How to bring more youth to ALIA Europe 2011?
Hello everyone,
I am here sitting in Jarna, Sweden, hosting a week process for a group of 40 young people who are part of a year program for social entrepreneurship (www.yip.se). And as I interact with each and everyone of them a strong calling to take leadership into bridging the young world with the adult world rises in me.
So I decided to open this discussion group to inquiry together: HOW CAN WE BRING MORE YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALIA EUROPE 2011?
And as you feel called to join the conversation, I invite you to start by sharing "what calls you to be part of this conversation?" and "what are the ideas you have?"
Look forward to hearing from you and seeing what we can make possible!
With joy,
I am here sitting in Jarna, Sweden, hosting a week process for a group of 40 young people who are part of a year program for social entrepreneurship (www.yip.se). And as I interact with each and everyone of them a strong calling to take leadership into bridging the young world with the adult world rises in me.
So I decided to open this discussion group to inquiry together: HOW CAN WE BRING MORE YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALIA EUROPE 2011?
And as you feel called to join the conversation, I invite you to start by sharing "what calls you to be part of this conversation?" and "what are the ideas you have?"
Look forward to hearing from you and seeing what we can make possible!
With joy,
Tags: 2011, alia, europe, youth
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Permalink Reply by Beth Follini on -
Hiya Valentine!!!!
Love this!
Well, I'm called because I believe in diversity and also because we need authentic young leaders!
I could look into writing some small grant applications to grant making trusts in the UK to see if I can raise some funding to bring some young people from the UK to ALIA (As a well as being a coach and polarity/wholeness workshop leaders (and blogger supreme!), I am a fundraising consultant specialising in writing trust and statutory grant applications.). Would also be worthwhile approaching international trusts and foundations!
Cheers,
Beth Follini
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Permalink Reply by Lenneke Aalbers on -
Yeah! Good to hear your voice in this Valentine! And good to start this conversation right here, right now!
So many reasons for and thoughts about bridging generations in the world in general and for sure in ALIA Europe! Just first 'pop-ups'....how can it be possible to learn and build leadership this world needs now, without the enormous wisdom, energy, courage and the different (handelings)perspectives off the young generation...what do you young people want our world to be and how can I be off service to your leadership in creating this...what do you see, what do you hear, what are the stories you tell about the world (near, here, far) and leadership, about you, me and us...and what do you want ALIA Europe 2011 to be...
With big smile!
Lenneke -
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Permalink Reply by Stephan R. Sengupta on -
Hi Valentine,
First of all I'd like to thank you for the light you've brought during this encounter ALIA Europe 2010.
Thanks for having launched this discussion. Quite in synchronicity I just had a discussion yesterday with my partner Valérie. But the topic was "HOW CAN WE BRING ALIA's VALUES AND VISION LOCALLY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN 2011"
What calls me and Valérie is our children.
She has two children and me too. It makes four : 8 - 11 - 16 - 18 years old. I can see how the 8 and 11 years old children are still trying hard to believe in Santa Klaus, and how the elder are trying to give sense to their life.
The eldest couldn't and he tried to suicide last year, perhaps because he's the smartest.
THIS SHALL NOT BE !
Here's our commitment, and we will contribute with our energy and resources to the emergence of a common answer.
Face et dans la lumière du Soleil Levant.
Stephan -
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Permalink Reply by Valentine Giraud on -
Great! Thank you so much guys for already filling in with your ideas and offers!
Beth, I love the idea of get it going and start working on a proposal for fund-raising with British,European and international youth organizations and other trusts and institutions, as the main obstacle for youngsters to join is money!
How can we proceed on this? Anyone else who would be willing to help? Anyone with contacts in these institutions?
Enthusiastic greetings to all,
Valentine -
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Permalink Reply by Beth Follini on
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I'll committ to doing some research into potential grant-making trusts and foundations (UK based and international) by mid February 2010. I will be accountable by coming back here and posting what I have found out. Then, it would be good to have some discussions with youth organisations working with young leaders and doing some joint funding applications. In the UK, I'm thinking of the Prince's Trust - as Valentine said, anyone with any connections would be great in any of this organisations make contact. Or if anyone wants to form a small fundraising sub-committee with me, we could!
Cheers,
Beth -
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Permalink Reply by Susan Szpakowski on -
Wow, this is inspiring! I will also do whatever I can to support this. Just let me know.
Many of the emerging young leaders who have been sponsored to come to the Halifax program over the years have gone on to do amazing things. Maybe a couple of those stories would be helpful when looking for sponsorship? Also, the "inter-generational dialogues" that happened on the shoulder of two programs became an inspiration for many other events and contexts...only some of which we know about.
And Stephan, your story is moving. How can we create spaces where meaning comes to life? -
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Permalink Reply by Valentine Giraud on
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Thank you Susan for your inputs! It's great to hear that there are some good stories around the youth who have participated in Halifax and also around the potential of inter-generational conversations that this community holds and have been exploring.
How can we access these stories? I'd be happy to put them together and offer it to Beth so she can add to the fundraising proposals.
I am also happy to m when time comes, to start connecting with youth organizations, groups and individuals to invite them to join ALIA and think collectively how we can be and participate as a group. Groups that come in mind already: The Hub network in Europe and in the world (www.http://www.the-hub.net/), Youth Initiative Program (www.yip.se), KaosPilots (http://www.kaospilot.dk), Natural Step Master Program (http://www.naturalstep.org/en/masters-program), Team Academy (http://www.tiimiakatemia.fi/index.php), AIESEC.
Great! This is exciting!!! let's keep the ball rolling...
Susan Szpakowski said:Wow, this is inspiring! I will also do whatever I can to support this. Just let me know.
Many of the emerging young leaders who have been sponsored to come to the Halifax program over the years have gone on to do amazing things. Maybe a couple of those stories would be helpful when looking for sponsorship? Also, the "inter-generational dialogues" that happened on the shoulder of two programs became an inspiration for many other events and contexts...only some of which we know about.
And Stephan, your story is moving. How can we create spaces where meaning comes to life? -
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Permalink Reply by Susan Szpakowski on
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Valentine and Beth,
I just went rummaging around in my files and found some exciting stuff from earlier years. So much good energy, so many good memories.... At the Shambhala Summer Institute, we began with an "emerging leaders" initiative that morphed the next year into an inter-generational dialogue (pre-program), that then evolved into a Global Village Square. It was an exciting evolution, and at every stage, there were ripples that went out into the world. Juanita Brown and Claudia Chender were two key people, and there have been others who I will now point in the direction of this conversation.
Helene de Villiers was also championing sponsorship for young people to attend the first ALIA Europe program, but I think it may have been too early. Just getting the program off the ground was probably enough for a first step. Also, there's a limited number of us trying to pull everything together, so help is definitely appreciated. We did put together a little document that could now be helpful.
I am personally buzzing with the exciting possibility that a spark from these earlier events and connections could now cross the Atlantic.
So here are some documents and stories for starters.... The first is from a publication called Kosmos Magazine. The Fieldnotes article is also in our online archives: - Attachments:
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YoungLeaders.pdf, 1.9 MB
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IntergenerationalFN.doc, 40 KB
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Permalink Reply by Susan Szpakowski on
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A few more....
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06scholfund.pdf, 748 KB
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Intergen.Invite-5.doc, 32 KB
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ALIA-E_Sponsorship2.doc, 41 KB
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Groen on
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Dear all,
I feel extremely called to this particular forum! I'm assuming youth in this forum is connected with age (though we all can feel young in soul, heart, mind, body :).
Having been part of AIESEC for many years (until 2008) I'm absolutely confident that there are many young people out there who would be interested in what ALIA provides, they just don't know about it...
In 2006 I found out about the Shambala insitute and the ALIA programme via other websites on learning (e.g. Pioneers of Change, Art of Hosting, Enlightenext etc.). And after some virtual communication with Ryan Watson was able to get a scholarship for the summer retreat in Halifax (unfortunately couldn't come because of AIESEC obligations as well as additional funding). Two learning points from that valuable for getting youth involvement:
- Marketing: how will we be present and relevant for youth out there?
- Finance: what financial support systems can we provide so that ALIA become accesible for youth?
Both points have already been expressed and addressed here. Scholarships is one part of the solution, another option that could be of value is to have ambassadors reaching out into the different youth networks, ambassadors being people who have internal connections in the different networks, as this is more powerful than sending a promo email.
Another thing is to involve youth in the content design and delivery of future programmes, which could give much more ownership and shows that ALIA not only wants to reach out to youth, but actually lives the principle of shared leadership (there are many young people out there who could bring richness into the programme not only as a participant)
I'm very eager to contribute here, and reach out into the AIESEC network and personal network.
Looking forward to the richness of youth in ALIA
Blessings,
Kevin -
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Watson on -
Hi Kevin,
Great to see you here again! I'm glad to see this conversation about bringing youth to ALIA is something that still interests you.
Ryan -
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Permalink Reply by Lenneke Aalbers on
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Super! All off this...I'm here to do whatever is helpful to bring things forward..And yes I think that it's so valuable to open conversation and exploration about marketing, finance, content, ownership..and more ...intergenerational. Indeed Kevin, I enjoyed the sparkling richness of youth in ALIA 2010 and I'm looking forward to, may be even longing for the richness of youth in ALIA Europe 2011... I'm here!!
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