This section includes stories that exemplify the three fundamental principles that guide the Community – Inner Listening, Work is Love in Action, and Co-operation with the Intelligence of Nature – and their implementation in all aspects of life in the Community.
IN PETER CADDY'S WORDS Work is Love in Action The first insight card drawn during the 2012 Internal Conference expressed, You do what’s needed. Talking to John Willoner, one of the first people to join
Doing - attunement The Peter principle as I was taught is engaging with the world around me, with my attention, presence, energy and my will to do what is needed. Sometimes it’s a response to
My story with Eileen started when I first joined the community in 1974. I was given a job working in the community kitchen and before we started, from 8.30 to 9am I was
BUILDING ME WEE HOUSE In January of 1985, I visited nearby Speyside Cooperage to collect some free firewood in the form of old barrel staves. I was also shown six large ‘marrying vessels’ they had
The Original Garden My involvement with the Original Garden began one freezing winter morning in 2009, at a meeting to discuss the deer fence. Posts and gates had already gone up, to some dismay and
The Future Eileen always asked: Why are you here? If you’re here for community, it’s the wrong place. If you’re here for the ecovillage or education, it’s the wrong place. But if you’re here
A Statement Of Values – Our Common Ground At an Internal Conference in 1996, with a background of bubbling conflicts and questions about our collective identity, people began to ask, What are our deeper values?
Spirit of the Future for 2012 and beyond Even though we, as the Findhorn Foundation Community, celebrate our 50th birthday in 2012, we do so knowing the long-term survival of the planet that we all
THE GARDENS THEN AND NOW Attunement to Nature When I arrived in 1979 I had almost no training in gardening at all. My professional background was in forestry and I knew little about carrots
Communing with Nature - Attunement Having a physical body made from the elements and the stuff of stars, I am nourished and nurtured by my connection and immersion in the natural world. Nature is my
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