My work on the Universal Hall
I worked on transforming the doors into the auditorium from the unfinished plywood state to the good looking doors with elm framing and mock leather panels. It was certainly hard work as the doors have
Topic – The Universal Hall
The Universal Hall is an iconic building at the heart of The Park Ecovillage, and was a formative element at a time when the Community expanded exponentially in the early 1970s. Similar to the Matrimadir
Complying with the grant and completing the Hall ‘By Others’
In 1982 we decided to complete the Universal Hall, as Vance Martin had managed to get the third World Wilderness Congress 1983 booked. This meant not only completing the Building but turning it from a
A Scottish Tourist Board grant to complete the Universal Hall
I think it must have been early in 1982 that Peter Caddy sent Roger Mostyn who was an architectural draftsmen, to persuade me to be the Project Manager to complete the unfinished Universal Hall. I
Memories of Painting the ceiling of the Hall
Peter Caddy was mesmerised by a rather suave interior designer called Ruurd who was ‘imported’ to help finish the interior of the Universal Hall. He delivered a mind-boggling ‘vision’ that included fabulously-costly and impractical materials
Remembering working on the Hall
Within a year of my initial arrival at Findhorn in November 1974, I was assigned to work on the completion of the Universal Hall roof.
Living Record – Building Universal Hall 1974-1983
This collection of articles and reports on the building of the Hall is compiled from contemporary issues of the Foundation's publications Findhorn News, Open Letter and One Earth. 1. THE BEGINNING April 1974 2. THE
The vital importance – and beauty – of community consultation
This could as appropriately have been called the ‘wisdom’ of community consultation. What we want to share is how we experienced the process in the early 1980s of the community meetings in the Hall discussing
Living Record – Conferences at Findhorn
The following impressive list of Conferences at Findhorn in the Living Record initially only covered the years 1972-2005. Some amendments have been made to cover the time up to 2019. It lists over 120 conferences
The Game in a Box that can change your life.
I’d like to share with you a bit of Transformation Game history. It’s an audio interview I had with a radio station in California in 1986 shortly after I’d moved to the USA with Kathy
