Imagine a school, where on the first day, you will not be registered with a number, but instead be given a business card with your name on, and a key to the building seconded by the remark: “It is all yours 24/7.. make the best of it!”
Last September, 17 individuals from 8 different countries gathered in Rotterdam to form the first ever KaosPilots.NL team! They are now recruiting Team 2! 20-35 young entrepreneurs with a head for business and a heart for the global society will be offered the opportunity to join Team 2. In the program you will develop your creative, innovative and entrepreneurial talents to enable you to take on the future that you choose! The question is always: “What will be your contribution to the world… what is your impossible dream… and are you risk taker enough to make it happen…?!”
Check out www.kaospilots.nl for info on the school, stories from students and info on the application procedure. Or contact our Welcoming Team at apply@kaospilots.nl.
There will be an info meet on Saturday, April 26th. Deadline for application: May 19th, 2008.
P.S.: Ursel from IMAGINE 2007 is on Team 1. I am sure, she is happy to answer your questions…
Hi there, Matti, it is so great to hear all the connections behind the scenes!
I had Frederik visiting us in the selfHUB last week. He was a delegate at Imagine 2005. We had an interesting chat about transforming the German school system and I told him about the course on sustainability education in schools that I am excited about to start in January.
Our first marketing client assignment: exciting! Especially if it is about a topic I am personally really passionate about: How can a company bring about organisational change, especially when this change includes a buy-in into a rather different paradigm? And: how can this company sell their services if the service itself cannot be completely defined upfront but will develop with the process?
We are working for DeLimes, who do consultancy within the Rhinelandic economic philosophy, rather then the widespread Anglo-Saxon model. For me the rhinelandic philosophy goes much more along with human values, it gives space to personal development and offers a possibility for people to love what they are doing. Wouldn´t it be nice if you would wake up exited about going to work every day? If you would look at your job as doing something useful, something that fits into the bigger picture? Something that you not only like, but that also contributes to a world you want to live in? Most people choose their profession for this reason, but just as many forget during their daily work. It does not have to be this way!
It makes me proud to be able to play my small part in this vision. Doing this as a taks from school and learning at the same time is even more thrilling!
Cheers
Ursel”
Enjoy the Holidays and looking forward to see some of you again at Imagine 2008 in January!
FRAUKE
as promised at our conference in February I’d like to give you some news about me and Stiftung Welt:Klasse project which I presented. It’s not a annoying obligation to do this: I’m happy to tell you, that the idea of Stiftung Welt:Klasse has become reality within the last year and we have really great feedback from the high school students which participated so far at our program in China and Thailand!! I’m happy that we’ve got sponsors, media reports and first awards…. but the most important is that the first students which went abroad came back with a lot of enthusiasm and positive energy!! It’s this feedback which motivates me enormously to go on with the project…
And also Imagine 2007 has it’s concrete impact on Stiftung Welt:Klasse: Ursel did a great job during summer to get started a partnership with a school in Bielefeld!! Thu Phong did amazing work preparing the 12 high school students for China! And finally Eva did the same for the students starting to Thailand
For detailed information you can have a look on www.stiftung-weltklasse.de (for the moment just in German)… Or just contact me That’s it for the moment…
I wish you all merry christmas and an great and inspiring year 2008!!!
We all remember Matti Spiecker, the 24 year old student from Witten Herdecke who had taken a trip around the world, visiting social entrepreneurs, interviewing them and making this whole experience visible to german school classes via videochat. This trip became famous under the name “expedition WELT”. Out of it developed the idea to give german pupils the possibility to do a project-based stay abroad, including their class mates: the Stiftung Welt:Klasse (www.stiftung-weltklasse.de).
It is going well: pupils of the 11th grade from München and Oberhausen will fly to Thailand and China in October 2007. Funds are raised, the program is set up and our partner organisation, Greenway, is taking care of everything there.
OUR partner? Oh yes! I really liked the idea of providing such experiences to pupils. I did a stay abroad myself, when I was this age, and it changd my worldview. It changed me. So, why not make this possible for others as well? I am now working voluntarily with Matti and am setting up this program in Bielefeld.
I know others liked the idea as well. I can only encourage you to help spreading the program and reach as many schools as possible. It is very easy: contact Matti and just do it! It will not only be good for the students, but also for yourself. I got extremely positive feedback from local businesses, I feel proud to be able to contribute and it showed me that work can be much fun!
The best school for the world…what would you need for that? First of all, a very passionate bunch of young and enthusiastic people, thrilled by the idea of putting lots of effort into their work. Second you would need a concept that is able to use all this energy and to lead it through a process that will enhance it and help it to become more mature, instead of trying to transform it into something that it not genuinly is. Third of all, you need lots of love.
When I visited the Kaospilots Netherlands I was curious if something like this was actually possible. Before going there I was not too convinced of this strange school – it seemed a little bit crazy and, who knows, composed for dreamers with no clue of the real world. I had only read about it on the internet and what do written words show you? Nothing! (try it anyways: www.kaospilots.dk or www.kaospilots.nl )
So I decided to apply and got invited to the admission workshop. This first contact was as much a test for me in which I tried to find out if this school would be able to teach me something new as it was a test for them to see if I was a suitable person for the school.
At the workshop they lead us through a two days process in which we had to solve several tasks in small groups, they had us reflect upon our group work, upon our personal performance and upon the task we were solving. We gave each other feedback. We played music together. We laughed, we talked, we danced. And in the end we presented a result, that was as creative as applauded by the audience.
For me it showed me that it really is possible to use all this energy, to transform it into something meaningful with an actual outcome. And still love all of it, provide it with the emotional support that is needed if you want to stand straight in this world.
Now I can say yes, a wholehearted yes to the Kaospilots: if they will want me, I surely want them! Learn more about this issue next week…when I get their email, I will open it with my heart beating up to my ears! Who knows where this will lead me? I have no clue! But it feels right. So: let´s take out the courage!
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I’m happy that we’ve got sponsors, media reports and first awards…. but the most important is that the first students which went abroad came back with a lot of enthusiasm and positive energy!! It’s this feedback which motivates me enormously to go on with the project…
