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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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,...
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...
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...
Appreciating the Cultural Residency of Uncle Shane Charles
By Sarah Naarden, Project Manager of IofCA’s Trustbuilding Program ‘The Cultural Residency experience has been most valuable to me. This place (Armagh) touches my spirit. I made international...
Turruk 2024 program launches Forgiveness Circle
The 2024 Turruk for community program was launched in Armagh, Melbourne on Saturday 23 March, with a ‘Forgiveness Circle’ led by seven Indigenous speakers. It was held in collaboration with Mana O...
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...
The Turruk Effect
Turruk is an immersive learning journey that gathers a curious community, inviting them to connect the dots of their own cultural intelligence through respectful relationships with First...
STEPS TO REFERENDUM
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