YAFO Institute gears up to host flagship policy training event, Liberty Sphere 2025

This September, the hills of Aburi will come alive with ideas, energy, and vision as the YAFO Institute hosts Liberty Sphere Policy Ground Training 2025 – a gathering designed to shape bold individual change makers, students, journalists, activists, and entrepreneurs who believe in the power of liberty to transform society. The theme for this year’s election is dubbed, “Ignite Liberty: Shaping Ghana’s Future with Policy and Freedom”.

The journey begins with the Policy Ground Training on 10–11 September 2025. For two days, selected twenty-five (25) participants will step into an intensive learning environment at the Anagkazo Campus, Mampong Aburi. Here, they will explore the foundations of individual freedom, free markets, property rights, and limited government. Beyond theory, the training offers practical skills in policy formulation and effective advocacy – skills that every journalist, entrepreneur, student, or activist needs in order to influence Ghana’s policy landscape.

But what makes the training truly unique is the Battle Grounds Policy Pitch. This competitive platform gives participants the chance to craft innovative policy proposals, present them before a panel of judges, and compete for awards totaling ₵6,000, along with a one-year mentorship from YAFO Institute. For many, it will be the moment their ideas move from aspiration to action.

Guiding participants through this experience will be a distinguished panel of speakers:

• Prof. Enoch Opoku Antwi, Founder, Enoch Servant Leadership Foundation and Dean of Business and Communication, Academic City University (Ghana), who holds a PhD in Business Organizational Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University and an MS from Mount St. Joseph University, USA. He brings a wealth of academic and leadership expertise, emphasizing servant leadership and institutional growth.

• Dr. Eamonn Butler, Co-founder & Director, Adam Smith Institute (United Kingdom),  a leading advocate of personal and economic freedom. His short, accessible books on social and economic liberty have been published in more than thirty countries and twenty languages, making him one of the world’s most influential voices on freedom.

• Ebenezer Yamusah, Executive Director, Institute for New Policy Thinking (Ghana). He is also the CEO of Calogeron Ghana Limited. His dual work in policy research and enterprise positions him as a thought leader shaping Ghana’s policy discourse.

• Bruce Koerber, Author, and Originator of Divine Economic Theory (USA), an economist deeply rooted in Austrian economics. Having studied at Auburn University during the early years of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he continues to advance classical liberal ideas and free-market thought.

• Nathaniel Dwamena, President of the YAFO Institute (Ghana), researcher, and free-market policy analyst. He oversees the institute’s strategic direction and led YAFO to win the Atlas Network 2024 Africa Think Tank Shark Tank Award in Tanzania.

The momentum will then build toward the Liberty Sphere Conference on 12 September 2025, a full-day gathering also at Anagkazo Campus, Mampong Aburi. The conference will draw together students, researchers, entrepreneurs, journalists, and advocates for an engaging exploration of the role of liberty in Ghana’s development. Through sessions on leadership, fundraising for advocacy, business growth strategies, and real-world policy reform, participants will gain not just knowledge but also connections that will fuel their work long after the event.

The Liberty Sphere 2025 is more than just an event – it is a movement. It is a call to Ghana’s rising generation to lead with courage, to defend the principles of freedom, and to craft solutions that unleash prosperity. Whether you are preparing to pitch bold policy ideas, or you simply want to learn, network, and be inspired, this is your moment to step into a community of thinkers and doers shaping the Ghana’s future with policy and freedom.

In September, Aburi becomes the ground where ideas meet action, and where leaders for liberty are forged. Together, lets learn, lead and liberate.