Sense Festival is about bringing people together to celebrate community.

Participants of the Youth Initiative Program (YIP) in Ytterjärna, Sweden, are holding a space for the growing international community to meet with this inspiring local community in action, this June 15-20. These 5 days of summer celebrations will be all about thinking globally and acting locally. It is hosted at YIP, in the beautiful and natural home of this inspired new form of education, which is effectively providing a platform for the empowerment of youth initiative.

With this area being known for its innovative culture of sustainability and community living, the opportunity is to co-create an event whereby both spheres of community can engage in grounded action through consciously designed and meaningful learning spaces and activities, in celebration of this One Year of Making Sense.

This is a festival of learning, a new form of meeting that allows you to share in the essence of YIP and its network, and really meet your hosts – 38 emerging change-makers who embody a unique quality of youth empowerment. Being immersed in an intensive training of how to make positive social change in the world, they are inspired to share their learning with you, and to open the space of Sense Festival to your dreams and aspirations.

We aim to provide you with a powerful source of connection and celebration this summer.

A blog for the development of Sense Festival. Our organizing team will keep you up to date here with all the developments, as we take each elegant step towards the opening of Sense Festival!

The concept of sensing has been a guiding principle in our shared learning environment during this fundamentally life-changing year of community co-creation. In the Youth Initiative Program we have been faced head-on with the challenge of living in community and as wonderful as every minute of it is, there is also a certain sense that is required of you when sharing your living, working, learning and playing space with the same group of people, day in and day out, throughout this one year of making sense.

This is the sense to rise to a certain level of awareness, the sense to be able to see, touch, taste, smell and feel what the world is calling you to do each day, in order to bring your own initiative into being. This is the sense of why you are on this earth, what you came here to do, and how you could go about doing it. In this one also needs to sense when and where, and we have sensed June 15-20 in our beautiful community home in Ytterjärna, Sweden. If you follow this sense, it might bring you here too.

We hereby invite you to join us this summer in Celebrating Community...