YES is being with yourself!

Yes, to us is the positive energy, it all begins with the affirmative and we long to hear the word yes when we build a relationship. Yes is being yourself, and finding the space to make it all happen. Think of the last time when you wanted to hear the word 'yes', there was excitement, end of a wait and more so the eagerness to get to your goal.

If yes be your goal (derived from 'go' and 'all'), you will put in all you have to reach the very goal. Finding yourself is often the biggest challenge, and you need to say yes to this if you really want to be happy and enjoy the present moment. In this very spirit we created YES, and for us it is all about being full of youth, and the acronym YES adds up to 'youth engaging society'. The ultimate catalyst of change is the youth,as they provide the energy to any society. It all emanates from the desire to live the youth, and thus the idea of learning and building around the youth spirit.

The YES project helps you find yourself by first connecting, followed by communicating, collaborating and finally creating. Yes we can make it happen the minute you take the call to be with yourself, you will find the free spirit and learn to live with yes as your life's mantra.

See the YES Workshop in reel life!

YES Workshop 25th. Aug 2012 Enjoy the pictures in our Picasa Album

This day will go down as the turning point in the lives of ten young people!

1. Keshav Bajaj
2. Jigyasa Labroo
3. Sanjog Singh Ahuja
4. Srivattsan Ramesh
5. Nirvaan Garg
6. Surya Pahal
7. Neeru Gupta
8. Pallavi Bhardwaj
9. Gaurav Singh
10. Apula Singh

We hope they will live up to their very own expectations and find themselves, as this is the biggest reward. It is our belief they have been able to connect with their inner self and will now build their lives around their dreams. We wish them the very best, and are most grateful to them for the courage in our ability to deliver this first ever YEL (Youth Empowerment & Leadership) workshop at our YES studio in New Delhi.

YEL sets the tone for YES!

The first Youth Empowerment & Leadership (YEL) workshop sets the agenda for the work for the YES family. Ten youth leaders from far off places congregated at The Studio in New Delhi and engaged in a day long exercise of fun and learning. The YES way is well explained by a unique formula!

Education= Skills+Sports+Service and not just academic excellence.

In the coming months we will conduct workshops in schools, colleges and youthful institutions to help you find the youth within. The New Delhi YES Workshop of 25th August affirmed the belief of our mission and further convinced us that life us all about YES.

Cheers!

Sandeep Dutt
Chief Mentor at YES

The parents should chill out!

Many parents of 20-somethings worry that their offspring haven't yet found a career path, gotten married or become financially independent.

These parents should chill out, experts say.

Biologists, psychologists and sociologists are increasingly seeing the years between 18 to 25 as a distinct phase of human development, worthy of much more study. Melinda Beck on Lunch Break has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.

Recent research into how the brain develops suggests that people are better equipped to make major life decisions in their late 20s than earlier in the decade. The brain, once thought to be fully grown after puberty, is still evolving into its adult shape well into a person's third decade, pruning away unused connections and strengthening those that remain, scientists say.

"Until very recently, we had to make some pretty important life decisions about education and career paths, who to marry and whether to go into the military at a time when parts of our brains weren't optimal yet," says neuroscientist Jay Giedd at the National Institute of Mental Health, whose brain-imaging studies of thousands of young people have yielded many of the new insights. Postponing those decisions makes sense biologically, he says. "It's a good thing that the 20s are becoming a time for self-discovery."

Such findings are part of a new wave of research into "emerging adulthood," the years roughly from 18 to 29, which psychologists, sociologists and neuroscientists increasingly see as a distinct life stage. The gap between adolescence and full adulthood is becoming ever wider as more young people willingly or because of economic necessity prolong their education and postpone traditional adult responsibilities. As recently as the 1960s, the average age of first marriage for women in the U.S. was 20, and men 22. Today, the average is 26 for women and 28 for men.

"It should be reassuring for parents to know that it's very typical in the 20s not to know what you're going to do and change your mind and seem very unstable in your life. It's the norm," says Jeffrey J. Arnett, a professor of psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who coined the term "emerging adulthood" in 2000.

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For young adults, it can be a stressful time. High rates of anxiety, depression, motor-vehicle accidents and alcohol use are at their peak from 18 to 25, trends that tend to level out by age 28, studies show. And a recent survey by Clark University, which polled more than 1,000 young adults nationwide, found that 72% said this time of life was stressful and 33% said they were often depressed. Still, 89% believed they would eventually get what they want out of life.

At age 28, Nikki Cohen has explored more careers than many people do in a lifetime. After a year as a pre-med student at Emory University, the Long Island native moved back to New York to attend Parsons School of Design. "I decided fashion was more exciting than science and a little more 'me,' " Ms. Cohen says.

EAGLE'S COCOON - The Leadership Programme

At Eagles’ Cocoon, we work collaboratively with select educational institutes that share the common belief in spreading leadership education amongst students. Each quarter, we conduct a Leadership Aptitude Test (LAT) in our partner institutions through which talented students with leadership potential are selected. The selected students have the opportunity to undergo a highly intensive Leadership Development Program conducted by world class faculty. As we work with diverse schools and colleges from varied fields including engineering, arts and management, we offer customized programs that are best suited to nurture meaningful and relevant leadership education for the target audience.  The youngsters, who are selected and who successfully complete the program, are therefore best positioned to evolve themselves into tomorrow’s leaders. 

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Welcome Apula at YES

The Gold Award Holders Society (GAHS): Welcome Apula Singh:

Apula is the contact person for our projects and works at the YES national office in New Delhi. She will be the contact person for GAHS and help build the membership of the Society. In addition to the first team member of the YES Project, she will help build the GAHS alumni network, and with Devanjali reach out to participants who want to do the Award Programme with the help of GAHS.

The Ten To The Power Project

The Ten To The Power Project:

'via Blog this'

This is about real youth engaging society. We are proud of the maiden effort of a group of Gold Holders and Volunteers and wish them all power to overcome the challenge!

Internship Opportunity in Canada

Below is the link to an internship opportunity of minimum of 4 months (6 months preferable), commencing September 1st 2012, in Montreal, Canada for a young graduate or under graduate student at the CBD Secretariat in Montreal. The purpose of this internship is to provide assistance to implement the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity with regards to mainstreaming gender into the convention on biological diversity (http://www.cbd.int/gender/), taking development and poverty eradication policies, strategies and processes into account. The deadline for submission of applications is 17 August, 2012.

More information at: : http://www.cbd.int/doc/vacancies/2012/scbd/internships/scbd-intern-gender-20120725-en.pdf

Please kindly circulate around and apply if interested.

Regards,

Jean Paul

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Jean Paul Brice Affana

Youth and Action Instructor, Founder Coordinator

Vital Actions for Sustainable Development [AVD]

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