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World Ethik Forum 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland on 28th of August 2022. Photo Mayk Wendt

What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering? 

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How does a group of regenerative farmers, community builders, researchers, artists, activists, practitioners, and engaged citizens committed to societal transformation towards a culture of care and kinship from around the world meet to inquire about radically shared aliveness? Of course, there is ‘the magic of presence’, but can we put clearer vocabulary on this magic without crushing it? What exactly happens at those in-person gatherings? 

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Sam Nuesch 5.12.1978-9.2.2026

Beyond Cosmological Narcissism: – Thinking with Rivers, Dancing with Mountains, Making Ourselves Eatable

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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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What Are Firekeepers and What is Firekeeping?

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Firekeepers are trusted stewards who help co-hold the ethical, relational, and emotional field of 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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World Ethic Forum Firekeeper Process 2025

Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness

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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, not as an abstract notion, but as a lived, embodied, rhythmic and continually renewed relationship with the web of life.

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Book cover. Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations from around the world

Methods for embodied connection: Exploring somatic approaches for futures of radically-shared aliveness

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The World Ethic Forum co-leads: Luea Ritter and Anaïs Sägesser, contributed two chapters to the book Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World, published with Springer-Nature.

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Cover artwork for the book 'Can Feminism Be African' by Minna Salami

BOOK CLUB: Can Feminism Be African?

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In this book club gathering, we invited firekeeper Minna Salami to reflect with us on her latest book, Can Feminism Be African? This conversation resonates deeply with the World Ethic Forum’s commitment to decolonisation, relational ways of knowing, and radically shared aliveness, by centring voices and philosophies that challenge dominant narratives and expand how we understand care, power, and interconnectedness across cultures and communities.

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Luea Ritter speaking about the World Ethic Forum

Living the questions

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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? 

The World Ethic Forum is a vessel where we come together to learn from and inform each other, not just as individuals, but as a collective organism. Our guiding belief is that, if we tend to soil, there may be another way forward. For this, we have to go deep, slow down, and stay with the messiness: not rush to solutions, but understand, as a group, how we came to where we are.

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