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5 Jul 2024

News from YIP: June 2024

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Closing 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...

20 May 2024

News from YIP: April 2024

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Landing 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....

11 Apr 2024

News from YIP: March 2024

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Dear 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...

19 Jan 2024

News from YIP: December 2023

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Wrapping 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...

11 Dec 2023

Inner Awareness

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News 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...

8 Nov 2023

Community & Collaboration

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News 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...

13 Oct 2023

Beginning of the YIP16 Journey

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News 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...

29 Jul 2023

Reconnecting the YIP Network

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It 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...

28 Jun 2023

From Participants to Organisors

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Greetings 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...

4 May 2023

Societal Entrepreneurship in Action

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After 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...

31 Mar 2023

Spark to Flame

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Dear 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...

8 Feb 2023

Community and Collaboration

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Dear 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,...

6 Jan 2023

Midwinter Messages

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Dear 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...

2 Dec 2022

Moving Inwards

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Dear 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...

8 Nov 2022

Wrapping up the Global Realities

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Dear 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...

11 Oct 2022

Start of the YIP Journey

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Dear 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...

25 Jul 2022

Wrapping up the year

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Dear 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,...

28 Jun 2022

Self-Organised Time

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Dear 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...

19 May 2022

Learning Placements

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Dear 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...

23 Mar 2022

Community & Collaboration

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Dear 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....

9 Feb 2022

Community & Collaboration

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Dear 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,...

13 Jan 2022

Wrapping up the Inner Awareness

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Dear 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...

3 Dec 2021

Inner Exploration

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Dear 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...

17 Nov 2021

Shifting Seasons and Moving Onwards

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Greetings 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....

27 Oct 2021

Welcome YIP14!

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Dear friends of YIP,   The new YIP year has started and Ytterjärna has welcomed YIP14 with warm sunshine, trees full of apples and migrating geese. This place is now becoming home to 35 new participants, waking up to a warm...

25 Aug 2021

Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021

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Dear friends of YIP,   I hope this long over due newsletter finds you well, wherever and whenever you happen to read it. It got a bit lost in the excitement of the final weeks of YIP13 and the summer holidays, but here it is...

Rose Bud at sunrise
9 Dec 2020

Inner Exploration – November 2020

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Dear friends of YIP, Greetings from Yttejärna! I hope you have all been well in this season of darker, colder days that invite cozy evenings with a cup of tea and a book. Here, in YIP, we have been diving deeper into the inner...

4 Oct 2020

Opening YIP13 – September 2020

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Dear friends of YIP, Here we are, September behind, the nights getting longer day-by-day, the leaves turning different shades of the autumn colours and the air feeling a bit colder every morning. Here, where we are, in Ytterjärna. A...

25 Jun 2020

News from YIP – June 2020

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Dear 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...

4 Jun 2020

News from YIP – May 2020

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Dear 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...

2 Jun 2020

Q&A YIP15 (2022/23) and Covid-19

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Will 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...

Fountain at Sunset
30 Apr 2020

News from YIP – April 2020

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Cheerful 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...

Stairs from Beach to Heaven
4 Mar 2020

News from YIP – March 2020

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Greetings 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...

25 Jan 2020

Welcome 2020

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Here 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...

22 Dec 2019

News from YIP – December 2019

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Cheerful 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...

7 Nov 2019

News from YIP – November 2019

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Dear 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...

14 Oct 2019

Opening YIP12

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Dear 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....

24 Dec 2018

Newsletter December 2018

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Cheerful 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...

26 Oct 2018

Newsletter October 2018

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During 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...

21 Sep 2018

Newsletter September 2018

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After 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...

16 Jun 2018

Closing The Circle

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As 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...

15 May 2018

Taking Initiative

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Spring 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!...

19 Apr 2018

Returning Home

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  It’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...

15 Mar 2018

Internship Special

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Last 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...

2 Mar 2018

YIP Celebrates 10 Years!

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It’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...

17 Feb 2018

Reflecting on the past months…

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Bruna’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....

17 Jan 2018

Hello 2018

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Newsletter 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...

14 Dec 2017

YIPUNI(ON)

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YIP + 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...

21 Nov 2017

Closing the First Chapter in Sweden

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  Looking 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...

12 Jul 2017

Summer is Here!

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  Summer 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....

2 Apr 2017

YIP Newsletter April 2017 – Spring

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Spring 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,...

27 May 2016

Alanus University and YIP: In Cooperation

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Recently 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...

25 Aug 2015

YIP Newsletter August 2015 – The New Chapter

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Although 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...

7 Nov 2014

Reflections on YIP

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Dear 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...

3 Nov 2014

Initiative Forum: 20th to 25th of June, 2015!

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To 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,...

7 Sep 2014

YIP Newsletter September 2014: Ringing in YIP7

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As 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
1 Jul 2014

Thank you YIP6 and welcome YIP7

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Dear 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...

3 Jun 2014

Impressions of YIP- The Essence

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Impressions 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,...

25 Apr 2014

Initiative Forum 2014

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ShIFt 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...

15 Apr 2014

Welcome to Ytterjärna

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For 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...

27 Mar 2014

International Internships 2014

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The 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...

17 Mar 2014

YIP in Transition

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We 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...

8 Jan 2014

Initiative Forum 2014

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19 Dec 2013

Happy Holidays

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We 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...

3 Dec 2013

Fabula Collective

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Sandra 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...

29 Nov 2013

Classroom alive is reaching Athens!

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Classroom 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...

28 Nov 2013

Holacracy

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As YIP transitions from an initiative to an organisation, the YIP6 team decided to implement a new organisational structure called Holacracy to facilitate this transition. Holacracy is a social technology that distributes authority...

24 Nov 2013

YIP6 so far – Olga Bloemen

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Last 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,...

1 Oct 2013

The YIP House

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Six 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...

15 Sep 2013

YIP6 is here!

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This 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...

1 Sep 2013

Financial Situation

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Last 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...

23 Jan 2013

YIP Fee Increase

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The 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...

21 Dec 2012

Happy Holidays!

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As 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...

21 Dec 2012

YIP is helping to Save Our Soils

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YIP 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...

10 Dec 2012

YIP Friends Campaign: 10.000 SEK!

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Just 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...

28 Nov 2012

Initiative Forum 2013

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WE 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...

23 Nov 2012

A New YIP Website

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We 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...

15 May 2012

Make a Buzz about the Bees

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Make 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...

29 May 2008

YIP Update, May 2008

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By 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...

25 May 2008

Reasons for YIP

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By 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...

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News from YIP: June 2024

Closing of YIP16 Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. At the beginning of this month, we…
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News from YIP: April 2024

Landing back on Campus and in the Community Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well, During the…
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News from YIP: March 2024

Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well, While the Yippies were away on their internships, we…
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News from YIP: December 2023

Wrapping up the Inner Awareness Block Dear friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. Over the last…
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Inner Awareness

News from YIP – November 2023 Dear Friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well.  After some rainy…
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Community & Collaboration

News from YIP – October 2023 Dear friends of YIP We hope this newsletter finds you well.  The weather is…
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Beginning of the YIP16 Journey

News from YIP – September 2023 Dear friends of YIP… Opening Ceremony Walking here on this path full of yellow…
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Reconnecting the YIP Network

It is time for celebration and initiation! For fjord dips and theatre skits! For inspiration and co-creation! For reminiscing, laughing,…
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Endings and New Beginnings

Greetings from a sun-drenched Ytterjärna! The smell of roses fill the air, the elderflowers have opened and the first wild…
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From Participants to Organisors

Greetings from Ytterjärna in full bloom! The moment is here! The leaves have bursted out of the trees, dandelions are…
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Societal Entrepreneurship in Action

After months of preparation, finally the day arrived where the different groups set off to their various Internship locations. Mostly…
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Spark to Flame

Dear Friends of YIP, The Yippies have flown off to their internships and here in Ytterjärna the skylark and crane…
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Community and Collaboration

Dear Friends of YIP, Welcome to this first newsletter of 2023! We wish you a happy and mindful year ahead…
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Midwinter Messages

Dear Friends of YIP, I’m writing this overlooking the white fields and fairy tale-like frosty trees. December has been a…
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Moving Inwards

Dear Friends of YIP, As November comes to an end and the days are getting even shorter, it feels like…
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Wrapping up the Global Realities

Dear Friends of YIP, The trees are coloured in all different shades of yellow, brown and red, and some have…
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Start of the YIP Journey

Dear Friends of YIP, We hope this newsletter finds you well. The Yippies who we were so eager to meet,…
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Wrapping up the year

Dear Friends of YIP, It is that time of year again. Ten dynamic months have flown by, and the people…
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Self-Organised Time

Dear Friends of YIP, Greetings from Ytterjärna in full bloom! As midsummer approaches, we at YIP are entering our final…
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Learning Placements

Dear Friends of YIP, I hope this newsletter finds you well wherever and whenever this meets you. After wrapping up…
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Community & Collaboration

Dear Friends of YIP, I hope this newsletter finds you well. Here in Sweden we were gifted with the most…
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Community & Collaboration

Dear Friends of YIP, The Yippies have gathered back in Tallevana after a two week winter break. We started by…
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Wrapping up the Inner Awareness

Dear Friends of YIP, Happy New Year from Ytterjärna! I hope this newsletter finds you well and with a fresh…
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Inner Exploration

Dear Friends of YIP, Whilst the days are getting shorter and darker here in Ytterjärna, we are enlightening our inner…
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Shifting Seasons and Moving Onwards

Greetings from Ytterjärna where the autumn presented itself in the most beautiful colors during the last weeks. Incredible sunrises, frosty…
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Welcome YIP14!

Dear friends of YIP,   The new YIP year has started and Ytterjärna has welcomed YIP14 with warm sunshine, trees full…
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Transitions News from YIP June ~ August 2021

Dear friends of YIP,   I hope this long over due newsletter finds you well, wherever and whenever you happen to…
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From Participants to Organisers News from YIP May 2021

Dear friends of YIP,   It has been a while. We hope you are soaking up the summer sun in the…
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Learning Placement News from YIP April 2021

Dear friends of YIP,   We hope and trust this newsletter finds you well. This edition is all about Learning Placements! In…
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Community and Collaboration News from YIP February – March 2021

Dear friends of YIP,   Greetings from Ytterjärna. I write this newsletter from the upper floor of Tallevana, the buidling Yippies…
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Welcoming the New Year News from YIP – January 2021

Dear friends of YIP,   We hope you had a peaceful transition into the new year. It is with great pleasure…
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Wrapping up the Inner Awareness – December 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Greetings into the last days of December! Half-way through the Winter Break by now, resting, rejuvenating,…
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Inner Exploration – November 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Greetings from Yttejärna! I hope you have all been well in this season of darker, colder…
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Diving deep(er), wrapping up, moving onwards – October 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Here we are, October behind, November knocking on the door. Frosty mornings, misty afternoons, beautiful clear-night…

Opening YIP13 – September 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Here we are, September behind, the nights getting longer day-by-day, the leaves turning different shades of…
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News from YIP – June 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Hej hej & cheerful Thursday.Before YIP goes on a summer break, we are excited to share…
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News from YIP – May 2020

Dear friends of YIP, Cheerful Wednesday. I am sitting in the sun outside the Hive, looking over the lawn to…
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Q&A YIP15 (2022/23) and Covid-19

Will YIP15 be in-person? Yes, it is our aim to continue offering YIP as an in-person and residential program.  What…
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News from YIP – April 2020

Cheerful Thursday. In these interesting and shifting times, I am writing to you from Ytterjärna, where the YIP community has…
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News from YIP – March 2020

Greetings from Ytterjarna. As the Yippies travel across the world to meet their internships in Brasil, Canada, Egypt, Nepal, the…
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Welcome 2020

Here in the Findhorn Foundation eco-village on the sea coast of Scotland we have been adjusting to new and old…
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News from YIP – December 2019

Cheerful December. As the first frost blankets the Isle of Hoy, YIP 12 is finishing the Personal Awareness Block and…
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News from YIP – November 2019

Dear friends of YIP, Can you believe that it’s only a month ago since you read our previous newsletter? Meanwhile,…
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Opening YIP12

Dear friends of YIP, Happy Wednesday. I am writing you from the Hive in Ytterjärna, where nature is treating us…
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Is Your Gifting Circle Actually A Pyramid Scheme?

By Silas Beardslee It is from a place of deep respect, love and concern that I begin to write down…
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YIP Newsletter June 2019 – Closing YIP11

Dear friends of YIP, We all arrived with a bag We all leave with a bag Some travel light Some…
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YIP Newsletter May 2019 – Moving into Spring

Dear friends of YIP, Another month has passed since we last shared our stories with you. I’m writing this introduction…
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YIP Newsletter April 2019 – Looking Ahead at YIP12

Dear friends of YIP, Initiative Forum – Roots to Routes, has been and gone! Thank you to everyone who came…
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YIP Newsletter February 2019 – Updates and Welcomes

Greetings from Ytterjarna as we transition into what feels like spring. The snow has melted and the sun is shinning. With…
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YIP Newsletter January 2019 – Stories, tales and permaculture design

Greetings from sunny Scotland that feels a little more like fall than winter.  Small flowers are growing and trees still…
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YIP Newsletter- Live Links from December

Hello dear everyone, Cheerful January!  We are re-sending the links from the December newsletter as they are now live and functioning.…
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Newsletter December 2018

Cheerful December and greetings from Findhorn, Scotland where we are currently on our outpost. During these dark days we are…
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Newsletter October 2018

During the past weeks the scenery around us has changed quite drastically. The trees went from green to red, orange…
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Newsletter September 2018

After a long, warm summer, full of (re) connecting and initiatives, YIP 11 has started. Twenty five young people have…
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Closing The Circle

As mid-summer draws in we get closer and closer to the closing of YIP10. From Initiative Weeks, to Personal Project Presentation & Outdoor Experience,…
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Taking Initiative

Spring finally hits Ytterjärna with force, the days are growing longer, night falls now around 10:30pm and the nightingales sing out…
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Returning Home

  It’s been two weeks now since all the Yippies have returned to Ytterjärna after 5 months, since they set off to…
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Internship Special

Last month the YIP community bade a farewell to their collegues in Piracanga as well as each other, breaking up…
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YIP Celebrates 10 Years!

It’s time to celebrate and deepen our network to inspire new connections and initiatives for the future. The YIP community…
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Reflecting on the past months…

Bruna’s Thoughts The month of January flew by and with it the time of YIP in Brazil came to and…
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Hello 2018

Newsletter Glossary  Thank you Robbie! The Newsletter will make much more sense now. *Commonly Used YIPUNI Terminology* •    Gava Training…
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YIPUNI(ON)

YIP + UNI (YIPUNI – according to Sun, from South Korea, means: beautiful person) I have been navigating between two…
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Closing the First Chapter in Sweden

  Looking Forward… A special and personal preview to Piracanga, by Luana Andrade  Summer is my favourite season of the…
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The Falling Leaves Drift by the Window

Cold wind of autumn, blowing loudAt dawn, a fortnight overdue,Jostling the doors, and tearing throughMy bedroom to rejoin the cloud,I…
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YIP Newsletter September 2017 – Welcoming YIP 10

Once upon a time, far far away from Stockholm, there stood between the trees a large pastel house. Within its…
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Summer is Here!

  Summer is Here!   Summer with its longest daylight hours has arrived. The trees and bushes are now in…
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Flipping the visa challenge – YIP 10 will spend 3 months in Brazil

As many of you know, this last year YIP has been seriously challenged by the increasing restrictions of the Swedish…

YIP Newsletter April 2017 – Spring

Spring is slowly arriving. The season still seems somewhat unsure, with occasional snowfall and chilly nights. Nature is readying itself…

YIP Newsletter March 2017 – IF: Major Content Update

Introduction This newsletter is ALL about Initiative Forum (IF). YIP9 have been working hard getting everything ready for the 9th…

YIP Newsletter March 2017 – Inward and Outward

Following the gesture of the daylight, the curriculum took an inward and more personal turn. We began exploring our own…

YIP Newsletter end of 2016 – Initiative Forum

Seasonal greetings from everyone at YIP9, Here in Ytterjärna we are getting ready to leave Tallevana for the next two…

YIP Newsletter December 2016 – Inner quiet; inner flame

Following the autumn break comes the ‘inner block’ for YIP, time to let the darkness turn us inwards, to reflect…

YIP Newsletter November 2016 – Gathering grey; gathering life

We now conclude the ‘Outer Block’ and take a short autumn break, before we commence the ‘Inner Block’. Here are our…

YIP Newsletter October 2016 – Outer way; under way

The YIP year is now in full swing. Please enjoy our newsletter. Life in Tallevana by Arne Jansen van Rensburg…
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YIP Newsletter September 2016 – Landing feet; landing hearts

The locals speak of September as the month of a ‘second summer’, and the late afternoon sunlight streaming through the…
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YIP Newsletter August 2016 – It’s that time of year again

It’s that time of year again Here in Ytterjärna the nights are beginning to darken and the apples are turning…
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YIP Newsletter June/July 2016 – The Great Wide Open

The epic splash from the twenty-five souls thrown softly into the Järnian pool has long ago been reabsorbed.  The ripples,…
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Alanus University and YIP: In Cooperation

Recently The International Youth Initiative Program has signed a cooperation agreement with Alanus University in Bonn, Germany, and more precisely, with…
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YIP Newsletter May 2016 – Beginning to End

The end is approaching with a rapidity that seems to persistently increase.  Yet to pause in a moment, has Time fade…
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YIP Newsletter April 2016 – Spring Vibes

The explosiveness of the Swedish spring is imminent.  The birds have returned to their chortling rousts and the yellows, greens…
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YIP Newsletter March 2016 – Into the Foodture and Beyond

As if on cue, curious green sprouts poked through soggy earth on the first day of spring, to gaze upon…
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YIP Newsletter February 2016 – The Journey Returns

A slight feeling of warmth has returned to the rays of sun that cut diagonal light through the still-frozen tree…
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YIP Newsletter January 2016 – Currency, Collaborations and Community

Sweden is frozen, caught in what seems like a timeless spell. At each sunrise and each sun set it turns into…
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YIP Newsletter December 2015 – Into the New Year

Silence has settled on Ytterjärna as the Yippies lift off to various destinations for the Winter break, and readying themselves…
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YIP Newsletter November 2015 – Internships and Initiative

The first stinted winter temperatures have arrived in Ytterjärna, coupled with the first collective experience of a sub-zero climate.  Peppered…
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YIP Newsletter October 2015 – Sequence Initiated

Fall is here.  It arrived in quiet explosions of gold and yellow, brisk gusts of wind that brought down finished…
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YIP Newsletter September 2015 – Settling In

As fall descends on Ytterjärna in crisp gusts, leaves begin to yellow and the day has decided to share equal…
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YIP Newsletter August 2015 – The New Chapter

Although the summer holidays have drawn to a close with children back at school and the YIP office again buzzing…
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YIP Newsletter July 2015 – The Closing of a Chapter

Almost silence.  It came like the moment after a warm thunderstorm passes over and the birds come out from cover. …
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YIP Newsletter June 2015 – The Finale in Brief

It certainly hasn’t been the warmest of springs here in Sweden.  Quite the contrary in fact with some sources saying…
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YIP Newsletter May 2015 – Financing the Future

As the sun gets steadily warmer, stays later and becomes ever more brilliant in our little haven at the water’s…
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The Opening of Orientation Aotearoa

By YIP Founder, Rose Nekvapil I arrived at the Wellington Airport and was greeted by Lucy (YIP4) in what was…
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YIP Newsletter April 2015 – Internships and Initiative

It has been a quiet time here in Ytterjärna for those of us who have remained behind.  But slowly those…
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YIP Newsletter March 2015 – Working in the World

Has spring already sprung in Järna…?  Perhaps it should not be said aloud for fear that winter might feel overlooked! …
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YIP Newsletter February 2015 – A Glimpse of the Labyrinth

The sun is shining down sideways from a crystal blue sky, decorated with faint brushstrokes of windy white.  It’s cold. …
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Where are they Now?

As YIP is now in its 7th revolution, that means there are six years worth of YIP-influenced (or YIPfluenced) souls…
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YIP Newsletter January 2015 – In Brief

Järna is covered in a thin blanket of snow.  The ponds are frozen solid and the fjord is getting there. …
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YIP Newsletter December 2014 – Into the Darkness

It is 2:54 in the afternoon and the sun has set in Yärnaterja.  The few sunrays that poked through the…
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YIP Newsletter November 2014: So, what is YIP?

With summer truly over and autumn already nearing its conclusion, fewer meals are taken outside to the rocks and spontaneous…
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Reflections on YIP

Dear friends, I wrote the text below in the spring of this year, 2014, at a time when the continuation…
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Initiative Forum: 20th to 25th of June, 2015!

To everyone interested in Initiative Forum 2015! I hope this update finds you well and that the news herein gives rise…
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YIP Newsletter October 2014: YIP: Chapter 7

As the first lines of YIP: Chapter 7 come to life, the adventures, misadventures, dreams, hopes, challenges and triumphs spill…
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YIP Newsletter September 2014: Ringing in YIP7

As the smells of summer slowly begin to turn to autumn and the lazy Scandinavian sunset turns the evening sky…
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Thank you YIP6 and welcome YIP7

Dear friends, members, alumni, contributors, parents, partners and other people in the network of YIP, YIP has just finished its…
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Impressions of YIP- The Essence

Impressions of YIP- The Essence The student run project, ‘Impressions of YIP- The Essence,’ is ready for purchase! The Essence…
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Initiative Forum 2014

ShIFt was an amazing experience both for the individuals within YIP6, as well as for our whole group all together.…
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Welcome to Ytterjärna

For those of you who have never before visited us here at the YIP campus, this is for you! Initiative…
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International Internships 2014

The YIP-International Internships were closed this year with two mornings of inspiring presentations by the participants, a magical interactive dance-performance…
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YIP in Transition

We asked Rose Nekvapil, one of the founders of YIP, to write a few words for our newsletter. She had…
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Initiative Forum 2014

15 – 20 April 2014 Järna, Sweden [vimeo video_id=”82196860″ width=”635″ height=”357″ title=”No” byline=”No” portrait=”No” autoplay=”No” loop=”No” color=”ffffff”] Initiative Forum is…
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Happy Holidays

We wish you all Happy Holidays and we look forward to working with you in 2014! Make sure you check…
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Fabula Collective

Sandra and Melanie, both YIP alumni, co-founded an initiative some months ago: Fabula Collective vzw – New Myths New Forms…
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Classroom alive is reaching Athens!

Classroom Alive – Sweden to Greece – is a 6-month walking studies across Europe. By stepping out of the brick and mortar classroom, the…
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Holacracy

As YIP transitions from an initiative to an organisation, the YIP6 team decided to implement a new organisational structure called…

YIP6 so far – Olga Bloemen

Last week’s contributor Marcel de Leuw introduced a reflective exercise: to think back at the day and rewind it in…
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The YIP House

Six years ago, the Youth Initiative Program was launched as a pioneer project by the 5 enthusiastic founders who we…
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YIP6 is here!

This year we have accepted 20 participants, from 11 countries. One participant, Irvine Muzuva from Zimbabwe has yet to arrive…
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Financial Situation

Last spring, in an effort to meet YIP’s financial needs, we launched the YIP Friends Campaign. The idea was that…
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YIP Fee Increase

The start of a new year is an exciting time at YIP. This year we are filled with excitement and…
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Happy Holidays!

As our participants are flying away to family and friends, or staying in cold winter wonderland Järna, we are taking…

YIP is helping to Save Our Soils

YIP is partner in the Save Our Soils Campaign! Just like previous years, YIP is partnering with Nature & More from the…
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YIP Friends Campaign: 10.000 SEK!

Just a few weeks after launching our friends campaign, we are already passing the 10.000 SEK mark! 50% of the…
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Initiative Forum 2013

WE SEE a world where people strive towards positive global change, in areas ranging from community building to social justice to…
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A New YIP Website

We have been working hard for weeks to release a new version of the YIP Website, and here it is!…

Make a Buzz about the Bees

Make a Buzz about the Bees Bees are having a hard time lately; they’re dying in droves. YIP and Initiative…

Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants

Recommendations to Rio+20 from YIP4 Participants Memorandum to the organising committee of the Rio+20 conference, June 2012, from the Participants…

YIP Update, May 2008

By Reinoud Meijer (Holland), May 2008 It is an incredible position to be organizing YIP. We are like the bees…

Reasons for YIP

By Reinoud Meijer (Holland), May 2008 I saw a video of a German professor recently, who spoke at a conference.…

YIP: Walking the Talk on Community Engagement

By: Ani Hanelius (USA), April 2008 There are not many places in this world where a young person can come…