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Methods for Collective Wisdom: Generative Scribing and Social Field Resonance at the World Ethic Forum
Every year, at our Firekeeper Gathering, we witness a seven-meter roll of paper become a visual map of our shared experience. We’re inquiring into ways that a diverse group might navigate complexity together towards radically shared aliveness. This post explores two methods that form the backbone of our collective practice: Generative Scribing and Social Field…
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Understanding Wider Ways of Knowing
What we do depends on what we know. But how often do we pause to ask: how do we actually know what we know? This post explores epistemology: why it matters to WEFo’s inquiry, and what becomes possible when embodied, indigenous, and participatory ways of knowing are included in the way we approach knowledge.
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Welcome to Our New Firekeepers
Our new Firekeepers will no doubt contribute to the richness and diversity of the circle. Their professional and personal engagements stretch across academia, community development, leadership, business, agriculture, and technology, with lives that span across continents, and a firm commitment to radically shared aliveness.
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Co-Creating a Culture of Care and Kinship: Our Learning Journey
A culture of care and kinship cannot be designed or imposed. It has to be grown. This article shares the foundations of our ongoing inquiry into nurturing such a culture: as something we do together, through practice, presence, and a willingness to be changed by what we encounter.
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Think Like a Trickster: Cultivating Post-binary Imaginations
Discussed with Sam Nüesch, and part of a series posthumously published in his honor by Anaïs Sägesser & Julien Leyre (2026), this post – the second 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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What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering?
How does a group of farmers, artists, researchers, activists, and community builders from across the world come together to inquire into radically shared aliveness? This post explores what actually happens at a Firekeeper gathering: the rituals, the practices, the ways of knowing. The how behind the what.
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In the Fog of Becoming
Our kinship group gathered online once more. Different moods were there, yet the familiar hum of shared inquiry filled the digital space. The conversation circled back to something old and still alive: our name.
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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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Between Elements and Screens: Practising Kinship in a Digital Field
Between yearly gatherings, firekeepers continue meeting on a regular basis, exploring what we call thematic strands. Since we are a global group, those gatherings typically happen online. This post offers insights into the process in a gathering of the kinship strand, indicating possible avenues for collective digital practices more aligned with radically shared aliveness.
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What Are Firekeepers and What is Firekeeping?
Firekeepers are trusted stewards who co-hold our inquiry process. Their role is attentional and relational: they help tend the ‘fire’ of shared purpose, collective care, and respectful dialogue. Firekeepers listen deeply, speak authentically, and stay connected to our shared core values of kinship, dignity, and interdependence, including with the more-than-human.
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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.
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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
This post is a meditation on digital gatherings. When the World Ethic Forum Firekeepers gather online, this is what we are: a dispersed yet connected hearth. A space where fire is tended, stories are shared, and a community remembers what it cares for.
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Methods for embodied connection: Exploring somatic approaches for futures of radically-shared aliveness
The World Ethic Forum’s inquiry is grounded in research. This post introduces two embodied methods developed by our co-leads Luea Ritter and Anaïs Sägesser: for reconnecting self and nature, and for sensing the patterns alive in a collective system. Both were published in a Springer-Nature volume on regenerative futures.
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Radically-shared aliveness includes far more than the eye can see
The World Ethic Forum invited Prof. Dr. Gabriele Berg, microbiome researcher at the Technical University of Graz, to give a keynote speech on our 2025 annual public event, and take us on a journey to encounter the microbiome.
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BOOK CLUB: Can Feminism Be African?
Firekeeper Minna Salami joined our book club to reflect on her latest book, Can Feminism Be African? This post shares reflections from the conversation that followed: on decolonisation, sensuous knowledge, and what it would mean to replace allyship with friendship.
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Celebrating the 2025 World Future Policy Awards
A long-term partner of the World Ethic Forum, the World Future Council offers yearly policy awards that bring visibility to transformative legal innovations, guided by the principle that “nature can live without us. We cannot live without her.”
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Living the questions
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? A video introduction to the World Ethic Forum, by our co-lead Luea Ritter.
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Microcosmos Común – Celebrating Microbiomes
A site-specific installation and participatory performance by CHild Collective as part of the World Ethic Forum Event, The Earth’s Aliveness: A journey to the Microbiome of our Planet – Helvetiaplatz, June 22nd 2025.
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Book Club: Launching with Firekeeper Minna Salami’s new book.
Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question.
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Call For Collective Practices
Join us at the WorldEthicForum to share and celebrate (y)our collective practices and experiences of #RadicallySharedAliveness.
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Beyond Boundaries: Keynote Speech
It’s such a privilege for me to be standing here, and I hope I will do justice to what is expected for me. But I have peace because what is expected for me is what comes from my heart. So, I don’t know if you have counted how many times the verb connect and interconnected…
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The Heart Alone
Lately, greetings are often farewells. Or at least filled with the foreboding that I will soon be forced to say goodbye.
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Odelia Toder: Our Artist in Residence
Following our open call, we are very happy to welcome Odelia Toder as the first World Ethic Forum’s artist-in-residence.
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Open Call: Artist in Residence
The WorldEthicForum (WEFo) would like to invite a visual artist, illustrator or graphic designer to be our artist-in-residence, ideally for the duration of the next few years.
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Working on the Torus of the World
We are working, or rather we are at work, on the Torus of the World, and the Torus of the World is where Pontresina is situated.
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Generative Scribing
Here is an image of the whole (Generative) Scribing I did during the firekeeper meeting at the WorldEthicForum in Pontresina.
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Protect the Flame – Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse
Surrounded by the presence of melting glaciers I reflect on two gatherings that happened here earlier in the week: the WorldEthicForum (WEFo) with about 250 participants, and the annual meeting of the World Future Council (WFC), a gathering of 50 global change-makers from civil society, government, academia, and business.
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Dancers, like glaciers and rivers, know how to freeze, melt, and flow
This morning I took a swim in the river that flows out of the melting Roseg glacier. Dancers, like glaciers and rivers, know how to freeze, melt, and flow.
