IDEM is an Organisation based on the qualities of youth. As an international Network built on personal contacts IDEM aims to be a platform for people to unfold their true potential to contribute towards society.

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The picture shows the process. We have an idea, an initiative and put it into action. Then we reflect on what has happened, and we discover that we have changed.

But we can only discover this if we turn inward, if we internally reflect on ourselves and our experiences. If we go straight from an idea into action, or into a new experience, we short-circuit this process and do not take those steps in our personal development in the fashioning of our identity, which would otherwise be possible for us.

But through following this process we gain new insight into what initiatives are needed next, and so the process continues from initiative to reflection to new initiative, again and again.

Nicanor Perlas  has received many national and global awards in recognition for the impact of his work, including the 2003 the Alternative Nobel Prize. For further information: www.rightlivelihood.org/perlas.html www.cadi.ph/nicanor_perlas.htm. Here he is interviewed by Kathleen Morse for The Network M.

The following interview with Julia Butterfly was held at Aramitan near Sao Paulo shortly before the Connecitvity conference. The values expressed here and in the transcripts of her keynote address to the conference as well as some of the other speakers available for download below, describe much of the vision we have worked on.