Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026

About the Workshop

Forgiveness is often presented as a moral expectation rather than a reflective human capacity. In intercultural and collaborative environments, this can create misunderstandings about responsibility, reconciliation, and personal boundaries.

This workshop reframes forgiveness as a meaning-making competence that supports dialogue, emotional awareness, and relational resilience across differences.

Through narrative reflection, values mapping, and structured perspective-shift activities, participants explore how personal experiences, cultural backgrounds, and ethical priorities shape their understanding of forgiveness.

Rather than promoting a single definition, the workshop creates a safe learning space where participants critically examine forgiveness as a personal, relational, and social process.

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Boutheina Abdi is a senior educator, teacher trainer, and soft skills coach with over 15 years of experience designing transformative learning experiences. Her work spans language education, employability training, intercultural dialogue, and global cultural exchange, with a strong focus on developing communication, critical thinking, collaboration, leadership, and other essential 21st-century skills.

Passionate about human-centered and inclusive learning, she has facilitated cross-cultural initiatives, mentored educators, and empowered learners to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world. Through her work, she seeks to create meaningful spaces where dialogue, reflection, and human connection inspire personal growth and collective understanding.

About the Workshop

What if the single greatest obstacle to changing the world is not a lack of resources, strategy, or will—but something far more intimate: what we have not yet forgiven?

Changemakers, leaders, and visionaries are not immune to the weight of unresolved hurt. We carry wounds from failed systems, betrayed trust, personal loss, and the accumulated cost of working at the frontiers of transformation. Often without realizing it, these experiences quietly drain the energy we need most—the capacity to imagine, to trust, and to act boldly toward a better world.

The cost is more than emotional. Unresolved hurt narrows our emotional and creative bandwidth. It keeps us tethered to old stories and old wounds, limiting our ability to fully inhabit the future we long to create. As long as we remain in the constrictive states of blame, resentment, or grievance, we are—however unconsciously—out of harmony with our deepest vision and highest intentions.

This is the insight at the heart of Forgiving Forward: a 2.5-hour experiential workshop that explores forgiveness not as a moral duty, nor as a gift to the offender, but as a conscious act of liberation. It is an invitation to release the energy bound up in old hurts and redirect it toward what we most desire to create—in our lives, our leadership, and our communities.

Drawing on the DreamBuilder® and Life Mastery frameworks that underpin my work, and integrating contemplative practice with reflective dialogue, the workshop guides participants through a carefully sequenced inner journey.

We begin with honest self-inquiry:

• What are we carrying that no longer serves us?
• Where has hurt become a story that limits our capacity to create?
• What possibilities might emerge if we were to reclaim the energy consumed by resentment or regret?

Participants are then guided through a forgiveness meditation that invites them to separate the person from the behavior, to discover hidden gifts and lessons within difficult experiences, and ultimately to re-author the meaning they have assigned to painful chapters of their lives.

The shift that forgiveness makes possible is not simply psychological relief. It is a movement from contraction to expansion—from a state that constricts our vision to one that enlarges it. When we release what no longer serves, we do not lose our history. We reclaim the energy it has been consuming and redirect it toward our deepest aspirations.

For changemakers, this is not merely a private act. It is a strategic one.

The quality of the future we create is inseparable from the inner state from which we create it. Leaders carrying unresolved wounds can unconsciously reproduce the very patterns of mistrust, division, and reactivity they seek to transform. By engaging in the work of forgiveness, we expand our capacity for imagination, compassion, discernment, and courageous action.

This is not a workshop about forgetting, excusing, or bypassing pain. It is about alchemizing it—transforming what has been a source of contraction into a source of freedom, wisdom, and renewed commitment.

The format is fully participatory and experiential. There are no lectures and no prescriptions. Instead, participants are invited into a process of:

• Structured personal reflection
• Guided forgiveness meditation
• Intimate small-group dialogue
• Creative re-authoring of a meaningful life chapter

As a final exercise, participants write a new title for a chapter of their own story—a simple yet surprisingly powerful act of self-reclamation that opens new possibilities for meaning, agency, and future action.

The session concludes with a collective harvesting of insights, creating a shared field of learning and human connection among a diverse community of participants.

Participants will leave with:

• Greater awareness of the stories and resentments shaping their leadership and lives.
• A practical process for releasing emotional burdens and reclaiming personal energy.
• Renewed clarity and inspiration for the change they seek to create.
• A new perspective on a difficult chapter of their journey.
• A deeper appreciation of forgiveness as a leadership practice and a catalyst for transformation.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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Francesca Toso is a transformational coach, facilitator, and keynote speaker with a passion for leaders who want to make a real difference in the world. A lawyer by training, she spent thirty years as an international civil servant with UNICEF and WIPO, designing and delivering programmes across more than forty countries in sustainable development and intellectual property. She founded Francesca Toso Coaching (Create and Lead for Good) to bring that global experience into the service of conscious leadership. A certified DreamBuilder Coach and Life Mastery Consultant, she mentors emerging leaders through the Kofi Annan Changemakers Initiative. She lives between Switzerland and Spain.

About the Workshop

This session uses poetry as a portal into the inner dimensions of forgiveness. We will begin not with reconciliation with others, but with the quieter, harder work of forgiving loss itself. Drawing on i can breathe, a debut poetry collection on grief, memory, and renewal, participants will explore how the alchemy of forgiveness begins in the most intimate of places: the space between a person we loved and the life we must continue living.

Through shared reading, guided reflection, and small-group dialogue, this session invites participants to discover how grief, when witnessed with honesty and tenderness, becomes a generative force. The ground from which trust, compassion, and new possibility can grow from.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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Carl Manlan is a poet, development practitioner, and thought leader working at the intersection of human sustainability, financial inclusion, and African food systems. His debut poetry collection "I can breathe" bears witness to grief’s transformations, charting the path between losing and learning to live with loss. Written with aching tenderness, it explores how memory becomes continuation, how legacy is both weight and intergenerational gift, and the profound truth that what we love still lives.

In his professional life, Carl serves as Chief of Partnerships and Business Development at AGRA, working to build ecosystems where entrepreneurs, communities, and smallholder farmers can access the tools and opportunities they need to thrive. His career spans Visa, Ecobank Foundation, The Global Fund, the Economic Commission for Africa, and AUDA-NEPAD, consistently bridging policy, finance, and social impact across the continent.

His writing appears in Forbes, Le Monde, Scientific American, El País, Project Syndicate, and the World Economic Forum’s Agenda.

Carl believes that the inner work of forgiveness, like the inner work of grief, cannot be bypassed. It must be walked through. "I can breathe" is his invitation to that walk.

About the Workshop

This experiential workshop invites participants to explore forgiveness as an embodied process using chakra exploration and body mapping. 
Through guided somatic explorations participants will be offered a journey through the energy pathways of the body (chakras), identifying blockages and flow. 
Every chakra has corresponding physiological and psychological manifestations that will be explored both experientially and with reflective inquiry.
Participants will be gently led through guided imagery to sense where “non-forgiveness” lives within their body and to create conditions for softening, integration, and release.

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Nargis (Raza) Kizalbash is a Transpersonal Psychologist with over two decades of experience working at the intersection of wellbeing, physical and psychological, consciousness and spirituality. Her background spans healthcare leadership, wellbeing consulting, and group facilitation. She has spent many years creating healing spaces where people are supported and gently guided to explore the root cause of their suffering, where the body, the psyche, and the wider context of a person's life are all honoured. Her method is grounded in multidisciplinary approaches to achieving balance and harmony in the body systems and the psychology of the mind. She works with individuals focusing attention on nervous system regulation, and managing embodied trauma. This work lends itself to long term healing, enabling participants to find ways to integrate their trauma and embrace life "with" their wound, embodying healing. This is not quick fix work. True healing takes time and commitment. She here to guide that process. 

About the Workshop

In an era of polarisation and unresolved pain, forgiveness is one of the most misunderstood human capacities. It is often confused with approval, reconciliation, or the erasure of what happened. This workshop invites a different encounter: forgiveness as a personal, sovereign choice — something no one can require of us, and something we choose on our own terms, in our own time.

Drawing on somatic body awareness, guided reflection, embodied release, and honest group dialogue, this 180-minute Living Circle moves through two connected journeys:

•        Return to Being — arriving in the body, reconnecting with our true essence, and releasing what we have been carrying
•        The Alchemy of Forgiveness — in essence meeting what still has a hold, exploring the personal choice to loosen it, and reclaiming who we are.

The session is a transformative, non-therapeutic, non-ideological, and free from spiritual or religious framing. All exercises are invitational. Participants are never required to share personal details. The approach is grounded, psychologically safe, and globally inclusive.
 

Maxiumum number of participants: 30

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Executive coach and leadership facilitator with more than 30 years of experience across finance, governance, and sustainability, Marjadi Kooistra supports senior leaders, founders, and teams navigating complexity, transition, andpurpose — in one-on-one work and in the collective.

Her coaching practice is grounded in NOBCO/EMCC-aligned professional training and practices from Transformational Presence, Theory U, and the Ecosystem Leadership Program (Presencing Institute, MIT). She serves as an IDG Ambassador and was part of the IDG Global Coordinators Team from its early days until early 2025.

Alongside her coaching practice, she is Co-Founder of TogetherForTheBetterGood, working on ocean governance and regenerative finance, and co-founder of Healing Our Islands — a systems leadership programme that weaves coaching, facilitation, and indigenous wisdom across Asian and Pacific Island communities and global partners.

Grandmother Ejna Jean Fleury is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, South Dakota, and is their first Peace Ambassador. She is a Mystic, Visionary & Ceremonialist. She is the co-founder of Crow Creek Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society. She has been practicing meditation for more than 40 years and is a certified meditation and consciousness facilitator and healer, a spiritual activist and counselor. She is a registered nurse with a BS Nursing and a MS Counseling Psychology (Former Faculty, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing). 

Dalila Hernández Cuahutle is a bridge‑woman rooted in the ancestral wisdom of the Tlaxcalteca, Maravatío, and Tepexpan territories in México. For two decades, she has walked and practiced the universal spiritual teachings of A Course in Miracles. She is co‑guardian of the global initiative Inner Wisdom Circles, featured at the IDG Summit in Stockholm, the International Day of Conscious Politics, the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, and the One World Forum.

As an Executive Coach and learning‑process facilitator, Dalila supports leaders across United Nations agencies and serves as a coaching member for UNOPS in the Latin America an Caribbean region. Her earlier contributions to peace, justice, and strong institutions include work with Mexican Diplomacy in the United States, the U.S. Congress, and USAID. A Political Scientist weaving science and spirituality, she researches human transformation and integrates neuroscience, ancient wisdom traditions, and meditation as core elements for strengthening the foundations of peaceful and just societies. Dalila brings a rare blend of spiritual depth, political understanding, and organizational leadership to every space she holds.
 

About the Workshop

Forgiveness is often misunderstood. It is frequently associated with weakness, forgetting, or excusing harmful behavior. Many people resist it—not because they lack compassion, but because they fear losing their sense of justice, self-protection, or clarity. This workshop challenges those assumptions and offers a different perspective: forgiveness as a powerful, personal practice that supports emotional freedom, resilience, and meaningful relationships.

Grounded in insights from Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead, this workshop is not about becoming passive or “letting things slide.” It is about learning how to release the weight of resentment without abandoning accountability, boundaries, or self-respect. It is designed for anyone who finds themselves replaying past experiences, holding onto hurt, or struggling to move forward—whether in personal relationships, family dynamics, or professional contexts.

At its core, the workshop explores forgiveness as a gift to self. Holding onto anger or resentment can feel justified, even protective. Yet over time, it often becomes exhausting, shaping how we think, react, and relate to others. Participants will reflect on the personal cost of not forgiving: How much energy is tied up in past experiences? What stories are being repeated internally? And what might become possible if those stories were loosened or reframed?

A key theme is the tension between letting go and staying true to one’s values. Forgiveness does not mean denying harm or avoiding difficult truths. It means choosing not to let that harm define your future. This requires honest reflection: What am I holding onto, and why? What am I afraid would happen if I let it go? Where do I need clarity, and where do I need release?

The workshop also explores the idea of a “culture of bravery” at a personal level. When forgiveness is absent, fear often takes its place—fear of being hurt again, of making mistakes, or of being vulnerable. This can lead to emotional armor: defensiveness, withdrawal, or perfectionism. By contrast, practicing forgiveness—both toward others and toward oneself—creates space for openness, learning, and more authentic connection.
Self-forgiveness is a central and often challenging part of this process. Many people hold themselves to harsh standards, replaying mistakes or perceived failures long after they occur. This internal pressure can limit growth and reinforce feelings of inadequacy. Participants will explore how to take responsibility for their actions without becoming defined by them, and how to shift from self-criticism toward self-understanding.

An important distinction introduced in the workshop is responsible forgiveness. Forgiveness does not require reconciliation, nor does it mean tolerating repeated harm. It involves setting clear boundaries, acknowledging impact, and deciding what role—if any—the other person will have moving forward. Participants will learn how to separate forgiveness from approval, and how to hold both compassion and clarity at the same time.
The process of rebuilding trust is also addressed through the BRAVING framework (Boundaries, Reliability, Accountability, Vault, Integrity, Non-judgment, Generosity). Forgiveness may be the first step, but trust is rebuilt through consistent actions over time—by oneself and by others. This part of the workshop encourages participants to reflect on what trust means to them, where it has been broken, and what would be needed for repair.
Throughout the session, participants will engage with questions that connect forgiveness to their personal values

This workshop does not offer quick fixes or simplistic answers. Forgiveness is complex, and sometimes uncomfortable. But it is also a deeply human capacity—one that, when practiced with intention and honesty, opens the door to greater clarity, freedom and connection.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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After 20 years managing large projects in industry, sustainable development, and technology in 45 countries, Nadene Canning created a boutique consulting agency. Today her strategic foresight and laser focus supports leaders to navigate strategic imperatives that accelerate possibility and impact. In 2012 the book she wrote La force le l’Équilibre - Vie familiale, vie professionnelle which led to a decade of teaching and consulting on leadership, management, systems thinking, change and negotiation. In 2019 Nadene was one of 400 facilitators selected from 10’000 applicants to train with Dr Brené Brown and believes that the four skills sets of building courage in the Dare to Lead™ program is at the cutting edge of leadership thinking. Nadene is part of the IDG Global Coordination Team and a member of the core team of the IDG Lemanic Network. For the past 2 years Nadene has had the privilege to design and co-host monthly IDG Global Practitioner Network sessions, bringing together many of the 700 practitioners to learn, share their challenges, be inspired, and make sustainable impact. 

Anne-Marie Deans' career spans life sciences, management consulting, and corporate leadership. She thrives on connecting analytical rigor with big-picture thinking—and bringing people together along the way. Her belief is simple: our systems are outdated, our challenges are significant, and we need leaders who are brave, kind, and genuinely curious.

Today, as one of a small group of certified Dare to Lead™ facilitators (trained by Dr. Brené Brown in 2019), she equips individuals with courage-building skills and guides teams through the Dare to Lead™ framework. She advises leaders on navigating complexity and uncertainty through emergent strategy. Anne-Marie has a growing interest in what it means to intentionally facilitate ‘well-held spaces’ from local to global community levels.

Her background includes roles at BCG, Johnson & Johnson, the MRC, and Swiss Rail (SBB). She holds a PhD in malaria virulence research from the University of Edinburgh and is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary MBA at the London Interdisciplinary School—still learning, still growing.

About the Workshop

This session uses presence, story, and shared witness as a portal into the inner dimensions of forgiveness. We will begin not with reconciliation with others, but with the quieter, harder work of seeing them honestly — asking ourselves, out of ten, how far do we really know the person in front of us, and how many assumptions we have quietly made instead. Drawing on "Forgive Me For Hating You", a film on grief, rupture, and the long road back to oneself, participants will explore how the alchemy of forgiveness begins in the most intimate of places: the space between the person who hurt us and the life we must continue living.

Through personal storytelling, letters of apology and letters never sent, and the question of what forgiveness — and unforgiveness — actually tastes like, this session invites participants to discover how pain, when witnessed with honesty and tenderness, becomes a generative force. The ground from which unforgiveness finally ceases, and trust, compassion, and new possibility can grow from.
 

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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Amani Soultan is an LCE and ICF-certified Life Coach with over 50 hours of experience guiding, motivating, and supporting clients through meaningful and transformative coaching sessions. She is passionate about helping people help themselves and discover more about the complexity of being human in today’s challenging times. Through supporting others on their journeys, she continues her own path of growth and self-discovery.

Her professional journey began in education and translation. For more than twenty years, she taught English as a second language to young people and adults from diverse professional backgrounds at the School of Continuing Education at the American University in Cairo. During her time there, she was frequently recognised on the Languages Department Teaching Honours Roll for excellence in teaching. She also taught Arabic as a second language to international learners both at AUC and throughout her travels.

She has been fortunate to travel extensively across Egypt, Europe, India, and parts of the Middle East. These experiences deepened her appreciation for cultural diversity and strengthened her understanding of different perspectives and faith traditions.

In 2003, while working as a researcher and freelance writer for the Centre for Arab-West Understanding, she was honoured to be part of the delegation sent to Jordan to establish a partnership with HH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal at the Prince El Hassan Bin Talal Institute for International Studies—an experience that remains both meaningful and memorable.

In 2006, she contributed to preparations for the television programme "Kalam Kebeer", presented by Dr. Heba Qotb on El Mehwar Channel, focusing on gender relations and social dialogue. Later, in 2010, she produced and directed a documentary film in Lebanon titled "Forgive Me for Hating You" while working with the Morals Rearmament Assembly as part of Initiatives of Change (IofC).

She strongly believes in IofC’s vision of promoting ethical values as a foundation for personal integrity and social responsibility and has supported its mission through conferences and projects in Egypt and internationally.

Throughout her work in education, filmmaking, peacebuilding, and communication, one passion has remained constant: understanding and supporting people. She values the relationships she builds with learners, colleagues, and communities and sees helping others gain greater awareness of themselves, their challenges, and their aspirations as a natural extension of her life’s work.

As a life coach, she supports individuals in making empowered choices, taking meaningful action, and creating positive change in their lives, relationships, and outlook. With compassion, patience, and genuine curiosity, she creates a space where clients feel heard, supported, and encouraged.

Her goal is not to lead people forever, but to help them build the confidence and clarity to continue their journey independently.

About the Workshop

What if forgiveness is something to which no conditions are attached, nothing we must first do or achieve in order to forgive? What happens when we are free to explore together the many paths and facets forgiveness holds? And what if we allow forgiveness to be understood as a process of growth within our very personal history: One that, like ourselves, is deeply individual and yet connects us to one another in our shared humanity as citizens of this world.

The Earth as Witness is a three-hour embodied laboratory, grounded in the Inner Development Goals framework and shaped as an open, creative, and artistic experiment. Through trauma-informed guided journaling, dialogue, movement improvisation, and collective creation, we move through the five IDG dimensions : Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting.
 The workshop opens in Being through practices of arrival, breath, and embodied awareness. A guided journaling process invites reflection on personal and ecological questions. 

Through Thinking and Relating, participants enter dyads and small-group dialogue where stories, tensions, emotions, images, and diverse cultural perspectives connected to forgiveness can surface. The group becomes a field of collective intelligence, gathering insights not as conclusions, but as living material for further exploration.

What is spoken, sensed, and recognized in dialogue becomes the raw substance for the next phase of embodied inquiry. In this way, reflection does not remain cognitive; it is composted into movement, presence, and expression.
In Collaborating, the room becomes a Culture Laboratory. What has emerged now seeks form through movement, gesture, rhythm, distance, encounter, witnessing, boundaries, and reconnection. Participants are invited to explore freely and at their own pace. 

The workshop culminates in Acting through a collective movement improvisation: a shared, wordless act of emergence in which forgiveness is no longer discussed, but practiced in real time. This is not performance, but the creation of another experience of shared agency that invites freedom and makes our own aliveness and capacity to act tangible. Like forgiveness itself, it cannot be forced, only welcomed into being.

A closing harvest invites each participant to name what has shifted, and to identify one courageous next step to carry into relationships, work, community life, or care for the living world.

We understand forgiveness not as an act of cognitive understanding, nor a decision we simply make or can force. It is a process and it does not stand at the beginning, but unfolds along a path we all are walking step by step. Forgiveness is understood as a possible shift in relationship: the capacity to release what no longer belongs to us, and to reclaim what has always been ours: dignity, aliveness, responsibility, and the freedom to respond differently.

Throughout the workshop, the Earth accompanies this process as a silent witness and knowing force. She is present not only as a theme, but as witness, companion, and teacher. The natural world knows cycles of rupture and renewal, decay and regeneration. It reminds us that healing is often slow, non-linear, and alive. This deeper wisdom lives within us and is an invitation to presence and open awareness felt in the room, in the images, in motion and in the rhythm of the workshop.

This path is deeply personal and yet we share it in our common humanity. It may lead us through shame, old guilt, and old assumptions about ourselves or others through what ultimately gets in our way when we seek to realign and step more fully into our own becoming in the world. We understand this workshop as an invitation to set out on this journey: with curiosity, exploration, and integration. Participants decide for themselves how deep they go and when they pause.

Open to all participants. No movement or artistic experience required. 

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Ana Große Halbuer works at the intersection of trauma, inner development, and collective change with the deep conviction that these dimensions are inseparable. 

What first drew her into psychotraumatology was a profound interest in what it means to be human, and the recognition that the fragmentation trauma brings, leaves its traces in the way we relate to ourselves, meet others, and inhabit the world. Over more than two decades of accompanying people and groups, this path deepened into the question that continues to guide her work: What interrupts our living connection to ourselves, to others, and to the world and what does it take for that connection to be restored? Her clinical focus lies in attachment and developmental trauma, a thread she has followed as a licensed therapist in her own practice for sixteen years, working across Germany and throughout Europe, before turning increasingly towards groups, institutions, and NGOs: as a therapist, consultant, and educator who brings trauma knowledge into the contexts where it is needed.

That same question has led her to the IDG movement: How is what we were unable to integrate within ourselves connected to what we struggle to shape in the world? As an IDG Ambassador, she works at this intersection of inner development and collective transformation. A card set grounded in the IDG Framework, created in earlier co-creation, accompanies this work, supporting personal reflection and collective growth in groups and organisations, and serving as the foundation from which she continues to develop and regularly facilitate her own workshops and educational programmes. As a podcaster, she explores social, psychological, and societal questions, creating spaces for reflection and genuine dialogue.

Ana lives with her family at the edge of a nature reserve outside Berlin. A love of nature and animals has always run as a deep source through her life and her work. On early mornings, she loves to walk or swim in the lake near her home. This closeness to the living world is not, for her, a counterweight to her work- it is its foundation.

Sabine Schneider creates bridges between creativity, embodied learning and new cultural possibilities. Her path brings together design, performing arts, education, and process facilitation — guided by the question: How can we create environments in which people feel safe enough to express themselves, imagine new possibilities and grow together?

Trained as a graduate designer, she gained experience both in the corporate world as a fashion designer and in the artistic field as a costume designer for theatre, dance and film productions. These early years gave her deep insight into two very different worlds and continue to shape her work today: moving between structured, goal-oriented organizations and open creative processes characterized by experimentation, intuition, and spontaneity. Through many years of practice in dance pedagogy, improvisation and bodywork, she developed a profound understanding of embodied learning, non-verbal intelligence and the transformative power of creative expression. This somatic background, together with more than three decades of intensive personal development work, forms a central foundation of her support for individuals and groups in learning, change, and development processes.

In her artistic and educational work with schools, inclusive and integration-focused contexts, as well as in adult education, she recognized a recurring pattern: transformation requires not only external structures, but also inner capacities such as empathy, courage, self-awareness and imagination. From this insight emerged her current research and book project, Kulturprobenräume — co-creative experiential spaces in which people do not only think about the future, but rehearse it together, making new forms of learning, collaboration and shaping tangible through practice.

Since March 2026, Sabine has been an IDG Ambassador. Her work is an invitation to remember that creativity is a human capacity essential for transformation.

Sibylle Breiner's path reflects a deliberate and values-driven turn away from profit-driven corporate culture toward a life and practice rooted in regeneration, human flourishing, and planetary responsibility. With a doctorate in business administration and nearly two decades of international corporate leadership, she chose to redirect her expertise toward the deeper work: cultivating the inner capacities needed for genuine systemic change. In doing so, she opened a new chapter grounded in ethical leadership, inner development, and a deepening connection to the living world.

A committed member of the global IDG movement since 2022, she served for three years on the Core Team of the IDG Global Practitioners' Network and has been part of the IDG Global Coordination Team since early 2024. As an IDG Ambassador and initiator of the German-language IDG Ambassador Programme, now in its second cohort with a third planned for autumn 2026, she has built bridges between the IDG framework and communities of practice. She also integrates the IDGs into her university teaching, using them as a foundation for collaborative inquiry with students.

Her facilitation draws on training in embodied communication, NLP and systemic coaching, and hypnosystemic imaginative methods (Milton-Erickson-Institut Heidelberg), alongside years of experience with horse-assisted leadership approaches. These inform a practice at the intersection of inner development, somatic awareness, and collective transformation, one she is increasingly bringing into dialogue with questions of ecological responsibility and our relationship with the living world.

In 2020 she moved to a farmhouse in the German countryside, where she lives with horses, tends her own fruit trees, and grows her own food. This closeness to the rhythms of nature has become a quiet but transformative foundation for her work and is a lived exploration of how inner growth and outer regeneration belong together. Her latest project, Re:Source Garden, embodies this integration: a living lab in the Black Forest connecting regenerative forest gardening and the IDGs, exploring in tangible form how inner and outer regeneration are inseparable.

About the Workshop

This experiential workshop invites participants to explore forgiveness not as a moral obligation or a cognitive decision, but as a lived, embodied process shaped by awareness, meaning, and personal readiness. Rather than guiding participants toward forgiveness as an outcome, the session creates a reflective space in which individuals can encounter how a past experience continues to live within them—emotionally, cognitively, and somatically.

The workshop is grounded in trauma-informed facilitation principles. Participation remains fully voluntary; participants are not required to share personal stories, provide details, or engage beyond their comfort. The process emphasizes psychological safety, autonomy, and self-regulation, allowing each individual to move at their own pace and within their own boundaries.

Drawing inspiration from Worthington’s REACH model of forgiveness (Recall, Empathize, Altruistic gift, Commit, Hold), the workshop offers a non-linear and experiential interpretation of these dimensions. Rather than following a structured sequence, participants are invited into a process where elements such as recall, empathy, and choice may emerge organically, without pressure or expectation.

The session begins with a symbolic entry point, where participants represent their current internal state through metaphor, using animal figures. This allows for emotional expression without the need for detailed narration. The process then deepens through a somatic timeline exploration, in which participants physically move between moments before, during, and after a chosen experience, focusing on shifts in self-perception rather than external events.

Working in pairs, participants engage in structured witnessing, creating a relational space of presence without interpretation or advice. As the process unfolds, participants are gently invited to consider the perspective of the other person involved, not as a requirement but as a possibility, supporting perspective-taking while respecting individual readiness.
In the final phase, attention shifts to the present moment. Participants reflect on what they need, what they may be ready to release, and what choices are available to them now. Forgiveness is approached as one of many possible responses, alongside boundary-setting, non-forgiveness, or uncertainty.

The workshop concludes with a symbolic ritual, where participants release their initial representation and choose a new one that reflects their current state. This transition supports integration and allows internal shifts to be embodied in a tangible way.
Aligned with the spirit of the Caux IDG Forum, this workshop offers a reflective and psychologically safe space for exploring forgiveness as a complex and evolving inner process—one that begins within the individual, yet has the potential to influence how we relate to others and the wider social context."

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Mine Öztürk adopts a holistic approach that integrates the axes of mind, body, emotion, and meaning throughout her multifaceted journey from an engineering discipline into the inner world of human beings. With her academic depth, corporate experience, and somatic-based wellbeing practices, she accompanies the transformation processes of individuals and organizations. Holding a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology and currently pursuing her PhD in Business Administration, Öztürk has been conducting leadership and transformation trainings within Unlearn Academy, which she co-founded in 2014.

In the field of professional coaching, she holds the CPCC and ICF PCC credentials. She is among the founders of Sufi Coaching, an ICF Level 1 accredited coaching school that blends the ancient understanding of human nature derived from the Sufi tradition with the professional standards and ethical framework of modern coaching. In this perspective, coaching is viewed not merely as a performance-oriented development tool, but as an inner journey through which the individual connects with their true essence via awareness, meaning, and intention.

Focusing her recent work on wellbeing, trauma-informed approaches, and nervous system regulation, Öztürk operates from a holistic perspective that places the body and the nervous system at the core of human development. Her deep background, enriched by trainings from the Polyvagal Academy and the teachings of Dr. Gabor Maté, forms the foundation for a trauma-informed approach that prioritizes somatic awareness and the creation of safe spaces.

Additionally, as the sole licensed trainer in Turkey for Denmark-based Kaospilot’s Learning Experience Design (LXD) program, Mine Öztürk advocates for a development model centered around resilience, balance, meaning, and compassion. In her work, she aims to open up a transformational space that educates the mind, listens to the body, and centers the heart.

About the Workshop

Johnson stated ""one thing that our unconscious will not tolerate is evasion of responsibility. The unconscious pushes us into one suffering after another, one impossible mess after another until we are finally willing to wake up, see that it is we who are choosing these impossible paths, and take responsibility for our own decisions"" (as cited in Murdock, 2020).

One pathway of personal responsibility is to understand one's own origin story as a broad frame of reference for understanding past experiences, patterns and intergenerational traumas. From this place of understanding there is potential to heal the past, integrate unprocessed experiences, embody the present and self-author the future.

Within this frame, re-writing personal narrative through self-authorship embraces self-love and involves reflecting up and understanding the origins of one's own story from a conscious lens as a pathway of forgiveness and individual growth. This workshop will utilize embodied practices, reflection, individual storytelling and shared dialogue.

This workshop will also incorporate an overarching understanding of forgiveness as developed by Fred Luskin. 

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Kendra Ford, PhD, is a transpersonal research psychologist, International Yoga Therapist (IAYT), and certified Ayurvedic Wellness Coach. She has academic specializations in Education and Research, Spiritual Guidance and Women’s Spirituality. For over 20 years she has taught and facilitated healing environments guiding others through transformational change via the lenses of women’s spirituality, yoga, embodied wisdom, and transpersonal psychology. Kendra’s research interests include women’s psychospiritual development, integrative practice and leadership, embodied ways of knowing and social change, and the intersections of transpersonal psychology with spiritualized feminism through the lens of the sacred feminine. Her teaching and work is also informed by her personal engagement in esoteric practices, Ayurvedic studies, and ongoing embodied and inner exploration.

About the Workshop

This workshop is an invite for children, teens and adults for an intergenerational learning towards forgiveness through embodying the essence of IDGs

Forgiveness is not only an idea — it is something we can feel in the body, discover in conversation, and build together with our hands. This intergenerational workshop invites children, teenagers, and adults to explore the Forum's central theme through the five pillars of the Inner Development Goals, using the IDG for Kids Activity Cards — a free, open-access resource designed to make inner development playful and accessible for all ages. The session opens with a storytelling ritual inspired by the Thousand and One Nights, then moves through five Magical Places in small mixed-age groups, each offering Tell, Show, and Draw activities alongside reflection questions that turn the generation gap into a learning resource.

The workshop closes with a Forgiveness and Possibilities Garden — a collaborative art installation in which every participant, from the youngest to the oldest in the room, contributes a stone for what they are releasing and a flower for what they are growing. Simple, tangible, and quietly powerful.

The cards were co-created by a team of facilitators (Andrea Nowack, Anne Koch, Simone Erven, Siyma Barkin Kuzmin, and Wilma Hartenfels) following an idea that was born during the 2025 Caux Forum. They were piloted at an IDGs for Kids Treasure Hunt where 27 children and parents gathered in the Botanical Garden in Geneva moving through five stations, each exploring one dimension of the Inner Development Goals through movement, drawing, conversation, and play. The cards were revised and the lessons learnt from the prototype have been incorporated into the version to be used during this event in Caux.

Places are limited to 20 participants, with half reserved for children and teenagers aged 7–18.

Maximum number of participants: 20

With: 

Ayse Siyma Barkin Kuzmin is a trauma-informed therapeutic coach and a child rights and protection expert with nearly thirty years of field experience across five continents. Her work sits at the intersection of inner development, intergenerational healing, and systemic change — grounded in the conviction that lasting transformation begins inside the individual and radiates outward into families, communities, and societies.

Siyma spent twenty-five years with UNICEF, managing child protection programmes in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Zimbabwe, and Jordan. Throughout that work, she contributed in making it a better place for children through capacity-building, policy development, legislative change and advocacy on child rights, psychosocial support, justice for children, violence prevention, and gender-based violence response. Since leaving UNICEF, Siyma has trained in the Compassionate Inquiry methodology, is a certified Triple P Positive Parenting trainer, and a FamilyLab parent / family coach. Her independent practice is based in Geneva and serves individuals, parents, families, and professionals navigating the intersections of trauma, identity, and belonging. She has delivered workshops for teachers and parents in earthquake-affected Hatay, Turkey, and conducted training needs assessments and delivery for social services and justice staff in Georgia. She brings a trauma-informed, child-focused lens to work with those who care for children. She is also giving talks on diversity and inclusion issues around rights of LGBTI+ children. Finally, she is part of the IDG Lemanic Network in Geneva where she developed and co-facilitated a somatic workshop on the BEING dimension, as well as the introduction of the prototype of the IDG for Kids activity Cards. Her proposal for the Caux Forum that she made with Simone as well as the team that developed the IDG for Kids Activity Cards, an intergenerational workshop using the IDG for Kids Activity Cards to explore forgiveness through play, story, and embodied reflection, brings together all of these threads: child rights, therapeutic practice, workshop design, and the belief that children and adults, given the right conditions, learn most deeply from each other.

Siyma holds a B.A. in Psychology from Boğazici University, Istanbul, and an M.Sc. in Human Development and Family Studies from Pennsylvania State University. She is fluent in Turkish and English and works in French. 

Simone Erven is a leadership and inner development consultant, coach and educator based in Germany. She supports individuals, leaders, teams and organisations in strengthening the inner capacities needed to navigate complexity, lead with clarity, and create meaningful, lasting change.

She holds a University Diploma in Adult Education and has completed several professional training e.g.in psychological coaching and hypnotherapy. Her work integrates these foundations into a holistic approach to leadership and personal development.

Her practice combines coaching, (self-)leadership development, and hypnotherapeutic methods to support sustainable transformation on both a personal and organisational level. She blends structured development processes with deep inner work that engages cognitive, emotional, and subconscious layers.

With a background in education and people development, she creates spaces for reflection, self-awareness, and growth. These processes foster meaningful transformation that translates into both inner alignment and outer action.

She works at the intersection of personal development, leadership, and societal change, with a focus on the inner capacities that shape how people lead, relate, and create impact. Her work explores how deeper awareness, emotional intelligence, and inner stability can support more conscious and effective leadership in complex environments.

About the Workshop

In a world of increasing polarization, institutional fragility, and loss of trust, individuals and organizations are frequently confronted with situations of harm where the path forward is unclear. When trust is broken, through leadership failure, ethical misconduct, or systemic injustice, questions of forgiveness, accountability, and responsibility become deeply intertwined.

This interactive workshop invites participants into a structured and reflective process to explore such dilemmas. Rather than approaching forgiveness as an abstract ideal, the session focuses on real-world situations where participants must navigate competing values, unclear responsibilities, and difficult consequences.

Using a real-life inspired case of organizational trust breakdown, participants will work collaboratively to unpack a complex ethical dilemma: What does a responsible response look like when harm has occurred? What role does forgiveness play and what are its limits? How can accountability be upheld without reinforcing cycles of blame or exclusion?
 
 Through guided small-group work, participants will:
 - Clarify the dimensions of the situation, including stakeholders, impacts, and underlying tensions
 - Explore multiple possible courses of action, including those that may conflict with personal or institutional values
 - Engage diverse perspectives and worldviews to critically assess these options
 - Reflect on the implications of different choices for trust, relationships, and long-term integrity
 

The workshop draws on Globethics’ experience in ethical leadership and decision-making, offering a structured approach to navigating dilemmas where there are no easy answers. It creates a space where participants can move beyond binary “forgive or not forgive” into engaging with the deeper question of what constitutes an ethically grounded response.
 
Designed for a diverse, global audience, the session emphasizes dialogue, reflection, and shared learning. Participants are encouraged to bring their own experiences into the conversation, while also engaging with a common case to build collective insight.
 
By the end of the workshop, participants will have strengthened their ability to navigate situations where forgiveness and accountability are in tension, and to make more thoughtful, ethically grounded decisions in the face of harm and uncertainty.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

With: 

R. Kat Morse is Acting Head of Solutions Hub at Globethics, where she helps leaders and organizations navigate complex ethical challenges and ethical risk management in an era of rapid technological and societal change. Her work focuses on ethical decision-making, responsible leadership, and the implications of emerging technologies, including AI, Web3, and quantum computing. In parallel, she is Managing Director of Evolvere Advisory, advising organizations on innovation, strategy, and emerging technologies. Previously, she led innovation initiatives at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and founded Wiine.Me, a technology startup focused on personalized wine discovery.

She is an experienced facilitator and speaker in executive, academic, and international settings, speaking on ethics, leadership, innovation, and emerging technologies. She is a TEDx speaker and guest lecturer on Web3, AI, and Quantum Computing at Harvard Law School. She holds a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Neurobiology from the University of Rochester.

About the Workshop

Guided by Mario and Scott from the International Breathwork Foundation, you are welcomed to join an experience of Conscious Connected Breathwork.

After a safety review and demonstration of the technique, you will be offered a grounding exercise and guided meditation to settle into your body.

Once comfortable, you will be guided through three chapters of breathwork, held by the earth and your experienced facilitator team:

*First, to allow your curiosity towards bodily sensations to expand and create a foundational feeling of safety.
*Second, to explore internally where you can offer yourself more compassion, forgiveness, and grace.
 *Third, to explore externally where you can allow forgiveness to flourish between you and other humans - and indeed, the planet we all call home.

You will then be invited to rest and integrate, with an optional sharing circle - or noble silence if you prefer.

Maxiumum number of participants: 30

With: 

Scott Sallée is a human and parent working to live a life of service. With a queer, neurodivergent background, they believe that the path to flourishing is through connection, community, and integrity. Scott discovered breath 20 years ago and is devoted to create healing spaces of care, release and safety for body, mind, and heart.  Scott leads the International Breathwork Foundation’s United Nations Workgroup with a personal and professional mission to further world peace through conscious breathing and to provide accessible healing to underprivileged communities.

Mario Domig has been a certified breathwork therapist since the early 1990s and is also passionate about classical guitar and IT. His practice is in Switzerland, where he primarily works with individual clients, but also with groups. Mario is fascinated by the vibrations and the beauty of a calm, grateful, and peaceful mind, which is also a goal that runs through all his work as a therapist. He is on the board of the International Breathwork Foundation (IBF), an organisation that stands for a heart-centred approach to a higher consciousness for humanity.

About the Workshop

There are stories we receive as gifts to the soul, and stories that the soul tells us—stories that shape who we are and guide our choices. These are soul stories that align with our calling, vocation, and destiny, guiding our life journey along its unfolding path.

The soul story emanates an aura of Splendour when positioned on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life between the spheres of Judgment and Mercy. Splendour radiates the good, the true, and the beautiful—the soul’s profound noetic qualities, and the beauty it aspires to bring into embodied life on Earth.

Yet Splendour emerges through a process of mediation between opposing forces: Judgment and Mercy, justice and injustice, punishment and forgiveness, darkness and light, and the dance of light and shadow in between. Each of our soul stories reflects the dynamics of these polarities and the ways in which we choose to integrate them into our lived experience.

In this workshop, we will explore our soul stories through a deep immersion in the imaginal realm, working with active imagination and subtle body practices involving image, gentle movement, colour, and sound. These embodied, non-verbal processes will be complemented by dialogic, soul-led writing in an I–Thou practice, fostering an intimate and responsive engagement with inner experience.

Through these approaches, we will evoke our soul stories and their accompanying images, allowing them to unfold and take form. We will then work with these emergent narratives to reflect on our personal choices, as well as on acts of forgiveness and self-compassion, opening a space for deeper understanding and integration.

Whatever emerges, the soul has its own logic and ethical stance that asks to be listened to. Like the fairytales, artworks, and films we cherish, soul stories are never merely personal; they carry a transpersonal core which, like a flame, warms the heart through both vision and insight.

The workshop will conclude by weaving our soul stories into a shared field of compassion, activating it through a symbolic rite and extending its resonance into our lives and into the world.

Maxiumum number of participants: 15

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Dr Lila Moore is a screendance pioneer, technoetic artist-filmmaker, scholar, and founder of the Cybernetic Futures Institute, which emerged from her postdoctoral research at the Planetary Collegium. She holds the first practice-based PhD in Dance on Screen awarded worldwide (Middlesex University, 2001). Her work has been exhibited, screened, and presented internationally through exhibitions, festivals, conferences, and leading academic publications in the fields of technoetic arts, spirituality, and consciousness studies.

As a Lecturer and Dissertation Supervisor at Alef Trust, she teaches Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality and the Imaginal within the MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. She is the recipient of an Outstanding Lecturer Award for excellence in teaching in the fields of Mysticism and Spirituality.

Through her choreographic approach to art and life, she invites us to listen deeply to the soul’s calling and to join the cosmic dance of creation. Her work explores how individuals and communities may co-weave fields of compassionate consciousness, seed mythic narratives, and build imaginal worlds in which the personal and transpersonal meet, transform, and evolve together.

About the Workshop

In leadership and organizational spaces, we often hear a familiar idea: we must learn to lead ourselves before we can lead others.
We invest in self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and personal mastery. These are essential capacities, and they are reflected across the Inner Development Goals.

But there is a dimension of inner work that is rarely named: We are not taught how to forgive ourselves.

Across our lives and our work, we carry moments where we have caused harm, stayed silent when we should have spoken, or acted in ways that do not align with who we want to be. These experiences do not disappear. They shape how we show up, how we relate, and what we avoid.

Without spaces to process them, self-leadership remains incomplete.

This workshop introduces a simple but challenging premise: before we can meaningfully engage in forgiveness with others, we must learn how to stay present with ourselves in moments of regret, responsibility, and grief. This is not a purely individual task. It requires collective spaces.

Drawing from the concept of Rituals 2.0, the session explores how intentionally designed, co-created containers can support this work. Rituals 2.0 are not inherited traditions, but living practices that allow individuals and groups to engage with emotional and relational complexity in real time.

Participants will be guided through a structured, experiential process that includes individual reflection, paired dialogue, and small group witnessing. The workshop includes a simple ritual container, supported by a symbolic element, to help participants engage with an experience they carry, not to resolve it, but to acknowledge and stay with it.

Forgiveness is not framed as an expectation or outcome. It is approached as something that cannot be forced, only chosen, and that may emerge when people are able to hold truth, responsibility, and compassion at the same time.

The session closes by connecting this inner work to leadership and systems. If we are serious about building trust, collaboration, and integrity, we must expand our understanding of what inner development asks of us.

Maxiumum number of participants: 30

With: 

Andres Marquez-Lara is the founder and CEO of UFacilitate, a global network of over 200 facilitators, cultural interpreters, and bridge-builders across more than forty countries. They help teams navigate the messy human stuff — conflict, ego, miscommunication, and misalignment — that often gets in the way of collaboration. Their work supports organizations moving through the kind of change that tests identity, trust, and purpose. When things feel stuck or fractured, UFacilitate helps groups move from friction to flow, and from disconnection to clarity.

His work lives at the intersection of systems change, emotional healing, and collective leadership. He has designed and facilitated hundreds of convenings for organizations including the Gates Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University, Operation Smile, and The Nature Conservancy. His approach is shaped by a background in psychology, improv theater, and community organizing.

He teaches leadership development in multiple executive programs at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University and a leadership and collaboration advisor at Stanford University's Purposeful Entrepreneurship program.

He is the author of Facilitating Leadership: A Quick and Easy Guide to Leading with Brain, Heart & Soul and Rituals 2.0: Pathways to Reconnection, Healing, and Hope in an Uncertain World.

Once named one of North America's emerging social innovators by Ashoka and American Express, Andres holds a BA in psychology from Duke University and a graduate degree in clinical-community psychology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He lives with his wife and children in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

About the Workshop

Forgiveness is not merely an act of will. Often, unconscious barriers and blockages prevent individuals from fully completing the process of reconciliation. This workshop utilizes a transpersonal technique to help participants identify these barriers and gain the insights necessary to overcome them.

This technique, developed by transpersonal psychologist Jorge Ferrer, employs subtle, gentle physical contact to facilitate a contemplative state of consciousness. This state serves as a gateway to transpersonal levels of the psyche, bringing forth images, sensations, and intuitions with heuristic transformative value. The process yields specific insights that illuminate ""the next step"" in the participant’s unique path to forgiveness.

Participants may choose to engage in the experience individually or interpersonally (in pairs involving respectful, subtle contact). The practice can be performed either sitting or lying down.

The workshop unfolds through five distinct phases:
1. Introductory Explanation: An overview of the process and its theoretical foundations, rooted in transpersonal psychology and psychotherapy.
2. Preparation: Participants identify the specific issue or question they wish to explore.
3. The Experience: A 30-minute session, 25 minutes of which are supported by background music.
4. Integration: Participants create a short narrative or drawing, followed by a communal sharing circle.
5. Closure: The facilitator provides guidance for further self-elaboration and grounding.

Important consideration: Though the technique is gentle and soft, the process can in rare cases surface challenging material that may require support beyond the workshop timeframe. While this is unlikely, it is not impossible. It is therefore essential that the Caux Forum counts with a support service, similar to the “integration station” offered at some EUROTAS conferences. The facilitator of thew workshop is available to assist with this service in the sessions following the workshop.

This workshop uses spiritual references with a pluralistic perspective, which makes it suitable for virtually all spiritual traditions and schools, and even for skeptics (who are simply invited to participate with an open and curious mind). During the workshop, participants receive guidance on how to adapt the instructions to their specific belief system and worldview.

The workshop provides both meaningful insights into the participants’ personal forgiveness processes and general knowledge about transpersonal methods for human transformation. Furthermore, it highlights the essential role of unconscious and transpersonal elements in forgiveness—factors often overlooked in favor of more traditional cognitive and emotional aspects.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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Gabriel Fernandez-Borsot, PhD, is a philosopher, transpersonal therapist (accredited by EUROTAS), and a Gestalt therapist (certified by AETG). He holds a PhD in Transformative Studies from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), an MA in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona, and an MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Gabriel is a Core Faculty member at the Alef Trust and teaches at the International University of Catalonia. He offers workshops and courses on transpersonal therapy, and his research focuses on transpersonal therapy, transpersonal theories, the transdisciplinary analysis of otherness, and transpersonal perspectives on technology.

About the Workshop

Forgiveness is often discussed with words, but rarely explored through experience. This workshop invites participants to reflect on forgiveness by building, sharing, and making sense of their stories through the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method.

Forgiveness is not always a single moment of decision. More often, it is a complex and deeply personal journey shaped by emotions, memories, boundaries, responsibility, and meaning-making. Within the theme of Personal Choice and Forgiveness, this experiential session offers participants a reflective space to explore how forgiveness can emerge — or sometimes remain unresolved — within their own personal landscape.

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method is a facilitated thinking and dialogue process that uses metaphorical building with LEGO bricks to support reflection, storytelling, and collective sense-making. Grounded in research on embodied cognition and constructivist learning, the method enables participants to externalize thoughts and feelings that may otherwise remain difficult to articulate.

Rather than discussing forgiveness as an abstract concept, participants will explore it through a series of reflective building exercises. Using simple materials and guided facilitation, each participant will create a model representing their personal understanding of forgiveness — what makes it possible, what makes it difficult, and what boundaries or conditions may shape the process.

Participants will then share the stories of their models in small groups. The use of metaphor creates a respectful distance that allows participants to explore sensitive themes without the need to disclose personal details unless they choose to do so. In this way, the workshop encourages thoughtful dialogue, attentive listening, and curiosity toward different perspectives.

The process naturally reveals that forgiveness rarely follows a single universal path. For some, it may involve letting go; for others, it may require accountability, acknowledgment, or the establishment of clear boundaries. By seeing how different participants construct meaning around forgiveness, the group develops a deeper understanding of its complexity and its deeply personal nature.

The LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method ensures that every participant has the opportunity to build, reflect, and share. By engaging the hands as well as the mind, participants often access insights that might not emerge through discussion alone. The physical models become powerful metaphors that help individuals recognize patterns, assumptions, and possibilities in their own thinking.

Participants typically leave the session with:
 
 • a deeper awareness of their own relationship with forgiveness
 • a greater appreciation of diverse perspectives and experiences
 • a renewed sense of agency in how they respond to hurt, conflict, and responsibility
 • a tangible metaphorical model that captures their personal insight and evolving forgiveness journey
 
Rather than offering a universal answer to what forgiveness should look like, this workshop invites participants to explore forgiveness as a space of personal choice, meaning-making, and dialogue. In doing so, it creates a reflective environment where individuals can acknowledge complexity, honor their limits, and consider forgiveness as an evolving process rather than a single moment.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

With: 

Özgür Poyrazoğlu is an executive coach, team coach, facilitator, and learning experience designer based in Istanbul, Türkiye. He works internationally with leaders, teams, and organizations across Europe, the Middle East, and beyond, helping them navigate complexity, strengthen collaboration, and create meaningful dialogue.

With a background spanning over three decades in communication, leadership development, and organizational transformation, Özgür brings together coaching, experiential learning, systems thinking, and creative facilitation. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), a graduate of the Gestalt Coaching Program, and a certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator through the Association of Master Trainers.

As co-founder of Paramita Partners, he designs and facilitates leadership programs, team coaching journeys, culture transformation initiatives, and large-scale participatory workshops for organizations across diverse sectors and cultures. His work focuses on psychological safety, belonging, collective intelligence, and helping groups engage in conversations that matter.

Passionate about sustainable human development and regenerative forms of leadership, Özgür creates spaces where people can think with their hands, learn from one another, and discover new possibilities for themselves, their teams, their communities, and the systems they are part of. 

Mine Öztürk adopts a holistic approach that integrates the axes of mind, body, emotion, and meaning throughout her multifaceted journey from an engineering discipline into the inner world of human beings. With her academic depth, corporate experience, and somatic-based wellbeing practices, she accompanies the transformation processes of individuals and organizations. Holding a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology and currently pursuing her PhD in Business Administration, Öztürk has been conducting leadership and transformation trainings within Unlearn Academy, which she co-founded in 2014.

In the field of professional coaching, she holds the CPCC and ICF PCC credentials. She is among the founders of Sufi Coaching, an ICF Level 1 accredited coaching school that blends the ancient understanding of human nature derived from the Sufi tradition with the professional standards and ethical framework of modern coaching. In this perspective, coaching is viewed not merely as a performance-oriented development tool, but as an inner journey through which the individual connects with their true essence via awareness, meaning, and intention.

Focusing her recent work on wellbeing, trauma-informed approaches, and nervous system regulation, Öztürk operates from a holistic perspective that places the body and the nervous system at the core of human development. Her deep background, enriched by trainings from the Polyvagal Academy and the teachings of Dr. Gabor Maté, forms the foundation for a trauma-informed approach that prioritizes somatic awareness and the creation of safe spaces.

Additionally, as the sole licensed trainer in Turkey for Denmark-based Kaospilot’s Learning Experience Design (LXD) program, Mine Öztürk advocates for a development model centered around resilience, balance, meaning, and compassion. In her work, she aims to open up a transformational space that educates the mind, listens to the body, and centers the heart.

About the Workshop

What if forgiveness is not simply about letting go of the past, but a pathway to healing, freedom, and purposeful living?

The Forgiveness Factor offers a fresh approach to understanding forgiveness as a journey that moves from in, to out, to upwards—healing ourselves, transforming our relationships, and deepening our connection to something greater than ourselves. Exploring the why, what, and how of forgiveness in a new light, this experiential workshop combines practical wisdom, reflection, and accessible tools that can be applied in everyday life.

Drawing inspiration from the elements and our interconnectedness with the wider Youniverse, participants are invited to appreciate both the mystery and the practical reality of forgiveness as a catalyst for growth and transformation.

Two powerful frameworks guide the journey:

• The Tree and Root System – exploring the unseen ground beneath us that sustains our capacity to flourish, live peacefully, and act with purpose.
• The Consciousness Iceberg – recognising that much of what shapes our lives lies below the surface and mapping the forgiveness pathway available to each of us.

Together, these frameworks help participants understand the multiple dimensions of their development—physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual—and identify practical resources to support healing and growth.

At its heart, this workshop is about cultivating gratitude and appreciation for life, knowing ourselves more fully, and becoming free from the limitations of old stories and unresolved experiences. It invites participants to awaken the powerful mastery of discernment, empowering the inner alchemist to transform challenge into wisdom and offering a toolkit of resources that can be applied in many different situations.

This is not forgiveness as obligation or forgetting. It is forgiveness as a conscious journey toward greater peace, purpose, and the freedom to live more fully.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

With: 

Daya Bhagwandas is a social entrepreneur, a yoga master, and a professional who works in the field of neurosciences and human evolution. Daya has spent many years in her professional work as a neuro educator, delivering fresh insights into the link between yoga, neurosciences, and transformation. Her work has demonstrated that strengthening resilience within, through understanding human evolution, delivers the power of forgiveness. Her work with Initiatives of Change as a global volunteer has sharpened her understanding of the alchemy of transformation. Daya has recognized that there is a tipping point within us that liberates us, where forgiveness is a growth factor, a by-product of a fascinating mosaic in the 'chemistry lab' within us. 

About the Workshop

On the day of the new moon, you are invited for a nature walk where forgiveness becomes something lived and practiced, not just understood.

Guided by the rhythm of nature, and anchored in the energy of nature and the new moon as a moment of renewal, this session follows a simple cycle: what has been is acknowledged, returned, and transformed, so that something new can begin. Like the earth composts and the old moon hands over to the new moon, what has passed to nourish future growth, we work with forgiveness as a way of allowing the past to become the ground for what comes next.

This is a facilitated, hands-on experience using tangible tools from the Inner Development Kit, designed to move you from insight to intention to action. It is structured, experiential, and grounded in the understanding that inner development shapes outer change.

We travel to the top of the tram line to the observation center in a manner that allows everyone to meet eachother before the top. 
  
Act I: Compost the Past under the Wane of the Moon in nature 
At the top at the observation center and having met everyone we join into pairs and draw our first card and then with instruction walk the first section down. 

We begin in dialogue. Using the IDG Dialogue Cards, you will engage in small-group conversations that open perspective, challenge assumptions, and unlock deeper reflection. These conversations create the conditions for insight, bringing awareness to what has taken root and what is ready to be released.

From there, you will define what you are ready to return to the soil. Inspired by the new moon as a natural moment to let go and begin again, this step invites you to identify what no longer serves you: experiences, patterns, or tensions, and to meet them with clarity and, where possible, gratitude.

This is not about erasing the past. It is about composting it, allowing what has been to break down, transform, and become something that can nourish future growth.
  
 Act II: Seed the Future as the New Moon arrives and we enjoy nature 
Act II begins at the stop on the walk where the parachute (gliders) launch and we then switch partners and draw a card for Act II from the skill cards, then we continue the walk down. 

With space created, we turn toward what is ready to begin.

Maxiumum number of participants: 30

With: 

Matt Law works at the intersection of conscious leadership, systems thinking, and human development. Originally from Australia and based in The Hague, Netherlands, he helps leaders, teams, and organizations navigate complexity with greater clarity, presence, and purpose while remaining grounded in practical execution. With more than 30 years of experience across engineering, logistics, operations, education, and leadership development, he brings together strategic thinking, organizational transformation, and inner development. His work spans board advisory, executive facilitation, leadership education, and the creation of psychologically safe, high-performing cultures.

Matt is a Senior Lecturer in International Business, board member, advisor, and mentor. Having lived and worked across all global regions, he brings a global perspective shaped by diverse industries, cultures, and generations.

Trained as an engineer, he holds a Master’s degree in Mindfulness from Lesley University, an MBA from Erasmus and is a five-time cohort alumnus and Learning Community Leader of the Inner MBA. His work is grounded in the understanding that sustainable outer change begins with authentic inner development.

Sara Øllgaard works at the intersection of leadership, strategy, and inner development. Based in Copenhagen, she helps leaders and teams build the inner capacities needed to navigate complexity and lead meaningful change - without losing sight of the practical.

She is the creator of the Inner Development Kit - a set of dialogue and reflection tools inspired by the Inner Development Goals framework, now used by facilitators, coaches, and leadership programmes across the world. Her work is grounded in a simple belief: outer change starts within.

Sara runs leadership programmes, facilitates team and strategy processes, and brings a rare combination of depth and tangibility to her work. She holds a Master's in Innovation and Leadership, a Mini-MBA in Sustainable Strategy, and is a certified KaosPilot, CTI-trained coach and team coach, and IDG Ambassador.

At Caux, Sara will facilitate a walk and talk in the mountains together with Matthew Law - because some conversations open differently when you're moving through landscape rather than sitting in a room. Last year she experienced this firsthand on the same trails with Matt. She has been wanting to bring others ever since. Want to come?

About the Workshop

This interactive workshop invites participants to explore forgiveness through dialogue, reflection, and creative expression. Beginning with an Agree/Disagree activity, participants challenge common beliefs about forgiveness and discover diverse perspectives across experiences and cultures.

Through a Sharing Circle, participants build a collective understanding of forgiveness using words, gestures, and personal reflections, uncovering how forgiveness can hold both pain and healing. In Speak It or Move It, participants are gently invited to express what in their lives needs forgiveness—whether forgiving another, asking for forgiveness, or forgiving themselves—through words or movement, with the group responding in collective empathy and support.

The workshop concludes with a shared reflection and the creation of a group "forgiveness map", capturing the emotions, insights, and possibilities that emerged during the session.

Designed as a safe and participatory experience, this workshop offers an opportunity to deepen self-awareness, foster connection, and discover forgiveness as a pathway to greater peace, compassion, and inner freedom.

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

With: 

Imen Badarjah is a Tunisian actress, facilitator, and community engagement professional with over ten years of experience in the fields of arts, communication, customer service, and intercultural dialogue. She currently serves as a Virtual Cross-Cultural Dialogue Facilitator, where she guides participants from diverse backgrounds through meaningful conversations that foster understanding, empathy, and collaboration.

Alongside her facilitation work, Imen is an actress and artist passionate about using storytelling and creative expression to amplify underrepresented voices and promote social change. She has participated in several Tunisian films, television series, and theater projects, experiences that have strengthened her ability to connect with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Her artistic work explores themes of identity, inclusion, diversity, and social justice.

In addition to her artistic and facilitation experience, Imen has a strong background in customer service and public engagement, which has enhanced her communication, active listening, and relationship-building skills. She has designed and facilitated workshops on dialogue, forgiveness, civic engagement, and creative expression for local and international audiences.

Imen believes in the power of arts-based approaches to create safe spaces for reflection, learning, and connection. Through her work, she strives to empower individuals and communities to engage in meaningful dialogue and contribute to positive social change.

About the Workshop

What if forgiveness is not a moral act we are required to perform, but a natural process- like soil transforming a seed into life? 

This workshop invites participants into an experiential inner journey where forgiveness is explored not as an obligation, but as a conscious and evolving choice. Rooted in the metaphor of Soul & Soil, and inspired by ""Theory U"" as developed by Otto Scharmer, and drawing on ""Morphic Resonance Theory"" and the concept of collective fields proposed by Rupert Sheldrake, as well as the ""IDGs"", the workshop approaches pain not as an end, but as a signal - an invitation to awareness, intervention, and transformation.

Just as the body responds to pain by prompting us to act - sometimes to repair, sometimes to remove what harms, sometimes to support what is fragile - our inner world calls us to respond in similar ways. Emotional pain can lead us to set boundaries, to see more clearly, and to make decisions that may be difficult, yet necessary. These decisions may take the form of repair, separation, or a subtle internal shift. In all cases, they are part of a deeper process of healing. 

Through guided reflection, dialogue, walking practices, and seed-planting activity, participants will explore how pain can be transformed into meaning, and how meaning can support greater inner freedom. This reflects an inner alchemy: a movement from hurt, to awareness, to conscious choice. The workshop also draws on ecological principles and earth wisdom. When soil becomes depleted, we do not abandon it - it is cared for. We remove what no longer serves, restore balance, and create the conditions for new life to emerge. In the same way, participants are invited to begin with self-reconciliation: to forgive themselves, tend to their inner ground, and gently release what has become harmful or limiting. Forgiveness here is not presented as a fixed answer, but as a living question: Do we have to forgive? When? And how? 

Participants will be encouraged to explore forgiveness as a personal choice - one that may or may not be available at every moment, but one that can emerge through awareness, patience, and inner readiness. Even when justice is not restored externally, there remains the possibility of restoring oneself - through self-care, boundaries, clarity, and conscious decision-making. The journey acknowledges that transformation, like the growth of a seed, often happens in the dark. It requires time, patience, and trust. Yet within that process lies the potential for something new to unfold. Extending beyond the individual, the workshop also engages with the idea of collective transformation.

Drawing on the concept of Morphic Resonance and collective fields proposed by Rupert Sheldrake, it explores how each inner shift - each act of awareness, boundary-setting, or act of forgiveness - may contribute to a wider collective field of the same shifts/acts, making similar pathways more accessible for others to do the same. In this sense, personal transformation is not isolated; it resonates.

At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive a small pouch of seeds- not merely as a symbol of planting forgiveness, but as an invitation with a note written on it: “Take me with you… To start a new journey of becoming.” As forgiveness is not an end state, but an ongoing process/seed of becoming.
 

Maxiumum number of participants: 20

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Asmaa Sleem is an Egyptian Content and Learning Experience Designer, Facilitator, and Peacebuilder working in the fields of inner development, leadership, and social change. She is the founder of Lifelong Learning Talks, an initiative in Egypt that creates reflective learning spaces connecting people with themselves, others, and nature through storytelling, music, and the arts. Since 2015, Asmaa has been actively engaged with the Initiatives of Change network through programs such as Caux Scholars, CPLP, ToT, and other initiatives, deepening her practice in facilitation, learning, and knowledge-sharing. Since 2019, she has been a co-founding member of Creative Leadership, serving as a content designer and facilitator. In 2025–2026, she co-leads content for the Reimagining Democracies youth program. Asmaa holds postgraduate studies in teaching methodologies, curriculum design, and social sciences and liberal arts, alongside specialized training in peacebuilding and trauma healing, as well as “Theory U” and the “Peace Studies in the Muslim World” courses at the University of Bradford. Her work bridges theory and practice, creating transformative learning journeys that inspire individuals to reclaim authenticity and generate meaningful community impact. She is guided by the belief that meaningful change begins with consistent small steps.

About the Workshop

Nature is a powerful mirror for the process of forgiveness: it doesn't hold on to last year’s dead leaves, and it doesn't punish the soil for a drought. Nature changes all of the time. It adapts, let’s go and regrows. In nature, nothing is good or bad. A forest fire is devastating, but it is also the only way certain pine cones can release their seeds.

In this workshop, we will begin by exploring and feeling into our fundamental relationship with nature, re-membering our rightful place in the web of life, before moving into observing and connecting with nature’s capacity for forgiveness.

We will be practicing forgiveness with and as nature helping us see our own ‘forest fires’ as part of a larger cycle of renewal rather than a permanent end. We will be exploring what the burden of holding on to a hurt, betrayal, disappointment or grudge feels like, and equally what it is like to release it, to emotionally free ourselves.

We will learn how to acknowledge and feel our hurt with care and compassion and how to grow new life around it, like a fallen log hosting new moss or grass pushing through cracked pavement.

During the workshop we will discover what forgiveness is and what it’s not, how to acknoweldge and feel our hurt with courage, kindness and compassion, and different ways of practicing forgiveness.

This workshop will take place outdoors. It will be participatory, trauma-sensitive, and grounded in lived experience.

Activities and practices we will engage in during this workshop:

• Re-membering our relationship with nature: experiential sensing of our true nature as Nature.
• Emotional exploration: guided reflections to look closely at both aspects of forgiveness:
  • Sensing what it feels like to hold onto the heavy burden of a hurt or disappointment
  • Sensing the emotional freedom and relief that comes with releasing it
• Compassionate processing: learning how to acknowledge, feel into and sit with emotional pain using courage and kindness, and imagining how to ‘grow new life around it’ (akin to a fallen log hosting new moss).
• Release ritual: guided ritual to symbolically give to the earth the hurt of the past to turn it into the ‘fertiliser’ for something new (transformation).
• Varied group activities: a mix of personal reflection time, paired sharing, and full-group inquiry and collective learning throughout the outdoor session.

Maximum number of participants: 20

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Dan McTiernan is a certified Transpersonal Psychology Coach, embodied meditation teacher and breathwork instructor with nearly two decades of experience in permaculture ecological practice and education.

Dan co-founded the coaching organisation, Being Earthbound, and leads the Embodied Permaculture Project — an international research initiative exploring the connection between whole-person wellbeing, nature connection and systems change. He also co-leads Calmer Farmer, a wellbeing initiative supporting UK farmers and landworkers, and works with organisations including the UNDP’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance and the British Permaculture Association.

A long-term homesteader, he has grown food regeneratively in the UK, Spain and Finland, where he now lives with his wife and two sons.

Karen Liebenguth is a transpersonal coach and restorative facilitator specialising in relationship repair and conflict resolution. She applies her experience in mindfulness and compassion training, alongside her expertise in ethics, to support meaningful growth in individuals, teams, and organisations.

Karen works in partnership with nature, meeting clients in London’s green spaces and the surrounding countryside. This nature-based approach harnesses the restorative benefits of the natural world, enhancing overall well-being and deepening our sense of connection and belonging to the wider web of life. 

Spirituality, meditation and nature are integral parts of Karen’s life. Originally from Germany, London has been her home for the past twenty-five years. Her work extends to teaching at the London Buddhist Centre and leading residential retreats.

About the Workshop

We tell people to forgive, but we rarely show them how. In my work designing peacebuilding curricula used across 52 countries, I have found that forgiveness does not happen through speeches, sermons, or dialogue alone. It happens when people are placed in carefully designed experiences that shift something inside them, the way they see the other, the way they hold their own story, the way they listen.

This workshop is built around those experiences. Participants will not hear a lecture about forgiveness. They will do exercises that surface how misinformation travels, how stereotypes form, how empathy is blocked, and how trust can be rebuilt. They will leave with practical activities, facilitation techniques, and a tested four-step pathway they can adapt in their own communities, classrooms, and organisations.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Dr Ahmed Abdelhakim Hachelaf is an Algerian peacebuilding, education, and civic engagement specialist with over 18 years of experience in research, capacity building, curriculum design, organisational learning, and youth leadership across the Middle East and North Africa and internationally. He is currently the Institute Director of the Generations For Peace Institute, where he leads applied research, quality and accountability, knowledge management, policy engagement, and peacebuilding education.

Ahmed has worked with and consulted for academic, civil society, and international organisations, including The Obama Foundation, Dexis, IIIT, Humentum, Five Oaks, and EdviseMe. His work has focused on widening access to opportunities for youth and marginalised communities, strengthening civic and human rights education, and supporting conflict transformation through learning, dialogue, and social action.

Ahmed is the co-founder of the transnational Twiza Projects, and has authored and contributed to several publications. In 2012, he was selected as a Leaders for Democracy Fellow, later served as Algeria’s delegate to a United Nations event in New York, and was selected as a Caux Scholar in Switzerland. His current work connects grassroots evidence, education, and systems-level peacebuilding practice

About the Workshop

Designed and facilitated by a father-and-daughter team, this workshop explores forgiveness through the lens of ancient Indian wisdom, offering a reflective and experiential space to inquire into the nature of human relationships, conflict, and inner transformation.

The workshop is grounded in the principles of Rhythm of Life, a personal development program created by Dr. Shugan Chand Jain, scholar of Jain philosophy and former Director of the International School for Jain Studies (ISSJS), and Anita Jain, yoga teacher, life coach, sound healer, and trauma-informed practitioner. The program revolves around four existential questions:

• Who am I?
• Why me?
• What is my purpose?
• How do I live my purpose?

At the heart of this workshop lies the inquiry, "Who am I?" Participants are invited to look beyond roles, labels, and past experiences and explore a deeper understanding of self. Drawing from ancient Indian philosophy, the workshop introduces the perspective of the self as a conscious and aware presence, with innate qualities such as peace, compassion, humility, and the capacity to forgive.

Through guided reflection, dialogue, and experiential practices, participants explore how perceptions are shaped by personal histories, conditioning, and habitual responses, and how these influence relationships with others. The workshop encourages an appreciation of multiple perspectives and invites participants to consider the humanity, uniqueness, and lived experiences that both they and others bring to every interaction.

Relationships—whether supportive or challenging—are approached as opportunities for self-awareness and learning rather than problems to be solved. Participants are invited to reflect on how their responses shape their inner state and the quality of their relationships, opening a space for greater awareness, choice, and personal agency.

Throughout the workshop, forgiveness is not presented as an obligation or something to be forced. Instead, the focus is on cultivating the inner conditions—through self-inquiry, awareness, and perspective-taking—from which forgiveness may arise naturally.

Maximum number of participants: 20

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Dr Shugan Chand Jain is a scholar, educator, and practitioner of Jain philosophy. After a global career in information technology, he dedicated the next chapter of his life to the study, teaching, and promotion of Jain thought, with a particular focus on non-violence, ethics, and their relevance to modern life.

As the founder of the International School for Jain Studies, he has helped introduce over 1,000 scholars from around the world to Jain philosophy and its contemporary application. An author, speaker, and lifelong learner, he continues to research, teach, and write while championing the practical application of timeless wisdom in everyday life. He is also the creator of Teachers for Peace, an initiative that brings the values of non-violence and mutual understanding into K-12 education system.

Together with his daughter Anita, he co-created Rhythm of Life, inspired by a shared passion for making ancient wisdom practical and relevant today.

Anita Jain is the founder of Anandi by Anita and a curator of transformative experiences for conscious living. Raised in India within a traditional Jain family and shaped by a life lived across several cultures, she brings a unique perspective that bridges Eastern wisdom and Western thought. Following an international corporate career, Anita now creates spaces for reflection, insight, and meaningful change through coaching, retreats, yoga, sound meditation, and workshops.

Together with her father, she is the co-creator of Rhythm of Life, a framework born from a lifelong dialogue between generations, cultures, wisdom, and lived experience, exploring life’s deeper questions.

She believes that while we may not always choose our circumstances, we can choose how we respond to them—and that even a one-degree shift in perspective can change the direction of a life.

About the Workshop

From the perspective of Holistic Transformation, a method of psycho-spiritual inquiry and group process developed in Spain and elaborated over many decades, this workshop proposes that forgiveness is inherent to the heartbeat of the fleshy vibrant heart. For it is about continual renewal and presence. It is not held back by the past nor pushed forward by the future. When we come back to the beat of our own fleshy vibrant heart, resentments cease to exist. The past, where resentment takes root, ceases to shape the present. There is memory of what it was, but that memory does not condition the present. Forgiveness is the way of the beating heart to free the present from the past. It is the way of the heart to distill what it was to nurture a continuously renewed present.

The beat of the fleshy vibrant heart takes us to forgiveness and reconciliation to restore the present moment when we get lost from it, and to restore the inherent interconnectedness of all what it is, within and around.

The fleshy heart and its rhythmic beat keep each of us in a state of continual renewal and transformation. Such quality of presence and the continuous and vibrational connectivity with others, bring social and local dynamic transformation and sovereignty.

The beat of the fleshy vibrational heart is inherent to all humans. It does not depend on the particular culture, tradition, or personal history. Although personal and social aspects can make easy, difficult, or impossible for the individual to live in coherence with the fleshy heart. 

Maximum number of participants: 20

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Marina T. Romero has spent the last 30 years leading courses in embodiment, sexuality and spiritual transformation, as well as guiding couples and individuals through processes of healing and personal growth. Marina co-created the work and vision of Holistic Transformation, an integral approach to psycho-spiritual embodied growth and healing that works experientially with the body, sexuality, heart, mind, spirit, and nature. She is the author of many articles and book chapters on transpersonal sexuality, psychospiritual embodied development, and human nature as a holistic experience, as well as co-author of the book, Nacidos de la Tierra: Sexualidad, Origen del Ser Humano.

Samuel A. Malkemus is a professor of clinical psychology and consciousness studies who has turned his energy toward creating containers of healing and transformation for individuals and groups. The core of his vision is founded upon a holistic understanding of human health that is grounded in the rhythms of nature and the wisdom of the body. The author of many articles on spirituality, sexuality, and embodiment he is the co-founder and director of the Institute of Holistic Transformation, based in Berkeley California. 

About the Workshop

This youth workshop invites kids and teens to explore forgiveness as both an inner journey and a relational practice. 

Using the elemental metaphors of Fire and Water, participants will reflect on the courage it takes to face hurt, anger, shame, or regret, and the compassion needed to soften, listen, repair, and reconnect. 

Through creativity, movement, dialogue, storytelling, and simple movement rituals, the workshop will help young people understand how a creative ritual for awareness of their deep feeling can unlock forgiveness not as forgetting or excusing harm, but as a conscious choice that can free energy, restore dignity, and open new possibilities for themselves, their relationships, and the wider world.

Maximum number of participants: 20

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Nina Bressler is a facilitator, systems thinker, and founder of Reimagined Value. She's spent 20+ years in global organizations including Hitachi Energy, Novartis, and Deloitte helping people, teams, and communities explore how inner development can create outer change, how learning can enable systems transformation, and how to lead wisely.

Nina's work bridges systems awareness, creativity, embodied learning, and deep dialogue, inviting participants to understand themselves as part of the living systems they want to transform.

Nina is a global advisor to the Inner Development Goals around Societal Learning and has co-founded the Inner Development Goals Czechia Center. 

At Caux, Nina will bring a playful and reflective approach to help children and teens explore forgiveness, belonging, and the courage to become changemakers.

About the Workshop

Designed in collaboration with Klaus Mertens and Daya Bhagwandas, and set within the theme of “The Alchemy of Forgiveness,” this interactive workshop under the topic: “Forgiveness as a Leadership Practice for Hope & Potential - lessons from Rwanda” explores forgiveness not as a passive act, but as a courageous leadership practice that unlocks hope, restores dignity, and enables collective transformation. Drawing from lived experiences and post-genocide reconciliation processes in Rwanda, the session offers practical insights into how forgiveness can move individuals and communities from trauma to renewed potential. 
 
 Aligned with the spirit of the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2026, this workshop is designed as a participatory and experiential space - inviting reflection, dialogue, and co-creation rather than passive listening. Participants will engage in guided storytelling, small group dialogue, and reflective exercises that connect personal inner development with broader societal healing. 
 
 Through the Rwandan experience, participants will explore key questions:
 1. What does it mean to practice forgiveness as a leader in deeply divided contexts? 
 2. How can forgiveness coexist with justice, accountability, and truth? 
 3. In what ways can forgiveness become a catalyst for rebuilding trust and unlocking human potential? 
 
 The session emphasizes forgiveness as an intentional choice and a developmental capacity, one that requires self-awareness, empathy, and moral courage. Participants will be invited to examine their own leadership contexts and identify where forgiveness may serve as a transformative lever for change, whether in organizations, communities, or personal relationships.
 
 In line with the Forum’s focus on experiential learning and co-creation, the workshop will culminate in a collective reflection and prototyping moment, where participants identify concrete ways to integrate forgiveness practices into their leadership journeys and ecosystems. 
 
 By bridging Rwanda’s lessons with global perspectives, this workshop contributes to a shared inquiry: how forgiveness, when practiced intentionally, can help regenerate belonging, foster resilience, and open pathways for a more humane and hopeful future.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Vincent Kalimba (Rwanda) is a Rwandan leader and social entrepreneur with extensive experience in leadership development, organisational management and community transformation across East Africa. He currently serves as Country Lead for Challenges Rwanda, where he works to empower young people and strengthen leadership capacity to drive sustainable change.

In addition to his role at Challenges Rwanda, Vincent is Chairman of Envisage CBC, supporting initiatives that foster collaboration, innovation and community impact. Previously, he served as East Africa Director for Global Grassroots, leading programmes focused on social entrepreneurship and grassroots leadership development throughout the region.

His professional journey also includes leadership positions in the private sector, including Head of Human Resources and Administration at ISCO Security and Country Manager for Qiesto in Rwanda. Across these diverse roles, Vincent has developed a strong track record in organisational leadership, talent development and building partnerships that create meaningful social impact.

Passionate about empowering communities and nurturing the next generation of changemakers, Vincent brings a unique combination of strategic leadership, operational expertise and a deep commitment to inclusive and sustainable development.

Klaus Mertens (Germany) is a System Transformation Coach and the founder of MIND CARE ACADEMY, an institute dedicated to mindfulness and change-enablement. With more than 35 years of international management experience, he has worked across diverse cultures, organisations and transformation processes, gaining deep insights into leadership, human behaviour and the dynamics of change.

Throughout his career, Klaus became increasingly aware of the human cost of constant transformation and performance pressures. Witnessing exhaustion, loss of motivation and burnout among individuals and teams inspired him to embark on a new path—one focused on understanding and supporting the inner dimensions of change.

For more than a decade, Klaus has immersed himself in mindfulness, resilience and personal development practices. Drawing on his long-standing yoga practice, his training as an MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) coach, and his deep engagement with yoga philosophy and values-based work, he has developed an approach that places human wellbeing and mental quality at the heart of transformation.

Through MIND CARE ACADEMY, Klaus supports individuals, leaders and organisations in building the inner capacities needed to navigate complexity and change with greater awareness, resilience and purpose. He believes that sustainable transformation is only possible when people are seen not merely as resources, but as whole human beings—and that the success of any change ultimately depends on the mental and emotional quality of everyone involved.

About the Workshop

Facilitated by Leigh Johnson, this participatory workshop invites participants to explore forgiveness as a lived, relational process rather than an ideal to be achieved or a problem to be solved. The session creates a space for honest engagement with the complexities of identity, historical harm, responsibility, and the possibilities and limits of forgiveness.

Drawing on lived narratives from South Africa, participants encounter diverse perspectives on themes such as inherited privilege, moral injury, belonging, accountability, and reconciliation. These stories are shared through recorded voices and facilitated readings, serving as starting points for reflection and dialogue rather than as examples to emulate or conclusions to reach.

Through small-group dialogue circles and guided relational inquiry, participants are invited to explore their own responses across four interconnected dimensions: forgiveness of self, forgiveness of others, relationships to past and systemic harm, and possibilities for healing and future action.

The workshop is grounded in dialogic and participatory methodologies, including circle practice and relational inquiry, with an emphasis on creating a psychologically safe environment where complexity, emotion, and difference can be engaged with respectfully and openly.

Aligned with the Inner Development Goals, particularly the dimensions of Being and Relating, the session cultivates empathy, humility, deep listening, and the capacity to remain present with difficult questions.

Rather than positioning forgiveness as an expectation or endpoint, this workshop honours its complexity and invites participants to consider what forgiveness means within their own lives, relationships, and contexts. Participants leave with a deeper awareness of themselves and others, and with a lived experience of engaging across difference in ways that are honest, respectful, and generative.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Leigh Johnson is a South African learning and leadership specialist, committed to supporting a sustainable and regenerative future. She is the founder of The Baobab Project, a business dedicated to growing the mindsets needed for a living future through enabling inner development, generative learning and conscious business design. Working at the intersection of leadership development, generative learning, nature and art based practices, dialogue, and sustainability, she creates spaces where individuals and groups can engage meaningfully with complexity, difference, and change. 

With more than twenty years' experience in business education, leadership development, and organisational learning, Leigh's work is informed by her Master's research in generative learning for a sustainable future. She is particularly interested in the role of relational healing as a foundation for individual and collective transformation. 

Living and working in post-apartheid South Africa has shaped a deep personal and professional inquiry into forgiveness, identity, belonging, and reconciliation. Through story, dialogue, and reflective practice, she seeks to support new possibilities for connection, learning, and regeneration.

About the Workshop

Leave what is past in the past, and what is future for the future. In this experiential outdoor workshop, we will enter the present moment to explore how the harmony inherent in Nature reflects the self-same harmony within ourselves, others, and all of life.

Through a Flow Learning progression, we will engage in several Sharing Nature activities that help us move beyond our tendency to be a "human doing" and remember our true nature as a "human being."

Recognizing that forgiveness begins in the quiet of our own hearts, we will leave the four palace walls together and discover firsthand how trees, lakes, and mountains serve as our mirrors on this journey. With plenty of laughter and joy, we will have an embodied experience of how self-forgiveness is the foundation for forgiveness toward others. 

More information about Sharing Nature and the Flow Learning approach

Maximum number of participants: 15

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David Kletter teaches at Living Wisdom International Online High School, sharing courses in ecology, mythology, and mathematics. He studied Fine Art as an undergraduate at Montana State University, and is now a candidate in the MSc with Alef Trust. David studied for several years with Joseph Bharat Cornell at Ananda Village, California, learning and sharing the principles of Sharing Nature Worldwide. He is passionate about education that focuses on uplifting and transforming the consciousness of each student, following the Education for Life approach to an integral education. He often works with children and teens, using wild forests, local rivers, the community garden and pottery studio as living classrooms. 

About the Workshop

In recent years, the world and humanity have faced greater questions around patterns of division, and destruction, with concerns about the social, political, ecological, cultural, economic imbalances, and uncertainty about the future.

Where can we find the solutions to bring meaningful change? How did the world get to this point? What can we do to ensure a thriving world for future generations?

The invitation of this moment is to use our heads and look with our hearts to find our common ground. When we clearly see the truth of our shared stories, and listen deeply, the better we find our possibilities to co-create a vision of healing and wellbeing for our future.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Shawna Bluestar Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape, Celtic, mixed ancestry) has been opening hearts and minds worldwide with her powerful loving presence, and inspirational messages. She has been a facilitator in transformational change for over 20 years. Shawna supports a process of courageous conversations and deep listening as an approach towards sacred repair, to see common ground with a sense of shared humanity. She works with leaders, and people of all backgrounds, and collaborates with her father on a global movement towards healing. She helps to examine the shadows, and legacy patterns of domination and destruction across all aspects of our world and a healing solution with The Reverence Code. She is a featured speaker on global platforms and at universities and her students in eleven countries celebrate her courses and guidance for these times. Shawna holds a vision of healing transformation, love and reverence for all peoples, beings, the planet, and future generations.  

About the Workshop

Traces of Redemption is an experiential workshop that combines art, reflection, and collective creation to explore forgiveness as a path toward healing, hope, and personal and community transformation. More than an art workshop, it is an immersive experience that invites participants to recognize their emotional wounds, understand the origins of their fears, and transform pain into an opportunity to rebuild themselves alongside others.Traces of Redemption offers a deeply human experience in which the act of creating becomes a process of reconciliation with oneself and with others. Forgiveness is understood not as forgetting what has happened, but as choosing to transform our wounds into bridges of hope. Through art, reflection, and collective creation, participants discover that peace begins within each individual but reaches its greatest potential when it is built and shared in community.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Álvaro Sebastián Quiroz Bolaños is a Mexican social entrepreneur, visual artist, and international advocate for dignity, resilience, and suicide prevention. He is the first Mexican to be honored by the United Nations Youth Activists Summit in recognition of his work advancing social inclusion and community-led change.In 2020, he co-founded Brigada 12, a grassroots movement born in Guadalajara that supports people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and extreme vulnerability. The initiative has grown into a cross-border movement active in Mexico, Colombia, and the United States.

Álvaro is also the founder of IRIS Art, a platform that merges art, social impact, and cultural transformation through purpose-driven exhibitions and immersive experiences. As an artist, he created Echoes of Reality, an immersive project that brings urgent social issues into public consciousness through symbolic storytelling and interactive installations. Having experienced homelessness and survived a suicide attempt himself, Álvaro brings a deeply personal perspective to his work. His journey from adversity to advocacy has made him a powerful voice for human dignity, mental health awareness, and the transformative potential of resilience and community. (photo: Antoine Tardy/YAS)

About the Workshop

In the aftermath of violent conflict, peace mediators know that forgiveness cannot be negotiated or demanded. Yet they also witness moments when relationships begin to shift, when former enemies become willing to listen, and when new possibilities emerge. What makes these moments possible? What role do truth, justice, accountability and human dignity play? And what can these experiences teach us about the conflicts we encounter in our own lives, organisations and communities?

This workshop invites participants into an experiential exploration of these questions, drawing on lessons from international peace processes and an embodied, inquiry-based coaching approach rooted in the Living Presence Network. Through stories from mediation practice, guided exercises and reflective dialogue, we will explore how to remain present with tensions that cannot be easily resolved: between justice and peace, accountability and reconciliation, holding on and letting go. Rather than asking, How do I forgive?, we will investigate a different question: What conditions make forgiveness, or other forms of transformation, possible?

Together, we will explore what it means to stay present in the liminal space where easy answers are unavailable and transformation cannot be forced. Participants will reflect on these dynamics in relation to their own leadership, relationships and communities, discovering how lasting change often begins not by resolving tension, but by learning to hold it with greater presence, wisdom and compassion until something new can emerge.

Maximum number of participants: 30

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Martin Albani is a peace mediation advisor, facilitator and certified coach (Living Presence Network) who supports leaders, teams and organisations in navigating conflict, complexity, and purpose. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience in diplomacy, peace mediation and international affairs, he helps create the conditions for dialogue, trust and transformation in situations where there are no easy answers. Until 2025, Martin served as Head of the Peace Mediation and Dialogue Sector in the Foreign Service of the European Union (EEAS), advising and supporting peace processes and political dialogue in conflict contexts worldwide. Today, alongside his work with governments and international organisations, he coaches individuals and facilitates experiential learning for executive leaders and teams seeking to navigate conflict with greater presence, clarity and compassion. Martin is a Senior Fellow at the Geneva Graduate Institute and teaches negotiation, mediation and dialogue at the University of Oxford and the University of St. Gallen.

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Jevon Dängeli completed the MSc programme in transpersonal psychology, consciousness and spirituality at Alef Trust, where he is currently undertaking a PhD in applied transpersonal psychology. His research explores how trauma care practitioners experience the integration of an open awareness and compassionate companionship approach in their work. He has several coach related certifications and has been coaching professionally since 2002, as well as providing training and supervision for coaches. Jevon is the transpersonal coaching psychology certificate course developer and lead teacher at Alef Trust. He has given talks and workshops at international psychology conferences since 2017. He is the author of nine training manuals in the field of coaching, Editor of the Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Journal, developer of the Jumi (judo mind) practice and co-founder of the Live Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to create opportunities for positive change by providing free education and empowering resources to those who contribute their time and energy to humanitarian aid or environmental sustainability. His website is https://jevondangeli.com

Jules De Vitto has a BSc in Psychology from Nottingham Trent University (2007), MA in Education (2014) from Nottingham University, and MSc in Transpersonal Psychology, Consciousness and Spirituality (2019) from Middlesex University. She is an accredited and certified Transpersonal Coach (2018) by the International Association of Coaches, Therapists and Mentors, as well as an experienced teacher and educator. She works as a tutor on the one-year Transpersonal Coaching Psychology Certificate Programme at Alef Trust which explores the science, art and practice of transpersonal coaching psychology. She is also the founder of the Highly Sensitive Human Academy – a central hub that offers courses, coaching and a podcast for Highly Sensitive People. She runs an online professional and certified training programme on how to coach and empower Highly Sensitive People. 

Jules’ academic interests are focussed on Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) otherwise referred to as High Sensitivity. She is especially interested in how the modality of transpersonal coaching is supportive of those who identify as highly sensitive. She also has a passion for exploring transpersonal coaching approaches for supporting the social and emotional wellbeing of children.

Dr. Hennie Geldenhuys is a medical doctor, clinical researcher, academic, and certified Transpersonal, Authentic Self-Empowerment (ASE) and Open Awareness (OA) coach. He has a passion for integrating his experience in clinical medicine and ethics with the applied transpersonal perspective to coaching and psychology. Hennie works with individual clients, conducts training workshops, and enjoys sharing and learning through teaching and mentoring. He is faculty at the Alef Trust, where he fulfills various teaching and research roles. Hennie specialises in mind-body-spirit integration, mindfulness-based balanced living, and the psychosomatic.

He lives in the Western Cape, South Africa, among the mountains with his family, cats, and dogs

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Bethany Butzer, PhD, writes, teaches, and conducts research in the fields of positive psychology and transpersonal psychology, which emphasize the development of human strength and potential. She received her MA in clinical psychology and her PhD in social psychology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. From 2013 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she studied the effects of yoga in school settings. Bethany was a Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New York in Prague from 2016 to 2022, and she is currently a Lecturer for the Alef Trust MSc programme in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology. She is also the Assistant Director of the Alef Trust PhD programme in Applied Transpersonal Psychology. Bethany’s research focuses on yoga and mindfulness for youth, as well as transpersonal topics such as synchronicity, parapsychology, and ecopsychology. 

Laurel Waterman

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Executive coach and leadership facilitator with more than 30 years of experience across finance, governance, and sustainability, Marjadi Kooistra supports senior leaders, founders, and teams navigating complexity, transition, and purpose — in one-on-one work and in the collective.

Her coaching practice is grounded in NOBCO/EMCC-aligned professional training and practices from Transformational Presence, Theory U, and the Ecosystem Leadership Program (Presencing Institute, MIT). She serves as an IDG Ambassador and was part of the IDG Global Coordinators Team from its early days until early 2025.

Alongside her coaching practice, she is Co-Founder of TogetherForTheBetterGood, working on ocean governance and regenerative finance, and co-founder of Healing Our Islands — a systems leadership programme that weaves coaching, facilitation, and indigenous wisdom across Asian and Pacific Island communities and global partners.

Grandmother Ejna Jean Fleury is an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and serves as the Tribe’s first Peace Ambassador. Of Miniconjou, Oglala, Hunkpapa and Ihanktonwan lineage of the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation), with French, Western European and Siberian ancestry, she is a Mystic, Visionary, Ceremonialist, spiritual activist and healer dedicated to peace, reconciliation and the healing of historical and intergenerational trauma. A lifelong practitioner of meditation for more than 40 years, Grandmother Ejna is a certified meditation teacher, spiritual counsellor, and facilitator of consciousness and healing practices. She serves as a minister, healer, priestess, ceremonialist and pipe carrier in the tradition of White Buffalo Calf Woman.

She is the co-founder of Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee and the Wounded Knee Global Ceremonies, initiatives devoted to healing the multigenerational and multilineal effects of massacre, holocaust and war on humanity, other species and our beloved planetary home. She also co-founded the Crow Creek Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society and founded Divine Mothers Love and the Sacred Earth Council. Grandmother Ejna serves as Commissioner of the Global Justice and Healing Commission and International Coordinator of the Four Worlds Holistic Health Program for Elders and Leaders. She is a member of the Council of Eagle, Condor, Quetzal and Colibri (ECQC) and contributes to global initiatives dedicated to peacebuilding, Indigenous wisdom and collective healing. A registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, she previously served on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. Through her work, Grandmother Ejna brings together Indigenous wisdom, spirituality and compassionate action in service of personal, collective and planetary healing.

Dalila Hernández Cuahutle is a bridge‑woman rooted in the ancestral wisdom of the Tlaxcalteca, Maravatío, and Tepexpan territories in México. For two decades, she has walked and practiced the universal spiritual teachings of A Course in Miracles. She is co‑guardian of the global initiative Inner Wisdom Circles, featured at the IDG Summit in Stockholm, the International Day of Conscious Politics, the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week, and the One World Forum.

As an Executive Coach and learning‑process facilitator, Dalila supports leaders across United Nations agencies and serves as a coaching member for UNOPS in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Her earlier contributions to peace, justice, and strong institutions include work with Mexican Diplomacy in the United States, the U.S. Congress, and USAID. A Political Scientist weaving science and spirituality, she researches human transformation and integrates neuroscience, ancient wisdom traditions, and meditation as core elements for strengthening the foundations of peaceful and just societies. Dalila brings a rare blend of spiritual depth, political understanding, and organizational leadership to every space she holds.

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Brian Les Lancaster, PhD, is a Founding Director and Dean of the Alef Trust. He is also Professor Emeritus of Transpersonal Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University, UK and an Honorary Research Fellow in Religions and Theology, University of Manchester, UK. He has previously served as Chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, as President of the International Transpersonal Association, and as a Board member of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Les’ research interests focus on the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and discourses relating to consciousness from mysticism, specifically focusing on Kabbalistic Psychology. He has researched consciousness for more than 40 years and studied the Kabbalah and other schools of mysticism for over 50. His focus has been to formulate a neo-Kabbalistic approach that is informed not only by centuries of Kabbalistic texts but also through the insights of modern transpersonal psychology. He is a prize-winning author, having written numerous journal articles and chapters in edited books, as well as his books which include The essence of kabbalah; Approaches to consciousness: The marriage of science and mysticism; and With wings unfurled: Kabbalistic psychology in the transpersonal age (forthcoming).

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Jean-Philippe Challandes spent more than three decades exploring the dynamics of power, identity and transformation—first as a political historian researching nationalism and identity, and later as a leadership facilitator working with business schools and executive education programmes.

In 2022, he began a deliberate process of dismantling the very frameworks he had mastered. Since concluding his final institutional contract in 2025, his work has emerged from a different place: decoding patterns of power, accompanying individuals and groups through threshold crossings, and cultivating coherence in times of profound transition.

Working at the intersection of embodied presence, sacred masculine integration (for all genders), and the fertile uncertainty of the “not yet,” Jean-Philippe supports those navigating the disintegration of outdated structures and sensing the quieter, deeper possibilities seeking to emerge. His practice invites a different quality of attention—one that honours complexity, embraces uncertainty, and listens for what is old, true and waiting to be remembered.

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Andres Marquez-Lara is the founder and CEO of UFacilitate, a global network of over 200 facilitators, cultural interpreters, and bridge-builders across more than forty countries. They help teams navigate the messy human stuff — conflict, ego, miscommunication, and misalignment — that often gets in the way of collaboration. Their work supports organizations moving through the kind of change that tests identity, trust, and purpose. When things feel stuck or fractured, UFacilitate helps groups move from friction to flow, and from disconnection to clarity.

His work lives at the intersection of systems change, emotional healing, and collective leadership. He has designed and facilitated hundreds of convenings for organizations including the Gates Foundation, the Inter-American Development Bank, Stanford University, Operation Smile, and The Nature Conservancy. His approach is shaped by a background in psychology, improv theater, and community organizing.

He teaches leadership development in multiple executive programs at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Excellence in Public Leadership at George Washington University and a leadership and collaboration advisor at Stanford University's Purposeful Entrepreneurship program.

He is the author of Facilitating Leadership: A Quick and Easy Guide to Leading with Brain, Heart & Soul and Rituals 2.0: Pathways to Reconnection, Healing, and Hope in an Uncertain World.

Once named one of North America's emerging social innovators by Ashoka and American Express, Andres holds a BA in psychology from Duke University and a graduate degree in clinical-community psychology from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He lives with his wife and children in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

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Leigh Johnson is a South African learning and leadership specialist, committed to supporting a sustainable and regenerative future. She is the founder of The Baobab Project, a business dedicated to growing the mindsets needed for a living future through enabling inner development, generative learning and conscious business design. Working at the intersection of leadership development, generative learning, nature and art based practices, dialogue, and sustainability, she creates spaces where individuals and groups can engage meaningfully with complexity, difference, and change. 

With more than twenty years' experience in business education, leadership development, and organisational learning, Leigh's work is informed by her Master's research in generative learning for a sustainable future. She is particularly interested in the role of relational healing as a foundation for individual and collective transformation. 

Living and working in post-apartheid South Africa has shaped a deep personal and professional inquiry into forgiveness, identity, belonging, and reconciliation. Through story, dialogue, and reflective practice, she seeks to support new possibilities for connection, learning, and regeneration.

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Alexandra Sorgenicht is an author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and internationally recognized expert in intuitive intelligence. For more than two decades, she has worked with entrepreneurs, leaders, creatives, and professionals exploring how human beings navigate complexity, uncertainty, and responsibility.

At the center of her work is intuition as a precise form of intelligence that allows people to perceive patterns, relationships, and emerging realities before they become fully cognitively accessible.

Through her teaching, speaking, and the INTUITIVE HUMAN Method™, she develops practical approaches to integrating intuition, cognition, embodiment, and conscious action. Her work explores a central question of our time: what forms of intelligence become necessary when complexity exceeds the limits of control.

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Asmaa Sleem is an Egyptian Content and Learning Experience Designer, Facilitator, and Peacebuilder working in the fields of inner development, leadership, and social change. She is the founder of Lifelong Learning Talks, an initiative in Egypt that creates reflective learning spaces connecting people with themselves, others, and nature through storytelling, music, and the arts. Since 2015, Asmaa has been actively engaged with the Initiatives of Change network through programs such as Caux Scholars, CPLP, ToT, and other initiatives, deepening her practice in facilitation, learning, and knowledge-sharing. Since 2019, she has been a co-founding member of Creative Leadership, serving as a content designer and facilitator. In 2025–2026, she co-leads content for the Reimagining Democracies youth program. Asmaa holds postgraduate studies in teaching methodologies, curriculum design, and social sciences and liberal arts, alongside specialized training in peacebuilding and trauma healing, as well as “Theory U” and the “Peace Studies in the Muslim World” courses at the University of Bradford. Her work bridges theory and practice, creating transformative learning journeys that inspire individuals to reclaim authenticity and generate meaningful community impact. She is guided by the belief that meaningful change begins with consistent small steps.