Training & Facilitation
Discover our facilitation and training services and how they can benefit you!
You are looking to inspire, equip, and connect your team or community? At Caux Initiatives of Change, we believe learning should engage the whole person.
Our facilitation services create interactive, collaborative spaces—whether in meetings, workshops, or strategy sessions—to tackle complex challenges, develop sustainable strategies or reach consensus-driven decisions.
With decades of experience, we offer practical tools and tailored courses—onsite or online—that are experiential, flexible, and built around your needs.
What We Offer:
- Facilitation – Design and lead engaging workshops, meetings & gatherings
- Training – Develop skills in ethical leadership, trust-building & sustainable strategies
- Interactive & Experiential – Practical tools for real impact
- Flexible Modules – From a few hours to a full day, tailored to your needs, you can choose what works best for you! Our courses can be part of your stay in Caux or delivered separately.
You can book our offers onsite at the Caux Palace, online or on other premises.
✅ Are you based in Geneva? You may be eligible for a training subsidy through the Chèque Annuel de Formation (CAF). More information on the subsidy and eligibility criteria is available here.
Learn more & start your journey today!
Boost your projects and your strategy
We can help you improve the management of your projects and the participation of your teams by using facilitation techniques. Facilitation involves designing and managing meetings in a participative and collaborative way to support the development of organizations and to respond to complex issues, solve problems, develop sustainable strategies and take decisions that are validated collectively.
Mental Health First Aid Course (ensa)
The statistics on mental health are deeply alarming: one in two individuals will experience mental health issues at some point in their lives, and nine out of ten people know someone affected and want to help. But how can we offer support? Ensa's first aid courses equip ordinary people with the skills to approach individuals facing mental health challenges and provide first aid.
Imagining a desirable future
Imagining is the key to new possibilities and the first step toward building a desirable future. We will draw on practices from various fields, such as Theory U, The Work That Reconnects and 3 Horizons, to activate our imagination and long-term visioning. Participants will engage in exercises that help them project themselves into the future, such as envisioning dialogues with representatives of future generations. This process of traveling into the future helps clarify priorities in the present and enhances our commitment to moving forward.
Introduction to Deep Listening
Deep listening is one of the most challenging yet crucial skills to master. It plays a vital role in motivating teams, unlocking their full potential and facilitating successful negotiations. Drawing inspiration from Social Presencing Theatre and Theory U, deep listening encourages awareness of how we engage in dialogue with ourselves and others. Rather than solving the issues or questions at hand, it fosters constructive and empathetic feedback within a group, addressing the situation and uncovering the causes of any obstacles.
Reconnect and tame your inner peace
Step back from the fast-paced demands of modern life and discover the key to inner serenity. This training is designed to help people cultivate an inner peace that empowers them to tackle difficult and complex issues effectively.
In this training, we will incorporate techniques from The Work That Reconnects and sociodrama to deepen our connections with ourselves, others and nature. Through engaging and playful activities, participants will explore new ways to understand our place as human beings on Earth during these challenging times.
Introduction to the Inner Development Goals (IDGs)
What skills and qualities are needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The Inner Development Goals (IDGs) offer a response to this question. Developed in 2015 by a team of international researchers through an extensive consultation process, the IDGs encourage organizations and businesses to reflect on the skills required for a sustainable and desirable future, and to implement them through various tools.
Dynamics of Change: Discover and experience the values of Initiatives of Change
For more than 75 years, the Caux Foundation, a member of the Initiatives of Change (IofC) movement, has been developing innovative facilitation and training tools, imbued with the values of the organization and based on the fundamental idea that change starts with oneself. This involves such practices as pacing one's day according to ‘quiet times’, developing active and empathetic listening, putting tools in place to support change, etc. These are all methods that are recognized as means of strengthening team cohesion. You will also discover IofC’s programmes, including Creators of Peace and the Trustbuilding Program.
Participatory Facilitation Methods
This course is designed to 'train the trainer' by looking at the general issues involved in facilitation, the conditions for success and the need to design sessions carefully.
The training covers two different facilitation methods, emphasizing participatory approaches. Participants will first experience the methods and then debrief, unpack and try out the methods for themselves.
Engaging Constructively in Challenging Conversations
The online course Engaging Constructively in Challenging Conversations (ECCC) is designed to give you the skills and confidence to have constructive conversations in the midst of differences and conflicts – honest conversations that build understanding and create connection rather than separation.
Caux College of Renewal
At the Caux College of Renewal we believe that nothing and no one is ever 'too far gone'. Our five day intensive course offers a unique opportunity to be trained in systemic renewal, which is a way to lead change for systems that are no longer working well, or perhaps never did. Whilst systems change theory and thinking are gaining traction as ways of approaching change leadership, shifting the paradigms that underpin a system isn't easy. We offer an academically grounded, evidence-based pedagogy for deconstructing and purposefully rebuilding a system, starting with its mindsets.
We help facilitate your events!
Facilitating teams and dialogues is at the heart of Initiatives of Change's long experience of working with peace and trustbuilding all around the world for more than 75 years, We combine our experience and expertise facilitation and offer facilitation support for your events online, onsite or at our centre, the Caux Palace to enhance participation, deepen conversations, build teamwork and develop ownership.
Contact us and learn more about how we can support your team
More IofC Training
Our worldwide network offers a wide range of training courses and programmes worldwide!