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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.

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    Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness

    The 2025 Firekeeper Circle Gathering invited participants into living practices of kinship:  ways of being together that transcend language. Together, we inhabited our calling question through presence, ritual, and attentiveness, exploring how kinship can be felt and practised in the spaces between humans, more-than-humans, and the unseen, not as an abstract notion, but as a…

  • Regenerative Impulses: Shared Sense-Making Rooted in Lived Experience

    The World Ethic Forum, in close collaboration with Nile Journeys, is delighted to announce its next in-person, multi-day gathering, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, from June 27 to July 4, 2026.

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    Update from the Hearth: A Conspiracy of Breath

    The word hearth is a quiet constellation. Within it live both heart and earth — warmth, home, and the living planet held together in just six letters. A hearth is where fire is tended, where stories are shared, where a community remembers what it cares for.

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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

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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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