Breakthrough thinking aloud… and allowed

Breakthrough thinking aloud… and allowed

The 2025 National Gathering of IofC Australia, 13-16 June, was designed to free up honest conversations ahead of major decisions facing the movement this year: fundamentally, what vision of the movement and how it operates will shape IofCA into the 21st century? ...
Social Cohesion in the Year of the Snake

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 dragons—or were they lions?—gambolled across the green lawn at Armagh....
After the COVID Lockdown, Armagh Reopens to Community

After the COVID Lockdown, Armagh Reopens to Community

In any regular week, this early 20th-century building hums with activity. People come and go through a glass door round the back, marked ‘Office.’ Staff and volunteers climb the short flight of stairs to their work stations. Some head downstairs to the dining or...
Transformational Resilience in Times of Crisis

Transformational Resilience in Times of Crisis

On World Refugee Day, 20 June, with nearly 80 million people worldwide currently homeless, Professor Rajmohan Gandhi addressed a Zoom audience, which included Brisbane community leaders, on the theme Transformational Resilience in Times of Crisis.  Nigel...
Conversations in the Time of COVID-19

Conversations in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 has changed the way we do many things. No longer can we gather at a friend’s house to share thoughts over a cuppa, no longer are we at our workplaces to share thoughts in the lunch room, no longer do parents catch up on the school run, no longer can we meet a...