SPACE Forum for Collective Wisdom
The Forum is a place to sense, speak, listen, move, wonder and create together — to explore how collective wisdom may help us adapt, regenerate, and respond to life as it unfolds.
An Invitation to Explore Together
Many of us are living through profound change — in our personal lives, our communities, and the wider world. We are searching for ways of meeting change that help us stay in relationship: with our bodies, with one another, with community, and with the living world we are part of.
The SPACE Forum for Collective Wisdom invites us to enter this inquiry together.
Bring your own experience, questions, practices and ways of knowing, and become curious about what may emerge when different perspectives meet.
How do we create a community that can grow and evolve with change, practise care, and stay in relationship with the living world?
The First SPACE Forum
For this first Forum, we will explore together:
How do we create a community that can grow and evolve with change, practise care, and stay in relationship with the living world?
Participants
We are bringing together around 13–20 invited participants: contributors, thinkers and people connected to relevant communities and practices. We are inviting people who bring maturity, curiosity, lived experience and diverse ways of knowing. Several guests have extensive Forum experience and can support others.
Details
20 or 21 November 2026 (final date tbc)
14:00 - 18:00
Zurich (exact location tbc)
This first SPACE Forum is by personal invitation only.
If you have received an invitation, please confirm your attendance.
What Is Forum?
Forum is a ritualised form of group communication developed within the ZEGG community. Through expression and attentive witnessing, people explore what is alive in themselves and in the group.
It is a communal practice, distinct from therapy, decision-making or conflict resolution.
What happens in the circle?
Participants sit in a circle supported by experienced facilitators.
One person enters the centre to express something alive for them, while others witness without interruption. Expression may include words, silence, movement and emotion.
If appropriate, witnesses may then offer “mirrors”: reflections on what they noticed, rather than advice or claims about what someone’s experience means.
Participants are invited to bring authenticity, curiosity, care and self-responsibility. Each person chooses what to share and how vulnerable they wish to be. Difficult matters and relational patterns can be named and explored.
Facilitators hold the structure, pace, boundaries and voluntary nature of the process.
How We Practise the SPACE Forum
We bring different experiences and ways of knowing into relationship. These six commitments guide how we express ourselves, witness one another and carry what we learn into the life of SPACE.
Collective Wisdom
Bringing different experiences, perspectives and ways of knowing into relationship, allowing insight to emerge between us.
Responsibility & Care
Practising consent, boundaries, self-responsibility and accountability for how our presence and actions affect one another and the wider community.
Difference & Diversity
Meeting across different histories, disciplines, sensitivities and forms of knowledge, while staying aware of rank, power and belonging.
Witnessing & Mirroring
Listening without interruption and offering careful reflections on what we notice, leaving room for different understandings.
Embodied Expression
Using words, silence, movement, emotion, posture and symbolic expression to explore what is alive and becoming visible.
Integration into Community
Carrying the learning, questions and insights that emerge in the Forum into the everyday relationships and culture of SPACE.
SPACE Forum Facilitators
Experienced facilitators hold the Forum and steward the process in service to the group and to SPACE.
They hold the structure, rhythm and purpose of the gathering, supporting both the person in the centre and the witnessing circle. They uphold consent, boundaries and voluntary participation, and guide mirroring so that it remains clear, relevant and supportive of the process.
They remain attentive to nervous-system responses and group dynamics, recognising when something may need further integration or support.
