Intentional Communities for the Climate Emergency – Green Christian Workshop
Wednesday 7 May 7pm – 8.15pm 2025. Online
How can Christians build communities that are leaven for society, whether residential, dispersed or simply in our locality? Alan Heeks, co-founder of the Soul Resilience Network, and Jonathan Herbert from Hilfield Friary explore ways to build sites of “social infrastructure” for the climate emergency.
Alan’s article in the Spring 2025 issue of Green Christian magazine highlights the spiritual roots of the climate crisis. It’s a crisis that calls into question the meaning and purpose of life, and requires us to build connections between individuals and groups and the skills to handle stress and conflict. Alan finds inspiration and nourishment for this work in intentional communities like Hilfield Friary, the Northumbria Community, Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, and the Findhorn Foundation.
Jonathan Herbert lives with the Hilfield Friary community. He previously led the nearby Pilsdon Community, and is a member of Christian Climate Action. He will share his own experience over many years of practising what Alan describes.
This workshop is an opportunity to explore how intentional communities like Hilfield respond to the spiritual thirst of our times, how they can help to build a more resilient society, and what we can learn from them about building resilience wherever we live.
It launches a conversation on the role of Christians and churches in building social resilience in increasingly stormy times, which will continue later this year at our Annual Members’ Meeting on 15 November 2025.
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