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Sshh: Wise and Wonder-ful

A session considering how we build resilience, taking inspiration from each other & the world around us. Andy Freeman and Nicky Redsell from Space to Breathe host these daily doses of everyday...
Speaker(s): Space to Breathe

Wit And Wisdom From The Margins

People and communities so often overlooked — in society and church — have much to teach us about who we are called to be. Join a panel of church leaders and thinkers all with lived experience of...
Speaker(s): St Martin-in-the-fields: HeartEdge

How Ethical Living CAN Change The World

Can our individual actions really change the world? Ethical and sustainable living can reduce climate change and promote social justice, argues Safia Minney. This in turn puts pressure on business...
Speaker(s): Safia Minney

All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe

So sang The Hollies way back when. But what if the air we breathe is under threat? How do we safeguard its future? ClientEarth believes that you fight for it in the courts. ClientEarth uses the power...
Speaker(s): Sam Bright, The Hot House

Rebuilding the Ruins

When you see the images and read the news from Syria, it's natural to think that you can't make a difference. Samara's story shows that's just not true. To date, she has organised more than...
Speaker(s): Samara Levy

Social Entrepreneurs Workshop

A brilliant opportunity for anyone and everyone involved in social enterprise and business for good to come and workshop with leading global ethical entrepreneur Safia Minney around how we can create...
Speaker(s): Safia Minney

Where’s Your Head At?

With suicide rates among young men at all time highs, Rotimi Akinsete explores how they can counter the pressure and stress by developing the sort of habits and routines that can keep their minds (as...
Speaker(s): Rotimi Akinsete

Does Religion Do More Harm than Good?

Are the world's major spiritual traditions sources of greater discord than harmony? Or are conflicts that are widely blamed on faith differences, actually fundamentally social and political in...
Speaker(s): Rupert Shortt

Loving Angels Instead?

One in three people in Britain believe they have a guardian angel, but just 25% say they believe in God. Can you have one without the other? Peter Stanford traces the role angels have played over the...
Speaker(s): Peter Stanford

Bleak Winters, Future Hope – Why Christina Rossetti Still Matters Today

If most people know Christina Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter', fewer appreciate the range and depth of her poetry. Join Rachel Mann, as she explores how Rossetti speaks into modern anxieties and...
Speaker(s): Rachel Mann

Denied: The Rise and Fall of Climate Contrarianism

For more than a decade, a small, elite group of climate contrarians exerted significant influence on discussions of climate change and energy in the UK. Richard Black explores how they came to...
Speaker(s): Richard Black

A Radical Defence of the Human Being

Paul Mason argues for a new virtue ethics based on resistance to machine control. We face a triple threat - an economic system that does not work, evaporating belief in democracy and human rights,...
Speaker(s): Paul Mason

Radical Reading: Provocation from Pluto – The Age Of Surveillance

Our lives as workers, consumers and citizens are increasingly monitored by new technologies. Simultaneously, big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable. What does...
Speaker(s): Peter Bloom

The Frighteners

Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets and join the Sinister Minister Peter Laws on a celebratory romp through society's morbid curiosities. Just why are we fascinated with the dark, spooky...
Speaker(s): Peter Laws

There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, inequality, fake news – the list of concerns for the Anthropocene seems endless. Mike Berners-Lee explores how the big...
Speaker(s): Mike Berners Lee