About Ulf Ellingsen
Retired Norwegian Lieutenant Colonel living on smallholding in Sweden with a life long passion for teaching. Father of Tobias. Married to Karin. Psychosynthesis councilor with a degree in Psychiatric Nursing.Came to the Findhorn Foundation Community: November 1988
Left the Findhorn Foundation Community: June 1996
Areas of involvement with the Findhorn Foundation Community: Joined Cluny Maintenance, worked with education, started the Ecologydepartment (an attempt to get the individual to focus on practical, everyday ecological living). Spiritual practice; to meditate upon, open to and apply love in everyday life. Studied Psychosynthesis. Think of myself as a Clunyite, though I lived at Dramduan most of the time while working on that side. Fell in love with, lived with and married Dianne Falasca. Became the father of Tobias Ellingsen.
Community leadership: Cluny Maintenance focaliser 1990-91, Ecology Department focaliser 1992-1994
Experience in the community affected your work in the world: I would like to think that living and working in the community affected my everyday living. After re-joining the Norwegian Armed Forces, I worked extensivly with education and health, writing manuals and books, leading the unit resposible for initiation, developement, implementation and controle of said topic for the Armed Forces. I also worked as a peace-keeper with the UN and NATO in zones of war and conflict in Bosnia, Kossovo, Ethiopia and Lebanon.
List of publications: Lærebok i Sanitetsfagtjeneste, UD4-1-5, 2004 and 2006, a manual in advanced first aid and health for the medic in the Armed Forces.



