The YouthSection’s vision is to create a world that values, supports and allows the potential and creativity of every young person to unfold in their full strength and brilliance.

To work towards this goal requires commitment, compassion and dedication. This vision for the future is only possible if we begin to work with the ideas that will make it reality and by supporting the spiritual striving of youth.

Accomplishing this vision means having the courage to unlearn and review what we have been taught about how our world operates. It means collaborating with many different people in many different countries. It means trusting in yourself and those around you, setting examples and taking responsibility. It means always being young at heart, ready to change youself and the world.

The YouthSection is an international youth movement creating a platform where young people can explore their inner and outer relationship to the world. It organizes conferences, seminars, study groups and research projects on world youth issues and facilitates internships and the creation of local and world-wide initiatives.

The YouthSection consists of an international team with the seat in Dornach, Switzerland. There are many local, regional and international groups and initiatives connected to the YouthSection.

“Seeing that you, my friends, are sitting here together, I would really above all express the wish that all of you, whatever you may feel, think, and have in your awareness, stay together with a will of iron, really stick together. We’ll need this above all if we want to achieve something today concerning the major issues in life. You simply can’t always consider whether one person may see things a bit differently from another. It really is a matter of coming together even if there the greatest difference in people’s feelings and inner responses. Later on it may well prove to be the greatest achievement that in youth one knew how to stick together, however great the differences. It truly is the case that young people today above all miss finding the human being.”

– Rudolf Steiner. “Concerning the nature and aims of the youth movement.” Breslau 9.6.1924. GA 217A