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"When an innovative education centre such as the KAOS-PILOT UNIVERSITY - themselves experts in creating change - need an external person to guide the staff and the leadership team through our own internal renewal process, we could only ask for help from only the best. And Jean-Claude Audergon was the person we asked to guide us in change.

A weekend is not a long time. But, Jean-Claude did what no one thought was possible. With a mix of humor, smartness, cleverness, wisdom, a a lot of practical tools and 'on the floor experiments' Jean-Claude confronted the staff with itself, the reality we create daily.

The result was outstanding, on an individual, team, and organizational level. That's half a year ago. Yet the learning process is still alive and kicking! That's something! The only problem is: we want more of Jean-Claude Audergon's work - his worldview, his working methods, his feeling for life and his ability to help us with team fights, but also with playfulness and sensuality which comes with it.

"When I met Lane Arye and Arlene Audergon, in 1994, my country was torn apart by bloody war. At that time, Arlene and Lane became our link to the world, and the world's link to us, and somehow our link to the future. Over the years, their commitment to understand, support, and facilitate conflicts and post-war tensions made a tremendous difference. It takes great skill to transform such deep conflicts, and it was hard to navigate through the thick fog of history, myths, prejudice, hatred, violence, mistrust, and hopelessness. Daring to sit in this fire with us and facilitate with respect and true love, Arlene and Lane enabled us to witness in awe moments of change. Hundreds of people left those conflict facilitation seminars with renewed sense of hope, which helped to transform their lives and their communities. Personally, I am grateful for the growth that happened inside me, inside many people I care about, and inside my country through this process."

"I saw Arlene Audergon and Lane Arye conducting reconciliation forums with groups of Croats and Serbs in Croatia, just after the war was over. I saw them demonstrating an outstanding ability to accurately notice and understand the various dynamics in the group, not necessarily the foreground ones only. However, I was far more impressed with their courage and capacity not to understand, but to venture together with the group in a process of unveiling. Still, all this would be in vain, without the end result which, now from the hindsight, looks even more remarkable than immediately after the workshops, when Serbs and Croats were emotionally expressing mutual understandings and commitments for dialog and support. Most of the participants did actually live up to these commitments."