A new drive
by young people
for young people
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A 5-week on- and offline program that offers the tools, skills, frameworks and network for self-empowerment and for you to create life by your own design!
Want to find out more about the GYL Life Training Program? Check out all the info here!
Want to find out more about the GYL Life Training Program? Check out all the info here!
What we do
We bring together young people in open peer-to-peer workshops and communities in which they develop the personalized life skills they need to tackle their important life challenges, decisions, and experiences so that they can create life by their own design.
Why we do it?
All young people have the innate ability, drive, and desire to create life in their own unique way. But they often feel pushed to follow predefined paths and to live up to social norms, external expectations and societal standards of right and wrong. Young people's development is often focused on the accumulation of knowledge, while missing a direct link to the important, personal, and real-world challenges
The purpose
Our programs do things differently. We stimulate young people to connect to themselves, feel empowered, and define their own internal standards of success and happiness.
We assist young people to see more clearly how to go forward, to overcome decision-stress and feelings of doubt and failure, and to feel prepared for life and its challenges.
Our programs empower you to lead life according to you.
We assist young people to see more clearly how to go forward, to overcome decision-stress and feelings of doubt and failure, and to feel prepared for life and its challenges.
Our programs empower you to lead life according to you.
How we work
1. Real world content
All content is developed by young people for young people, and entirely based on real-world, practical experiences from young people from different cultures, backgrounds, and professional fields from all around the world.
2. Non-judgmental environment
Open, non-judgmental, authentic group settings in which young people are accepted for who they are and seen as the experts of their experiences.
3. Connection to self
The stripping away of external noise, pressure, and expectations so that young people can connect to what they feel, think, need, and desire.
4. Connection to others
Connect with people from around the world from different cultures, backgrounds, and professional fields with unique life stories and experiences through peer-to-peer dialogues and exchanges.
5. Awareness & understanding
Freely discuss the important life topics and real-world experiences that young people think and care about. Learn from the experiences and challenges from people from all over the world.
6. Sharing tools and approaches
Young people find what works for them and develop personalized and practical tools and life approaches they need to navigate their unique life challenges and decisions.
Young people become happy when they feel connected to themselves
and feel prepared to take on challenges and create life in their own unique way.
and feel prepared to take on challenges and create life in their own unique way.
Our programs
GYL 5-week Life Training Program
for self-empowerment
for self-empowerment
The skills & perspectives you want for life but don't learn in school, together with young people from around the world, offered to you in a unique and interactive all-in-one program to empower you to create life by your own design! NEXT COHORT - 6 MARCH 2021!
- 5 online sessions
- Unique skills & open setting
- Intimate & dynamic
- Global network
- Real results
- And 1-year FREE membership to the GYL platform
Look-Around Plan
Monthly membership to the GYL Platform to connect, express, and stay supported with life-skills. For $7,99 join a global network with monthly events, roundtables, articles, podcasts, weekly polls and much more!
Education & Business
Interactive and dynamic workshops for schools, universities,
leadership academies,
and businesses.
leadership academies,
and businesses.
GYL Handbook
How do we truly create life by our own design? Eight young people from 4 different continents found approaches. Check out the result: a universally applicable decision-making handbook, downloadable for free!
Are you a school, university, leadership academy or business
looking for workshops. Find out more below.
looking for workshops. Find out more below.
About our program & network
"GYL is such an eye opener. Its workshops have shed light on my path and blessed me with a safe space where I can discuss my professional and intellectual evolution. I have been enriched by the tactful honest and hopeful words of the many international, young people involved."
"I have taken around 6 talent development courses and this was better than any of them. It's difficult for me to open up sometimes and be vulnerable, but you created the safest space to do so, and I felt SO comfortable. Also, sharing some of their experiences was amazing to hear and really set the tone for the rest of the session. I appreciated the transparency and rawness of it."
It was so inspiring to take part in one of the first workshops in Amsterdam. The thought-provoking and empowering framework for sharing and reflecting on how we make path-defining choices is a beautiful way to inspire positivity and most importantly, to connect with awesome people with diverse experiences.
Build GYL with us
Organize a workshop
in your community
Do you feel there is a need for programs like ours near you?
Reach out to us and utilize your network to bring our program near you.
in your community
Do you feel there is a need for programs like ours near you?
Reach out to us and utilize your network to bring our program near you.
Join our peer-to-peer community
Want to have more conversations about life's challenges and experiences?
Join our community for 24/7 interaction and inspiration.
Want to have more conversations about life's challenges and experiences?
Join our community for 24/7 interaction and inspiration.
Create and lead a GYL Hub
in your city!
Do you get excited about our programs? Want to be more involved?
Reach out to us and start working with us.
in your city!
Do you get excited about our programs? Want to be more involved?
Reach out to us and start working with us.
Invite us for a conference
or leadership program
Want to know our practical framework for decision-making and life-leadership?
Reach out to us and get excited by our presentation.
or leadership program
Want to know our practical framework for decision-making and life-leadership?
Reach out to us and get excited by our presentation.
Reach out to us through our GYL form or send an email
to leona@global-youngleaders.com
Stay up to date about our workshops. Get inspired by stories from
our follower base with tips on how to create life by your own design.
to leona@global-youngleaders.com
Stay up to date about our workshops. Get inspired by stories from
our follower base with tips on how to create life by your own design.
Organizations we work with
Our global partner organizations
Our impact
1.056 life stories
shared with GYL
>50 nationalities
from 6 continents
126.720 minutes
focused on creating life
by your own design
by your own design
11.748 connections
meaningful connections made to oneself
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Reach out to us
- christiaan@global-youngleaders.com
- marja@global-youngleaders.com
- Tel.: +31 6 53567476 (Europe)
- Tel.: +590 690 714908 (FWI)
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Bank details
- Le Crédit Agricole
- FR76 1400 6000 0039 0086 5793 203
- BIC AGRIGPGX
- Bank no. 3900865793203