Single Mums Now
SINGLE MUMS NOW My name is Rossana and I’m a single mother of a beautiful little girl called Magdalene. Being a single mother here has posed some challenges in my experience, and also has a
Mothers
MOTHERS Three generations India, Zoe and Archie Mothers have at times felt isolated when they left work departments to look after babies, having lost the focus for the relationship of individual to
Mothers in the 70s
Mothers in the 70s Mothering, or parenting, was not seen as work in the 70s, so we took our babies with us to work, as I did to Publications in 1975. Two years later 11
Homesick
HOMESICK We did Family Experience week in 1980 when I was nine, and a year later my dad (Sandy Barr) asked us if we would like to come and live in Findhorn. We did,
The Woodhead Community
The Woodhead Community The Woodhead Community started on 1 April 1994. The founders, two families with young children, and an older man, met at Findhorn. Reg was over 70 when he came to Findhorn. As
Associate Membership
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP We first heard of Associate Membership of the Foundation when we were doing our Experience Week in 1980 and this rang a bell for both Diana and myself, that this was the way
You Are Not Going Without Me
ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP You Are Not Going Without Me In 1980 we had found The Findhorn Garden in our local bookshop and read it with fascination. Now Richard was proposing to visit Findhorn, so we all
The Start
THE START It was 1984. A group of us had been meeting, meditating, talking about getting a school going. At the time of the first concrete planning meeting, an early September evening, I had a
Moray Steiner School
Moray Steiner School In the early 1980s many young children in the community were approaching school age and parents began earnestly exploring education options, including a Steiner-inspired kindergarten that ran for several years. By 1984
Being A Family at Cluny
BEING A FAMILY AT CLUNY I first visited the community in 1979 and a year or two later returned with my two children for a family workshop at Newbold House. I decided to come for
