ORFC 2023

Facilitators: Jenny Mackewn (leadership coach and organisational consultant), Angela Raffle (systemic mapping practitioner) 
You will be introduced to, and practice, a problem-solving approach that is both deep and highly practical. It taps straight into intuition, instinct, embodied sense and emotional knowing, and can be applied both to the everyday e.g. ‘How best to describe and advertise for this post I’m recruiting?’ and to deeper questions e.g. ‘What is my life’s purpose?’ Jenny has led the development of Systemic Embodied Mapping within the sphere of ecological activism. Last winter, with Angela, she ran training for staff within an organic farm CSA, to great effect. In this taster workshop you will practise identifying and mapping both visible and invisible elements in a problem, and experience the process of making experimental moves to find ways for shifting a system towards a great outcome.

ORFC23 Using Systemic Mapping for Finding Positive Solutions in Complex Situations (Workshop)

Facilitator: FLAME (Youth Branch of the Landworkers' Alliance)
The youth branch of the LWA - FLAME - invites you to an intergenerational story sharing space. We will listen and share stories from older and younger generations on building a youth-led movement for agroecology. How can we increase awareness of agroecology and food justice in generations facing a widening disconnect from the land? What techniques can young people learn from older generations, and what can young people teach them?

ORFC23 Intergenerational Story Sharing for Building a Youth- Led Agroecology Movement

Nell Benney, Zoe Miles and Ellie Paganini (Solidarity Across Land Trades, SALT)
This workshop is for all nonmanagement level employees, trainees, freelancers or volunteers in food growing / agroecology / regenerative agriculture / land care sectors. This will be an opportunity to meet and connect with others, share struggles and strategies and find out what the Growers’ Union has been working on over the last year. There will be an opportunity to contribute to our ongoing workers’ enquiry, add a song to the playlist and find out how you can get involved with collective action to improve working conditions in your sector.

ORFC23 Building workers’ power in the agroecological and regenerative farming sectors

This is a follow-on session from Thursday’s workshop in the Story Museum’s Magic Common Room. The workshop will be limited to 12 places for those who have attended the previous session on systemic mapping and would like to deepen their understanding.

ORFC23 Using Systemic Mapping for Finding Positive Solutions in Complex Situations: Follow-up

ORFC23 Soil Voices: A creative workshop exploring what people think about the stuff beneath our feet

With the climate crisis and threats to food security and human health increasing by the day, meat and alternative proteins are now firmly in the spotlight. In the UK, policy change and increasing investments affecting livestock and plant-based alternatives are imminent, from support for a protein transition and regenerative livestock management, the commercialisation of lab-grown meat, to improvements to animal welfare legislation. Although debates remain polarised, a growing number of voices are converging on the need to move away from highly industrial livestock production and move towards ‘less and better’. But how much consensus is there around this vision? What does it look like in practice? Can we trace out a clear reform pathway? This participatory workshop aims to create a space for open discussion on these questions. It will allow for different viewpoints to be shared, and for common ground to potentially emerge on pathways forward.

ORFC23 Using Systemic Mapping for Finding Positive Solutions in Complex Situations (Workshop)

Oxford Real Farming Conference