Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation We inspire, equip and connect individuals to build trust, lead ethically and live sustainably, primarily at our centre for dialogue, the Caux Palace.

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✨Only 10 weeks to go until registration for the 2026 closes — this is your moment! ✨This summer, step into a space whe...
06/04/2026

✨Only 10 weeks to go until registration for the 2026 closes — this is your moment! ✨
This summer, step into a space where inspiration meets action and join a global community of changemakers, creatives, and seekers from all walks of life. Come to reconnect — with nature, with others, and with yourself.

10 REASONS TO BE THERE:
🌱 Get inspired by powerful conversations and fresh perspectives
🤝 Meet people from all walks of life and build meaningful connections
🌿 Reconnect with nature and find space to breathe
🧭 Invest in your inner development and rediscover what drives you
🔥 Be part of the solution to today’s global challenges
🎨 Get creative and explore new ways of expression
🗣️ Tell your story — and hear others’ stories in return
🌍 Tap into indigenous wisdom and diverse worldviews
💡 Turn ideas into action that truly matters
💛Day Pass access available for Caux Democracy Forum & Caux IDG Welcome Day

And that’s only the beginning.

⏳ 10 weeks will pass quickly — make sure you’re there when it matters!

DISCOVER ALL OUR CAUX FORUM 2026 EVENTS AND REGISTER NOW: link in comment

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🍫🎻 LE GOÛT - ORCHESTRE & CHOCOLAT : Et si la musique se dégustait… et le chocolat s’écoutait ?🍫🎻Le 2 mai 2026 à 15h, viv...
03/04/2026

🍫🎻 LE GOÛT - ORCHESTRE & CHOCOLAT : Et si la musique se dégustait… et le chocolat s’écoutait ?🍫🎻
Le 2 mai 2026 à 15h, vivez une expérience sensorielle hors du commun au emblématique , monument historique d'importance national surplombant le lac Léman.

✨ Un moment unique où :
* les créations du maître chocolatier Jorge Cardoso, double champion du monde,
* rencontrent les œuvres de compositeurs emblématiques comme Erik Satie ou Rachel Portman,
* interprétées en live par l’ de Chambre Fribourgeois - Freiburger Kammerorchester, sous la direction d’Enrico Fagone
* et avec la narration de Pierre-Do Bourgknecht

🎶 Chaque note trouve son écho dans une saveur, chaque bouchée prolonge l’émotion musicale…

Un dialogue raffiné entre goût et musique, pour éveiller tous vos sens dans un lieu d’exception.

📍 Caux Palace (au-dessus de Montreux) - Rue du Panorama 2,1824 Caux
📅 2 mai 2026 – 15h00

🎟️ Réservez votre place et laissez-vous emporter par cette symphonie gourmande.

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03/04/2026

Today is Jane Goodall Day — and Episode 3 of The Hummingbird Collective on the importance of stories of hope is live.

Dr. Jane Goodall spent decades making the same argument: that individual action is not naive. It is the mechanism. Every individual matters. Every individual makes a difference. Every single day.

In Episode 3, our Head of Global Engagement, Sarah Noble, explores what that looks like in practice — through the lens of storytelling, peacebuilding, and the work we do at the .

When someone stands up in a room and shares a true story of restoring trust after conflict, something happens to the people listening. Not just inspiration. Recognition. A shift from "that's remarkable" to "if they can do it, so can I."

That shift — from witness to agent — is not sentiment. It is the mechanism through which stories build peace. And it starts with one person deciding their drop of water counts.

This series is co-produced by , supported through the participation of Sarah Noble in the Youth for Peace: Intercultural Leadership Programme (2025–2026).

🎧 Full episode — link in comment.

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🌍"Peace needs to take centre stage. Not as a background condition. Not as a symbol. But as a story — specific, human, to...
02/04/2026

🌍"Peace needs to take centre stage. Not as a background condition. Not as a symbol. But as a story — specific, human, told with the same urgency as the stories of war." - Sarah Noble, Head of Global Engagement, Creative Peacebuilding and Inner Development Goals, Caux Foundation 🌍

Today, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, we marked the International Day of Conscience — a global call to move from awareness to collective action for peace.

Under the theme “Reinventing peace with youth,” the event placed young people at the heart of the dialogue. With more than 250 youth engaged, they were not simply participants, but active contributors — shaping conversations, sharing perspectives, and helping to redefine what peace can mean today. Their engagement reflects a growing recognition that peace must be co-created with the next generation.

We were pleased to partner once again with this important event, organized by LoveForce Foundation and AIODD, Alliance Internationale des Objectifs du Développement Durable.

On this occasion, Sarah Noble offered a compelling reflection:
👉 “What do you see when you think about war? And what do you see when you think about peace?”

She highlighted a critical gap: while war is widely represented through powerful narratives, peace too often remains abstract and underrepresented. As she emphasized, the stories we are exposed to shape not only how we understand the world, but whether we believe we have the power to change it.

In this context, peace education plays a vital role — not in turning away from conflict, but in giving peace the same visibility, urgency and human depth as the stories of war.

Sarah also underlined that hope is not a luxury, but a fundamental human capacity — the ability to imagine and work towards a different future. Young people embody this potential, expanding what we believe is possible.

A deeply moving musical interlude by cellist Karim Wasfi - conductor of the Iraq National Symphone Orchestra and a speaker at last year’s Caux Arts and Peace Encounters - further illustrated this message, conveying beyond words the emotional power and universality of peace.

As stories, testimonies and dialogue unfolded throughout the day, one question remained central: What are we enabling the next generation to imagine?

For ultimately, we can only build what we are able to envision — and believe — is possible.

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Watch out and save the date for the Geneva Peace Forum 2026! We will be there!
02/04/2026

Watch out and save the date for the Geneva Peace Forum 2026! We will be there!

02/04/2026

🕊️💬WHEN WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH: RETHINKING PEACEBUILDING 🕊️💬
“The arts have the capacity to find multiple pathways of expressing the unspeakable.” — John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute, USA.

In times of rupture, conflict often lives in the unspeakable—the places language can’t reach. That’s where the arts step in because peacebuilding isn’t only technical. It’s deeply human, creative, and relational.

🎭The Caux Arts & Peace Encounters 2026: "Creation in a Time of Rupture" offers a living laboratory where artists, peacebuilders, educators & changemakers come together.

Over 3.5 days at the Caux Palace, join us to move beyond reflection into experimentation:

🕊️ Where imagination meets action
🤝 Where empathy becomes practice
✨ Co-creating solutions
✨ Exploring real conflicts
✨ Building bridges across disciplines

From theatre to dialogue, silence to storytelling—this is where the unspeakable finds expression… and transformation begins.

📅 10–13 May 2026📍 , Switzerland

REGISTER BEFORE 15 APRIL: link in comment

Bring your questions. Your creativity. Your courage.
Because peace shouldn't just be discussed. It also needs to be crafted.

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Video: Jean-Denis Borel

🤖Et si le vrai défi de l’IA n’était pas technologique… mais profondément humain ?À mesure que l’intelligence artificiell...
02/04/2026

🤖Et si le vrai défi de l’IA n’était pas technologique… mais profondément humain ?
À mesure que l’intelligence artificielle transforme nos organisations, une question devient centrale :
👉 Comment évoluer sans perdre le discernement, la confiance et la qualité du lien ?

Beaucoup de dirigeant.e.s n’ont pas besoin d’une conférence de plus. Ils et elles ont besoin d’un espace pour penser juste. C’est précisément l’intention de cette immersion :

✨ Diriger avec humanité à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle
📍 , Suisse 📅 28–30 octobre 2026

Pendant 48 heures, nous réunirons un cercle restreint de 30 leaders et leadeuses pour prendre du recul et travailler en profondeur sur ce qui devient décisif aujourd’hui :
• La posture de leadership face à l’IA
• La qualité des décisions dans l’incertitude
• Les conditions d’une transformation qui ne déshumanise pas
• La capacité à préserver confiance, créativité et engagement

🌿 Inspirée par l’approche de Chemin 28 et l’expérience de la Fondation de Caux, cette immersion alterne inspiration, expérimentation, intelligence collective et intégration.

🔹 Format limité à 30 participant.e.s pour garantir profondeur et qualité des échanges.

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🌍✨What if democracy was never meant to stand still—but to be something we are called to keep evolving, together? 🌍✨At th...
01/04/2026

🌍✨What if democracy was never meant to stand still—but to be something we are called to keep evolving, together? 🌍✨

At the Forum 2026 – "Revitalising Democracy: Hope, Healing, Human Security", this idea comes to life.

In a time of polarisation, uncertainty, and declining trust, democracy is often seen as fragile or complete.

But what if it is actually a living process—one that depends on dialogue, listening, and shared responsibility?

This forum is a space to explore exactly that. Through dialogue, reflection, and action, we will explore together what is needed to rebuild trust and open new pathways for democratic life.

📍 Opening Ceremony (free entrance – registration required)
22 June | 13:30–16:30
Maison de la Paix, Geneva

🏔 Residential Forum
22–26 June | Caux Palace - Join the full experience or attend with a Day Pass.

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Be part of the space where new pathways take shape.

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You can still register! - International Day of Conscience | 2 April 2026 at Palais des Nations, GenevaJoin the conversat...
31/03/2026

You can still register! - International Day of Conscience | 2 April 2026 at Palais des Nations, Geneva
Join the conversation on how peace can be reimagined with young voices. Don’t miss it—sign up now!

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✨ Caux IDG Forum 2026: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS - HAVE YOU APPLIED YET? ✨Do you have a workshop idea or a conversation to s...
31/03/2026

✨ Caux IDG Forum 2026: CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS - HAVE YOU APPLIED YET? ✨
Do you have a workshop idea or a conversation to spark? This summer, the Forum invites you to co-create experiences around: “The Alchemy of Forgiveness”.

🗓 13–17 July 2026📍 Caux Palace, Switzerland

From interactive workshops to intimate candlelight conversations, we are looking for organisers & facilitators ready to explore forgiveness as a pathway to healing, connection, and transformation.

💡 Dialogue | 🎨 Creativity | 🌱 Reflection | 🤝 Shared learning

Bring your voice. Share your practice. Help shape a space for deeper understanding in a divided world.

📢 Apply by 20 April 2026: link in comment


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👩‍🦰 15 women. 🌍 12 nationalities. 🗣️ 11 languages.❓ One shared question: What is peace anyway?This weekend at the —pair...
30/03/2026

👩‍🦰 15 women. 🌍 12 nationalities. 🗣️ 11 languages.
❓ One shared question: What is peace anyway?
This weekend at the —paired with the intimate setting of Villa Maria—a diverse circle of women came together to pause, reflect, and explore how each of us can contribute to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world.

Guided by experienced facilitators Miranda Shaw and Elizabeth Laskar from Creators of Peace International / WILDD Women CIC, and hosted by Sarah Noble from the Caux Foundation, the group moved through thoughtful sessions, exploring peace from multiple angles: within ourselves, in our relationships, and in the wider world.
Reflections also touched on what builds and destroys peace, how to find inner peace, the power of forgiveness, and how peace can be lived in everyday life.

🕊️ Storytelling was at the heart of the experience. Participants shared their own journeys, alongside stories of women peacebuilders from around the world, highlighting the qualities, challenges, and commitments that shape effective peacebuilding.

🤝 Rather than seeking a single definition, the weekend embraced the complexity of peace—and what undermines it—while highlighting the importance of listening across differences. Its core objective was to strengthen women in their role as peacebuilders and create space for meaningful exchange across cultures and experiences.

✨ What does peace look like in your context?

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In a time of growing polarization and conflict, creating space for honest dialogue is more necessary than ever. With an 80-years track record in peacebuilding, the Caux Palace offers a unique environment for dialogues, residencies, arts encounters, and retreats - an opportunity to step back, slow down, and dive deeper into the pressing questions of our time.

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♻️ CAUX DURABLE - PETITES ACTIONS, GRAND IMPACT #1: Donner une seconde vie au savon ♻️À l’occasion de la Journée Zéro D...
30/03/2026

♻️ CAUX DURABLE - PETITES ACTIONS, GRAND IMPACT #1: Donner une seconde vie au savon ♻️
À l’occasion de la Journée Zéro Déchet (30 mars), nous sommes heureux.ses de nous engager aux côtés de Fondation SapoCycle pour transformer un geste simple en impact concret.

Les savons usagés du sont collectés, recyclés par des personnes en situation de handicap, puis redistribués à des familles dans le besoin.
Une initiative qui allie réduction des déchets, accès à l’hygiène et création d’emplois solidaires.

✨ Moins de déchets, plus de dignité, plus d'emplois solidaires : chaque savon devient une opportunité !

🔗 En savoir plus : LIEN AU COMMENTAIRE

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♻️ SUSTAINABLE CAUX - SMALL ACTIONS, BIG IMPACT #1: Giving soap a second life ♻️
To mark Zero Waste Day (30 March), we are delighted to be partnering with SapoCycle to turn a simple gesture into tangible change.

Used soap from the Caux Palace is collected, recycled by people with disabilities, and then redistributed to families in need.
An initiative that combines waste reduction, access to hygiene and the creation of social enterprise jobs.

✨ Less waste, more dignity, more social enterprise jobs: every bar of soap becomes an opportunity!

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