WOMEN2WOMEN: A PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL INNER JOURNEY FOR LESBIANS The impetus for a programme for women who love women actually came from Niels Paulsen and John Smith. They are the godfathers of the workshop. In
LGBT: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER In 1996 John Smith and I wrote the first proposal for an Experience Week for gay men, which really stirred things up. It was discussed at great length and was
THIS COMMUNITY IS LIKE COMING HOME Whenever I walk up The Park runway, I feel an inner peace and sense of completeness, which after more than four years of living in Forres and volunteering in
BEING HERE As I look back on 2011, I realise I’ve spent half of this year here at Findhorn. So it’s no wonder I feel sad as I prepare to leave this place that I’ve
How Findhorn Inspired My Life and Work Findhorn will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember my first day there in 1975: I was amazed at how many people were joyfully
SEVENTEEN VISITS Community planetary game This year is going to be my 17th visit to findhorn and I’m looking forward to it like it was my first time, for right from the
BEING A FAMILY AT CLUNY I first visited the community in 1979 and a year or two later returned with my two children for a family workshop at Newbold House. I decided to come for
THE FIRST FINDHORNIAN I MET A big sigh of relief as I arrived at Inverness airport. I had made it this far. I had no idea how to get to Forres and no pre-booked
How We Came to Live in Findhorn A friend who was decluttering his house gave us the book The Findhorn Garden, saying it was the right book for my wife Eveline and me. We read
RESOURCE PERSONS Every few years the Findhorn Foundation organises a Resource Person Week to reconnect with and thank them for their work. After a gap of about five years, Mattie Porte organised a week
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Did Experience Week in May 2004, together with my wife Eveline. The following 6 years we went to Findhorn at least twice a year, doing programmes or just staying in a B&B. We became Resource Persons and organised our own little Findhorn-inspired programme in our home-town Groningen in the Netherlands (called “Singing, Dancing, Celebrating”). We started Transition Town Groningen in 2018, which actually was Findhorn-inspired. In December 2010 we moved to Findhorn, leaving our careers and Dutch life behind.
We both did the LEAP programme and then I became staff of Findhorn College. Since 2014 I am working as a sole trader, handyman. In 2017 I took over organising Sunday Group Hill Walks from Jonathan Caddy and have been organising those since then.
