Wisdom Circle

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.

Hear about future Field Conversations.

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.

Explore the map

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

Fieldnote — 01

Wisdom Circle

Shreepoorna Oneness Center, Sirpur, India · 19 February 2026

By Madhusudan Agrawal

 

There is a story told in the villages —

that long before temples were built in stone,

a small earthen lamp was lit here.

Inside the lamp was a flame that did not burn upward alone,

it spread sideways, as if searching for other hearts.

It is said the flame carried a vow:

“When humans forget their wholeness, this land will remember for them.”

Seasons passed. Forests thickened. Fields opened.

Cattle grazed. Children played.

But beneath all activity the land held a subtle pulse — waiting.

 

In a sacred grove of Madhuca trees, revered by Indigenous communities of central India, a diverse group gathered at Shreepoorna Oneness Center to explore our inherent wholeness.

In a sacred grove of Madhuca trees, revered by Indigenous communities of central India, a diverse group gathered at Shreepoorna Oneness Center to explore our inherent wholeness.

The gathering brought together people from many walks of life: a village women’s empowerment activist, a social worker, a school founder and director, theatre artists and storytellers, a farmer, an archaeologist, chartered accountants, a financial analyst, and two children, aged eleven and seven.

They began at a Peace Pole made from a naturally fallen tree, walked in gratitude among the sacred trees, and gathered in a heart circle. Barbara Bulc, founding steward of The Field, joined them to share her journey, the inquiry behind The Field, and the story of the Shambhala Warriors.

For Madhusudan, the encounter left a question alive: How might we cultivate the presence of the field within ourselves — and between us?

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Madhusudan Agrawal is an Indian filmmaker, pilgrim storyteller and social practitioner exploring how stories connect people and inspire social change. Founder of MAM Movies, he spent over a decade at Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram, documenting the lives and wisdom of Gandhian elders who carried forward Gandhi’s teachings on nonviolence, service and community living. Inspired by Gandhi and Vinoba Bhave, his work weaves storytelling with practices of gift culture, love and maitri. He is now a founding steward of the Shreepoorna Oneness Center in Chhattisgarh, India, cultivating spaces for inner inquiry, community and spiritual connection.“

“My life’s greatest purpose is to connect hearts — and to journey towards a deeper connection with the self, society, and the Divine.”

Through The Field, Madhusudan shares encounters and practices from India that explore how spiritual wisdom, storytelling and community life can deepen our experience of interdependence with one another and the living world.

 

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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