WORKSHOPS & EVENTS 2017 FINDHORN fOU NDAT ION Transformational Learning Centre WELCOME to THE FINDhorn FOUNDATION Our Story in the course of daily life and relationships, he shifted the community’s focus to transformational learning. The When Eileen Caddy, Peter Caddy and Dorothy Maclean, the community set up the Findhorn Foundation to hold this focus three ordinary people who would later found this centre, and began welcoming guests to engage with the unique way came together and committed to serving the divine, they of being emerging here. had no idea what would come next. After years of spiritual training and following inner guidance, they found themselves Throughout the years of growth and evolution that followed, crowded into a caravan in a barren northern Scotland dune, the vision that inspired the founders has continued to shape moneyless, jobless and totally committed to their mission of the Foundation and community. What calls us forward is “bringing heaven to earth.” the work of helping establish a new human consciousness of inner connection with the sacred and loving partnership Then miracles happened. Dorothy began to contact the with the whole ecology of life. This vision has led community consciousness of the plants in their garden and they co- members to build one of the longest-lived and most created a seemingly impossible abundance of flowers and successful ecovillages in the world, gain affiliation with the vegetables, including the giant cabbages that attracted UN and found organisations such as the Global Ecovillage worldwide attention. Peter put the guidance from Eileen’s Network (GEN) and Ecologia Youth Trust, which helps “still, small voice within” into action, taking out loans to buy disadvantaged young people around the world. houses for people who weren’t there. Within weeks, people came from around the world to fill them, drawn by a sense of Today you will find here a unique centre offering thousands inner calling. Together, they began to build a community. of guests each year an abundance of ways to unfold their deepest self, connect with our world and make a difference. In the 1970s a young American, David Spangler, became You will also experience what has been present here since part of the leadership team. Recognising that the community the beginning: an evolving field of conscious transformation was a ‘mystery school’ that accelerated people’s growth bringing new possibilities into our world. 2 CONTENTS Welcome to the Findhorn Foundation 2 Our Community 4 Visiting the Findhorn Foundation 5 Minimising Our Essential Findhorn Programmes 6 - 22 Ecological Footprint Findhorn Foundation Island We also offer an online, hyperlinked Communities 24 - 27 version of this brochure. Help us save trees while accessing programmes more Reaching Out 28 easily by requesting the electronic version Working with the United Nations 29 at [email protected] Special Events 30 - 34 Calendar in Brief 35 - 39 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Workshops & Events 40 - 52 Please note that all our workshops have a Findhorn Foundation community member present either as focaliser or assistant. Booking & Practical Information 54 We offer a tiered pricing structure and ask that when you book, you select the price Getting Here 57 appropriate for your personal circumstances. Booking Form 59 For more information: www.findhorn.org/bookinginfo and for information about bursaries, please see pages 55-56. Support Us 61 Please note that we have raised our 2017 prices 3% from last year. We will continue Common Ground 63 working to make our programmes as accessible and affordable as possible. All of the information is correct at the time of going to press but is subject to change. 3 Our Community Our core business is transforming Our 120 Foundation members co-create and Spiritual Caucuses we have links human consciousness in everyday an environment where new ways of with a worldwide governing body. life. As we individually seek to bring thinking and being in the world have Former members have also gone on our physical, emotional, energetic and space to grow, and where learning to found new communities around the spiritual wholeness into each moment, takes place naturally through the world, taking Findhorn’s spiritual and we are helping evolve our communities activities of daily life. sustainability practices as far away as and our world. Brazil and the USA. The Foundation sits in the heart of a growing local community of more than As we protect and consciously engage 500 people who share our vision. with the nearby dunes, forests and Practising spiritual and sustainable hills, we also form part of our Scottish values, they have established an Highland ecosystem. We are grateful innovative local scene of ecological for it and our many non-human partners businesses, artist studios, healing in the work of shaping a future that practices, charities and consultancies. enhances all life in our world. You can see the fruits of their creativity and commitment to sustainability in The Park’s eco housing, biological waste treatment plant, our local ‘eko’ currency and in the rich variety of artistic, cultural, spiritual and intellectual events on offer All who engage here, residents and most days of the week. visitors, find a place that fosters profound personal change, seeds Our vision connects us with a global new ideas and births practical and life- community as well. Through our formal enhancing responses to the challenges association with the UN and Findhorn- and opportunities of our times. affiliated representatives in its Values 4 Visiting the Findhorn Foundation An Experience Week is the best way to Meals connect with the Findhorn Foundation, Mealtimes are an opportunity to providing a complete experience of what connect socially with other guests and is on offer here. There is a wide range of Foundation residents. If you have special workshops and events to choose from. dietary needs please see page 55. The The full calendar starts on page 35. Phoenix Café in the Universal Hall at The Park offers a range of freshly made If you can stay for only a few days, you organic food and is open every day. can participate as a Short Term Guest The Phoenix Shop at The Park provides Cluny Hill for between one and six days. You will a wide variety of organic foods plus have the opportunity to participate in a interesting gifts and books. service department and share meals, Accommodation meditate in our sanctuaries and engage When you attend one of our workshops Daily Rhythm (mainly Monday to Friday) in community activities. Please see page or events you will be accommodated 6:30 - 7:30am Silent meditation 56 for more details. either at our Cluny Hill site, a former 7:45 - 8:10am Taizé singing (Cluny) Victorian spa hotel, or at The Park in 8:00 - 8:25am Taizé singing (Park) If you would like to bring a group, we can one of the original bungalows or in an 8:35 - 8:55am Guided meditation offer tailor-made experiences ranging eco chalet. Please see page 55 for 9:00 - 12:30pm Morning service from a day up to a week. See page 28. more details. If you are not participating departments in a residential programme there are a 12:30pm Lunch number of bed and breakfasts in The 2:00 - 5:00pm Afternoon service Park and in the nearby village, see departments www.findhorn.org/bandb. There are also 5:40 - 6:00pm Guided meditation camping, caravan and eco chalet rentals 6:00pm Dinner available in the Findhorn Bay Holiday Park, www.findhornbayholidaypark.com The Park 5 dging and w nowle orking ack in ans par m tne hu rs e: hi Founding Principles ur p t w a it N h h th Since our founders first felt an inner calling to it e w c n o co-create a centre for transforming human o n ti s a c consciousness, the ‘magic of Findhorn’ has e io r u C s drawn thousands of people here. But without a - n o e C s religious creed or obligatory spiritual practice, s o . f what allows so many unique individuals to s n e v a i form a community? l t u y r e a . d y Fundamentally, it is the process of bringing r e I n v wholeness into everything we do. We aim n e e r r u to help create a space that welcomes L o i s each one’s physical, emotional, mental, n t i e n energetic and spiritual aspects, knowing n i o n i t g that this creates conditions for us to unfold c : a t l a a our highest potential. k c i i n t g c a t r i m Our founding principles are the three main p e o t ways we use to open ourselves to this t n o i b s e wholeness. With inner listening, we connect e l p s i t c with our innate wisdom. By co-creating with the i l l n i a r n p consciousness of nature, we connect with the d l a s u e t i many other beings, seen and unseen, with whom n r i s p e s t we shape our world’s future. Through engaging in h g e n i t g t u u i work as love in action, we make our highest vision for life p d : a n n o c i t e c o a practical reality. They shape our daily rhythms and are an A f n t i h e e v d o i v L i n e .