Business in the Community
BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY In 1999, Gill Emslie, Judy McAllister and I set up the Findhorn Foundation Consultancy Service as a department in the Education Area. We ran the Business Experience Week, and did
Park Library: From Midnight to the Morning Star
PARK LIBRARY: FROM MIDNIGHT TO THE MORNING STAR The books in Park Library have lively conversations after the night porter’s been round? There’s no way to prove it, though toy shops are said to
Ekopia Resource Exchange Ltd
EKOPIA RESOURCE EXCHANGE LTD Ekopia is a community benefit cooperative attracting capital for reinvestment in community ventures. A community benefit cooperative (or bencom for short) can offer shares to its community of interest in a
Playback Theatre
PLAYBACK THEATRE The Findhorn Playback Company came into being to serve the Forgiveness Conference in 1999 and from then began to perform at a variety of conferences and community events. These have included
Artist in Community
ARTIST IN COMMUNITY In 2002 I came to live here in one of the new ecohouses to start work as a full-time artist. I had spent 20 years occasionally painting in watercolours but
Performance and the Arts in Findhorn
Performance and the Arts in Findhorn I first arrived as a 19-year-old aspiring theatre artist in 1984 when three of the old Lollipop gang, Ike and Maggie Isaksen (now India Brown) and Michael Worth,
The Forres Big Choir
THE FORRES BIG CHOIR Bill Henderson and I combined our strengths in 2004 to create a community choir in Forres. We have about 50 members from along the Moray coast, Inverness to Elgin. Bill and
The Birth of Findhorn Foundation College
The Birth of Findhorn Foundation College From its earliest days, the Foundation held a vision of being a University of Light, but this vision did not land until the turn of the millennium. The story
Women2Women: A Personal & Spiritual Inner Journey for Lesbians
WOMEN2WOMEN: A PERSONAL & SPIRITUAL INNER JOURNEY FOR LESBIANS The impetus for a programme for women who love women actually came from Niels Paulsen and John Smith. They are the godfathers of the workshop. In
LGBT: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender
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