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Youth · Two-day residential

Jungle Jam

Leave the ordinary. Go somewhere that doesn't exist. Come back with your own shape.

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What It Is

A two-day residential expedition for young people into an imaginary land — where the usual rules about who you are don't apply.

Games, drawing, movement, storytelling, role-play. Not a curriculum: a place to set daily pressure down and look honestly at yourself, with people doing the same thing beside you.

Why

Notice your shadow — and discover that its shape can change through what you do.

Young people are asked constantly what they will become, and rarely given room to ask what is actually in the way. Jungle Jam makes that room, and then makes the answer something you can act on — one small, specific act, named out loud before you leave.

Who It's For
Participants
Young people, roughly 16–26 · 15–25 in a group
Length
Two days, residential — staying together matters
Space needed
A room with walls you are allowed to draw on
Hosted with
A local IN-Collective or partner organisation
First run
Dubai, March 2022 — Yunsun Chung & Irene Pavlos
Languages
EN · 한 · 繁
What Happens
Arrive
Games that turn strangers into a group faster than conversation can.
Draw it
A whole wall to work on — self, light, shadow, shift, at scale and in colour.
Play it
Role-play and tableaux — trying on a version of yourself that acts.
Sit with it
A circle where one person's real difficulty is heard by everyone in the room.
Carry it
One act to take home, named out loud in front of the circle.
The circle seated on the floor around the Self / Light / Shadow / Shift prompt
Two participants drawing across a large wall in coloured crayon
Dubai, March 2022. See the full project →
Format

Every run of this workshop is different, on purpose.

Length, language, group size, and the balance of drawing, movement, and conversation are set with you beforehand — two residential days, one long day, or a series of afternoons. Tell us who is coming and what they are carrying, and we build the version that fits.

One pattern, many forms

Jungle Jam is the UAE youth form of Light, Shadow, Shift. Other teams have reshaped the same pattern for their own people.

Shadow Shifter — Taiwan youth Light, Shadow, Shift — women's retreat Möbius Making — start here
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