Partner: Healing Our World: from Despair to Repair
October 16 - 20, 2026
Healing Our World: From Despair to Repair
The Autumn Conference of Ecovillage Findhorn CBS focusing on Ecology – Healing Our World: From Despair to Repair – is fast approaching, and we are delighted to announce an exceptional programme of speakers, thinkers, activists and artists.
Joining us this year is Mike Berners-Lee, one of the UK’s most respected voices on sustainability and climate action. A professor, consultant and bestselling author of A Climate of Truth, There Is No Planet B and How Bad Are Bananas? Mike is known for helping people navigate the challenges of our time with both honesty and hope. His work spans climate science, food systems, technology and practical pathways towards a thriving future.
Mike will share why facing our challenges together can lift our energy and strengthen our ability to act. Join him to explore how honesty, connection and collective action can help us move forward.
We are also thrilled to welcome Donnachadh McCarthy, renowned environmental campaigner, author and media commentator. Following a life-changing encounter with Indigenous communities in the Amazon, Donnachadh has dedicated more than three decades to environmental action, social change and ecological restoration.
His conference talk will explore the lessons he has learned from combining activism with spiritual practice, offering inspiration for anyone seeking to contribute to healing our world while sustaining themselves along the way.
Pupak Haghighi is the founder of the charity Trees for Hope. Rooted in both Iran and Japan, Pupak works to rewild the Fertile Crescent and to restore the Atlantic rainforest on the west coast of Scotland. In her talk, From Despair to Repair to Rewilding, she’ll explore rewilding the land and ourselves, and help each of us find the place of hope within.
Rainforest activist and deep ecologist John Seed has spent decades helping people turn grief for the Earth into action. At Healing Our World: From Despair to Repair, he’ll share how to create a safe container for our deepest feelings (despair, anguish, rage and terror) so they become our compass. He’ll also bring stories from Australia’s Narara Ecovillage, where deep ecology is lived day to day.
Jane Campbell Morrison is chair of the No to the Moray FLOW-Park campaign, challenging the proposed Moray FLOW-Park that would anchor floating wind turbine bases just over a kilometre off Findhorn beach, with around 280 mooring lines in waters protected for wildlife. She will talk on why protecting this place matters for the next generation.
Alan Watson Featherstone, founder of Trees for Life, closes Healing Our World: From Despair to Repair. Drawing on his own life and decades of work rewilding the Caledonian Forest, Alan will speak about the power each of us has to make a positive difference in the world.
He’ll invite every participant to make a commitment of their own: to follow their heart and help create a positive future for us all. We’ll also celebrate his new book, Rewilding Glen Affric.
Together, these speakers and artists reflect the spirit of this year’s conference: bringing together practical solutions, courageous conversations, creative expression and deeper connection in response to the challenges facing our world.
If you have been considering attending, now is the time to secure your place. Tickets are already booking, and there is much more still to come.
Join us for a weekend of insight, inspiration, community and action as we explore together how we can move from despair to repair.
This conference is a fundraising event for Ecovillage Findhorn CBS.