GenUp 2012 Summer Leadership Academy

Join a network of young changemakers from across North America and help build a movement to transform our world.

ABOUT THE TRAINING

This training will offer you skills and tools to:

·  Facilitate the WakeUp – a powerful 2-3 hour interactive, multimedia workshop that ignites young people into inspired action

·  Organize a Thrive Hub – a community organizing model for students & youth to build local models of a thriving, just, sustainable world

·  Develop Thrive Leadership skills & capacities for creating personal, interpersonal, and systemic change

WHO

Young people ages 16 – 30 interested in bringing innovative social change skills & tools to your community, school, or organization. (We recommend you attend this training with 1 or 2 other people from your school or community if possible.)

WHEN

Sunday, July 15, at 5pm until Sunday, July 22 at 12pm

WHERE

The Whidbey Institute (On Whidbey Island near Seattle, Washington)

COST

$750 (camping rate)

$950 (bed rate)

Includes all meals and program materials. Does not include travel & ground transportation.

Scholarships and fundraising support are available. A scholarship application can be completed when you fill out the training application. 

ABOUT GENERATION WAKING UP

Generation Waking Up is a global campaign to ignite a generation of young people to bring forth a thriving, just, sustainable world. Learn more about our work at: www.generationwakingup.org

ABOUT THE WAKEUP

The Generation Waking Up Experience - called a WakeUp for short - is an interactive, multimedia, peer-led workshop that moves young people into lasting hope and inspired action toward a thriving, just, sustainable world.

Whether it be social entrepreneurship ventures, community service projects, or hard-hitting advocacy campaigns, the WakeUp is inspiring collaborative action by young people around the globe.