Festival of Wellbeing Recordings

Festival of Wellbeing Recordings

Recordings from the live event on Saturday 4th October 2025

Widely acclaimed and always hope-inspiring, this year’s Festival of Wellbeing brought together extraordinary change-makers and visionaries who explored what is needed to create wellbeing for people and planet. Watch recordings from this day of thought-provoking and progressive talks given by some of the world’s greatest thinkers and activists.

Cost: £25 per person or £15 concessions.

Once you have purchased the ticket, you will find a link to the recordings and a password on the order confirmation.

PLEASE NOTE: THESE RECORDINGS CANNOT BE SHARED. EACH PERSON WILL NEED TO PURCHASE ACCESS TO THE RECORDINGS.

This Festival of Wellbeing has helped to reaffirm my space in the wider universe, as at times it feels almost a futile endeavour. It has given new hope for the future and a feeling; knowingly; that we can all create harmonious environments, however trivial our efforts, to enable a more sustainable planet where people can all thrive joyfully... and live peacefully with care and compassion. Joan 

Speakers:

Craig Jordan-Baker - Senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Brighton. He regularly runs Nature-writing workshops and leads foraging walks for a variety of organisations. His book If the River is Hidden is an account of his 2021 pilgrimage along the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river.

Fritjof Capra - Physicist, systems theorist and educator. The main focus of his environmental education has been to help build and nurture sustainable communities. His best-selling book The Tao of Physics was published in 1975 and since then he has written many others, including The Web of Life.

Nadia Colburn - Author of the poetry books I Say the Sky and The High Shelf, and her poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications. In her writing and teaching, she explores questions of the body, motherhood, trauma, healing, social and environmental justice, and the power of attention.

Tony Juniper - Tony is a prominent environmental figure who has been active in the defence of Nature for more than 40 years. He has led major organisations, run global campaigns, written many books and advised at the highest levels.

Mary-Ann Ochota - Mary-Ann is a broadcaster and author specialising in anthropology, archaeology and the outdoors. She is President of CPRE, the Countryside Charity, a member of the independent landscape advisory panel for Natural England, and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She’s passionate about putting social justice at the heart of all environmental work.

Satish Kumar - Peace pilgrim, lifelong activist and former monk who founded The Resurgence Trust. Satish has been inspiring global change for over 50 years since his two-year ’pilgrimage for peace’, in which he walked from India to Washington with no money in the name of peace.

Diyora Shadijanova - Diyora is an award-winning journalist, writer, editor and strategic communicator based in London. Her work has been featured in a variety of publications including The Guardian, Vogue and The Independent, and she is a books columnist at Hyphen, a leading media platform on Muslim life in the UK and Europe. Passionate about politics and social justice, she works in the UK parliament as a communications officer to an MP. She is the co-founder of hothouse bookclub, a London-based digital and in-person book club focusing on climate justice, with over 300 members.

Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker - Founder and CEO of Doing Business Doing Good and We Are Nature. She sees her purpose as reconnecting people to their love for Nature, inside and out, and she empowers businesses, communities and organisations to become regenerative forces for good, creating Nature-positive impacts to enable them and all of Nature to thrive.

Solène Wolff - Solène is a French digital entrepreneur based in Berlin. She has 15 years of experience leading purpose-driven initiatives across tech, ecology and culture, and has founded three agencies supporting projects through strategic consulting and content. Her work explores rewilding, climate-positive architecture, and the relationship between inner transformation and systemic change, and she regularly speaks on global stages to spark dialogue on regenerative futures.

Tickets: £25 per person or £15 concessions.

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