In this interview William Bloom talks with Terry Gilbey, CEO of the Findhorn Foundation.

Terry shares about his personal story. He describes his childhood very positively even though he was a child with severe dyslexia, who loved taking things apart and studying how they worked. He left school early and found his way into the digital world which was so much easier for him to relate to. With his acute understanding of systems and love for spreadsheets (‘so much easier to read!’) he became a valued contributor in the corporate world, for instance, as CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Being raised in the context of the Church of England he early on had a personal connection with spirituality. But despite deep spiritual insights he was again and again disappointed by organised religion, as it fell short of the values he found in his own experiences.

After leaving the corporate world he volunteered at Esalen Institute in California, and whilst he loved working in the kitchen he was soon asked to help with the restructuring after the existential crisis caused by Esalen being cut off from the world by a mudslide in 2017.

The call to go to Findhorn came when he was travelling in an RV (motorhome) across the USA with his wife Kim. They moved to The Park in February 2023 and Terry is once again supporting an existential transition process.

Click here for more information about the Findhorn Foundation.

You can find more Compassion Dialogues on the website of the Spiritual Companions Trust.