Self Development at the Findhorn Foundation
Findhorn Experience Week and Other Spiritual and Ecological Programs
Aug 18, 2009 Joanne E. Brannan
Most visitors to the Findhorn Foundation who attend a short course, seminar or more in-depth training live as members of the community for the duration of their stay.
Findhorn Foundation Community Values and Practices
The Findhorn Foundation Community shares a number of common spiritual principles including:
- Working in harmony with nature;
- Peaceful and tolerant relationships, and;
- Self development and inner listening.
Group meditation is encouraged, and community members working together on a task attune before they start work. While holding hands in a circle they:
- Focus on the work to be done;
- Become aware of all members of the group;
- Listen to inner guidance on how to approach the work, and;
- Cooperatively volunteer for tasks.
Work experience within the community forms a key part of many courses and workshops at Findhorn. Many participants find the community’s positive attitude toward work to be a life-changing experience.
The Findhorn Foundation Experience Week
The Findhorn Experience Week is an introduction to the philosophy of the Findhorn Foundation, an experience of living in the community, and an intensive period of self discovery. Singer Mike Scott of the group The Waterboys, who lives in the Findhorn Foundation Community, wrote in his Experience Week Song, "It was beautiful, it was unique. Made me friends opened my heart."
Experience Week is open to newcomers to the community, and allows people from around the globe to experience this extraordinary, life changing place for themselves. The Findhorn Experience Week is a prerequisite for many of the other courses at the Findhorn Foundation. This preparation is considered necessary to ensure that course participants understand and appreciate some of the ways in which community members live and work together.
Further Courses, Training and Seminars at the Findhorn Foundation
The Findhorn Community investigates countless different fields of spiritual discovery and ecological living, and the program of study available to visitors is correspondingly vast. Options include short courses on Ecovillages, communication with Nature Spirits, modules in an MSc on Sustainable Community Design, a multi-week course on Finding Your Life Purpose and seminars featuring well-known personalities, including Eckhart Tolle.
Origins of the Findhorn Community
The Findhorn Community grew organically in the 1960s around the home of its founders, Eileen and Peter Caddy, and their friend Dorothy Maclean. The three lived in a modest caravan on the rubbish dump of a caravan park in North East Scotland, but their spiritual discoveries, centered initially on their garden, have attracted those seeking self development and spiritual insight right through to the present day.
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Findhorn Foundation Community Original Caravan
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