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

    BOOK CLUB: Can Feminism Be African? by Minna Salami.

    In this book club gathering, we invited Minna Salami to reflect with us on her latest book, Can Feminism Be African?

  • Firekeeper Gathering, Public Event 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya

    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…

  • Luea Ritter speaking about the World Ethic Forum

    Living the questions

    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…

  • Microcosmos Común‬ – Celebrating Microbiomes

    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.

  • Attendees during the World Ethic Forum 2025 Public Event at the Volkshaus in Zurich.

    Celebrating the Earth’s Microbiome

    The Earth’s Aliveness: A Journey into our Planet’s Microbiome

  • Book Club: Launching with Firekeeper Minna Salami’s new book.

    Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question.

  • Our Artist in Residence

    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.…

  • The Heart Alone

    Lately, greetings are often farewells. Or at least filled with the foreboding that I will soon be forced to say goodbye.

  • Call For Collective Practices

    Join us at the WorldEthicForum to share and celebrate (y)our collective practices and experiences of #RadicallySharedAliveness.

  • Beyond Boundaries: Keynote Speech

    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 what comes from my heart. So, I don’t know if you have counted how many times the verb connect and interconnected…

  • The Heart Alone

    Lately, greetings are often farewells. Or at least filled with the foreboding that I will soon be forced to say goodbye.

  • Attention Practitioners: Call For Collective Practices Fostering Radically Shared Aliveness

    Join us at the WorldEthicForum to share and celebrate (y)our collective practices and experiences of #RadicallySharedAliveness.

  • Odelia Toder: Our Artist in Residence

    Following our open call, we are very happy to welcome Odelia Toder as the first World Ethic Forum’s artist-in-residence.

  • Open Call: Artist in Residence

    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.

  • Radically Shared Aliveness

    Transcript from an Interview with Vandana Shiva

  • Working on the Torus of the World

    We are working, or rather we are at work, on the Torus of the World, and the Torus of the World is where Pontresina is situated.

  • Generative Scribing

    Here is an image of the whole (Generative) Scribing I did during the firekeeper meeting at the WorldEthicForum in Pontresina.

  • Protect the Flame – Circles of Radical Presence in Times of Collapse

    Surrounded by the presence of melting glaciers I reflect on two gatherings that happened here earlier in the week: the WorldEthicForum (WEFo) with about 250 participants, and the annual meeting of the World Future Council (WFC), a gathering of 50 global change-makers from civil society, government, academia, and business.

  • world on fire

    A poem for firekeepers by Alexander Schieffer.

  • Dancers, like glaciers and rivers, know how to freeze, melt, and flow

    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.