Inquiry
“[…] be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke (letter to Franz Xaver Kappus)
The World Ethic Forum is an inquiry-based organism.
As we genuinely want to explore radically shared aliveness and how to embody it, we must also try to understand where we come from, how the current state of the world came to be, what is still hindering us and what is called to be repaired, transformed and shifted.
This inquiry calls for a reflective process where we work together to reveal and test our structural injustices, hidden spots, and assumptions, as we reach into deeper layers of potential pathways forward.
We conduct this exploration primarily through the Firekeeper Circle, accompanied by a process of Participatory Action Research, focusing on seven primary Thematic Strands.