Global Leadership Forum Youth Delegates will participate in Global Leadership Forum panel discussions on being:

• Current and Far-Sighted
• Humane and Digital
• Global and National
• Dynamic and Peaceful
• Ethical and Profitable
• Steady and Adaptive

The Global Youth Leadership Forum will culminate in an invitation to attend the launch of the Citizen Peace movement at the Citizen Peace Conference this summer in the United States. Citizen Peace is a student-led movement to create a wave of peace on campuses and in communities, to counter violence erupting from fear and hatred of difference across race, religion, and culture.

To deepen and continue the experience of the Global Leadership Forum, youth delegates are invited to continue their service learning and leadership experience for ten days of self-exploration and service learning. As part of the Yesplus Alternative Spring Break, leaders will travel together from Delhi to Bangalore’s Art of Living Center, then into rural India for service in villages.

(1) Service Learning World Cafe. March 15, Bangalore. To integrate the experience of the Global Leadership Forum and orient around service learning for social change, participants will engage in an interactive, inspiring World Cafe.

(2) Advanced Peace Leadership Retreat. March 15-20, Bangalore. This retreat offers an opportunity for participants to acquire knowledge and skills for self-mastery, leadership, social connection and social change. It includes techniques of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and self-awareness, and highlights well-being, confidence and emotional intelligence as the basis of self-efficacy, leadership and social change.

(3) Sustainable Development Solar Energy Service-Learning Initiative. March 20-25, Cuttack. This sustainable development service-learning initiative provides participants with a cultural immersion into rural India. Students will have the opportunity to work in partnership with rural community members to install solar PV panels, distribute solar study lamps and conduct education workshops on the value and importance of renewable solar energy.