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"BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD"
Mahatma Gandhi
OUR STORIES
Fay Magodo
Zimbabwe
Rabah Abou Assi
Lebanon
Whatever you do, wherever you go, your heart & sou will always belong here. Do you know what is it?It is friendship & friendship & its true friendship.
Rob Lancaster
Facilitator
Australia
The travel on which I embarked with a feeble mind turned out to be a real eye opener and a powerful self discovery exercise.
When I applied to the Caux interns program I had two agendas in mind. I wanted to be able to equip myself with techniques to change the world and enable myself to be part of an active community which I was hoping will make me more energetic and introduce me ways and resources to achieve my cherished desires.
Nahom T. Halle
Ethiopia
The Caux interns leadership programme is an opportunity for young people to experience the full richness of the Caux conference centre: to contribute their service to the conferences, and through the training program to engage with the needs of the world, developing a deeper sense of where they can contribute. See more at: http://www.caux.iofc.org/en/caux-interns
Leaving our homes to live in a palace in the Swiss mountains for a month might seem like a challenge, a heavenly “burden “ one could say. I imagine all our friends joked that after this experience we can apply any time for a princess or prince position; who else has the chance to call a palace “home” for such a long time. However, our story doesn’t end there; we didn’t have dances and royal dinners every night.
I feel connected and fully engaged as a facilitator when I feel ‘us’ as a group dancing creatively and in tension with the topics we’re exploring; stepping out of the comfort zone, stretching, panicking at times, returning to the comfort zone and continuing the dance.
Berj Dakermanjian
Lebanon
The difficulty of writing about CAUX, stems in my opinion, from the pure absence of the concept of time in the castle. It is truly remarkable how short this month felt. I was left wanting more
This website honours the experience 34
interns had during the summer of 2013
in Caux Palace, during the
IofC Leadership program
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"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"
Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
Erica Melloni
Italy
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Imagine hundreds of people from all over the world, youths and adults, children and old people working, eating, sharing and having fun together.