna. As the Yippies travel across the world to meet their internships in Brasil, Canada, Egypt, Nepal, the Phillipines, the USA and Zimbabwe, the organizing team returns our beautiful campus in Sweden. For...
Welcome 2020
News, NewslettersHere in the Findhorn Foundation eco-village on the sea coast of Scotland we have been adjusting to new and old rhythms, finding our way. We wander through permaculture inspired gardens and witness the interplay between colossal...
News from YIP – December 2019
News, NewslettersCheerful December. As the first frost blankets the Isle of Hoy, YIP 12 is finishing the Personal Awareness Block and transitioning into winter break. We say goodbye to our neighbours, the shy sheep and fuzzy cows. We embark on...
News from YIP – November 2019
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Can you believe that it's only a month ago since you read our previous newsletter? Meanwhile, the seasons have changed and so we enter the next chapter of YIP. After seven weeks of Global Realities, YIP and the...
Opening YIP12
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Happy Wednesday. I am writing you from the Hive in Ytterjärna, where nature is treating us with vivid yellows, oranges and reds, where the fjord greets us on misty mornings and the days are slowly getting shorter....
Is Your Gifting Circle Actually A Pyramid Scheme?
NewsBy Silas Beardslee It is from a place of deep respect, love and concern that I begin to write down my thoughts. The respect stands in relation to each person in this vast and growing......
YIP Newsletter June 2019 – Closing YIP11
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, We all arrived with a bag We all leave with a bag Some travel light Some stuff suitcases of clothes, books, memories, bottles of tears...
YIP Newsletter May 2019 – Moving into Spring
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Another month has passed since we last shared our stories with you. I'm writing this introduction sitting at the picnic tables outside the Galley, the sun as warm as the people around me, chatting with a coffee...
YIP Newsletter April 2019 – Looking Ahead at YIP12
News, NewslettersDear friends of YIP, Initiative Forum – Roots to Routes, has been and gone! Thank you to everyone who came to make this week so special. The locals here said that with your coming, or thoughts and support from far away, the sun...
YIP Newsletter February 2019 – Updates and Welcomes
News, NewslettersGreetings from Ytterjarna as we transition into what feels like spring. The snow has melted and the sun is shinning. With the Yippies away on internships, the organizing team has been reviewing YIP11 and looking forwards to YIP12. We...
YIP Newsletter January 2019 – Stories, tales and permaculture design
News, NewslettersGreetings from sunny Scotland that feels a little more like fall than winter. Small flowers are growing and trees still blossoming, yet we were lucky to have a few days of snow for sledding and snow angels. The January newsletter...
YIP Newsletter- Live Links from December
News, NewslettersHello dear everyone, Cheerful January! We are re-sending the links from the December newsletter as they are now live and functioning. Thank you to everyone who notified us of this error and our apologies for any confusion....
Newsletter December 2018
News, NewslettersCheerful December and greetings from Findhorn, Scotland where we are currently on our outpost. During these dark days we are finding light in the sunny mid mornings that gasp an orange glow across the sandy bay and ocean. If you look...
Newsletter October 2018
News, NewslettersDuring the past weeks the scenery around us has changed quite drastically. The trees went from green to red, orange and yellow and now, in the cold autumn winds and the brilliant sun the last are falling to the ground. The sunlight is...
Newsletter September 2018
News, NewslettersAfter a long, warm summer, full of (re) connecting and initiatives, YIP 11 has started. Twenty five young people have travelled from all over the world to spend the next 10 months together as a learning community. The first courses...
Closing The Circle
News, NewslettersAs mid-summer draws in we get closer and closer to the closing of YIP10. From Initiative Weeks, to Personal Project Presentation & Outdoor Experience, the group find themselves on a crescendo of...
Taking Initiative
News, NewslettersSpring finally hits Ytterjärna with force, the days are growing longer, night falls now around 10:30pm and the nightingales sing out their hearts in the dwindling darkness. The YIP community is full of energy and good thing too!...
Returning Home
News, NewslettersIt’s been two weeks now since all the Yippies have returned to Ytterjärna after 5 months, since they set off to the Brazil Outpost and journeyed onward to their International Internships. There’s a felt sense of relief as the...
Internship Special
News, NewslettersLast month the YIP community bade a farewell to their collegues in Piracanga as well as each other, breaking up into internship groups, they began the next phase of their YIP experience. This newsletter aims to give a special insight...
YIP Celebrates 10 Years!
NewsIt’s time to celebrate and deepen our network to inspire new connections and initiatives for the future. The YIP community is warmly welcomed to Initiate, Integrate, Transform together in Ytterjarna during the 1st – 5th of...
Reflecting on the past months…
News, NewslettersBruna’s Thoughts The month of January flew by and with it the time of YIP in Brazil came to and end. Most of the YIPUNI participants experienced a roller coaster of emotions during the Playing for Change weeks, as they described....
Hello 2018
News, NewslettersNewsletter Glossary Thank you Robbie! The Newsletter will make much more sense now. *Commonly Used YIPUNI Terminology* • Gava Training • Stensta Floresta • Bruno from São Paolo • A mangas! • Itacaré, Etacar and...
YIPUNI(ON)
News, NewslettersYIP + UNI (YIPUNI – according to Sun, from South Korea, means: beautiful person) I have been navigating between two seas inside of myself: happiness and challenge. The group is bigger, from 24 to 53 young people. From 2 nationalities...
Closing the First Chapter in Sweden
News, NewslettersLooking Forward… A special and personal preview to Piracanga, by Luana Andrade Summer is my favourite season of the year. The hair becomes slim, the water becomes hot, the drinks become cold, the music becomes louder, the day...
The Falling Leaves Drift by the Window
News, NewslettersCold wind of autumn, blowing loudAt dawn, a fortnight overdue,Jostling the doors, and tearing throughMy bedroom to rejoin the cloud,I know—for I can hear the hissAnd scrape of leaves along the floor—How may boughs, lashed bare by...
YIP Newsletter September 2017 – Welcoming YIP 10
News, NewslettersOnce upon a time, far far away from Stockholm, there stood between the trees a large pastel house. Within its walls (and often outside of them) roamed 29 curious individuals. They had come from 17 different countries and five different...
Summer is Here!
News, NewslettersSummer is Here! Summer with its longest daylight hours has arrived. The trees and bushes are now in their full green splendour; flowers are in bloom bringing the warm summer air into a sweet mixture of colourful smells....
Flipping the visa challenge – YIP 10 will spend 3 months in Brazil
News, NewslettersAs many of you know, this last year YIP has been seriously challenged by the increasing restrictions of the Swedish immigration authorities. 11 accepted students from beyond Europe, had their visas denied and were unable to join the...
YIP Newsletter April 2017 – Spring
News, NewslettersSpring is slowly arriving. The season still seems somewhat unsure, with occasional snowfall and chilly nights. Nature is readying itself for the busy time ahead. Everywhere little green buds are popping out of the dead-looking stems,...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – IF: Major Content Update
News, NewslettersIntroduction This newsletter is ALL about Initiative Forum (IF). YIP9 have been working hard getting everything ready for the 9th April (so soon!). We now have a clearer picture of how the week will look and who will be coming to...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – Inward and Outward
NewsFollowing the gesture of the daylight, the curriculum took an inward and more personal turn. We began exploring our own inner dimensions with less and less distraction from outer events and happenings. This part of the journey in YIP...
YIP Newsletter end of 2016 – Initiative Forum
News, NewslettersSeasonal greetings from everyone at YIP9, Here in Ytterjärna we are getting ready to leave Tallevana for the next two months. Firstly we will enjoy a bit of a break, some of us going to see family, friends and also new places. Then we...
YIP Newsletter December 2016 – Inner quiet; inner flame
News, NewslettersFollowing the autumn break comes the ‘inner block’ for YIP, time to let the darkness turn us inwards, to reflect and to explore the hidden corners, the dimly lit corridors of our souls. We encourage this, as in the past YIP has fought...
YIP Newsletter November 2016 – Gathering grey; gathering life
NewslettersWe now conclude the ‘Outer Block’ and take a short autumn break, before we commence the ‘Inner Block’. Here are our thoughts. Autumn by Joceline Savoie It’s the time of year when the sun is a rare and exciting...
YIP Newsletter October 2016 – Outer way; under way
NewslettersThe YIP year is now in full swing. Please enjoy our newsletter. Life in Tallevana by Arne Jansen van Rensburg “Time flies!” – the exclamation so often echoes; though in Tallevana no expression could be less true. From the moment...
YIP Newsletter September 2016 – Landing feet; landing hearts
News, NewslettersThe locals speak of September as the month of a ‘second summer’, and the late afternoon sunlight streaming through the YIP office windows agrees. Wasps buzz lazily on a light breeze, the apples are all red now and hanging...
YIP Newsletter August 2016 – It’s that time of year again
News, NewslettersIt’s that time of year again Here in Ytterjärna the nights are beginning to darken and the apples are turning red. The sun is slowly kissing us goodbye and cool winds herald the arrival of autumn. Here in Ytterjärna there is a...
YIP Newsletter June/July 2016 – The Great Wide Open
News, NewslettersThe epic splash from the twenty-five souls thrown softly into the Järnian pool has long ago been reabsorbed. The ripples, which ebbed and bounced in beautiful arcs and coils for almost a year, have also departed for new horizons. As...
Alanus University and YIP: In Cooperation
NewsRecently The International Youth Initiative Program has signed a cooperation agreement with Alanus University in Bonn, Germany, and more precisely, with the Institute of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University. Alanus University...
YIP Newsletter May 2016 – Beginning to End
News, NewslettersThe end is approaching with a rapidity that seems to persistently increase. Yet to pause in a moment, has Time fade to the background or drop away completely and what is left is blissful. Laughter issuing from open windows as the sun...
YIP Newsletter April 2016 – Spring Vibes
News, NewslettersThe explosiveness of the Swedish spring is imminent. The birds have returned to their chortling rousts and the yellows, greens and purples are making their way out of their sleeping bulbs. There is something magical about this time. ...
YIP Newsletter March 2016 – Into the Foodture and Beyond
News, NewslettersAs if on cue, curious green sprouts poked through soggy earth on the first day of spring, to gaze upon the world they had left behind in autumn. The straight-backed, purple crocuses and modest snowbells exchanged excited laughs,...
YIP Newsletter February 2016 – The Journey Returns
News, NewslettersA slight feeling of warmth has returned to the rays of sun that cut diagonal light through the still-frozen tree branches and cast their long shadows in the patchy snow. Like the sun, the Yippies too have returned with embracing...
YIP Newsletter January 2016 – Currency, Collaborations and Community
Article, NewsSweden is frozen, caught in what seems like a timeless spell. At each sunrise and each sun set it turns into some kind of fiery-frozen winter wonder land. Each branch and twig, each blade of grass, everything that has remained exposed...
YIP Newsletter December 2015 – Into the New Year
Article, NewsSilence has settled on Ytterjärna as the Yippies lift off to various destinations for the Winter break, and readying themselves for the internship journeys that lay beyond. It has been a wild ride these last few weeks and months with...
YIP Newsletter November 2015 – Internships and Initiative
News, NewslettersThe first stinted winter temperatures have arrived in Ytterjärna, coupled with the first collective experience of a sub-zero climate. Peppered within this collective are a few first-timers pulling scarves closer to chins and learning...
YIP Newsletter October 2015 – Sequence Initiated
News, NewslettersFall is here. It arrived in quiet explosions of gold and yellow, brisk gusts of wind that brought down finished leaves and the swoosh-swoosh-swoosh sound of children’s boots walking along the forest paths. Although it has been...
YIP Newsletter September 2015 – Settling In
News, NewslettersAs fall descends on Ytterjärna in crisp gusts, leaves begin to yellow and the day has decided to share equal time with the night, even if just for a moment. The buzzing energy of arrival and the excitement of unexplored territory has...
YIP Newsletter August 2015 – The New Chapter
NewsAlthough the summer holidays have drawn to a close with children back at school and the YIP office again buzzing with life, the Swedish summer is still in full swing. The gardens are overflowing with vegetables and flowers of all...
YIP Newsletter July 2015 – The Closing of a Chapter
News, NewslettersAlmost silence. It came like the moment after a warm thunderstorm passes over and the birds come out from cover. It fell upon the place like a stealthy blanket, somewhat bewildering, but graceful and soothing. Before it arrived, a...
YIP Newsletter June 2015 – The Finale in Brief
News, NewslettersIt certainly hasn’t been the warmest of springs here in Sweden. Quite the contrary in fact with some sources saying that it’s the coldest May since 1962 and the rainiest it has been in Sweden at this time of year in two centuries! ...
YIP Newsletter May 2015 – Financing the Future
News, NewslettersAs the sun gets steadily warmer, stays later and becomes ever more brilliant in our little haven at the water’s edge, spring has exploded in a wave of green, yellow and purple. Memories of times past bubble to the present, like...
YIP Newsletter April 2015 – Internships and Initiative
NewsIt has been a quiet time here in Ytterjärna for those of us who have remained behind. But slowly those beating hearts have trickled back into this mysterious place that we have all come to know as ‘home’. The quietness of the weeks...
YIP Newsletter March 2015 – Working in the World
News, NewslettersHas spring already sprung in Järna…? Perhaps it should not be said aloud for fear that winter might feel overlooked! Yet a warm sun shines from blue skies today, with all the hints and smells of spring. And despite the frosty...
YIP Newsletter February 2015 – A Glimpse of the Labyrinth
News, NewslettersThe sun is shining down sideways from a crystal blue sky, decorated with faint brushstrokes of windy white. It’s cold. There is snow everywhere, but not too deep. In the midst of an action, it seems as though everything alive was...
YIP Newsletter January 2015 – In Brief
News, NewslettersJärna is covered in a thin blanket of snow. The ponds are frozen solid and the fjord is getting there. With this cold, a new kind of energy is shining through the cracks of the previous year, cold, crisp and fresh. Two-weeks of...
YIP Newsletter December 2014 – Into the Darkness
News, NewslettersIt is 2:54 in the afternoon and the sun has set in Yärnaterja. The few sunrays that poked through the thick cotton clouds in the morning have been swallowed up by the day and a thick grey blanket has taken their place. This is much...
YIP Newsletter November 2014: So, what is YIP?
NewslettersWith summer truly over and autumn already nearing its conclusion, fewer meals are taken outside to the rocks and spontaneous jumps in the fjord are becoming rare. The Souls of YIP’s feet are digging themselves into the cool, clay soil...
Reflections on YIP
NewsDear friends, I wrote the text below in the spring of this year, 2014, at a time when the continuation of the program and its organization where wavering on the edge of existence. I felt called to share my view on some of the purpose...
Initiative Forum: 20th to 25th of June, 2015!
NewsTo everyone interested in Initiative Forum 2015! I hope this update finds you well and that the news herein gives rise to excitement for what is coming! We have decided to change the dates of the 2015 Initiative Forum to a warmer,...
YIP Newsletter October 2014: YIP: Chapter 7
News, NewslettersAs the first lines of YIP: Chapter 7 come to life, the adventures, misadventures, dreams, hopes, challenges and triumphs spill forth to fill its pages. The truth is, there could be twenty-five very different voices called upon to...
YIP Newsletter September 2014: Ringing in YIP7
NewsAs the smells of summer slowly begin to turn to autumn and the lazy Scandinavian sunset turns the evening sky to fire, an office on the second floor of a big White House buzzes with life. It’s the comings and goings of a few...
Thank you YIP6 and welcome YIP7
NewsDear friends, members, alumni, contributors, parents, partners and other people in the network of YIP, YIP has just finished its 6th successful year. The twenty bright young people who graduated last week are now going out into the...
Impressions of YIP- The Essence
NewsImpressions of YIP- The Essence The student run project, ‘Impressions of YIP- The Essence,’ is ready for purchase! The Essence is a limited edition publication, as there are only 700 printed copies in existence. Each copy is 150 SEK,...
Initiative Forum 2014
NewsShIFt was an amazing experience both for the individuals within YIP6, as well as for our whole group all together. This year we had 200 people joining us from all around the world, and it was a joy to see the yippies step into the...
Welcome to Ytterjärna
NewsFor those of you who have never before visited us here at the YIP campus, this is for you! Initiative Forum, takes place in Ytterjärna, Sweden, a rural community located 50km south of Stockholm. The Kulturcentrum Järna has a wonderful...
International Internships 2014
NewsThe YIP-International Internships were closed this year with two mornings of inspiring presentations by the participants, a magical interactive dance-performance by the Amsterdam-group, and a sparkling community dinner where our local...
YIP in Transition
NewsWe asked Rose Nekvapil, one of the founders of YIP, to write a few words for our newsletter. She had complete freedom in choosing what she wanted to bring, and this is her article: It has been wonderful to stand back and watch YIP move...
Initiative Forum 2014
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Happy Holidays
NewsWe wish you all Happy Holidays and we look forward to working with you in 2014! Make sure you check out our YIP Mittens Auction Buy your holiday gift and support an organisation you love at the same time! Donate to YIP and win a pair...
Fabula Collective
NewsSandra and Melanie, both YIP alumni, co-founded an initiative some months ago: Fabula Collective vzw – New Myths New Forms (www.fabulacollective.org). Fabula Collective vzw is a multidisciplinary collective of four young...
Classroom alive is reaching Athens!
NewsClassroom Alive – Sweden to Greece – is a 6-month walking studies across Europe. By stepping out of the brick and mortar classroom, the students has taken up their individual questions and brought them into relationship with the...
YIP6 so far – Olga Bloemen
NewsLast week’s contributor Marcel de Leuw introduced a reflective exercise: to think back at the day and rewind it in your head like a video, speedily but minutely. Still, Marcel stressed, it is not so much important to ask what you did,...
The YIP House
NewsSix years ago, the Youth Initiative Program was launched as a pioneer project by the 5 enthusiastic founders who we all know: Ani Hanelius, Pernilla Fogelqvist, Reinoud Meijer, Rose Nekvapil, and Susanne Hansen. These five young...
YIP6 is here!
NewsThis year we have accepted 20 participants, from 11 countries. One participant, Irvine Muzuva from Zimbabwe has yet to arrive due to Visa logistics, but we are expecting him in the next few weeks. We look forward to welcoming him when...
Financial Situation
NewsLast spring, in an effort to meet YIP’s financial needs, we launched the YIP Friends Campaign. The idea was that YIP would become Community Supported Education, much as organic and biodynamic farmers use Community Supported...
YIP Fee Increase
NewsThe start of a new year is an exciting time at YIP. This year we are filled with excitement and anticipation as we open the application process for the 6th group of YIP Participants, YIP6! For those who have been involved with YIP from...
Happy Holidays!
NewsAs our participants are flying away to family and friends, or staying in cold winter wonderland Järna, we are taking a break and will be back in 2013! We thank you for your continues support, encouragement and inspiration. 2012 has...
YIP is helping to Save Our Soils
NewsYIP is partner in the Save Our Soils Campaign! Just like previous years, YIP is partnering with Nature & More from the Netherlands for the Initiative Forum 2013. Each year we give them something in return for their generous...
YIP Friends Campaign: 10.000 SEK!
NewsJust a few weeks after launching our friends campaign, we are already passing the 10.000 SEK mark! 50% of the commitment to make YIP possible comes from our Participants and Alumni themselves, who believe in what we do. Are you helping...
Initiative Forum 2013
NewsWE SEE a world where people strive towards positive global change, in areas ranging from community building to social justice to environmental sustainability to economic renewal. These changemakers are able to imagine a better world by...
A New YIP Website
NewsWe have been working hard for weeks to release a new version of the YIP Website, and here it is! It might not look verry different for you, but everything behind the scenes has changed. We have setup systems that makes managing...
Make a Buzz about the Bees
NewsMake a Buzz about the Bees Bees are having a hard time lately; they’re dying in droves. YIP and Initiative Forum are collaborating with Nature & More to help the bees! Nature & More sponsored all of the organic fruit and most...
Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants
NewsRecommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants Memorandum to the organising committee of the Rio+20 conference, June 2012, from the Participants of the International Youth Initiative Program in Järna, Sweden Memorandum to the...
YIP Update, May 2008
Article, NewsBy Reinoud Meijer (Holland), May 2008 It is an incredible position to be organizing YIP. We are like the bees buzzing around the network, which is like a rich garden and everywhere we get to, YIP can bring something that is beyond what...
Reasons for YIP
Article, NewsBy Reinoud Meijer (Holland), May 2008 I saw a video of a German professor recently, who spoke at a conference. He was telling how his father used to say that what separated man from animal was stupidity. It took him 54 years in which...
YIP: Walking the Talk on Community Engagement
Article, NewsBy: Ani Hanelius (USA), April 2008 There are not many places in this world where a young person can come and say, “I want to change the world!” and be told in response, “Ok, we want to help you reach that goal.” Yet this is exactly...
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