YL as Event Partner - Media, Services & Actions by Eric Schneider

Hi! You may know us as a publisher and online community, as a partner of teachers and students, but of course we cover the entire spectrum of youth leadership and changemaking services - including EVENTS of all sorts, and - WE ARE DIFFERENT! We add a considerable dose of SPIRIT and IMPACT to any event, - through media, speakers and methods - by building bridges to integrate schools, youth, citizens and media - by empowering and equipping participants with solutions and tools to spread their newly found inspiration in their sphere of influence, as well as take action on their favorite causes and become part of a thriving, global changemaking community. What event has ever truly offered this? We think it matters !!! We can tailor our speakers, modules and activities to your priority aims, topics and regions of operation. This brochure focusses on impressions of YL modules to integrate into your event or campaign architecture. To understand the true powers in our speakers, media and services, make sure to experience them yourself, first! Visit our Portfolio and website for vivid â&#x20AC;&#x153;liveâ&#x20AC;? impressions of Youth Leadership and our genius approach for empowering our entire global generation at school. If you are determined to shape this unfolding, beautiful chapter of human history with us, do not hesitate to get in touch! Every day matters for the web of life! Eric Schneider, YL Founder Images and Voices of Hope IVOH Award Round Table for the Implementation of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. UNESCO

CONTENTS 04 OUR MESSAGE

INVOLVE YOUTH AND SCHOOLS

05 YL at EVENTs - EXAMPLES 14 Speakers

34 Involve Our Young Generation at School

21 Topics

35 Mobilize Schools

22 Methods

36 Involve Student Clubs

23 Workshops

37 Call for Local Action

25 Skype Bridges

38 Generate Media Coverage on Actions

26 Videos

39 Involve Youth Media Teams

27 Music

40 Call for Nomination of Hero/ines

28 Poster Walls

41 Awards

29 Comic Exhibit

42 Prizes

30 Audio Installations

43 Equip Your Audience with YL Media Sets 44 Feedback Graphics

31 ACTION 32 Instant Action Opportunities 33 Involve your Audience, involve Delegates

46 SELECT YOUR FAVORITES!

First of all, OUR MESSAGE EVERYTHING WE OFFER is along these lines:

And this movement comes with great news!

The solutions for a world of awesome, of inner and outer peace and abundance for all exist. We can create a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable, a sacred civilization - in our lifetime!

For the first time in history, adults, institutions, education, media and parents are embracing a youth-led movement - since this is not revoluton, but evolution - for creating the good world that we all wish to see.

That Bright New World is already happening, and everybody with the right heart can join it.

Together, WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN at EVERY HOME, EVERY SCHOOL ON THE PLANET.

And still, the most sensational innovation, the most important movement of our time, is the phenomenon

YOUTH LEADERSHIP

driven by the Super Powers of Young People at School.

BEFORE LOOKING AT OUR WIDE RANGE OF OFFERS

LET’S BEGIN WITH EXAMPLES OF YOUTH-LEADER AT EVENTS

GRUEN BEWEGT School Action Day A YL PRESENTATION IN CLASS has inspired 15 students to organize changemaking activities on occasion of their annual Easter Fest: FILM PRESENTATION POSTER WALL BOOK DRIVE BAKE SALES for YL HERO/INES PETITIONS for BLUE COMMUNITIES

OUTCOMES - The school principal decides to equip all classes with YL media sets - Press release by District of Spandau, Berlin http://bit.ly/1UEQg9J

EARTH FORWARD ERDE NACH VORN Children Summit, Germany Convened by change pop teen band 11 Wie Du SPEAKERS POSTER WALL EXHIBIT as Learning Environment FILM PRESENTATION on Youth Leadership MUSIC YL MEDIA SETS for teachers to follow up

OUTCOMES - Teachers inspired to use YL Media - Students inspired to start YL Teams - Local changemaker inspired to collaborate - Foundation inspired to collaborate on YL Poster Set use at Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of the Year, distribution to schools and YL involvement at events

LOYOLA COLLEGE “Youth Leadership for a Sustainable Planet - A Day with Youth Leaders” Invited by Dr. Lazar, co-editor of the Healing Earth free online textbook for values-based sustainability education at Jesuit high schools around the globe. SPEAKERS FILM PRESENTATION on Youth Leadership WORKSHOP in Self-Defense against Sexual Assault by The Red Brigade Lucknow POSTER WALL for study by students SKYPE SPEAKER with MUSIC Performance

OUTCOMES - 12 inspired college youth teams - Rich multi-media film documentation - The Red Brigade decides to use YL media in their work, reaching 40,000+ youth per year - Holley Somerville-Knott & Usha pledge cooperation

IYONS - World Summit of International Youth Organizations Convened by Abdul Ghani, with patrons Dr. Abdul Kalam, former President of India Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi YL Director Eric served as IYONS Representative for Europe and North America and introduced several elements to the event. SOCIAL MEDIA (Video Greetings) SPEAKERS (Teenage changemakers) POSTER WALL as backdrop and decor of our shared space for YOUTH LEADER delegates WORKSHOP in Self-Defense vs Sexual Assault by The Red Brigade Lucknow WORKSHOP in Community Mapping by Rhiannon Tomtishen, Project Orangs, UN Forest Hero Award FILM PRESENTATION on Youth Leadership LIVE ON SKYPE SPEAKERS A last minute change of venue required much improvization, well managed by our team

OUTCOMES Many delegates experience worldview-change on powers of teens and education Partnerships for YL Media distribution with youth- and education-oriented organizations across India, reaching 1+ million youth in 2016 Collaboration with changemakers working on girl and women empowerment, menstruation and sex education, self-defense, vegan diet, childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parliaments, volunteering culture, ending corruption, child labour, entrepreneurship, positive news media, conferencing, film-making... Invitations to integrate YL in MUNs and inter/national events in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh TV Station inspired for a series on young changemakers

Alliance for sustainable palm oil campaign for India 3 YL Ambassadors for India Kick-off of CHANGE GENERATION RISING leadership program in India

HONEYS > Homemade Money > 7 Virtues Edition inspired by the pure power of youth, renowned Austrian artist Nikolaus Eberstaller integrates 6 outstanding YOUTH LEADERS perfectly embodying the 7cardinal virtues in his artistic currency, linking to YL and the hero/inesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; MULTIMEDIA PROFILES with QR codes. On Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gallery Week-end, Eberstaller organized a public action, with young people interviewing respected citizens on the cardinal virtues - handing them an edition of registered Virtue HONEYS, to be transformed into value through relevant worldchanging action. OUTCOMES - Involvement in Battlefield Love Memorials / LIVE - A teaching tool on the value that we give to money, and its energy for good or bad

BATTLEFIELD LOVE MEMORIALS & LIVE PERFORMANCE Inspired by the phenomenon of youth leadership, renowned Austrian artist Nikolaus Eberstaller integrates YOUTH-LEADERs in his remarkable 12-month public art installation of 220+ eroding concrete soldiers and tanks, standing for people-powered transformation of War into Love. Eberstallerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wish is for the youth of Wroclaw to use this attractive public space for their own program on love, values and changing the world. - THE 6 YOUTH-LEADERs representing CARDINAL VALUES serve to inspire the public to get involved - YL MEDIA SETS distributed to schools inspire and invite youth to get involved in filling the year-round installation with life and life-changing activities - YL LIVE ON SKYPE for schools - YL SPEAKERS on site on UN International Days EXPECTED OUTCOMES - Considerable reach into schools and media, sparking YL teams, citizen action, vivid program, fundraisers, scale and replication of world-changing initiatives

AT EACH EVENT, WE HAVE BEEN PRESENT IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND THERE IS MUCH MORE THAT WE CAN DO

YOU CERTAINLY HAVE IDEAS FOR YOUR EVENT LOOK AT OUR OFFERS AS ADD-ONS TO YOUR EVENT

SPEAKERS Not your ordinary inspirational speaker... but THE MOST OUTSTANDING YOUNG CHANGEMAKERS OF OUR TIME ... with proven model solutions for positive change, replicable by ordinary citizens and youth everywhere ... honored with the highest awards of our societies ... all over the media ... in high demand at school, the UN, on the great conference and festivals stages of the world

Extraordinary speakers, look no further! Robyn Hamlyn - making city councils pass the Blue Communities resolution : keeping water public, making it a human right and banning bottled water, in 27 cities at age 13 Gabrielle Posard - raising the flow of free, fresh foods for the hungry by ten times Babar Ali - the youngest headmaster in the world Avalon Theisen - frog, habitat and species protection, and how a simple lifestyle change reduces your negative climate impact by 55%, ends ecosystem destruction and extinction Lulu Cerone - making Philanthro-Parties part of our lifestyle at home and school, for a Generation of Generosity Emma and Jack Mogus - enormous book drives for aboriginal children, schools and communities, 90,000 to-day Neha Gupta - raising $9,000 / month for orphans in need, providing home, education and lots of love

Abbie Barnes, Zander Srodes, Taylor Finderup, Coralganics, Nellie Shute, Erin Zaikis, Madi Vorva, Rhiannon Tomishen, Chloe Falkenheim, Alicia Serratos, Carter and Olivia, Alex and Lucy, Volunteen Nation, Earth Guardians from various countries, Hassan Saeed, Lonjezo and Joseph, Daniella Cohen, Jonny Cohen, ... - then, of course, our YL Chapter leaders in various parts of the world... many with a wide horizon of experiences. And adult changemakers? You bet! Usha Vishwakarma, Holly Kearl, Emily Lindin, Gaurav Kumar, Robin Grille, Chrissie Fire Mane Charley, Oliwia Borkowska, Ocean Ramsey, Riley Elliot, Kevin Locke, Gerry Marten, ...

And since they have tangible solutions, ... their workshops add a unique feeling of empowerment!

TOPICS Our changemakers focus on their priority quest and solution.

We cover a broad range of topics, such as

Eric and YL Ambassadors offer sessions on

21st Century Learning Culture

I. YOUTH LEADERSHIP “An Initiation to Youth Leadership” II. GRAND CHANGEMAKERS OF OUR TIME “A Bright New World is Happening” III. YOUTH LEADERSHIP AT SCHOOL “Change Generation Rising” This set of sessions is a powerful initiation to youth leadership. It solidly changes worldview to “the solutions exist” and “youth we can”, equips and empowers participants to MAKE THE SAME presentations to audiences of all ages at home. It is specially suited for student leaders, educators and citizen volunteers.

Positive Change Media Culture

A Crash Course in Gaming for a Better World Girl and Women Changemakers Peace With Our Bodies Peacemakers Inner, outer, communal and ecological peace Healthy Food Abundance for All Myths & Truths of Industrial Agriculture and GMOs Each topic is built on changemakers, model solutions, surprises for beginners and advanced practitioners alike, a lot of practical tools and potentials to take home and opportunity for long-term collaboration.

METHODS FOR ENHANCED INTERACTION & CREATIVITY AND ACTION Today’s changemaking conferences require quality contents, role models, and also methods and dialogue formats that stimulate, amplify and harvest expression, co-creative thinking and collaboration. We can help you add sessions and methods aligned with your topic, audience, venue and goals. We recommend to visit “THE ART OF HOSTING” community for impressions of this culture of cocreative gatherings. www.artofhosting.org

WORKSHOPS Our members are not bureaucrats but changemakers. They have strong skills and broad knowledge of changemaking related themes, leading some of the most powerful initiatives of our time. Many will be public figures for the next half century. Why would we waste an entire day for a speech on stage? We might as well send a video, right? We’ve all had enough information. Let’s shift to a relevant culture of gatherings. Relevant positive change is about memorable, transformational experiences, strategic skills and concrete steps of action. Be it our campaign strategists, educators, social entrepreneurs or self-defense trainers - they have life- and world-changing things to share. Two, three, four hours, a full day, it’s up to negotiation.

WORKSHOPS Our sessions can be anything from structured to completely open conversations. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all up to discussion and to align with your eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim, venue, participants, audience and timeframe. We do not only present on our own core initiatives. Many of us have gained a broad range of changemaking skills, from the art of hosting, to deep conversations, various global issues, media work, and of course - community moblization. For instance, here you see Rhiannon of Project Orangs present on the Roots & Shoots Community Mapping Model - to detect, diaplay and discuss local challenges and potentials, even document changes over a period of time. This very useful tool is used by R&S groups in over 140 countries and well explained online. http://rootsandshoots.org/mapping

SKYPE BRIDGES - with young changemakers - with field partners - with inspired student clubs - around the globe - that cannot join onsite - abroad - in the field - supported by your instant actions - to broaden your spectrum of speakers - to save on travel costs - as an example to schools, that they, too, can arrange â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live On Skypeâ&#x20AC;? meetings How about choosing those working on topics of current UNITED NATIONS Days?

VIDEOS Not your usual clips, but

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most inspirational videos that I have ever seen. They make me feel I want to get up and do something, too!â&#x20AC;? telling the adventures and solutions of our speakers and young hero/ines of our time. - for presentations - for video screens - for film sessions - as electronic wallpapers and part of the powerful tools available to the audience to take home, view online, download and use in their spheres of influence: schools, workshops, events, families, companies... View some here: http://bit.ly/1L2UmGk

MUSIC Not a figleaf, but

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The pure sound of the Change Generation! Unprecedented, a must for every home, event and music classâ&#x20AC;? composed and performed by early teens who are sacred practitioners + wildly successful activists + incredibly talented artists. This is new in human history! So are their performances - setting tone and pace of major demonstrations, amplifying spirit and success, on stage with the Bob Marleys of our time and jamming with spiritual leaders at the United Nations! http://bit.ly/1IUr7A8

POSTER WALLS Make young changemakers omni-present, long-term, like our YL teams do at school. - for world-view change on youth power - for spreading model solutions - for ambience, decoration and inspiration - as backdrop for fundraiser tables - for interviews - for photoshoots Use as learning environment for school classes - for self-guided exploration - with guided tool-kit, individual tasks using the stories and QR codes to videos, sharing their discoveries, selecting favorite causes, studying action packs and optional follow-up actions If you cannot print them this big and flashy in color, make simple home print-outs in black and white or mix a few extra-large ones with smaller posters. Can you find a donor friendly sponsor? Impressions: http://bit.ly/1DQTAe1

ADD OUR COMIC EXHIBIT - telling our hero/inesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stories for the very young - as decoration - as another media tool for your audience to take home, use at schools, events, in pulic parks... INVITE your audience to contribute, by - turning our storyboards into comic strip - on your walls - on paper, for submission to YL

ADD AUDIO INSTALLATIONS telling our hero/inesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; stories in public space - for surprise - for relaxation and slowing down - as another media tool for your audience to take home, use at schools, events, in public parks...

POSITIVE CHANGE IS ABOUT ACTION

IT IS TIME THAT WE GO BEYOND TALKING & GIVE OUR AUDIENCE THE EXPERIENCE TO BE PART OF CHANGE BY DOING THE SAME, SIMPLE THINGS AS THE HERO/INES THAT THEY ADMIRE

SO THAT THEY LIVE THEIR OWN INNER HERO/INE OUR EVENTS BECOME RELEVANT AND SPARK CASCADING CHANGES IN OUR HOST COMMUNITIES IT COMES WITH MANY BENEFITS FOR THE EVENT & PARTICIPANTS!

INSTANT ACTION OPPORTUNITIES In minutes, you can make considerable impact, and who, if not your audience, should walk their talk? ADD tangible action and numbers to your event for - a sense of action and inspiration - a new level of relevance to gatherings - creating interesting media impressions - creating more media coverage - facilitating follow-up activities

And - first of all, of course: SUPPORT (Y)OUR SPEAKERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; QUESTS! Are you unsure what actions to include, with little effort and considerable impact? We have ideas! View the next page.

INVOLVE YOUR AUDIENCE PETITIONS Have a table with 10+ petitions: end child abuse, dirty palm oil, fossil fuels, ivory trade, shark finning..., add piping hot local causes, give them airtime, too! $1 FUNDRAISERS to their favorite hero/ines for those operating in regions, where $1 have considerable value - such as The Red Brigade Lucknow! BOOK DRIVES For Babar’s school, for tribal communities... Have everybody bring a good book or game. It can make $10,000 worth of goods and more! PROJECTS Use the event for kickstarting Erin Zaikis’ Sundara Soap (hotels and poor schools), Cassandra Lin’s T-G-I-F (restaurant grease to biofuel) Gabrielle Posard’s Donate Don’t Dump + ADD SKYPE BRIDGES to receiving changemakers + INVOLVE SCHOOLS for optimal impact and follow-up activities

INVOLVE DELEGATES OF INTER/NATIONAL SUMMITS COMBINE REGISTRATION WITH A PLEDGE to spread a YL Poster Exhibit aligned with your event’s TOPIC to 1-3 schools of their city in combination with - speaking about the event experience - presenting about their own work - offering their service as mentor IMAGINE 100 delegates to a global Girl & Women Summit distributing our Girl & Women Changemaker Poster Set & Exhibit to 100-300 schools, ... - reaching 100,000 to 300,000 students - creating massive media coverage reaching millions - leading to considerable support of Youth LeadeRs - enabling replication of model solutions - sparking active student clubs - boosting their own initiatives It’s simple. That’s impact!

INVOLVE OUR YOUNG GENERATION AT SCHOOL THEY ARE NOT WEAK. THEY ARE STRONGER THAN YOUR ADULTS AS OUR EXAMPLES CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE WHEN TAPPING INTO THE SUPERPOWERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AT SCHOOL THIS WILL HELP YOU GENERATE STRONGER MEDIA PRESENCE OUTREACH TEAM IMPACT NETWORK LONG-TERM ACTIVITIES IT IS ON YOU TO HELP THEM SEE & UNLEASH THOSE SUPERPOWERS

MOBILIZE SCHOOLS before your event EQUIP YOUR VOLUNTEER CREW with YL Presentation Kits - in printed form, or - in digital form for distribution to schools USING THE OCCASION TO - inform about your event - inviting them to contribute - through action - as student clubs - as volunteers - for media presence - inviting entrepreneurs as mentors - inviting sponsors to grant prizes ... making your event a relevant happening that mobilizes and unites local stakeholders across societal sectors for new concerted action.

INVOLVE STUDENT CLUBS You can tell from our examples what passion and power student clubs can unfold. IMAGINE several student clubs - taking action - for their favorite causes and YL Hero/ines - manning booths at your event - presenting their achievements - talking about their experience on stage - offering instant action opportunities - involving your audience + in/directly promoting your event This is why YL Teams and Warrior Clans are a dream come true, for people, planet, schools and event organizers!

CALL FOR LOCAL ACTION ON OCCASION OF YOUR EVENT Relevant action with a spark of magic - motivates student clubs to get involved - generates media coverage - raises spirit before the event - builds a sense of community - facilitates follow-up action Our Instant Actions are good examples, but there are countless more actions, from river clean-ups to installing edible landscapes. How about combining it with local issues that need get addressed? Get your staff involved, too!

GENERATE MEDIA COVERAGE ON ACTIONS Your mobilized students - are perfect protagonists for local stories before + during + after the event Observe our tipps for vibrant visuals and touching testimonials for conveying the changemaking spirit felt by everyone involved. This works best, If you get them fired up by being awesome by offering relevant actions by honoring their involvement with exciting perks, priviledges integration in the event encounters with changemakers and support beyond the event.

INVOLVE YOUTH MEDIA TEAMS - to document the event in photo and video - to submit their work to local media - to spread their productions on social media - to publish their work in YL social media PUT FOCUS ON - pre-event activities at schools - instant action opportunities - their personal interaction with changemakers - interviews with changemakers to - strengthen your outreach - enhance media presence - grow your team and add fun - enhance peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recognition of your efforts - provide opportunity for skilled young media makers - create a long-term collaboration - to tap into additional funds, since many grantmakers love investing in young people and media production

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS of YOUNG & ADULT HERO/INES - to be exhibited - to be published in YOUTH-LEADER Media - to be promoted to your regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schools This simple step adds to - involvement of audience, citizens, civil society - interaction with media - pre- and post-event interaction with schools INVITE - your choice of newly discovered regional hero/ines - the citizens who nominated them to your event to - add further elements of surprise - demonstrate genuine care for serving local changemakers and amplifying local potentials - another instant action opportunity!

ADD AWARDS Create your own, or combine your event with existing awards to give them a prominent, exciting stage!

ADD PRIZES Provide honest and relevant finance and in-kind sponsor support for outstanding youth-led model solutions, to - scale their work to a new level - facilitate replication in the region - that your event is held or other

EQUIP YOUR AUDIENCE WITH YL MEDIA SETS - poster sets - video dvd - music/al - card game - books (printed, digital or online) incl. information on the event and relevant (local) initiatives to distribute to schools near them to spark YOUTH LEADERSHIP on considerable scale giving your event memorable impact leading to enhanced action in the city and for your next event

FEEDBACK GRAPHICS We like interactive installations for unearthing hidden views, sentiments and vision, like Candy Chang does. Our Feedback Graphics are nothing like that, but they - involve the audience in seconds - show commonalities and differences - document shared excitement - speak all the necessary words in one image We use them at the end of sessions, when people are usually not ecstatic about waiting or writing much - and they also make great sense at your eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exit! The following graphics are the result of a YL Video Presentation to 80 college students, organized by Earth Guardians Bhutan.

MAKE YOUR CHOICE ! I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THESE MODULES AT MY EVENT 14 Speakers