Daily Schedule
January 30, 2012
Your days are full at the Global Youth Village international summer camp. You’ll be in a Dialogue and Peace Building workshop and a wide range of team building activities in the afternoon, and a variety of recreational fun later on our woodland campus.
- Friends on GYV Carnival Day
While changing activities and moving from place to place, you’ll mix with others continuously throughout the day. You’ll soon become fast friends with everyone at GYV.
Typical daily schedule 2012
- 8:15 Breakfast
- 9:00-12:30 Morning Workshops
- 12:30-1:15 Lunch
- 1:15-2:00 Siesta Time
- 2:00-3:15 Afternoon Electives
- 3:15-3:45 Camp Store open
- 3:45- 5:00 Teamwork, Leadership and Community
- 5:00-6:30 Recreation time
- 6:45 Dinner
- 8:00 End of day gathering time
- 8:30-10:00 Evening programs
Workshops – Put knowledge into action!
January 3, 2012
Workshops meet every week day at our international summer camp. The instructors are gifted trainers with dynamic teaching approaches to get everyone participating. Our program also offers you the opportunity to get some valuable leadership training. Hearing everyone’s thoughts, building listening and assessment skills and developing techniques to convey your point of view and return to your own community with new abilities to promote change.
Summer 2012 offers:
- First Morning Workshop: everyone takes Dialogue and Peace Building
- Second Morning Workshop: you choose either Crossing Cultures Through the Arts or Green Your World.
GYV offers in-depth training. Instructors show the interdependence of topics, draw on successful models of problem solving from around the world and help you see how one person can make a difference.
Take all this new knowledge and create a plan of action to make a difference in your hometown!
Watch slides from recent workshops
Dialogue and Peace Building
Learn peace building skills and how to respond productively to conflict and prejudice. Understand conflict styles, learn mediation techniques, and how to create a better balance of power. Explore non-violence movements, and how to constructively deal with anger. Develop listening and feedback skills and study facilitation techniques.
“I have accomplished the goal of being able to speak in a large group. I learned about dialogue and conflict resolution.
Now I can go back home and resolve conflicts whether they are personal, family, or community conflicts. I can start to make change.”~ Philip Kane, Northern Ireland
Crossing Cultures through the Arts
The arts play an essential role in preserving and transmitting culture as well as commenting on the issues of the day. Work with Artists-in-Residence who have specific expertise in storytelling and music from around the world. Build writing and interviewing skills. Create stories, video blogs and more using the peers at GYV as your youth voices. Work with professional musicians and ethnomusicologists exploring different musical styles e.g. Middle East, American roots music, African influences in American music.
Green Your World
Explore the natural world and the complex issues facing our ecosystems. Learn how to be a friend to the environment through changing your every day habits to incorporate sustainable living practices. Discover the meanings behind concepts like eco-tourism, permaculture, fair trade, green building, organic agriculture and renewable energy.
Watch Video from workshops in the past:
A Typical Day at the Village!
December 26, 2011
It’s 7 AM and the birds have been singing outside the cabin window for a while now. You’re a bit tired because you’ve been up half the night cracking up about a funny performance you saw last night during the evening programs. Your friendly cabin counselor is already up and encourages everyone to start making their way to the bathhouse. Forty-five minutes later, you and your new Iraqi, Indonesian and German friends are heading down the hill for a tasty pancake breakfast. Yum!
In your peace-building workshop today, you are practicing mediation techniques and learning how to improve your listening skills. You are amazed at how much you learn each day. The facilitator is never boring and she is always using fun teaching methods like games and simulations.
You are beginning to understand what leadership is all about and you get lots of opportunities to practice being a leader.
Time flies when you’re having fun because it’s already lunchtime! A traditional Indonesian dish, gado gado, is being served for lunch. You’re still getting used to the vegetarian meals and discovering that they are pretty good.
After lunch, you unwind in your cabin and listen to your i-Pod for a bit. Next, it’s time for electives. This session, yoga, rock-climbing, African dance and pottery are some of the electives being offered. You can’t wait to try pottery for the first time!!! At 4:15, the camp store opens and everyone can help themselves to an organic cold drink, chips or an ice-cream. Just what you need to cool off on a hot summer day. You sit next to your new friend from France and ask him what typical school day is like and discover it’s a bit different from yours. It’s free-time now, so you choose to play ping-pong with another friend from Nigeria and you win! The daily schedule seems to offer a lot of variety.
At dinner time, you offer to teach the group how to say ‘Thank you’ in Chinese before the meal. You make it back up the hill for a rousing game of soccer before gathering time. 
This evening program is Wacky Olympics and the staff have put together a cool program: a watermelon eating contest, cracker-whistle game, bean-bag obstacle course and a dress-up relay! Your team loses the relay but wins the watermelon eating contest!! It’s already 11 PM and time to head back to the cabins. You’re tired but happy. It’s been another typical yet amazing day at the Global Youth Village!
Community Involvement Program
November 1, 2011
For those attending this summer’s Community Involvement Program, the last seven days of this 17 -day program, will be spent exploring community service and action. You will do hands-on service work with agencies in southwest Virginia and Washington DC . International participants at our international summer camp will gain new perspectives about social issues in America. You will explore issues of social justice with community organizers and also look at the work of Congress in formulating policy that affects quality of life issues for those who struggle. As an end product you will develop plans to implement small or large projects in your own communities. Global Youth Village is for “practical idealists”, those who have well formed ideals based on values and strengths, and want to work to create situations, organizations and lifestyles that manifest those ideals. GYV is full of creative thinkers, problem solvers, activists, peacebuilders, leaders, organizers, deep thinkers, civil servants and friendly people.
To see information about Summer 2012 check out our other Program Choices.
Evening Programs
November 1, 2011
Every night is different and every night is memorable.
At the end of the day it is time to gather together and enjoy performances on the stage, games on the soccer field, international speakers, talent shows and cabin nights -- these are memory makers!
Enjoy a slideshow of past performances at the Global Youth Village:
Evening Programs in the past have included:
- Improv theater with Big Lick Conspiracy
- Appalachian Folk Dance- Hoorah Cloggers
- Sharing Night
- Native American Focus Night
- Indonesian Focus
- Global Issues Nights
- Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
- Indian Sitar Music
- Roaming Magician and Caricature artist
- Steel Drum Ensemble
- Cabin Nights
- Wacky Olympics
Afternoon Electives
August 18, 2011
Learning to throw on the pottery wheel
At our international summer camp, afternoon electives are a time to relax and laugh together. Electives are scheduled for 1 hour, on 3 afternoons a week. In one session, you get to choose 2 different electives. It is your chance to try new things and discover your hidden talents and practice your leadership skills.
- Develop singing skills and learn songs from the civil rights movement
- Form an international basketball team
- Make a batik cloth
- Learn basic Yoga
Participant in Charles Williams Workshop practices
Every year Afternoon Electives can be different. Some electives offered include:
- Ukrainian egg painting
- Outdoor living skills
- African drumming
- Acrobatics and Juggling
- Turkish Tile Making
- Salsa Dancing
- Quilt Making
- Clogging with the Hoorah Cloggers
- Rock Climbing
- Mural Painting
- Hip Hop Dance
- Basketball Techniques
Here’s a slideshow of recent Afternoon Electives.
Recently, Global Youth participants studied with Artist-in-Residence Charles Williams in vocal music elective, and US youth taught their international friends American style football, others made hemp jewelry which was a big hit.
