Firekeeper Circle Gatherings

The Firekeeper Circle is a network of diverse thought and action leaders from across the world. Once a year, we meet in person in a physical circle, the Firekeeper Gathering.

Firekeeping is more than a role. It is a way of tending to, honouring and enhancing life, by (re)weaving relationships between humans and more-than-humans, as a way to give shape to a culture of radically shared aliveness. Firekeeping inquires into the subtle, invisible or hidden aspects of our shared humanity that call for transformative shifts. We delve into what else is possible when we come together across disciplines, perspectives, scales, sectors and cultures. By learning from and with each other, we weave our rich diversity into a more coherent whole, finding shared and fertile ground for nurturing aliveness amid systemic challenges. More than an intellectual exercise, this is a commitment to personal and collective evolution.

What is Firekeeping?
  • Generative scribing from the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering of the World Ethic Forum

    Firekeeper Gathering 2025: Männedorf

    The 2025 gathering marked the Midway point of the initial 7-year arc for the World Ethic Forum’s Firekeeper Gatherings. Physically, this gathering was marked by a movement from the higher lands of the Engadine (Pontresina), where we came together the previous three years, ‘down’ to Männendorf, next to the lake of Zurich.

  • World Ethic Forum Firekeeper Process 2024. Credit Marco Tribelhorn.

    Firekeeper Gathering 2024: Pontresina

    The 2024 Firekeeper gathering was the third gathering in our seven-year cycle and the last to take place in Pontresina.

  • Firekeeper Gathering 2023: Pontresina

    The Firekeeper circle meets in person every year. So far, these gatherings have taken place in Pontresina, Switzerland, in August. During the rest of the year, we work online and in working groups, deepening and working on concrete next steps for the thematic strands at the heart of our work

  • Firekeeper Gathering 2022: Pontresina

    Marie-Pascale Gafinen documented the gathering through her scribing, a process that she describes as visualizing the discussion with a focus on everything that lies in between and UNDER the surface: the dynamic of the conversation, mental models and the atmosphere of the session. The aim is to surface the highest future potential of the group,…