From Survival to Soul
What happens when an ecovillage famous around the world suddenly has to learn how to survive? What enables a community to survive profound disruption without losing its soul?
What happens when an ecovillage famous around the world suddenly has to learn how to survive? What enables a community to survive profound disruption without losing its soul?
Friends in NextGEN, the youth branch of the ecovillage network said to me that they don't want to see another shiny ecovillage video, presenting everything as being all right, but rather they would like to see the challenges of the community.
A brief summary of the week and exciting links to for your input to the imagining and inquiring.
What might the Findhorn Community look and feel like when we are living our deepest potential—individually, together, and in harmony with the Earth? This follows on from a session I held during the Community Gathering 2025 - a place to collate our collective imaginations.
It is not simply a community we live in; it is a living system where experiments unfold and light is sent outward. We are both testing grounds and signal fires.
This aspect of our Community’s history is complex, more so even than many others. Once again Eileen's words are so appropriate as we embark on the exploration of this particular Community Facet. Each one of
Click to view e-book West Moray is the area of Scotland in which Forres and Findhorn are situated. In this section we consider the natural environment of Moray, the history of Scotland and
Over the decades, the community was pioneering new ways of living. Now, many of those ideas have become mainstream. We experimented with wind turbines, solar panels, and eco-housing, and others have embraced and expanded on these concepts.
In essence the vision for the Community, birthed on the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park in 1962, is for it to be ‘a place where God’s work is done’. This is certainly what the four founders
Every moment is a celebration of the festival of living...