Most Recent Stories
At times, we are adding new stories to this site at quite a rate, and the total number of stories that this site encompasses is expanding rapidly.
We’re highlighting the latest stories to be added here: come back regularly to keep abreast of the new stories we have to tell. On 28th July 2024 we have made our 1000th post!!! So much to explore ….
At times, we are adding new stories to this site at quite a rate, and the total number of stories that this site encompasses is expanding rapidly.
We’re highlighting the latest stories to be added here: come back regularly to keep abreast of the new stories we have to tell. On 28th July 2024 we have made our 1000th post!!! So much to explore ….
Ruby’s Story
I came here when I was eighteen months old — my parents were both artists. I grew up in a community that was, in a way, made by artists.
Archivist’s 6th Blog: Closing the Chapter, Handing Over the Keys, and Setting Sail
The rabbit hole ran deep, but the landing was soft, and the history is right where it belongs: safely in the hands of the living community.
Masters and Champions Exhibition Moray Art Centre (2012)
How could our culture ‘magnetise’ all the necessary minds, find a focus of shared intention, and incubate the wealth of skills and clarity of perception needed to distil shared cultural criteria that could birth the next Golden Age?
The Hammer That Caught the Falling Box of Tacks
Is there a soul in hammers? I still wonder about that.
Your Community, Your Story Spiritual/Worldview Module 6 – Arts, Creativity and Ritual
This workshop felt very much like the creative, spiritual process itself: a blank canvas, a not-knowing to start with and then, gradually, a presencing of the story ready to unfold.
The Blue Bead Dream
A group of people talking, respectfully sharing ideas that would be important for my future and the future of the world and the earth.
Arts in the Ecovillage Findhorn (2023)
Author's Note: I wrote the following summary for the Local Place Plan in 2024. I offer it here as a high-level overview. *** Ecovillage Findhorn is home to a rich arts 'ecosystem' that includes individual,
Edwin Smith Exhibition in Moray Art Centre (2011)
Edwin Smith is widely celebrated as one of Britain's greatest mid-century architectural and landscape photographers, famous for his atmospheric, masterly use of natural light documenting English vernacular and monumental architecture.
Nameless Catalogue Moray Art Centre 2010
The access to artists who lived 500 and 600 years ago has become a great source of inspiration and enlightenment to me as an artist.
On Becoming an Author
Becoming an author is a rite of passage; an initiation. I am starting to lean into what lies across that threshold.
John Byrne Catalogue Moray Art Centre Findhorn 2008
"We are so pleased and appreciative of John Byrne and the lenders for enabling us to feature this retrospective of John’s work for the opening of our new gallery space."
Connecting with the Subtle Worlds
The founders are open and willing to support the Community in this difficult and yet exciting time of transition, by supporting our listening to the voice within and then creating from that inner guidance the “New", based on core principles.
To honour Diana Whitmore
Diana Whitmore has touched thousands of people all around the world in many different contexts. We have set up this post so that those who want to, can share their memories.
Your Community Your Story Social/Culture Module 5 – The Community Centre
This workshop addressed the social dimensions of our community culture by focusing on the Community Centre Through the Years as well as exploring the Gritty Bits (warts-and-all).
The Community Centre Beginnings
Extracts from the autobiographies of Eileen and Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean tell the story of the origin and building of the original Community Centre.
Forty Words in the CC
Forty words, all told. That was it — a life changing encounter in the CC.
The New Story Summit 2014
The organisers had taken a major leap of faith in leaving much of the programme unplanned and pregnant with possibility. How could an event seeking to develop a New Story be otherwise? What emerged was deep, powerful and chaotic.
The Phrunch Story
Before COVID, there was a singles’ table at the Community Centre ... a place where people could turn up, eat, talk, catch up on what was happening around Findhorn, and enjoy one another’s company. Five years later we sill make a place for one another.
Navigating Money, Fear, and Abundance
Navigating large amounts of money and housing can trigger deep fears of scarcity. Discover how creative thinking, community resilience, and transforming our mindset can turn financial anxiety into true abundance.
My involvement with the Money Game
Money Game - an immersive, real-time exercise (not a simulation) using real cash to help participants explore their deep emotional responses as money changes hands.
