Alexander Schieffer and Rama Mani: Humanity’s Planetary Journey HOME

Professor Alexander Schieffer and Dr. Rama Mani, as co-founders of HOME for Humanity, are co-leading the ‘ONE HOME journey 2024-2030’, to all countries. They travel simply, home to home, supporting and connecting inspiring and aspiring local changemakers, honouring the Indigenous and local wisdom of diverse cultures, and of the Earth herself. In each country they also spotlight, as ‘Homes for Humanity’, inspiring local initiatives and communities that create spaces of ‘homecoming’, belonging, renewal and mutual care - for Self, for community and for the Earth, Our One Home.

UNToday described the One Home Journey as ‘a planetary journey to the rescue of the 2030 Agenda’ in Jan 2024, and in Jan 2026, lauded it as “a journey of consciousness and a living showcase of transformative practices.” The couple received the Gusi International Peace Prize (considered as Asia’s Nobel Prize) for their ‘groundbreaking contribution to intercultural and planetary peace’, in November 2025, in Manila.

On March 1st, as transformative educators-artists, storytellers-bridgebuilders and social innovators-peacebuilders, they will bring to life vividly their experiences across 22 countries in all world regions of this unfolding co-authored story of humanity’s journey of homecoming, through a multi-cultural, multi-media performative presentation combining poetry, theatre-testimony, film and music. Their presentation will address issues of direct interest and pressing concern to the Ethical Culture community and to all New Yorkers today, as they engage us in the diverse ways in which we as humanity are undertaking the journey from division, destruction and despair to belonging, co-creation and mutual care.

Alexander Schieffer (Germany) and Rama Mani (India) are co-founders of the Home for Humanity movement, and co-initiators of the One Home Journey.

Dr. Rama Mani is an engaged performance artist who brought her 30+ years of experience in transformative justice and peacebuilding into an embodied art form and teaching methodology, through the Theatre of Transformation Academy and Enacting Global Transformation at the University of Oxford. She was formerly Director of the Global Peace and Security course at Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Executive Director of International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Sri Lanka and served the Commission on Global Governance. She is a World Future Councilor.

Prof. Alexander Schieffer was formerly Co-Founder of Trans4m Centre for Integral Development. As a Professor at Da Vinci Institute, South Africa, he co-directed a unique Ph.D. programme for transforming individuals, communities/organisations and societies. He is a social entrepreneur, engaged activist, integral philosopher, and poet-performer, and author and editor of innumerable scholarly on integral innovation and transformation.

WEBSITE: https://www.HomeforHumanity.Earth
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/homeforhumanity.earth/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/homeforhumanity.earth
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/home-for-humanity/
YOUTUBE: @homeforhumanity-onehomejourney

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