Open Space: Sharing and Exploring Practices

We delve into the richness of offerings, learn from diverse corners of the world, reflect together and by harvesting insights learn from one another. Some of the invitations include:

Nature’s Voice with Ewelina Schraven and Madlaina Fontana

Discover the language of nature in Nature’s Voice, an immersive and creative workshop where human and non-human worlds come together. In this unique experience, you’ll explore multi-species perspectives through imagination, creativity, and whole-body thinking. By tuning into the surrounding soundscape and engaging in both verbal and non-verbal dialogues, you will rediscover your connection to the aliveness around you. Through playful, artistic co-creation, we will express our insights using clay—directly sourced from the earth of the Morteratsch valley. Let go of the control of the mind and let your hands be guided by the flow of the moment. As you shape the clay, you’ll shape your connection to the earth, your surroundings, and yourself. This workshop is an invitation to embrace nature’s voice, to listen deeply, see clearly, and feel fully. The process will unfold naturally, and while the results will vary, one thing is certain: your hands will get dirty, your boots will get muddy, and your heart will smile. Come and experience the joy of co-creation with nature, and let your creative voice be part of the greater conversation.

Systemic Constellations with Luea Ritter

Embodied group practice. With this practice we will inquire into the the theme of the World Ethic Forum this year, and explore what is there for us to more deeply invite, open up to and work with. Systemic constellations can be used as a navigational tool for refining our trajectory as groups, organizations, and communities. Especially when finding ourselves in complex situations, systemic constellations can support us in picking up different, complementary, or hidden signals. It helps us to orient and maintain a steady course by including a wider range and different levels of information.

Returning to our Sacred Headwaters / Die Rückkehr zu unseren heiligen Quellen with/mit Madlaina Fontana, Rutendo Ngara, Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, and Erin Dixon

We welcome you to return to the circle through our sacred life waters, to re(k)new our relationships together with the land, in shared story, ceremony, song and ritual – turning towards each other and leaning in from different directions across Mother Earth. Living into the heart of change and the spirit of our prophecy stories we understand our natural responsibility to our sacred waters. Water is life and holds the ‘memory’ of our places, weaving the web of connection, reciprocity and care. We invite you to walk, sense and listen together to the waters under, within and above us, all relations.

Wir laden euch ein, durch unsere heiligen Lebensgewässer in den Kreis zurückzukehren, und unsere Beziehungen zum Land durch unsere gemeinsamen Geschichten, Zeremonien, Liedern und Ritualen neu zu gestalten. Dies, indem wir uns einander zu wenden und uns aus verschiedenen Richtungen der Mutter Erde nähern. Wir leben hinzum Herzen des Wandels und im Geist unserer Prophezeiungsgeschichten verstehen wir unsere natürliche Verantwortung für unsere heiligen Gewässer. Wasser ist Leben und birgt das „Gedächtnis“ unserer Orte und webt das Netz der Verbindung, Reziprozität und Fürsorge. Wir laden euch ein, gemeinsam zu gehen, zu erspüren und auf das Wasser unter, in und über uns, und auf alle Beziehungen zu lauschen.

Drops of an Ocean: Stories become Songs with Jehisson Santacruz and Sonja Schenkel

Listening to the water means listening to the element that holds a deep connection to our own body as an individual person and as a community. In this workshop on community and personal music, we will transform personal stories into songs. We will explore the importance of ritualising our human-nonhuman relationships by exploring vocabulary that can be found in our own life through singing: flow, waves, streams, dams. Through this practice we connect to the concept of Senti-Pensar (Feeling-Thinking) based on Indigenous Knowledge from Abya Yala (Latin America). We will also introduce the project “The Library for a Happy Future” and its take-on creating an integrated connection to waters.

Facilitators:

Ewelina Schraven is a life-centered designer, new economy researcher, university lecturer, and explorer. She serves as a researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences and lectures at Eindhoven University of Technology. She advocates for transitioning from human-centric to post-anthropocentric perspectives, aiming to integrate human identity with broader ecosystems. In her practice, she emphasizes the importance of incorporating nature’s voice into decision-making processes to acknowledge the interconnectedness and kinship of all life forms.
https://nl.linkedin.com/in/ewelina-schraven-a3427278

Jehisson Santacruz is a transdisciplinary artist with a focus on disruptive education, gamification and social empowerment in critical context and peacebuilding. As a musician and artistic facilitator he has led and accompanied numerous communities to express their voice.

Sonja Schenkel holds a PhD in Sustainable Development and has been working at the intersection of Art and Science for many years. Through her practice in Textile Art she joined the World Ethic Forum as a space designer.

The Library for a Happy Future is a multi-local project to connect communities to water and the idea of One Health, which understands well-being as an interconnected state of balance between people, plants, animals, and the environment.