Explorations and expression of vision and purpose over the decades and how they shaped the Community’s evolution.
The history of any individual or organisation that is on the edge of turning 50 is bound to a complex and many-tiered story. The history of the Findhorn Foundation is definitely that!!
A brief summary of the week and exciting links to for your input to the imagining and inquiring.
What might the Findhorn Community look and feel like when we are living our deepest potential—individually, together, and in harmony with the Earth? This follows on from a session I held during the Community Gathering 2025 - a place to collate our collective imaginations.
It is not simply a community we live in; it is a living system where experiments unfold and light is sent outward. We are both testing grounds and signal fires.
Be still and know all is very, very well unfolds into Inner listening Co-creation with nature Work is love in action unfolds into Sanctuary Original garden and caravan The Park unfolds into Group meditations Living
When I came across it in my own 'early days' here in the mid 1970's it inspired me to realise the greater significance of what was (is?) happening here, effectively modelling the transformation process. It also evoked a planetary vision for us.
In essence the vision for the Community, birthed on the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park in 1962, is for it to be ‘a place where God’s work is done’. This is certainly what the four founders
This draft Whole Community Purpose was prepared by the Enquiry Circle and presented to the Community in 2018. It was never formally adopted but is frequently referred to, at times read out at the beginning
On January 7th, 2025, I turn 80 years old. There’s no particular merit in this by itself. All one has to do is ride the Earth around the sun, and each time it does this, we can add another number to our chronology...
This article was first published in GENESIS XVII, September 26, 1997 under Future Scenarios. Whilst they are still only words, how encouraging and inspiring it has been to see all the future scenarios begin to articulate
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Born in London, set up and ran Hansa whole foods in Guernsey 1971-78. Management lifestream natural foods in Canada/USA 1978-89. Set up organic Trading company 1989-1990. Findhorn 1990-2024.
