Festival of Wellbeing recordings | | |
Recordings from the live event on Saturday 4 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.
In this newsletter, we give updates on some of our Festival of Wellbeing speakers and invite you to watch recordings from this day of thought-provoking and progressive talks from some of the world's greatest thinkers and activists.
If you purchased a ticket for the event held on 4 October, you should already have received a link to the recordings.
If you have any queries, please email events@resurgence.org
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Tony Juniper
Just Earth: how a fairer world will save the planet
How can people lead good lives without ultimately
hastening global collapse? The answer lies in fairness.
Drawing upon more than 40 years of experience in research, practical work, campaigning and advocacy, combined with interviews with globally renowned experts, Tony Juniper's talk explores the system shifts needed to achieve
real, lasting change.
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Craig Jordan-Baker
A river pilgrimage: maps, memory and walking
In his talk, Craig Jordan-Baker discusses his 2021 pilgrimage along Northern Ireland’s longest river, the Bann, and the acclaimed book that emerged from that journey:
If the River is Hidden.
Focusing on how we make meaning from journeys, he explores the history of walking as a practice, and
the power of maps as imaginative tools.
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If the River is Hidden
by Cherry Smyth and Craig Jordan-Baker
Craig and Cherry's book If the River is Hidden is now available to buy from the Resurgence bookshop.
The book charts the journey of two writers from the source to the mouth of the Bann, Northern Ireland’s longest river.
Through a dialogue of prose and poetry, the history, landscape and divisions that have come to define the North are explored and challenged. With backgrounds from each side of the sectarian divide, theirs is a journey of uncovering a sense of place and of searching for meaning; a reshaping of the authors' own memories, experiences and expectations.
£9.99
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Solène Wolff
Rewilding the future
How do we move beyond dystopian narratives and imagine a better one together?
In this talk, Solène Wolff explores how cultivating bold, Earth-centred visions changes the path humanity is on. Drawing on her work in systems change and ecological storytelling, she presents rewilding as a gateway to
reduce, repair, redesign and reimagine desirable futures.
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Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker
The sacred truth of Nature
Sophie Wisbrun-Overakker takes us on a journey to the sacred truth of Nature. When we start living, creating, working and building relationships from that
sacred place, we and the rest of Nature can thrive.
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Satish Kumar
Love first
Love represents unity, and truth represents diversity. Everyone has their own truth and their own point of view. This truth diversity should not lead to division.
Satish Kumar explores how we all need to respect different truths and different points of view and remain united and related. That happens on the basis of love.
We should all put love first, and then
truth, science or politics.
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The way of dance
by Satish Kumar, Issue 353, November/December 2025
In his latest article for Resurgence & Ecologist, Satish reflects on his pilgrimage to Konya, Turkey — home of the whirling dervishes inspired by the great Sufi poet Rumi.
Satish explores how movement, humility and joy can lead us to transcend the ego and rediscover our inner divinity. The dervish way, he writes, teaches us that “life itself is a dance."
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Diyora Shadijanova
The right to rest: the lessons of gardening
Drawing from her own experience of chronic illness, burnout and the challenges of starting a garden, Diyora Shadijanova reflects on rest as a fundamental part of wellbeing.
She will explore how it is not just personal, but also political.
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Nadia Colburn
Poetry, the body and the Earth:
an interactive reading
What do our bodies have to teach us about the Earth? And what does the Earth have to teach us about our bodies? How can poetry be a form of deep listening so that we can learn these lessons better?
Giving voice to both trauma and resilience, pain and beauty, Nadia Colburn reads from her book I Say the Sky, and offers writing prompts and space for meditation.
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Mary-Ann Ochota
What the old folk can teach us:
lessons from archaeology
Archaeology provides incontrovertible proof that people have always been messy and complicated — we hold contradictory beliefs, do strange things, and create wild stories to explain the world around us.
In her talk, Mary-Ann Ochota takes us on a whirlwind tour into European prehistory to discover what cave paintings, spindle whorls, dog poo and porridge can teach us about ecosystems, resilience and human tenacity.
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What the old folk teach us
by Mary-Ann Ochota, 27 October 2025
In her latest article for The Ecologist, Mary-Ann invites us to turn the same curiosity we bring to other cultures towards our ancient ancestors.
Exploring mysterious Neanderthal stone circles deep within French caves, and the last meal of Tollund Man preserved in a Danish bog, she explores what the distant past can teach us about humility, belonging, and our place in the web of life.
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Fritjof Capra
A systems view of wellbeing
In the systems view of life, which has recently been developed at the forefront of science, living systems are understood as self-organising, fluctuating and continually regenerating networks.
In this talk, Fritjof Capra explores a corresponding systems view of wellbeing with interdependent biological, social and ecological dimensions.
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The British Pilgrimage Trust: Avebury Winter Solstice Pilgrimage
Sunday 21 December • 10am - 5pm GMT • Avebury
This pilgrimage celebrating Avebury, aligned with the winter solstice on the correct day emphasises grounding in this place of the ancestors.
We will be there on an auspicious day and will soak up the revelry happening there, alongside the guided pilgrimage.
Read more detail on the route and see the map.
Highlights:
Explore Avebury's majestic stone circle.
Walk along the ancient Ridgeway to the Sanctuary.
Visit West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
Experience the Swallowhead Springs and the source of the River Kennet.
Engage in pilgrim songs, stories, and moments of reflection.
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We hope you enjoy returning to the Festival’s ideas and we invite you to discover new insights that continue to unfold.
With all good wishes,
The Resurgence Team
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