Spiritual Ecology Festival
St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, London, UK
This June, Sufi teacher and Emergence executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee will give a talk at St Ethelburga’s annual spiritual ecology festival. Spiritual ecology is a modern term for an ancient ontology that recognizes everything within the living Earth as animate, alive, and sacred—something we need, not to learn, but to remember as part of our epigenetic imprint and shared inheritance as human beings.
This festival features a line-up of leading thinkers and artists in the field, including Emergence contributors Martin Shaw and Dana Karout, among others to be announced. Immerse yourself in a series of rich and contemplative talks, workshops, panel discussions, and live music sessions, each exploring ways we can deepen into a practice of spiritual ecology.
ABOUT EMMANUEL VAUGHAN-LEE
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee is an author, Emmy- and Peabody Award–nominated filmmaker, and a Sufi teacher. He has directed more than twenty documentary films, including Taste of the Land, The Last Ice Age, Aloha Āina, The Nightingale’s Song, Earthrise, Sanctuaries of Silence, and Elemental, among others. His films have been screened at New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Hot Docs, exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum and London’s Barbican, and featured on PBS POV, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Op-Docs. His first book, Remembering Earth: A Spiritual Ecology, is forthcoming from Shambhala in summer 2026. He is the founder, podcast host, and executive editor of Emergence Magazine.
DETAILS
Dates: Saturday, June 13 – Sunday, June 14, 2026
Location: St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, EC2N 4AG