Listening to the Voices of Earth

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.

Read fieldnotes

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.

Inaugural Field Conversation — 01

Listening to the Voices of Earth

Geneva · 19:00 · 29 October 2026

On October 29, join Sufi teacher and Emergence Magazine founder Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee for an immersive evening in Geneva, Switzerland, exploring how practices in spiritual ecology can open us to be receptive to the more-than-human voices that have always been speaking to us.

Come early and gather with us at Promenade du Pin park around a site-specific sound installation by renowned musician and sound artist Max Neuhaus that will invite you to attune your senses to the interplay of sounds unique to this place.

Emmanuel will then give a talk at the adjacent GamMAH cultural space, drawing from his new book Remembering Earth – A Spiritual Ecology. He will speak about how listening with sustained attention is an act of devotion connecting the outer senses to the inner senses—called “the inner ear of the heart” in Sufism—that brings to life the values of kinship, reciprocity, interconnectedness, and reverence.

The evening will include a guided practice led by Emmanuel, followed by an audience Q&A hosted by The Field founding steward Barbara Bulc.

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Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His new book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is published by Shambhala Publications. He is the founder and podcast host of Emergence Magazine.

Barbara Bulc is a social chemist and field steward based in Geneva. Her work brings together science, culture, and spirituality to explore how people, institutions, and communities can restore relationships with each other and the living Earth. She is the founder of The Field, an emerging practice and inquiry space cultivating conditions for human and more-than-human flourishing.

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In collaboration with Emergence Magazine, Arta Sperto, Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain Genève (FCAC) and GamMAH at Musée d’art et d’histoire Genève.

 

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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