About Us
The Alexander Forum for Reflection & Resilience
The Alexander Forum for Reflection & Resilience was founded in 2025 by Dorian Rammer in Vienna. We are an independent, non-profit Think & Do Tank that understands societal crises and personal burdens as interconnected phenomena.
Our Approach
We live in a time of multiple overloads: climate crisis, geopolitical tensions, digital disorientation, social fragmentation. At the same time, psychological stress, loneliness, and exhaustion are increasing. These two levels – the societal and the personal – are intertwined: Those under pressure can contribute less to the community. Unresolved societal tensions weaken each individual.
We therefore understand resilience not as individual "endurance," but as a shared design task. It's about creating conditions under which people and communities don't just survive, but can thrive.
Our Working Method
We focus on intellectual depth, written precision, and interdisciplinary synthesis. Our work connects psychology, political science, sociology, medicine, history, and philosophy. We transparently acknowledge uncertainties, work with sources, and seek perspectives that get lost in daily debates.
We promote reflection over information overload and dialogue that tolerates contradictions and takes different perspectives seriously. The Forum invites discourse and seeks ways in which constructive thinking can become collective action.
Our work remains practice-oriented: in essays and analyses, in briefings for organizations, and in workshops that enable exchange and strengthen resilience as a shared attitude.
Team
Dorian Rammer – Founder & Director
Born in 1996 and based in Vienna. Background in politics, emergency medical services, and communications, with three years of formal training in early childhood education. Writer, essayist, and public speaker on mental health, addiction, and contemporary societal crises (featured on ORF Thema 2025, reaching approx. 550,000 viewers).
Dorian works at the intersection of politics, psychosocial practice, and societal analysis. His perspective combines lived crisis experience with empirical evidence — not as anecdote, but as an analytical entry point into systemic dynamics: How does resilience develop? What do people need to move through crises? Where do systems fail, and how can they be strengthened?
Focus areas: Interpersonal dynamics, trauma, addiction, identity, civic courage, and social cohesion.
→ Personal website: www.dorianrammer.at
→ Contact: kontakt@alexanderforum.org
Advisory Board
Under development. We are seeking experts from psychology, political science, sociology, medicine, philosophy, and related fields. The advisory board advises on thematic direction, provides feedback on publications, and expands the network. Time commitment: 2–3 meetings per year, no payment, but visibility on the website and involvement in program development.
Interested? Write to: kontakt@alexanderforum.org
Research Team & Network
The Alexander Forum works interdisciplinarily and network-based. Contributions flow in from various disciplines as well as from peer experts with crisis experience. Our network includes those affected, practitioners, and political actors. This exchange connects scientific, social, and practical dimensions into a shared discourse space.
Guest Contributions & Collaborations
We see ourselves as a platform for diverse perspectives and welcome guest contributions from experts, practitioners, and those with lived experience. If you would like to contribute a text (essay, analysis, experience report), contact us: research@alexanderforum.org