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On 27th August 2026 we heard from Kathy Tyler: “I share with you all the sudden passing of Diana Whitmore at 1.30pm on Tuesday 25 August.

Diana was a pure soul in service to the Ecovillage Findhorn spirit, humanity and to the evolution of Earth.

Her life was devoted to learning, healing, young people, community and the unfolding of human potential. Through her life, she touched and nurtured many hearts, both within Findhorn and far beyond. She was never in the spotlight but she was certainly someone who brought more light in this world.”

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From Sara Trevelyan – Tribute to Diana Whitmore – on the loss of a very dear friend

It’s still hard to find words to sum up the loss of such a dear friend. A remarkable woman who had such an extraordinary life. I was privileged to know Diana as a close friend during her last 5 years… I wish I’d known her longer, as others in this community have. She has lived in the community since 2013, in the Soillse co-housing collective and was for many years a trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. She was also founder, trainer and trustee of the Psychosynthesis Trust in London.

I had the privilege 4 years ago of becoming a trustee of Growing2Gether, the charity which she founded in 2017. This charity was close to her heart with its vision of taking the principles of psychosynthesis into the social arena, offering mentoring programmes for vulnerable at-risk young people. A key and genius part of this involves teenagers spending time in nurseries forming relationships with early years little ones. Attention, and care expressed through play, become natural conduits for relationship building and healing.

When the news of Diana’s sudden collapse reached me it was utterly devastating to receive. When someone who is such a pillar for so many suddenly ‘falls’ it has a widespread impact. She was a shining light for so many of us, with her bright smile, her wisdom, grace, generosity and integrity. One of her final acts, the weekend before her collapse, was to send flowers from ‘the Beings at G2G’ wishing me a speedy recovery from my hip operation. The flowers included beautiful white roses which immediately reminded me of her. Very strangely and unusually though, many of the accompanying flowers were dead. Given her collapse the following morning this felt like a disturbing omen.

This past week has felt like a vigil…keeping watch, praying for her, appreciating the remarkable timing…she had managed to compete a rigorous and demanding training schedule, she had offered her More than a Number workshop on aging, she had attended the annual three-day G2G team training gathering, and she’d also had a week’s holiday with her beloved son Jason. She had kept going through all of this but underneath was exhausted and needing to rest. She was looking forward to this past week when her schedule was much lighter. Ah, how things change in an instant… The one blessing has been knowing that Jason has been able to be with her through her passage through different hospitals, Dr Grays, Aberdeen then ending up in Edinburgh. I had always hoped that she would visit me in Edinburgh – I’d never envisaged her arriving here unconscious in an ambulance!

Days of waiting for news and updates… feeling for Jason. Dedicating prayers to her and watching on clear evenings the beauty of the almost full moon, orange coloured, appearing mysteriously in the evening sky. This spoke to me of her life’s work…carrying forward the legacy of Assagioli, founder of Psychosynthesis, dedicated to sharing the awareness that we are all fundamentally interconnected, universal beings, we are manifestations of an infinite source which expresses itself through our souls. We are intimately connected to this infinite source, we are not just physical bodies, we are souls on earth. Diana picked up Assagioli’s legacy and committed her life to it… I would say until her last breath. At our last Trustee meeting we released Diana, with love and gratitude, from her role as Co-CEO of Growing2Gether, handing it fully into the care of Gavin Morgan. True to form she was not about to retire… we created a new post for her to design and deliver training to youth workers in Scotland, taking psychosynthesis even further out into the world where she knew there was a hunger for promoting a positive vision of valuing young people, and the potential which she unfailingly saw in them.

Given her life’s work and her tireless dedication, one of the qualities which I found most extraordinary about Diana was her humility. She told me some time ago that she had been invited to participate in a podcast/video interview by a couple of young people with the title: What if people find out? The link for this interview, which is available on YouTube, is given below. I highly recommend watching it. I had hoped that it would be shown in the Universal Hall as it deserves to be. She shared her nervousness preparing for this, but what a testimony it is to her extraordinary presence, her wit, grace, authenticity and wisdom. The spontaneous connection she is able to make with the two young people who interview her is an absolute testament to her capacity to shine her light and welcome the emerging light in others.

I have been gifted an extraordinary friend… we have been gifted an extraordinary friend. Diana will continue to be with us now through honouring and blessing her in her passing. Also through valuing even more deeply her vision of the central importance of living and embodying the soul with its life-giving creative healing potential. This luminous source which is in us all meets a deep hunger and need in our troubled world.

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From Gavin Morgan – CEO Growing Together:

Diana: In Celebration: an internal Growing2gether gathering for our team and trustees, held on 31st August 2026

In Celebration of Lady Diana Whitmore

Thank you for being here today. We’re gathered not just to mourn Diana, but to celebrate a life that was, by any measure, extraordinary, a life lived in purpose, in service, and in love.

If you knew Diana even a little, you knew she never did anything by half measures. She started out, by her own account, as a hippy in her twenties, restless, searching, unwilling to accept the world as it was handed to her. That searching took her across an ocean to Italy, where she became a student of Roberto Assagioli, the founder of psychosynthesis. She was there, at his side, when he died. Most people would have carried that moment as a private grief. Diana carried it as a calling. She spent the rest of her life making sure his work, his conviction that psychology needed room for the soul, not just the mind, would not die with him.

And she did far more than preserve it. In 1980, she took the charitable seed Assagioli had planted back in 1965 and built something lasting from it: the Psychosynthesis Trust. For twenty-five years she led it, as Chairperson, as Joint Chief Executive, as a trainer and supervisor who shaped generation after generation of practitioners. Under her stewardship, the Trust became one of the first organisations in the UK to earn BACP accreditation, and the first to be recognised by UKCP as a transpersonal training body. That’s not a footnote. That is a woman who took a promise made to a dying mentor and turned it into a professional institution that still stands, still trains, still changes lives today.

But if the Trust was Diana honouring where she came from, her work with young people was Diana looking toward where the world was going. She believed, genuinely, that every young person carries the seed of their own greatness, and that they simply need the right conditions to grow into it. That belief wasn’t an abstraction for her. It became Teens and Toddlers. It became, twenty years later, Growing2gether, a charity she built from the ground up in the Scottish Highlands, born out of a promise to her dear friend Laura Huxley that her work would not vanish either. Diana meant to run one project. She ended up spending two decades of her life on it, because once she saw what happened when a struggling young person was given the chance to mentor someone even more vulnerable than themselves, she was, in her own words, hooked.

That’s the through-line of Diana’s whole life, isn’t it? She kept making promises to people she loved ,to Assagioli, to Laura , and then she kept them, not for a season, but for decades. She wrote books so the ideas would outlive the moment. She trained practitioners across Europe so the work would outlive her hands. She founded not one but three charities so the mission would outlive any single institution, herself included.

She was, by every account, a force of nature. Anyone who sat in a room with her knows exactly what that means , the energy, the conviction, the refusal to let a good idea stay small. She could be at Esalen in her twenties, chasing the frontier of humanistic psychology, and decades later be sitting with a teenager in the Highlands who’d never once been told they had something worth offering the world. Both of those women were the same Diana.

She is survived by her son, who was at her side at the end, and by something rarer than most of us leave behind: two living organizations, full of trainers, counsellors, mentors, facilitators and young people, who will keep doing the work because she insisted it mattered enough to build something that would outlast her.

So today, let’s grieve her, because that loss is real, and it’s deep, and it deserves to be felt. But let’s also do what Diana would have wanted, and let’s do what she herself always did in the face of loss: let’s carry it forward. Every young person mentored through Growing2gether, every therapist trained through the Trust, every soul that gets a little more room in someone’s psychology because of the tradition she safeguarded, that is Diana, still very much alive in the world.

She promised Assagioli she would carry his flame. She promised Laura she would carry hers too. Today, it falls to all of us in this room to carry Diana’s.

Thank you.

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From Alex Walker:

What a wonderful person, what a wonderful life. Many thanks for all your kindness, hospitality, wisdom and friendship Diana. À la prochaine!