What are your key takeaways from the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum 2025?

This year again, I had the chance to be present at the forum with my dear colleague Pascale. Here are our 3 key takeaways:

❤️‍🔥𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲.

Showing up in the face of complexity is challenging, at times even triggering, but it is also part of the solution. When we can’t hold complexity, it is maybe a sign we need to take a regenerative pause before showing up again. Only when having an open mind, heart, and will can we spark meaningful change. Otherwise, we might well generate more division, suffering, and miscomprehension - even if we had the best intentions.

🌿 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞.

Taking time to turn inwards, pause, and reflect are non-negotiable when we are change workers. For something mindful and meaningful to emerge, we need to develop the capacities and qualities to listen deeply to what’s present in order to feel what wants to emerge in the collective, social field.

🫂 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭.

Our role as change workers, especially when coming from occidental settings, is to be mindful of our privileges as well as of inequalities in power and possibilities. There are many ways to conscientise and adapt our posture and to decolonize our minds, but they all start with listening and opening up to other perspectives and realities in order to get from a place of ‘power over’ to a place of ‘power with’.

🌱 We are now looking forward to already integrating some of the learnings of the past few days into our work at TransformAction Lab, as well as further reflecting on the topics of decolonisation and intersectionality in particular.

I’d love for you to comment or get in touch if you’d like to share reflections on our key takeaways or any of these important topics! 🤗

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