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Yes go: an educational community experiment for philosophical believers
Interview: Peking University Financial News
May 23rd is Saturday in Japan. Hao Xie, an undergraduate student of Sun Yat-sen University 12, still got up early and rushed to the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe in Yuexiu District to participate in the two-day and one-night "Role Experience" closed camp arranged by the nonprofit organization Beichen College. Hao Xie is a member of the first phase of YES GO Action in Beichen College. This public welfare college has a strict punishment mechanism for being late. If it is serious, it may lead to failure to graduate or expulsion, and everyone dare not neglect it.
Saturday is a whole day of study and experience. All members are divided into three groups: traditional Cantonese opera, body drama and drama. Hao Xie entered the body group. This is an avant-garde drama, emphasizing the use of silent body language to express the story. Throughout the day, Xie Hao and other members of the same group followed the live experience and arrangement of the senior tutor, and experienced unprecedented freshness in joy. They also arranged an entity drama script called Loneliness.
All members will live in a youth hostel in the evening. Beichen College arranged a "midnight food store" night talk, and members of each group met face to face with the art instructor during the day to listen to the life and story of the artist who could not intersect with their lives on weekdays. Young people always have funny or heavy topics together, sometimes talking and laughing, and sometimes whispering seriously.
After a day's study experience, makeup performance is a very novel and challenging thing for most members of Beichen College. The picture shows two members of Beichen College learning and playing Cantonese opera.
Sunday, during the day, is the performance of all the experiences and studies of the previous day. Cantonese opera, body drama and drama were staged separately, and most people performed on stage for the first time in their lives. The silent shock of body drama, the interest of drama and the exquisiteness of Cantonese opera made all the audience present, including the actors themselves, sigh. In two days, from ignorant contact to interesting experience, from art study to art performance, from follow-up study to in-depth dialogue, Hao Xie not only deeply experienced a minute on the stage for ten years, but also felt the different cultivation of body and mind by practical art, and also felt life through dialogue with living art practitioners.
And this is just one of the six closed camps of Beichen College's YES GO operation. Like the other 20 "Pappas", Hao Xie was chosen from 1000 people, and finally he was lucky enough to stay. "Role Experience" is the fifth closed camp. In the first four times, Hao Xie participated in the "outdoor competition" of Bingo, the 24-hour fund-raising activity organized by charity, and prepared an online press conference to release one person's "business activity", and lived in the mountains for two days 1 night for "outdoor survival". In addition, Beichen College's usual task cards are very substantial, special and rich, which should be a relatively complete summary.
The action of YES GO in Beichen College is interesting and mysterious: some people say that they are apprentices in China, some people say that they are college students' white-collar running men, and some people say that they look like Dead Poets Society.
YES GO is the abbreviation of "Young entrepreneurs and students going out", which was initiated by Beichen College. Choose 2 1 from 1000 candidate college students, and then invite more than 20 white-collar workers and entrepreneurs to conduct a three-month deep closed camp: twice a week, two days each time, 1 night, eat and live together. Public welfare is free of tuition.
Within three months, YES GO has experienced six major sections: outdoor competition, public welfare combat, commercial combat, outdoor survival, role experience and simulation company, closely following the themes of competition, public welfare, commerce, outdoor, art and entrepreneurship. In the view of founder Song Chao, these are also several important situations in which people live in the world. On the Dragon Boat Festival in June, all members of YES GO went to Xiamen seaside and ended the whole operation with a different graduation ceremony.
Yes, the graduation ceremony, arranged by Song Chao, is the beginning of the real journey.
25-year-old Song Chao bears numerous labels: Doctor of American Law in Peking University, Master of Law in China, Bachelor of Philosophy in Sun Yat-sen University, Bachelor of Management, Young Founder of Beichen, Co-founder of legal public welfare of somersault cloud, Executive Director of Nandou Consulting, Best debater in the English Trial Competition of the International Criminal Court in China, Virgo, diehard fan ... Beichen College's interesting and mysterious YES GO action is called an educational practice to restore deep interaction between people.
If children in mountainous areas are frogs at the bottom of the mountain, then college students are frogs at the bottom of the city, and they also lack knowledge and self-awareness. The only difference is that the wells are located in different locations.
The English name is Chao. 1 1 When I went to Rome, Italy to study classical Latin and Roman history in, I found that the pinyin Chao actually means greeting in Italian, so I decided to use it as an English name. He hopes that he can be as warm as this name and always build a bridge between people.
20 1 1 After the graduate students were sent to Peking University at the end of the year, Song Chao, who had plenty of time, came to Chengjiang, Yunnan Province with his team leader as the debate team of Sun Yat-sen University, hoping to try something in teaching. After the field trip, they found that they were not much different from the children in the mountains. Although he was admitted to a famous city school, he still knew nothing about himself and the world. This group of eloquent debaters decided to "save themselves" first and then "save people", so they founded and registered the non-profit organization "Beichen Youth".
Since its establishment more than three years ago, Beichen Youth has practiced a number of public welfare brands, such as Reality Library, Chen Shihui, Business Camp, Workplace Coffee, Disciple Program, and set up youth bases in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Participants are 65,438+08-30 young college students and white-collar workers in the workplace. They define themselves as "restless": they can't accept the monotony of life in this life, and they can see it at a glance.
In 20 14, I went to Washington, D.C. for a one-month visit to the Congress, the White House and the courts, and worked as an intern in the Washington High Court for one month. High-quality visit programs on the rule of law made Song Chao once again deeply realize the extremely high growth value of dialogue and practice for people. After returning to China, he immediately began to reform Beichen's public welfare model again. Integrate each project into a whole public welfare college, face a fixed crowd, set different situations and grow together for three months. And its essence is the deep interaction between people.
From project system to college system, the core concern is the deep interaction between people. Deep interaction needs to provide an environment different from the daily world: a strong sense of ceremony and situational setting are the core.
He is obviously doing this public welfare model with a strong existential philosophical feeling. During the conversation, he will excitedly tell you about Heidegger's Being and Sinking, and martin buber's Me and You. He joked that he was a believer in martin buber's philosophy, and he still remembered the excitement when he first read Me and You. After studying management for two years, he boldly transferred to the philosophy department. Everyone was puzzled, but he regarded it as a milestone in his life.
Beichen College is permeated with a strong sense of ceremony: the signing ceremony, scarves, the identity setting of "big party-small party", the compulsory task of daily group meditation, and the action of partisan confrontation ... In Song Chao's view, the daily world itself is labeled and defensive. To build a deeply interactive community, the first thing to do is to distinguish the community from the daily world with a sense of ceremony. De-labeling and relaxation of vigilance are the goals of all ceremonies. The motto of Beichen College party is "interesting souls will meet eventually".
Wear "Old Scarf" at the launching ceremony of YES GO.
Philosophy brings enlightenment of Tao, while law conveys examples of skills. At Peking University Transnational Law School, he deeply felt that he had gained more pragmatic mentality and persistence in his career. This American-style law school, founded by Raymond, president of Cornell University 1 1 and former vice president of Yale Law School, is regarded as the best graduate school in Chinese mainland. The professionalism and enthusiasm of the professor made Song Chao decide to devote himself to education.
Ritual sense is the key node, and situation setting is the main content. "24-hour fundraising by charitable organizations" under the theme of public welfare, "holding an online press conference to release one person" under the theme of business to experience community marketing, "two days and one night in the open air" under the theme of learning how to survive in a difficult situation, and "Cantonese opera, body drama, drama learning, rehearsal and performance" under the theme of role experience are all the most energy-consuming situations in the preparation for YES GO action. In Song Chao's words, "there are far more plans that are killed than those that are finally adopted".
The content of the situation is full and the sense of ceremony is to the point. Behind it is the long-term efforts of more than a dozen people in the entire operation team. The operation team are all unpaid and full-time part-time students. Song Chao thinks they are the cutest people, and they are called "cute dads".
"The online community has been heated up, but few people in the offline deep community concentrate on building it, because it is more laborious and has no short-term commercial explosiveness. It is relatively easy to gather 200,000 fans on the official WeChat account to establish a circle, but it is even more difficult to gather 20 people face to face for three months and still maintain a high sense of belonging. However, the latter should not be ignored. "
In reality, the concept of "community" has been very popular in the Internet age, but the community of Beichen College in Song Chao's eyes is "anti-Internet". "The model of Beichen College may be the most unlikely area for the Internet to subvert. Face-to-face interaction between people without all scientific and technological means is the core that cannot be lost in any era. " With the popular Internet thinking, Beichen has been deeply involved in O2O offline for a long time and has created unique products and models. Song Chao is a product manager and strategic architect.
During the mission in the fifth closed camp of Operation YES GO, Song Chao was deeply moved by a one-day physical drama "Loneliness". In his view, loneliness is the pain point in the heart of each individual, and the community model is the solution to this pain point. Online communities and offline communities correspond to different levels of "loneliness" needs. "It's just that the online community in the past was too extensive, and it didn't make much sense to pull a circle to establish an association. A group of people drank crazy songs and imposed an identity. At the same time, there is always a commercial driving force behind the traditional community, either for the purpose of exchanging resources or for the purpose of brand promotion and commodity sales. This model can be called 1.0 version of the offline community. "
The fifth closed camp of YES GO Operation: the human drama performance "Loneliness"
As an "offline community 2.0", Beichen College has four characteristics: 1) early YEATION, no circle; 2) The content is elaborate, fun and valuable, but the rules are extremely strict; 3) Take "the growth of participants" as the core goal. 4) Public welfare and free.
YES GO Action graduation speech: each party must complete the graduation speech before going to Xiamen to attend the graduation ceremony. The picture shows Wang Xiaoyan Yufeng's graduation speech in the first phase of YES GO Action.
In the traditional understanding, "educational public welfare" is always associated with teaching and poverty alleviation, and too many people can't tell the difference between public welfare and charity. To a great extent, this hinders the growth of civil forces to improve society, and is also an important symbol of social immaturity.
For more than three years, many people have various misunderstandings about Beichen youth: some entrepreneurs think it is a college student volunteer group; Some people think it is a training institution; Some people even think it is a talent intermediary. For Song Chao, the direction has always been clear: educational growth organization. It is the core purpose of this organization to let participants gain and grow through interaction.
Some people who were originally interested in Beichen public welfare got up and left after learning about it. The reason is that Beichen is not "educational public welfare" for him. "A large number of people don't know the difference between charity and public welfare, so they think that educational public welfare must help the poor and help children who can't afford to read." In fact, charity pays more attention to the one-dimensional help of the strong to the disadvantaged groups; Public welfare is a bigger concept, as opposed to business: the purpose of business is to improve the economic benefits of enterprises, and the purpose of public welfare is to improve social welfare. "Many people think how happy college students are. How can they need public welfare help? But in fact, college students are the sad product of the whole education system, and their confusion, confusion and despair are the result of the operation of the whole system. " This educational public welfare, for Song Chao, is to do something to help outside the traditional education system.
Persistence in education is written on every piece of clothing, big and small.
The core motivation of this public welfare undertaking is the selfless support of 10 entrepreneurs. Beichen itself has no hematopoietic capacity, but closing the camp is a very expensive project. 10 Many entrepreneurs are the predecessors of various industries that Song Chao has gradually known in the past three years. Based on the recognition of the value of Beichen's youth career, starting from 15, they donate about 1000 yuan to Beichen every year as operating expenses, with no intention of returning. Song Chao affectionately called them "public partners", and he himself has been working tirelessly for free.
However, it is gratifying that the public's understanding of public welfare is changing. In the just-concluded second social organization public welfare venture capital in Guangzhou, the YES GO Youth Closed Growth Camp of Beichen College received 65,438+10,000 yuan of public welfare venture capital funds from the government, and with the recognition and support of the government, it grew together with other 654.38+065.438+05 public welfare projects.
The red carpet of graduation ceremony: After three months of tempering, every YES GO party has become the glory ceremony of the big party.
"Cultivation" is the idea of the factory, and the products are measured by fixed standards, while Beichen College is doing "reduction". It is not a factory, it is a growing ecology.
In the recruitment announcement of Beichen College, it is clearly written: "To become a big party after graduation, you must return to the college to cultivate a new small party; This is the only return requirement of Beichen College for Xiaoyan. " The graduation ceremony in Xiamen is the end of the first phase of YES GO Action and the beginning of the radiation extension of the educational model of Beichen College. The small party that successfully graduates will enter the PA club and become a lifelong party. In Song Chao's view, there are more than 40 parties, big and small, and everyone is a seed. Beichen College is a common lifelong education commitment.
Martin buber once mentioned his eye contact with a horse in Me and You. At that moment, the horse is not a tool and available resource for him, but a living existence. Song Chao said that he found the same emotion as martin buber in the candlelight night talk of Operation YES GO and the interaction with all parties.
Many people are asking what kind of people Beichen College wants to train, which is a false proposition in Song Chao's view. "Cultivation" is the concept of the factory, aiming at measuring products with fixed standards; What Beichen College does is "restore": restore the dialogue, interaction and knowledge that are missing in traditional education, so that members can grow themselves. It is not a factory, it is a growing ecology. There are antelopes and eagles in the ecology. We are doing well in ecology, and they are just growing. "
Beichen College is an attempt by Song Chao to put his highly respected philosophy, enthusiasm and expectation for education into practice. Although he strongly resisted the word "experiment", he did complete an offline community-based educational experiment. And there is no doubt that this experiment has been quite successful so far.
Beichen college (public welfare) YES GO action closed camp phase I
3.2 1 Outdoor Competition+Launching Ceremony: Bingo, Shamian Tearing Famous Brands, Super Ceremony Launching Ceremony, Simulated Trading ... 4. 1 1 The three teams respectively choose a charity organization, and the charity organization collects money 24 hours a day. 4.25 Commercial actual combat "hold an online conference, release one person", and practice communication and community management in the era of mobile Internet. 5. 16 Living outdoors for 2 days 1 night, living together in the mountains in heavy rain, collecting firewood, cooking and camping ... 5.23 The role experienced drama, body play and traditional Cantonese opera, and studied, scripted and rehearsed for one day, and performed live the next day. Experience different roles and identities and feel the world behind them. 6. 14 graduation speech sharpen a sword in March, and all parties present the most wonderful speech of 18 minutes. 6.20
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10 hour simulation company, Xiamen Beach "Environmental Fashion Show" is amazing.
Graduation ceremony: red carpet, souvenir and scarf ceremony ...