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More In Common: How an act designed to drive a community apart, brought it together

When Jo Cox became the first sitting MP to be murdered in her constituency for more than 25 years – in the days just before the EU Referendum in June 2016 – the country was shocked to its core....
Speaker(s): Kim Leadbeater, Fakhara Rehman, Revd Mark Umpleby

The Second Curve

Charles Handy discusses the changes ahead for life, work and everything. In this follow-up to his morning talk in The Little Big Top, this is your chance to dig into Charles' ideas around "The Second...
Speaker(s): Charles Handy

Worship. Contrary to popular belief, it's not just tambourines and waving your hands in the air. In fact, it can be a heck of a lot of different things. And at Greenbelt, we like to make the space...

Please Bring a Body

The Festival Communion service at Greenbelt 2017 put access and inclusion at its heart. Here you'll find all the words from the service to download and share and use – along with the story and...

Living Wage Employer

We are pleased to announce that we are now accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Greenbelt, regardless of whether they are direct employees or...

There are many reasons to pay a visit to Greenbelt's very own grocery store. Here are just seven. It's convenient You already have enough to think about when coming to Greenbelt. Did you pack...

A greener festival

Over the last few years we've got rid of allllmost all our single-use plastic (we're still coming for you, cable ties) and managed to halve our festival fuel consumption. Each year we measure our...

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 Magnusson

Calais 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-Rose

From 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 Draper

Mindfulness 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 Stead

Who 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 Swinton

Satish 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 Kumar

Christina 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,...

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...