transThe Foundation presentsform an annual magazine 2020 EDITION

In this issue: New Guest Accommodation Essence of the Arts in Community Returns! Leading from the Core Programme Dorothy turns 100! Transformational Leadership Planetary Game of Transformation 2020 programme of workshops and events who we are The is an international living laboratory for transforming human consciousness u we welcome you to join the

ongoing exploration or however long you come, you will be part of this unique spiritual community, taking part in our daily life and practices. Our service is to provide transformational learning to people from around the world. To really serve, transformation must be a process that includes all inner and outer levels. Therefore our educational work engages people’s spiritual, personal, social and ecological dimensions.

We aspire to bring three core principles into everything we do:

The Findhorn Foundation The Park, Findhorn, findhorn.org IV36 3TZ, love inner co-creation Scottish Charity Number in action listening with nature [email protected] SC007233 Honouring our past, SHAPING OUR FUTURE happened many times I decided to say yes. Then I understood the meaning by Thomas Miller, Fundraising inner But it seemed a little crazy. I was not aware of my guidance that (my new listening that the Foundation was even considering house) was to be a cornerstone building new guest houses at that time. It turned out that Iris, my former housemate for something new. It was a who was holding awareness of Foundation symbol that our mode of living buildings, had also tuned into a vision for needed to change. The time had rebuilding the entire Park site. come to upgrade our members’ Iris soon found an architect, Tom Raymont, who had grown up in Findhorn accommodation and get rid and uses co-creative principles in his of the draughty, wasteful and work. Groups of meditators began to walk uneconomical caravans. They around the site of the seven bungalows, had served their purpose, but inviting input from the plants, the land now it was time for us to live and the non-physical partners of the place. They shared their inner listenings with in houses that reflect the Tom, who incorporated the attunement lifestyle we believe in. into his designs. A rhythm of , , sharing and integration emerged as we In the late 1960s, Eileen Caddy heard instructions in meditation to build seven Epilogue to Flight into Freedom and cedarwood bungalows on the site of the then-tiny Findhorn community. wove new forms. Beyond , 2002 Listening to the God within was the founding impulse that brought the original group together: took out a loan and built seven houses. The Plan The plan that evolved from this process like , political uncertainty Not long after the paint was dry, people They have survived decades beyond their includes five seed-shaped guest lodges and accelerating social changes are asking came from around the world, purchased the expected lifespan, and they are worn out. and two buildings with meeting, office us all: how can we build a future that is bungalows and launched the community Their non-sustainable design is no longer and work spaces. The -efficient, good for people, our planet and all the into a phase of rapid expansion. Peter appropriate as the community’s principle of eco-appropriate buildings will invite beings who share it? was able to pay off the loan and today the co-creation with nature has led us to become contemplation, connection with nature For decades, the Findhorn Foundation bungalows still stand where he placed them. a pioneer of the movement. and a sense of community. has answered this question with learning This kind of manifestation was common When I inwardly connect with the programmes. Now we are also trying to in the community’s early days. As people Design by Group Attunement essence of the emerging guest houses, answer it with bricks and mortar. listened within and acted on the guidance The emerging vision for new guest houses I feel an extraordinary sense of joy. I they sensed, the right materials and people sense sacred spaces that foster wholeness touched me while I was meditating to Find out more and be part manifested at exactly the right time. These prepare the space for our Co-Creative and connection between people and occurrences happened so often that the Conference in 2018. I sensed a communion with the other realms of life. of building the next step: community embraced the motto Expect clear request from the spiritual presences I sense places built to express love for all findhorn.org/transform a Miracle. that hold Findhorn to propose a fundraising life, places that can support people who are Now it is time to let these bungalows go. campaign for new guest houses. After this stepping into new possibilities. Challenges Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and 31 October 2020 - 22 January 2021 kiss the ground. Jelaluddin Rumi

Work is love in action is art is spirituality. Making things and sharing them unites individuality and community. We offer each other food, gifts and crafted objects.

We share emotion and meaning EEAC will be offered again from October through storytelling, movement, 2020 to January 2021. visual art and many other techniques. In EAC, both beginners and Following the intuitive flow of creation experienced artists can explore a variety in the present moment, we open to our of art forms and discover the playfulness inner selves and to spirit. and spiritual richness of creative flow. Arts and crafts and have been integral Sharing and reflection support discovery “I am passionate about the to the Findhorn community from the and depth in body, mind and soul. transformational power of art beginning. Well over 100 committed that enriches the lives of both artists now live locally, working in a practitioners and audiences, as wide variety of art forms including pottery, dance, singing, drawing, well as expanding the concept of painting, stained glass, storytelling, who can participate in art making.” weaving, sculpture, theatre and writing. SHARON TOOK-ZOZAYA, EAC Focaliser Started in 1994, Essence of the Arts in Community (EAC) is a three-month residential programme that integrates Young people aged 18-25 receive practice with a variety of art forms into a £1000 reduction! community life, along with participation in the Foundation’s service departments.

findhorn.org/programmes/essence-of-arts Dorothy turns

co-creation with nature We shape our future in partnership with the other beings, physical and non-physical, 100! that share this world with us.

“How we wish we could pass on to you humans something of the quality of joy! We cannot say much to you on what you do, orn in Guelph, Ontario, funded through a number of avenues. Those not knowing about choice, but we cannot Canada, Dorothy has dedicated sources are still in place but some are now her life to a deep enquiry into running out and her increasing care needs help but say something on how you do things spiritual matters. Whilst working means an increase in care costs. when we see you going around clogging up for the British Security Co-ordination from Since 1996 the Community Care your energy as if what you do is a drudgery. 1940 – 1945, she relocated from Canada Circle (CCC) has held a Community Care to the UK. After the war, staying on in Fund which, over the years, has assisted How can anything be done perfectly if there London, she met Peter and Eileen Caddy. Community members to remain in the is no free flow of energy or if the energy Their meeting, personal spiritual journeys Community when care at home was needed. and shared work-led to the founding of the The Community Care Fund is now seeking is discoloured by a foreign substance? It is Findhorn Foundation Community in 1962. to raise £3,000 per month for Dorothy, so like trying to do a washing when there is Dorothy left the Community in 1973 to that the support and care already established no water in the tap or only muddy water. travel, write and teach about connecting can continue to be provided in her own to the divine and to the intelligence of home. Joy is necessary. It is a natural quality of the nature, a committed engagement she only expression of life, coming straight from the relinquished in her very late 80’s! In 2009 To support Dorothy and this Source in creation. All life has it. It is the CCC initiative please go to: she returned to Scotland to settle back into response to Life itself, for life is perfect and the Community as one of our Elders. parkecovillagetrust.co.uk/2019/10/13/ The circle of care and support established we-support-dorothy when you are one with it, joy flows.” around her has evolved as her needs have or contact increased. She now receives 24/7 care and Sylvia Robertson, CCC's treasurer: companionship. To date, her care has been [email protected] Deva message recorded 1st May 1971 I love that I have been given the opportunity Planning and growing food I love the connection I love living with people to participate in this rich experiment of for the FF community with nature, here it's who are creating a creating a different world, more sustainable, is a passion and a joy! astonishing, it's beautiful. different way of living kinder to ourselves, to each other, and to Sometimes life here feels I love the power of co- together: seeking spiritual Nature. Being of service to an impulse bigger too full and complicated creation, the understanding connection, living in than myself and of impact to the wider and it can be hard to forge a of how we can create the harmony with nature, community of humans has given renewed new path. Connection with life that we want. I love connecting and working purpose to my life. I feel inspired by all the a wide variety of people the silent space that we together from the heart, programmes on offer, the amazing people from different countries have in the sanctuary, I striving for personal and who come here, the willingness of all to give and backgrounds makes love working with people planetary transformation. their unique gifts, by the beauty, the creativity everyday life stimulating. with joy and mindfulness. Sometimes it is challenging and by the unexpected! Here I am supporting There is also an openness to My challenge is to take for me to be surrounded by to be the best of myself. The accelerated pace get into deep, meaningful care of myself, accept the so many people every day, of growth I experience can sometimes be conversations and get to the other as they are and give but luckily there is always challenging, so I find self-care is essential... heart of the matter with space to my family and the sea to escape to. little fuss. not be absorbed by the sophie from france community life. is programme co-ordination luke from england rosanna from italy britta from germany is cullerne garden is services steward is leap co-ordinator focaliser faces of findhorn

Living in and serving in this community supports me each day to stretch into the fullness of my capacity and potential. Here, I feel invited to bring forth and weave together the different levels of my being, bringing me into greater wholeness. I feel inspired by all of the incredible people who I live, work, and play with here. Staff, guests, and visitors are constant mirrors for me, and each day I have the opportunity to remember anew my connection to something so much greater than myself. Even when tensions arise, I have a deep trust in our ability to stay in relationship and commitment to growing and transforming; which feels like a powerful force for positive change in the world today.

jamie from massachussettes, usa is learning steward Leading he challenges of our time call for a deeply rooted capacity to lead ourselves and others into meaningful from the Core Taction. From the very beginning, one of the guiding purposes of the FindhornFoundation by Gabi John, Programme Creation has been to bring forth world servers who draw from a place of wholeness and of purpose and alignment with the whole. alignment with spirit. This year, we present Leading from the Core, The structures of the programmes that a programme offering a deep, four-week have served this transformative training immersion into an exploration of leadership process have changed over the decades to as practised and embodied moment to meet the needs of and the people moment through individual expression and coming here. And though the names may spiritual alignment. have changed, these programmes always seek We see leadership as a process of to serve two purposes: fully bringing ourselves into our own • Immersing individuals from around the interconnectedness and service. In this world in the day-to-day embodiment of programme we will explore the leadership our core principles and practices through process as it moves from the inside out, daily life and activities; together creating recognising an integrated inner life as the the transformational field that we both foundation of positive personal impact in our contribute to and draw from. environments and communities. We focus on • Offering the principles of the Findhorn developing the unique capacity in each of us Foundation as tools and practices to people to move ourselves and others into meaningful who feel called to serve the world in their action that can be sustained in the complex, own projects and communities, from a place often challenging, world we live in today. I knew from my earliest days that nature was what I would do in my life. Working full time at Findhorn was an all-encompassing, irreplaceable ‘graduate school’ in shaping HOW I would do it. I am eternally grateful. Vance G Martin - President, the WILD Foundation and Wilderness Foundation Global. Living and working in the Findhorn Foundation and community taught me to hold my presence and deeply listen to inner and outer information in the midst of intense conflict. Findhorn is a learning center that supports individuals to find their deepest powers and learn to use them for the benefit of the world. Ana Rhodes - International organisational consultant and founder of Centro de Transformacion de Conflicto Humano.

findhorn.org/leading-from-the-core Building Bridges - CELEBRATING 10 YEARS FINDHORN OF WELCOMING DIVERSITY International centre for by Yvonne Cuneo, FICS

Brand Guidelines In 2009 the Findhorn Foundation committed to bringing a wider diversity was supercharged with enthusiasm, vitality supported social inclusion by hosting local care of people to join us in this pioneering experiment of living differently on this and fond Findhorn memories as 33 people experienced youth in the Youth Empowerment planet - in touch with ourselves, each other and the rest of nature in a more from many different FICS programmes met, Programme and adults with a learning networked and shared their passion. disability, autism or Aspergers in the CareFarm spirit-led way and Building Bridges was born. Building Bridges also responds to a variety of initiative. enquiries from people wanting to bring groups his commitment has developed in supporting professional people to find their to explore such themes as our spiritual roots, We celebrate the richness this several different directions: the ‘tribe’ in a business environment that can community building tools, renewable energy, business world, special interest often feel cold and purely profit-led, and to developing an ecovillage and to experience life diversity brings to our community. Tbespoke groups from all over the planet and replenish their spirits and motivation to serve in a spiritual community. We have welcomed social inclusion. a more expansive and holistic worldview. It young people from Taiwan, UK and Italy, Findhorn International Centre for Sus- is heartening to see people from businesses Chinese groups, an Integral Mondo tainability brings together and NGOs of all sizes Retreat, created a Wilderness Retreat and run 11 changemakers from all arrive feeling stressed and three-month programmes in a series of Youth professional fields to launch overwhelmed and leave just Empowerment Projects. ideas and actions which a few days later uplifted For the last four years The Park has also fics.findhorn.org support a regenerative and and keen to return annually compassionate world. It for their ‘Findhorn-fix’ to also supports their personal support their work in the sustainability, so important world. It’s also wonderful to and yet so often ignored in the see them relaxing tired brain urgency of our times. cells as they reconnect with From one programme the soil in Cullerne Garden, in 2010, the Findhorn enthusiastically clean up the International Forum on kitchen or wonder at the Sustainability , FICS has beauty of the Findhorn River. grown to nine programmes in 2019, including “Completely transformational on a personal, Water Security, an Eldest Daughter Retreat, professional and spiritual level. This is a place Systemic Risk, Climate Finance, Authentic oftolerance and acceptance which holds the Investor and Spirited Business. FICS’ newest essence of things. It’s been different from any programme, Leading from the Future, other training or workshop I’ve been part of exemplifies the quest to connect with sources of before.” insight, innovation, and inspiration. In November 2018 FICS held its first FICS has been hugely successful in London gathering for FICS alumni. The room

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BARBARA SWETINA of Sacred Dance SACRED HARMONY CHANTS at findhorn CHRISANDRA HARRIS 40 YEARS DANCES OF THE SILK ROAD

uman beings have worshipedPETER createdVALLANCE community. In the spaces between CELTIC DANCE INDIANthrough NIGHT communal dance for the dances there was a palpable bond growing at least 9000 years. Dances and between the individuals,LAURA and we SHANNON became one tunes move mysteriously across centuries and being as we danced.KOSTANTIS One night KOURMADIAS after the main continents, bringing people together to share session a few ofNIKOLAS us stayed ANGELOPOULOS on in the Hall and I spirit, connection, community, healing and remember us weavingTRADITIONAL a dance RITUAL together DANCE that had peace. In the late 1970s the Findhorn Foundation no steps and yet was a perfect Circle Dance.” became part of a movement re-vitalising Sacred Laura Shannon’s book String of Pearls tells the Dance in the West, and for 40 yearsFESTIVAL it has offered ORCHESTRA history & CHOIR of Sacred WITH Dance at Findhorn in the voices weekly practice, workshops, teacherBILL training HENDERSON and of & theSHEILA people PETTIT who made it. All proceeds from the festivals supporting sacred dancers in Moray and book go to the Sacred Dance Festival Bursary all over the world. KATE & RORY O’CONNELL Fund, to help future dancers come to the annual Peter Vallance remembersBILL HENDERSON a 1985 workshop: festival andSUSANNE help spread ANDERS the seeds BARTHOLOMÄI of Sacred Dance “My most importantLIVE learning MUSIC was that dance ever more widely. DANCE MEDITATION findhorn.org/dancefestival alessandro from london, uk assets operations

“Supposing we had been told right at the beginning what the community was going to develop into? We wouldn’t have believed it. We would have said, Impossible. So one is just given a bit at a time; and that leads on to the importance of living in the moment, in the now. Not thinking at all about the past or the future love in action but living in the now; taking one step at a time Everything we do, we aim to do with love. and finishing off to perfection one job at a time.” Peter Caddy If it's right for one, it's right all round. 1975 The Planetary Game Engaging with the emerging future Easter 2020

Game purpose: We intend to settle into the grace and strength of our essential identity, step While the box and original Games larger than our own. into whole-hearted engagement with the Soul of the World and the Soul of provide an intimate experience with one The Easter 2020 Planetary Game will be to six players, the Planetary Game allows led by co-developers and senior trainers , and activate new patterns of relationship that serve the Humanity whole up to 100 to work creatively together to Joy Drake, Kathy Tyler, Mary Inglis, and Earth community. bring insight, healing and direction to areas Judy McAllister, who each bring over 40 of both collective and personal concern. years of commitment and partnership onceived by Joy Drake in 1976, the what was then called the ‘Big Game’ for It amplifies both personal and collective with one another and the Game Deva to Game of Transformation emerged 20 people as part of an Art of Synthesis issues, highlights strengths and resources, this event, along with experienced guides as she followed a flow of inspiration workshop focalised by Joy and Mary Inglis reflects limiting patterns and points to new from the InnerLinks faculty. Come and add generated by her desire to expand her in June of 1978. That same year Kathy Tyler directions. It allows the players to connect your presence as an active blessing and inner life and share her knowledge of joined Joy as the game was refined, the with and honour their individual paths and together, with grace, wisdom and humour, community building and service using first 5-player circular boards were made, contributions within the larger whole, while we will explore what is seeking to birth and spiritual principles and symbols. Using her and training started for Game Guides. The also engaging with collective issues and unfold in each of us individually, in humanity own life as a crucible of experience she Transformation Box Game, launched in challenges in today’s world. and in the earth. was inspired to create a unique learning 1987, fulfilled the vision of a transformational The Planetary Game offers wisdom at This event is held in partnership with environment that enabled participants to experience created, rooted and fertilised in far more than just the personal level. Its InnerLinks. accelerate changes in their lives through the Findhorn Foundation that could spread effectiveness depends on our capacity findhorn.org/programmes/planetary-game increased personal awareness and spiritual world-wide. The ‘Game in a Box’ is now to recognise ourselves in one another understanding. available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, and to see the world within ourselves and The Planetary Game was part of Joy’s German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian ourselves within the world. It requires us vision from the very beginning – in fact, and Spanish, and there are thousands of to take responsibility for being co-creative the first public offering of the Game was trained facilitators around the world. participants in the wellbeing of a wholeness Building A Planetary a Village of Light b

n a time of increasing disruption and uncertainty, the call for the Findhorn Foundation to be a beacon of hope, light and new possibilities for our planet is stronger than ever. We are stepping up with a five- yearI vision to build new living, work and nature spaces that support an emergent human consciousness. Tom Raymont of Arboreal Architecture, an award-winning eco-architect who grew up in the Findhorn community, partnered with community members to craft the vision. The building designs that emerged through consultation, group and nature Treetops connection practices are an expression of our core spiritual principles. The Seed Lodges The Nautilus Exemplifying sustainable best practices, high quality natural materials, innovative

ecological features and expert craftsmanship, our new designs flow and emerge out of 

the natural world.  Your support will help move our work to   Seed Lodge  the higher level our planet is calling for. Seed Lodge Our first goal:

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INTERVIEW WITH to several kinds of unseen beings in the area. the future is to move from doing less harm I’ve also used my dreams to design; asking to doing good. In architecture that’s led for guidance from the Findhorn and to moving from sustainable buildings to Tom Raymont Landscape Angel as I’m falling asleep, and regenerative design, where we try, with

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animals that live within them.  plant and animal life on the Seedsite? Lodge  We try to understand the landscape first and How does the ScottishSeed Lodgeweather the buildings second, which seems obvious, influence the designs? but most architects design the buildings first First, the orientation, size and shape of and then decorate them with landscaping. windows must respond to the angles of the OnSeed a Lodgepractical level it means removing as sun at different times of year. It’s an essential few plants and trees as possible, only doing principle of regenerative design to use the heat so when we can demonstrate that it’s for the of the sun rather than other fuel but we also by Dominique Didinal, Fundraising wider benefit of the systems of other plants don’t want to overheat in summer which could and animals, including people. happen even in Scotland! Less obviously, the exposure and wind of a seaside location must The buildings, gardens and trees on How will the buildings aid the inner be considered. I think the trees are advising us om Raymont, Director the site were developed over 50 years transformation process? Seed Lodge of Arboreal Architects, arrived to hunker down and not build too tall. Hence ago. How do you honour the past? We are exploring how the spaces themselves at Findhorn with his family the buildings are low, curved and stable. We honour them by seeing value in them: can facilitateSeed living Lodge the Findhorn Foundation Tas a 12-year-old boy and grew up here value to people, to living systems and intrinsic and community ideals of inner listening, And how does this project aim to in community. He left at age 19 to study value in themselves. That is perhaps easiest to community and co-creation with nature. address climate breakdown? architecture. Arboreal have been engaged Pseeark in the gardens but even the old buildings  Living quite closely with a few other people There are three fundamental ways in which by the Foundation to create designs for Sanctuary  can be valued in this way. We value them by will encourage sharing and connecting. buildings contribute to climate change five new guest houses as well as brand new not wasting them, by deconstructing them Simplicity will strip away the distractions (circumvention). The most familiar one office and meeting room spaces. carefully (the word demolition is banned in and conveniences that usuallyDelphi surround us. is the energy and carbon emissions used our practice!) and looking for ways materials Bringing plants into the buildings, carefully when living in and maintaining a building What was it like to grow up in the can be reused, donated, sold or recycled. locating windows that look out into the (called operational carbon), the second is Findhorn Community? avan gardens and using skylights that show the the embodied carbon from the energy used As a teenager looking for my identity How did you work with the community passing weather and seasons will aid inner to create the building materials, and the last and values, the context of the Findhorn and its core principles in the design Original Car contemplation and co-creation with nature. are the emissions caused from construction Foundation and its community was very process? Joanie’s waste. The goal for this project is to build freeing. I could explore my identity and We’re still at an early stage in the design How does building the future resonate these buildings with no net carbon emissions interests within a wider, broader group of process.The We’ve engaged with Findhorn with the future of the planet and Wave in the deconstruction of the old, the people than just my school or family, and this Foundation co-workers and we will move climate change? construction of the new and in their use. allowed me to flourish. It also enabled me to into a wider consultation process with the The sustainable design movement has been That is a high ambition as very few buildings connect with George Ripley, the architect community as the designs become ready to go very valuable but we are now realising that have achieved that standard. of the Universal Hall. He gave me his old through the local planning process. I joined doing less harm is not a satisfactory position. drawing board and invited me to help him community meditations around the project, If that was our highest intention in a personal If you would like to see more about the designs design a project, so I got the chance to work spent time connecting to each of the trees, relationshipThe someone probably wouldn’t and to donate to the project, please visit with and learn from a mentor. stayed in the current chalets, and tuned in stickNautilus around for long! The challenge for findhorn.org/transform

Cornerstone Where We Are » The Findhorn Foundation has grown organically as people have responded to the spiritual impulse that brought it into being. Currently four main sites host our participants, workshops and events. The Foundation runs a retreat house on the sacred island of Iona, a historic Iona destination of pilgrimage for 1400 years. Guests can visit the local Abbey and enjoy the island’s rugged hills, white beaches and wild solitude. findhorn.org/iona

Our Cluny Hill site is a former Victorian spa hotel set amid forested hills in the historic town of . Cluny Hill

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Within sight of Iona, the tiny island of Erraid is home Our Park site, five miles away to a vibrant community of the Findhorn Foundation from Cluny Hill and near the which hosts guests all year to experience working or village of Findhorn, lies within spiritual retreats, or simply to enjoy the island’s stillness a duneland ecovillage. and raw, wild beauty. erraid.com Erraid Essential Findhorn Essential Findhorn See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events

Experience Week Findhorn Spiritual Practice Leap Programme ceramics methods, you will learn practical 7 days | £810 | £635 | £510 7 days | £950 | £710 | £530 2 to 6+ months techniques and skills, how to embody sources An introduction to the essence of the Findhorn Prerequisite: Experience Week Prerequisite: at least 3 months of LCG of inspiration into expression through clay, Foundation and the spiritual community and Spend time away from your ordinary life to The next step after LCG, Leap offers the and deepen your relationship with the four ecovillage that it sits within, Experience Week reconnect with the spirit that inhabits the centre opportunity to live, work and learn in the elements, community, and the world of kiln-fired also serves as a prerequisite to many other of life and our highest selves. Our Spiritual Foundation for an extended period of time pottery-making. findhorn.org/workshops Foundation programmes. It runs nearly every Practice Weeks can include reflection, meditation, as a learning member of a team, and can week of the year. Special weeks are offered in nature immersion and community service. serve as the bedrock for eventually Celtic Festival - Imbolc - on Erraid French, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese Each week is focused on a different theme, becoming a member of staff. 1 week | 1 February | £550 | £350 | £250 and Spanish. Special-interest Experience Weeks for example Developing a Spiritual Practice, findhorn.org/programmes/leap Imbolc is the time of year when the Celtic are offered: Ecovillage, Music, Family, Family Introduction to Meditation, Mindfulness, Living goddess Bride returns, representing the Follow On, Youth, LGBT+, Hinterland, and Intuitively, Wild Food and Herbs, , Leading from the Core reawakening of the life force after winter. We Skills for Sustainable Living. Wild Nature, Clay, Co-Creation with Nature 4 weeks | £2590 | £2140 | £1950 gently nurture the emerging light and the fiery findhorn.org/programmes/experienceweek and Primal Painting. Optional 2 week follow-on £660 | £480 | £390 energy that has lain quiet within us during the findhorn.org/spiritual-retreats Prerequisites: Experience Week and an winter months. Being in Community application and interview process. Beyond Smart 7 days | £810 | £635 | £510 Spiritual Deepening: Living This year, we are introducing a new programme Prerequisite: Experience Week from Purpose & Soul Online that responds to the current challenges of 3 days | 7 February | £75 | £100 | £150 A great next step after Experience Week that 4 weeks | £2510 | £2070 | £1890 our world today by exploring the principles of offers more time and space to integrate your Prerequisite: Experience Week spiritual and embodied leadership as practised An online introduction to the basic toolkit experience of the Findhorn Foundation. Also Step back from everyday life and immerse in our daily work. This four-week programme of the Integral City model. This course is for an attractive option to reconnect with the yourself in the transformational field of is for individuals who are ready to translate urbanpractitioners as well as village elders, community when you want to return. Runs the Findhorn Foundation and community. their personal transformational process into the city staff, regional developers and municipal nearly every week of the year. Our community has a unique capacity to wider world, either in their own communities agencies (including fire, police, healthcare, findhorn.org/programmes/being-in-community hold you with wisdom and deep empathy as or as future staff of the Findhorn Foundation. education, emergency response, justice). you open to new possibilities in your life. An optional two-week follow-on is offered to findhorncollege.org Service Weeks Includes guided inner work, meditation, deepen and integrate the experience. 7 days | £390 - £170 journaling, mindfulness practice, expressing findhorn.org/leading-from-the-core Prerequisite: Experience Week love through service, a silent retreat, creative March / April An affordable opportunity to come lend a hand expression and body-based practices. findhorn.org/programmes/spiritual-deepening Experience Weeks | 14 Mar & 4, 18, & 25 Apr while giving yourself the gift of practising love Ecovillage Experience Week | 7 Mar in action in a kitchen, garden, homecare or January / February Living in Community Guest Family Experience Week | 4 Apr maintenance department. Price covers food, Experience Week in French | 4 Apr accommodation and fees. The week includes Programme (LCG) Experience Weeks | 1w | 4, 18 Jan & 8, 29 Feb 4-week segments | £900 – £490 Being in Community | 1w | 15 February Being in Community | 1w 7 March & 4, 18 Apr personal sharings and is a good way to meet Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG): people living here. Price dependent on number of segments completed. Service Week: A Gift to Cluny: Spring Cleaning Celebration | 1w | 25 January 4w 7, 14, 21, 28 Mar & 4, 18, 25 Apr findhorn.org/service-weeks Prerequisites, Option A : Being in Community or Findhorn Spiritual Practice Weeks: Co-Creation Service Week or Spiritual Practice Week Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG): 4w | 4, 11, 18, 25 Jan and 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Feb with Nature | 21 March Prerequisites, Option B : Spiritual Deepening or Developing a Spiritual Practice | 25 Apr Learning English in Community Erraid: Love in Action Weeks / Retreat Weeks: Iona Spiritual Retreats: Silent Retreat 1w 4 Apr A deeper, month-long (or longer) exploration of 1w | 11, 18, 25 Jan & 1, 15, 22, 29 Feb Erraid Celtic Festival Weeks: Easter Retreat 1w 11 Apr community life within the Findhorn Foundation Spiritual Retreat in French 1w 25 Apr and community. Begin by clarifying your purpose Imbolc 1 February | Beltane 25 April and end with a personal review to support you Erraid: Love in Action Weeks to integrate your experiences and explore your The Way of Clay - An Alchemical Journey Retreat Weeks: 7, 14, 28 Mar & 4, 11, 18, 25 Apr next steps. LCG Starts almost every Saturday. 2 weeks | 18 January | £1770 | £1400 | £1170 Erraid Celtic Festival Weeks: Ostara/Spring findhorn.org/programmes/living-in- A two-week personal journey into the mystery, Equinox 14 Mar | Beltane 25 Apr community-guest simplicity and beauty of clay. Awakening ancestral memories while using contemporary Essential Findhorn Essential Findhorn See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events

Living your Life Purpose Eldest Daughter Retreat Looking Back, Moving Forward Silent Retreat on Iona 1 week | 7 Mar | £1150 | £870 | £720 For you, your sister, your wife, your mother A Dance of Awareness Workshop 1 week | 4 April | £700 | £570 | £470 This workshop provides an immersive and 4 days | 14 March | £1095 | £845 | £595 1 week | 28 March | £1110 | £840 | £690 Are you longing for a week of silence within transformational space to go within, and to Now in its fourth year! Connect with what Dance your way through a dynamic movement a supportive communal environment on a intentionally give power and attention to the drives you, allowing yourself to become more journey designed to explore developmental stunningly beautiful and powerful ancient intuitive promptings of your soul. Create a conscious of your eldest daughter patterns, and themes from early childhood. By revisiting island? Our Silent Retreat on the magical deeper connection to yourself and others and to ultimately regain a greater freedom of choice. imprints from your formative years, you can Scottish island of Iona offers you the your own purpose-driven map and personalised fics.findhorn.org let go of self-limiting patterns from the past, spaciousness to be. toolkit to support the highest and fullest expand your sense of who you truly are and expression of who you really are. Findhorn Spiritual Practice explore more authentic and nourishing Easter Retreat on Iona Co-Creation with Nature ways of relating to others. 1 week | 11 April | £600 | £470 | £370 Game of Transformation (4 days) 1 week | 21 March | £950 | £710 | £530 Experience Easter week on the holy island 4 days | 7 March | £830 | £660 | £520 Nature is all around us and deep inside. We Spiritual Activism of Iona. We will spend time in meditation and Centred around a circular board symbolising each have our own unique connection with Leadership as Service explore together what Easter means to each each player's world, this original, more complex the natural world and with the beauty of this 6 days | 28 March | £1090 | £800 | £670 of us. There will be opportunities to join Easter version of the Transformation Game® offers a planet. Throughout the week we will explore the Challenging preconceived ideas, drawing services at Iona Abbey and the Parish church. playful yet meaningful way of understanding and interconnected web of life. We will be embraced from a diversity of traditions and exploring We will also have the chance to visit and transforming key life issues. This workshop is a by the four elements while opening to the a number of themes - this workshop plants meditate in sacred places in nature. powerful springboard for spiritual growth and nature of self. seeds of an engaged, effective and fulfilling development, valuable at any stage of your life life of spiritual activism. Learn to deepen your The Planetary Game journey. findhorn.org/workshops The Art of Inquiry vision and understanding of your contribution Engaging with the Emerging Future 1 week | 21 March | £1150 | £870 | £720 to world change and how to nourish yourself 1 week | 11 April | £1510 | £1200 | £990 Learning English in Community Learn how to detect and disengage from the with a spiritually resourced life. The Planetary Game is a large-scale version of 1 month | 7 March | £2,800 | £2,500 | £2,250 inner critic in relation to the spiritual journey the Game of Transformation. Involving up to 100 A four-week residential course that integrates and how to be present with tabooed emotions Transformation Game® participants in five playing areas. It is focused learning English with personal development in spiritual work - neither overcoming nor acting Facilitators Training - in German around a life-size Game layout on the floor and in our community context. For guests with out so-called ‘negative’ emotions. This retreat 2 weeks | 28 Mar | £2,625 | £2,425 | £2,240 has been described as a form of sacred theatre. advanced beginner or intermediate level will build your capacity to listen compassionately Participants who successfully complete the Come and play, both for your personal growth English. findhorncollege.org without judgement to all parts of yourself and training will be accredited as Transformation and for humanity, by offering your presence, others. Game® Facilitators. This gives you permission choices and actions as a blessing for the Earth. Time to Stop! The Gift of Retreat to use the extended game guide manual. 1 week | 7 Mar | £1090 | £800 | £630 The Art of Inquiry Intro Option In addition, you can offer and perform A Planetary Game Integration Retreat On this retreat the invitation is to stop. To be 2 days | 21 March | £530 | £410 | £300 game workshops and use the logo and the 4 days | 18 Apr | £510 | £400 | £290 well held with plenty of time on your own, daily In these two days you will learn accurate and name Transformation Game® or Game of A unique opportunity for you to let your Planetary opportunities to check in as a group, and join concrete ways of detecting and disengaging Transformation - for advertising purposes. Game experience settle and deepen, and to in some community activities. Give yourself the from the inner critic. findhorncollege.org explore your next steps with the insights and gift of time spent in the natural surroundings directions that have emerged for you. and transformational field of the Findhorn Courageous Conversations Beyond Smart online Foundation’s Park site. 2d | 28 Mar | £TBC 3 days | 3 April | £75 | £100 | £150 Transformation Game® Conflicting opinions can trigger situations many See 7 February. findhorncollege.org Advanced Training Celtic Festival - Ostara/Spring Equinox of us find difficult to manage. You will explore 5 days | 19 April | £850 | £750 | £690 on Erraid key skills, tools and mindsets to handle these Your Spiritual Health Programme Explore a deeper layering of yourself and of 1 week | 14 March | £550 | £350 | £250 conversations in a positive way. In partnership Living a Life of Compassion and the Transformation Game® in the presence of Spring Equinox is the time when the days are with the Social Enterprise Academy. For more Personal Fulfilment the Game’s founders. In this residential advanced becoming longer and warmer. Everything in information please contact 3 days | 4 April | £690 | £510 | £420 training, you can expect to deepen your nature is coming alive. As the natural world [email protected] Grounded in good science and inspired by the sensitivity to the presence of the Game Deva surges into spring, so we step into our own best in spirituality, Your Spiritual Health will help and to expand your partnership with it, as well life force and reach out for what we want in you to boost your emotional wellbeing, improve as refine your facilitation, processing skills and ourselves and our lives. your physical and mental health, and connect purpose work. Prerequisite: Transformation with the good things in life. 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Transformation Game® This week will be an inspiring and reflective Radical Gratitude Awakening Retreat your energy, so that we can continue the work Solo Training oasis that will support you in developing and/or with Will Pye towards a sustainable financial system that 2.5 days | 25 April | £525 | £450 | £395 deepening your personal spiritual practice. This 1 week | 2 May | £850 - £550 serves people and the Earth. This course will equip you with the skills and programme is suitable for everyone, whether you A week of meditation, guided enquiry and fics.findhorn.org knowledge to facilitate a Solo Transformation have a spiritual practice already or whether you powerfully transformative psycho-spiritual Game with individual clients as well as engage are still discovering your unique path. exercises designed to facilitate your next steps A Journey into the Labyrinth on Iona your own growth and development both of healing, transformation and awakening. 1 week | 23 May | £700 | £570 | £470 personally and professionally. Includes practice Learn simple but powerful practices to allow During this exploration we will co-create an sessions, discussion, and exploration of more happiness and joy, release old patterns ephemeral labyrinth through listening to the squares as well as opportunities to deepen your May / June and alchemise problems, pain and difficulty into land, ourselves and one another. Through a processing skills. Prerequisite: Transformation possibility and opportunity. process of action and reflection, personal insight Game® Facilitators Training. findhorncollege.org Experience Weeks | 9, 16, 30 May & 6, 13, 20 June and skills, as well as creative expression, you Hinterland Experience Week | 2 May Game of Transformation (7 days) will learn how to share the labyrinth with others. Transformation Game® Ecovillage Experience Week | 23 May 1 week | 16 May | £1150 | £870 | £720 This retreat is open only to those who identify Facilitators Training Experience Week in Portuguese | 27 June See 7 March (4 & 7 days have same description). as women. 2 weeks | 25 Apr | £2,625 | £2,425 | £2,240 Music Experience Week | 27 June findhorncollege.org Would you like to offer Transformation Game Being in Community | 1w | 23 May & 6, 20 Jun Learning English in Community workshops professionally? This professional Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG): Transformation Game® 1 month | 23 May | £2,800 | £2,500 | £2,250 course is an exciting opportunity to interact more 4 weeks | 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 May & 6, 13, 20 , 27 Jun Facilitators Training (in French) A four-week residential course that integrates deeply with the Transformation box Game. It Service Weeks: In Perfect Timing - Gardening at 2 weeks | 16 May | £650 | £520 | £420 learning English with personal development in gives you a thorough training in the use of the Cullerne | 2 May See 25 April. findhorncollege.org our community context. For advanced beginners advanced rules in the Facilitators Manual. You In Tune with Nature: Springtime Abundance in or intermediate English. findhorncollege.org will have many opportunities to practise and Cluny Garden | 9 May Transformational Leadership watch facilitation in small supervised sessions. Cullerne Gardening Skills Week | 16 May 3 days | 17 May Findhorn Spiritual Practice findhorncollege.org Findhorn Spiritual Practice Weeks: A transformational journey that will strengthen Wild Food and Herbs Wild Food and Herbs | 30 May your leadership practice and clarify and develop 1 week | 30 May | £950 | £710 | £530 Spiritual Retreat (French) on Iona Wild Nature | 13 June your personal impact in a changing world. Do you want to get in touch with nature in a 1 week | 25 April | £650 | £520 | £420 An Introduction to Meditation | 27 June Comprises two 3-day group sessions spanning practical way? Learn to identify herbs, forage During this week, you will have the opportunity nine months, including online coaching and and prepare wild food? Come experience wild to focus on your inner life and enjoy the natural Iona Spiritual Retreat Weeks: A Journey into the Labyrinth 23 May master classes. food as an experiential and embodied spiritual beauty of this sacred island, and to find findhorn.org/transformational-leadership practice in the Findhorn Foundation. inspiration and peace. This retreat is an invitation Gardening through Attunement | 6 Jun to reflect on your life and how you move forward Week of Spiritual and Personal Renewal (in Spanish) | 13 Jun Purposeful Memoir as a Path Animal Communication and Nature into the future. One option will be to play the to a Thriving Future Connection Level 1 Transformation Game®. Spiritual Retreat (inJapanese) | 20 Jun Transformation in Retreat | 27 Jun 7 days | 23 May | £1150 | £870 | £720 7 days | 30 May | £1190 | £910 | £760 In a safe circle of kindred spirits, under the Rediscover your innate ability to communicate Celtic Festival - Beltane Erraid: Love in Action Weeks | Retreat Weeks: guidance of a wise teacher, use the elemental with animals, plants and the others with whom on Erraid 1w 2, 16, 23, 30 May & 6, 13, 20 June techniques of purposeful memoir as a path for we share this planet, while immersing yourself 1 week | 25 April | £550 | £350 | £250 Erraid Celtic Festival Weeks: Lithia - Summer exploring the past, understanding the present, in the beautiful landscape of the Moray coast. A festival for friends and for lovers – for Solstice 20 June. and envisioning the thriving future you want to Held within the Findhorn community, this joining the male and female energies live into - both individually and as a member of workshop will provide you with the tools you together and for honouring that union. Awakening into your Sacred Self the Earth community. need to help you access your own telepathic Beltane marks the arrival of summer. 1 week | 2 May | £1150 | £870 | £720 communication abilities. Passion, fertility, creativity and sexuality We are being activated and asked to step up The Authentic Investor are celebrated. It is a special time for and into our deep capacities and knowing. 4 days | 23 May Guidance for Life clearing out the old and inviting the new This retreat is designed to empower your own £1275 financial institutions, companies Opening to Higher Intelligence into our lives. direct soul connection to the sacred self. An £925 NGOs / civil society organisations through the Subtle Realms opportunity to translate your inner spiritual £830 individuals 7 days | 30 May | £1150 | £870 | £720 Findhorn Spiritual Practice experiences into an outer reality, manifest For those working in investment or finance - Inner guidance is available to us all through Developing a Spiritual Practice your soul purpose, and offer your divine light rediscover that the authenticity and the values cultivating a close relationship with higher 1 week | 25 April | £950 | £710 | £530 to the world. that inspire you are the key to replenishing intelligence in the non-physical realms of reality. Essential Findhorn Essential Findhorn See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events

In this workshop, we will open ourselves to Week of Spiritual and Personal Renewal Game of Transformation (4 days) Deepen your Nature Connection on Iona | 11 Jul inner information and we will learn more of (Spanish) on Iona 4 days | 27 June | £830 | £660 | £520 Space for the Heart | 25 July our own subtle nature, exploring and healing 1 week | 13 June | £650 | £520 | £420 See 7 March. findhorncollege.org Creative Retreat | 1 August those inner patterns and blockages which Come and immerse yourself in seven days of Summer Retreat Weeks | 18 Jul & 8, 15, 22, 29 Aug tend to prevent clear and fluid access. spiritual retreat, where you can take a breath Transformation in Retreat on Iona Erraid: Love in Action Weeks | Retreat Weeks: from your daily life, deepen your inner practice, 7 days | 27 June | £700 | £570 | £470 15, 22, 29 August Wilderness Retreat enjoy the silence, reflect, walk, and let yourself Through playing the Transformation Game® 6 days | 30 May | £1390 | £900 | £750 be nurtured by nature. We will share simple you can become more aware both of your Festival of Sacred Dance, Music & Song With the world-renowned coastal Findhorn practices of contemplation, personal self-inquiry personal strengths and of the limitations you 1 week | 4 July | £1150 | £880 | £730 ecovillage and spiritual community as our and sacred songs, and we’ll explore the island, place on yourself. It is a powerful interactive tool, The Festival celebrates the transformative basecamp, this 5-day retreat is a break from enjoying its healing of the soul. offering a stimulating, supportive and informative and healing power of Sacred Circle Dance and busyness combining an immersion in, and group setting in which openness, cooperation this year the week features mainly traditional exploration of, the beauty of Scottish mountain, Findhorn Spiritual Practice - Wild Nature and sharing are encouraged. There will be plenty dances from some of the countries along forest, river and sea and opportunities to reflect 1 week | 13 June | £950 | £710 | £530 of free time to explore Iona. the old Silk Road. This is also a celebration of on how to heal our relationships with the We will explore our relationship with the wilder cultures and of ancient links across continents, natural world at personal and social levels. places around us – and within us – through Findhorn Spiritual Practice a recognition of how we can share ourselves observation, contemplation, meditation, ritual An Introduction to Meditation through dance and music. Ecovillage Design Education and the hands-on experience of conservation 1 week | 27 June | £950 | £710 | £530 4 weeks | 6 June | £2700 | £2450 | £2175 of the land. An opportunity to connect with This week will be an inspiring and reflective The Healing Power of Nature Ecovillage Design Education will take you the sweeping beauty of Findhorn’s Scottish oasis that will support you in developing and/ Co-creating with the Plant Kingdom on a unique journey through the interwoven Highland setting: the dunes, forest and sea. or deepening your meditative practice. This 1 week | 4 July | £1150 | £880 | £720 dimensions of sustainability: broadly these are Spiritual Retreat (Japanese) on Iona spiritual practice week is suitable for everyone, This week is for anyone who would like to social, ecological, economic and worldview. 1 week | 20 June | £650 | £520 | £420 whether you are new to meditation or more explore and deepen their connection with the Elements within these dimensions provide a Would you like to put aside your everyday life experienced. plant kingdom and the healing power - and comprehensive overview of the issues and for a week and connect with your true self while conscious intelligence - of nature. As well as approaches that underpin successful projects having a conversation with yourself and nature being deeply experiential, it offers practical aiming towards regeneration, sustainability, in a beautiful and ancient place, right by the July / August tools and skills to benefit you, your family, transition, or developing . sea? Let's feel the breath of the earth together Experience Weeks | 4, 11, 18, 25 July friends, your community and the planet. Certified by Gaia Education. on the powerful, sacred island of Iona on the & 8, 15, 22, 29 August findhorncollege.org west coast of Scotland. Family Experience Week | 18 July Spiritual Retreat: Experience Week in German | 8 August Co-create a new ‘I’ on Iona Gardening through Attunement on Iona Celtic Festival: Lithia - Summer Solstice Experience Week in Italian | 18 July 1 week | 4 July | £700 | £570 | £470 1 week | 6 June | £600 | £570 | £470 on Erraid Experience Week in French | 25 July Immerse yourself in seven days of spiritual This is an opportunity to enjoy the magical 1 week | 20 Jun | £550 | £350 | £250 Ecovillage Experience Week | 1 August retreat - to press pause in your life and consider: Isle of Iona and practise co-creation with the As the wheel turns towards winter we join Family Experience Week | 1 August Are you taking time in nature to listen to that subtle energy consciousness of air, land, sea, with others to celebrate light and life. This is a Youth Experience Week | 1 August small, wise voice within? Would you say your rocks and plants through attunement and wonderful time to enjoy the long summer nights Family Experience Week Follow-On | 8 Aug daily life is love in action? Let nature and the inner listening. We will work together to and beautiful sunsets amidst some of the most Experience Week in Spanish | 22 Aug peace of Iona help you co-create the You that prepare Traigh Bhan’s beautiful flower breathtaking landscapes on the west coast of Experience Week in Japanese | 29 Aug you choose. Scotland. and vegetable gardens for spring. Being in Community (BIC) | 4, 11, Jul & 1, 8, 22, 29 Aug Horses, Sense and Soul Being in Community Italian | 25 July Deepen your Nature Connection Leading Change in the Anthropocene A Spiritual Adventure Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG): on Iona 3 days | 6 June | £TBD 5 days | 22 June | £1290 | £1020 | £870 4w | 4, 11, 18, 25 July & 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 August 1 week | 11 July | £700 | £570 | £470 Current environmental change has been likened Horses have evolved a high energetic Findhorn Spiritual Practice Spiritual Weeks: Take a week to bask in nature’s healing gifts to a mass extinction event and the beginning of sensitivity to keep themselves safe, making Permaculture | 18 July of sun, sea, earth and wind. We invite you to a new geological epoch. Learn new leadership them extraordinarily accurate ‘mirrors’ and Living Intuitively | 25 July experience the sacredness of all life in gently skills and strategies that are required to adapt 'amplifiers' of internal processes: emotional Practice your Spirituality (French) | 1 August guided meditative walks, reconnection with to this reality. In partnership with the Social charge, intention, presence. We guide Mindfulness | 15 August the beauty and healing powers of nature, and Enterprise Academy. transformational explorations, for those with any Iona Spiritual Retreat Weeks: in the relaxation and enjoyment of the simplicity [email protected] level of experience or none. Co-create a new ‘I’ | 4 July of island life. Essential Findhorn Essential Findhorn See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events

Living your Life Purpose and SoulCollage®. The workshop invites you Findhorn Spiritual Practice Rediscover your innate ability to communicate 1 week | 11 July | £1150 | £870 | £720 to access a new, vibrant self-awareness and Practice your Spirituality (French) with animals, plants and others with whom to step forward as an ‘uplifter’ with a wise 1 week | 1 August | £950 | £710 | £530 we share this planet, while immersing yourself Findhorn International Forum and open heart, serving the calling of these Learn new tools and develop a range of in the beautiful landscape of the Moray coast. on Sustainability (FIFS) times and being someone who adds to the personal and spiritual development skills that Held within the Findhorn community, this 5 days | 12 July light of the world. you can integrate into everyday life. Explore workshop will provide you with the tools you £1450 Corporate / for-profit organisation meditation and other exercises and, by following need to help you access your own telepathic £1050 NGO / not-for-profit organisation Creative Communication our founding principles, approach ordinary communication abilities. £950 Individual Communication course for speakers activities in a conscious manner that gives way Participant-led with a flexible structure and an of other languages to presence, creativity and joy. There will be an Co-creation with Crystals for Healing emergent agenda, this is a superb opportunity 3 weeks | 25 July | £1700 | £1590 | £1475 opportunity to play the Transformation Game®. 1 week | 15 August | £1150 | £870 | £720 to empower your response to the sustainability While practising our English creatively, we’ll also At this time of environmental stress, humanity crisis. Meet yourself in a new way, step back, explore ourselves on a deeper level, focusing Music and Consciousness has a responsibility to work cooperatively with replenish, meet others in the sustainability on conscious communication and reflection 1 week | 1 Aug | £1150 | £870 | £720 nature. As well as learning the basics of working arena, hatch projects - and all at a venue practices. An opportunity to collaborate with This workshop will take you beyond with the mineral kingdom, you’ll experience how one participant calls ‘a vigorous and thriving people from all over the world, the course offers experiencing music merely as entertainment, to respectfully attune to the crystals, the subtle research centre for the future of the world’. music, poetry, arts and crafts, creative writing to engaging in its deeper mystery and power realms, and nature’s intelligence, and how to be fics.findhorn.org and storytelling. For those with pre-intermediate of transcendence. When you take time to truly of service in co-creating a better world for all. and intermediate English levels. explore sound and immerse yourself in its Summer Retreat Weeks on Iona findhorncollege.org subtleties, colours, textures and range, new Embracing Change 1 week | 18 July and 8, 15, 22 & 29 August worlds of and experience will unfold. An Open Floor workshop £600 | £470 | £370 Findhorn Spiritual Practice 1 week | 15 August | £1150 | £870 | £720 Take time for yourself in a spacious retreat Living Intuitively Soul Tracking Dance deeper into your own creative self to setting, to meditate, to reflect, to walk and to 1 week | 25 July | £950 | £710 | £530 1 week | 8 Aug | £1150 | £870 | £720 be honest about your vulnerability so you can breathe. It is a unique gift to step away from Intuition allows us to get to the heart of the Your unique fingerprints reveal your soul’s access your equilibrium and strength. We will all the busyness and take time to rest and matter. It enables us to cut through complexities calling and exactly what holds you back from use Open Floor Movement Practice to bring renew body and soul in the wild beauty of and see what is for the highest good for all fulfilling it. As well as guided meditations, this enquiry to the dance floor as we literally Iona. These spiritual retreats give you a concerned. It is an inner sense of the rightness group work and opportunities to connect with embody the physicality of change. supportive environment to explore your of particular insights, feelings or actions. We will the spirit, people and place of the Findhorn own unique journey. explore how intuition speaks to us personally, community, you will have private time to explore International Training Circle Dance within a relaxed and light-hearted environment. and decode your birth blueprint and life purpose Harmony Method® Findhorn Spiritual Practice with a master hand analyst. 1 week | 22 August | £1190 | £910 | £760 Permaculture Space for the Heart on Iona Combines meditation with movement. 1 week | 18 July | £950 | £710 | £530 1 week | 25 July | £700 | £570 | £470 Game of Transformation (7 days) Inner listening grows through gestures that The practical application of spiritual principles Meditations from the Buddhist tradition 1 week | 15 August | £1150 | £870 | £720 produce body consciousness. Gain basic is a key element of spiritual and personal combined with the inspiration and beauty of See 7 March. findhorncollege.org knowledge of the Harmony Method® and development. During this nature retreat we Iona connect us more deeply with our heart, an expanded circle dance repertoire. will explore permaculture principles to look at with the qualities of love, compassion and Findhorn Spiritual Practice how we live our lives day to day, to connect peace. You will be introduced to a variety of Mindfulness Meditation Masterclass with the wisdom of the earth and the wisdom meditation techniques. 1 week | 15 August | £950 | £710 | £530 For Teachers and Practitioners within ourselves. This Spiritual Practice week offers practices 1 week | 22 August | £1150 | £870 | £720 Creative Retreat on Iona that enhance your ability to live in attentive Mindfulness, meditation and times of calm Game of Transformation (4 days) 1 week | 1 August | £700 | £570 | £470 awareness of yourself, other people and bring health benefits and deep spiritual 4 days | 18 July | £830 | £660 | £520 We invite you to be rejuvenated and inspired the world around you. You will have ample development.This inspiring week is an See 7 March. findhorncollege.org by the power and natural beauty of the opportunities to learn and practise mindfulness opportunity to explore and soak in the magical island of Iona on our Creative Retreat. in a supportive natural environment. benefits and blessings of meditation. Our Transformation Game Alchemy This is an opportunity to leave behind your days together will be an experiential oasis in 1 week | 25 July | £1150 | £870 | £720 daily tasks and routines and to delight in Animal Communication and Nature which you will deepen your own practice, led Combines two proven tools for uplifting expressing your creativity in a supportive Connection Level 1 by one of Britain’s most experienced mind- consciousness: The Transformation Game® group environment. 1 week | 15 August | £1190 | £910 | £760 body-spirit educators. 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Nature Intelligence & the Dreaming of Earth September / October Animal Communication and Nature Transformation Game® Facilitators Beyond the doors of perception Connection Level 2 - on Erraid Training (Japanese) 2 weeks | 29 Aug | £1770 | £1400 | £1170 Experience Weeks | 5, 12 & 26 Sep and 10 October 1w 12 Sep £600 | £500 | £400 2 weeks | 19 September | £650 | £520 | £420 The world is alive, intelligent, communicative, Experience week – Skills for Sustainable Living | 19 Sep See 5 September. erraid.com/visit-us findhorncollege.org and filled with Soul. Yet many of our inherited LGBT+ Experience Week | 3 October Western concepts isolate us from the intimacy Being in Community (BIC) | 5, 12, 19 Sep & 10, 24 Oct Summer Retreat Week on Iona Active Hope - Nourishing Our Capacity and communion with life on Earth. In this Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG) | 4 weeks 1 week | 12 September | £600 | £470 | £370 to Act for Life on Earth two-week intensive a journey of opening our 5, 12, 19, 26 Sep & 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Oct 1 week | 26 Sep | £1110 | £840 | £690 perceptual doors awaits, through which we Service Weeks: Coming Home to the Garden Autumn Equinox Retreat on Iona Our times confront us with realities that can be can enter another world, again hearing Gardening at The Park | 3 October 1 week | 19 September | £600 | £470 | £370 difficult to take in and painful to live with. Based on the forgotten voices of the wild. Iona Spiritual Retreat Weeks: Autumn Equinox Retreat on Iona is an Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, this week- Summer Retreat Week | 12 September opportunity to deeply experience the changing long workshop takes the form of a strengthening Systemic Constellations Autumn Equinox Retreat | 19 September of the season, balancing dark and light, within journey in four stages, aiming to increase our Unravel Entanglements with Love Transformation in Retreat | 26 September the peace of this beautiful, sacred island. capacity to respond with Active Hope. 1 week | 29 August | £1150 | £870 | £720 Autumn Retreat | 3 October Celebrating the Auspicious Moment Now The workshop will allow you to explore deeper Transformation in Retreat | 26 Sep & 31 Oct Celtic Festival: Mabon - Autumn Equinox levels of collective knowledge so that you and on Erraid Sacred Dance and Mevlevi Dervish Turning others in the group can symbolise people and Erraid: Love in Action Weeks / Retreat Weeks: 1 week | 19 Sep | £550 | £350 | £250 1 week | 26 Sep | £1190 | £910 | £760 topics through movement and gestures. In a 5, 12, 19, 26 Sep & 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Oct This is a time for reconciling opposites. Let’s In the powerful, sacred journey of this safe, supportive space you’ll discover new Erraid Special Events & Celtic Festival Weeks: honour and celebrate our ‘whole self’ and all life workshop we will learn and practise two forms solutions and insights that will help you to Animal Communication and Nature Connection and enjoy the abundance of our gardens as we of meditation in movement: Mevlevi Dervish restore the natural flow of love in your life. Level 2 | 12 Sep gather in our produce and come together for our Turning - which allows dancers to merge Mabon – Autumn Equinox | 19 September Harvest Festival celebrations. with the music - and Permaculture Design Course (PDC) Samhain | 31 October and Sacred Circle Dance, which, through symbolic movement, is a beautiful and 2 weeks | 29 August | £1590 | £1375 | £1150 Learning English in Community This Being Human profound way to experience community A two-week comprehensive introduction to 1 month | 5 Sep | £2,800 | £2,500 | £2,250 Telling True Life Tales and to manifest the spirit-body. permaculture principles, design practices and A four-week residential course that integrates 1 week | 19 September | £1150 | £870 | £720 their application. The 72-hour Findhorn College learning English with personal development in This is an introduction to the art of telling true life, Transformation in Retreat on Iona PDC is guided by Bill Mollison’s curriculum and our community context. For advanced beginners personal stories. Working in a highly experiential 7 days | 26 Sep | £700 | £570 | £470 delivered in collaboration with a registered or intermediate English. and playful way you’ll learn some of the essential Through playing the Transformation Game® you ScotLAND Centre. Participants will have the unique findhorncollege.org skills of the storyteller. By the end of the week can become more aware both of your personal opportunity to base their design projects on actual you’ll feel confident enough to tell a personal strengths and on the limitations you place on developments taking place within the Findhorn Animal Communication and Nature story to friends, family or even a wider audience. yourself. It is a powerful interactive tool, offering community. Certified byPermaculture Association. Connection Level 2 a stimulating, supportive and informative group findhorncollege.org 1 week | 5 September | £1190 | £910 | £760 Leading from the Future setting in which openness, cooperation and This week-long retreat is for you if you have Facilitating Emergence sharing are encouraged. You’ll have plenty of Beyond Complexity previously studied Animal Communication and 4 days | 19 September free time to explore Iona. 5 days | 29 August | £750 | £650 | £525 feel comfortable with the basic elements. This £995 Corporate/for-profit organisation Introducing ‘meshworking’ to reframe simplicity workshop is a wonderful opportunity to deepen £795 NGO/not-for-profit organisation Game of Transformation (4 days) on the other side of complexity, in the Integral your animal communication skills, to meet other £695 Individual 4 days | 3 October | £830 | £660 | £520 City, or Human Hive, the course encourages animal communicators and to enjoy consciously Develop the inner and outer practices that practitioners who work with individual connecting to nature in all its forms. will support your capacity to innovate, inspire Slowing Down organisations – and catalysts who connect and lead from the future; and to facilitate this 1 week | 3 October | £1070 | £790 | £660 organisations – to engage with the city as a Leading from the Core capacity in individuals, teams and organisations There’s an increased capacity for inner listening whole. The course welcomes Business, third 4 weeks | 5 Sep | £2590 | £2140 | £1950 that you work with. when we slow down. We’ll discover, practise and sector and local government leaders, and Optional Follow on 2 weeks | 3 October fics.findhorn.org embody ways of consciously slowing down and engaged citizens. £660 | £480 | £390 focusing within. Experiential and restorative, the findhorncollege.org A new Findhorn Foundation spiritual leadership week will provide you with a toolbox of simple programme. practices to take with you into daily life. Essential Findhorn Essential Findhorn See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events See findhorn.org/workshops for our full calendar of events

Autumn Retreat on Iona Celtic Festival - Samhain on Erraid Game of Transformation® (4 days) Returning of the Light - on Iona 1 week | Sat 3 Oct | £600 | £470 | £370 1 week | 31 Oct | £550 | £350 | £250 4 days | 14 November | £830 | £660 | £520 1 week | 21 December | £1160 | £880 | £730 Autumn is a time of great beauty on this sacred, This is the summer’s end and the beginning of the See 7 March. Experience the Winter Solstice and Christmas ancient island and in the changing of seasons Celtic New Year. A time when the veil between findhorncollege.org on the holy island of Iona, celebrating the it is easier to be in touch with what is changing the worlds is at its thinnest. A time to remember returning of the light. in yourself, to release the old and prepare for our loved ones and to honour our ancestors. Learning to Lead Sacred Dance what is emerging. Amid the change, the timeless 2 weeks | 14 Nov | £1770 | £1400 | £1170 Game of Transformation® (7 days) stillness of Iona will give rise to what is timeless Essence of the Arts in Community Sacred Dance is a spiritual practice that 7 days | 28 December | £1160 | £880 | £730 within you. 3 months | 31 Oct | £6000 | £5490 | £4990* transforms and heals, and you can learn how We invite you to join us as we celebrate our to support participants to experience its full New Year Retreat - on Iona Beyond Resilient spirituality through arts in community, drawing power. In these two weeks you’ll learn 16 dances 1 week | 28 December | £650 | £520 | £420 Integral City Inquiry Action & Impact forth our innate creativity and sharing our in depth and acquire skills in leading groups, New Year Retreat on Iona is an opportunity to 4 days | 10 October | £750 | £650 | £525 unique gifts and perspectives. During this how to create a programme of dances, and deeply reflect as we step into the New Year, This course will build on the previous course 12-week intensive programme, you will have how to attune to the energy of the dance. using the power of the Transformation Game Beyond Smart: Integral City Practices, tools an in-depth experience of community life at and held within the peace and sacred power & maps and prepare participants for the advanced the , as we discover and Findhorn Spiritual Practice - Clay of this beautiful island. course Beyond Complexity: Integral City Care, deepen relationships between the sacred and 1 week | 14 November | £950 | £710 | £530 contexts & capacity. the ordinary; between artistic expression With the landscape of Findhorn Bay and the Erraid Special Event: New Year’s Retreat findhorncollege.org/courses and the tasks of daily life. surrounding coastline as an inspiration for our 1 week | 26 December | £550 | £450 | £350 retreat, we journey with the four elements – We invite you to join in Celtic traditions with Transformation Game® Facilitators Training * Young people aged 18-25 receive a £1000 earth, air, fire and water – using the medium the elements of Earth, Air, Water, Fire, and Spirit 2 weeks | 10 Oct | £2,625 | £2,425 | £2,240 reduction. Bursaries (financial assistance) can of clay to focus, centre ourselves, and create all close to us. Come and share the turning of See 25 April. findhorncollege.org be applied for at the time of booking. spiritual alchemy. the year, in close connection with the peace findhorn.org/programmes/ essence-of-arts and power of nature’s rhythms. Give space Diploma in Practical Spirituality and Subtle Energy Activism for reflection, sharing and celebration as we Wellness by William Bloom Module 1 (of 4) Becoming an Agent of Gaia enter into the new year. 4 days | 10 October | £2750 Residential November / December 7 days | 21 November | £1150 | £870 | £720 £1250 (NFA / FF non residential) Do you want to be a difference maker? Gaia New Year Celebration Taught across four - four-day modules, this Experience Weeks: 1w | starting 7, 21 Nov & 5 Dec needs you and the time is now! This workshop Crossing the Threshold professional course can equip you to offer Being in Community (BIC) | 7, 21, 28 Nov & 5 Dec is designed to create a team of specially trained 7 days | 28 December | £1110 | £840 | £690 person-centred and holistic spiritual support Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG): Gaian Agents who no longer feel overwhelmed or Take this opportunity to consciously step and pastoral care. Module 1 focuses on Person 4 weeks | 7, 14, 21, 28 Nov & 5, 12, 28 Dec impotent when addressing our challenging times over the threshold into a new year and join Centred Spiritual Practice. A diploma course Findhorn Spiritual Practice Weeks: Clay 14 Nov of global crisis and change, and who learn to Findhorn community celebrations and rituals, accredited by Ofqual inspired by William Bloom's Primal Painting 12 December become effective in working with subtle allies to while allowing time to connect with the stillness work in partnership with the Spiritual Companions effect a positive future. ever present at the heart of your being. There Trust. You must be able to attend all four modules Iona Spiritual Retreat Weeks: Returning of the Light | 21 Dec | New Year Retreat | 28 Dec is space for rest and relaxation as well as for and be available for online contact in between. Beyond Smart online pure, delightful fun. Further dates: Module 2: Reflective Practice Erraid: Love in Action Weeks | Retreat Weeks: 3 days | 27 November | £75 | £100 | £150 and Self-Awareness in the Context of Spiritual 7, 14, 21, 28 November & 5, 12 December Development 5 - 9 Dec 2020; Module 3: Science Erraid Special Event: New Year’s Retreat Findhorn Spiritual Practice and Context 13 - 16 Feb 2021; Module 4: Spiritual 1 week | 26 Dec Primal Painting Care in Practice 10 - 13 Apr 2021. 1 week | 12 December | £950 | £710 | £530 Spiritual Deepening Primal painting is a simple yet profound way Transformation in Retreat on Iona Living from Purpose and Soul of allowing your deepest self to express all the 7 days | 31 Oct | £700 | £570 | £470 4 weeks | 14 Nov | £2590 | £2140 | £1950 colours of your life, including all of the light and See 26 September. findhorn.org/iona These 4 weeks are a heart-opening process of dark shades of your spiritual journey. It is an discovering more of your capacity to experience life inspiring way to expand your spiritual practice as an expression of awakening consciousness in and no special artistic skills are required. life. Step into this space & open to life in new ways. Booking information Staying in Touch

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