Call for Workshop and Candlelight Organisers!
Would you like to share your inspiration, ideas, and skills with other participants at the Caux IDG Forum this summer on the theme “The Alchemy of Forgiveness”? We look forward to receiving your application! Applications will be accepted until 20 April 2026.

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Dear future Workshop & Candlelight Organisers,  

This year’s Caux Inner Development Goals Forum explores forgiveness in an era of polarization, examining how this human capacity can contribute to understanding, reconciliation, and renewed relationships within communities and societies. The Forum invites participants to reflect on forgiveness across personal, relational, collective, and ecological dimensions, and to explore how it may support more constructive dialogue and cooperation in a divided world.

We invite you to create transformative workshops & candlelight conversations during the Caux IDG Forum that engage participants in exploring forgiveness through multiple ways of knowing,  including dialogue, reflection, arts-based practices, embodied approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Workshops may explore themes such as: self-forgiveness, reconciliation in relationships and communities, collective healing and historical memory, and our relationship with the natural world.

We are seeking interactive, engaging, and experiential workshops for Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 of the Forum that encourage meaningful participation, shared learning, and the exploration of diverse perspectives on forgiveness.

• Discover the programme here
• Discover the full description of the event

Understanding Forgiveness as a Pathway to Regeneration and Belonging

This workshop stream invites contributions exploring forgiveness as a human capacity that can support reconciliation, renewal, and a sense of belonging in times of division and polarization. Forgiveness can open pathways for transforming pain into understanding, rebuilding trust, and strengthening cooperation within communities and across cultures.

We welcome workshops that engage forgiveness in its many dimensions, including:

• Self-forgiveness – exploring compassion, learning, and personal growth.
• Forgiveness in relationships – practices and perspectives that support dialogue, reconciliation, and restored trust.
• Forgiveness and the natural world – reflecting on human responsibility toward the Earth and our interdependence with living systems.
• Collective and historical dimensions of forgiveness – addressing inherited wounds, intergenerational trauma, truth-telling, and processes of reconciliation and decolonisation.

Contributors may draw on multiple ways of knowing, including academic research, contemplative traditions, community practices, artistic expression, and embodied or experiential approaches. We particularly encourage proposals that bring diverse cultural perspectives on forgiveness into dialogue, highlighting how different traditions approach healing, restoration, and reconciliation.

Workshops may also explore how forgiveness connects with the themes of inner development, social transformation, and ecological responsibility, reflecting the work of International of Change, the Inner Development Goals Foundation and the Alef Trus’s Nurturing the Fields of Change programme.

Through this call, the Forum seeks to create a space where scholarship, practice, and lived experience meet, fostering meaningful exchange and new perspectives on forgiveness as a resource for personal, relational, and societal renewal.

Participants and facilitators are invited to contribute to a dialogue that honors diversity of experience while exploring shared pathways toward trust, belonging, and a more regenerative future.

Workshop Guidelines

Day 2:  Dimensions of Forgiveness

Intention: Encourage reflection on the personal and human dimensions of forgiveness.

What we are looking for:

• Reflect on how individuals understand forgiveness.
• Discuss common challenges and questions about forgiving.
• Consider how personal values shape views on forgiveness.

Day 3:  Personal Choice and Forgiveness

Intention: Highlight forgiveness as a voluntary process shaped by personal choice and boundaries.

What we are looking for:

• Recognize forgiveness as a personal choice.
• Discuss boundaries, responsibility, and accountability.
• Explore different viewpoints on when forgiveness may or may not occur and forgiveness as a process

Day 4: From Me to We: Forgiveness in Relationships and Society

Intention: Examine forgiveness in relational, social, and collective contexts.

What we are looking for: 

• Explore the role of forgiveness in relationships and communities.
• Discuss examples of reconciliation in social life.
• Consider how forgiveness can help break cycles of revenge, bitterness, and conflict.

Workshop Format & Submission Guidelines

• Each workshop lasts a total of 3 hours (180 minutes), including a 30-minute break between sessions.
• We encourage facilitators to combine theory and practice and to design interactive, participatory, and experiential formats (no lectures) that support reflection, dialogue, and shared learning among participants.

Candlelight Conversations - Guidelines

Within the workshop application form, a dedicated section is available for those interested in hosting a Candlelight Conversations session.

Held at the Caux Palace during the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum, these sessions are designed to encourage intimate, meaningful exchanges in a calm and reflective setting.

The evening will begin with a violin performance to set a peaceful tone, followed by small-group discussions on a variety of topics and in multiple languages.

Event Details:

• Location: Caux Palace
• Date: 14 July 2025, 20:00–21:30
• Duration: 90 minutes (including musical prelude, formation of groups and session)
• Atmosphere: Rooms illuminated with electronic candles to create a warm, intimate ambiance

Schedule:

1. Musical Prelude
   • All participants gather in the main hall for a violin performance.
   • This opening moment is intended to establish a calm and contemplative atmosphere.
2. Formation of Discussion Groups
   • Following the prelude, hosts briefly present their sessions.
   • Participants then select the discussion group they wish to join.
   • Group sizes are limited to maintain an intimate and engaging environment.
3. Conversation Sessions
   • Once participants choose a group, they remain with it for the entire session.
   • This encourages thoughtful selection of both topic and facilitator.
   • Each participant carries a candle when joining their group.
   • Rooms are softly lit with electronic candles to enhance the sense of closeness and reflection.

Discussion Groups:
Each group is guided by a designated conversation lead, responsible for facilitating dialogue and ensuring smooth flow and time management.

How to Apply?  

• Fill out the Application Form until 20 April 2026. Please ensure all documents are complete before submission.
• If you have questions or need guidance on shaping your workshop, feel free to reach out by EMAIL.

Thank you for being part of this transformative journey. Together, we are building the inner capacities needed for global change.  

We look forward to your innovative workshop proposals!

The Caux IDG Forum Organising Committee  

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Maruee Pahuja (India) works at the intersection of arts, science, and human connection. An eye care practitioner, visual artist, expressive arts consultant, and process facilitator, she explores how creativity can nurture perspective, empathy, health, and pathways to peace. At the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, she leads arts-based work with young leaders through the Creative Leadership youth initiative and serves on the advisory and steering committee of the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters.

Maruee has been a speaker at a range of international events, including the Kofi Annan Peace Address 2024, the International Day of Conscience 2025, and the closing ceremony of Geneva Peace Week 2025. She has facilitated workshops exploring imagination, movement, and creative expression as powerful tools for empathy, hope, and resilience.

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I reflect critically on the times we are in, especially as an artist, resonating deeply with Adrienne Maree Brown, who writes in Emergent Strategy: “I may be guilty of being a visionary talker, so I concentrate my work on the generation of vision, the strengthening of the muscle of looking forward together.” 
The role of the arts in peacebuilding has allowed me to step into an intersection I’ve been intentionally walking for years. Preparing for the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters last year and the workshop at Geneva Peace Week 2025 was both a joy and a reckoning. What may appear as a few weeks of preparation is actually years of invisible work: research, practice, trial anderror, and trust in the arts and in humanity, even amid challenging political ecosystems.

The role of the arts in peacebuilding

In our line of work, burnout, hopelessness, and empathy exhaustion are common. My friend Debra Roberts once said to me: "Trust your creativity; it's really the ultimate insurance policy in life. The creative act is what keeps us alive and well." If we want to continue working as changemakers, leaders, and peacebuilders, we must also build hope and the capacity to be alive and well.

As peacebuilding pioneer John Paul Lederach says, peacebuilding itself is a creative act. This connects to the idea of salutogenesis — the origin of health. It’s not about curing disease after it occurs, but focusing on the conditions that create health and resilience.

We are in the midst of a polycrisis. Overwhelm, fatigue, and anxiety are inevitable. Many young leaders I’ve worked with have expressed these struggles.

Building and sustaining imagination in such times is therefore our responsibility as creative beings, and the arts offer one of the most vital pathways through which this capacity can be nurtured.

If we want to continue working as changemakers, leaders, and peacebuilders, we must also build hope and the capacity to be alive and well.

A Concrete Example: Creative Leadership and Youth

As part of the Creative Leadership youth team at Caux Initiatives of Change. I began introducing creativity and expressive arts to online conferences and gatherings for young people worldwide. Since then, we have hosted five online conferences — from exploring uncertainty to imagining new possibilities, reimagining democracies, and weaving counter narratives.

Through arts-based methods like creative writing, visual expression, movement, music, photography, nature-based arts, mindfulness, and creative dialogue participants learn to explore other ways of knowing - imaginative, intuitive, embodied.

This year, we are going to host “Reimagining Democracy(ies)”, the second edition of our in-house programme for young leaders at the Caux Palace, and we will continue to integrate these creative approaches and practices of learning and dialogue.

These are embodied ways of creating change that ripple outward. Participants create arts-based workshops in their communities, schools, and organizations using creative methods to foster dialogue, empathy, and healing. Many report the arts-based sessions as the most impactful workshops they haveattended, and some seek guidance on designing arts interventions for youth in their organisations.

Arts as Process, Not Product

It’s important to distinguish between arts as product or skill and arts as processes for community building, expression, and healing. Many people conflate art therapy, expressive arts therapy, art as therapy and other arts-based approaches, but each has a unique philosophy and methodology.

In my own practice, these dimensions also intersect in different ways:

As an ocularist, I restore vision and presence to individuals who have lost an eye due to trauma, war, or disease. This technical and artistic work restores dignity, hope, and social engagement.

As a visual artist, I create multisensory installations that expand perceptual empathy, exploring themes of visibility, identity, inclusion, and perception. The goal is not to produce a fixed product but to provoke reflection and relational understanding.

As an expressive arts facilitator, I guide participants through creative processes that foster relational transformation, dialogue, and community resilience. The aim is not to create a polished piece of art, but to hold a space where meaning can emerge and empathy and imagination can take root and grow.

Several insights have emerged from this work:

• From making sense to sense-making: expression and embodiment first, reflection after.
• Act → Pause → Reflect → Insight: a cyclical non-linear approach
• Low skill, high sensitivity: breaking performance-based barriers and tapping into inherent creative capacity.

Arts can also be disruptive, challenging dominant narratives, expanding perspectives, and questioning assumed “truths.” In a world that reduces people to roles or data points, the arts re-humanize, creating possibilities few dare to imagine.

As Maria Popova writes: "The very few — those who refuse to mistake the limits of the permissible for the horizon of the possible — will build a whole new table, populating the fresh slate of its surface with options others have not dared imagine. These are the visionaries, [the artists] — the only people who have ever changed this world."

The goal is not to create a polished piece of art, but to hold a space, surface meaning, and cultivate empathy and imagination.

Sustainability in Peacebuilding

Sustainability in peacebuilding forums is not simply about maintaining programmes. It is about nurturing regenerative capacities: imagination, curiosity, relational trust, and creative thinking.

Arts practices can help sustain hope even amid complexity and crisis.

Poetry and policy both have a place in peacebuilding.

Of course, challenges remain — limited resources, the risk of superficial engagement with the arts, and the difficulty of measuring subtle impacts such as relational trust or inner resilience. Yet these micro-practices embody the principles of emergent strategy: small, adaptive, relational actions that gradually shape worldviews of the future.

Ultimately, the question may not be whether peace can exist, but how we create the conditions for it to be imagined anew.

The question may not be whether peace can exist, but how we create the conditions for it to be imagined anew.

Final Reflections

As we are preparing for the next edition of the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters (10 - 13 May 2026), I find myself holding more questions than answers — but also a deep sense of conviction.

• One thought and idea can change the course of history.
• Belief systems are living, not fixed, and can be rewritten.
• The arts are quiet, patient forces that remind us of our shared humanity.
• Mastery is not knowing everything; it is staying open to what we do not yet know.

The arts invite us to inhabit curiosity deeply, expand consciousness, and sustain hope — essential tools for building peace in today’s world.

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Caux Arts and Peace Encounters 2026: Next Steps

In a world where peace and cross-cultural understanding face increasing challenges, creating spaces for dialogue, empathy, and connection has never been more urgent. The arts are powerful tools to navigate complex emotions, foster healing, bridge divides, and build understanding.

Be part of this transformative gathering at Caux Arts and Peace Encounters 2026 (10 – 13 May 2026), where artists, peacebuilders, and changemakers explore how creativity can spark meaningful change in communities and in the world.

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Each year on 1 March, the Marshall Islands observe Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, honouring those affected by the nuclear testing programme conducted between 1946 and 1958. This year, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, together with the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation and the World Council of Churches, hosted a commemoration on 6 March 2026 at the Maison de la Paix in Geneva.

Marking the 72nd anniversary of the Castle Bravo nuclear test test — the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated by the United States — the event highlighted the lasting human, environmental and intergenerational consequences of the 67 nuclear tests carried out in the Marshall Islands. Under the theme “Añin Jitbon Mar” (Spiritual Calling from our Islands), the commemoration called for global solidarity in addressing the legacy of nuclear testing and pursuing nuclear justice.

Following the event, Ignacio Packer, Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, shares his reflections on the powerful warning carried by nuclear survivors and what it means for the world today:

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Today, I found myself listening more than speaking.

It was Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, at the Geneva commemoration on 6 March. The room was filled not with political rhetoric, but with voices carrying memory — the memory of nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands and of the generations who still live with its consequences.

There are moments in international Geneva when you realise that diplomacy and humanity intersect in a very personal way. For me, this was one of those moments.

Between 1946 and 1958, sixty-seven nuclear weapons were detonated in the Marshall Islands. For many of us, those numbers belong to history books. For the Marshallese people, they belong to family stories — to illness, to lands that could never be returned to, and to a relationship with the ocean and the land that was deeply disrupted.

Today, we listened to those voices. And they were not speaking about the past alone.

They were warning the world.

There are moments (...) when you realise that diplomacy and humanity intersect in a very personal way.

I was born in 1962, at the height of the tensions surrounding the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Cold War brought humanity frighteningly close to nuclear catastrophe. For my generation, the nuclear threat was part of the background noise of childhood — something we hoped would gradually fade as the Cold War ended.

For a while, it seemed that it had.

Yet recent assessments by the UN and leading research institutes warn that the world may be entering its most dangerous nuclear moment in decades. Conflicts are intensifying, arms-control frameworks are weakening, and nuclear arsenals continue to expand.

In the past week alone, wars have escalated dramatically. Global tensions continue to rise. The language of nuclear weapons has returned to international discourse.

As I listened to the survivors today, I could not help thinking about the world that younger and future generations are inheriting. I am the father of three wonderful young adults, now between 27 and 32 years old. Like many parents, I hope they will live in a world where the lessons of the past have been learned, not forgotten.

But hope alone is not enough.

What struck me most at today’s commemoration was the dignity with which the survivors spoke. There was no anger in their words. Instead, there was determination — a quiet reminder that nuclear weapons are not abstract geopolitical tools. They are instruments capable of inflicting immense suffering on human beings and on entire ecosystems.

Survivors understand this reality better than anyone. And when survivors speak, humanity is invited not only to remember, but to learn.

When survivors speak, humanity is invited not only to remember, but to learn.

I am also conscious that I write these words from a privileged part of the world, where peace and stability are often taken for granted. Yet over the years, as a humanitarian, I have had the privilege of meeting people from many corners of the world — communities living through conflict, displacement, injustice, and extraordinary resilience.

Those encounters change how you see the world. They remind you that our planet is deeply interdependent. The suffering of one region is never truly isolated from the rest of humanity.

Today, as a devastating war unfolds in the Middle East and geopolitical tensions rise elsewhere, the warning carried by nuclear survivors feels painfully relevant. Their message is not ideological. It is profoundly human.

Remember what happened. Understand the consequences. Choose a different path.

At the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, we believe that peace begins with the courage to listen — especially when the stories we hear challenge our comfort.

Last summer in Caux above Montreux, in the historic Caux Palace, we hosted an exhibition of drawings created by children from Pacific communities affected by nuclear testing. More than 800 visitors came to see the exhibition. Many discovered the story of the Marshall Islands for the first time.

Children often express truth with remarkable clarity. Their drawings spoke of loss, but also of hope. They reminded us that memory can become a force for responsibility.

We believe that peace begins with the courage to listen — especially when the stories we hear challenge our comfort.

This year, the Caux Foundation marks 80 years of Caux as a place dedicated to trust-building and reconciliation. Over those eight decades, people from around the world have gathered there to confront difficult histories and rebuild trust across divides.

The voices we heard today belong to that same journey. They are not voices of accusation. They are voices of warning — and of hope.

In a world where wars continue to erupt and mistrust grows between nations, the testimonies of nuclear survivors remind us of something essential: peace is not simply the absence of war. It is the result of choices we make, individually and collectively.

Choices to listen. Choices to remember. Choices to act with responsibility toward future generations.

Peace is not simply the absence of war. It is the result of choices we make, individually and collectively.

As a father, as a humanitarian, and simply as a citizen of this fragile planet, I cannot hear those voices without asking a simple question: In a world where wars spread, nuclear risks rise, and mistrust deepens between nations, what must each of us do now to protect our children’s future?

The survivors from the Marshall Islands are asking us to reflect on that question with honesty. Their call is not addressed only to governments.

It is addressed to all of us.

Read Ignacio's speech at the commemoration event in Geneva on 6 March 2026

The voices of survivors not only call us to reflect on the future we are shaping. They also remind us that democracy, peace and human security require courage, dialogue and responsibility. This summer, the Caux Democracy Forum (22 - 26 June) will bring together people from all over the globe in Caux to explore Hope, Healing and Human Security.

Be part of the conversation — learn more and register now.

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Ignacio Packer is Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, a Swiss charitable foundation committed to promoting trust, ethical leadership, sustainable living and human security. With over 30 years of experience in humanitarian and development work, he worked at the European Bank for Latin America and then at KPMG, before becoming a recognised leader of NGOs and international alliances for over 25 years. An expert in human rights and social issues, he has been particularly involved in defending protection frameworks for migrants and refugees, especially children and young people.

Leading today means navigating a world of uncertainty, rapid change and growing human expectations. Between economic performance and social responsibility, many leaders feel a new tension, often silent but very real. On the occasion of the International Day of Social Justice, and following on from recent discussions in Caux with business leaders, Ignacio Packer, Executive Director of the Caux Foundation, offers his thoughts on what it means to lead with justice in our time. An invitation to take a step back and reflect on the role of leadership in a changing world.

On 13 February, at the Caux Palace, we spoke with business leaders about a paradox that has become almost commonplace: their companies are still holding on... but their teams are getting tired.

No one mentioned AI at first.

We talked about difficult management meetings. About competent employees who are not leaving but who no longer make suggestions. About economically sound decisions that leave a vague sense of unease.

And at one point, one executive summed up what many were thinking: "I have to transform my company, but I don't want to be the one who hurts people."

For me, this sentence is at the heart of World Social Justice Day, which we celebrate on 20 February. Today, social justice is no longer just about laws or redistribution. It is about the daily decisions made by thousands of executives. It is about very concrete choices: reorganising, automating, cutting jobs, asking for extra effort... or waiting.

Today, social justice is the daily and very concrete decisions made by executives.

A new silent responsibility

Today, many leaders are experiencing the same tension. On the one hand: costs, skills shortages, market instability, and AI. On the other: human fatigue, loss of meaning, and fragile commitment. Swiss insurance companies confirm that exhaustion has become a major cause of long-term absenteeism.

But managers do not have the luxury of waiting. And that is where something is changing profoundly.

Businesses are no longer just facing an economic crisis; they are at the crossroads of technological, social, ecological and human transformations. In this context, leadership is no longer just about optimising an organisation. It's about staying the course in uncertain times without losing people along the way.

AI is changing less the work... than the role of leaders

There is a lot of talk about what AI will replace. But the real question is: who will bear the human responsibility for decisions optimised by machines? AI will analyse better. It will often decide faster and more economically. But one question will remain human:

Is this decision fair to the people concerned?

The role of leaders is shifting from performance manager to architect of human trajectories.

Leadership is no longer just about optimising an organisation. It is about staying the course in uncertainty without losing people along the way.

Ignacio Packer

What we learned in Caux

After several discussions with leaders, one thing became clear: the problem is not primarily technical. It is internal.

Many know what to do, but are unsure how to do it without breaking trust. What is missing is not a tool. It is a space to think clearly. A space where we can step out of emergency mode and become fully responsible again.

An experience, not a training course

That is why we have designed an immersion programme with Chemin 28 in Caux, from 28 to 30 October 2026, to explore the question of how to lead with humanity in the age of artificial intelligence.

This choice is part of a long tradition: since 1946, the Caux Palace has been an international venue for dialogue and reflection on ethics, responsibility, and the role of decision-makers. From the Principles for Business, launched in 1994 by the Caux Round Table, to the current programmes on ethical leadership and people-centred economics, this approach has for decades supported those who see people as the key to sustainable performance.

It is not about learning AI, but about learning how to make decisions when everything is changing. A time to rediscover our inner compass, understand what needs to change and what needs to be protected, articulate performance and dignity, and transform without betraying our values.

Leaders will not come here looking for recipes. They will come here to rediscover their stance. Because, ultimately, sustainable competitiveness today depends on a rare quality: the ability to transform an organisation without creating injustice.

Social justice in practice

Social justice is no longer an abstract concept. It comes into play when a leader announces change without humiliating, automates without abandoning, reduces without destroying, explains without manipulating.

In a world marked by multiple crises and AI, the company should be a place of social stability. And every managerial decision becomes a societal decision.

At Caux, we seek to enable leaders to experience:

• the security of a space of trust,
• the clarity of deep reflection,
• the hope that comes from having a clear direction
• and the ability to take concrete action.

Then something can change.

It's not about being kinder, but about being fairer. Because it is this inner requirement that makes it possible to transform the company without sacrificing either its performance or its people.

A conviction

We are entering an era in which machines will optimise decisions. But social cohesion will depend on those who give them meaning. Leading tomorrow will not primarily be a technical skill; it will be a human responsibility.

And perhaps, ultimately, a deeply social responsibility.

Our event ‘Leading with humanity in the age of artificial intelligence’ interest you? Immerse yourself in the magnificent natural setting of the Caux Palace and explore with us how to accompany technological transitions in a fully conscious, democratic and respectful manner.

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It is not about being kinder, but about being fairer. Because it is this inner requirement that enables us to transform the company without sacrificing either its performance or its people.

Ignacio Packer

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Ignacio Packer is Executive Director of the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, a Swiss charitable foundation committed to promoting trust, ethical leadership, sustainable living and human security. With over 30 years of experience in humanitarian and development work, he worked at the European Bank for Latin America and then at KPMG, before becoming a recognised leader of NGOs and international alliances for over 25 years. An expert in human rights and social issues, he has been particularly involved in defending protection frameworks for migrants and refugees, especially children and young people.

Photos: Olivia Chollet & Christophe Koninckx

“Inclusion doesn’t happen by accident. Our Gender Accountability Champions ensure it happens by intention.”

With these words, Ignacio Packer, Executive Director at Caux Initiatives of Change, reaffirms both his personal and organisational commitment to advancing gender equality. As a International Gender Champion, Ignacio is committing not only for himself, but also on behalf of the Caux Foundation, ensuring that gender equality is embedded into how the Foundation plans, facilitates, and evaluates its work.

From Intention to Deeper Implementation 

In 2026, this commitment moves decisively from initial steps to deeper, organisation-wide practice.

Through trained Gender Accountability Champions and a gender-inclusive facilitation framework, every Caux Forum and all events organised by the Caux Foundation will integrate concrete gender objectives, inclusive facilitation standards, and structured reflection and reporting.

Gender equality shouldn't be an add-on, but a core element of organisational culture and shared responsibility.

Ignacio Packer, Executive Director at Caux Initiatives of Change

Building on Strong Foundations

These 2026 commitments build on important progress made in 2025 and are structured around two core organisational commitments.

Commitment 1: Gender Accountability Champions in Every Forum and Encounter

In 2026, Gender Accountability Champions within our events organising teams will play a central role in embedding gender equality into programme design and delivery.

These Champions will:

• Receive targeted training in gender-sensitive programme design, facilitation, and reporting
• Ensure that each event includes at least one concrete gender equality objective
• Submit a short Gender Inclusion Reflection Report after each Caux Forum or general event feeding directly into organisational impact reviews

This distributed leadership model shifts accountability from a single focal point to shared team responsibility, supporting deeper and more sustainable organisational transformation.

Commitment 2: A Gender-Inclusive Facilitation Framework

In parallel, Caux Initiatives of Change will continue implemening a gender-inclusive facilitation framework across all major events organised or co-organised at the Caux Palace and elsewhere in Switzerland.

In 2026, this framework will ensure:

• At least 50% gender-balanced representation among moderators and facilitators
• Clear guidelines for inclusive language
• A structured feedback loop on participants’ experiences of gender safety, participation, and representation

This framework ensures that inclusion is visible, measurable, and consistently applied — strengthening both participant experience and organisational accountability.

A Shared Responsibility for Inclusion

At the Caux Foundation, we see gender equality not as a side initiative, but as a core way of working and a practical driver for meaningful impact.

Every step counts. Through executive leadership, trained Gender Accountability Champions, and organisation-wide standards, we are committed to making gender equality a shared value and standard that shapes how we convene, lead, and foster greater inclusion - together!

Find out more about our activities and events 2026