It all began in Egypt, when she was still a young woman and met the Oxford group. She started to read the Bible with her three children and to share times of quiet listening. When she returned to Switzerland after World War II, she took her children to a Moral Re-Armament conference in Interlaken. In May-June of the same year, she was one of the 30 or so people who took charge of cleaning the Caux Palace and preparing for the first summer's conferences. Her family played a part in Caux over many decades.