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If the way we’re operating in the world today is not leading to greater wellbeing for all involved, human and more-than-human, then how else could we be, work and collaborate together, across the divides of stories and sectors? 

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What is the World Ethic Forum?

The World Ethic Forum is a global organism inquiring into the preconditions for radically shared aliveness. We bring together diverse voices – thinkers, community leaders, elders, farmers, artists, activists and researchers across sectors, cultures and generations, as well as the many voices of the more-than-human – to explore the shared collective practices and capacities that define and enable a culture of care and kinship, in the service of all life.

  • World Ethik Forum 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland on 28th of August 2022. Photo Mayk Wendt

    What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering? 

    How does a group of regenerative farmers, community builders, researchers, artists, activists, practitioners, and engaged citizens committed to societal transformation towards a culture of care and kinship from around the world meet to inquire about radically shared aliveness? Of course, there is ‘the magic of presence’, but can we put clearer vocabulary on this magic…

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    Beyond Cosmological Narcissism: – Thinking with Rivers, Dancing with Mountains, Making Ourselves Eatable

    Co-authored with Sam Nüesch, and posthumously published in his honour by Anaïs Sägesser & Julien Leyre (2026), this post – the first in a set of two – carries forward the thinking articulated and shared in a series of philosophical workshops held at the 2022 World Ethic Forum.

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Radically Shared Aliveness

Our approach is anchored in a conviction that the world is alive, inter- and intra-connected. Yet our dominant cultural and societal models currently operate as if that wasn’t the case and keep perpetuating life-reducing and oppressive systems.

We believe that our current nexus of ecological, social and value crises, stems from deep disconnects, intentionally and unintentionally enhanced over centuries. We also believe that transcending today’s overlapping crises will come from a radical shift in our perception of and relation with all that is alive, including ourselves and the more-than-human: humans are called to support a society of all beings.

The World Ethic Forum is a Living Lab for this culture of radically shared aliveness.

ABOUT THE WORLD ETHIC FORUM

Our Thematic Priorities

01

Ethical Ground
Work

We explore the questions, perspectives and competencies that would help shape an ethic or a set of values enabling radically shared aliveness.

02

Decolonisation – Equity – Diversity – Inclusion

We gesture towards a future that transcends colonial patterns and integrates an inclusive, equitable, and diverse society.

03

Healing – Restoration – Reconciliation

We articulate and experiment with processes that can enable healing or repair fractured relational fabrics in the personal and the collective.

04

Kinship – Relating to all Beings

We engage in a world filled with relationships and root ourselves in a relational ontology where all beings are acknowledged and respected equally.

05

Responsible Economy – New forms of Economy

We investigate the blockages to radically shared aliveness that stem from our current economic, business, financial and material systems, and what we can do about them.

06

Stewardship of Bioregions – Agriculture and Food

We seek ways of shifting our relationship to the land, from one of ownership and extraction to one of care and custody, anchored in an organic bioregional approach.

07

Youth, Children, Elders, Parents – Intergenerational Learning and Dialogue

Inspired by a 7-generations principle, we look for ways of bringing together the voices and wisdom of different generations, and see ourselves as future ancestors in becoming.

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