Young people grow up in an exciting time. A time in which they have a choice between self-denial and self-expression. In the former, life happens to them; the world for them is overwhelming, competitive, masculine, polluting and wasteful. There is pressure on all sides of the young’s life: school, parents, consumer society and friends—all want them to satisfy their expectations.
Furthermore, there are social and religious morals and an ideal of beauty and success which they must satisfy. The possibilities are enormous, but youngsters have hardly learned to contemplate these choices from the heart. When they learn to do so, their way will become free for true self-expression.
DOC20 sees that many old social systems transform and that the world asks for sincere commitment and a new order based on sustainability and love. When young people choose for self-expression, they choose to actively create the world in which they live together with others. Youngsters particularly can make this choice. DOC20 sees a growing group of young people taking leadership of them selves, and working with others for a more beautiful world. For them the quality of life stands first and they maintain a healthy balance between: masculine and feminine, work and play, young and old, nature and culture, ‘I’ and the world.
DOC20 wishes to give this movement space by offering several programmes for young people, aimed at self-expression, sustainable leadership, peer-to-peer coaching and bridging of the young with their world. Additionally, DOC20 supports the creation of networks in which young people, friends, companies, politicians and others, work together for a more beautiful world and feel them selves responsible for it.
DOC20 has arisen from the practice of the initiators who have worked many years with young people in schools, the streets and the like. From these experiences, a picture has arisen that young people have a need to dedicate time and energy to life-affirming questions and that they want do something in/for the world.
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