Among sequoias and hidden waters

An inquiry and practice. Cultivating conditions for flourishing with all life.

Inquiry

Life exists through relationships.

Yet many of the systems and cultures we have created – and that shape us in turn – are built upon assumptions of separation: between ourselves and the rest of nature, mind and body, knowledge and experience.

The Field brings science, culture and spirituality into relationship to explore what changes when we remember our interdependence with all life – and begin to live and act from it.

What conditions and practices help us experience
our interdependence with one another,
place, and the living Earth?

How might this change the way we live,
work, decide and care together?

Practices

Five interconnected practices
ground our inquiry.

Practiced together, they help bring our
interdependence into lived experience.

Cultivating Presence

Attending to what is here

Remembering the Past

Encountering histories and deep time in place

Imagining Futures

Opening possibilities
beyond what is

Storytelling Otherwise

Telling stories that reshape our world

Sharing Power

Changing how we participate
and decide with the living world

In the Field

The inquiry takes form through relationships.

We engage through intimate gatherings, immersive public conversations, stories from the field and participatory mapping of communities, practices and places — bringing science, culture and spirituality into relationship with one another and the living Earth.

Field Circles

Small gatherings for shared inquiry,
attention and practice rooted in place.

Beginning with 12 Field Circles in Geneva, we explore how presence, intimacy, stories and shared practices deepen our connection with one another, place and the living Earth — and shape how we live and act.

Fieldnotes

Traces from the field.

Stories, observations and reflections shared by people cultivating the field in different places and ways — offering glimpses into their encounters, experiences and practices.

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Field Conversations

Immersive public conversations across
ways of knowing and experiencing the world.

Launching in 2026, we host experiential gatherings that bring science, arts and spirituality into conversation through shared experience, reflection and public conversation.

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Field Mapping

Participatory exploration of places,
communities and practices.

Mapping existing and emerging communities cultivating different ways of living with one another and the living Earth — revealing the relationships, practices and conditions that sustain them. Beginning in Geneva and New York.

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Discover places, communities, stories
and encounters unfolding across The Field.

Field Circle — 03

Among sequoias and hidden waters

Parc des Eaux-Vives · 30 September 2026

The encounter

On a warm September evening, nine people gathered beneath the towering giant sequoias of Parc des Eaux-Vives, overlooking Lake Geneva. As darkness settled, the sounds of the traffic and nearby coctail reception, passing traffic and distant voices reminded us that we were meeting the place as it was, not as we might have imagined it.

We began by spending time with the trees, listening and noticing what their presence awakened in us. Feelings of protection, belonging and dignity emerged. Each person then brought into the Circle something of the lands, ancestors, spiritual traditions and wisdom they carry.

None of us was born in Geneva, yet we now share this place. Stories travelled across continents and generations, bringing distant landscapes and living lineages into our gathering. We also turned our attention to the place beneath our feet: its ancient glacial waters, hidden streams, trees and histories of human encounters.

One reflection stayed with us: “Back where I grew up, the beings know us and we know them. Here in Geneva, I don’t know the beings, and the beings don’t know me.”

As we wandered, listened and shared in smaller groups, the evening opened a different way of encountering Geneva — not simply as a city we inhabit, but as a living place with which we might gradually develop a relationship.

Conditions & Practices

Natural darkness · Listening with trees · Remembering lineages · Small-group wandering · Shared stories

Learnings

Darkness and proximity appeared to deepen listening. Stories connected participants’ ancestral places with their present lives in Geneva. The nearby urban noise initially interrupted attention, but became part of the experience.

Relationships extending forward

Connections continued beyond the Circle, including participation in Tibetan community gatherings. Further relationships and practices can be added as they emerge.

Question carried forward

What changes when we begin to know a place — and allow ourselves to be known by it?

About

The Field began long before it had a name.

Its earliest seed was the childhood experience of The Field’s founding steward Barbara Bulc in a summer meadow in Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia – a profound sense of belonging with flowering grasses, sunlight and wind, without separation from the living world.

Decades of work across science, business, global health, international institutions and civic innovation – alongside a deepening spiritual and contemplative practice – kept bringing her back to a question: what changes when we remember that we are not separate – from one another, place, or the living Earth?

In 2025, The Field began taking form in Geneva through gatherings around this inquiry. From these roots, it is being cultivated across places through shared practices and encounters, weaving different ways of knowing and experiencing into living relationship.

 

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