In our fifth year of Turruk – Trustbuilding Through Truth Telling, three exciting projects mark the first part of 2025. Dreaming the Past to Remember the Future Celebrating our 90th...
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How change happens: Stories from the Global Fellowship Gathering
Initiatives of Change (IofC) holds a Global Fellowship Gathering every 18 months. In January 2025, three Brisbane women travelled to Panchgani, India, to take part alongside 130 participants from...
‘Life-Work’ conference impacts Chinese in Melbourne
Mike Brown reflects on the recent weekend conference held at Armagh - ‘Life-Work: examining life’s fundamental struggle through problems in everyday life' -hosted by Ren-Jou Liu and his wife Grace....
Social Cohesion in the Year of the Snake
How do we make positive change in a time of global disruption? The Initiatives of Change community welcomed the lunar new year with a dragon-lion dance and discussion of social cohesion. The...
Regather Turruk Focuses on Regenerative Knowledge
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...
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...
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