Healing Our Earth
Summer Edition · No. 08 / 2026
Free Global Event
International Day of Friendship · Live Global Session

Friends Forever.

Some friendships survive distance. Some survive decades. Some survive everything.

A free online session from Healing Our Earth, marking the UN International Day of Friendship. Watch from anywhere — nothing to sign up for.

Sun 2 Aug 20262pm BST onwards
Live · Worldwide
Free · No registration
Replay available

✓ No ticket  ·  ✓ No email required  ·  ✓ Watch on YouTube, live or later

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⏰ Sunday 2nd August 2026 · 2pm BST onwards
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July — The UN's Day of Friendship
We mark it together on Sunday 2nd August
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2011
Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly
A day for friendship between peoples and cultures
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One
Afternoon, One Global Room
2pm BST onwards · live from every time zone
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Free
For Everyone, Everywhere
Healing Our Earth · 2026

About the Session — Friends Forever

No one heals
alone.

Global Namaste. Think of the friend who picked up the phone when you had no one else to call. The one who has been there since school. The one you met last year and somehow already trust with everything. This Sunday, Healing Our Earth celebrates all of them.

"Friendship is the quietest force on Earth — and one of the most healing."

Marking the UN International Day of Friendship, we gather voices from around the world for an afternoon on the people who show up: why connection is medicine and loneliness isn't harmless, how friendship crosses cultures, faiths, generations and borders, and how to rebuild the friendships we've let drift.

Join us live on Sunday 2nd August 2026 from 2pm BST. No registration. No ticket. Bring nothing but the name of one friend you're grateful for.

On the Programme
i.
🤝 The Friendships That Changed a Life
Real stories from people who were carried by someone else.
ii.
💚 Connection Is Medicine
Why friendship shows up in our health, and loneliness isn't harmless.
iii.
🌏 Friendship Across Every Border
Cultures, faiths, generations and languages — and the bridges between them.
iv.
📞 The Ones We Let Drift
How to reach back out — and why it's almost never too late.
v.
🙏 Thank You For Your Contributions
Gratitude for every friend of Healing Our Earth who gave time, wisdom and heart.
vi.
🌍 Global Namaste — Open Floor
Your friends, your stories, live in the chat from every time zone.
International Day of Friendship — Friends Forever · Healing Our Earth · Sunday 2nd August 2026, 2pm BST
International Day of Friendship · Healing Our Earth
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
and can sing it back when you've forgotten the words."
On one Sunday afternoon, people who have never met sit in the same room and talk about the ones who carried them. Friendship isn't sentimental — it is the thing that gets us through illness, grief, migration, loneliness and ordinary Tuesdays. Come as you are, and bring the name of one friend you're grateful for.
🇬🇧 2pm BST
🇮🇳 6:30pm IST
🇪🇺 3pm CEST
🇺🇸 9am EDT
🇦🇺 11pm AEST
The Lineup

Voices, Hosts
& Friends.

Speakers from across the world — every session free, live, and open to everyone.
International Day of Friendship — Friends Forever · Sunday 2nd August 2026, 2pm BST

The line-up is being
announced soon.

We're finalising the voices joining us from around the world. Speakers, hosts and topics will appear right here as soon as they're confirmed — and we'll announce each one on YouTube and Facebook first.

The date is fixed, the room is open, and it's free either way.

Sun 2 Aug 2026 2pm BST onwards Free · No registration Live worldwide
Why Trust Us With Your Sunday

We've done this
before.

Healing Our Earth runs free global episodes throughout the year. Every one of these is on our channel, in full, for free.
“Replace this with a real comment from a past episode — something a viewer actually wrote on YouTube or Facebook.”
First name · Country on a previous episode
“And this one too. Two honest lines from real people beat ten polished ones that nobody said.”
First name · Country on a previous episode

Have a look for yourself before you commit your Sunday.

Watch a Past Episode
The Shape of the Afternoon

Sunday, from
2pm BST.

Times below are British Summer Time · full running order published once the line-up is confirmed

2:00
Opening — Global Namaste
Welcome, and why friendship belongs in a conversation about health
Welcome
2:20
The Friendships That Changed a Life
Speakers to be announced
Stories
3:15
Connection Is Medicine
Speakers to be announced
Wellbeing
Interval · Global Namaste
4:15
Friendship Across Every Border
Speakers to be announced
Global
5:15
The Ones We Let Drift
Speakers to be announced
Reconnect
5:45
Thank You For Your Contributions
Gratitude to every friend of Healing Our Earth
Gratitude
Close
Conclusion — Global Namaste
Good luck and best wishes · Earth Bless You All
Pranam
Sunday 2nd August 2026 · 2pm BST onwards

Bring one friend.
Leave with many.

One afternoon for the people who show up for us. It's free, it's live, and there's a seat for everyone — so send this to the friend it made you think of.

International Day of Friendship · Friends Forever

Sunday 2nd August 2026 · 2pm BST · 🇬🇧 UK · 🇮🇳 6:30pm IST Bharat · 🇪🇺 3pm CEST Europe · 🇺🇸 9am EDT USA · 🇦🇺 11pm AEST Sydney


Technical Director – Nishit Kotak · Healing Our Earth · Marking the UN International Day of Friendship


www.healingourearth.com · facebook.com/healingourearth

© 2026 Healing Our Earth · International Day of Friendship · Free Global Event

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