It was a full house at Armagh for the community dinner to celebrate the grand finale film screening of Weaving Three Stories. More than 65 people joined us on Thursday 25 June, almost a third of...
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Weaving Three Strands of our Australian Story
A consistent participant and volunteer in the Turruk programs, Liz Weeks wrote this vision for the 100th Turruk celebration, inspired by the ‘Weaving Stories of Change’ program, and by Noel...
Weaving a community for change
The hundredth Turruk workshop/yarning circle, Weaving Stories of Change gathering on 29 October with 90 people in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD, had both an air of celebration and sombre reality to...
Truth-telling and listening dialogue in Wagga Wagga
The IofCA Trustbuilding program is enriched by initiatives carried out interstate with different communities. One such recent initiative was a meeting in Wagga Wagga with First Nations people,...
Truth-telling about the Flinders and South Australia’s south coast
Truth-telling about our history and the issues which divide us today is key to knowing who we really are as Australians, claimed Mike Brown, one of the team members of IofCA’s Trustbuilding program,...
Fresh thinking from the Top End
Drawn by the ancient yet alive energy of the Top End, six friends who have been at the core of the team in Melbourne facilitating IofC Australia’s ‘Trustbuilding through truth-telling’ program...
In Hope for Fairer World
At the recent ‘Weaving Three Stories’ workshop at Fishermen’s Bend in the Port of Melbourne, 95 year-old Jim Beggs spoke from his 41 years of working in the Port, starting as a 19 year old wharfie,...
Weaving Three Stories
From May - July the IofCA Trustbuilding project Turruk in collaboration with FB IDEAs organised Weaving Three Stories - a project consisting of three yarning and weaving workshops led by First...
Turruk — Trustbuilding through Truth Telling
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...
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...
Personal Story: Overcoming Patriarchal Attitudes and Ethnic Divisions
May Thu Ne Win is a peacebuilder from Myanmar and a postgraduate student of social justice at the University of Sydney. IofC International recognised her “exceptional leadership” in trustbuilding,...
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