STORIES
TO ACTIVATE Y/OUR INNER HERO*INES
We tell stories of outstanding changemakers with tangible solutions changing lives, land, learning, laws and industries at record pace and scale … replicable by youth everywhere.
The purpose is not to edutain. The purpose is to initiate youth and adults to the rapidly emerging phenomenon of high impact youth leadership and myriads of people-powered solutions for creating a good new society of peace, bliss and abundance for all, enabling readers to contribute, implement solutions locally, connect with hero*ine protagonists, follow their unfolding adventures and team up to create a world of awesome together.
Our stories are doorways into the fascinating world of youth leadership and YL Programs.
And you can take them everywhere, today!
Explore Stories
in our Online Exhibit
‘ Discover Youth Leadership ‘
Immerse Yourself
in #BeMoreAwesome Crash Course Phases 1 +2
Take Stories Home
with our Books, Calendars, Cardgame, Student Planner
Take Stories Public
with our Poster Set for Exhibits
Use Stories at Work
as teacher, journalist …
View Stories in Context
in YL Youth Leadership 101
Our stories connect
with videos, interviews, social links and Action Guides so that readers turn into users, become part of adventures and start taking action to turn their GOOD dreams for people and planet into reality.
Videos
to bring stories to life, feel hero*ines’ spirit, memorize, share, inspire
Interviews
for deeper understanding, insights, fun anecdotes
Social Media
to connect, follow, learn on-the-go, contribute, share, grow reach and support
Action Guides
to contribute, replicate, join, scale, adapt the solutions, 4 missions each, simple to advanced for greater impact
We publish in formats serving diverse
- audiences
- settings
- purposes
to create omni-presence in society. Which can you use?
Books
for kids at home
Magazine
for deeper reads, see adventures unfold
Poster Sets
for long-term public presence
Crash Course
to activate groups and school classes
Calendars
for the office + aligned with UN Days
Student Planner
for school + weekly actions
Cardgame
for gameful learning, pocket companion, sturdy teaching tool
Youth Leadership Training Platform
for fired up youth to do like hero*ine peers
Crowdfunding Platform
to boost hero*ines, share their stories
Where can YOU use them?
FOR YOU
To awaken your Inner Hero*ine, learn solutions, take action, boost your favorites, inspire others, team up, become part of the story and adventure
IN THE FAMILY
For the kids, deep conversations, positive worldview, power of shaping the world, taking action together, at home and in the community, forming precious bonds … and taking all this into kids’ schools
AT SCHOOL
To bring issues to life with authentic solution stories, young role models, action opportunities, for exhibits as a frame for club stands and activities, inspiring actions and partnerships
AT WORK
As posters, placemats, calendars, exhibits … to combine with FUNdraisers and inspire project partnerships … to involve staff, customers, followers
IN MEDIA
Articles, interviews, columns aligned with UN Days, involving audiences, reporting on readers’ inspired actions – also connected with YL Magazine
IN PUBLIC SPACE
Exhibits, audio installations, video projections …
An example how towns use stories
on model solutions in context of SDGs, active citizenship, sustainability, ESD …
Michendorf, a town of 13,000 inhabitants
near Potsdam and Berlin, Germany organized an exposition on regional Good Practice projects for sustainability
- along the main road
- easy to set up
- in windows of 21 businesses, cafes, kindergartens …
that enthusiastically take part, since many entrepreneurs wish to see positive changes, uplifting ambience and more vibrant interaction in neighborhoods, schools and public. WHAT’S NEEDED IS EASY OPPORTUNITY!
Adapt it for Youth Leadership
with many interactive aspects.
- involve businesses, social, environmental, youth associations as host spaces; unveiling that they all care for youth + positive change, which is new to them
- exhibit also at schools
- announce it in news media and on newsletters
Add local context for the GLOBAL hero*ine exhibit
- an initiative to boost local high impact youth leadership
- an action call for locals to take action
- (1) youth to do projects
- (2) or support or replicate hero*ines’ model solutions locally; no need to reinvent the wheel
- (3) adults can boost favorite global heroines’ initiatives and local youth projects; fund, in-kind, team up
- vividly document and submit
- to get displayed in the NEXT exhibit on LOCAL youth leadership actions
The optimal add-on to recognize local youth efforts + boost follow-up
(A) a Flowfund donated by participating businesses, town and others
- involving schools – all their students get to vote on fund investment
- in local youth projects
- in global youth projects
(B) In-Kind contributions by businesses and coaches, such as
- horseriding days for newbies
- canoeing training for newbies
- permaculture, sourcing color from plants, vegan baking and cuisine …
for local youth project participants…
which is a heartwarming recognition
+ provides magical experiences of lifelong value
+ builds friendly bonds with kind entrepreneurs for more
+ generates vivid media, stories, testimonials for news media
+ creates opportunity for a GET TOGETHER of fired up people
Common sense results
Teams
of youth
student clubs
adult allies
Global SDG Challenge
for schools, companies, city, celebrities
action on all 17 SDGs
based on 50+ hero*ines’ high impact initiatives
Set big Milestones
for important local issues
Start Project Partnerships
with favorite hero*ines to the future of entire regions over years
Add Action!
when sharing stories with people.
Each story is a model solution. Most include an Action Guide.
You know stories, optional actions and partners to team up with.
Many are simple, swift, impactful, fun, rewarding. Go!
DONATE / HELP IN-KIND / WIELD THE SOLUTION LOCALLY
At Home
Ask: what do you love? What could we contribute? Who if not us? What will be fun? Who else can we activate?
Online
Add action calls, milestones, connect with the Boost Club
Word of Mouth
Share the magic, your passion, ideas, ponder how you can activate your folks, set exciting milestones
In Class
Use hero*ines’ Action Guides, propose actions in support of their initiatives or to replicate them locally
Exhibits
Add FUNdraiser stands, videos, presentations, Philanthro-Parties, ask what people would love to do
In Staff Rooms
Challenge colleagues to #bemoreawesome, set epic milestones, do the SDG Challenge
At School Fests
Exhibit, add fun activities, connect with like-hearted students and teachers, conspire to activate their class
At Work
Inspire + involve workmates and customers, help in-kind, set milestones, task staff and trainees, offer perks, docu-ment + share
In TalkShows
Challenge guests and audience to BeMoreAwesome, take relevant action, and invite them to tell of their achievements live on the show
With civil society, politicians and RICH PEOPLE
Put on your Clint Eastwood smirk and ask them if they aren’t ashamed of their underperformance, if it be time they #bemoreawesome and Activate Their City for youth Leadership
YL MAGAZINE
The world-premiere positive change medium for youth + use in education + everybody else
tells the unfolding adventures of today’s hero*ines
- solutions
- interviews
- music + films + art
- teaching tools
- action opportunities
- travel + volunteering
- freebies & more
sign up + enjoy daily inspiration
purchase copies
distribute to homes, cafes, schools, libraries, refugee camps, prisons, orphanages, hospitals, doctors cabinets, hairdressers, waiting rooms …
see success projects unfold
experience video meetings
read, like, comment + share
contribute stories, links
donate, fund, help
take action
tell your stories
Online Volunteer with YL
write, translate, design, coordinate
create local/national issue
as youth crew, school …
What if …
all kids in your country had grown up with these stories over the past 20 years?
What if YOU had grown up with them since kindergarten?
> What would society look like, what would citizens live and act like,
compared to current abominable abuse, incompetence and impotence?
> What impact had they made multiplying their hero*ine peers’ deeds a million times?
> What worldview, skills, friendships and relations would those youth have developed?
> How would they use them now as young adults?
> And in their next 60 years as badass qualified citizens?
Shall we lose another decade
or act as fast as we can?
What future do YOU choose for the next 30 years on Earth?
Us at YL are heartcore determined to evoke real change by making humanity’s finest spirit, solutions and action opportunities omni-present in our lives at home, school, public and media and we invite you to get involved in relevant ways – not just a little bit – so that *everything you see on this page* be present in your region within 1 or 2 years.
It’s simple stuff. One just needs to WANT it to happen, since without it, no relevant CHANGE can happen in citizens en masse. YL Crash Course, Academy, Resources and Coaches provide all you need. We LISTEN TO YOU how YOU seek to manifest it in your region and then work together to make it happen. Enuff said.
BRING HERO*INES’ STORIES
to your Language + Country + City + Schools + Libraries + Living Museums
+ to orphanages, hospitals, prisons and refugee camps