8–9 April 2027,
Harpa, Reykjavík, Iceland
Programme — By Theme
Every related session — keynote, conversation or workshop — grouped by its shared theme, with no day or time structure. For the running order, see the by-time programme.
Iceland is shaped by forces that are rarely still. Pressure builds. Fault lines move. The landscape shifts. New ground emerges. Social Change takes that same idea into the questions we ask about people, recovery and the systems around them.
Six keynote presentations and two curated conversations run through the conference, each pairing voices whose different bodies of work create a larger question than any one speaker would normally address alone. Several extend into a Day 2 workshop, dialogue or masterclass that deepens the theme in practice.
Fault Lines
What lies beneath the behaviours we can see.
Judy Crane · Thomas Pecca · Richard Schwartz · Jeanne Catanzaro
What becomes visible when we stop asking “What is wrong with you?” and start asking what happened, what adapted, and what is being protected?
Trauma, internal parts, coping and survival — what may sit underneath the behaviours and symptoms we see.
Pressure
What people carry. What systems create. What eventually has to move.
Tian Dayton · Alastair Campbell
What happens when pressure becomes part of how we live, and what allows people, families and systems to change?
Personal pressure, family pressure, trauma, addiction, public expectation, stigma, social conditions, power and choice.
Different understanding
Robin Carhart-Harris · Dominique de Marné · Licia Sky
What becomes possible when we stop treating the mind as fixed and begin to understand it as adaptive, dynamic and capable of profound change?
Neuroscience, psychedelics, psychological flexibility, connection, new ways of speaking about mental health.
New Ground
What do we build differently from here?
Holly Hendry · Héðinn Unnsteinsson · Michael Ryan
If we were building mental-health and behavioural-health care from what we know now, rather than what we inherited, what would we do differently?
The culmination of the day’s arc — having challenged assumptions, explored pressure and considered what allows change, this conversation turns toward services, training, policy, community, recovery and the role of lived experience.