By Minh-Tam Nguyen-Trinh In November, at the Armagh centre in Melbourne where nearly four years ago First Nations spokesman Thomas Mayo launched IofC’s Trust-building Program in Australia, a...
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Chances for Change: A visit from John Bond and Mary Lean
John Bond, former Secretary of the National Sorry Day Commmittee, offers some reflections on opportunities for change in Australia. When the idea for Sorry Day first came up, John Bond was a...
Myanmar Peace Worker Receives Trustbuilding Award
May Thu Ne Win was once a medical doctor in Myanmar. She left this work to become a peace builder in local communities. In September 2024, IofC International recognised her work through the...
Planning for the 70th Anniversary of Initiatives of Change at Armagh in Melbourne
Join a Working Group to mark this 2026 event! In 1956, the Initiatives of Change community (then known as Moral Re-Armament, or MRA) received the gift of a family home in the Melbourne suburb of...
Collaborating in the Bandung Peace Week
The visit of five Indonesians to Australia – starting from 31 May with a Life Matters course in Brisbane, connecting with the IofC network in Sydney, and followed by a range of meetings in Melbourne...
Candlelight Yarn – A Taste of Turruk
On Friday 28 June over 50 people gathered in the Armagh ballroom for a ‘Candlelight Yarn – a Taste of Turruk’ as part of the Initiatives of Change Australia National Gathering. This session of the...
IofC Indonesia Team Visit
In an opportunity to demonstrate building bridges of friendship and trust across our diversity, an exchange visit from IofC Indonesia was organised in May-June this year. A group of five...
International Elders and Accompanying-Mentoring Program
By Barbara Lawler, International Panel of Elders The international Panel of Elders have mandated responsibility for maintaining the core spirit and values of Initiatives of Change. It’s...
World Forum hears about Trustbuilding
John Bond writes on presenting IofC's Trustbuilding Program at the World Forum for Democracy. Earlier this month I went to Strasbourg in France to present IofC's Trustbuilding Program at the World...
What’s Happening in the IofC Network: A View from South Australia
Mike Brown A theme of the recent National Gathering was ‘revitalising the grassroots movement of IofC changemakers’. On the long drive back from Melbourne to SA, we mused over what might that mean...
What is Initiatives of Change?
A reflection by Peter Thwaites Background ... One Century Old Initiatives of Change is known today as an international association with branches on every continent and two major conference centres...
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