The Organisation of the QfWf

The Board of the Quest for Wisdom foundation (QfWf)

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The QfWf has laid down its mission in promoting an inclusive society in its practices and statutes of the Quest-for-Wisdom-Foundation.

The QfWf board is playing a leadership role in facilitating, organizing and realizing the QfWf-programmes on the intercultural art of living. From 2019 organized as the three Quests:

Since the QfWf-project on Global Citizenship in 2024 the yearly QfWf-programmes are published on the digital platform for Global Citizenship Golden Ratio, integrating these quests.

The QfWf websites:

  • The QfWf-website provides general information on the QfWf as a foundation with a Cultural ANBI status and how the QfWf circles are  co-creating around the three Quests, resulting in the (e)books, dialogue- and game-forms. These might be purchased in the webshop. The website is bilingual: in 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 started 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 project 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 both in Dutch and English.

flow together from 2024 onwards as The Golden Ratio Quest

Since the project “World Citizenship of the Street” in 2024, which was honored by the Cultural Participation Fund, the QfWf has been focussing on different aspects of this urgent theme every year. In the intercultural language of the arts, the QfWf Soul Circle develops each year an artistic programme to be presented on the rhythm of the four seasons as well as on the Annual Meeting Day. Hereby, the QfWf draws attention to the importance of Global Citizenship for an inclusive society along the social and intercultural axis.

The Editorial Board, the QfWf-Council and Soul Circle

For the development of her programmes and the quality of her activities, as well as for the renewal and management of her websites, the QfWf has inaugurated an Editorial Board, a QfWf-Council and the Soul Circle.

QfWf-Editoral Board

The members of the QfWf-Board are:

Heidi Muijen (Editor in Chief) together with Angela Gilds (Spoken Word), Ebrahim Sohrabi (Editor), Greg Suffanti (Art), Madalina Hristache (Editor), Mitra Muijen (Music), are taking care for acquiring and developing the monthly publications on the QfWf-Annual theme around World Citizenship on The Golden Ratio: in artistic, philosophical, poetical, musical and other creative forms — and publish them on the QfWf-website(s).

Heidi Muijen collaborated with Mitra Muijen and webdeveloper Jimmy Dean designing the digital platform The Golden Ratio in 2024: on which The QfWf-Quests flow together around a yearly changing theme of Global Citizenship — building upon the older QfWf-programmes like the Wisomweb and the intercultural storytelling programme Animal Wisdom and other projects on the intercultural art of living.

We welcome your contributions and ideas for the The Golden Ratio and for our Newsletter! Please, contact us: redactie@questforwisdom.org

The Editorial Charter

The QfWf-Editorial Charter aims to guarantee the independence of the journalistic and artistic content of the Quest for Wisdom websites.

To this end, it regulates the position and tasks of all those involved in these websites as publisher and digital platforms.

Editorial Team 

The editorial team is responsible for the development of the yearly Golden Ratio programme by means of publications in different media, the digital communication by means of social media, the QfWf-Videochannel and the QfWf-Newsletter; and the maintainance of the other QfWf-websites. Of the utmost importance the QfWf considers the task for ensuring the quality of their content to the benefit of everyone’s interests.

Editoral tasks 

Members of the Editorial team take care of all the editorial tasks in cocreation, among others to:

  • develop text as well as illustrations in coordination with the QfWf Soul Circle and authors
  • check the suitability of the offered material for the development of the QfWf annual theme
  • acknowledge copyrights of the QfWf authors and illustrators[1]
  • check copyrights if the content was published previously on a medium channel, website or publisher
  • take care of the content and the maintenance of the QfWf-websites

Digital communications:

The QfWf-Council

The QfWf-Council offers advice to enhance the quality of the QfWf-activities and her intercultural programmes. The members of QfWf-Council have a responsibility to keep an open eye on the QfWf-developments and will be consulted by the QfWf-Board and the Editors-in-Chiefs whenever necessary to assess the quality of the material offered by third parties for the QfWf-websites.
The members have a seat on the Council — 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-Council

Angela Roothaan, Annelie van Steenbergen, Erik Hoogcarspel, Giovanni Rizzuto, Greg Suffanti, Harm Jaap Hartmans, Henry Muldrow, Johann Gomes, Louise Müller, Michael Susanto, Mitra Muijen, Nivedita Yohana, Rosalie de Wildt, Viola Talloway, Wim van de Laar  are — because of authentic qualities in their field — members of the QfWf-Council.

Soul Circle

with a keen eye and heart for the the Quest for Wisdom!

The QfWf strives to shape its activities in co-creation with the circles of the people involved. 
The Soul Circle is initiated to be as group the intercultural community that the QfWf is propagating as its mission. As the ambassadors of the QfWf they also propagate the QfWf to the outside world in their own networks. And internally they form the hands, hearts, heads and voices of the Quest for Wisdom, connecting people and Quest initiatives to let the Quest for Wisdom grow into the future.

The Soul Circle

The members of the Soul Circle are

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

Dirk de Wachter – foto: ©Kristof Ghyselinck

 

Circle of Friends

Since the year of her foundation in 2016 the QfWf has grown thanks to the help of friends, who contributed to the three Quests in their own authentic way. For their dedication the QfWf pays credit to

The first Circle of QfWf Friends shaping the three Quests:

Update 2025-12

[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.

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