WORKSHOPS & EVENTS 2017

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Transformational Learning Centre Welcome to THE FOUNDATION

Our Story in the course of daily life and relationships, he shifted the community’s focus to transformational learning. The When , and , the community set up the 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 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 in the world, gain affiliation with the vegetables, including the giant cabbages that attracted UN and found organisations such as the Global 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, , 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.

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Welcome to the Findhorn Foundation 2 Our Community 4 Visiting the Findhorn Foundation 5 Minimising Our Essential Findhorn Programmes 6 - 22 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 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. 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 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 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 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

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6 Dallas Bliss, Co-Creation with the Intelligence of Nature a 22-year-old Canadian artist and outdoor naturalist, In the early days of the community, says his Findhorn while trying to grow a garden in a sandy Foundation experience rubbish tip, community co-founder has fostered a more Dorothy Maclean found she could intimate connection both with himself communicate with the plants there. As and the subtle realms around him. she and the tiny community cooperated with their suggestions, a seemingly “Looking back on my Experience Week impossible abundance grew in the harsh I would say my most vivid memory was soil, including giant cabbages that the world’s ‘ecologies of consciousness’ is stepping outside the Nature Sanctuary community became famous for. Building an adventure, but also intimately familiar: on the second day and looking up to on this early work, the Foundation it is a homecoming to the world family see not a group of strangers I went became a pioneer in partnering with the we are all part of but perhaps have into the space with but a group of long consciousness of nature, a practice we forgotten. lost brothers and sisters I felt I’d known came to call co-creation. forever. Many of our guests and members have What we have found since then is that experienced life-changing connections “I feel motivated and inspired by The when we stand in our own wholeness with nature, including here in the Foundation and all the beautiful people as physical, energetic, spiritual beings, beauty of the Scottish Highlands. The I’ve met in recent weeks to keep giving we can open to the wholeness of the invitation we extend is to deepen these my love to this wonderful planet and all world around us, its many dimensions connections into partnerships, working the beings that may call it home. I am and lives, physical and otherwise. with our many allies to shape the future. honoured to now go out and share this Inviting partners to work with us in the Transcending the level of thinking - and light and my experience with all whom I community’s gardens, kitchens and living being - that created our world’s current encounter.“ spaces, people often find unexpected ecological and spiritual crises, co-creation solutions popping up, a sudden sense of holds healing and transforming potential joy or new kinds of encounters. Learning beyond what we can currently imagine. to perceive and work practically with our 7 James Wallace worked in London Inner Listening for 13 years. He now lives and works in the ‘Be still and know that I AM God’ was the ‘Inner Listening’ is the term we use to Foundation. first guidance that Findhorn Community describe this process, and it is at the co-founder Eileen Caddy heard while heart of the Foundation’s ethos. Whether “I had a really good meditating in a sanctuary in an attunement at the beginning of a living situation in London, but the in the late 1950s. Subsequent training work shift, at a decision point during a pollution, my job stress and the fear and regular meditation through the years meeting, or during individual or group always present in the city weren’t easy. led her to develop the ability to attune meditation, inner listening opens the Some days I would be on the subway to the ‘divine within’ at any time, and to doors within to the divine stillness, and to heading to work and I would seriously ask for and receive guidance from this the source of all guidance. consider phoning in and telling them that omniscient inner knowing. I wouldn’t be showing up any more. We recognise that learning how to come Absolute obedience to this guidance into attunement with the divine within, “Findhorn called me here. At one point I led her, the community’s co-founders listen to its still, small voice, trust what had a strong sense that I needed to do and the group that coalesced around we hear and live our individual and an meditation, something I had them, to step into an entirely new world collective lives in this attunement is the never thought to do before. The morning based on a living relationship with the central process by which this community after I did it, I woke up with a sense of divine within - a world of vitality, joy and - and humanity - evolves. electricity. A distant acquaintance had deep peace as the community began to emailed an invitation up here, and it was evolve into its present form. The Findhorn Community is both a suddenly clear to me I needed to come. gateway to this new world and a living demonstration of it. Its teaching is the “I’ve found Findhorn the best place for same as the heart of all major faiths and helping people develop in their own spiritual traditions. Its strength is in its unique way, non-invasively.” simplicity, and in the potency of its core teaching: ‘Be still and know that I AM God’.

8 South African Adelle Inner Listening Work is Love in Action Horler is a strategist and content director with a leading Cape One of the community’s founding While we all like to appreciate that we Town publisher who principles that continues to inspire us in are engaged in planetary service as did Experience Week our everyday lives is that work - or what we offer our commitment to humanity, in May 2015. She can’t many prefer to think of as service - is the earth and spirit, it starts with our wait to return to Findhorn. ‘Love in Action.’ approach to everyday life situations and a striving to be the best we can be. It is “One of the most valuable things all about the manner in which things are Experience Week showed me is done and lavishing extra care, love and that it’s possible to live in a way that dedication on all that we do. consciousness of spirit is part of the fabric of every day, not something you Typically we begin work shifts with an squeeze into free time. Every minute, attunement where individuals align whether you’re eating, working, talking themselves with others in the circle, with or listening, is love in action. It is a demonstration that it isn’t just the collective, the subtle overlighting about getting tasks completed, but about energies and the objectives that have “To me Findhorn is a place where lovingly and consciously engaging with brought the team together. It is about understanding and growth are the task to ensure that we nourish and acting mindfully and about the quality accelerated, and I felt the same support each other while participating of consciousness that is brought to heightened clarity when I visited again in in any task, no matter how seemingly the task, whether peeling potatoes or June 2016. mundane or routine. building a new eco home. “The Discovery Games session in It was co-founder Peter Caddy, a former Many guests share that the ‘Love in Experience Week was mind-blowing, military officer, who energetically led by Action’ approach is one of the great gifts a definite highlight. In just a couple of example, insisting that ‘Love in Action’ they take home with them, while their hours, our group evolved from a bunch be applied whether raking up the enthusiasm serves in turn to nourish and of strangers into a deeply caring soul leaves, harvesting organic vegetables or inspire the residents who work alongside family. The whole world should play the cleaning a toilet. them. Games!” 9 Experience Week An introduction to the essence of the Findhorn Foundation

For Experience Week dates please see create an environment that enables each calendar on pages 35 - 39. one of us to deepen our connection with all of life, and to open to transformation For over forty years, the best way to within ourselves and within the group. come here and find out what it’s like! The invitation is to let go of limitations, These seven days provide the ideal open to love, and be the change you way to meet, engage with and share want to see in the world. in an ever-evolving journey of deeply sustainable community living. As part Experience Week is a rich and active of a group, you will be introduced to week that asks for participation for most the spiritual principles and activities on of the day and many evenings. We ask which this dynamic community is based. that you come willing to participate fully, to give of yourself and engage with You join in most aspects of daily life others. Be open to surprise! here and experience our rhythms and practices. Four days of the week will All of these elements are also part of the include a few hours in one of our service Themed Experience Weeks we offer. departments - the gardens, kitchens, dining room, homecare or maintenance The programme runs from Saturday - giving you many opportunities to to Friday evening, and includes seven experience our practice of ‘love in nights accommodation and all meals, action’ and to interact with other people from the first Saturday lunchtime through in the community. until breakfast on the Saturday morning of your departure. You should arrive One of the aims of our community is to before noon on the first day of your 10 Experience Week, so that the group can Hinterland Experience Week begin together. You need to speak and Themed Experience Weeks 17 - 23 June understand English reasonably well - if Ecovillage Experience Week Kajedo Wanderer you cannot, we do offer Experience In The Park, a village setting: The Foundation’s wild Hinterland Weeks in other languages. Please see 1 - 7 April, 7 - 13 October between the Park and the sea will be page 13. In Cluny, an urban setting: 5 - 11 August the setting for this version of Experience Following a similar structure to our Week. We will spend much of our time in Experience Week runs at both sites of original Experience Week, this week its forests and dunes, with its creatures the Findhorn Foundation, The Park and has the added intention of deepening and the elements of earth, air, water and Cluny Hill. There are opportunities to knowledge and experience of fire. An opportunity to explore not only experience both sites during the week. sustainable living on all levels. We will our human community but also the wider touch upon inclusive decision-making community of life in this beautiful corner Please join us for this adventure in new processes, cooperative economies, of the Scottish Highlands. ways of living and relating, helping to local food production, and cultural and Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 create a positive future for humanity and spiritual diversity, which together create our planet. a full-featured human settlement. Music Experience Week Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 1 - 7 July Tiered price: £780 / £610 / £490 Barbara Swetina, Fabien Barouch This week has the addition of music and Bursaries, concessions and discounts song woven through the whole week, are available, please see pages 55- honouring the richness of different 56. If you book an Experience Week spiritual traditions. Dances of Universal with a starting date in November, Peace and Sacred Harmony Songs December, January or February and combine chanting, simple movements also book a Being in Community week and live music to touch the heart and lift OR a Spiritual Practice week directly the spirit. No prior experience in music is following your Experience Week, we will necessary. give you a reduction of £100 on the total Tiered Price: £830 / £660 / £540 combined price.

11 Family Experience Week LGBT Experience Week 22 - 28 July, 29 July - 4 August 7 - 13 October This family programme offers a special This week gives space to celebrate focus on how conscious living can be being gay, lesbian, bisexual and integrated into family life. You and your transgender together in the supportive children have time to be together and and unique environment at Findhorn. A to be with your peer groups throughout week of community life and opening to the week. There are opportunities to do the new. tasks, play and explore together within Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 the group, as well as interact with the Findhorn community. Family Experience Week Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 Follow-On £260 for age 5 - 11 5 - 11 August £390 for age 12 - 17 If your family has already participated in a Family Experience Week, this Youth Experience Week follow-on week offers an opportunity 5 - 11 August to deepen your relationship with the Friendships, feelings, , community, or to come back to Findhorn individuality and togetherness. All young and reconnect with the spirit that flows people are welcome to this energised through all aspects of life here. Offering week, based on our original Experience more freedom than Family Experience Week and redesigned specifically Week and more potential for creative for people aged 14-17. To experience participation, this programme takes into and develop community, connect with consideration the individual needs of yourself and others in more meaningful participating families. “The creation of a special space is of ways, learn new skills, develop Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 huge importance to what happens. awareness and discover your inner £260 for age 5 - 11 We can all create these spaces. I’ve strength and power. £390 for age 12 - 17 recognised that whatever we do, if Tiered Price: £640 / £480 / £390 Experience Week prerequisite it’s done with love and the best way we can, we’re contributing.”

12 Foreign Language Programmes 日 本 語 En Français I n Italiano www.findhorn.org/japanese www.findhorn.org/francais www.findhorn.org/italiano email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected]

以下は財団ではなく個人主催のプログラムとな Semaine d’Expérience Settimana di Esperienza ります。主催者に直接お問い合わせ下さい。 15-21 avril, 15-21 juillet 24-30 giugno

体験週間 6月17日〜23日 秋本 育明 email: [email protected] Auf Deutsch En Castellano www.findhorn.org/deutsch www.findhorn.org/castellano エコヴィレッジ体験週間 7月1日〜7日 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Hide Enomoto Findhorn Erfahrungswoche Semana de Experiencia email: [email protected] 22-29 Juli, 21-27 Oktober 12-18 agosto

体験週間 8月26日〜9月1日 広瀬 麻奈 email: [email protected] Em Português På dansk www.findhorn.org/portugues www.findhorn.org スピリチュアルプラクティス 9月2日〜9日 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] 広瀬 麻奈 email: [email protected] Semana de Experiência Oplevelses Uge 事前に体験週への参加が必要となります。 8-14 julho, 25 novembro-1 dezembro 26. august til 2. september

13 Being in Community (BIC) Being in Community (BIC) is a great and experience of our guiding principle way to integrate your experience of of love in action. Evenings provide the Findhorn Foundation. For Being in opportunities to join in with community Community dates please see calendar activities and explore different aspects of on pages 35 - 39. life here, which may include spiritual and personal development, creative arts and BIC is a week that gives you time and sustainable living. space to integrate your experience of Findhorn after another programme. You If you are thinking about a longer term may also find it an attractive option if commitment to staying at the Foundation, you just want to come back to visit and BIC is an option that can give you a good reconnect with the community. sense of what it is like to live here. It also serves as a prerequisite for joining There is less emphasis on a group some of our further Essential Findhorn experience than in an Experience Week, programmes such as Living in Community and you are more integrated into the Guest Programme (LCG) and Living life and daily rhythms of the community. Essentials Apprentice Programme (LEAP). The group size is generally smaller and the programme will run even for one Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 person. You may opt for creating your Experience Week prerequisite week according to your needs or join the group for sharings, the possibilities “There’s something about this tiny of a group project, a nature outing village on a sandy peninsula…it’s and, if there is interest, a taste of the not New York, it’s not London, it’s Transformation Game®. Whatever you not Johannesburg…but in this tiny choose, you will participate in a service space with a candle in the middle department as a continued expression everything happens.” 14 Service Weeks A Gift to Cluny - Spring Clean those new to gardening or with some Celebration experience to join us in bringing the Park 28 January - 3 February Garden into bloom! Connect with nature No ordinary spring clean, this is a grand and her intelligence by working together opportunity to clear out ‘old baggage’ on on a variety of garden projects, helping all levels. to prepare our flower and vegetable beds for the busy summer season. We Sprinklings of Light - Spring Cleaning welcome you to a week of practical, at The Park hands-on working, while nurturing your 4 - 10 February own growth. As a group we cleanse ourselves and Service Weeks give you the opportunity the spaces used by our guests and Love in Action - Maintenance at The to come to the Foundation and lend community on outer and inner levels. Park a hand while giving yourself the gift 30 September - 6 October of practising love in action. The price In Perfect Timing - Gardening at A time to beautify and make charged for these weeks covers your Cullerne improvements to buildings and areas in food, accommodation and admin fees, 6 - 12 May, 27 May - 2 June The Park, with the help of both skilled making it an affordable way to spend Together, we will do lots of sowing, and unskilled people. time in the community. The weeks also preparing, mulching and planting out include an outing, time for personal in our fields and polytunnels, while celebrating and enjoying being here in sharings and are a good way to meet “It was truly an honour to experience the Spring. people living here. Join us for an active the gifts the Findhorn community week of fun, focus, service and creativity. offers… I walked away a greater Coming Home to the Garden - human being with a deeper listening We invite you to attune to a price Gardening at The Park for self and the world - and a stronger between £320 - £120. 13 - 19 May, 3 - 9 June stand for the wellbeing of ALL.” Experience Week prerequisite The Park Garden team invites all 15 Spiritual Practice Weeks

Our Spiritual Practice Weeks support you such as LCG and LEAP (see pg 18-19) to continue a path of transformation and Tiered Price: £920 / £680 / £510 growth in your everyday life. Whichever Experience Week prerequisite week you choose, it will give you time to explore meditation, different kinds The Power of Intention of exercises and to approach ordinary 25 - 31 March activities in a new way that encourages Learn tools from the ancient tradition of space for creativity and laughter. that can easily be integrated into everyday life, allowing you to We will have daily sessions together and transform your inner landscape, create afternoons in a service department to new neural pathways that bring about integrate practical life with your spiritual personal healing and contribute to the practice. The week is less of a group creation of a healthy and balanced world experience than an Experience Week for all of life. We will release blocking and you are more integrated into the beliefs and reconnect with our unlimited life and rhythms of the community. The potential to shine. group is generally smaller and you will have time to take part in community and events. 8 - 14 April, 14 - 20 October Craig Gibsone If you are thinking about a longer term We use permaculture principles to look commitment to staying at Findhorn, a at how we live our lives day to day, and Spiritual Practice Week is an option to connect with the wisdom of the Earth that can give you a good sense of what and ourselves. This ecological design it is like to live here. It also serves as system can inspire and empower us to a prerequisite for joining some of our create and find answers within. further Essential Findhorn programmes 16 Introduction to Meditation Active Meditation meditation practices that enhance our 22 - 28 April 1 - 7 July inner connection and deeper listening to John Abdey This journey within will use movement, our own wisdom. We will practise ways Suitable for everyone, whether you are sound and breath to cleanse and of bringing this enhanced sensitivity into new to meditation or more experienced. balance your energy, express feelings, our day to day living in the world. Approaching the week with a 'beginners remove blocks, and to connect more mind’, we will look at the objectives of easily with the flow of life and all that is Clay meditation and some basic aspects - an experience of being light-filled spirit 4 - 10 November including preparation, alignment, in a body. Craig Gibsone concentration and visualisation. We With the landscape of Findhorn Bay will also experience a wide variety Wild Nature and the surrounding coastline as an of meditation techniques so you can 12 - 18 August inspiration for our week, we journey choose those you wish to explore further Kajedo Wanderer with earth, air, fire and water, using the as you develop your own meditation We will explore our relationship with the medium of clay. Clay is a magical and practice. wilder places around us - and within us primal substance that comes alive and - through observation, contemplation, takes form, bringing us a sense of co- Ritual and Ceremony meditation, ritual and the hands-on creating with the spiritual dimension of 17 - 23 June experience of conservation of the land. all things. Included is time for reflection "Ceremonies open the lines of An opportunity to connect with the and insight to strengthen your inner communication between you and the sweeping beauty of Findhorn’s Scottish commitment to your spiritual path. powers of the universe", writes Sandra Highland setting, the dunes, forest and sea. Ingerman. Tapping into our own inner wisdom and connecting with the spirit Living Intuitively 11 - 17 November world through shamanic journeying we 16 - 22 September Offers practices that help us live in will perform and develop ceremonies Nadasree Georgette Gadas attentive awareness: of our body, and rituals that allow us to live a life We know everything we need to know feelings, mind and the world around us. of purpose and meaning, connect at any given moment. This is a journey By focusing our brain activity on what is more deeply with the web of life and of discovery as well as confirmation being sensed at each moment, we will strengthen our inner light for personal of our intuitive abilities. We will do find ourselves living much more relaxed and planetary healing. exercises to develop our sensitivity and performing our daily activities in a and subtle , and use diverse more centred and calm manner. 17 Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG) The programme runs in four-week College’s Learning English in Community. segments, starting most Saturdays. It The prerequisite programme can be begins with clarifying your individual done any time within three months prior purpose and ends with a personal to joining LCG. review to support you in integrating your experiences and to explore your next We will invite you for an LCG intake steps. Using the process of attunement interview and attunement. Please be you join the team of one of our service aware that participation in the LCG Starts every Saturday except 7 January, departments (gardens, kitchens, dining Programme is not guaranteed in 30 September, 23 December. room, homecare or maintenance) where advance. LCG is also a necessary step Please note: 30 December is a the experience of love in action helps towards making a longer commitment restricted intake week. Only those who increase awareness, joy and freedom, to the Findhorn Foundation through the have done LCG before can apply for creating an ever more meaningful Living Essentials Apprentice Programme this week. experience of life. (LEAP). If you have just one month to be at the Foundation, you can participate in The Living in Community Guest (LCG) When you want to join LCG for the a prerequisite week as your first week programme invites you to explore first time or are returning to do LCG and then participate in LCG for the living in the Findhorn Foundation after more than one year, you need to following three weeks. Community for a month or more. It is a participate in either Being in Community, dynamic, creative and purposeful way to one of our Spiritual Practice Weeks For international visitors, participation experience the gifts that come through or one of our Service Weeks as a in the LCG programme is subject to the living in community and service as love prerequisite week. duration of your visa. in action. Sharing our lives in this vibrant environment opens the space for you to You can also apply after having taken For information on pricing, please visit deepen your relationship with yourself, part in our longer-term programmes: www.findhorn.org/lcg or email other people and nature, as well as your Applied Ecovillage Living, Spiritual [email protected] connection with spirit. Deepening or the Findhorn Foundation 18 Living Essentials Apprentice Programme (LEAP) Are you ready to turn the page in It’s a full-on experience! You would After doing Experience Week and three your life and take a leap into the next commit to participating fully in life here, months of LCG, you can apply to spend chapter? LEAP offers you the opportunity including working some weekends. two to six months as a Short-Term LEAP to live, work and learn in the Findhorn We will provide you with food, simple apprentice. Following assessment and Foundation for an extended period of accommodation and a supportive review, if you wish to make a longer time. Living in a spiritual community, learning environment, including weekly commitment (six months minimum) all day every day, is a life-changing group meetings and mentoring. you can become a Long-Term LEAP immersion into new ways of seeing and apprentice. Long-Term LEAP begins being with yourself, with others and with twice a year with five intense days of the world. deeper induction into the principles and spiritual practice of the Findhorn If you are aiming to become a member Foundation. of staff here at Findhorn, this programme is an essential step on the journey. We welcome applications for this It is also for anyone who wants an programme all year round. Participation opportunity to apply spiritual principles in this programme does not guarantee in your everyday life, learn awareness you will become a member of staff at the and gain skills to take with you wherever end. you go. We consider applications for LEAP in a process of mutual assessment of your Please see our website or contact If accepted onto LEAP, you join a service time here in previous programmes such [email protected] for pricing and more department where you help provide the as Living in Community Guest (LCG), information. essentials of community for our weekly and through attunement. Spaces on guests to visit and experience, while the LEAP programme are subject to the Experience Week and three months of also engaging in your own spiritual and needs of our service departments and LCG prerequisite personal development and participating availability of living space at the time of in community meetings and gatherings. your application. 19 Living from Purpose and Soul of creative expression and body-based 18 November - 15 December practices. Essential Findhorn Focalisers These four weeks are a heart-opening Join us on this four-week journey of process of discovering more of your engaging with your inner knowing. capacity to experience life as an expression of awakening consciousness Spiritual Deepening is an invitation in life. Step into this space and open to to step back from everyday life and life in new ways. immerse yourself in the transformational field of this place. Over 50 years of For more information please visit living by the principles of inner listening, www.findhorn.org/deepening or contact co-creation and loving service to the [email protected] whole has given our community a unique capacity to hold you with wisdom and Tiered price: £2440 / £2010 / £1840 deep empathy as you open to new possibilities in your life. Experience Week plus either Being in Community or a Spiritual Practice Week This holistic support will give you space are prerequisite. to open more to the wisdom of your own unique body and being, grounding it consciously in the framework of ‘‘Be still, go within, and draw forth the day to day living. The programme will priceless treasures within you.’’ include guided inner work, meditation, -Eileen Caddy journalling, a mindfulness practice day once a week, expressing love through service, a silent retreat, different types 20 11 February - 17 March from theory to deep practice in an Craig Gibsone, Vera Franco environment of being valued for who you are. Immerse yourself in permaculture and ecovillage development in one of the People of all ages are welcome. We world's most successful and unique particularly want to support young ecovillages. This extraordinary month will people, so please email about our Young inspire and connect you with your own Persons Bursaries (limited availability.) inner capacity for wisdom and insight. email: [email protected] You will return home with a sense of kinship with a thriving global movement Tiered Price: £2440 / £2010 / £1840 and a greater feeling of belonging to the Earth and Earth belonging to you.

Experiencing both urban and rural Week 1: People Care (11 - 17 February) Week 4: Design Projects (4 - 10 March) ecovillage environments in the Building Effective Groups, Deep Principles of Permaculture and community's two centres, you will gain Ecology and Designing for Transition Designing for the Future a solid grounding in the essentials of ecovillage development and Week 2: Fair Share (18 - 24 February) ***Optional: Applied Permaculture Week permaculture applicable to both Economic Sustainability, Right (11 - 17 March) developed and developing countries. Livelihood and Organic Food Integrating and Empowering for next Production steps: putting all the course learnings As well as being held by our vibrant into hands-on practice. community, we will create our own Week 3: Earth Care group dynamics and support each (25 February - 3 March) other in integrating the diverse content Human Settlements, Ecological Building of the course, enabling you to move and Wilderness Restoration 21 7 - 13 October, 14 - 20 October, Consisting of six weeks spread out over 2 - 8 December 2017, 10 - 16 February, the year, this programme begins with two 21 - 27 April, 16 - 22 June 2018 weeks in October 2017 and ends with a completion week in June of the following Six residential weeks year. Weeks 1 and 2 (7 - 20 October 2017): Foundations for the Transformation Intended for anyone interested in Journey and Grounding into the Self committed self-enquiry and also suitable Week 3 (2 - 8 December 2017): for those in the caring professions, the The Self in Relationship programme content provides a learning Week 4 (10 - 16 February 2018): room for participants to deepen into The Self in Relationship to the Divine authentic presence and expand on their Week 5 (21 - 27 April 2018): ability to be and/or work with others. The Self, the Wound and the Life Task Week 6 (16 - 22 June 2018): For further details, please visit our Integrating and Moving On website www.findhorn.org/pathways or www.facebook.com/pathwaystotheself Maria Olsthoorn Tiered Price: £4600 / £3970 / £3430 By transforming the relationship with the self/Self, we cultivate authentic presence and a solid personal container for life, strengthening our ability to be with whatever arises in the moment. This work on the self is essential as an aspiration towards a deeper sense of presence with the Self and another.

22 2017 FINDHORN FOUNDATION COLLEGE

Our courses in further and higher education integrate experiential and academic learning within the context of the world-renowned Findhorn Learning Centre, community and ecovillage project. Findhorn Foundation College is committed to providing holistic education throughout our courses. We are passionate about engaging our participants in transformative education for personal empowerment and planetary well being; we embrace diversity of experience and offer a non-discriminatory, meaningful, empowering learning journey for all.

Learning English in Community Gaia Education: Design for Sustainability – the Findhorn EDE 25 March – 21 April; 27 May – 23 June; 26 August – 22 September 7 October – 10 November A dynamic opportunity to improve your English conversational This advanced training course is designed to develop the skills needed skills within a supportive group and community environment. for regenerative cultural change – exploring Social, Ecological, Economic and Worldview dimensions with a focus on design approaches, Transformation Game® Facilitators Training participatory empowerment & facilitation skills. 13 May – 26 May & 21 October – 3 November This Innerlinks training enables you to use the Transformation Field Study Visits – by arrangement Game® as a tool professionally with your clients and colleagues, We offer a range of activities, talks, tours and experiences to enhance as well as deepen the experience with friends and family. a variety of university programmes that focus on holistic approaches to sustainability, education and community studies. Reiki Training – with resident Reiki masters Reiki (ray-key) translates as ‘universal life energy’; it is a healing practice Pathways for Residential Researchers and Independent Study that may be applied safely by people of all ages. Comprehensive mentoring and logistic support is available to Researchers Level 1: 3 – 9 December 2016 & 9 – 15 December 2017 & independent study students to co-design bespoke fi eld study visits. Level 2: 20 – 26 May Phone: +44 (0)1309 690806 Web: fi ndhorncollege.org Permaculture Design Certifi cate Course Contact us for more information: admin@fi ndhorncollege.org 22 July – 4 August In depth introduction to the Fundamentals of Permaculture; Participants learn through a variety of indoor taught sessions, participant co-lead discussions & outdoor exercises. Company no. 215385, Scottish Charity SC 0311792.

23 Isle of Iona - Summer Retreats at Traigh Bhan Summer Retreat Weeks start The Retreat Weeks are loosely structured, yet well held. every Saturday from 24 June with the final week starting 26 August. Transport Information For Foundation bus information to Situated on the west coast of Scotland, Iona please contact our Transport Iona is a sacred island known as a Department. Tel: +44 (0)1309 678020 or historic place of pilgrimage. Traigh Bhan email: [email protected] is the Findhorn Foundation's retreat house on this magical island. Unless indicated otherwise, all retreats cost £600 / £450 / £350, according to Traigh Bhan offers the opportunity for individual circumstances. This includes quiet contemplation, while the island seven nights accommodation (maximum itself - with its views and spectacular six guests) in shared rooms and coastal scenery - is ideal for long walks vegetarian food for shared meals. Arrival of exploration and contact with nature's time is midday Saturday, and departure beauty. time is the next Saturday morning.

If you need time to integrate the lessons Experience Week prerequisite of a workshop or space to reflect on your own journey and next steps, Traigh Bhan is the perfect place for spiritual rest and renewal. Comfortable and well-equipped, the house has its own peaceful sanctuary for and meditation. Your focaliser can guide you in making the most of your time.

24 This is an opportunity to enjoy the magical Themed Weeks on Iona Isle of Iona and practise love in action Spring Retreat through gardening at the same time! 1 - 8 April £500 / £400 / £300 Margo van Greta This Spring Retreat offers you the Game of Transformation Retreat opportunity to enjoy the beauty of 27 May - 3 June the island, celebrating the new in you Liza Hollingshead and around you and experience the This is a unique opportunity to play Equinox Retreat sacredness of nature, which often goes the original version of the Game of 16 - 23 September beyond words. Transformation while living and sharing David Buckle together at Traigh Bhan. Equinox Retreat on Iona is an opportunity Transformation in Retreat £800 / £700 / £600 to deeply experience the changing of the 8 - 15 April, 10 - 17 June, season, balancing dark and light, within 30 September - 7 October The Art of Pilgrimage the peace of this beautiful island. David Buckle, Margo van Greta, 17 - 24 June Niels Paulsen Geoff Dalglish Space for the Heart The power of the Transformation (Box) This retreat will combine the opportunity 23 - 30 September Game combined with the peace and for gently guided meditative walks and Margo van Greta beauty of Iona. reconnection with the beauty and healing Meditations from Buddhist tradition £650 / £500 / £400 powers of nature. combined with the inspiration of Iona £650 / £500 / £400 connect us more deeply with our heart, Easter Retreat with the qualities of love and compassion. 15 - 22 April Retreat with Art £650 / £500 / £400 Niels Paulsen 2 - 9 September Experience Easter week on the holy Karin Werner Autumn Garden Retreat island of Iona. Connecting with art through meditation 28 October - 4 November and silent visual contemplation, guided Eveline Rodenburg Spring Garden Retreat art sessions and sharing time. Ample time Enjoy the magic of Iona in the Autumn. 20 - 27 May to relax and spend time alone. See Spring Garden Retreat for more info. Eveline Rodenburg £700 / £550 / £450 £500 / £400 / £300 25 Isle of Erraid Love in Action Weeks Booking Information Immerse yourself in the rhythm of our For further details, bookings, long-term lives. Enjoy the wild beauty of the island possibilities or for special rates for while joining in community activities children and groups please contact us at: such as gardening, cooking, chopping Tel: +44 (0)1681 700384 wood, maintenance, polishing candles, Email: [email protected] meditating and much more. Please find more information on our £500 - £250 by attunement website: www.erraid.com

Retreat Weeks For Foundation bus information please Erraid is a beautiful Hebridean island in Allow yourself to be held within the see page 24. view of Iona where a small community, healing energies of the island as you part of the Findhorn Foundation, lives take time for yourself - going for walks, Our prices are on a sliding scale and works together within the natural sitting on the beach, reading, writing, according to individual circumstances. cycles of sea and land. The quality of connecting with nature. Our cosy retreat Please be aware that you attune to the stillness and the simplicity of life here cottage is available for a more private final amount you pay at the end of your are an invitation to slow down and space. stay on Erraid. experience a different way of being. £550 - £350 by attunement

You are welcome to join us for a week Celtic Festival Weeks or more to experience the island’s The Erraid Family also acknowledge the magical energy, explore its magnificent Celtic festivals during our usual Love In landscape and wildlife, our unique Action weeks and guests are invited to lifestyle and community life. We are open co-create the experience with us. for guests most of the year. Families with £500 - £250 by attunement children are always welcome. There are several ways of exploring Erraid: 26 Imbolc Mabon - Autumn Equinox 28 January - 4 February 16 - 23 September The return of the Celtic Goddess Bride, As summer fades and winter approaches representing the reawakening of the life we come together to celebrate the force after winter. The energy of renewal Harvest Festival, gathering in and invites us to leave behind that which feasting on the rich produce of our no longer serves and prepare for the gardens and the achievements and coming of spring. blessings of our lives.

Ostara - Spring Equinox Samhain 18 - 25 March 28 October - 4 November When days grow longer and life unfurls Traditionally the Celtic New Year and from winter hibernation. As the natural the time when the veil is at its thinnest world surges into spring we celebrate between our world and the spirit world. fresh growth in our own lives. A time to remember our loved ones and to honour our ancestors. Beltane 29 April - 5 May The arrival of summer. We celebrate the union of male and female energy, the “I left Erraid completely inspired. It has opened a window of power of fire and the burning creativity possibility into where I want to be of passion in our own lives. and what kind of life I want to live. The people I have met are all lovers Lithia - Summer Solstice in the truest sense - lovers of the 17 - 24 June earth and the bounty of life. The The sun is at the height of its power and world needs more communities we celebrate the longest day of the year. like Erraid to pave the way for a A time of appreciation for the natural beautiful future and I am infinitely bounty overflowing from our gardens grateful for having spent time here.” and for reflecting on abundance in our own lives. 27 making, time in nature, discovery games, meet the Foundation, each other and communication workshops, and much themselves in a new way. We also run more. themed events that focus on supporting Reaching Out the development of solutions to climate The Findhorn Bay Care Farm initiative change. Through FICS and working in welcomes a regular group of adults partnership with Findhorn Consultancy, Building Bridges with learning disabilities (LD) from the we offer bespoke trainings and events Welcoming Diversity local area to join us in our horticultural to individual business and non-profit The Building Bridges team helps to make activities at Cullerne Garden and engage organisations. the Findhorn Foundation accessible in personal development activities. to a greater diversity of people and We focus on creating a supportive FICS events are by invitation only; please organisations. We work to develop environment that enables participants contact [email protected] more info. creative and effective workshops in the to share their many gifts with those following key areas: around them. The care farm runs each Tuesday throughout the year and we • Social inclusion aim to expand this to additional days for • Business and NGO support LD as well as move towards horticultural • Bespoke and tailored experiences services for those recovering from mental health problems. Social inclusion The Youth Empowerment Programme Business and NGO support (YEP) is run with our partner, Action Under the name Findhorn International Findhorn International Forum for for Children. This programme brings Centre for Sustainability (FICS), the Sustainability 2016 disadvantaged young people aged Findhorn Foundation runs inspiring between 16 and 25 from the local programmes and services for business Bespoke and tailored experiences area to the Foundation three and NGO professionals who are working We offer short tastes of what the days a week for three months. They to create a sustainable world. Our Foundation has to offer to private engage in a variety of new experiences regular Findhorn International Forum groups through our A Great Day Out including gardening, cooking for the on Sustainability is a stimulating five day programme, and tailored residential community, movement exercises, music programme where such professionals experiences for private groups

28 wanting to learn from our five decades of community building experience. Some of our learning opportunities include: developing a spiritual practice, team work and team building, group discovery games, permaculture theory and practice, renewable energy, co- creation with nature, group projects in Findhorn Bay Care Farm Polytunnel the gardens and building sustainable community.

We also work in partnership with The Findhorn Foundation’s Contribution to the UN like-minded organisations to create Agenda for Education for (ESD) programmes tailored to the needs of The is a major centre of adult holistic learning, serving over specific groups. One example of this 10,000 visitors from over 50 countries in 2016. A synthesis of the very best of current is the School of Youth, which brings thinking on sustainable human settlements, our ecovillage is used as an ESD resource together young people aged between by ecovillage educators and a number of university and school groups, as well as by 16 and 27 from different cultural, professional organisations. religious and economic backgrounds to engage in a ten-day learning Education for Sustainable Development is an umbrella initiative gathering together journey. The programme blends both existing and future learning models for designing and implementing sustainable outdoor adventures with music, art and ways of life. Both the Findhorn Foundation's month-long Applied Ecovillage Living philosophy to support the development (now in its 18th year) and the Findhorn Foundation College's five-week Gaia Education of young people in the world. The Design for Sustainability (now in its 12th year) equip participants to be holistic change School of Youth is run in partnership leaders in their communities, contributing to the transition towards more sustainable with Active Earth, based in Spain. patterns of production and consumption, as well as more joyful, meaningful and healthier lives for all. Contact Us tel: +44 (0)1309 690700 The Findhorn Foundation is an NGO associated with the Department of Public email: [email protected] Information of the United Nations. We look forward to welcoming you. 29 Outreach Workshops We respond to invitations from all over the world, offering workshops and activities to share the spiritual values and group skills that have been developed and are still evolving within the Findhorn Foundation community.

We use a variety of tools - sacred song and dance, games, meditation, intention and silence - to build group consciousness and community. If you would like to set up an Transformation Game Mary Inglis in Japan event in your area, please contact Rosie Turnbull at the address below. You can see Outreach Workshops our current Outreach Workshops diary, listing Findhorn Foundation Foundation-related events and workshops The Park, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ Scotland taking place across the world, by going online Tel: +44 (0)1309 691618 at www.findhorn.org/outreach/workshops email: [email protected]

Resource People Our global network of Resource People (RPs) know the Findhorn Foundation community well and enjoy sharing the inspiration that many experience here, as well as practical information about how to visit. There are currently 180 RPs in 33 countries around the world and they would be delighted to hear from you. Some RPs organise Foundation-related events and activities and might be living within your reach. Being in touch with them is a great way to plan your visit or stay connected after your time here. You can find the full list of RPs atwww.findhorn.org/rp or you can email [email protected] 30 JEFF OLSEN Choosing Joy for a Transformational Life Discover the love, peace, connection and power you’ve been quietly looking for. 15-17 April 2017

Share with Jeff the spiritual transformation he went through on his journey through a devastating car crash and Near Death Experience of eternal, divine love. In this special event, Jeff will open a space for individuals to heal and find answers to questions about whatever they might be experiencing in their lives. Many discover with him how divine energy heals, teaches and is always available to us if we are simply open to receive it.

www.findhorn.org/jeffolsen 31 FESTIVAL OF SACRED DANCE, MUSIC AND SONG Celebrating 25 YEARS with Susanne Anders Bartholomäi, Bill Henderson, Hanna Morjan, Rory O’Connell, Sheila Pettit, Renata Ramos, Laura Shannon and Kostantis Kourmadias, Barbara Swetina, Peter Vallance, Kicky Anderberg 15 - 21 July 2017

Experience the transformation and healing that Sacred Dance brings. The Festival includes Brazilian Soul in Movement with Renata Ramos, DanceMeditation with Susanne Anders Bartholomäi, Traditional Dances and Healing Energy with Laura Shannon and Kostantis Kourmadias, and a Sacred Dance Journey with Peter Vallance.

You will be able to participate in the festival choir with Sheila Pettit or the orchestra with Bill Henderson. Together, they will provide music for the final night’s dance and celebration.

Dancing to live music is an essential feature of the Festival and evenings will include Kicky Anderberg’s Mahala band, Indian Bhajan band, Rory O’Connell and community musicians, traditional Greek, Balkan and Armenian dances with Kostantis Kourmadias and Laura Shannon and devotional dances and songs with Barbara Swetina. www.findhorn.org/dancefestival

32 with ROBERT HOLDEN

Join Robert for three days of working with the Enneagram, a 2,500 year old self-awareness tool revealing the fears (energy blocks), fixations (mental blocks) and passions (emotional blocks) that stop you flourishing. Robert will lead you through a series of powerful meditations and exercises to release blockages, rediscover your divine inheritance and find your flow. www.findhorn.org/robertholden

No previous experience of The Enneagram is necessary for this workshop. 33 Caroline Myss Guts and God Using Spiritual Direction to Discover the Hidden and Obvious Presence of the Divine in Your Life 11 - 13 November 2017

In this workshop we will explore how to find the Divine using the ancient art of Spiritual Direction. This is a technique of inner examination that guides you to explore the essential questions of your life with the intention of embracing the guidance of your spirit.

It takes a lot of ‘spiritual guts’ to delve deep into spiritual questions and to be willing to examine your life with courage and clarity. But from this work come profound changes, healing, and new direction. www.findhorn.org/caroline-myss 34 * Programmes start on Saturday and finish the following Friday evening unless otherwise stated. * Programmes on Iona start on Saturday and finish the following Saturday. * Living in Community (LCG) starts on every Saturday unless otherwise stated. These programmes require prior participation in Experience Week.

Sprinklings of Light - Spring Cleaning January 2017 Week at The Park 15 Saturday 7 January Experience Week 10 Saturday 11 February Walking the Amazonian Shamanic Path 40 Being in Community 14 No Living in Community (LCG) Applied Ecovillage Living (4 weeks) 21

Saturday 21 January Saturday 18 February Experience Week 10 Experience Week 10 Being in Community 14 Being in Community 14 The Way of Rest - Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love Saturday 25 February (3 days) 40 Being in Community 14

Saturday 28 January A Gift to Cluny - Spring Cleaning at March Cluny 15 Saturday 4 March Living a Life Less Toxic 40 Experience Week 10 Erraid - Imbolc 27 Being in Community 14 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 February Life Purpose 41 C alendar Saturday 4 February Saturday 11 March Experience Week 10 Being in Community 14 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 Astroshamanic Quest for Manifestation 41 35 35 Saturday 18 March Being in Community 14 Saturday 13 May Experience Week 10 Iona - Easter Retreat 25 Experience Week 10 Being in Community 14 Coming Home to the Garden Erraid - Ostara - Spring Equinox 27 Tuesday 18 April - Gardening at The Park 15 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 The Seven Rays of Life 43 Saturday 25 March Spiritual Practice - Power of Intention 16 Saturday 22 April Saturday 20 May Spiritual Practice - Intro to Meditation 17 Experience Week 10 Relationships - A Path towards Being in Community 14 April Wholeness 42 Iona - Spring Garden Retreat 25 Saturday 1 April Working with Crystals and Subtle Energy Ecovillage Experience Week 11 for Self Healing 42 Saturday 27 May Being in Community 14 Special Event: Robert Holden - Abundance Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 Saturday 29 April and the Enneagram (3 days) 33 Radical Authenticity in Times of Experience Week 10 Experience Week 10 Uncertainty (5 days) 41 Being in Community 14 In Perfect Timing - Gardening at Iona - Spring Retreat 25 Healing the Fragmented Heart 42 Cullerne 15 Esalen® Massage Certification Training Iona - Game of Transformation Retreat 25 Saturday 8 April (4 weeks) 42 Experience Week 10 Erraid - Beltane 27 Spiritual Practice - Permaculture 16 Speaking with the Earth Through Sacred Sound 42 May Iona - Transformation in Retreat 25 Saturday 6 May Experience Week 10 Saturday 15 April In Perfect Timing - Gardening at Special Event: Jeff Olsen - Choosing Cullerne 15 Joy for a Transformational Life (3 days) 31 A Journey through the Gates of Wisdom Experience Week 10 towards Spiritual Eldership 43 French Experience Week 13 Game of Transformation (7 days) 41

36 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 Saturday 15 July June Conscious Golf - Developing Your Inner Special Event: Festival of Sacred Saturday 3 June Caddy 44 Dance, Music and Song 32 Experience Week 10 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Experience Week 10 Coming Home to the Garden French Experience Week 13 - Gardening at The Park 15 Horses, Sense and Soul: A Spiritual The Longing to Belong - Listening to the July Adventure 45 Call of your Soul 43 Saturday 1 July Being in Community 14 Music Experience Week 12 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Saturday 10 June Japanese Eco Experience Week 13 Experience Week 10 Spiritual Practice - Active Meditation 17 Saturday 22 July Being in Community 14 TRE - Experiential Learning about Trauma Experience Week 10 Essentials of Supervision 43 and Stress Management (4 days) 44 Family Experience Week 12 Iona - Transformation in Retreat 25 Inner Listening, Outer Action 44 German Experience Week 13 Interspecies Communication and Deep Being in Community 11 Saturday 17 June Nature Connection 44 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 Hinterland Experience Week 11 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Self Mastery at Your Fingertips 46 Japanese Experience Week 13 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Spiritual Practice - Ritual and Saturday 8 July Ceremony 17 Experience Week 10 Saturday 29 July Life Purpose 41 Portuguese Experience Week 13 Experience Week 10 Creative Meditation: Embodiment, Nature Being in Community 14 Family Experience Week 12 and Art 44 A Sacred Retreat - Explore Your Soul Being in Community 14 Iona - The Art of Pilgrimage 25 Through Mandala Painting 45 The Alchemy of Transformation 46 Erraid - Lithia - Summer Solstice 27 Conscious Relationships 45 The Elusive Obvious (5 days) 46 Cultivating Life Force - Introducing Daoist Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Saturday 24 June Chi Gong into Daily Life 45 Experience Week 10 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Italian Experience Week 13 Being in Community 14

37 Saturday 26 August Saturday 16 September AUGUST Experience Week 10 Experience Week 10 Saturday 5 August Japanese Experience Week 13 Spiritual Practice - Living Intuitively 17 Ecovillage Experience Week (Urban) 11 Danish Experience Week 13 Advanced Essence & Empowerment 49 Youth Experience Week 12 Being in Community 14 Shamanic Visioning for Personal and Family Experience Week Follow-On 12 Biodanza - The Dance of Life 47 Planetary Healing 49 Being in Community 14 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Iona - Autumn Equinox Retreat 25 Sacred Bee Symposium and Immersion 46 Erraid - Mabon - Autumn Equinox 27 Creations in Nature 46 Your Exquisite Body of Light 47 SEPTEMBER Saturday 23 September Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Saturday 2 September Experience Week 10 Experience Week 10 Being in Community 14 Saturday 12 August Japanese Spiritual Practice 13 Iona - Space for the Heart 25 Experience Week 10 Being in Community 14 Spanish Experience Week 13 Systemic Family Constellations - Opening Saturday 30 September Spiritual Practice - Wild Nature 17 Hearts, Finding More Not Less 48 Experience Week 10 Wholebody Focusing 47 Dancing to Be Still 48 Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Essence and Empowerment - The TARA No Living in Community (LCG) Approach 48 Love in Action - Maintenance at The Saturday 19 August Iona - Retreat with Art 25 Park 15 Experience Week 10 Moment to Moment 49 Being in Community 14 Saturday 9 September Embodying 50 Game of Transformation (7 days) 41 Experience Week 10 Iona - Transformation in Retreat 25 Practical Shamanism - Bridging Ancient Being in Community 14 Wisdom into Everyday Life 47 Awakening the Dancer Within 48 Embracing Change - An Open Floor OCTOBER Movement Workshop 47 3-6 October Iona - Summer Retreat 24 Applied Sustainability - Whole Systems Thinking to Redesign the Future (4 days) 49

38 Saturday 7 October Ecovillage Experience Week 11 December LGBT Experience Week 12 Saturday 2 December Being in Community 14 Experience Week 10 Pathways to the Self Week 1 & 2 Being in Community 11 (2 weeks) 22 Pathways to the Self - Week 3 22 Inner Alchemy 52 Saturday 14 October NOVEMber Experience Week 10 Saturday 4 November Saturday 9 December Spiritual Practice - Permaculture 16 Experience Week 10 Being in Community 11 Let Love In (3 days) 50 Spiritual Practice - Clay 17 Saturday 16 December 16-20 October Saturday 11 November Experience Week 10 Esalen® Massage - Deepening Your Special Event: Caroline Myss - Guts and Being in Community 11 Healing Presence (4 days) 50 God (3 days) 34 Spiritual Practice - Mindfulness 17 Wednesday 20 December Saturday 21 October Game of Transformation (4 days) 41 No Living in Community (LCG) Experience Week 10 A Christmas Retreat 52 German Experience Week 13 Saturday 18 November Being in Community 14 Experience Week 10 Wednesday 27 December Sacred Dance - Symbols in Movement: Being in Community 11 New Year Celebration - Crossing the The Mevlevi Dervish Turning and Other Spiritual Deepening (4 weeks) 20 Threshold 52 Prayer Dances 51 Conscious Conception 51 New Year Retreat - Turning Within and Alchemy of Transformation 51 Moving Forward 52 Saturday 28 October Game of Transformation (7 days) 41 Being in Community 14 Saturday 25 November Exploring Reality - Living Reality (3 days) 51 Portuguese Experience Week 10 Saturday 30 December Iona - Autumn Garden Retreat 25 Being in Community 14 Living in Community (LCG) Restricted Erraid: Samhain 27 Mysterious Movement in Curious Depths intake only - An Intuitive Approach to Hatha 51

39 7 - 13 January ground of now. Tiered Price: £480 / £370 / £260 Walking the Amazonian Shamanic Path Kurikindi 28 January - 3 February Kurikindi, an Ecuadorian traditional shaman, leads this exploration of Living a Life Less Toxic shamanism from the magical Amazon Faith Canter region and what it can teach us about Each day of the workshop will involve ourselves, mother earth and our future. learning hands-on techniques for living We will explore our relationship with a less toxic life in mind, body, home and plants and natural medicine along with environment. We will discuss how this their uses and misuses, ceremony and benefits our own health and that of this energy work, shamanic songs and beautiful planet and we will make our their healing capability and balancing own eco products and a selection of our male and female energy, all while fermented foods. enjoying the process! Tiered Price: £1110 / £880 / £730 Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670

21 - 23 January The Way of Rest - Finding the Courage to Hold Everything in Love Jeff Foster Let go of seeking. Whatever it is, you can release the need to figure it out now. Let Please note that all it remain unresolved a little while. There’s our workshops have a no need to fast-forward to the ‘answer’ Findhorn Foundation scene in the movie of your life; trust the community member present scene of ‘no answer yet’. Allow present either as the question itself space to breathe and focaliser or assistant. be fertilised. Relax into the mysterious

40 4 - 7 February 11 - 17 March Game of Transformation Astroshamanic Quest for Manifestation - 4 days Shining your Talents in the World 4 - 7 February, 4 - 7 March, 1 - 4 April, 18 Franco Santoro - 21 April, 24 - 27 June, 22 - 25 July, 30 This workshop is for those who wish to September - 3 October, 11 - 14 November take a decisive leap in discovering and 7 days manifesting their unique potentials and 6 - 12 May, 19 - 25 August, 27 December talents. Drawing from his shamanic and 2017 - 2 January 2018 holistic skills, Franco guides you into a journey of experiential discernment to InnerLinks Group unveil your true calling and gain clarity on This is the original version of the how you can best express yourself in the Transformation Game®. It differs from 4 - 10 March, 17 - 23 June world. the box Game that you may know as it is Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Life Purpose more complex and multi-levelled. Centred Karen Luedtke, Susan Miles around a circular board symbolising each 3 - 7 April This key and long-running Findhorn player’s world, this game offers a playful workshop provides a space for you to Radical Authenticity in Times of yet substantial way of understanding and connect more consciously with your Uncertainty transforming key life issues. With two deepest motivation for being in life. Ann Sterckx, Rudy Vandamme skilled guides and only five players, this is A variety of creative, meditative and One of the most essential twenty-first a wonderful opportunity to receive a high practical exercises help you connect century skills is to stay resilient and take degree of masterful attention and make with the stream of intuitive information a leading role in living a meaningful, a quantum leap into greater wholeness. available to you. Learn to align with your eco-friendly life, helping others to This workshop is a powerful springboard inner knowing, gain clarity on your next do the same. This workshop offers a for spiritual growth and development, steps and appreciate the nature of your transformative pathway and a set of skills valuable at any stage of your life journey. own deeply personal lifelong journey to become an empowered citizen and Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 (4 days) towards fulfillment. ‘cultural creative’ in your own context. Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 (7 days) Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 Experience Week prerequisite

41 8 - 14 April 29 April - 5 May Speaking With The Earth Through Healing the Fragmented Heart - Sacred Sound An Astroshamanic Workshop on Nina Umai Spiro Multidimensional Relationships and Soul In this experiential workshop, Nina Umai Retrieval Spiro, founder of Pravada, teaches us to Franco Santoro reconnect with the innate wisdom and In this unique astroshamanic workshop power of our own vocal sound, as it is we will explore relationships from a a natural vehicle for becoming present spiritual, holistic and shamanic, as well in each moment, awakening our most as pragmatic, perspective with the aim authentic selves and living in full union of healing connections with partners, with every being in the universe. relatives, friends and significant people Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 in your life. Learning and practising astroshamanic methods of healing and 22 - 28 April Working with Crystals and Subtle soul retrieval, we will assess energetic Energy for Self-Healing patterns of interaction in our lives and Relationships - A Path Towards Wholeness Robert Burlinson gain perspectives that will enable us to Javier Rodriguez, Susan Miles This workshop gives participants continue the healing work beyond this To find oneself without any form of an informative, experiential and week. relationship is impossible. It is through transformative training in working with Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 our interactions with others that we are crystals for self-healing and development offered opportunities for integrating within the magical environment of 29 April - 26 May those aspects of ourselves that need Findhorn. Participants will learn how to to be welcomed. Using models such as The Esalen® Massage Certification sense, choose, cleanse, and tune crystals, Process Oriented Psychology coupled Training about grounding and protection, the with inner work, role play and paying Perry Holloman, Johanna Holloman subtle anatomy system, how to channel attention to our bodies, we will come to Esalen® Massage is a unique form healing energy, and various healing appreciate our personal dynamics with of bodywork developed over more techniques using crystals. others as helpful messengers supporting than 40 years at the Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 our soul’s evolutionary journey. in Big Sur, California. This four-week Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 introduction will give you in-depth 42 knowledge and practice of techniques According to the Ancient Wisdom 10 - 16 June as well as grounding in the presence and Teachings, the seven rays determine a The Essentials of Supervision mindfulness practices that Findhorn is person’s psychological makeup. With Joan Wilmot known for, and that are essential to this ample colour, humour and movement, Supervision is like the Tardis: small on the healing art. You will be fully qualified to we will explore the rays and how outside and infinite when you go through give a professional, full body massage they determine our makeup: physical, the door! This CPD accredited week is upon completion of the programme. emotional, mental and spiritual. We will about supervision as a way of being; a Tiered Price: £3620 / £3380 / £3140 develop a better understanding of how way to think deeply and vulnerably about Please see pg 50 for the Esalen this ray ‘constellation’ influences our lives work and career, life and values, our Deepening workshop in October and the best ways of working with it for relationships with ourselves, others and personal spiritual transformation. our world and how to align ourselves with 6 - 12 May Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 our work. This workshop provides training A Journey through the Gates of Wisdom in the Seven Eyed model developed and 3 - 9 June toward Spiritual Eldership delivered by CSTD. Nancy Adams, Rog Coulson The Longing to Belong - Listening to the Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 In the autumn years of our lives, we either Call of Your Soul ‘age’ into being ‘elderly’ or we ‘sage’ into Astrid Gude ‘spiritual elderhood’. Elderhood is a state “As soon as you rest in the house of your of consciousness where women and own heart, doors and windows begin men are agents of evolution, assuming to open outwards to the world,” writes roles of mentorship, guidance and John O’Donohue. Every so often we feel wisdom keeping. Join us on a journey of homeless in ourselves, disconnected exploration and discovery of growing into from the natural world and lacking a spiritual elderhood. sense of purpose and meaning. Using Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 a variety of tools from Gestalt work and spiritual traditions, we embark on a 13 - 19 May journey that invites us to reconnect and belong. The Seven Rays of Life Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 John Abdey, Marion Neighbour

43 17 - 23 June 24 - 30 June Interspecies Communication and Deep Nature Connection Creative Meditation: Embodiment, Conscious Golf - Developing Your Inner Jacqueline Buckingham, Lesley Downie Nature and Art Caddy This workshop is an invitation to come Beverley A’Court, Margo van Greta Graham Meltzer, Sylvia Black and immerse yourself in the beautiful The ‘Sacred Garden’, where human and The game of golf is intrinsically spiritual; landscape of the Moray coast and in the divine meet to co-create, supports this it’s a mindfulness practice. This workshop embrace of the Findhorn community, meditative retreat where creativity, nature will develop your ‘inner caddy’ - that while you rediscover your innate ability to and weave together to access reassuring ‘still, small voice within.’ We will communicate with animals, plants and the the peace that lives in us and the field of play four rounds of golf during a week others with whom we share this planet. which we are a part. We will synthesise of immersion in Findhorn community Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 meditations based in Tibetan Buddhist life. Courses will be selected for their and nature-contemplative traditions with accessibility, affordability and beauty. 1 - 4 July embodied art-making, in communion with Tiered Price: £1220 / £960 / £810 nature. TRE® - Experiential Learning about Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 1 - 7 July Trauma and Stress Management Vicki Cook Inner Listening, Outer Action Stress, trauma and burnout have serious Niels Paulsen, Rosie Turnbull physical, psychological and social This year we celebrate the centenaries consequences. As they affect our body, of the births of Peter and Eileen Caddy. talking and medication are often not Their dedication to the ‘still, small voice enough to heal. This Tension and Trauma within’ and applied action manifested in Releasing Exercises (TRE®) workshop the spiritual foundations of what is now will go straight to the physical source of the Findhorn Foundation and Community. tension. TRE®s are easy to learn and have In this retreat week we will spend time proven effective in healing a spectrum in silence and in outer action with group of stress, trauma and burnout-related projects. conditions, mild to severe. The workshop Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 is experiential and will require personal commitment. Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 44 8 - 14 July A Sacred Retreat - Explore Your Soul Through Mandala Painting Ann-Marie Grind, Erik Grind An ancient symbol for wholeness and harmony, the mandala can be used as a path of self-discovery. This retreat will give you tools to explore your soul through mandala painting - a joyful, healing and meditative practice - and the opportunity to complete a beautiful and colourful mandala reflecting your inner life. Although no artistic experience is expected or necessary, the mandala can be a path for artistic development, Cultivating Life Force - Introducing 15 - 21 July beginner or advanced. Daoist Chi Gong into Daily Life Horses, Sense and Soul: A Spiritual Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Therese Poon Adventure “Every journey of a thousand miles Lindsay Fovargue, Pam Billinge Conscious Relationships begins with a single step” - Lao Tsu Horses are acutely attuned energetically. Jan Day, Frieder Fischer Merging Eastern and Western spirituality, They respond to us more fully when our The workshop focuses on how we can we will engage with the unnameable mind, body and spirit are connected. create a deep and fulfilling ‘WE’ space. mystery that infuses all life and develop In this they demonstrate how we can It enables you to see and let go of old a Chi Gong practice to connect into become more fully present, more potent patterns that hinder intimate relationships oneness. Our week will include and more alive. This experiential week and to open courageously into a new way movement, stillness, soul dialogue and involves meditations and exercises to of relating in connection with your body, connecting with nature. Suitable for all support embodied awareness, and sensual nature and unique essence. Both ages and fitness levels. observation and interaction with beautiful singles and couples are welcome. Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 horses. The week involves no riding and Tiered Price: £1110 / £880 / £730 requires no previous experience. Tiered Price: £1220 / £960 / £810 45 22 - 28 July you, access untapped wisdom, and make process of creating and letting go. Our art a fresh start. material: stones, sand, clay, shells, wood, Self Mastery at Your Fingertips Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 leaves and the precious moment. Jena Griffiths Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 During this workshop we uncover how 29 July - 2 August to express our divinity by learning to see beyond the illusion of daily circumstance. The Elusive Obvious This is made possible by exploring our Roger Linden unique blueprint - the soul maps in Liberation is the permanent evaporation our fingerprints and the mythological of all sense of a separate self. What archetypes in our personalities. At the remains is silent, spacious presence - the end of the week we will know how to fully Self, experienced as the tender, peaceful inhabit our purpose and will take home joy of unconditional love. Using enquiry, a unique energy management and soul dialogue and silence we explore the tracking programme. reality of the Self, our true nature. We also Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 practise simple, natural ways of easing the mental, emotional and physical strain 29 July - 4 August, 18 - 24 November of living with a false sense of separation. Tiered Price: £980 / £710 / £550 The Alchemy of Transformation Sacred Bee Symposium and Immersion Joy Drake, Yasko Takahashi Laura Ferguson, Andrew Gough 5 - 11 August This hybrid workshop combines two Revel in relationship with nature’s proven tools for uplifting consciousness Creations in Nature greatest emissary, the honeybee. - the Transformation Game® and Craig Gibsone, Dietmar Voorwold Within the framework of heart-centered SoulCollage®. It provides a platform for An opportunity to contact the beauty explorations into the Six-fold Path of change that allows outdated selves to fall of nature and your own inner sense of Sacred Beekeeping (Science, Sacred, away, and invites rebirth into new ways harmony. Using the wide open landscape History, Mystery, Art/Medicine and of being infused with aliveness. As Angel canvas to create our art, during this week Activism) immerse yourself in beekeeping and SoulCollage cards speak to you, new we go out to the beach, the river and methodologies, movement, meditations links are forged and alchemy happens! the bay. We follow our and use and ceremony. You will also have the Come and release what no longer serves light and tides to experience the natural opportunity to hear about cutting-edge

46 beekeeping methodologies and exciting we will learn some Alexander Technique better dream for ourselves and all of life, discoveries regarding symbol and myth, body work skills. No prior experience is calls forth our inner light and invites us to storytelling and history. necessary. become a healing presence in the world. Tiered Price: £1220 / £960 / £810 Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610

Your Exquisite Body of Light 19 - 25 August Tjitze de Jong Embracing Change - An Open Floor A full-on week to explore your unique Movement Workshop individual healership. Familiarise yourself Deborah Jay-Lewin, Bettina Jespersen with directing energy flow and with As the world changes around us we are embodying a bridge of positive intention called to dance deeper into our own between heaven and earth via hara and creative selves, to be honest about core. With a hands-on approach you our vulnerability so we can access discover how chakras actually function our equilibrium and strength. We will and how the various layers of the can use Open Floor Movement Practice to be accessed, cleansed, repaired, charged. bring this enquiry to the dance floor as Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 we literally embody the physicality of change. Anchored in our bodies, we will 12 - 18 August engage in lively, enlightening movement Wholebody Focusing conversations with ourselves and each 26 August - 1 September Alex Maunder, Sue Miles other. Beneath our stress and trauma lies an Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Biodanza - The Dance of Life inner wellspring of intelligence and Nadasree Georgete Gadas vitality that knows how to move our life Practical Shamanism - Bridging Ancient How would it feel to be at ease in your situations forward. Combining elements Wisdom into Everyday Life body, trusting its wisdom and feeling free of the Alexander Technique with Astrid Gude to enjoy yourself as a sensuous, vibrant Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing technique, We will explore shamanism as a way of being? To reconnect with your life force Wholebody Focusing encourages more life. Walking this path brings passion and and reawaken to the beauty and pleasure of the body into self-enquiry, increasing meaning back into life, supports us in of being alive, moving and relating? grounded presence and energy flow. NB: releasing limiting beliefs, opens us to a Biodanza leads us gradually into deeper 47 contact with, and permission to believe in, regulation, including emotional trauma. Essence & Empowerment - The TARA the goodness of our instinctive passions, A highly experiential week for both Approach expressing the emotions that arise from therapists and others that will deepen Stephanie Mines that experience. your present moment awareness and In a world of increasing sensory Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 joyful aliveness in a way that respects inundation, identifying and following your your own pacing and style. purposeful inner guidance becomes 2 - 8 September Details at www.dance2bestill.com more and more complicated. The TARA Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Approach - an integrative design that Systemic Family Constellations - fuses Western neuropsychology and Opening Hearts, Finding More Not Less a simple meridian based touch system Doris Elisabeth Fischer - guides you back to your essential Discover a greater capacity to live in purpose, the one you brought with the wholeness of who you are in seven you when you were conceived, and days of individual constellation work, empowers you to follow your truth into an introduction to the science of human this world where it is desperately needed. relations and inner work. Doris Elisabeth Dr. Mines integrates the resources Fischer, a long-term student of family of neuroscience, pre and perinatal constellation founder Bert Hellinger, psychology and a bioelectrical map of guides this journey of deepening within the body to reconfigure early trauma and and expanding outward into new life optimise human potential. All participants possibilities. directly experience the rediscovery of Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 their essence and its empowerment. Tiered Price: £1110 / £880 / £730 Dancing to Be Still Lindsay Fovargue 9 - 15 September Dance your way to aliveness, stillness and presence. Combining Body Awakening the Dancer Within Psychotherapy, mindfulness practices Katie Holland and free or loosely structured movement “Dreaming while awake, awakening to music, this workshop is a sensitive, from the dream” with Katie Holland: fun practice which gives attention to self- encompassing Inner Dance, sacred 48 dances, deep ecology, conscious They will also both give and receive 30 September - 6 October communication, dynamic meditation, healing sessions to stimulate their Moment to Moment breath work and more! Answer the call personal and professional evolution. Nadasree Georgete Gadas, Susan Miles of your heart, the authentic knowing self The moment-to-moment practice of just waiting for the freedom to expand *This week is for people who connecting with the feeling intelligence and connect completely in love, trust and have completed the Essence and of the heart can help us access and deep self knowing! Empowerment workshop or studied and integrate more love into all areas of Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 used Self-Care, Module One and Module our lives. Acceptance, enjoyment and Two of the TARA Approach. If you have pleasure become the natural expression not fulfilled these prerequisites but would of embodied higher consciousness and like to before this week begins, please the moment-to-moment beauty of being contact Stephanie Mines at alive. [email protected] for options. Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 Tiered Price: £1110 / £880 / £730 Embodying Higher Conciousness Shamanic Visioning for Personal and Stephen Busby, Adele Napier Planetary Healing An immense acceleration in 16 - 22 September Astrid Gude consciousness is available to us! How “When everyone in a room is focused on Advanced Essence & Empowerment much do we allow this to permeate using energy to support, love and heal Stephanie Mines through us, so that our somatic, subtle others, that is exactly what occurs, This adaptive course deepens TARA and psychic capacities become and this is the energy that supports Approach students’ understanding of pre integrated as our ground in life? Using miracles.” - Sandra Ingerman and perinatal psychology, embryogenesis inner tools and a rich mix of exercises, Through shamanic journeying and and the mind-body connection. we’ll explore our potential for a higher ceremonies we will create an energy field Participants will learn to integrate frequency of consciousness, refining where the visible and invisible meet and dialogue attuned to the essential self, subtle-energy competence and cooperate for the highest good of all. knowledge of key developmental presencing those inner structures, often Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 thresholds and advanced energy inherited, that are available for awareness medicine applications, attaining TARA and healing. Approach mastery. Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 49 3 - 6 October Applied Sustainability - Whole Systems Thinking to Redesign the Future Iain Findlay, Isabella Guerrini de Claire Applied Sustainability is the application of science and innovation to meet human needs while indefinitely preserving the life support systems of the planet. This workshop is a gateway for sustainable development with the Natural Step and Circular Economy frameworks, both successful organisational and community 14 - 17 October various stretches safely, incorporating sustainability planning tools. We will Deep Bodywork®, a method created Let Love In realign ourselves with whole systems by Perry Holloman that integrates the Faith Canter thinking and gain practical tools to qualities of a flowing Esalen® Massage Let Love In! Learn to love yourself and connect with the enormous potential for with the therapeutic effectiveness of life more. Learn to value who you are positive change that exists within our deep tissue work. The workshop is for and what you bring to the World, to love current crises. people with at least some experience of the body you’re in, the history of who Tiered Price: £920 / £680 / £510 practising massage. Spa practitioners and you are and the love of those around therapists in particular will benefit, but you. Become a self-lover instead of self- Pathways to the Self non-professionals with previous massage loather and become inspired! 7 - 13 October, 14 - 20 October, 2 - 8 experience are also welcome. Tiered Price: £780 / £610 / £490 December 2017, 10 - 16 February, 21 - 27 Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 April, 16 - 22 June 2018 16 - 20 October See pg 22. Esalen® Massage - Deepening Your Healing Presence Mika Oishi In this Esalen® Massage refresher workshop we will learn how to use 50 21 - 27 October full, rich gamut of human experience is The Alchemy of Transformation the very expression of our being. Closer Please see pg 46 for the full description. Sacred Dance - Symbols in Movement: than close, more intimate than intimate The Mevlevi Dervish Turning and Other with all of life, this is about being love. 25 November - 1 December Prayer Dances Tiered Price: £480 / £370 / £260 Maria-Gabriele Wosien Mysterious Movement in Curious Enter a sacred space of dance and Depths - An Intuitive Approach to Hatha 18 - 24 November embody in form, rhythm and movement Yoga the timeless journey of the soul. Through Conscious Conception Louise Simmons dances with mythological themes, Esther-Maria Lindner Transformative, Scaravelli-inspired yoga including The Song of the Pearl, The Our children are our future, and through enquiry exploring circular, fluid movement Maya Myth of the Sun Serpent and the the act of conscious conception, deep in our bodies. Release rigid medieval Traditions of Prophecy cycle, we pregnancy and birth we can change the tension in muscles. Invite a deeper, more will turn ancient knowledge into personal world we live in, as we prepare the way beautiful engagement with spine and experience. We will draw upon the Sufi for high frequency beings. Discover how enlivened accuracy in joints. Discover Mevlevi Dervish movement- the journey of pregnancy and birth impact the actively relational nature of our known as the Turning, celebrating the your future child’s potential pathway and bodies when lovingly held in breath. A return of the soul to God. vibration and learn techniques to connect qualitative, loving approach to asana and Tiered Price: £1110 / £880 / £730 with your spirit baby pre-conception and everyday movement. develop a relationship from the beginning. Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 28 - 30 October Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 Exploring Reality - Living Reality James Eaton James gently yet uncompromisingly guides us towards recognising our original, undivided nature. This is not about achieving some special state, nor about disconnecting from our everyday difficulties and challenges. This is about the revelation, the celebration that the

51 An invitation to touch your stillness New Year Retreat - Turning Within and and your joy while in the heart of our Moving Forward community during the Christmas season, Astrid Gude this retreat offers a quiet spaciousness. An invitation to take time out, listen Beginning with the Solstice Spiral, you deeply within and honour what served will have opportunities to be with your well last year, explore what needs to be inner nature, as well as to join in with the released and what wants to emerge. community celebrations and rituals that Times of stillness alternating with time of take place at this special time. creative expression, guided meditation Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 and ritual will lead us through this journey Experience Week prerequisite of review, release, purification, setting new intentions until we feel confident to 2 - 8 December 27 December - 2 January open up to the new with joy and purpose. Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 Inner Alchemy New Year Celebration - Crossing the Esther-Maria Lindner Threshold The medicine wheel is a process of Barbara Swetina, Fabien Barouch, Javier alchemy, and has been part of spirituality Rodriguez from the beginning of time, across most Connect with the stillness ever present ancient traditions. This journey utilises the at the heart of our being and consciously outward connection to the four elements, step over the threshold into a new year. directions, cycles, to guide us on an inner Within a nurturing group environment journey. The reflections and activities which also allows for individual needs, the create an inner alchemical process for week is a mix of community celebration transformation and embodiment. through song, dance, creativity, ritual and Tiered Price: £1080 / £820 / £670 time for self-reflection. New Year’s Eve is celebrated within the community in 20 - 26 December traditional manner. There is space for rest, relaxation as well as for pure, delightful fun! A Christmas Retreat Tiered Price: £1000 / £740 / £610 Findhorn Foundation Focalisers Experience Week prerequisite 52 Finished your course? Want to spend a few more days experiencing life in the Findhorn Community & Eco-village? Or do you simply want to explore this beautiful part of the world?

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53 Cancellations If you cancel after four weeks before the Booking & Practical Information start date we can refund only 50% of the balance. If you cancel within one week How to Book our Programmes before making travel arrangements. of the programme, there is no refund. Please book online at www.findhorn.org (Allow one to two weeks for confirmation.) We suggest that you arrange holiday or use the Booking Form, pages 59 - 60. The balance of your payment is due four insurance. weeks before the starting date of your Occasionally we need to cancel a A minimum age of 18 years is required programme. We will take this from your workshop and will inform you no later for participation unless otherwise stated debit or credit card automatically. For than four weeks before the workshop is in the programme description. other forms of payment, see Payment due to begin to arrange an alternative or section. a refund. To reserve your place, please send a £95 deposit per person per programme Payment Telephone / Fax which is non-refundable unless your We prefer payment by debit or credit Bookings office: programme is cancelled. Experience card (we only accept MasterCard and tel: +44 (0)1309 691653 Week and some other programmes Visa) but can accept cheques. Please fax: +44 (0)1309 691663 require a letter of introduction, see do not send cash. Payment should be in Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 12.30pm Booking Experience Week section on pounds sterling (GBP). In most countries and 2pm - 4.30pm (closed Thursday pm) page 55. it is possible to buy a cheque in GBP from your bank. We do not accept For general enquiries: When booking a programme that starts Eurocheques. For bank transfer please +44 (0)1309 690311 in four weeks or less, full payment is contact the Bookings office. For more Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm required at the time of booking. information please see: www.findhorn.org/bookinginfo For Erraid bookings: Please book well in advance to ensure a +44 (0)1681 700384 or www.erraid.com place in the programme of your choice. Pay Agreements Pay agreements may be available. Wait for confirmation of your booking Please contact the Bookings office.

54 Booking Experience Week Your Accommodation have been here before, we can offer When you book Experience Week we Week-long programmes end on Friday you the opportunity to arrive on Friday ask that you write a letter introducing evening and accommodation is provided and stay overnight before joining your yourself. This is your first step into until Saturday morning. Accommodation programme (sorry, not available in July the spirit of the week and helps the is generally shared. Single rooms may or August). The cost is £38 per day for Experience Week facilitators get to know be available for an additional cost, but shared accommodation and all meals. you and prepare the programme. It will cannot be guaranteed in advance. If you Bookings for extra nights must be made remain confidential. Most people write use a wheelchair, please contact us well through our Bookings office. We cannot between one and two pages. Please in advance so that we can make suitable guarantee availability. A list of local bed write or type it yourself. Write a simple, arrangements. Fees include linen, towels, and breakfast guest houses is available honest, authentic letter about yourself meals and refreshments. We suggest at www.findhorn.org/bandb (Please note and why you want to participate in you bring suitable clothing for all kinds of that most local B&Bs are not equipped to Experience Week. Mistakes don’t matter, activities. The weather varies a great deal take credit cards.) just write it in your own style. so include warm and waterproof clothing in all seasons! Follow-on Discounts Include your age and an overview of If you book an Experience Week directly your present life (for example some of Special Diets followed by a Being in Community, your life choices so far, present joys and between the following dates, we will give challenges, relationships, your inner life). Our kitchens provide primarily vegetarian food. Vegan, wheat free, and sugar you a reduction of £100 off the total price. • 26 November 2016 - 18 February 2017 If you have had any emotional or health free, as well as gluten and dairy free • 02 December 2017 - 17 February 2018 difficulties, please let us know how these alternatives can be requested. If you are affecting your life now. require a diet that is more specialised, we cannot guarantee to fulfil your needs. We Bursaries cannot cater for people with serious food Please enclose the letter with your We wish to include people with a low allergies or multiple food intolerances. deposit and booking form. Please wait income, young people, people who are for confirmation of your booking before unwaged, or people from developing making travel arrangements. Arriving Early or Staying On countries. We have set up a bursary fund If we have space available, and you to help all people access our services.

55 Contributions to the Bursary Fund Short Visits & Short Term Guests Please Note We welcome contributions to our You can participate in the daily life All information and pricing included in bursary fund as a gift to help those of the community by joining us as a our publicity is correct at the time of people who cannot afford to pay the short-term guest for between one and going to press and is subject to change. full amount to come here. A space is six days if you are unable to stay for While every effort is made to provide provided for bursary contributions on longer. You will have the opportunity programmes and services as advertised, the booking form. to participate in a service department, we do not accept liability for: meditate in our sanctuaries and engage • Cancellations or changes caused If You Need a Bursary in other activities as available. If you by availability of staff, low bookings, Limited bursary funds are available to hold a passport from outside the UK, a weather conditions, maintenance help with the cost of participating in UK visitor visa allows volunteering up work, acts of God, acts of government our programmes. We encourage you to 30 days. This programme includes or any other authorities, or any other to apply for this funding if you need lunch and dinner in the Community situations beyond our control help with payment. All bursaries must Centre. You need to find your own • Pre-existing medical or psychiatric be arranged in advance of arrival, so accommodation: www.findhorn.org/ conditions or those which may arise please apply no later than two weeks bandb. Advance notice is suggested. during, or subsequent to, participation before the start date of your chosen You may also contact the Visitors Centre in one of our programmes programme(s). Please tick the box on upon arrival. Please call or email: +44 • Loss of or damage to personal the booking form and our Bookings (0)1309 690311, [email protected] property of our guests office will send you a bursary application form to fill in. Guided Tours We reserve the right to refuse For day visitors we offer guided tours admission to our programmes if, on Concessions from our Visitors Centre every Monday, arrival, participation appears to be Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and inappropriate. A reduction of £50 is offered for young Sunday at 2pm, during the summer. people 25 and under, unemployed Guided tours during the winter and We also reserve the right to ask any people, and people from developing for groups can be provided by prior visitor to leave if their behaviour is countries, on the following programmes arrangement. Please call or email: disruptive to the functioning of the only: Experience Week, Being in +44 (0)1309 690311, Foundation or interferes with the rights Community and Spiritual Practice Weeks. [email protected] of others.

56 You will find more detailed information at: www.findhorn.org/gettinghere Getting Here Findhorn Inverness Aberdeen There are trains from London A9 turning right onto the A95 towards Iona Glasgow to Inverness and Aberdeen, Grantown-on-Spey. At Grantown follow Erraid Edinburgh with connections to . Our the A939 / A940 to Forres: buses meet three Saturday mid-morning trains at Forres station. At other times, For Cluny Hill (IV36 2RD), Forres, from Belfast you can book a taxi to take you from the the High Street turn right into Tolbooth station to our Cluny Hill site or The Park. Street. At the roundabout go straight Liverpool See our website for information on local across into St Leonards Road, and then Birmingham taxi services. turn left at the sign for Cluny Hill. For rail information, please visit National London Rail Enquiries: www.nationalrail.co.uk For The Park (IV36 3TD), Findhorn, use Bristol the Forres bypass (A96), turning left for National Express: Findhorn and following road signs. www.nationalexpress.com Citylink: www.citylink.co.uk Nearest airports are Inverness and Megabus: uk.megabus.com Findhorn Village (25 miles away) and Aberdeen The Park operate express services from London (75 miles away). There are (Victoria Coach Station), Glasgow, and connections from most major British and Edinburgh, to Aberdeen and Inverness. some European cities. See our website Kinloss Stagecoach: www.stagecoachbus.com for travel information from airports. B9011 berdeen to A operates bus services from Aberdeen Forres Railway A96 Station and Inverness to Forres, and from Forres The Findhorn Foundation is based at two to The Park (distance 5 miles). sites: The Park (IV36 3TD), near Findhorn Cluny Hill Forres S village; and Cluny Hill (IV36 2RD) in t A96 . Le From Edinburgh or Glasgow onard's Forres which is 5 miles from The Park Rd A940 join the A9 at Perth. Leave the and 26 miles east of Inverness. 57 CONNECT with people to realise your dreams and vision ENGAGE with a worldwide network of changemakers T R A N S F O R M your community to become part of a global solution

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58 PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS FORM TO BOOK ERRAID WEEKS. (see pages 26 - 27) Please print clearly and in BLOCK CAPITALS. Please read pages 54 - 56 before completing this form. Our programmes require a minimum age of 18 years for Booking Form participation unless otherwise stated in the programme description.

Person 1 Person 2 Surname: Surname:

Forename: Forename:

Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy): Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy):

 Male  Female  Other:  Male  Female  Other:

Nationality: Nationality:

Address: Address:

Zip/Post Code: Country: Zip/Post Code: Country:

Telephone: _ Telephone: _

Email address: Email address:

Accommodation Requirements (as available) Some workshops require previous participation in Experience  I would prefer a single room, if available (supplement £20/night) Week. Please see Calendar of Workshops and Events (pages 35  Please send me a list of local bed & breakfasts - 39) to check if your programme requires Experience Week. If booking as a couple:  twin beds  double bed

• This form continues overleaf. Please complete both sides • 59 I / We wish to book the following programme(s) (Please tick boxes as appropriate)

Title Date Cost  MasterCard  Visa £ Card No: ______Valid Until: £ Security No (the last three digits on the back of your card): £ Cardholder’s Name (as appears on card): Deposit / Full Payment Enclosed* £ Optional contribution to Bursary Fund (see pages 55-56) £ Signature: Sub-Total £ Cardholder’s Address: Concession/Discount if applicable (see pages 56) £ Total £ Amount Enclosed £  I authorise the Findhorn Foundation to debit the remaining amount four weeks before the start of the programme. *To confirm your booking we require either payment in full  Cheque payable to the Findhorn Foundation. if booking within four weeks prior to start date or a non-  Please send me a bursary application form. refundable £95 deposit for each programme.  Is there any medical history we should know about? We The balance is due four weeks before the start of each particularly need to know about a) any physical disabilities programme (single room supplement, if any, to be paid so that we may accommodate you appropriately, b) any on arrival). Experience Week bookings also require an infectious disease you have or suspect you may have, or c) introductory letter from each participant (see pages 55) as do if you need special medical or therapeutic care. All answers some other programmes. Please check course descriptions will be treated as confidential. carefully.

Send your completed form to: Bookings, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ, Scotland Fax +44 (0)1309 691663 60 Support Us Join us and help expand our work in the world

With Gratitude • invest further in the Universal Hall, an important performing arts venue We are deeply grateful to all our friends that not only serves the Findhorn and supporters whose openhearted Community but cultural life in Moray contributions have helped us achieve and beyond all we have over the past year. Your • fund our young person’s initiative this generous gifts, blessings and presence last year, which enabled opportunities experience transformation and new brought us true prosperity. In the past 12 for people up the age of 25 to join our possibilities. If you have been touched months your support allowed us to: programmes by the spirit of the Findhorn Foundation • launch our first feature length film, and would like to offer financial support, • establish ongoing support for our ‘An Enquiry Into A New Story for please consider joining our Network Care Farming project offering local Humanity’, an inspiration that has of Friends. You will become part of a adults with learning disabilities a reached thousands worldwide, and worldwide community supporting our supportive and caring community also to further develop the New mission of unfolding a new human environment Story impulse in partnership with like- consciousness. As a contributor, you will • co-fund over 195 programme minded organisations also receive a Welcome Pack, a regular participants, providing support for e-newsletter and the opportunity to people who could not afford the full We invite you to partner with us in connect and engage with other Network price to attend helping thousands of guests each year members via Facebook.

To join please visit: www.findhorn.org/giving/ways-to-give/ Leave a Lasting Legacy or complete the form overleaf. You can help nurture the work of the Findhorn Foundation in the world by remembering the Foundation in your will. Your legacy will be a gift for the future You may also make a single donation that will live on to help make our shared vision of a positive and sustainable world online or by post. a continuing reality. If you would like to find out more please visit our website: www.findhorn.org/legacies or email [email protected] 61 To join the Findhorn Foundation’s Network of Friends visit www.findhorn.org/friends or complete this form with details of your debit or credit card and return it by mail to the address below.

Name: ______We continue to welcome one-off donations which you can Email: ______make online at www.findhorn.org/ways-to-donate ______Address: ______Post/Zipcode:______Country: ______Telephone: ______

I would like to contribute:  £10  £20  £50  £______(other amount)  monthly  quarterly  annually Please charge my debit / credit card as follows:

Cardholder’s name: ______­__ USA taxpayers can make tax-deductible donations to support any Findhorn Foundation project via The Hygeia Card type: MasterCard Visa Foundation for Health, Science and the Environment Inc; Card no.: for more details please email [email protected] Valid from / issue no.: ______Expiry date:______For more information contact: Security no. (last 3 digits on the signature strip): Supporter Relations, Findhorn Foundation Signature: ______The Park, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ Scotland Date: ______www.findhorn.org/donate Scottish Charity Number SC007233 62 Common Ground Guidelines FOUNDATION COMMUNITY

1. Spiritual Practice 8. Feedback I have an active spiritual practice to align with spirit and support me to I am willing to listen to constructive feedback and work with it. I offer work for the highest good. feedback to others in a caring and appropriate way to challenge and 2. Service support each other to grow. I bring an attitude of service to others and to our planet, recognising I must 9. also consider my own needs. I do not inflict my attitudes or desires on others. Where appropriate I step 3. Personal Growth in and stop violence, manipulation or intimidation of myself or others, or at I am committed to the expansion of human consciousness and my own least say that I would like it to stop. personal growth. I endeavour to recognise and change personal attitudes 10. Perspective and behaviour patterns that are limiting. For the benefit of the whole Community I may need to put aside my 4. Integrity personal issues. I acknowledge that there may be wider perspectives than I embody congruence of thought, word and action. I take responsibility for my own and deeper issues than those I am immediately aware of. the spiritual, environmental and human effects of my activities. 11. Cooperation 5. Respecting Others I clearly communicate my decisions to others who may be affected by I wholeheartedly respect other people - their differences, views, origins, them, and consider their views respectfully. I recognise that others may backgrounds and issues. I respect all forms of life and the Community’s and make decisions which affect me, and I respect the care and integrity they other people’s property. have put into their decision-making process. 6. Direct Communication 12. Peacekeeping I use clear and honest communication with open listening, heart-felt I make every effort to resolve disputes. I may call for an advocate, friend, responses, loving acceptance and straightforwardness. I talk to people independent observer or mediator to be present, and will use and follow rather than about them. In public and in private I do not malign or demean the Community’s grievance procedures as necessary. others. I may seek helpful advice but do not seek to collude. 13. Agreements 7. Reflection I respect the law of the land, keep agreements I have made, and do not I recognise that anything I see outside myself - any criticisms, irritations or break or try to evade any Community guidelines. appreciations - may also be reflections of what is inside me, and I commit 14. Commitment to looking at these before addressing others. I bring the spirit of this statement of Common Ground to all my dealings. 63 Findhorn Foundation The Park, Findhorn, Moray IV36 3TZ Scotland

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