About - The Program

What is ISLI?

ISLI is the International Student Leadership Institute. At the institute, participants spend a week learning and applying core leadership skills in a dynamic programme made up of presentations and accompanying creative excercises. In addition to this main program, there are many other fun activites and events being organized during the week. All this takes place in a highly international environment, with students from schools all over Europe. Both the color groups in which participants digest the subjects discussed in the presentations as well as the dormitories are purposely as mixed as possible. Because of this, particpants quickly make life-long friends from all over Europe, broadening their worldview.

Getting to know ISLI

The first day at the Institute is used to get the participants acquainted with both the program and each other. This is done during the Opening Ceremony and the Ice Breakers.

During the Opening Ceremony the board of regents and the schools taking part are introduced. It is explained what participants can expect from the week and how it will be structured, this is the kick-off of the week.

After this, participants are introduced to their color group in which they will practice their newly learned leadership skills during the week. To quickly get to know each other, the so called Ice Breakers are being organized. During this activity in the main hall, the color groups will bond by playing multiple high-paced, fun games that stimulate team work from the beginning.

Presentations

During the week a total of 14 presentations are given by the regents. These presentations teach modern leadership skills. The subjects of these presentations vary from making sure a group or team is healthy to collaborating with other groups in productive ways.

After each presentation the participants will meet up with the ‘color group’ they are assigned to at the start of the week, these groups are intentionally mixed with people from all countries and backgrounds. In these groups the participants will do fun exercises to reinforce the concepts that were discussed in the presentation. These exercises range from rewriting song lyrics to coming up with a play that demonstrates the subjects of the presentation. This approach is taken because creative thinking is one of the best ways of processing new concepts.

The presentations are given by young regents, these regents were participants of ISLI a year prior and have been elected by all participants and regents to return to ISLI and become a regent themselves. Each year new young people give these same presentations, this ensures a good balance of consistency and knowledge mixed with new, fresh ways of approaching modern leadership.

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The Myers-Briggs Test

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-report questionnaire which indicates different psychological preferences of how people act as decision takers. The MBTI-test assigns each individual a combination of four letters which each indicate one of two options in four categories: I (introversion) or E (extraversion, S (sensing) or N (intuition), T (thinking) or F (feeling), J (judging) or P (perceiving). There are sixteen different types of personality possible given the four categories of which each has two options.

At the International Student Leadership Institute the MBTI-test is used to explain how each individual has a different personality and how this reflects in one’s style of leadership. The Institute aspires to make their participants aware of the fact that due to the diversity of many personalities, consensus seeking is a natural aspect of leadership within any group. The MBTI helps to characterize this, however the Institute does not implicate that each individual could be exactly assigned to a personality type giver by the MBTI.

The Issues Forum

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The Closing Night & Regent Elections

The last evening of ISLI is a very special one as that is the moment that the student regents for the next year are elected. Every participant has the opportunity to take part in these elections and possibly return to ISLI to teach the next batch of students all the leadership lessons they have learnt.

There is a set number of regents per country. For countries with few participants this number is 1, with countries that are more represented, this number may be higher. Based on the regent slots per country, a certain number of participants can take part in the elections on closing night.

The new regents are elected by all the students that participate in ISLI. All potential regents must prepare a speech of about 2 minutes in which they try to convince the other students, and all regents that they are best fit for the role.

After the votes are counted and the results announced, a DJ comes to the main hall and there is free time to party and talk about the week with all the new friends that have been made.