Balancing The Brain
Public Talk with Satish Kumar & Iain McGilchrist
24 September 2025, 8-9.30pm
Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Tickets: £18
Join two of the most profound thinkers of our time—Satish Kumar, Educator, peace activist and ecological visionary, and Dr. Iain McGilchrist, renowned psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar and author of The Master and His Emissary and The Matter with Things—for a rare and powerful evening of conversation.
In a world increasingly divided and polarised, Satish and Iain will explore how we might restore the lost harmony between head and heart, intellect and intuition, society and the living Earth. Drawing on decades of deep reflection, lived wisdom, and spiritual clarity, they invite us to reimagine education, awaken consciousness, and glimpse new possibilities for how we live, learn, and relate to the world.
This event is not just a talk—it is a call to remember what we already carry within us: the innate human capacity to live in relationship with truth, beauty, and justice. We know how to relate meaningfully to one another and to the Earth, but in the noise of modern life, we have forgotten.
Whether you are new to their work or have followed their journeys for years, this evening promises to be rich with wisdom, clarity, and hope.
Spaces are limited, and we expect high demand—book early to avoid disappointment.
Let’s come together for an evening that nourishes the soul and sparks the imagination.
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24 September 2025, 8-9.30pm / Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EL
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is the Founder of Schumacher College in the United Kingdom. He was Editor of Resurgence magazine for 40 years. This magazine was described by the Guardian newspaper as “the artistic and spiritual flagship of the Green Movement”.
A former Jain monk, Satish Kumar went on an international pilgrimage for peace. He, with a friend, walked 8000 miles from New Delhi to Moscow, Paris, London and Washington. Along the way he met Bertrand Russell and Martin Luther King. Satish is the author of ten books including his autobiography, No Destination. Other books include Elegant Simplicity, Soil, Soul, Society and Radical Love. Satish is a lifelong activist in the cause of environmental sustainability, social justice and world peace. He is the recipient of Goi Peace Prize 2022.
Dr Iain McGilchrist
Dr Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher and literary scholar. He is a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and former Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Director at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospital, London. He has been a Research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Stellenbosch. He has published original articles and research papers in a wide range of publications on topics in literature, philosophy, medicine and psychiatry. He is the author of a number of books, but is best-known for The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale 2009). In November 2021 his two-volume work The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World was published by Perspectiva Press.
