We are thrilled to announce our next year’s in-person multi-day gathering co-organized by the World Ethic Forum and Nile Journeys with the overarching theme of earth sanctuaries. Over the course of seven days, between June 27 and July 4th 2026, we will gather in Nairobi to explore how we can foster and enliven regenerative sanctuary spaces for the times we live in.
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If the way we’re operating in the world today is not leading to greater health and wellbeing for all involved, human and non-human, then how else could we be, work and collaborate together, across the divides of cultures 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 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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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. Microcosmos Común is a living installation and collective performance that invites participants to immerse themselves—both literally and symbolically—into the planetary microbiome. At
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The Earth’s Aliveness: A Journey into our Planet’s Microbiome By Linard Bardill At a time when the intensity of the pendulum swings of human history, shake us, often leaving us disoriented, our event celebrating the Microbiome, offers a rare invitation: to pause, discover an unknown world, and draw courage from the shared acknowledgment of the
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Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question. We are very happy to announce a new World Ethic Forum Book Club that features books from our wonderful team of Firekeepers. The intention is to dive deeply into work that discusses an approach, a theme, a subject relevant to the furthering of radically-shared aliveness; to the
Book Club: Launching with Firekeeper Minna Salami’s new book. Read More »
Following our open call, we are very happy to welcome Odelia Toder as the first World Ethic Forum’s artist-in-residence. Odelia will be adding her artistic interpretation and resonance to the tapestry of our shared exploration, experiences and sharings. This we see as an important way to create a dimension of our work that transcends language.
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by Andreas Weber. Lately, greetings are often farewells. Or at least filled with the foreboding that I will soon be forced to say goodbye. I’m not necessarily talking about people I meet – although some meetings here are quickly followed by a parting, too. No, I am talking about the other luminous figures in whom
Join us at the WorldEthicForum to share and celebrate (y)our collective practices and experiences of #RadicallySharedAliveness. We invite you to contribute and share about the collective practices you are working with. This with the intention of hearing your stories and insights from working with different groups of people, connecting deeply as nature itself and fostering
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[siteorigin_widget class=\”WP_Widget_Media_Video\”][/siteorigin_widget] Transcript Thank you, Martin. Thank you, Martin, for your kind introduction, and good evening to you all, dear friends. 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
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by Andreas Weber. Lately, greetings are often farewells. Or at least filled with the foreboding that I will soon be forced to say goodbye. I\’m not necessarily talking about people I meet – although some meetings here are quickly followed by a parting, too. No, I am talking about the other luminous figures in whom