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75 Years of Stories book now ready to order
The 75th anniversary of our Foundation was a good reason to celebrate, 75 years of our centre in Caux an even better one. When we launch…
Kawser Amine: Opening the field for girls
Afghan soccer player and women’s rights advocate Kawser Amine was a guest speaker at a Human Library event during the online 2022 Creative Leadersh…
The Caux Refuge: Ready for the next steps
24 February 2022 marks a day that many of us will not forget and divided the lives of many into ‘before’ and ‘after’. Since then, millions of displ…
Making the Impossible Possible
When you own a unique historic building like the Caux Palace with its 225 rooms, 1,600 windows and 1.6 kilometres of corridors, reaching carbon neu…
Living Your Possibilities - From Healing to Action
Creative Leadership aims to be an inclusive space where diverse participants from around the globe can come together and reconceptualize leadership…
Appointment of Ignacio Packer as Executive Director of Initiatives of Change Switzerland
It is with pleasure that we announce the appointment of Ignacio Packer as Executive Director of the Initiatives of Change Switzerland Foundation, s…
Caux Forum 2023: Save the Date
The Caux Forum is returning with two in-person events in July 2023 and aims to bring to the world an urgent message of hope and challenge. Some onl…
Lost in Translation: Volunteering at the Caux Refuge
Eliane Stallybrass When the first Ukrainians arrived at the Caux Refuge at the IofC conference centre in Caux, Eliane and Andrew Stallyb…
Training of Trainers and Facilitators in Caux: 'Only the beginning'
What happens when 26 IofC trainers and facilitators from 12 countries embark on a three-day learning journey in Caux on designing and facilitating…
'First, understand the problem!'
A key objective of the Summer Academy on Land, Security and Climate is to build an inter-disciplinary community of professionals, each of whom are…
A new Geneva office for IofC Switzerland!
We are back in town! With our representation office now located at "La Loge" in the Domaine La Pastorale in Geneva we look forward to reengage mor…
'Seemingly small things can bring a lot of good to someone's life.'
This article is the sixth in a series of interviews with people living or working at the Caux Refuge, based at the Caux Conference and Seminar Cent…
Our Annual Report 2021 now available!
2021 was a challenging year. It became clear that Covid-19 was not a flash in the pan – and that its economic, social and ecological effects would…
Caux in the Belle Epoque
Sunday 19 June 2022 saw crowds of visitors and local people gathering in the park of the Caux Palace for the inauguration of a ‘Caux Belle Epoque’…
Arpan Yagnik: Mountains to climb
Among many other things, Professor Arpan Yagnik is an expert on creativity. So perhaps it is no surprise that he signed up for the Creative…