“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!”
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….
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 gameQuest 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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:
[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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