What drew you here? What did you do here? What did you do in the world with what you learned here? These are the questions that this category answers. Is your story here?
I was 33 when I went to Findhorn in 1984, and stayed for five years. Although the people I met and the departments I worked at were important to my growth, my main journey was
Blackpool pals before Findhorn, summer 1968, Carly, Matthew, Mik. Early Spring 1970 my friends and I in Blackpool, Lancashire were wondering where our pal Ian was. We knew he’d gone to Scotland to
In the early 1980s I was living in Chicago but beginning to feel that my life needed to take a different direction. At around this time I found a small article about Eileen Caddy in
I did my Experience Week at the end of January 1977. One day I was walking from the Park building through the Central Garden and as I came abreast of the large pine tree by
In June of 1976 my partner Suzy and I walked barefoot into Findhorn Park Community from the beach at Culbin Sands. We were young twenty somethings; back packers and hitch hikers to the universe Our
I'd become interested in intentional communities prior to going to Findhorn. I was part of the Koinonia Foundation community near Baltimore, Maryland, USA, from 1973, and had also visited Twin Oaks, and a Bruderhof community.
The Kalikalos Greek Authentic Holistic Community Project Johanna Aro Louis with Jock Milleson in 2012 In 2002 Jock asked me to join him in Anilio, Greece, volunteering in Kalikalos which meant building a
In 1983 in a lesbian bar in Munich I listened to a friend who had just returned from Findhorn. Despite it being a ‘straight’ community she’d had a wonderful experience. I came away with a
I trained as a Secondary School teacher and loved the 3 years I taught English and History at the Christian Brothers College in Cape Town, and one year in Salisbury, Rhodesia at Allan Wilson High
Arriving at Findhorn LOOKING FOR A GURU In 1974 I set out to travel overland to India, looking for a guru. A friend recommended the Findhorn Community as a cool place, vegetarian too, really
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Born in South Africa, came to Findhorn in 1974 with Richard Stern. Married Lyle Schnadt in 1977. Worked with the Game of Transformation as a Guide, co-author with Eileen of her autobiography Flight Into Freedom and Beyond. Went to Russia in 1988 and started Ecologia Youth Trust in 1995. Still living in the Findhorn Community today.
