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Living the questions
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…
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Microcosmos Común – Celebrating Microbiomes
WorldEthicForum, Greta Pace Buch 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…
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Celebrating the Earth’s Microbiome
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Book Club: Launching with Firekeeper Minna Salami’s new book.
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Our Artist in Residence
WorldEthicForum 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…
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The Heart Alone
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Call For Collective Practices
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Beyond Boundaries: Keynote speech
WorldEthicForum [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…
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The Heart Alone
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Attention Practitioners: Call For Collective Practices Fostering Radically Shared Aliveness
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Odelia Toder – Our Artist in Residence
WorldEthicForum 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…
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Open Call: Artist in Residence
WorldEthicForum 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. This would involve attuning to the WEFo, its values and people (we will provide guidance here) and being present at the Forum in Pontresina between August 28th…
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Radically Shared Aliveness
WorldEthicForum Radically Shared Aliveness February 2nd, 2023 Transcript from an Interview with Vandana Shiva [siteorigin_widget class=\”WP_Widget_Media_Image\”][/siteorigin_widget] For me, life is what flows between living beings. Life itself and aliveness is a shared quality, because it does not stay isolated in one being. It’s constantly spread. And life is what connects. Objects don’t connect, they’re disconnected.…
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Working on the Torus of the World
WorldEthicForum Working on the Torus of the World by Linard Bardill, on site, February 1st, 2023 «What’s the output, what’s the impact of the WorldEthicForum?», we are often asked. «Oh yes, let’s talk about it!», we respond. We are working, or rather we are at work, on the Torus of the World, and the Torus…
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Generative Scribing
WorldEthicForum Generative Scribing October 12, 2022 by Marie-Pascale Gafinen Here is an image of the whole (Generative) Scribing I did during the firekeeper meeting at the WorldEthicForum in Pontresina. Some key points to describe my experience there: 🌱 Radically shared aliveness: Acknowledging that every living being – a plant, a human, an animal, a forest,…
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Protect the Flame
WorldEthicForum Protect the Flame – Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse September 7, 2022 Text: Otto C. Scharmer Image: Kelvy Bird > Read original article [siteorigin_widget class=\”WP_Widget_Media_Image\”][/siteorigin_widget] I am sitting in a train on the Räthische Railway riding back from Pontresina, high in the beautiful Swiss Alps. Surrounded by the presence of melting…
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world on fire
WorldEthicForum world on fire a poem for firekeepers by alexander schieffer august 26, 2022 the world is on fire the fire is us greed, want, desire, consumption, en masse if our souls were on fire we could turn us around live a life inspired by spirit refound serve a world, newly fired by love abound…
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Dancers, like glaciers and rivers, know how to freeze, melt, and flow
WorldEthicForum Dancers, like glaciers and rivers, know how to freeze, melt, and flow August 25, 2022 by Christian Felber [siteorigin_widget class=\”WP_Widget_Media_Image\”][/siteorigin_widget] 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. My intention is to follow…
