An Open Meeting is a gathering of people with no specific theme or envisaged outcome, but rather a platform, where you can bring your own questions, ideas and insights and exchange with others on this level.

The fact that Idem does these is insignificant, as the point is not to advertise, or try to advance the work or anything like that, but rather, to bring together people who have questions, to create the space where they feel free to speak, and where people really listen to one another. 

Our experience has been that people really appreciate the opportunity within a receptive and open environment, to share thoughts that they may never have expressed to anyone before and find that it is taken seriously, that each person can bring a real contribution in this manner.

Open meetings can happen wherever and whenever people feel the need. If you wna to invite to an open meeting, you are free to do so, and if you want to do it as an Idem initiative, you can get in touch with us, and we can help to get it going and keep it going.

We have found the need to have regular initiative meetings to coordinate all of the events and initiatives that are taking place, as well as to develop further as people and as an organisation.

At these meetings, the point is to discuss Idem and its work – not just an open discussion. Anyone is welcome to join in, and the meetings always include people who have never attended one of our events before, but often have interesting ideas and initiatives which they present and which are then taken up.

At these meetings we update everyone on what has happened, new projects are presented und we then sit together, perhaps in an Open-Space form, in groups where the individual people can connect with the initiatives they are interested in.

Again, the questions of participants play a major role, determining what happens at the meetings. In each case, these meetings significantly influence our further development as an organisation both from the practical as also from the ideal point of view.

Idem-International consists of those people who try to connect with one another internationally to coordinate our work. Again, this is not a static group of office-bearers, but at each meeting there will be new people, who have in the meantime  become active locally.

The content of these meetings is largely on an ideal level, that is to say, we try to work on our common vision, what we are trying to achieve in the world and as a new generation. The different countries, of course, report on what they are doing locally, but the focus is on why we do what we do, how we want to go about it and so on.