Resurgence Festival of Wellbeing

The shift from economic growth to growth in wellbeing

How we can move away from an obsession with economic growth to a growth in wellbeing?

Join us for a day of inspiring talks, music, poetry, dance and good food!

Speakers include: Tony Juniper, Satish Kumar, Ben Okri, Rowan Williams, Vandana Shiva and more.

Putting energy into wellbeing
Juliet Davenport • chief executive, Good Energy
On Growing happy: how beauty and biodiversity is central to our well-being
Alys Fowler • weekly columnist on gardening for The Guardian @AlysFowler
A WELL Society: Women's Education, Literacy to Leadership
Lynne Franks • creator, the Seed Network
Natural Health Service
Tony Juniper • author of ‘What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?’
Soil, Soul and Society
Satish Kumar • editor-in-chief, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine
Ben Okri • poet and Booker prize-winning novelist
Campaigning, corporates and climate change: a line in the sand
Tamsin Omond • environmental activist and journalist @tamsinomond
Ruth Padel • poet, novelist and author of The Mara Crossing
James Sainsbury • chairman of The Resurgence Trust
Seed Freedom as the well being of all
Vandana Shiva - campaigner for seed freedom
Genuine Leisure
Edward Skidelsky • co-author of How Much is Enough?
Singer/songwriter
Sophie Stammers
Khavita Kaur • Indian classical dancer
'What the body knows'?
Rowan Williams • former Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Inequality, Sustainability and a Higher Quality of Life
Richard Wilkinson • co-founder, The Equality Trust
A more interesting future
Theodore Zeldin • philosopher, president, The Oxford Muse and author of An Intimate History of Humanity

This event will raise money for The Resurgence Trust, an educational charity (no. 1120414).