Creating a Culture of Care and Kinship

The World Ethic Forum Podcast

The World Ethic Forum podcast features conversations about creating a culture of care and kinship. The podcast is hosted by Julien Leyre with World Ethic Forum co-leads Anaïs Sägesser and Luea Ritter.

  • Episode 7 – Bonus episode: WEFo as a Sourdough Mother

    Episode 7 – Bonus episode: WEFo as a Sourdough Mother

    How do you hold complexity together as a collective, without it fragmenting into silos, or blending into some sort of chunky soup? In this episode of our introductory series, we explore the seven thematic strands that structure the World Ethic Forum’s inquiry.

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  • Episode 6: Thematic Strands

    Episode 6: Thematic Strands

    How do you hold complexity together as a collective, without it fragmenting into silos, or blending into some sort of chunky soup? In this episode of our introductory series, we explore the seven thematic strands that structure the World Ethic Forum’s inquiry.

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  • Episode 5: The conceptual lens

    Episode 5: The conceptual lens

    Ontology, cosmology, epistemology, ethical biome: get ready for the big Greek words. In this episode, we unpack our conceptual lens, a layered model to make sense of our work. But we are not only geeking out, or showing off our academic credentials. We also talk about dreams, care work, grieving, and connecting to the land.

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  • Episode 4: Firekeeping

    Episode 4: Firekeeping

    Yes, I stay, no matter what. In this episode, we speak about firekeeping as a long-term commitment to tending the flame, so that a group can become a vessel strong enough for deep inquiry.

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  • Episode 3: Ecocentric leadership as stewardship

    Episode 3: Ecocentric leadership as stewardship

    What if leadership was about tending to the whole, not optimising for a part? In this episode, we speak about stilling the mind, listening to dreams, plants, and riverbeds, and making decisions with our wider ways of knowing.

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  • Episode 2: A culture of care and kinship

    Episode 2: A culture of care and kinship

    Culture is not something you can make alone. In this episode, we get practical: what has the World Ethic Forum actually learned about growing a culture of care and kinship? We speak about finding the whole world in a sip of water, and what shows up when a group goes deep.

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  • Episode 1: Kinship with the more-than-human

    Episode 1: Kinship with the more-than-human

    What is it like to be in relationship with a mountain, or with a grasshopper? We go back to childhood memories, picking cherries and talking with a tree, to trace a connection that was never lost, only silenced, waiting to be nurtured again.

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With thanks to Stiftung 3FO whose ongoing support makes this podcast possible.