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Community and Collaboration
8 Feb 2023Dear 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...
Midwinter Messages
6 Jan 2023Dear 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...
Moving Inwards
2 Dec 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Global Realities
8 Nov 2022Dear 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...
Start of the YIP Journey
11 Oct 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the year
25 Jul 2022Dear 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...
Self-Organised Time
28 Jun 2022Dear 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
19 May 2022Dear 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...
Community & Collaboration
23 Mar 2022Dear 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...
Community & Collaboration
9 Feb 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness
13 Jan 2022Dear 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...
Inner Exploration
3 Dec 2021Dear 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...
Shifting Seasons and Moving Onwards
17 Nov 2021Greetings 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...
Welcome YIP14!
27 Oct 2021Dear 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...
Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021
25 Aug 2021Dear 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...
From Participants to Organisers News from YIP May 2021
4 Jul 2021Dear 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...
Learning Placement News from YIP April 2021
8 May 2021Dear 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...
Community and Collaboration News from YIP February – March 2021
27 Mar 2021Dear 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...
Welcoming the New Year News from YIP – January 2021
27 Mar 2021Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness – December 2020
2 Jan 2021Dear 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...
Inner Exploration – November 2020
9 Dec 2020Dear 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...
Diving deep(er), wrapping up, moving onwards – October 2020
7 Dec 2020Dear 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...
Opening YIP13 – September 2020
4 Oct 2020Dear 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....
News from YIP – June 2020
25 Jun 2020Dear 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...
News from YIP – May 2020
4 Jun 2020Dear 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...
Q&A YIP15 (2022/23) and Covid-19
2 Jun 2020Will 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...
News from YIP – April 2020
30 Apr 2020Cheerful 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...
News from YIP – March 2020
4 Mar 2020Greetings 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...
Welcome 2020
25 Jan 2020Here 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...
News from YIP – December 2019
22 Dec 2019Cheerful 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...
News from YIP – November 2019
7 Nov 2019Dear 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...
Opening YIP12
14 Oct 2019Dear 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...
Is Your Gifting Circle Actually A Pyramid Scheme?
10 Aug 2019By 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
30 Jun 2019Dear 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
30 May 2019Dear 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2019 – Looking Ahead at YIP12
25 Apr 2019Dear 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2019 – Updates and Welcomes
28 Feb 2019Greetings 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2019 – Stories, tales and permaculture design
11 Feb 2019Greetings 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...
YIP Newsletter- Live Links from December
15 Jan 2019Hello 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...
Newsletter December 2018
24 Dec 2018Cheerful 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...
Newsletter November 2018
20 Nov 2018Newsletter Contents: 1) Slava Theatre with Viktoria Siwek and Elin Tisell 2) Study of Human Kind with Geseke Lundgren and Andrew Sebzda 3) Biography Work with Annie Meijer and Marry Mcarthy...
Newsletter October 2018
26 Oct 2018During 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...
Newsletter September 2018
21 Sep 2018After 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...
Closing The Circle
16 Jun 2018As 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...
Taking Initiative
15 May 2018Spring 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...
Returning Home
19 Apr 2018It’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....
Internship Special
15 Mar 2018Last 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...
YIP Celebrates 10 Years!
2 Mar 2018It’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...
Reflecting on the past months…
17 Feb 2018Bruna’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...
Hello 2018
17 Jan 2018Newsletter 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...
YIPUNI(ON)
14 Dec 2017YIP + 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...
Closing the First Chapter in Sweden
21 Nov 2017Looking 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...
The Falling Leaves Drift by the Window
19 Oct 2017Cold 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2017 – Welcoming YIP 10
25 Sep 2017Once 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...
Summer is Here!
12 Jul 2017Summer 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...
Flipping the visa challenge – YIP 10 will spend 3 months in Brazil
12 Jun 2017As 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2017 – Spring
2 Apr 2017Spring 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – IF: Major Content Update
15 Mar 2017Introduction 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – Inward and Outward
2 Mar 2017Following 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...
YIP Newsletter end of 2016 – Initiative Forum
22 Dec 2016Seasonal 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...
YIP Newsletter December 2016 – Inner quiet; inner flame
20 Dec 2016Following 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2016 – Gathering grey; gathering life
2 Nov 2016We 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2016 – Outer way; under way
2 Nov 2016The 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2016 – Landing feet; landing hearts
9 Sep 2016The 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,...
YIP Newsletter August 2016 – It’s that time of year again
24 Aug 2016It’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...
YIP Newsletter June/July 2016 – The Great Wide Open
15 Jul 2016The 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,...
Alanus University and YIP: In Cooperation
27 May 2016Recently 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...
YIP Newsletter May 2016 – Beginning to End
23 May 2016The 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. ...
YIP Newsletter April 2016 – Spring Vibes
16 May 2016The 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. ...
YIP Newsletter March 2016 – Into the Foodture and Beyond
18 Apr 2016As 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2016 – The Journey Returns
1 Mar 2016A 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2016 – Currency, Collaborations and Community
27 Jan 2016Sweden 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...
YIP Newsletter December 2015 – Into the New Year
27 Jan 2016Silence 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2015 – Internships and Initiative
27 Nov 2015The 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2015 – Sequence Initiated
24 Oct 2015Fall 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2015 – Settling In
21 Sep 2015As 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...
YIP Newsletter August 2015 – The New Chapter
25 Aug 2015Although 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...
YIP Newsletter July 2015 – The Closing of a Chapter
25 Aug 2015Almost 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...
YIP Newsletter June 2015 – The Finale in Brief
15 Jun 2015It 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...
YIP Newsletter May 2015 – Financing the Future
13 May 2015As 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2015 – Internships and Initiative
16 Apr 2015It 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2015 – Working in the World
6 Mar 2015Has 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2015 – A Glimpse of the Labyrinth
6 Feb 2015The 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2015 – In Brief
13 Jan 2015Järna 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,...
YIP Newsletter December 2014 – Into the Darkness
8 Dec 2014It 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2014: So, what is YIP?
11 Nov 2014With 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...
Reflections on YIP
7 Nov 2014Dear 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...
Initiative Forum: 20th to 25th of June, 2015!
3 Nov 2014To 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2014: YIP: Chapter 7
8 Oct 2014As 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2014: Ringing in YIP7
7 Sep 2014As 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...
Thank you YIP6 and welcome YIP7
1 Jul 2014Dear 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...
Impressions of YIP- The Essence
3 Jun 2014Impressions 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...
Initiative Forum 2014
25 Apr 2014ShIFt 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...
Welcome to Ytterjärna
15 Apr 2014For 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....
International Internships 2014
27 Mar 2014The 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...
YIP in Transition
17 Mar 2014We 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...
Initiative Forum 2014
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Happy Holidays
19 Dec 2013We 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...
Fabula Collective
3 Dec 2013Sandra 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...
Classroom alive is reaching Athens!
29 Nov 2013Classroom 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...
YIP6 so far – Olga Bloemen
24 Nov 2013Last 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...
The YIP House
1 Oct 2013Six 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,...
YIP6 is here!
15 Sep 2013This 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...
Financial Situation
1 Sep 2013Last 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...
YIP Fee Increase
23 Jan 2013The 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...
Happy Holidays!
21 Dec 2012As 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,...
YIP is helping to Save Our Soils
21 Dec 2012YIP 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...
YIP Friends Campaign: 10.000 SEK!
10 Dec 2012Just 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,...
Initiative Forum 2013
28 Nov 2012WE 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...
A New YIP Website
23 Nov 2012We 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...
Make a Buzz about the Bees
15 May 2012Make 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...
Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants
14 May 2012Recommendations 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...
YIP Update, May 2008
29 May 2008By 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...
Reasons for YIP
25 May 2008By 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...
YIP: Walking the Talk on Community Engagement
1 Apr 2008By: 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...
Community and Collaboration
8 Feb 2023Dear 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...
Midwinter Messages
6 Jan 2023Dear 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...
Moving Inwards
2 Dec 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Global Realities
8 Nov 2022Dear 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...
Start of the YIP Journey
11 Oct 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the year
25 Jul 2022Dear 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...
Self-Organised Time
28 Jun 2022Dear 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
19 May 2022Dear 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...
Community & Collaboration
23 Mar 2022Dear 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...
Community & Collaboration
9 Feb 2022Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness
13 Jan 2022Dear 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...
Inner Exploration
3 Dec 2021Dear 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...
Shifting Seasons and Moving Onwards
17 Nov 2021Greetings 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...
Welcome YIP14!
27 Oct 2021Dear 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...
Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021
25 Aug 2021Dear 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...
From Participants to Organisers News from YIP May 2021
4 Jul 2021Dear 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...
Learning Placement News from YIP April 2021
8 May 2021Dear 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...
Community and Collaboration News from YIP February – March 2021
27 Mar 2021Dear 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...
Welcoming the New Year News from YIP – January 2021
27 Mar 2021Dear 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...
Wrapping up the Inner Awareness – December 2020
2 Jan 2021Dear 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...
Inner Exploration – November 2020
9 Dec 2020Dear 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...
Diving deep(er), wrapping up, moving onwards – October 2020
7 Dec 2020Dear 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...
Opening YIP13 – September 2020
4 Oct 2020Dear 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....
News from YIP – June 2020
25 Jun 2020Dear 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...
News from YIP – May 2020
4 Jun 2020Dear 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...
Q&A YIP15 (2022/23) and Covid-19
2 Jun 2020Will 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...
News from YIP – April 2020
30 Apr 2020Cheerful 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...
News from YIP – March 2020
4 Mar 2020Greetings 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...
Welcome 2020
25 Jan 2020Here 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...
News from YIP – December 2019
22 Dec 2019Cheerful 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...
News from YIP – November 2019
7 Nov 2019Dear 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...
Opening YIP12
14 Oct 2019Dear 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...
Is Your Gifting Circle Actually A Pyramid Scheme?
10 Aug 2019By 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
30 Jun 2019Dear 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
30 May 2019Dear 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2019 – Looking Ahead at YIP12
25 Apr 2019Dear 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2019 – Updates and Welcomes
28 Feb 2019Greetings 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2019 – Stories, tales and permaculture design
11 Feb 2019Greetings 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...
YIP Newsletter- Live Links from December
15 Jan 2019Hello 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...
Newsletter December 2018
24 Dec 2018Cheerful 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...
Newsletter November 2018
20 Nov 2018Newsletter Contents: 1) Slava Theatre with Viktoria Siwek and Elin Tisell 2) Study of Human Kind with Geseke Lundgren and Andrew Sebzda 3) Biography Work with Annie Meijer and Marry Mcarthy...
Newsletter October 2018
26 Oct 2018During 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...
Newsletter September 2018
21 Sep 2018After 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...
Closing The Circle
16 Jun 2018As 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...
Taking Initiative
15 May 2018Spring 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...
Returning Home
19 Apr 2018It’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....
Internship Special
15 Mar 2018Last 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...
YIP Celebrates 10 Years!
2 Mar 2018It’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...
Reflecting on the past months…
17 Feb 2018Bruna’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...
Hello 2018
17 Jan 2018Newsletter 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...
YIPUNI(ON)
14 Dec 2017YIP + 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...
Closing the First Chapter in Sweden
21 Nov 2017Looking 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...
The Falling Leaves Drift by the Window
19 Oct 2017Cold 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2017 – Welcoming YIP 10
25 Sep 2017Once 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...
Summer is Here!
12 Jul 2017Summer 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...
Flipping the visa challenge – YIP 10 will spend 3 months in Brazil
12 Jun 2017As 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2017 – Spring
2 Apr 2017Spring 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – IF: Major Content Update
15 Mar 2017Introduction 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2017 – Inward and Outward
2 Mar 2017Following 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...
YIP Newsletter end of 2016 – Initiative Forum
22 Dec 2016Seasonal 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...
YIP Newsletter December 2016 – Inner quiet; inner flame
20 Dec 2016Following 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2016 – Gathering grey; gathering life
2 Nov 2016We 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2016 – Outer way; under way
2 Nov 2016The 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2016 – Landing feet; landing hearts
9 Sep 2016The 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,...
YIP Newsletter August 2016 – It’s that time of year again
24 Aug 2016It’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...
YIP Newsletter June/July 2016 – The Great Wide Open
15 Jul 2016The 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,...
Alanus University and YIP: In Cooperation
27 May 2016Recently 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...
YIP Newsletter May 2016 – Beginning to End
23 May 2016The 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. ...
YIP Newsletter April 2016 – Spring Vibes
16 May 2016The 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. ...
YIP Newsletter March 2016 – Into the Foodture and Beyond
18 Apr 2016As 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2016 – The Journey Returns
1 Mar 2016A 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2016 – Currency, Collaborations and Community
27 Jan 2016Sweden 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...
YIP Newsletter December 2015 – Into the New Year
27 Jan 2016Silence 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2015 – Internships and Initiative
27 Nov 2015The 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2015 – Sequence Initiated
24 Oct 2015Fall 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2015 – Settling In
21 Sep 2015As 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...
YIP Newsletter August 2015 – The New Chapter
25 Aug 2015Although 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...
YIP Newsletter July 2015 – The Closing of a Chapter
25 Aug 2015Almost 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...
YIP Newsletter June 2015 – The Finale in Brief
15 Jun 2015It 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...
YIP Newsletter May 2015 – Financing the Future
13 May 2015As 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...
YIP Newsletter April 2015 – Internships and Initiative
16 Apr 2015It 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...
YIP Newsletter March 2015 – Working in the World
6 Mar 2015Has 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...
YIP Newsletter February 2015 – A Glimpse of the Labyrinth
6 Feb 2015The 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...
YIP Newsletter January 2015 – In Brief
13 Jan 2015Järna 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,...
YIP Newsletter December 2014 – Into the Darkness
8 Dec 2014It 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...
YIP Newsletter November 2014: So, what is YIP?
11 Nov 2014With 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...
Reflections on YIP
7 Nov 2014Dear 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...
Initiative Forum: 20th to 25th of June, 2015!
3 Nov 2014To 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...
YIP Newsletter October 2014: YIP: Chapter 7
8 Oct 2014As 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...
YIP Newsletter September 2014: Ringing in YIP7
7 Sep 2014As 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...
Thank you YIP6 and welcome YIP7
1 Jul 2014Dear 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...
Impressions of YIP- The Essence
3 Jun 2014Impressions 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...
Initiative Forum 2014
25 Apr 2014ShIFt 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...
Welcome to Ytterjärna
15 Apr 2014For 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....
International Internships 2014
27 Mar 2014The 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...
YIP in Transition
17 Mar 2014We 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...
Initiative Forum 2014
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Happy Holidays
19 Dec 2013We 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...
Fabula Collective
3 Dec 2013Sandra 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...
Classroom alive is reaching Athens!
29 Nov 2013Classroom 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...
YIP6 so far – Olga Bloemen
24 Nov 2013Last 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...
The YIP House
1 Oct 2013Six 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,...
YIP6 is here!
15 Sep 2013This 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...
Financial Situation
1 Sep 2013Last 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...
YIP Fee Increase
23 Jan 2013The 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...
Happy Holidays!
21 Dec 2012As 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,...
YIP is helping to Save Our Soils
21 Dec 2012YIP 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...
YIP Friends Campaign: 10.000 SEK!
10 Dec 2012Just 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,...
Initiative Forum 2013
28 Nov 2012WE 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...
A New YIP Website
23 Nov 2012We 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...
Make a Buzz about the Bees
15 May 2012Make 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...
Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants
14 May 2012Recommendations 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...
YIP Update, May 2008
29 May 2008By 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...
Reasons for YIP
25 May 2008By 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...
YIP: Walking the Talk on Community Engagement
1 Apr 2008By: 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...