Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

22/12/2025

✨ SEASON'S GREETINGS ✨
As 2025 draws to a close, we wish you a season filled with warmth, love, and reflection. May 2026 be a year of peace, light, and renewal. Together, let us continue building bridges of hope.

As we look ahead, we are excited for the year to come and for the meaningful moments we will share with you in Caux and Geneva.

💛If you feel inspired, please consider supporting our work through a donation - whether by helping renovate the or by contributing to the Caux Forum Solidarity Fund, which enables diverse voices to take part in the 🌍.

With our warmest wishes,
All of us at the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation

P.S. Curious about our upcoming events in 2026? Stay connected through our monthly newsletter: https://www.iofc.ch/newsletter


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19/12/2025

✨ YOUR EXPERIENCE MATTERS!✨
Have you ever taken part in a event, one of our programmes, collaborated with us, or stayed at the ? Then we’d love to hear from you!

💬 At the Caux Foundation, we believe that dialogue, trustbuilding and personal transformation can lead to lasting change. To understand how this happens in real life — for individuals, communities and partners around the world — we are taking a moment to listen.

📊 We’re launching an independent Impact Study (2023–2025), conducted by Sandstone Consulting, to learn from your experiences and understand how our work truly makes a difference.

By sharing your voice, you help us:
• 🔍 Understand what works and where we can grow
• 🌍 Capture the personal and collective changes our programmes inspire
• 🛠️ Strengthen how we design our programmes and nurture our community

How does it work?
⏱️ Takes about 10 minutes
🗣️ Available in five languages

👉 Take part here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CauxFoundation

💛 Every response counts — and together, we can help shape the next chapter of Caux. Thank you for being part of the journey!

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11/12/2025

🕊️🎨 CAUX ARTS AND PEACE ENCOUNTERS 2026: The Transformative Power of Arts in Peacebuilding🎨🕊️
📅 10–13 May 2026 I 📍 Caux Palace, Switzerland
How can creativity reshape our world? How can art open doors to empathy, healing, and new possibilities for peace?

In May 2026, we are bringing together artists, peacebuilders, educators, policymakers, and community leaders for the second edition of the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters (CAPE) — a unique gathering where imagination meets action.

After a powerful inaugural edition in 2025, CAPE 2026 goes deeper: moving from reflection to experimentation, from inspiration to implementation. Together, we will explore how art can spark new ideas, build trust across divides, and transform the way we approach conflict.

✨ WHAT TO EXPECT:
• Creativity labs & hands-on workshops
• Time to connect & slow down
• Embodiment & nature-inspired practices
• Open sharing spaces for projects, research & artistic work
• A breathtaking venue that invites reflection and connection

All set in the stunning , high above Lake Geneva - a place where peace isn’t just discussed, but co-created.

Whether you work with sound, movement, images, words, policy, or community engagement, your voice belongs here. CAPE is a living laboratory for everyone shaping a more just and peaceful world.

🔗 Be part of the conversation. Register now: https://www.iofc.ch/cape-2026

🌐 Report from CAPE 2025 also available — discover the stories and inspirations that set the stage for 2026! (see link)

Let’s imagine boldly. Create bravely. Build peace together. 🌿🎭



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Video: Jean-Denis Borel

11/12/2025

🌍BRING THE WORLD TO CAUX 🌍
The Caux Forum is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where participants from all backgrounds can engage in dialogue, learning, and collaboration.

By giving to the Caux Forum Solidarity Fund, you are empowering diverse voices - specially youth, participants from the Global South, and those facing economic challenges - to take part in next year's events!

Whether you plan to be with us in 2026 or simply want to offer someone else the opportunity to take part: your contribution truly matters!
Every donation opens the door to more diversity, more stories, more perspectives - and more meaningful change.

👉 Find out how you can support: https://www.iofc.ch/solidarity-fund


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10/12/2025

✨ LE CAUX PALACE EN MUSIQUE 🌟
Clap de fin pour une semaine exceptionnelle au Caux Palace ! Nous avons eu l’immense plaisir d’être partenaire principal de l’édition 2025 de Les Émergences musicales Montreux-Riviera, la résidence artistique organisée par La Saison culturelle de Montreux : une semaine de création intense avec 9 jeunes artistes émergent.e.s, de rencontres inspirantes et de concerts magnifiques dans un lieu que Francis Cabrel – parrain des Émergences musicales et fraîchement nommé Ambassadeur d'honneur de la Commune de Montreux – a décrit comme « un endroit magique ».

Au Caux Palace, tout est réuni pour nourrir ces résidences :
* des espaces de création et de répétition
* des salles de réception exceptionnelles
* un théâtre historique et intimiste
*...sans oublier l’inspiration unique d’un lieu chargé d’histoire.

Nous avons été enchanté.e.s d’accueillir les Émergences musicales, voix du sud, leurs équipes et ces artistes talentueux.ses, qui nous ont fait vibrer avec leurs chansons drôles, émouvantes et engagées.
La 4ᵉ édition est déjà annoncée. Restez connecté.e.s pour l'édition 2026 !

Vous souhaitez savoir plus sur des résidences artistiques au Caux Palace ? Contactez-nous !
https://www.iofc.ch/fr/culture-and-arts-caux-palace

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Photos: Lou Barthelemy, Mélanie Lam, Adrien Giovannelli

09/12/2025

We are thrilled to have the "Reimagining Democracy(ies)" programme for young leaders returning to the Caux Palace for the next Caux Democracy Forum - another chance to rethink and reimagine democracy together!

Empowering young people to contribute to democratic renewal has never been more important!

We can’t wait to welcome you back to Caux!

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📢 Registration is now open for Reimagining Democracy(ies)!

What if democracy isn’t broken — but simply outgrowing the narratives that once shaped it?

And what happens when young leaders decide not to whisper inside systems built on silence?

Join changemakers from around the world as we explore new ways to strengthen the future of our democracies.

🔗 Register here: https://www.iofc.ch/cdf-reimagining-democracy-2026

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09/12/2025

✨ A Meaningful Gift for Yourself — or Someone You Care About ✨
Renew and Restore: A Women’s Peace Circle Journey for Inner Development & Leadership
📅 27–29 March 2026
📍 Caux Palace, Switzerland
👉 Registrations now open

As the year turns, it’s the perfect moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself. This March, the historic , birthplace of Creators of Peace International, offers a weekend retreat designed for women who want to step away from daily responsibilities, rest deeply, and embrace a fresh start.

Over three days, participants will be guided by experienced facilitators Elizabeth Laskar and Miranda Shaw through the Peace Circle journey—an immersive experience that nurtures emotional intelligence, resilience, compassionate leadership, and the ability to create positive change in life and community.

💫 WHAT AWAITS YOU:
• A supportive space to pause, reflect, and recharge
• Guided conversations, storytelling & experiential learning
• Tools for emotional awareness, conflict resolution & mindful leadership
• Connection with women from diverse backgrounds
• The calm and beauty of the Alps, offering space for clarity and renewal

Whether you are beginning a new chapter or deepening an existing path, this retreat provides a gentle pause from life’s demands and a chance to reconnect with your strengths, purpose, and inner clarity.

🎁Offer yourself—or someone you care about—a weekend of rest, reflection, and renewal to start the year with intention and inspiration.

👉 JOIN US — REGISTER NOW: https://www.iofc.ch/renew-restore-womens-peace-circle-2026

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08/12/2025

💪🌍 Advancing Gender Equality Together - Step by Step💪🌍
We are observing a growing and coordinated pushback that affects progress on gender equality. It appears across political, legal, cultural, and epistemic spheres, influencing national reforms as well as international norms related to women’s and LGBTIQ+ rights.

🏛️Similar dynamics are present in International Geneva, where they shape negotiations, increase pressures on human rights defenders, and reopen discussions on long-agreed language and standards. Understanding these trends is important for anticipating potential shifts in established norms and for supporting inclusive, democratic governance.

💬Standing firm for gender equality also requires making it personal. Real progress depends on all of us— International Gender Champions or not—being willing to engage in difficult conversations and to challenge ourselves.

✨This post follows the Biannual Champions Breakfast Meeting on 5 December at the Residence of the Finnish Ambassador to Geneva. We heard from Ambassador Heidi Schroderus-Fox, Tatiana Molcean, Sofia Calltorp, and Magdalena Sepúlveda, who shared compelling evidence on gender pushback in multilateral spaces and reminded us what is at stake.

We also celebrated the launch of the Gender Lighthouse Strategy 2026–2030 and the organisation’s 10th anniversary.

A highlight of the meeting, the youth-designed Jenga Challenge, illustrated how gender pushback unfolds inside institutions—block by block—and how each removed piece can destabilize the whole system. Gender Champions reflected on their own experiences, an essential step toward collective action.

As rapporteur, Ignacio Packer, Executive Director of Caux Initiatives of Change and part of the Gender Champions, captured the spirit of the morning:
“Stopping the backlash starts with us. Without these conversations, nothing moves. With them, everything can.”

🏠To sustain this work, we need spaces for honest, courageous dialogue. The Caux Palace - our centre for dialogue and trustbuilding just 1h30 from Geneva - offers exactly that: a home for dialogue nurtured for nearly 80 years. (learn more: www.caux.ch)

Let’s keep building and using these spaces so equality is not only defended, but advanced.



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04/12/2025

Glimpses from Les Émergences musicales Montreux-Riviera in full flow at the ! 2 more days until the final concert on Saturday!

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04/12/2025

🎹 ARTS & MUSIC AT THE CAUX PALACE 🎹
Fun Fact: Did you know the Caux Palace is home to (at least) 10 pianos? That’s right — music has always been at the heart of this iconic place!

✨ From the very beginnings, the arts have played a key role at the Caux Palace, inspiring creativity, dialogue, and connection. Today, that tradition continues with the artist residency programme Les Émergences musicales Montreux-Riviera, organised by La Saison culturelle de Montreux, showcasing 9 talented young musicians alongside their amazing faculty.

🎶 Over the week, these emerging artists are developing their craft, collaborating, and preparing for a final concert (already sold out) in the magnificent Caux Palace theatre, followed by a special programme by Anne Sila and Yvan Cassar.

📍 We are delighted that music, creativity, and the arts continue to play an important role at the Caux Palace and look forward to Saturday night!

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🎹 Le saviez-vous ? Le Caux Palace abrite (au moins) 10 pianos ? C'est vrai, la musique a toujours été au cœur de ce lieu emblématique !

✨ Depuis ses débuts, les arts ont joué un rôle clé au Caux Palace, inspirant créativité, dialogue et création de liens. Aujourd'hui, cette tradition se perpétue avec les Emergences Musicales, une résidence pour artistes organisée par La Saison culturelle de Montreux, qui met en vedette 9 jeunes musicien.ne.s talentueux.ses aux côtés d'artistes reconnu.e.s.

🎶 Au cours de la semaine, ces artistes émergent.e.s développent leur art, collaborent et se préparent pour un concert final (déjà complet) dans le magnifique théâtre du Caux Palace, suivi d'une représentation spéciale par Anne Sila et Yvan Cassar.

📍 Nous sommes ravi.e.s que la musique, la créativité et les arts continuent à jouer un rôle important au Caux Palace et nous attendons avec impatience samedi soir !

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