about YOUTH-LEADER media. services. community. reality game. copyright: Youth-LeadeR 2014 Editor: Eric Nicolas Schneider www.youth-leader.org
Official Project of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD 2005-2014 UNESCO
THANK YOU! to all our HeroInes, Magicians and Friends for their stellar commitment to Earth and all Life, for living their raw truth, awakening our inborn powers, and making this magnificient venture possible through their shining selves, uplifting friendship and colaboration. The HeroInes of Change Generation Rising uniting in friendly alliance under the Banner of YL have been featured in media around the globe. Photos used are used with their permission, and for the most part from their own web presences. For detailed copyright references visit our website. Grand Hi5's belong to Julia and Emma Mogus of Books With no Bounds, Xiuhtezcatl and Earth Guardians, Lulu's LemonAID Warriors and Rachel Parent, without whose tremendous visual media this venture would not be possible. I extend gratitude to Craig and Marc Kielburger, YES!, Jane McGonigal, JKR, and Galadriel, whose gifts shine for us in dark places, when all other lights fade. Ah贸, Shirt Wearers! Onwards! For the Future! Eric, YL Captain
CONTENTS I. VISUAL IMPRESSIONS spark pack. solutions. gallery. infographic
II. MEDIA videos. online media. onsite media. posters. comics. calendars. coffee table books. teaching tools. action-kits & music
III. SERVICES speakers. eric, yl captain. webcasts. community. change generation rising: reality adventure game, community, youth leadership self-learning program, student club curriculum
IV. APPROACH & FEEDBACK a bright new world is happening. youth leadership. informal sustainability learning environments. feedback. media. awards
V. YL for YOU for youth, teachers, citizens, investors, mediamakers
VI. SCIENCE & SECRETS future sciences. positive change media culture. role models. our new highly gifted. 21st century learning culture. transformational learning. gaming and changemaking
SPARK PACK Get inspired by the most powerful videos on Youth Leadership! Would you have imagined that this is happening on planet Earth? That young people, that humans are doing and achieving these things? They are. Discover a Bright New World! We use the Spark Pack in our first encounters with newbies. In minutes, it upgrades their worldview on > Youth > Solutions for a Sustainable Civilization > 21st Century Education Kick back and enjoy the bliss: www.youth-leader.org/spark
We Day http://bit.ly/1p6dVkL
Craig Kielburger http://bit.ly/1p6dQ0a
Lulu, LemonAid Warriors http://bit.ly/1p6e1sq
YES! Gatherings of the finest twen youth leaders around the globe http://bit.ly/1p6eavS
THE SOLUTIONS EXIST The solutions for a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable, a sacred civilization exist. They are showered with awards, people-powered, and can be replicated everywhere. This is the kind of activities that we empower young people and citizens to spread, advance and implement in their spheres of influence, at home and abroad. Fit for use in Education!
YOUTH-LED Making cities a Blue Community: banning bottled water, making water public, and a human right A 10-fold rise in free, fresh foods for the hungry Banning fracking Establishing recycling of used restaurant cooking oils to biofuels, generating $100,000 for social causes Spreading a culture of philanthro-parties Making food producers change to sustainable palm oil Tipping public opinion in favour of GMO food labelling, and proper, ethical, scientific testing of ingredients Protecting frogs, wetlands and creating frog minihabitats in cities Quality book drives for indigenous children, schools, communities Helping teens shift to vegan/vegetarian lifestyle
ADULT-LED Restoring eroded ecosystems Making Ecocide a crime against peace Growing cotton without pesticides, bringing health and abundance Creating edible landscapes in cities Halving gang killings, by using Interrupters and approaching violence as a public health approach Healing violent youth biographies, at school Stopping street harassment, making streets safe again Ending girl bride trafficking Training girls and young women in martial arts and gender rights Successful citizen-led peace initiatives in long-term crisis regions 10-fold rise in harvests by small, organic farming SRI Banning and criminalizing poaching and ivory trade Ending shark finning Eco Tipping Point ETP system sciences: Detecting the ONE element in a web of problems, which turns a vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle, with cascading positive effects for abundance. and thousands more. POWERED BY ORDINARY PEOPLE
OUR GALLERY See what's happening in YL's vibrant community in a kaleidoscope of positive action at www.youth-leader.org/about/gallery.html
THE YL INFOGRAPHIC YL combines global issues, changemaking, youthled action, novel media, new learning culture and empowering services. See all these elements combined and interconnected in our infographic. It's rather huge, even without excel style circle stuff. The mother of all infographics. People love it! Check it out here: www.youth-leader.org/about/infographic.html
If you have followed these links you have an idea of the power of inspiration in our media, the can-do feel,... ... and why people in seventy nations, across age groups, cultures and regions, agree:
"This should be in all schools!" Isn't this exicting? WE CAN DO IT!
www.youth-leader.org/feedback.html
VIDEOS The finest videos from the heart of global changemaking movements. Produced with and by real changemakers, they convey the genuine spirit of the changemakers - awakening the heroIne in everyone of us. If you've had a taste of our Spark videos, you sure can imagine the value of hundreds such videos on global issues have ... for use in education, youth work, at events... "The most inspirational videos I have ever seen. It makes me feel I want to get up and do something, too. I never knew young people can do those things. I am floored by the potentials." is what people from 70 nations say about them. There's also lot of unusual clips around, on all sorts of issues... have you seen The Interrupters? http://bit.ly/1hHeY9N Skateistan? http://bit.ly/1hHf4hy
ONLINE MEDIA We share and produce our own Stories and Interviews for online media, our magazine, other online magazines, and our facebook streams featuring > activities of young and veteran changemakers, and > sustainability solutions
OUR PRIORITIES is our facebook stream dedicated to global > campaigns & petitions > reports for amplifying many, many important campaigns' reach and nurturing a culture of global citizenship among young people. It comes with PDFs for print out.
Our CHANGE GENERATION RISING facebook stream is dedicated exclusively to activities of the YL HeroInes featured in our Reality Adventure Game for activist youth and student clubs. Following it is an extraordinary experience, especially since our HeroInes are interacting with youth globally, for taking these solutions to scale.
The SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS facebook stream documents the breakthroughs, breakdowns and celebrations of young people around the globe engaging in sustainable lifestyle experiments like "One Month Without Supermarket", "Vegan Challenge", "Two Weeks of Peacemaking" and the likes. Hilarious, and tremendously popular, it is a powerful YL Teaching Tool.
POSTERS >>> GOING ON-SITE! YL's prime interest is to bring > humanity's best solutions > the finest role models to make changemaking part of youth's daily life. POSTER SETS show > 44 HeroInes > with 44 solutions > with story > qr codes for instant cellphone viewing, and > and links andlinks to interviews, websites and tools Each story comes with teaching tips and action tips, some with rich action-kits, and many of the featured changemakers can be met "live" in YL Webcasts, their endeavours followed in our facebook streams, their ini´tiatives and solutions replicated.
THEMES > Children and Youth Leaders > Peacemakers > Girls & Women > The Grand Changemakers
USE AS TEACHING TOOLS + EXHIBITS > at school > in office corridors > at events and conferences etc AVAILABLE IN 15 LANGUAGES. Free download.
COMICs CALENDARs COFFEE TABLE BOOKs TEACHING TOOLs ACTION-KITs and: MUSIC! the veritable soundtrack of the Change Generation! www.youth-leader.org/music EQUIPPING EVERYBODY in novel ways for reaching everywhere to inspire, involve and empower large amounts of people in many environments: > Schools > Kindergartens > Teacher staff rooms > Offices > Office corridors > Canteens > Cafeterias ...
YL CARD GAMEs feature 44 young heroInes and their massive teenled solutions, fit for replication by young people around the planet. Kids can now GROW UP PLAYING with the grand heroes of their generation.
Each card features photo, story, links, video qr code, and authentic ratings and special effects from the world of changemaking. Cards come with premium code for a free onlinel multi-media pack of videos, posters, teaching tools. Have in mind: > 80% of human behaviour is shaped by role models > highly memorable effect during play > multimedia pack for use of YL Posters in class > advanced rules of play = join the heroines:for real! Excellent for > Schools > Kindergartens > Youth clubs > Public libraries
People love it! Philanthropic clubs invest in 100's of sets for their city's youth. AVAILABLE IN 15 LANGUAGES
YL MEDIA SUPERPOWERS INSPIRATION is what differs changemakers from apathic factory farmed pet citizens. This is why we are so positively impacted by these "heroes" live examples. This feeling and energy level of HeroIne is inside everybody! Only, the cultures of subjugation (monarchies, totalitarian systems, parliamentary special interest group democracy) that we have grown up in never nurtured this. Now, it is asked for - and YL makes it available. YL thus provides knowledge transfer AND spirit transfer AND we equip, empower you and provide supportive community. (We have not found this anywhere, else)
+ MORE AVAILABLE Every medium links to all the others. The Posters lead to videos, stories, and action. The Cardgame leads to stories, videos, and action. The Teaching Tools use Posters, Videos and Stories, also Websites as online learning environments.
+ EQUIPPING FOR ACTION They all connect to the heroInes' real websites, offer steps and tools for supporting, spreading and even implementing the groundbreaking solution in one's own sphere of influence, with life changing impacts, at home and abroad.
+ PART OF DAILY LIFE AT SCHOOLS A powerful method of using these media is an EXHIBIT, using posters, and, if possible, videos, info media also fundraisers and action-kits for your favourite initiatives. IMAGINE this Exhibit at SCHOOL, with LONG-TERM PRESENCE, involving many youth, also teachers, making it memorable and nurturing a "changemaking climate". This space serves as a studentpowered Learning Environment for Positive Change, at school. This is how change happens. And it is very exciting.
SPEAKERS Many of our HeroInes are available for live meetings, onsite and online video! We all know that nothing is as powerful as the real encounter. It is the same thing with adult changemaker environments. The grand heroes on stage, a vibrant audience, many stands and opportunity for co-creative dialogue, for co-learning, co-laboration, and action. Our speakers do not come to edutain you. Our HeroInes are busy on their quests 24/7, and their lifetime is precious. Make the best of YOUR time too:
REAL TALK FOR ACTION You have their stories, videos, interviews for study. Your live meeting serves to ask your questions, receive answers, to present YOUR ACTIONS taken on their initiaitives and celebrate together. Since YOUth are to be the change. This opportunity for eye-level meeting, speaking your soul, receiving media packs, joining their initiatives for real, in Change Generation Rising, is new in the global arena.
ERIC FOR CITIZENS & CHANGEMAKERS Eric's wide scope of experience in cultures, changemaking, education, youth leadership and sustainability sciences all over Earth, his high benchmark for proven, tangible solutions, and sharp sense for the human spirit behind them, make sure that you have access to exceptionally good contents in Youth-LeadeR, and a good partner for exploring innovative actions that you would like to spark in your environment. FOR YOUTH Eric has been around for 42 years, this time on the planet, but that doesn't make him lame and boring. In fact, you may have to rev up your hero spirit to run with him. After all, he lives in the company of YL HeroInes and Magicians, every day! The only difference between you and him is the abundance of amazing encounters, experience, horizons, knowledge that he has come across and accumulated. And of course, the tools, methods, magical truicks and heroines he knows. All this can be rather precious for you to wield. Make sure to take a discovery tour in YL Handbooks. They are full of gems from his journeys, serving to create a wonderful civilization, and a life of abundance. If you are fired up for creating a world of awesome, don't hesitate to ask Eric for ideas and connections. It may be useful. Eric is member of projects on 5 continents. He is also an IMAGES AND VOICES OF HOPE Award 2012´laureate MEMBER of the National Round Table for the Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014, UNESCO
WEBCASTS You can meet many HeroInes for real. Our encounters offer you an extraordinary experience with Meaning, Impact and Relevance for Your Life and Aspirations OUR MEDIA > for preparation; stories, videos and interviews > for exhibits; involving the entire school community > for taking action on their initiatives, and
OUR SPIRIT > eye-level meeting > solution-oriented dialogue > answering your personal burning questions
OUR COMMUNITY FOR STUDENT CLUBS > offering follow-up interaction opportunities It is also especially suited for UNITED NATIONS Days > with several of our Speakers > specially produced media sets > theme related social experiments to engage in How about using all of the above for an entire week or more of theme related activities at school, and making the webcats one dynamic part of it?
The YL COMMUNITY is for those fired up to > making changemaking a lifestyle > with weekly activities and monthly actions > like a sports club > like a reality adventure game YL Warriors grow up interacting with the inspirational youth leaders and grand changemakers in Youth-LeadeR, and access to all our tools and services.
CHANGE GENERATION RISING Our action community has the shape of a
> Reality Adventure Game The interaction with awesome heroes of our time, project development and implementation, making headlines, serving their school community, contributing to subject teaching, and being a role model to their peers, also make it a groundbreaking
> Youth Leadership self-Learning Program > Student Club Curriculum > Online Community for like-hearted youth On 3 MONTHLY MISSIONS, YL Warriors > implement leading sustainability solutions > interact with various sectors of society > unfold their finest qualities, skills and visions > have lots of fun and make incredible memories Like in any good Adventure Game, our Warriors > earn credits for impacts and headlines made > ascend levels for accomplished missions and quests which adds a taste of legend, fun, rhythm, self-evaluation, and unleashes many precious mental aspects of changemaking and transformational learning with multiple value for one's > personal > idealist, and > professional lives
The solutions exist
A BRIGHT NEW WORLD IS HAPPENING Contrary to contemporary public worldview and opinion, the solutions for a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable civilization exist. These solutions are powered by ordinary people - citizens, social entrepreneurs, and youth - and even the support networks are in place. Like many innovations, and special topics, these important things are ignored - just like the amazing model schools receiving lots of awards - but this doesn't mean that they do not exist!In fact, some of these grand solutions have made it to bestseller lists, even Hollywood screens! - but this doesn't mean the people "get it," and realize that this is something they they should get involved in spreading! Many thousand such absolutely sensational innovations, benefitting millions and fit for billions are well documented on open online platforms. Three communities have 3,000 solutions for what others consider "impossible". View Spark Pack 2 for examples: www.youth-leader.org/spark Once one takes the time to see this abundance of solutions for ABUNDANCE FOR ALL altogether, and in context, feeling "REAL" in vivid videos - the worldview and vision for such a civilization of awesome unfolds in your vision. THEN, your Inner HeroIne awakens, to STAND UP and LAY HANDS on the CREATION of this world and say NO to the disgusting inherited twisted worldviews, values, societal ills and apathy. Adults, coined by rigid worldview and habits of "apathy", have it harder than youth. Therefore, YL focusses on youth for unfolding their Inner HeroInes, and nurturing young people's extraordinary, and hardly tapped, superpowers.
Above is a good example of cascading positive effects, that you may not expect when thinking of "NO MORE PESTICIDES", implemented in 3,000 villages! > no costs, less debt > no water poisoning > healthy families > less hospital costs > higher yields !!!!!!!! > much higher income > employing workers
> Joy and Happiness > the village feels empowered, inspired for more 1,000's such solutions exist. It is time to inform, and equip a global public for implementing them.
The powers of
YOUTH LEADERSHIP Young people possess a proper sense of planetary priorities, a good life, and justice. They also have good language and communication skills. And they are yet little affected by inherited societal patterns of apathy, hate and the "impossible". But their true superpowers are > passion > genuine, truthful intentions > the power of inspiration > access to macro-community at school > good public standing as student club > good media presence > demand as speakers These are powerful tools for positive change.
Learning Culture
INFORMAL SUSTAINABILITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ISLES YL PROVIDES > fantastic media > action tools > learning community > access to "the real thing" OUR MEDIA & SERVICES FACILITATE > Learning with Changemakers, and > Informal Learning Culture fit for the challenges of the 21st Century > through student-managed informal learning environments, based on monthly updated dynamic multimedia exhibits, serving the school community SUPPORTING the aims of progressive curricula > project-oriented learning > student-centred learning > global learning > intercultural learning > education for sustainable development UNESCO has recognized us for our media, methods and services with status as
Official Project of the UNITED NATIONS Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014
FEEDBACK Across age groups, cultures, regions and professions, people react with inspiration and enthusiasm, and agree "This should be in all schools." You can view uplifting feedback from > Youth, and young adults, > Teachers and > Experts at www.youth-leader.org/feedback.html
MEDIA PRESENCE Our young HeroInes are making headlines around the globe. If you love them, too, you can spread their stories to local media and online platforms. Join our Messengers! www.youth-leader.org/you
AWARDS UNITED NATIONS Online Volunteering Award 2010 for YL Team India UNITED NATIONS Online Volunteering Award 2012 for YL Team Youth Rising for Peace IMAGES AND VOICES OF HOPE IVOH Award 2012 for Eric Schneider, YL Director OFFICIAL PROJECT of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD 2005-2014. UNESCO MEMBER of the National Round Table for the Implementation of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development ESD 2005-2014 in Germany. UNESCO
YL's CONTENTS enable you to evoke considerable, cascading changes in your spheres of influence. You have felt their high power of inspiration... a feeling shared by many people. You can uplift many people around you, simply by sharing them. You have seen the novel formats ... poster exhibits, cardgames, videos, and facebook streams with which you can reach hundreds of people with little effort. You have a taste of the YL Warrior student club community... a precious opportunity for active students and teachers. Explore new and exciting opportunities for
> YOUTH > TEACHERS > CITIZENS > INVESTORS > MEDIAMAKERS at www.youth-leader.org/you
FUTURE STUDIES The Future is created by 4 aspects > trends > intentional innovation > accidents (like meteors) and > VISION Example: You are doing this ALL THE TIMEwith your holidays: Imagine that you are "alive", fit to experience this vibrant planet and its worlds. This means, you are not choosing pre-planned beach hotel holidays, but a multi-faceted eco-cultural JOURNEY. For this journey, you choose certain SOLID BASE POINTS YOU ENJOY, and general orientation on the geographic and cultural map that you will travel through: mountains, waterfalls, elephant sanctuaries, cool backpacker hostels you decide to visit. That's your VISION. And the rest in-between on your 4 weeks is open to adjusting on-site, with a good deal of surprise, and discoveries (probably the best parts of your journey) born from interaction of fellow travellers and locals. Some people are crazy afraid of this, but once you have done it, love it! and you are confident about reacting to the unpredictables, also rainfalls, and some illness. That's life. THIS is how to approach the shaping of a NEW CIVILIZATION, leaving the old, rotten, boring, dead supposedly safe and secure but ROTTING models behind. Hey, who wants to continue with 30% cancer rates, 30% heart stroke, and passing on even higher rates to the next generation?
Our VISION is a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable civilization, with inner and outer peace, inner and outer abundance* for all. It is important to note that it is very well possible to AGREE on encompassing, unifying vision among large numbers of citizens, if done right. It's not about toppling a dictator, not against something. Not about revolution, but evolution, where all citizens become active co-creators and stewards of the vision, society and its process. It has been done, successfully, and can be replicated millionfold. With the moderately healthy (yet often silent) majority of human populations on regional and interregional levels. Our solid, reliable BASE CAMPS and CORNER STONES of the journey into this good future, are the thousands of model solutions for practically everything. Our local GUIDES and WISE co-travellers are experienced changemakers, who we meet live on site and online, as well as the local citizenry. Countless participatory processes have been explored and successfully implemented. By people who HAVE this new spirit. (Not the old decision-makers, nor the wanna-be process facilitators with their robotic mindsets) The new exists, but this doesn't mean that every fool handling the bow is a master archer. Many are stupid, jumping on the bandwaggon, messing things up and destroying the movement. YL STANDS FOR 100% QUALITY OF THESE ELEMENTS. * A few words about Inner Abundance: When life is grand, for example on a hiking tour in grand nature, you don't give a damn about three cars, 10 room mansion and tv. It's even annoying! When men feel good, they also do NOT feel a vampiristic drive of feeding on women to fill their inner void.
POSITIVE CHANGE MEDIA CULTURE Conveying Memesets & Vision to People Whatever communication we look at ... mother to baby, father to child, children on a playground, educator and learner, fellows in a workshop ... its nature is Upliftment, ... unless the parents are through and through psycho-emotionally disturbed. MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION SERVES UPLIFTMENT and in times of crisis, meaningful communication serves the instant solving of the crisis, and healing. ON THE SOCIETAL LEVEL, media are a society's macro communication tool. Their function is the upliftment of society. In times of crisis, their role is to communicate solutions, and empowering people for overcoming the crisis. From this perspective, the media of contemporary unsustainable societies are completely dysfunctional. Moreover, they serve as transmitter of the complex, harmful MEMESETS of the culture of unsustainability. And completely psycho-emotionally disturbed.
Youth-LeadeR pioneers the media culture that serves positive change, by > communicating solutions > providing human examples cf. "the power of role models" > equipping people > connecting people for creating functional models for inner and outer peace and abundance for all in harmony with all life. AND PEOPLE LOVE IT! YL's style of media ... in content and spirit ... may even still EXIST in a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable, a sacred civilization, as a broad source of informal learning in- and outside schools, as well as for society as a whole, for continuous upward spiralling of societal models and innovation. On the contrary, today's media are certainly incongruent with those enjoyed by healthy, souvereign, cocreative citizens of such a civilization. We can see this in early cells of this new, good healthy, peaceful, and cocreative civilization, such as intentional eco-communities. In them, commercial media are obsolete, and people enjoy a rich life of inner and outer abundance. A life, possible everywhere, for everybody, if they aquire the pertaining MEMESETS. And FEELSETS.
ROLE MODELS "80% of human behaviour is shaped by role models, much of it subconsciously, like all mammals do." Dr. Gary Slutkin, Cure Violence Copy-paste. This is great for wolf pups, with awesome hero parents, full of unconditional love and sustainable lifestyle patterns. But it is very bad for unsustainable societies. Be realistic: a sustainable society can only exist, if all its citizens qualify as inhabitants and stewards of a peaceful, sustainable society. We are in a situation where we need more than that! We need the people bringing this about: HEROES! But today's citizens have practically zero role models qualifying as Inhabitants, nor cocreators (heroes) of a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable society. Neither parents, neighbourhood, teachers, peers or media (yuk!) convey the worldview, memes and behaviour patterns of heroes and inhabitants of an awesome civilization. Role models are also conveyed via MEDIA, since the mind does not differ much. That's double bad for today's society. Unless - well, unless we use YL... Youth-LeadeR abounds with living role models who are EMBODYING the pure model of inhabitants and cocreators of a sustainable civilization of abundance for all - beyond all doubt, and with tremendous impact and feedback around the globe: Ergo: Let's fill everybody's days, worldview and thinking with these role models, their vibes and actions!
THE POWERS OF YOUTH LEADERSHIP Young people can achieve things that adults cannot - even if they wanted to. Look at our young examples in the media, receiving massive support, inspiring hundreds of thousands of teens to rise and contribute, - with genuine spirit, honesty, doubtless truth, and untouchable by dyshonourable special interest groups. Young people today want to be the change. All they need is > information on global issues and crisis > ideas on what to do to help > some support, basic tools > advice about the jungle of bureaucracy This we know from young changemakers as Craig Kielburger, who heads a movement of 150,000 youth in 4,000 schools across canada, taking monthly actions for positive change at home and abroad.
OUR NEW "HIGHLY GIFTED" Let's sum up media, curricula and parents: "Young people shall be active, responsible, peaceful, sustainable and global citizens, engaged in civil society, creating new, sustainable businesses, fair societies, and colaborative, democratic governments, overcoming, culturally inherited wars, racism and subjugation, abuse of women, destruction of rainforests, ocean collapse and species extinction. They shall also be lively, healthy, dance to their own music." So far so good. We agree. So how can we tell the handful of young, active youth at school to stop dreaming, that there is no time for environmental stuff at school, shall focus on their C in chemistry? On top, they are bullied by their stupid peers for being treehuggers. This is the worst symptom of the unsustainable society. Craig Kielburger calls them shameless idealists. That's good and true - but teachers do not necessarily know how to handle them, how to integrate them in conventional educational frameworks. We have an idea: If most teens are NOT like the above mentioned ideal and required(!) model of 21st Century proof humans, but only a handful ... then we naturally have to regard this handful like "HIGHLY GIFTED".
"Like" Highly Gifted, not "as". Let's keep the differentiation, but it is time that... > we recognize them as our finest, our future social entrepreneurs and cultural creatives. They are the ones who are going to FIX our broken society, and the better the more we allow and nurture them to learn Humanity's FINEST holistic changemaking skills and solutions. As we see from Youth Leaders, they are already today's BEST, just like teen gymnasts are! On top, they are "naturals" - not following a trend or a result of education. > we provide them with no less than we offer talented ball dribblers, musicians and chess players, which means: 1. Time and Space for practicing their skills 2. in self-organized, experimental ways 3. oriented at global role models / heroes / benchmarks (Mozart and Ronaldo, not soup kitchen stuff) 4. with outer school experts, real practitioners 5. Opportunity for public performance 6. with real Societal Impacts 6. making Headlines They are the BEST role models, and assistant teachers imaginable, their school will be proud. The TEACHERS to support them ON DEMAND are The Green One, The Social One, and The Wild One. You have those in each school. The Outer School PARTNERS are YL, our HeroInes, and some regional civil partners. It's all SET!
21st Century LEARNING CULTURE Changemakers pursue informal, co-creative, project-oriented activities, using > online media featuring solutions and heroes > community features > tools and media > group facilitation methods > public speaking and media work It's what youth leaders and outstanding student clubs use. Our multi-media resources, teaching tools, webcasts and community provide everything required for creating > dynamic multi-media exhibits > with fundraisers, campaigns and action > with new themes and activities EVERY MONTH > tuned to United Nations Days This makes the exhibit an energetic SPACE for > information and inspiration > dialogue > community-building > project development nurturing a Youth Leadership Culture and Changemaking Climate at School We call it a student-powered Informal Sustainability Learning Environment, ISLE, serving > Our New Highly Gifted > progressive teachers > the entire school community
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING & ROLE MODELS As you can tell from our young HeroInes biographies, each reports about a disruptive experience: The moment when they awoke to the realization that there is something BROKEN in the world. This is a moment of awakening to "suffering", and taking on a quest of growing beyond one's old limits, rise to the challenge and GROW into a new self. We all go through Transformational Learning experiences: in all kinds of personal CRISIS, but also in self-chosen CHANGES: our first lone journey abroad, pregnancy, starting an enterprise, taking on a highly responsible role, pursueing our passion on a musical or sports career. In these phases, the most important thing to us are ROLE MODELS - because they are a manifestation of the newly desired future self. So we aspire to copy them. Copying them superficially (how they walk, dress) is not the real thing for Mums, or entrepreneurs. It is about the mind- and feel-set. We feel into them, holistically, subconsciously preferably by walking alongside them, and practicing what they PRACTICE to cultivate their inner alchemy, and evolve their skills. MIKE MUNRO TURNER: Transformational Learning: http://bit.ly/MRtbTA
Needless to say, the QUEST for seven billion people > for overcoming a broken, sick, unsustainable society with 30% cancer, 30% heart disease, 30% diabetes, escalating rates of allergies (kids die from eating a peanut nowadays), ecosystem and oceans collapse, mass plundering of state resources, 50% youth unemployment rates (Spain) - decision-makers not even pretending any longer to improve any of this. > towards a Global, Peaceful, Just, Thriving and Sustainable Civilization of inner and outer peace, and inner and outer abundance for all is such a Transformational Learning mega experience. > shared by humanity for the next seventy years > asking us to ascend and unfold unprecedented hero skills and qualities as individuals and collectives, transforming all those defunct, rigid, aggressive and violent and manipulative decision-making structures, special interest power groups... THIS REQUIRES ROLE MODELS galore Yet, in education role models are not to be seen. We can change this! With real heroes, scalable solutions, replicable by young people and ordinary citizens, used, and applied for real in educational context. So, let's go to work: START PLAYING IT FOR REAL.
GAMING & CHANGEMAKING Gaming and changemaking are being purposefully connected, with precious results. Not just for petty gamification of global issues for educational purposes. That's lame. Gaming has been used for exploring future scenarios, and solving challenges, for real. > FOR FUTURE STUDIES* Involving thousands of online gamers in mass multiplayer roleplaying games, players explore overcoming global challenges, epidemics, and resource scarcety. RESULTS: The passionate fantasy gamers showed the same reactions as "real populations" in crisis situations. More important, they came up with the same colaborative problem solving approaches and results as experts in the real world. In their minds exists no "impossible", thus their creativity is more vivid that of experts, limited by narrow thinking. > FOR REAL LIFE ACTION & IMPACTS** Involving thousands of players in finding solutions on development issues in Africa, online, implementing them for real, onsite (offline), and earning online credits for sharing knowledge. > FOR REAL LIFE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT*** Involving thousands of people for individual roleplaying taking on challenges improving resilience.
* SUPERSTRUCT www.superstructgame.net Jane McGonigal with The Institute for Future Studies ** URGENT EVOKE www.urgentevoke.com Jane McGonigal with The World Bank *** SUPERBETTER www.superbetter.com Jane is a crazy cool geek and game designer. She has gone through many transformational experiences of a broken world, and her mission is to unleash the power of gaming for real world changes and great, fun lifestyles, tapping into the power of gaming - and of two billion gamers currently glued to their screens with activities that we can most probably much improve - for the real Epic Win: saving the real world! Her last name is no coincidence! If Harry Potter's teacher has daughters, it's Jane and her sister! www.janemcgonigal.com YL's CHANGE GENERATION RISING is going beyond: All themes, real heroes, no time limit. One million schools!
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