WORLD GOETHEANUM FORUM 2025 - 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2025 - SEKEM/EGYPT
For the first time, the World Goetheanum Forum was going to Sekem, the place of lived sustainable development and United Nations Champion of the Earth 2024! We would like to share some impressions of our gathering with over 150 participants from oder 19 countries from east and west, south and north.
Gratefully we look back on an incredible inspiring World Goetheanum Forum 2025.
On behalf of the preparation group,
in collaboration with
Biodynamic Federation Demeter International
Maria Paz Bernaschina and Juan-Martin Richter
Egyptian Biodynamic Association & Economy of Love
Justus Harm and Naagla Ahmed
Eosta & Robin Food Coalition
Volkert Engelsman
Heliopolis University
Ahmed Elshazly
NaturaSi
Fabio Brescacin
Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Lin Bautze
The Club of Rome
Till Kellerhof and Carlos Alvarez Pereira
World Ethic Forum
Luea Ritter and Linard Bardill
World Future Council
Neshan Gunasekera
YOU ARE INVITED AS AN ACTOR, STAKEHOLDER, (POLICY)MAKER, THINKER, FEELER, AND DOER TO:
RE-THINK
RE-FEEL
RE-DO
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
DURING OUR 2025 WORLD GOETHEANUM FORUM IN SEKEM, EGYPT
Not a “nice to have”: Sustainable Development is not merely a “nice to have” or a directive to report on; it shapes the very backbone of our future global society. Cultivating development is humanity’s contribution to the Earth and
our common future. After 40 years of its institutionalised existence, it is clear that Sustainable Development itself is in need of an upgrade and expansion: to re-think, re-feel, and re-do it.
World-Viewing, -Sensing, -Acting: There is a call to integrate inner and outer practices and actions for transformation. We need to identify the worldviews behind our attitudes and behaviours in order to provoke life-affirming actions: aligning our world-viewing, world- sensing, and world-acting.
Visioning, Researching, Prototyping, Scaling, and Mainstreaming are the process steps drawn from SEKEM’s 48 years of Sustainable Development experience. These steps will guide the content and help establish concrete new common ground.
Anthroposophical Approaches & Beyond:
For over 100 years, anthroposophical enterprises and initiatives have contributed to Sustainable Development through experimental and holistic approaches. For instance, the world’s first established organic agriculture method, known as Biodynamic Agriculture, was introduced in 1924, followed by the Demeter organic certification from 1928 onwards. Other enterprises such as SEKEM, Weleda, Eosta, Alnatura, Odin, WALA, Dr. Hauschka, Sonett, Voelkel, GLS Bank, Monte Azul, and more have followed.
SEKEM, 24–28 September 2025:
At this year’s World Goetheanum Forum, we invite you to re-think, re-feel, and re-do Sustainable Development in SEKEM, UNEP’s Champion of the Earth 2024. We aim to fuse practices and cultivate the required capacities — both individual and collective — that serve all forms of life. How do you think, feel, and do Sustainable Development? How can we enable a culture of care across sectors, places, cultures, and scales? What are the next steps for it to become tangible and meaningfully adapted to respective contexts? And how
can we improve collaborative and associative efforts?
