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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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 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.
Between Elements and Screens: Practising Kinship in a Digital Field Read More »
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.
What Are Firekeepers and What is Firekeeping? Read More »
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.
Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness Read More »
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.
Update from the Hearth: A Conspiracy of Breath Read More »
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.”
Celebrating the 2025 World Future Policy Awards Read More »
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 have been used by Luea (Ritter) and Linard (Bardill).
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Here is an image of the whole (Generative) Scribing I did during the firekeeper meeting at the WorldEthicForum in Pontresina.
Generative Scribing Read More »