Viviane Straub is from Germany/UK and was deeply moved by her personal journey during the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme in 2019. She has since been part of the Creative Leadership team and hopes to create spaces for dialogue and connection. Having studied Human Ecology, she is interested in finding alternatives to dominant narratives on how we live with the human and more-than-human world and is currently living and working in an ecovillage on Gotland/Sweden. For Viviane, music is a constant companion on her path towards greater regeneration.

Steven Lin is a CPLP alumnus from Canada where he works as a Family Outreach Worker, helping young parents achieve their personal and parenting goals. He is passionate about youth leadership and has been engaged in various initiatives to help develop future leaders. He loves to learn new things and to chat with people. If you need someone who will listen, he is the one to go to.

My name is Siya Myeza and I work with marginalized communities in Cape Town on social and environmental justice issues and specifically on access to clean, equitable and affordable water. My work with the Environmental Monitoring Group focuses on creating space for ordinary citizens to engage with and influence decision makers. I knew about Caux before I got there. It was explained as a peaceful and majestic place. The feelings I felt when I was in Caux were a huge sense of peace, tranquility and freedom. To me leadership is the way a person lives his/her life.

Sinda Arfaoui has been working as an English Language Teacher for two years, and sees herself as a pursuer of knowledge. She is a MEPI Student Leaders program alumna and took summer courses in Civic Engagement and Leadership at Montana State University. She worked with multiple initiatives focussing on education before joining Initiatives of Change and co-founding MENNA Initiative. For the past two years she has been working for IREX as a selection committee member for the Civic Engagement Exchange Program.

Sidra Raslan is a young Syrian determined to take part in making the world and her country a better place. She believes in the power of youth and the gift of diversity, and that when these are combined with personal stories and an openness to share, they can provide a space that inspires leadership and a cascade of change – the Creative Leadership conference. Her journey with IofC began in 2016. Since then she has carried with her a piece of the Caux Palace and the people she met there. This  keeps her motivated to be the best version she can be of herself.

Sarah Schofield is a new addition to the Creative Leadership family this year. She is a photojournalist who enjoys helping people to  share their stories through her writing and photography. Intrigued by the journeys and life experiences of those she has met in her 32 years, she believes there is always something we can learn from one another if we only take the time to listen.

Manuela Garay is an office manager for an energy conservation company in Canada and is currently studying graphic design. She took part in the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme in 2017, and is excited to be continuing her involvement through the Creative Leadership conference and Weaving Our Narratives course. Having experienced first-hand through CPLP how inner peace and sharing your story can impact your life, she is eager to see what positive effect this conference and course will have on others and on the world at large

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Jonas Truneh is from the UK and first came to Caux in 2017 for the Just Governance for Human Security conference and returned the following year as a member of the 2018 Caux Scholars Program. These experiences affirmed to him the importance of the values of IofC. In 2019 he was a member of the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme where he was given the opportunity to explore the true meaning of leadership with an international cohort of inspiring changemakers. He has since been a member of the Creative Leadership team.

Hajar Bichri is from Morocco. Her first experience with IofC was in 2016 in the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme. Since then she has been to Caux multiple times and taken part in different programmes in various capacities. She served in the Forum Secretariat, worked with Tools for Changemakers and was closely involved with many of the wonderful conferences. Hajar joined the Creative Leadership team in 2019 and supported the conference in communications.