Caux Forum für innere Entwicklungsziele 2026

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

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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). 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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 and 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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. 

Nargis Raza 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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. www.bethanybutzer.com

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

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.

Linage: Miniconjou, Oglala, Hunkpapa, & Ihanktonwan
of Oceti Sackowin [Great Sioux Nation;] French, Western European; Siberia
Enrolled member of Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, South Dakota
First Peace Ambassador Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Co-Founded Crow Creek Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society
Mystic, Visionary & Ceremonialist
Spiritual activist & counselor
Meditation and Consciousness Facilitator & Healer
RN, BS Nursing, MA Counseling Psychology
Former Faculty, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing
 
Council of Eagle, Condor, Quetzal & Colibri ECQC 2023-2026, https://www.4worlds.org
Peace Room of Founding Mothers Movement  https://foundingmothers.world/
Co-Founder of Crow Creek Kunsi/Unci Grandmothers Society
Founder of Divine Mothers Love https://divinemotherslove.org/
Founder of Sacred Earth Council https://sacredearthcouncil.com/
Founder of Healing Hearts at Wounded Knee https://healingheartsatwoundedknee.com/global/  

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

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).

"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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jessica Bockler, PhD is an applied artist, transpersonal psychologist and co-founding director of the Alef Trust, a global leader in transformative education. She is also the founder of Creative Alternatives, an award-winning arts & mental health service in the UK. Jessica’s work bridges consciousness, imagination, transpersonal psychology, and social change, with particular emphasis on integrative human development and holistic systems change. She leads Nurturing the Fields of Change, a global community of facilitators working on projects for human transformation and planetary thriving. Additionally, she serves as the research lead for Calmer Farmer, a pilot initiative supporting UK farmers in wellbeing and food systems transformation. Jessica is active in the communities of the Inner Development Goals, the Presencing Institute, and UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance. A member of the British Psychological Society, she is on the editorial team of the Journal of Awareness-based Systems Change and the International Journal of Presencing Leadership & Coaching. 

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. 

Francesca Hector MSc (UK/Spain) is Community Coordinator at Alef Trust, a global leader in transformative education. She coordinates Nurturing the Fields of Change, Alef Trust’s membership community of practice for holistic transformation and social change, and is editor of the Alef Field multimedia magazine for applied transformative perspectives. She is a transpersonal coach with an approach grounded in trauma-informed integrative somatic training and practice, and kundalini yoga practitioner.  She is currently immersed in PhD research in applied transpersonal psychology with Alef Trust/ Liverpool John Moores University, exploring embodied spiritual intelligence in education for sustainable development.

Pontus Holmgren is a licensed psychologist and a trained UrbanTantra breath guide. He is an organsiational transformation facilitator and an actor, conductor and teacher in improvised Playback theatre. Pontus has worked with leadership, teams, cross collaboration  and transformational processes in a multitude of organisations and communities globally since the mid 1990s. Currently focusing on the need for inner development for individuals and for the collective in order deal with the current and future complex challenges of humanity. Pontus has been part of the IDG journey from the start and is a co-coordinator for the global community of Hubs and networks of the Inner Development Goals.

Ines Mokdadi is the 2025 Global Engagement Events Coordinator at Caux Initiatives of Change. Alongside this role, she is a Professor of English at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Kairouan, Tunisia, where she specializes in Linguistics. Her research focuses on critical discourse analysis, power dynamics, and narrative transformation. When she’s not in the classroom, Ines works as a freelance translator and interpreter, and is a proud Caux Scholar alumna (2025). She also spent time as a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) at the University of Notre Dame in the USA (2020-2021), further cultivating her passion for language and cultural exchange. Ines is deeply committed to civic engagement, inclusion, and global understanding. She volunteers as the Lead Content Strategist for the Creative Leadership team, focusing on youth-driven initiatives. More recently, she expanded her work with IofC UK, where she trains participants in the Refugees for Re-Builders (RRB) programme on Ethical Leadership for Just Governance. This role underscores her dedication to supporting refugees and promoting ethical, community-driven solutions for a more just world.

Sarah Noble is a Canadian-born peace advocate and storyteller currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. Sarah is the Head of Global Engagement, Creative Peacebuilding & Inner Development at the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation where she works on partnerships, inner development, the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters, and the Caux Forums. She is also co-founder and Curator of the PeaceTalks, a global storytelling platform dedicated to stories of peace at Interpeace. She has over 20 years of experience in strategic communications, fundraising, and partnerships in global organizations focused on peacebuilding, humanitarian issues, and non-profit public interest media. Passionate about storytelling as a tool for healing and social change, Sarah believes in its power to address global challenges. In her TEDx talk, Storytelling is Our Real-Life Superpower, she highlights how narratives can shape a better future. Sarah is the mom of 2 small kids and is motivated by a desire to be a good ancestor. Sarah has an MA in International Affairs from Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and a BA in Political Studies and Economics from Queen’s University.

Ignacio Packer is Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, a Swiss private charitable foundation with the mission to provide a safe and privileged space to inspire, equip and connect individuals, groups and organizations from around the globe to engage effectively and innovatively in the promotion of trust, ethical leadership, sustainable living and human security. Ignacio has over 30 years of experience in humanitarian work and development issues. He is an expert on human rights and social issues and has been strongly engaged in global advocacy on protection frameworks for migrants and refugees with a particular focus on children and youth.

Rafaela Rolim aims to host safe spaces of exchange and learning that inspires people and organisations to co-create a better world. She is the founder of Brazilian Experience, with 18+ years of experience in program design, facilitating international learning journeys and human development projects. Rafaela is a IDG enthusiast and started the IDG Florianópolis HUB - Experiences in Nature. She is currently part of the Global Coordination Team for HUBs and Networks and also launched the first IDG Immersion, called ID-X I Inner Development Experiences.  Rafaela believes in the power of community to foster collaboration towards common goals, creating transformative impact beyond individual capacity. She is currently also the Co-chair of the Sustainability Interest Group of NAFSA (Association of International Educators) and Vice-President of the CANIE (Climate Action Network for International Educators) America´s Chapter.

Roweida Saleh is a Lebanese educator with a wealth of experience in conflict resolution, peace education, and fostering cross-cultural understanding. She is dedicated to building communities rooted in peace and trust. With over 20 years of volunteer and peace education experience, she has fostered dialogue, collaboration, and positive change for a more just world. Roweida is passionate about empowering others to become active peacebuilders to build bridges and nurture a culture of trust.

Siddharth Singh is the Director of the Initiatives of Change centre Asia Plateau in Panchgani, India. He is a facilitator, coach, designer and traveler. In 2001, Siddharth co-founded ‘Paradigms Unlimited’, a business leadership-consulting firm, committed to working with people to create personal and organisational transformation. His personal vision is to see a world that works for everyone and not just a privileged few and hopes to use his life working towards this idea. He believes he is a student of life and nature, and believes that most of the important lessons lie in how nature works.