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Just weeks after first hearing of the Findhorn Foundation community Simon Stedman visited and experienced a powerful sense of coming home.

The British finance executive recalls: ‘I was happy in London, where I had lived very comfortably for 30 years, working as a finance director in a number of businesses.’

Then someone told him about Findhorn.

‘I Googled it and the search landed me on the page advertising the Head of Finance job and set in motion a chain of events that has been utterly life-changing. My heart told me that I would one day be doing the job, but my head refused to believe.

‘My first visit was for the job interview and I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I arrived in the evening, had a quick walk round and then spent the whole night awake wondering what on earth I was doing here.
Simon Stedman findhorn finance steward from England first findhorn visit » 2019

‘The following day the sun came out and The Park was stunning with outrageously beautiful blossoms everywhere. I felt as though I had come home. I felt such a sense of peace.

‘It motivated me to leave the world where I spent my life making very rich people even richer, a totally soulless experience. It feels as though for all the years I lived engaging my head in my work but never my heart.

‘I have had to move away from my network of friends and family and I’ve given up much financial security. But what I have gained is the privilege of being part of an amazing community of people who are intentionally kind and want a better future for humanity.

‘The ongoing challenge for me now is how to stay on top of what I feel I need to do and balance this with time for myself and friends.

‘Since being here the synchronicities, the God-instances or whatever you want to call them, have become so much more frequent. There is a constant call to inner-listening and openness to the wisdom and assistance of subtle beings. And despite the toughest bits of being far from my friends and family, an ache that has been constant during the Covid-19 crisis, there is a deep peace. It comes from a certainty that I am in the right place at the right time, to do a job that needs to be done.

‘I have felt a guiding hand, a plethora of synchronicities, and a sense of peace even in a period of intense work and accompanying stress.’

Looking ahead, he says: ‘My sense is that Findhorn needs to be a place where there is a deepening experience of inner listening, love expressed through service and a willingness to listen to the wisdom of nature. This will be expressed through a transformation of our understanding and relationship with money, a commitment to replacing Findhorn’s old environmentally damaging buildings with new eco-buildings and the outworking of true gender respect and equality.

‘This authenticity to the original purpose of this place will make it magnetic to those who want to see positive transformation of human consciousness and strengthen the way in which Findhorn has been a space for inspiration and global influence.

‘It is the place where I have felt more loved, welcomed and accepted by a community than anything I have experienced before.’

Simon Stedman
Findhorn Finance Steward
from England
First Findhorn visit » 2019