Because together we are stronger
Youth Alliance's leadership role in the social change ecosystem in seeding personal transformation and post-modern visions has been because of the nourishing role that the ecosystem has played with us.
For many years now we intend to further our role and contribute back in the ecosystem by actively collaborating with diversity of organisation to strengthen our collective resolve and our muscle of collaboration. We realise that its difficult to collaborate in social change space, we are disrupting that trend with love :)
Bodhi Sangha
Bodhi Sangha is a group of passionate friends who are enquiring into systemic response and transitions to the metacrisis rooted in Indian Context. Shashank from Youth Alliance has been a pollinator in the space, taking his gifts of understanding of the meta-crisis and connecting wisdom from various areas of study.
So far there has been an intention and effort towards deepening the relational field through gatherings and retreats. A report on the understanding of Meta-crisis in the Indian Context and a ecosystem wide event called the Artvist Ashram.
InterPlay
Interplay is an active and creative way to unlock the wisdom of the body. The practised orginated in US, now being practised in all continents. Vibhuti from YA has been a steward of InterPlay in India. She is a trained leader and we use many tools and form from the practice in our facilitation work at Youth Alliance.
InterPlay recently organised a training program in India for more invidiuals to learn this practice and Shipra from the team is an enthusiastic learner.
Vikalp Sangam
Vikalp Sanngam is a network of more than 90 movements and organisations from India engaged in the work of creating an ecologicaly just and sustainable society. Youth Alliance is one of the memembers and over the years Rachit and Aarti from our team have been the representatives of YA and youth work in the network. Both of them have contributed through the Facilitation core group that supports the hosting and organising of the various Sangams, which are residential gatherings.
There is a lot of cross learning that is happening through VS and Youth Alliance and we are grateful for this connection.
PAST COLLABORATIONS
We partnered with Dalberg Advisors, The Slow School and Kavyata to do a research about the state of mental well-being in inviduals in the social sector.We published the findings here.
We hosted an Earth Shastra program in collaboration with Swaraj University, Udaipur. Its been an intention to take the conversation of ecological crisis to different contexts.
2069? The Youth Fest was a co-hosted event with 15 other organisations bringing hundreds of youth in the Social Sector together.
In 2021, we hosted a 10-week Online Earth Shastra in partnership with Bhoomi College, who is a pioneer in Ecological work in India. We had a very enthusiastic group and it was a wonderful experiment to connect people with nature and themselves while we were going through Covid.
A six-day residential course on the farm at Mattar, Gujarat, a course on food politics was being organised with our mentor Purvi Vyas. Her decades of work on understanding the interconnections between food and its impact on systems like ecology, economics, poltics etc is a must learn!