The History Project presents information about people, places, organisations, events and concepts related to the history of the Findhorn Foundation / Community through the media of original stories, published works, documents and media files.

Stories are at the heart of the project and they can be accessed in a number of ways – primarily either by their author, or by the facet(s) of Community life that they draw upon.

A Gallery pictures and names all the authors of stories we have in our archive. Clicking on an individual will bring up an information card on that person along with information and links to the story or stories they have contributed or have been involved in.

Each story is also categorised under one or more colour-coded facets, or elements, of Community life and activity. To derive these categories, we’ve used what we call the Eight Leaf Ecovillage Model in a slightly extended form. To determine in which category each story belongs, we look at how it relates to four questions:

• WHY – Why we do what we do
• HOW – Connecting culture
• WHAT – Implementation/manifestations
• WHERE – Contributions to the world

Each of the “leaves” or ring segments are colour-coded and represent a different set of attributes which are broken out below. In addition, the coloured mosaic fragments that illustrate the different primary categories echo the mosaic elements of the Celebrating One Incredible Family globe.