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Looking Back to the 2026 Firekeeper Gathering
In 2026, the World Ethic Forum gathered on the African continent for the first time. With the support of our partner organisation Nile Journeys, we were hosted in Kenya. For everyone, this shift in place marked a change in the quality of our connection.
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Changing Paradigms Without Losing the World
How do you change a paradigm without losing the world? Change it alone and you risk isolation. In a small group, cultishness. For everyone, no one has that power. This post proposes another path, drawing on ecology: nurture the ecotone, where systems meet, and something new becomes possible.
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In times of darkness, we will shine
In times of darkness, I seek light. Because the dark heaviness of genocide, destruction and oppression lies on my soul. Because the screams of mothers, fathers, and children never stop. A poem by Firekeeper Alexandra Gavilano
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Dear Fire, I bring my grief to you
This text reproduces the words shared by one of our witnesses, Nahom Haile, during Council at the 2026 Firekeeper Gathering. A poetic reflection on what fire might bring.
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What Principles are Guiding our Inquiry?
This post shares five areas of attention for our inquiry: courage, presence, hospitality, commitment, and the long arc. We hold them as word clusters, by design, in respect for radical aliveness.
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Looking Back to the 2024 Firekeepers Gathering: Relational Fabric in the Pluriverse
WorldEthicForum 2024 marked the third in-person gathering of the World Ethic Forum in Pontresina, beneath the nearby Dragon-shaped Mountain range and the peak of Piz Padella. Together, we continued our inquiry, with “The Heart of Change” as our topic for the year. One core area of focus in 2024 was how to converge across our…
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Welcome to Our New Firekeepers
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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What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering?
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.
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Between Elements and Screens: Practising Kinship in a Digital Field
Between yearly gatherings, firekeepers continue meeting on a regular basis, exploring what we call thematic strands. Since we are a global group, those gatherings typically happen online. This post offers insights into the process in a gathering of the kinship strand, indicating possible avenues for collective digital practices more aligned with radically shared aliveness.
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What Are Firekeepers and What is Firekeeping?
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.
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Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness
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.
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Update from the Hearth: A Conspiracy of Breath
This post is a meditation on digital gatherings. When the World Ethic Forum Firekeepers gather online, this is what we are: a dispersed yet connected hearth. A space where fire is tended, stories are shared, and a community remembers what it cares for.
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Celebrating the 2025 World Future Policy Awards
A long-term partner of the World Ethic Forum, the World Future Council offers yearly policy awards that bring visibility to transformative legal innovations, guided by the principle that “nature can live without us. We cannot live without her.”
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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…
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Generative Scribing
Here is an image of the whole (Generative) Scribing I did during the firekeeper meeting at the WorldEthicForum in Pontresina.
