Hello friends around the world,

Warm greetings from a sunny and blossoming Sweden!

YIP is an Anthroposophically inspired 10-month residential, holistic education program in societal entrepreneurship for 18–28-year-olds from all around the world, based in Ytterjärna, Sweden.
 

We on the team here at YIP (International Youth Initiative Program) would like to share with you that applications for YIP17 (2024-2025) are still open. The second application round will close on the 15th of June 2024. We have had many wonderful applicants and YIP 17 is looking like becoming an amazing group of inspired individuals. We now have only nine places left and would be very grateful if you could help those who are looking for an opportunity like YIP to find us.

YIP aims to strengthen young people’s capacity to take personal and collective initiative in the face of current global realities and to find their authentic task in the world. Participants live and learn together to explore the current challenges of our time, grow their personal awareness as well as their ability to work together. They meet inspiring individuals who are working on the cutting edge of finding creative and future orientated solutions to the complexity of the difficulties we see in the world in the realm of governance and activism (Gerald Häfner), food sovereignty (Vandana Shiva) and initiative and initiation (Orland Bishop) and much, much more.

If you know of someone who may benefit from a year of making sense in YIP, please pass on the invitation. 

With warm greetings from the YIP team.

My year in Sweden was the most influential time of my life. For me YIP was my first experience coming into contact with my truest expression as a human being. The consistent work within community living gave me the courage to start experimenting with how I wanted to be in relation to myself, and the world. Today I am a facilitator and a project manager, and there is not a single day that I do not draw from the invaluable tool kit that this program made available to me. I am doing my life’s work because of the incredible support that the YIP Organization and Program provided me. There will never be enough ways to say “thank you”.

- Kailea Frederick (YIP6)