The Board of the Quest for wisdom foundation (QfWf)
The QfWf has laid down its mission in promoting an inclusive society in its practices and statutes.
The QfWf board is continuing to play a leadership role in facilitating, organizing and realizing the QfWf-programmes on the intercultural art of living. From 2019 organized as the three Quests:
On the in 2024 launched digital platform for Global Citizenship Golden Ratio these quests are integrated.
The Members of the Board
- Heidi Muijen, president
- Norwin Roberto, secretary
- Quintra Rijnders, treasurer
- Erfan Pourmohammadi, general member
- Michael Susanto, general member
- Tess van Dongen, general member
- Victor Dobbin, general member
The QfWf websites:
- The QfWf-website with general information on the QfWf as a foundation with a Cultural ANBI status and
with QfWf circles organising the three Quests, providing information for visitors about the (e)books and games to be purchased in the webshop. The website is nearly 100% bilingual: Dutch and English.
- For the digital game Quest for Wisdom, launched in 2016, the Wheel for the Intercultural Art of Living
was designed with 20 stories from the four corners of the world, including 80 transcultural symbols, to be consulted in order to develop the art of living personally and as a community, family or team.
- In 2017 the QfWf has launched the Wisdom Web, intended for the collecting, developing and publishing of (inter)cultural and artistic materials. The website is primarily Dutch language based, but also contains a substantial number of contributions in English.
- The Animal Wisdom programme has its own website that contains an intercultural storytelling
programme — including a series of e-books: the Animal Wisdom Collection as well as decades of retold animal stories with an ethos from different cultures. This website is 100% bilingual: Dutch and English.
flow together from 2025 ontwards as The Golden Ratio Quest
The Editorial Board
For the continuous development, renewal and management as well as for monitoring the quality of the sites, the QfWf-Board has set up a team of Chief Editors and an Editorial Board.
Editors in Chief
From 2016 till 2024 Joke Koppius was Editor in Chief, together with Heidi Muijen. From 2024 Heidi Muijen shared this task with Mitra Muijen and from 2025 also together with Angela Gilds.
Editorial Tasks and the Editorial Charter
The QFWF-Editorial Charter aims to guarantee the independence of the journalistic and exploratory content of the Quest for Wisdom sites.
To this end, it regulates the position and tasks of all those involved in these websites as publisher and digital platforms.
Editors in Chief
The editors-in-chief are responsible for the development of the three QfWf-websites and for ensuring the quality of their content.
In order to acknowledge copyrights and everyone’s interests:
- from the QfWf author[1]
- from the medium channel, website or publisher, where the material was previously published, of the QfWf-websites and the Quest for wisdom foundation.
The tasks of the Editors-in-Chief are
Ensures the development and maintenance of the three Quest sites mentioned.
- Handles the supplied material with care.
- Assess the supplied material for suitability for placement on one of the sites.
- Brings the material into the house style of the sites.
- Applies illustrations in coordination with the QfWf author
- Checks whether links and other author data are missing.
- Ensures that the whole is placed on one of the sites after completion.
- Lets the entrants know where their specific material can be found on the site
In addition the editors-in-chiefs are responsible for all digital communications:
- QfWf Newletter ‘Spinning web’
- QfWf videochannel
The Editorial Board of the QfWf
The Editorial Board — in consultation with the Editors-in-Chiefs — monitors the quality of the material offered by third parties for the QfWf-websites.
The Editorial Board members have a seat on the Editorial Board — because of their unique and diverse qualities.
They ensure quality by providing solicited and unsolicited advice and by contributing to the editorial pages of the Wisdomweb and the Animal-wisdomprogramme as well as the themes on Global Citizenship on the Golden Ratio platform.
The Members of the QfWf Editorial Board
- Angela Roothaan
- Annelie van Steenbergen
- Erik Hoogcarspel
- Greg Suffanti
- Joke Koppius (voorzitter)
- Louise Müller
- Mitra Muijen
- Nivedita Yohana
- Rosalie de Wildt
- Wim van de Laar
Soul Circle
with a keen eye and heart for the three Quests
The QfWf strives to shape its activities as a Golde Ration Quest in co-creation with circles of stakeholders.
The Think & Do Soul Circle wants to be the intercultural community that the QfWf is propagating as its mission. They form as the hands, hearts, heads and voices of the Quest for Wisdom the ambassadors of the QfWf. They also propagate the QfWf to the outside world in their own networks and internally they are connecting people who boost QfWf initiatives and help shape them to allow the Quest to flow further.

The members of the Soul Circle are
- Angela Gilds
- Elfriede Arnoldy
- Gea Smit
- Giovanni Rizzuto
- Greg Suffanti
- Harm-Jaap Hartmans
- Johann Gomes
- Klaske Rehorst
- Louis van Marissing
- Marianne Selleger
- Maud van Ingen
- Mo Visscher
- Nivedita Yohana
- Nour Kayali
- Robin Stemerding
Members of Honour
Honorary members are people who have earned this special recognition due to their inspiring ideas and/or their special contributions to the QfWf.
Since December 2016, the QfWf has selected two honorary members.
The Honarary Members are
Honorary Friends
Honorary friends are people who deserve this status because of their dedication and involvement with the QfWf.
The Honorary Friends are
- Caroline Young
- Chrisje Ronde
- Erik Hoogcarspel
- Fred de Haas
- Gea Smit
- Greg Suffanti
- Henry Muldrow
- Johann Gomes
- Louis Van Marissing
- Machteld Roede
- Marianne Sorgedrager
- Rosalie de Wildt
- Susanne van Lent
- Wim van de Laar
Update 2025-02
[1] QfWf authors are writers, actors and other muses, such as artists, designers, drafters, photographers, illustrators, video and film makers and other producers of text, images, sound, and stakeholders, who make the texts and other materials available to a of the QfWf-websites have stated.