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Joining The Blue Dots

Prof Joanne Preston, leader of the Seascape Restoration Lab, links our relationship with the seas to human wellbeing and reaching our global biodiversity and climate goals. And she'll outline just...
Speaker(s): Joanne Preston

Voices of the Earth

Pairing hard data with Talanoa storytelling and ritual, Brazilian theologian Paulo Ueti will draw on the spiritual wisdom traditions of Indigenous peoples to chart concrete paths to meaningful...
Speaker(s): Jocabed Solano

Elephants and Porky Pies

Where has honesty gone in this Orwellian era when “Truth Social” means the precise opposite? Pilate's question, “What is truth?” is as relevant now as then. Jesus had a right to remain...
Speaker(s): John Bell

Sacred Earth. Sacred Soul.

Drawing on the vision offered by the Celtic wisdom tradition, the Scottish author John Philip Newell calls us to return to true relationship with Earth and the depths of the human soul as our place...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell

The Heartbeat of God

Celtic author John Philip Newell and his wife Ali Newell will lead us in a spiritual practice and simple ritual inspired by Celtic wisdom and its reverence for Earth, the human body, and the true...
Speaker(s): John Philip Newell

Exodus 5 – Making Bricks Without Straw

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? This meditation invites you to contemplate how we can make hope when things go from bad to worse around us, and co-create...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

In the dead of night. The reality of living under military occupation.

Look through the eyes of Muhanad Al Qaisy, a third-generation Palestinian refugee from Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem, as he shares a glimpse into the daily realities of life under military...

Nadine Shah in conversation

Join our Friday night headliner, in conversation with longterm Greenbelt volunteer and manager of Exeter's Cavern Club, Pippa Wragg, to talk music, inspiration, politics, and more. Mercury...
Speaker(s): Nadine Shah

The Hosts With The Most

Join our partners Refugees at Home to hear stories from hosts who've volunteered with them to offer short-term stays for refugees. Hear how – for both host and refugee alike – these stays have...
Speaker(s): Refugees at Home

To Have or To Hold

What can nature's hidden relationships teach us? Science communicator Sophie Pavelle talks about why we need to understand symbiosis: totally different species evolving to live together for...
Speaker(s): Sophie Pavelle

How to be a Half-Arse Human

Perfectionists and procrastinators welcome! Come and learn about the power of radical mediocrity as we make peace with slap-dashing life, work out what is ACTUALLY worth our time and live better...
Speaker(s): Leena Norms

Altar-ed States or Magical Mushroom Musings

Psychedelics held in respectful sacred spaces have phenomenal potential for the mental, physical and spiritual healing so needed in our suffering world. Curious? Join the Ligare team for mystical,...
Speaker(s): Ligare

The Genesis of Hope: Marilynne Robinson in Conversation

Where does the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the Gilead sequence find hope? What role does fiction play in building a better world? Marilynne Robinson explores the relationship between self,...
Speaker(s): Marilynne Robinson, Andrew Tate

A Climate of Truth

What, exactly, is holding us back from combatting the climate crisis? Professor Mike Berners-Lee has a roadmap – and believes the most critical step is to raise standards of honesty in politics,...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners-Lee

Ezekiel 37 – Re-Membering Hope

How can the Bible resource us in not just having, but making, hope? Miranda Threlfall-Holmes invites you to begin your Greenbelt with a meditation on Ezekiel's vision of the Valley of Dry Bones,...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes