Forget Me Not
Join three special guests whose lives have each been touched by dementia and who have responded in various ways through theology, writing and action. Share in their experiences, thinking and learning...
Speaker(s): Professor John Swinton, Rebecca de Saintonge, Sally MagnussonCalais Doesn’t Need Your Cast-Offs
Rounding off a festival full of refugee programming, let's bring our hopes and fears together and encourage one another to act. What should we do? How shall we respond in ways that will make a real...
Speaker(s): Chris Sonnex, USPG, Katherine Maxwell-RoseFrom Mindfulness to Soulfulness
Is there a danger that mindfulness can just help people become better adapted cogs in a still-toxic model of work and life? Brian Draper challenges us to live not just mindfully but soulfully – to...
Speaker(s): Brian DraperMindfulness and Christian Spirituality: happy bedfellows?
Mindfulness helps many to improve self-care. Tim (author of author of Mindfulness and Christian Spirituality – Making Space for God) explores what it offers by way of contribution – and challenge...
Speaker(s): Tim SteadWho Am I When I Forget Who I Am?
A theological evaluation of dementia, examining the nature of memory with a particular focus on the memory that we hold within our bodies, and offering new possibilities for hope and change even in...
Speaker(s): Professor John SwintonSatish Kumar in Conversation
Hear the amazing story of a one-time-monk who gave up everything to walk around the world for peace in the 1960s, eventually settling in Devon and helping to establish the Schumacher College as well...
Speaker(s): Satish KumarChristina Welch
Christina is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Winchester, where she leads the masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture; a distance learning programme. A Religious Studies scholar,...
Arriving + Departing Greenbelt 2017
We know you're getting excited about Greenbelt. We guess you're probably planning and packing ?, making lists and devising menus ?, so we've a few bits of information to help you get onto site...
A Vocabulary for Pain
Reclaiming the unique Jewish-Christian tradition of lament as an antidote to upset, anger, depression and bewilderment, both at an individual and a corporate level. Once described in his...
Speaker(s): John BellKaren Rooms
Karen Rooms is the Canon Missioner at Leicester Cathedral with responsibility for developing the cathedral's social outreach, and Transition Priest in the Holy Spirit Parish Leicester. Karen...
Savi Hensman
Savitri Hensman was born in Sri Lanka in the early 1960s and lives in London. She is a writer and activist and works in the voluntary sector. Her book Sexuality, Struggle and Saintliness: Same-Sex...
Christian-Muslim Storytelling: Stories of shared faith from history presented by Khayaal Theatre
Khayaal is an award-winning theatre company dedicated to the dramatic exploration of Muslim literature for the stage, film, and education. Strengthening and enriching interfaith and intercultural...
John Wills
As a child of the 60's, John Wills grew up in the small East Northamptonshire town of Rushden, where he was able to witness the slow decline of the traditional town centre shopping. John was...
John Atherton
John works for Co-operatives UK in Manchester providing leadership and accountability for its membership and events functions. Cooperatives UK promotes, develops and unites the 7,000 co-ops in the...
Origami with Lisa-Raine Hunt
Lisa-Raine Hunt works in London with faith, race, disability, LGBT and gender focus groups, supporting the development of grass routes community activity that counters extremism in all its forms....