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The QfWf-Worlddream

“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us — onze diepste angst is dat we buitenmatig krachtig zijn. Het is ons licht niet onze duisternis die ons het meest bang maakt…”  — Marianne Williamson in: A Return to Love.

“Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!” — Nelson Mandela, 1994.

Leidschendammer Lounge Meeting

Each year the Quest for Wisdom organizes Circles to cocreate an intercultural programme on an annually changing theme of social relevance, to be presented bij the Soul Circle on the Annual Meeting Day. The wider QfWf-Circle is invited to contribute with blogs, essays and artistic materials to be published on the Golden Ratio website as well as in a Golden Ratio Yearbook, thus making on a small scale the QfWf-World Dream come true. In 2024 the theme “Global Citizenship” was documented in Amor Mundi and in 2025 Amor Fati, highlights the cocreative and playful way how the QfWf realizes its vision of the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living for an inclusive cosmopolitan culture, in which all people may feel at home and in harmony with all living beings:

“Global Citizenship is open communication between people, without being judgemental.
Respectful to each other, acknowledging that however different we are, we can stay connected, and are able to share!”

Angela Gilds reflection on the intercultural meetings for the project on Global Citizenship.

Global Citizenship meeting

A world dream emerges when we start dreaming together. By sowing seeds of love in our own circles — instead of going along with reflexes of indifference, aggression and fear — so that a smile elicits laughter, warmth is answered with embracing. How valuable are the differences between people to create a meaningful world and to make (working) life more colourful and fascinating — whith people developing an eye for (inner) beauty. How beneficial when people are opening up so that en open space between people creates an inclusive society.

World Citizenship – Nour Kayali

A world we dream of is created by dreaming. By not forgetting our ‘childishly naive’ way to be open and confident. And let us not forget that the most beautiful things are born from our hopes and dreams. The most beautiful dreams and positive emotions empower ourselves as communities, by an ethos that reaches to the stars and can change the world – these dreams begin with powerful dreamers like Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King. Like John Lennon sings “I’m a dreamer and I’m not the only one…”. Let’s start dreaming together about a world where each can find shelter and people around to feel at home, by starting small actions in our own circles so that our world-dream-power comes alive. With small steps that are big and loving deeds that are contagious. Weaving threads of soft forces that connects us as global citizens and living beings on Mother Earth, flowing with the stream of life….

Update 2025-02

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Organisation QfWf

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

bestuur@questforwisdom.org

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.

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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 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

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.

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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