What allows a group to move through discomfort together, rather than retreating from it? Starting from a moment of collective grief that happened at our 2023 gathering, and based on a paper from the World Ethic Forum co-leads, this post reflects on the liminal spaces where collective transformation actually happens.
When Grief Enters the Circle: Transformative Learning as a Collective Practice Read More »
If we wanted to create a collective that organises itself around a culture of care and kinship, concretely and practically, what would we do? This post shares WEFo’s working map of collective practices and capacities that form the preconditions for enabling radically shared aliveness.
Collective Practices and Capacities for Radically Shared Aliveness Read More »
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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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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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.
What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering? Read More »
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.
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.
What Are Firekeepers and What is Firekeeping? Read More »
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.
Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness Read More »
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.
Regenerative Impulses: Shared Sense-Making Rooted in Lived Experience Read More »
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.