This draft Whole Community Purpose was prepared by the Enquiry Circle and presented to the Community in 2018. It was never formally adopted but is frequently referred to, at times read out at the beginning of meetings – either in parts or the whole text.

The Enquiry Circle was the result of the 2016 Community Change Process and is described in Findhorn Community Change Process Review 2017-18.

 

DRAFT WHOLE COMMUNITY PURPOSE

– an invitation to a conversation –

Co-Creating A Thriving And Loving World

As a conscious community, we strive to demonstrate a practical spirituality in harmony with nature, and play our part to positively transform humanity and the earth

The purpose of the whole Community is to be a place of inspiration and transformation – a centre of love and light, a centre of fiery hope. We hold a positive vision for humanity and the Earth, a commitment to deep and practical spirituality and to true ecology – caring for each other and caring for our planet. We seek to raise awareness individually and collectively in our day-to-day activities and radiate this out into the world. We hold a deep longing for humanity to live in peace and with gratitude and respect for the natural world.

We are a living, dynamic, practical experiment, building and seeking to demonstrate in physical form what is possible by working together as an intentional Community. We seek to create and hold spaces that are caring for the soul – places of beauty where we learn and practice the healing power of love. We seek to be visionary, vital, vibrant and viable on this Earth.

Part of our history and spiritual architecture has been three guiding principles for how to live and work in our Community. These principles are: inner listening, work is love in action, and co- creation with the intelligence of Nature. They continue to guide us today as articulated in our Common Ground statement. Individually we respond in different ways to the call of this centre. We welcome this diversity. Together we aspire to respond to the call of the world, to the call of our time.

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It was considered closely linked to the Common Ground statement. A double-sided document was produced and distributed widely.

In 2024, we revisited our Community Purpose in the context of extensive collective development work which resulted in the setup of Ecovillage Findhorn Community Benefit Society and a Local Place Plan submitted to Moray Council for 31st January 2025.

Building on the Whole Community Purpose from 2018, we co-created the following statement:

Shared Community Purpose

Park Ecovillage Findhorn Community
a loving, regenerative, spiritual community

Our purpose:

To be a thriving, regenerative community,
consciously co-creating with all life,
putting our spiritual principles into practice
to support and learn from each other,
as a positive contribution to planetary
service and transformation

The purpose of our Community is to be a place of inspiration and transformation — a centre of love and light, a centre of fiery hope. We hold a positive vision for humanity and the Earth, a commitment to deep and practical spirituality and to true ecology — caring for each other and caring for our planet. We seek to raise awareness individually and collectively in our day-to-day activities and radiate this out into the world. We hold a deep longing for humanity to live in peace and with gratitude and respect for the natural world.

We are a living, dynamic, practical experiment, building and seeking to demonstrate in physical form what is possible by working together as an intentional Community. We seek to create and hold spaces that are caring for the soul – places of beauty where we leam and practice the healing power of love. We seek to be visionary, vital, vibrant and viable on this Earth.

Part of our history and spiritual architecture has been three guiding principles for how to live and work in our Community. These principles are: inner listening, work is love in action, and co-creation with the intelligence of Nature. They continue to guide us today as articulated in our Common Ground statement. Individually we respond in different ways to the call of this centre. We welcome this diversity. Together we aspire to respond to the call of the world, to the call of our time.