Join host Simone Müller for Gender Paradigm Shift @ Work featuring Teodora Quiroga!
The upcoming roundtable session on Zoom will focus on:
Who is this aimed at? Female professionals from across all sectors; academia, entrepreneurs, coaches & consultants. Please note that all roundtable sessions are held on Zoom – we advise that you ensure your Zoom application, whether on desktop, browser, or mobile device, is the most current version. Please see Zoom Updates for more details.
Use the ‘Contact Us’ button at the bottom of the page for your invitation to join!
Simone holds a Masters in Business Administration from the CAU University of Kiel (Germany) and has worked in international management roles at a multinational corporation for over a decade. Since leaving her corporate career, Simone focused on International Leadership Development and Business Coaching. She is an accredited coach, trainer, and NLP master practitioner.
Teodora has spent much of her career applying her understanding of psychology to the workplace to better understand the role of gender in organisations, so that women can engage with male colleagues in a way that takes into account gender differences more effectively.
January Women in Leadership Roundtable
Join host Simone Müller for Women as Leaders from the Perspective of Feminine Masculine Balance featuring Jacqueline McLeod!
The upcoming roundtable session on Zoom will focus on:
Who is this aimed at? Female professionals from across all sectors; academia, entrepreneurs, coaches & consultants. Please note that all roundtable sessions are held on Zoom – we advise that you ensure your Zoom application, whether on desktop, browser, or mobile device, is the most current version. Please see Zoom Updates for more details.
Use the ‘Contact Us’ button at the bottom of the page for your invitation to join!
Simone holds a Masters in Business Administration from the CAU University of Kiel (Germany) and has worked in international management roles at a multinational corporation for over a decade. Since leaving her corporate career, Simone focused on International Leadership Development and Business Coaching. She is an accredited coach, trainer, and NLP master practitioner.
Jacqueline was a health professional and clinician until her lifelong passion for self-development led her to the studies of spirituality and alternative health. Her book Feminine Masculine Balance introduces a paradigm shift that is a pathway to a more peaceful, progressive and nourished society.
Launch of Advocating for a New Story
Creators of Peace is launching a guide to conversation circles for trust and community building. These engage individuals and groups in exploring the impact of damaging narratives of human hierarchies and hurting histories.
Only a ‘Shared Humanity’ can create the new story that will allow us to work together to tackle the urgent needs of our age.
Hear from our panel of speakers followed by an opportunity to participate in a small group interaction.
Speakers
This event is in collaboration with Creators of Peace UK, Creators of Peace International, Initiatives of Change UK, Initiatives of Change International and the Oxford Human Rights Festival, the Centre of Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University.
Learn more about the speakers when you register below!
Please note that this event will be held on Zoom – we advise that you ensure your Zoom application, whether on desktop, browser, or mobile device, is the most current version. Please see Zoom Updates for more details.
ALL REJOICE!You are warmly invited to join us for an afternoon of music, inspiration and reflection.
Inspired by the legacy of Frank Buchman, founder of Initiatives Of Change, in the 1960s some young people from all walks of life used to travel together across the world, building peace through their love of sharing music, theatre and personal story-telling.
The event will be a space to come together as individual artists and advocates, connected across the borders of fear to boundless love.
Please note that this event will be held on Zoom – we advise that you ensure your Zoom application, whether on desktop, browser, or mobile device, is the most current version. Please see Zoom Updates for more details.
A Shared Gratitude and Grief
Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa is UNDP Assistant Administrator, and Director, Regional Bureau for Africa at the rank of Assistant Secretary General.
She leads over 4000 staff implementing a $1.2 billion annual development programme in 46 African countries. She is deeply passionate about equality, inclusion, reshaping narratives on Africa, mobilizing for youth entrepreneurs and the dignity of Africa’s people. Her vision “Africa’s Promise: The UNDP Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa” employs an opportunity lens to development practice in Africa.
She established the Africa Influencers for Development (AI4D) to ensure that Africa’s Money works for Africa’s Development; the Africa Young Women Leaders Initiative; Africa Innovates Magazine; and the Africa Borderlands Centre. She leads UNDP Africa socioeconomic response and recovery from COVID 19 and (Co) Chairs the UN Africa Regional Collaborative Platform which oversees implementation of the Secretary General’s regional UN reform.
She spent 10 years as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia, Uganda, and Lesotho. As Chief (Africa) at UN OCHA, she led response to natural disasters, emergencies and transitions to recovery. Before the UN, Ms. Eziakonwa worked for “Initiatives of Change” serving as international coordinator of its’ “Creators of Peace – Women’s Initiative”. She is an alumni of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Programme and has a Bachelors in Education from University of Benin Nigeria.
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Youth Voices for Human Rights
The 2020 UN theme for Human Rights Day relates to the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build back better. Grave violations and abuses of human rights are being perpetuated at an alarming rate in our society, yet too many people particularly those in power, are hostile or indifferent to these claims. It is only through the inclusion of all voices, of today’s youth, that we can build back better and break the cycle of human rights abuses.
At this event we heard from four remarkable young leaders who had overcome challenging odds and have dedicating their lives to find practical solutions through their deep convictions to heal divisions and work towards a more just and fair future. Speakers addressed the critical role that they play to inspire, equip and empower individuals, policy makers, and organisations to make societal change.
Read about the event in our report.
Hope – A Youth PerspectiveThe Sustainable Communities Programme of Initiatives of Change UK, International Centre for Eritrean Refugees and Asylum Seekers (ICERAS) and Muslim Welfare House were thrilled to host an uplifting evening of celebration for Interfaith Week on the topic of ‘hope’.
During this two-hour gathering, participants heard from youth leaders of different faiths, including those with no faith, as they reflected on the impact of COVID-19. These leaders shared their inspiring personal experiences; especially as it relates to the forces that unite and divide us.
To read more about the event please read our report.
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Learning to be a peacemaker
Young European Muslims were either born or brought up here. Their parents straddle ethnic and European cultures and often have an expectation that their children will be culturally more ethnic. However, many young Muslims are more comfortable with European culture, and Europe is ‘home’. This experience of young Muslims is not only limited to young European Muslims, but is experienced across the globe.
This programme defuses that tension and helps make young Muslims’ local and Islamic identities symbiotic. In the current environment of increasing hostility towards Islam, it is imperative that young Muslims form a confident identity to be at peace with themselves and others in an increasingly turbulent world.
Learning to be a Peacemaker (LPM) is a course on Islamic approaches to peacemaking for young Muslims and their non-Muslim peers aged 18-30. Designed and delivered by Imam and broadcaster, Ajmal Masroor, in association with Initiatives of Change, this 10 week course aims to offer:
The 90-minute sessions each week will be delivered by Zoom, and the training style is interactive, with introductions to the subject-matter by Imam Ajmal, followed by Q&A and small-group discussions. At the end of the course, participants will plan a practical project to undertake at home to demonstrate learning and commitment to peacemaking.
Keep an eye out on the Caux Forum page for upcoming dates of the course.
February Women in Leadership RoundtableJoin host Simone Müller for Embodied Feminine Leadership featuring Annelieke Verkerk!
The upcoming roundtable session on Zoom will focus on:
Who is this aimed at? Female professionals from across all sectors; academia, entrepreneurs, coaches & consultants. Please note that all roundtable sessions are held on Zoom – we advise that you ensure your Zoom application, whether on desktop, browser, or mobile device, is the most current version. Please see Zoom Updates for more details.
Use the ‘Contact Us’ button at the bottom of the page for your invitation to join!
Simone holds a Masters in Business Administration from the CAU University of Kiel (Germany) and has worked in international management roles at a multinational corporation for over a decade. Since leaving her corporate career, Simone focused on International Leadership Development and Business Coaching. She is an accredited coach, trainer, and NLP master practitioner.
Annelieke has spent the past 15+ years working as an international leadership and team coach, with a focus on developing conscious, embodied, and regenerative leadership. Through enhancing physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and systemic intelligence clarity and purpose emerges. Co-created the Full Potential Team Coaching Certification Training. She holds a Master’s in Public and Private Law at the University of Groningen.
Rise Up Together
As a follow up from IofC-UK’s Sustainable Communities RISE UP event and to mark World Mental Health Day, RISE UP TOGETHER was a chance to hear from young people with lived experiences of mental health issues and what strategies they have used to help them rise up.
Read our report of event.