Joanna Bowen
2024
Joanna Bowen is a founder and director of the Groundswell Festival and is now working towards starting Groundschool, offering learning opportunities on-farm in Weston, Hertfordshire. As well as completing training in systemic constellations she has worked as an actor, director and teacher and has initiated community theatre projects and festivals.
My Sessions
Opening Up Land Holding
Jackie Thoms
Joanna Bowen
Ninian Stuart
Fergus Lyon
Alastair MacKenzie
How can existing landowners adopt more responsible and progressive approaches to ownership that enable greater benefits and wider access? This session will explore the opportunities and challenges of different approaches to owning, holding, stewarding and sharing land in ways that strengthen the connection between people and land in times of transition. The panel will share […]
Resistance to Change on the Family Farm – Why Does it Happen & What Can we do About it?
The family origins of many farms can present distinct challenges when managing transformative change. These might include the need to marry traditional and inherited ways of working with more modern ones, the search for compromise between differing opinions of family stakeholders, and the sometimes tricky dynamics of incorporating non-family members into the management team. This […]