This article from a research paper written by Al McLeod from California State University Fresno, California during his visit in 1977 to the Findhorn Foundation Community discusses three bases of authority, traditional, rational and charismatic and concludes that the Community's mode of operation and authority requires a fourth model which the author calls 'personal-present authority'.
This article is from a research paper written by Al McLeod from California State University Fresno, California during his visit in 1977 to the Findhorn Foundation Community. It examines the decision making process in the Community and the use of feedback in that process. It concludes that the more difficult the decision the closer members are brought together.
This article is from a research paper written by Al McLeod from California State University Fresno, California during his visit in 1977 to the Findhorn Foundation Community. It discusses the concept of feedback and how this is fundamental in understanding the workings of interpersonal relations in the Community.
This paper is a sociological analysis of the Findhorn Foundation Community, by Al McLeod from California State University Fresno, California, based on a three-week visit in 1977, and uses a participant observational method. It briefly sketches the history, philosophy and world view, along with a demographic and economic profile. Analysis focuses on such items as rules, roles, relationships, leadership styles, decision-making processes, their informal hierarchy, social control and their use of feedback procedures.
I wrote this poem for the Taize service in the Universal Hall on Easter Sunday 2025.
This is the story of Matthew Ingram’s visit to the Ecovillage Findhorn in 2023. He came to do research for his latest book The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture which chronicles how a generation influenced by psychedelics, Eastern philosophy, and reactions to Vietnam, the Oil Shocks, and DDT became interested in sustainable growing and farming. The book contains a chapter about what happened when the hippies came to Findhorn.
This obituary was written by Danny Towers. It was published in the Guardian on Wed 1st Jan 2025.
Selena did Experience Week in 2023 and recorded the following appreciation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRLcQnWQn8&t=302s&ab_channel=FindhornFoundation We thank the Findhorn Foundation for the use of this video on our website. You can watch more Findhorn Foundation videos here. You
This article by Jim Donovan was previously published in Network News, Issue 7, April 1996. Building the Humla Health Post Facing me with a terrible grimace was not one of nature's more benign spirits. I
This article, written by Jim Donovan, was previsously published in Network News, June 1995. lf your mission succeeds, you will not only have accomplished a personal achievement, but will have built a community health clinic
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