“Be the change!”

We live in a world which is often chaotic and sometimes we get drawn into its turmoil leaving us unbalanced or unhappy. By developing personal skills, we can learn how to best deal with stress and challenging external environments while focusing to become proactive towards real and meaningful world change.

• To promote tools of non-violent communication and peace-building that can be applied to all cultures, religions and professions.
• To explore meditation as a practice which can develop tools to deal with challenges within peace-building and youth work.
• To explore the idea that self-development is a core foundation of world change and helping others.
• To understand that cultivating inner qualities can be the foundation of creating compassion in society which leads to more benevolence and understanding within conflict situations.
• To learn practical methods of stress management and ways to increase emotional intelligence.
• To practice mindfulness during yoga and other group activities.
• To build on participants’ progress after having participated in the online self-development programme.
• To empower youth workers and to offer the space for them to create ideas to implement activities and events in their own communities.

• Food
• Accommodation
• Retreat fee
• Lectures
• Welcome kit

• Participants are expected to cover the travel costs from their countries to the retreat place. However, a small amount of sponsorship is available in special cases*, as we are doing our best to be as inclusive as possible.

• Preferably young adults between the ages of 20-32. More mature participants are welcome as well.
• Must be from European Member states (EFTA COUNTRIES/ EEA MEMBER STATES, EU MEMBER STATES PRE-ACCESSION COUNTRIES) or hold a Schengen visa. We cannot provide any visa related documents.
• Candidates should be fully self-supportive for the transportation to the retreat site.
• Must have completed 21 days of the online self-development program. Note that in order to submit the application form, candidates do not need to have completed the online self-development program.
• Candidates should have good proficiency in written and spoken English language.
• Candidates should be optimistic, be open-minded, show leadership potential, and have a genuine interest in peace.
  Candidates should not have participated in any Peace Revolution Fellowship before.

• I am over 32, can I still apply for the fellowship?

Everyone is welcome to join the fellowship. We are looking for young peace activists interested in self-development, who want to learn how to develop their own inner peace in order to engage more effectively in their peace work. However to be eligible for the partial sponsoring of airfare, candidates must be between 20-32 years old.

• I live outside of Europe, can I still apply?

You can still apply, however we cannot support your travel costs if you are flying from outside of Europe. Preference will be given to Europeans. Please consider looking out our international fellowships which take place in Thailand. There will also be many international events coming soon.

• How do you select the participants?

The most important aspect of applying is to complete at least 21 days of the online self-development programme. We will try our best to select a varied group from as many countries as possible.




• *to be eligible for sponsorship, participant must:

  • Be between the ages of 20-32;

  • Present a reasoned motivation letter to europe@peacerevolution2010.org with a subject “Motivation for sponsorship.”

    
    

    You can find more updated information about the 6th European fellowship from our Facebook event page.