Firekeeping

World Ethik Forum 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland on 28th of August 2022. Photo Mayk Wendt

What happens at a Firekeeper Gathering? 

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How does a group of regenerative farmers, community builders, researchers, artists, activists, practitioners, and engaged citizens committed to societal transformation towards a culture of care and kinship from around the world meet to inquire about radically shared aliveness? Of course, there is ‘the magic of presence’, but can we put clearer vocabulary on this magic without crushing it? What exactly happens at those in-person gatherings? 

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Between Elements and Screens: Practising Kinship in a Digital Field

Between Elements and Screens: Practising Kinship in a Digital Field

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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 we followed 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?

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Firekeepers are trusted stewards who help co-hold the ethical, relational, and emotional field of 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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World Ethic Forum Firekeeper Process 2025

Looking back to the 2025 Firekeeper Gathering: On Kinship as Shared Aliveness

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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, not as an abstract notion, but as a lived, embodied, rhythmic and continually renewed relationship with the web of life.

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