Presentation
Project consists in a meeting of the "Youth Section" in Argentina, to unite the "youth sections" already formed on different countries around the world and young people interested to achieve a cultural exchange to known us as a Section and unite us as human beings.
The meeting will take place from 24 to 29 July 2011 at the Casa de Retiros Monseñor Aguirre, Santa Rosa 2341
Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Project consists in a meeting of the "Youth Section" in Argentina, to unite the "youth sections" already formed on different countries around the world and young people interested to achieve a cultural exchange to known us as a Section and unite us as human beings.
The meeting will take place from 24 to 29 July 2011 at the Casa de Retiros Monseñor Aguirre, Santa Rosa 2341
Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
History
The Youth Section consists of an international team with headquarters in Dornach, Switzerland. There are many local, regional and international groups and initiatives connected to the Youth Section.
The Youth Section is an international youth movement creating a platform where young people (18-35ish) can explore their inner and outer relationship to the world. It organizes conferences, seminars, study groups and research projects on world youth issues, and facilitates internships and the creation of local and world-wide initiatives.
The Youth Section is also part of the Anthroposophical Society. The Anthroposophical Society is an association of people who want to cultivate the life of the soul in the individual and the society, based on a true understanding of the spiritual world. Inside the area of the General Anthroposophical Society-Universal-each country organizes and manages their own national society.
The word Anthroposophy comes from the Greek words antropos and sophia, meaning the wisdom of man.
Rudolf Steiner used this word to give name to his insights into the evolution of the cosmos and the human being. In his spiritual science he describes the connection between the spiritual world and the human being, and gives advice on how it is possible to enter spiritual creative forces through the schooling and cultivating of thinking, feeling and willing.
He saw such a cultivation as a necessary step in the history of mankind, where inner attitude will play an increasingly important role in developing and shaping a worthy life – culturally, socially and economically.
One of his main themes was that the human being is not only mirroring cosmic processes, but that it is also a co-creator in evolution. What the human being think, feel and does has an impact in the world.
Steiner emphasised that all cultivation of inner qualities through contemplation and meditation should lead to a 'waking up' in the understanding of the needs of the time, the social context one lives in, other´s people and one’s own self. The founding of Waldorf Schools, biodynamic farms, hospitals, curative homes and banks all have this as a leading thought.
In earlier times, such spiritual knowledge would belong to only a few people, hidden from the world. Steiner worked to ensure that, today, this hidden knowledge is available to everybody, and that it is based on general human qualities.
Steiner characterised anthroposophy as follows:
“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe”
Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner was born on February 25, 1861 in Murakiraley, Austria-Hungary (now Donji Kraljevec, Croatia), and died in Dornach on March 30, 1925.He founded the General Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science in 1923, with its center at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
From here spiritual research in all fields of life, and in many different professions, is done and supported. This has inspired, for example, the founding of Waldorf Schools, Anthroposophical medicine, biodynamic agriculture and the new artistic form of eurythmy.
Steiner had no profession himself, but had a great impact on the cultural life of his own time, and remains a significant inspiration for the cultural life of today.
He can be seen as a philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, and social thinker with a technical education as well. Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual component. His scientific approach is based on a phenomenology inspired by Goethe’s ideas of perception.
“Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas.”
Rudolf Steiner founded the Youth Section during Easter, 1924.
Vision
The Youth Section’s vision is to create a world that values, supports and allows the potential and creativity of every young person to unfold in their full strength and brilliance.
To work towards this goal requires commitment, compassion and dedication. This vision for the future is only possible if we begin to work with the ideas that will make it reality and by supporting the spiritual striving of youth.
Accomplishing this vision means having the courage to unlearn and review what we have been taught about how our world operates. It means collaborating with many different people in many different countries. It means trusting in yourself and those around you, setting examples and taking responsibility. It means always being young at heart, ready to change yourself and the world.
More information: http://www.youthsection.org/
Meeting
Topic:
“What can I bring to the world?” and “what can I receive from the world?”
The topic of this meeting is: from the fusion of different cultures and the individuality of each participant, guided by the questions: “What can I bring to the world?” and “what can I receive from the world?” create the union between the countries that form the Youth Section to focus all on the same point and put our forces in a common purpose to generate a real change in the world.
To accomplish this, these days, participants will live together, will make workshops, social action, artistic activities and have moments of conversation, as well as conferences and reflection.
Antecedents:
LIGAÇÃOJOVEM
During the days 19, 20 and November 21, 2009, was performed in San Paulo, Brazil, a youth meeting named LIGAÇÃOJOVEM.
Involved approximately 130 youth from various cities of Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Japan.
The topic of the meeting was guided by the question “¿como as questões dos jovens apontam para o futuro?”, "how young people's concerns point to the future?”
LIGAÇÃOJOVEM
During the days 19, 20 and November 21, 2009, was performed in San Paulo, Brazil, a youth meeting named LIGAÇÃOJOVEM.
Involved approximately 130 youth from various cities of Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Japan.
The topic of the meeting was guided by the question “¿como as questões dos jovens apontam para o futuro?”, "how young people's concerns point to the future?”
This meeting had in the initial impulse the idea that in these times, as well as academic issues relating to future studies and career, many young people are concerned with social issues and the development for themselves and their environment.
There are not just a few groups and initiatives that are compromised in some way with social issues and willing to work the individual and collective consciousness.
There are not just a few groups and initiatives that are compromised in some way with social issues and willing to work the individual and collective consciousness.
There is a growing search by young people to become involved in projects or initiatives that approximate in this search.
Often the lack of knowledge about these initiatives, which the young could have an affinity, becomes an impediment to the development of this impulse. In addition, the simple fact of bring young people together with similar issues, is a great opportunity for the emergence of new initiatives.
Often the lack of knowledge about these initiatives, which the young could have an affinity, becomes an impediment to the development of this impulse. In addition, the simple fact of bring young people together with similar issues, is a great opportunity for the emergence of new initiatives.
The intention was then bring together young people and initiatives to meet each other.
Were invited young students and ex students of Waldorf schools, young people involved in social projects, and also who were interest in knowing these kind of projects. In terms of initiatives, met a group of projects and persons that in some way developed their work linking it to the anthroposophy, a movement to which mostly of us are linked.
Were invited young students and ex students of Waldorf schools, young people involved in social projects, and also who were interest in knowing these kind of projects. In terms of initiatives, met a group of projects and persons that in some way developed their work linking it to the anthroposophy, a movement to which mostly of us are linked.
The participation of Elizabeth Wirsching, director of the Youth Section of the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, was very important because she was who brought the possibility and the argument for conducting this meeting. Elizabeth wanted to know what were the aspirations and what the young Brazilian had to say. She also had the intention to teach the youth of Brazil which is the work she developes in Europe and which are the similar initiatives on the rest of the world.
In this way, was decided to make LIGAÇÃOJOVEM, which brought together interested persons and initiatives committed to social and personal development.
It is important to note that , thanks to the initiative of Elizabeth Wirsching, was formed the Youth Section of Brazil.
More information: http://ligacaojovem.blogspot.com/
In this way, was decided to make LIGAÇÃOJOVEM, which brought together interested persons and initiatives committed to social and personal development.
It is important to note that , thanks to the initiative of Elizabeth Wirsching, was formed the Youth Section of Brazil.
More information: http://ligacaojovem.blogspot.com/
TRISKEL
"Triskel, growth and evolution "was a youth event held in April 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Involving about 90 youths from Argentina, Germany, Belgium and Brazil.
Were invited young people they were in their final or penultimate year of high school and youth up to age 26, from Argentina, as from all over the world.
The conference's topic was "How to keep the individuality in an era where identity is lost between the masses" and subtitled "how to live a healthy relationship with the earth and the environment.”
The initiative was based on common activities, so that young people could develop the social side and the individual in each of them.
The meeting included talks on topics such as: the environment, the conscience and dialogue. Artistic workshops in different disciplines, and a day dedicated to social work in areas surrounding the Waldorf School where the meeting took place, hoping in this way to raise conscience, not only to the participants of the meeting but also to the neighbors of the area.
The meeting ended with a open show to the community where they explained the work done.
From what we woke up in Triskel and thanks to the presence of the participants of the Youth Section of Brazil, we feel the need to also form the Youth Section of Argentina.
More information: http://triskelcrecimientoyevolucion.blogspot.com/
ENCONTRO ATIVO
The meeting was performed in San Paulo, Brazil , in October of 2010. Participating young people from Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Uruguay.
It was organized by the Youth Section of Brazil aiming to awake in the young of today, conscience in about their role in the social participation, promoting a questioning of their relevance and from this, improve their desire to transform the reality that surrounds him.
The principal topic was "O todo é maior que a soma das partes ", "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts " designed for young people with the intention to act and with the impulse to strengthen similar movements in neighboring countries.
The propose was to offer the young man a open space to dialogue and experiences that prove, through the practice, which one is the place it occupies in the world, and not through theoretical discourse, which requires a posture of the young to the world.
The idea behind the meeting was to provide the conditions for everyone to open their eyes independently, and not force this through the insistence of assuming a position over the expectations of others persons have for young people front of their responsibilities in the world.
It was after this meeting that was formed the Youth Section in Ecuador, Colombia and Uruguay.
More information: http://encontroativo.blogspot.com/
In the end of ENCONTRO ATIVO, the Youth Section of Brazil conducted a meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where participated the Youth Section of Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Uruguay.
At this meeting, the Youth Section of Brazil, told us that Elizabeth Wirsching, had the impulse and intend make a meeting in Latin America in the July of 2011. Elizabeth proposed to make this meeting in Latin America, because there is usually more "variety" of this kind of initiatives in Europe and she sees a youth strong impulse growing on this side of the world. So, it was decided make the meeting of the "Youth Section" in Argentina, to unite the "youth sections" already made in different countries around the world and achieve a cultural interchange to know us and unite us as human beings.
Objective:
The objective of this project is to create a cultural interchange and deepen a specific change together for the world.
The objective of this project is to create a cultural interchange and deepen a specific change together for the world.
Specific objectives:
• Deepen in the question: "Who am I?" to know what I look for and what I can give.
• Meet the other to meet the world and know what the world can share.
• Finding a common purpose between all members of the Youth Section around the world.
• Acquire a social conscience.
• Strengthen the union keeping in mind the individuality of everyone.
• Meet the other to meet the world and know what the world can share.
• Finding a common purpose between all members of the Youth Section around the world.
• Acquire a social conscience.
• Strengthen the union keeping in mind the individuality of everyone.
Dynamic:
The dynamics of the seven days of the meeting will not be always the same, because each country will be able to organize a day. This day will include all activities that the organizing country wants: artistic activities, conferences, social activities, cultural activities, etc. But most important is that the country can show us their culture through the activities to be performed, either from a dance to the typical foods of each place. The idea is to immerse into the roots of the culture of each country.
Implementation:
We, the Youth Section of Argentina, are working every week on the achievment of this project. Organizing , looking for the appropriate to perform, arming the blocks of work, and involving people close to the Waldorf pedagogy in Buenos Aires for the meeting, not only has an impact on each participant, but also in all the community, as just in people who are interested in the project. Getting in this way the change we expect in society.
Expected results:
We hope that every young participant feel enriched by the exchange of cultures, and that each "Youth Section" feel more strengthened and return to their country with enthusiasm and initiatives to form new projects in different countries.
Countries to be invited:
Germany
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Colombia
Denmark
Ecuador
United States
Finland
France
Georgia
Netherlands
Italy
Japan
Norway
New Zealand
Baltics
Poland
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Romania
Russia
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Ukraine
Uruguay
Creators of Project:
Elizabeth Wirsching
Argentina Youth Section
Brazil Youth Section
Support:
Casa de Retiros Monseñor Aguirre
IONA Fundation
Contact:
• Youth Section Argentina: sj.argentina@hotmail.com
Sincerely,
Youth Section
Argentina
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