From the author, Joé Weber Lionheart:

In Spring 2026, I stayed in the Park Ecovillage Findhorn Community for a couple of months to do research for my dissertation. As part of that, I attended Conversation Cafés which are weekly events where Community members come together to share information and views. During my stay at Findhorn I had a call with members of NextGEN, the youth branch of the ecovillage network. Some of them said that they didn’t want to see another shiny ecovillage video, presenting everything as being all right, but rather they would like to see the challenges of the community. Following on from that, I went to the Conversation Café and said at the beginning that I would like to make a video for my YouTube channel exploring exactly that question, so, at the end of the first hour, we invited those who wanted to be part of the video to stay. The following is the video which resulted from that group interview, conducted on the 10th of April 2026.

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