Organisation 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.

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 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

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 a program to be presented in Dialogical Circles at the rhythm of the four seasons and om the annual Meeting Day. Hereby, the QfWf draws attention to the importance of Global Citizenship for an inclusive society and the responsibility of organizations of the social and cultural domain in this respect.

The Editors and Council

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 and a Council.

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.

Would you like to share your ideas for the Annual theme as presented on The Golden Ratio and for the Newsletter? You’re very welcome:

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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:

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 Editorial Board

De Raadsleden — Angela Roothaan, Annelie van Steenbergen, Erik Hoogcarspel, Giovanni Rizzuto, Greg Suffanti, Jaap Harm Hartmans, Johann Gomes, Louise Müller, Michael Susanto, Mitra Muijen, Nivedita Yohana, Rosalie de Wildt, Wim van de Laar — hebben, vanwege hun unieke en heel eigen kwaliteiten, zitting in de QfWf-Raad.

Soul Circle

with a keen eye and heart for the three Quests

The QfWf strives to shape its activities as a Golden 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.

De Doe-Denk Kern-Kring

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

Honorary Friends

Honorary friends are people who deserve this status because of their dedication and involvement with the QfWf.

The Honorary Friends are

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.

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