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
LGBT: LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER In 1996 John Smith and I wrote the first proposal for an Experience Week for gay men, which really stirred things up. It was discussed at great length and was
Education Nowadays
Education Nowadays David Spangler introduced education into the community and started the practice of winter classes, open to everyone. They evolved into sessions which could be anything people felt like offering, such as Sacred Dance,
How We Came to Live in Findhorn
How We Came to Live in Findhorn A friend who was decluttering his house gave us the book The Findhorn Garden, saying it was the right book for my wife Eveline and me. We read
Resource Persons
RESOURCE PERSONS Every few years the Findhorn Foundation organises a Resource Person Week to reconnect with and thank them for their work. After a gap of about five years, Mattie Porte organised a week
The Greatest Gift
THE GREATEST GIFT Findhorn came to my life in a very special way. I was 21 and studying Rudolf Steiner’s pedagogy in France. I fell in love, but it was not returned and I
The Original Garden
The Original Garden My involvement with the Original Garden began one freezing winter morning in 2009, at a meeting to discuss the deer fence. Posts and gates had already gone up, to some dismay and
Community Care
Community Care Looking after our own During the 80s, several people began the move to providing alternative therapies, remedies and a health food café to the public. A holistic health centre at Station House
