Findhorn Foundation Brochure 2012 by Findhorn Foundation

Essential Findhorn

SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY, LEARNING CENTRE, ECOVILLAGE

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WORKSHOPS and EVENTS 2012 1

SPIRIT OF THE FUTURE

50 years of co-creating a positive future for people and planet The Findhorn Foundation is a spiritual community, an ecovillage, and a centre for holistic learning with an international reputation as a unique laboratory for change.We offer a broad range of workshops, events, and a variety of ways to participate, with the aim of inspiring and demonstrating new ways of living for a peaceful and sustainable world.

Celebrating 50 Years of Community For the past 50 years the Findhorn community has worked in co-creation with the intelligence of nature to awaken the highest in human potential. All who engage here, residents and visitors, find an environment to foster profound personal change, seed new ideas and birth practical projects to meet the worldwide challenges and opportunities of our times. Experiencing life at Findhorn is the perfect way to learn about wholeness, integrity, purpose, leadership, love, beauty, cocreation, communication, joy and service. We work in partnership with the United Nations, Global Ecovillage Network, our local Moray Council, universities and healthcare providers, and we welcome you to take part in the great work and experiment that is Findhorn.

FINDHORN FOUNDATIONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CONTRIBUTION TO UN DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT The overall goal of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) is to integrate the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of learning. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) engages with such key issues as human rights, poverty reduction, sustainable livelihoods, climate change, gender equality, corporate social responsibility and protection of indigenous cultures in an integral way. ESD is shaping the purpose and content of all education for our times and is education for the present and the future! ESD programmes at the Findhorn Foundation - Ecovillage Design Education (in its 7th year) and Ecovillage Training (in its 14th year) have been official contributors to the main learning goals of the UN DESD since its launch in 2005. Our programmes provide an ideal learning environment where the social, ecological, economic and worldviews aspects of sustainability meet in an integrated whole. The Findhorn Foundation is an NGO Associated with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations and is regularly represented in UN briefing sessions.

CONTENTS Spirit of The Future -

Celebrating 50 Years of Community Essential Findhorn Programmes Findhorn Foundation Island Communities Reaching Out

4-7 8 - 17 18 - 19 20

Workshops and Events (January - April)

21 - 25

Calendar in Brief

26 - 29

Workshops and Events (April - December)

30 - 42

Presenter Profiles

43 - 45

Support Us

Booking, Travel & Practical Information

47 - 48

Booking Form

49 - 50

MINIMISING OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT Our eco footprint is one of the lowest ever measured in the industrialised world and is half the UK national average. We continue to find new ways to further reduce our footprint, and we invite you to participate by considering whether you would like to receive this brochure by email instead of by post. We will let you know when our newest brochure is available online by sending you an email. You can then view the entire brochure as a pdf, but print only what you need, saving paper and the environment. Email us at lesspaper@findhorn.org if you would like this option.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PRICES Our prices are income related. When you book, please choose the low, medium or higher price listed for your workshop or event, based on your personal income. For the past three years we have been able to keep prices the same, but this year have needed to increase the low price by 5% and the higher price by 10%, with the medium price remaining the same. More details, and information about bursaries, are on pages 48 and 49.

SPIRIT OF THE FUTURE

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY Past, present, future In our 50th birthday year we look back at our achievements with pride and we also look towards the future with a sense of expectation for the journey yet to unfold. New projects to build, new ideas to share and a new consciousness continuing to emerge in this co-creative journey of personal and global transformation. In 1962 Eileen and Peter Caddy, their children, and Dorothy Maclean came to Findhorn for what they thought would

be a short time to regroup and discover what was next on their path of service and inner transformation. At that time they could not imagine the fertile seed they were planting for a spiritual community of hundreds, and a worldwide supporter network of thousands. Little by little, through their total dedication to following a path of spiritual service, their vision unfolded to become this international community, learning centre and ecovillage.

The Findhorn Foundation community is a beacon of hope for the future of humanity and the planet. Our 50 years of experience and success provide a solid basis for continuing to develop new models for living in harmony with spirit and with nature. More than four thousand people each year come to participate here, more than ever before, and thousands more join in online.

As we mark this threshold and look forward to the next 50 years and beyond, we are even more inspired to keep living the simple truths of the founders: to practise inner listening, co-creation with nature, and take inspired action - all with an attitude of service, love and joy - and to share what we learn with the world. Spirit of the Future is the theme for this 50th birthday year and is our way of sharing with you this special year of celebration - offering inspiration, expressing our gratitude, and inviting you to participate in the work of the Findhorn Foundation that is yet to come.

Building the new Especially in these past few years of worldwide instability and challenge, it is heartening see that more people, from many diverse situations, are looking towards the Findhorn Foundation and community to provide new directions. The need for what the Foundation has pioneered over the past 50 years continues to increase. We are responding by initiating new ways to engage with more people, and by expanding our facilities to meet the demand. With our Building Bridges initiative, begun in 2010, we welcome local groups of people to explore sustainability, offer A Great Day Out for groups and schools, have begun longer-term programmes with people who are socially excluded, provide field study opportunities for colleges and universities, and have successfully launched events for entrepreneurial movers and shakers from around the world. All of this is alongside our full programme of workshops and events which continues to attract more people than ever. Last year we successfully fundraised for a new, fully accessible workshop and meeting space that ensures we can welcome people of all capabilities. We now have plans to improve the Universal Hall and Community Centre, and further down the line to build more guest accommodation and develop the entrance area of The Park, including a new visitor and sustainability learning centre. All of these facilities will support the next phase of the Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. We celebrate having reduced our costs and carbon footprint by installing a biomass heating system for a large

section of The Park, and look forward to providing similar at Cluny Hill. This year we launched Findhorn Live, with live video streaming of our Caroline Myss event to 22 countries around the world, sharing the inspiration and excitement of this event in the Universal Hall. We want to continue to develop Findhorn Live by streaming more events in 2012. To help us accomplish these plans for future growth and transformation we invite you to participate in the Spirit of the Future by supporting the work of the Findhorn Foundation in our 50th birthday year. Please see www. findhorn.org/support or page 46 of this brochure for information on how to help.

New workshop space

Carolyn Myss in the Universal Hall, 2011

Findhorn Community Then and Now The Park - Herb Garden

Field of Dreams

The Park - Quiet Garden

The Park - Entrance

Universal Hall

Installation of biomass boiler

SPECIAL EVENTS TO CELEBRATE TOGETHER During 2012 there will be a series of special events to mark our 50th birthday including two major conferences, Into Christ Consciousness and Love, Magic, Miracles, plus a Planetary Game event. During our birthday week in November, there will be a celebration and a dedication, with participation limited to members of the Findhorn community past and present, helping to usher in the next phase. And throughout the year there will be special

Homecoming Weeks to welcome back all of you who have been touched by the spirit of Findhorn. We hope you will use these opportunities to reconnect with the inspiration of Findhorn, fill yourself with positivity and vision for the future, and celebrate our shared achievements in the world.

7 April

17 March, 19 May, 18 August

Homecoming Weeks

To reconnect with the Findhorn energy and inspiration. We invite you to share in the celebration and experience Findhorn again, maybe see old friends, and find the part of you that is part of us. Please see page 25 for more information.

Into Christ Consciousness

Co-creating our emerging future in a changing and challenging world. Drawing together different spiritual streams in an experiential gathering to move beyond polarised thinking and generate positive, creative change. Please see page 31 for more information.

29 September

23 June

Love, Magic, Miracles

The Planetary Game

A joyful exploration of the spiritual truth that love is the greatest power on earth. Taking part in this conference in 2012 is a unique way to celebrate Findhorn’s 50th birthday and continue the unfolding of our human potential. Please see page 39 for more information.

This is an exciting event to mark Findhorn’s 50th year, a chance to play the Planetary Game on behalf of yourself and the whole, and to gift the earth with new insight. Please see page 34 for more information.

12 November

Findhorn 50th Birthday Week Celebrations A very special week to celebrate the Findhorn community’s 50th birthday, calling all previous and current members of the Findhorn community to come together to honour the past and launch the next 50 years. It’s a week to reconnect with the place, the people and the spirit of Findhorn. It’s a gathering where you can see old friends and perhaps make some new ones. We will spend some time looking at what’s happening in the community today, what Findhorn has meant for you, and what Findhorn can contribute for the next 50 years.

Participation is limited to current and ex-community members, people who have lived and served in the Findhorn community for a period of time. Basic fee: £300 including food and accommodation. We invite and encourage you to make an extra contribution during the week to support the ongoing work of the Findhorn Foundation - The Spirit of the Future.

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Essential Findhorn Programmes Experience Week and all the other Essential Findhorn programmes are unique to Findhorn. While you are here you are part of a learning community, having a chance to do things differently and put your insights and deeper values into everyday action. You can connect with your own inspiration, with the people around you, and with the intelligence of nature, to find new facilities and skills for a more meaningful, holistic and sustainable life. When you participate in Cluny Kitchen, Park Garden, Cluny Homecare or any of our other departments, all tasks, from cooking the lunch, planting seeds or cleaning the floor, are valued and essential parts of the whole. There is the potential for learning to take place 24 hours a day and with every person and situation you meet, as well as within the traditional setting of workshops and events.

VISITING FINDHORN If you can stay for a week or more, an Experience Week is the best way to connect with Findhorn, providing a complete experience of what is on offer here. Or there is a wide choice of workshops and events to choose from, starting on page 21. If you can stay for only a few days, you can participate as a Short Term Guest for between one and six days. You will have the opportunity to participate in a service department and share meals, meditate in sanctuaries and engage in community activities. Please see page 48 for more details. Accommodation When you attend one of our workshops or events you’ll be accommodated either at our Cluny

Founding principles The founding principles of Findhorn are very much alive and practised today. Inner listening and attunement are integral parts of our daily life and there is time set aside before, during and after the working day to attune. We have four meditation sanctuaries in The Park and one at Cluny Hill, and there are many other ways to connect with your own inner wisdom, including dancing, playing, singing, walking and being in nature. The gardens at The Park and Cluny Hill reflect our delight in co-creating with nature, and they are nourishing and beautiful environments. At Cullerne Gardens we grow organic, seasonal food for our kitchens. The beautiful unspoiled coastal landscape of the Moray Firth provides further inspiration for discovering a closer relationship with the natural world.

Hill site, a former Victorian spa hotel, or at The Park in one of the original bungalows, or in an eco chalet. Please see page 47 for more details. If you are not participating in a residential programme there are a number of Bed and Breakfasts in The Park and in the nearby village, go to www.findhorn.org/bandb. There are also camping, caravans and eco chalet rentals available in the Findhorn Bay Holiday Park, www. findhornbayholidaypark.com. Meals Mealtimes are an opportunity to connect socially with other guests and Findhorn residents. Most of the food prepared in our kitchens is vegetarian, organic and local. What we are unable to grow ourselves is sourced as much as possible from ethical or other organic producers.

Inspired action is a commitment to open and honest interactions, working together, growing organic food, building eco-houses, running businesses, erecting wind turbines, recycling, meditating, exploring alternative economic systems, and interacting with our visitors. The Findhorn ecovillage is a built environment in harmony with people and our planet. We interact with the tools we use, with the landscape, with each other, and with our own inner wisdom in a conscious and attuned way, knowing that our small actions are interconnected and are important for the future of humanity and our planet. Essential Findhorn begins with Experience Week and continues on a journey of self-discovery and inspired action. Elements of these unique Essential Findhorn programmes can also be found in all our other workshops and events.

The Blue Angel Café in the Universal Hall in The Park offers a range of freshly made organic food and is open every day 10am - 5pm. The Phoenix Shop at The Park provides a wide variety of organic foods plus interesting gifts and books. Daily Rhythm 6:30 - 7:30am

Silent meditation

7:45 - 8:10am

Taizé singing (Cluny)

8:00 - 8:25am

Taizé singing (Park)

8:35 - 8:55am

Guided meditation

9:00 - 12:30pm Morning service departments 12:30pm Lunch 2:00 - 5:00pm Afternoon service departments 5:40 - 6:00pm

Guided meditation

6:00pm Dinner

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EXPERIENCE WEEK

Changing the world from the inside out For Experience Week dates please see Calendar in Brief on pages 26 - 29

These are seven days that can change your life and your world. Experience Week is the best way to come to Findhorn and find out what it’s like. It’s the ideal way to meet, engage with and share in this ever-evolving journey of deeply sustainable community living. You join in most aspects of daily life here including participating four mornings in one of our service departments - the garden, kitchen, dining room, homecare or maintenance - giving you many opportunities to practise ‘love in action’ and to interact with other people in the community. The week also includes meditation, sacred dance, a nature outing and being part of a supportive group, all combined with laughter, love and new ways of being. Experience Week is an invitation to let go of your limitations, open to love, and to be the change you want to see in the world. It gives you a chance to experience the principles on which the community is based: inner listening, a connection with all life, and inspired living. We ask that you come willing to participate fully in this rich and active week, to give of yourself and engage with others. Our aim is to create an environment that enables you to find a deeper sense of meaning and to open to transformation within yourself and the group. All of these elements are also part of the Special Experience Weeks we offer.

The programme runs from Saturday to Friday evening, and includes seven nights accommodation and all meals, from the first Saturday lunchtime through breakfast on the Saturday morning of your departure. You should arrive before noon on the first day of your Experience Week, so that the group can begin together. You need to speak and understand English reasonably well - if you cannot, we offer Experience Weeks in other languages during the summer months. Please see page 10. Experience Week runs at both sites of the Findhorn Foundation, at The Park and Cluny Hill. There are opportunities to experience both sites during the week. Please join us for an adventure in new ways of living and relating, and creating a positive future for humanity and our planet. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Bursaries and Concessions are available, see page 47 - 48. If you book an Experience Week with a starting date in December, January or February and also book an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice directly following your Experience Week, we will give you a reduction of £100 on the total combined price. ‘I have learnt to follow my intuition more. A defining week in my life for sure!’

Special Experience Weeks Family Experience Week 31 March - 6 April, 21 - 27 July, 4 - 10 August This is a family programme offering an Experience Week with a special focus on how conscious living can be integrated into family life. You and your children will have time to be together and to be with your peer groups throughout the week. There are opportunities to do tasks together, play and explore together, and get to know other families in the group

as well as interact with the Findhorn community. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 for adults. £195 for age 5-11 £295 for age 12-17. Ecovillage Experience Week 14 - 20 April, 19 - 25 May, 9 - 15 June, 15 - 21 September

week has the added intention of deepening knowledge and experience of sustainable living on all levels. What is an ecovillage? We look at inclusive decision-making processes, cooperative economies, local food production, and cultural and spiritual diversity, which together create a full featured human settlement. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Follow-on discount, page 47

Following a similar structure to our original Experience Week, this special 9

Essential Findhorn Special Experience Weeks (Continued)

experience in music is necessary. This week is followed by Singing in the Singing Chamber (see page 14).

Gentle Experience Week 5 - 11 May

Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825

Our original Experience Week programme is a rich and active week which asks for participation for most of the day, including evenings. Gentle Experience Week is designed for those with less mobility or physical strength, and more need for rest between activities. It follows the original structure while remaining open to adapting to the specific needs of the group.

Youth Experience Week 28 July - 3 August

Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655

Music Experience Week 14 - 20 July Barbara Swetina

Friendships, feelings, energy, individuality and togetherness. All young people are welcome to this energised week, based on our regular Experience Week and redesigned specifically for people aged 14 - 17. To experience and develop community, connect with yourself and others in more meaningful ways, learn new skills, develop awareness and discover your inner strength and power. Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545

This special week has the addition of music and song woven through the whole week, honouring the richness of different spiritual traditions. Dances of Universal Peace and Sacred Harmony Songs combine chanting, simple movements and live music to touch the heart and lift the spirit. No prior

LGBTQ Experience Week 13 - 19 October This Experience Week gives space to celebrate being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer in this supportive and unique environment at Findhorn. A week of community life and opening to the new. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Experience Week Group Visits If you would like to bring a group for an Experience Week with your own particular interest or focus, please contact our Guest Department well in advance. Tel: +44 (0) 1309 678027 Email: guestdept@findhorn.org

‘Absolutely loved it from start to finish - a really profound and life-changing week.’

FOREIGN LANGUAGES Japanese（日本語）

エコ村体験週間(エコヴィレッジ・エクスペリエンス・ウィーク) 8月25日(土)〜8月31日(金) エクスプローリング・コミュニティライフ 9月1日(土)〜7日(金) 詳細は、webページをご覧になるか下記までメールにてお問い合わせ下さい。 (日本語ホームページ)

www.findhorn.org/japanese (日本語メール)

japan@findhorn.org

In Italiano Informazioni e aggiornamenti su www.findhorn.org/italia Settimana di Esperienza 11 - 17 agosto 10

Seminario Italiano 18 - 24 agosto A Findhorn contattare: italia@findhorn.org In Italia contattare: Isabella Popani tel/fax: +39 (0)735 777065 info@isabellapopani.it En Castellano Semana de Experiencia 14 - 20 Julio Proposito de Vida 21 - 27 Julio Contacto: castellano@findhorn.org Semana de Experiencia 30 Junio - 6 Julio Contacto: maita@maita.es

En Français Semaine d’Expérience 14 - 20 avril 27 octobre - 2 novembre email: francais@findhorn.org In Deutsch Findhorn Erfahrungswoche 7. - 13. Juli Kontakt: Beate Frey email: info@heilung-und-tanz.de Findhorn Erfahrungswoche 20. - 26. Oktober Kontakt: deutsch@findhorn.org

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Exploring Community Life

For Exploring Community Life dates please see Calendar in Brief on pages 26 - 29

Exploring Community Life (ECL) is a great way to broaden your understanding of the community or to give you time and space to integrate your experience of Findhorn after participating in another workshop. You may also find this to be an attractive option for coming back to visit and reconnect with the community. There is less emphasis on a group experience than in an Experience Week, and you are more integrated into the life and daily rhythms of the community. The group size is generally smaller and the programme will run even for one person. It includes participation in a service department to become more familiar with our guiding principle of ‘love in action’. There are also sharings, and the possibilities of a group project, a nature outing and if there is interest, a taste of the Transformation Game. Evenings provide opportunities to join in with community activities and explore different aspects of living here, which may include spiritual and personal development, creative arts and sustainable living. These elements are also part of the Special Exploring Community Life Weeks. If you are thinking about a longer term commitment to staying at Findhorn, ECL can give you a good sense of what it is like to live at Findhorn and it is a prerequisite for joining some of our further Essential Findhorn programmes such as the Living in Community Guest Programme and Living Education Apprentice Programme. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655

Experience Week prerequisite

‘I feel so cleansed inside and have let go of an enormous amount of emotional clutter.’

Community’s 30th Birthday, 1992

Special ECL Weeks Ecovillage Exploring Community Life 26 May - 1 June Craig Gibsone The Findhorn Foundation community and ecovillage is an inspiring example of holistic living, bridging the old paradigm into the new in this time of global transition. The magic of Findhorn is our practice of bringing together inner awareness and outer action, drawing forth the inner potential of each unique human being. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Follow-on discount, page 47 Experience Week prerequisite

Family Exploring Community Life 28 July - 3 August If your family have already participated in a Family Experience Week, this special ECL offers an opportunity to deepen your relationship with the community, or to come back to Findhorn and reconnect with the spirit that flows through all aspects of life here. Offering more freedom than Family Experience Week and more potential for creative participation, this programme takes into consideration the individual needs of participating families. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 for adults. £195 for age 5-11. £295 for age 12-17. Experience Week prerequisite

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Spiritual Practice

10 - 16 March, 7 - 13 April, 30 June - 6 July Space for you to explore and connect with your innermost self. Spiritual Practice supports you to continue a path of transformation and growth in your everyday life. It gives you time to explore meditation, experience different kinds of exercises and to approach ordinary activities in a new way that encourages space for creativity and laughter. All this is spiritual practice. We look at what supports or may sabotage you deepening your practice. There are daily sessions together and afternoons are in Foundation service departments to integrate practical life with your spiritual practice. The week is less of a group experience

than Experience Week and you are more integrated into the life and rhythms of the community. The group is generally smaller. There is time to take part in community meditations and events, and one day is spent in silence as an opportunity to deepen your inner experience. These elements are also part of the Special Spiritual Practice Weeks. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Experience Week prerequisite

Special Spiritual Practice Weeks Spiritual Practice - Manifestation 4 - 10 February, 3 - 9 November Franco Santoro Learn how to use spiritual practice to clarify your purpose and manifest ‘right living’. We explore your unique way of opening to spiritual guidance to unveil your potential and bring benefit to yourself, your relationships and the planet. We integrate spiritual healing practices with practical service activities and release disturbing patterns, converting them into energy to support your goals. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

Spiritual Practice Holistic Sexuality 18 - 24 February Franco Santoro

Spiritual Practice The Power of Intention 24 - 30 March Astrid Gude

Learn how to use spiritual practice to explore your authentic way of expressing sexuality, retrieving your capacity to be deeply in love with yourself and your relationships, including nature and the divine. Sexual energy permeates everything. We breathe it into our lungs and radiate it from our pores. It is the foundation of both our physical and spiritual connection. We integrate various spiritual healing and bodywork practices with practical activities.

You can create new neural pathways that bring about personal healing and contribute to the creation of a positive world for all of life. Learn new tools that can easily be integrated into everyday life that allow you to transform your inner landscape. We release blocking beliefs and reconnect with our unlimited potential to shine.

Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

Essential Findhorn Spiritual Practice - Permaculture 21 - 27 April, 22 - 28 September Craig Gibsone We use Permaculture principles to look at how we live our lives day to day, and to connect with the wisdom of the Earth and ourselves. This ecological design system can inspire and empower us to create and find answers within us. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite Spiritual Practice - Nature 5 - 11 May, 14 - 20 July, 18 - 24 August Katharina Brocke An introduction to the subtle dimensions of the Earth. We practise attunement to the loving intelligence within the nature kingdom in the Findhorn way. Through a combination of exercises in perception, attunement and meditation, as well as making a flower essence and working in the garden, we move closer to the beauty and uniqueness of our own soul. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite Spiritual Practice - Clay 16 - 22 June Craig Gibsone The landscape of Findhorn Bay and the surrounding coastline are an inspiration for our week. Journeying with the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - we use the medium of clay to focus and centre ourselves, and to create spiritual alchemy. There is time for reflection and insight that can be used to strengthen your inner commitment to a spiritual life. Clay is a magical and primal substance which comes alive and takes form, bringing us a sense of co-creating with the spiritual dimension of all things. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite ‘It’s an inspiration to see how a dream, a vision can grow and develop to touch so many people in so many different ways, how love for humanity and nature can come before financial or material gain.’

Spiritual Practice Active Meditation 4 - 10 August Astrid Gude This journey within will use movement, sound and breath to cleanse and balance your energy, express feelings, remove blocks, and to connect more easily with the flow of life and all that is - an experience of being light-filled spirit in a body. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

Spiritual Practice Towards a ‘New We’ 1 - 7 September Nadasree Gadas If you are experiencing a feeling of separation or limited sensitivity to others, it often makes our contacts clumsy or awkward, mostly focused on ourselves. We will use practices that bring us to the heart level, developing our compassion and ability to empathise with the world. Through our interconnectedness we discover the beauty and aliveness in our communication and a more awake way of being with one another. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

Spiritual Practice - Primal Painting 24 - 30 November Craig Gibsone Primal painting is a simple yet profound way of allowing your deepest self to express all the colours of your life, including all of the light and dark shades of your spiritual journey. It is an inspiring way to expand your spiritual practice and no special artistic skills are required. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

Spiritual Practice Ritual and Ceremony 8 - 14 December Astrid Gude “Ceremonies open the lines of communication between you and the power of the universe.” - Sandra Ingerman. We will work with ceremonies and rituals that honour the elements, connect us more deeply with the web of life and strengthen our inner light and radiance for personal and planetary healing. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

‘This week has allowed me to reconnect with what is truly important in this life.’

Spiritual Practice Living Intuitively 13 - 19 October Nadasree Gadas We know everything we need to know at any given moment. This is a journey of discovery as well as confirmation of our intuitive abilities. We will do exercises to develop our sensitivity and subtle perception, and use diverse meditation practices that enhance our inner connection and deeper listening to our own wisdom. We practise ways of bringing this enhanced sensitivity into our day-to-day living in the world. Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

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Service WEEKS

Service Weeks give you the opportunity to come to Findhorn and lend a hand while giving yourself the gift of practising love in action. The price charged for these weeks just covers your food, accommodation and admin fees, making it an affordable way to spend time in the community.

A Gift to Cluny - Spring Clean Celebration 28 January - 3 February

In Perfect Timing - Gardening at Cullerne 28 April - 4 May, 19 - 25 May

Singing in the Singing Chamber 19 - 25 May Barbara Swetina & Ian Turnbull

Do you feel drawn to offer your energy as a gift to wonderful Cluny and all the people who benefit from being here? This week will be a time of purification and renewal as we complete tasks and play together to clean and transform the building and ourselves. This isn’t an ordinary spring clean; it’s a grand opportunity to clear out ‘old baggage’ on all levels. We invite you to attune to a price between £95 - £295.

After Beltane in Scotland, nature is bursting forth. In Cullerne Garden this means lots of sowing, preparing, mulching and planting out in our fields and polytunnels. We invite you to join our team for one or two weeks, to cocreate with nature and its overlighting intelligence, and to celebrate and enjoy being at Findhorn in the Spring. We invite you to attune to a price between £95 £295 per week.

The Singing Chamber has been created with volunteer help over a number of years and is virtually ready for the kind of spiritual work that comes with groups singing intentionally together. The week will provide an opportunity to do some finishing on the building for part of every day, while providing as much time for singing as the group wants. With songs from Taizé, Georgia, Harmonic Temple and other similar rich sources. This week follows on from a Music Experience Week, please see page 10.

Experience Week prerequisite

Sprinklings of Light - Spring Cleaning at The Park 4 - 10 February

Being with Nature - Gardening at The Park 5 - 11 May, 12 - 18 May

Would you like to offer your energy, love and service in preparation for the new season at The Park? As a group we will cleanse ourselves and the spaces used by our guests and community on outer and inner levels. Join us for an active week of fun, focus, service and creativity. We invite you to attune to a price between £95 - £295.

If you are new to gardening or have some experience, the Park Garden team invites you to bring the Park Garden into bloom! An opportunity to connect with nature and her intelligence by engaging in a variety of garden projects, helping to prepare our flower and vegetable beds for the busy summer season. A week of practical, hands-on service, while nurturing your own growth. We invite you to attune to a price between £95 £295.

Experience Week prerequisite

Income related price: £195 / £295 / £395 Experience Week prerequisite Love in Action - Maintenance at The Park 9 - 15 June It’s about the experience of doing service as a team for a higher purpose. On a practical level, we use this week to beautify and make improvements to buildings and areas in The Park, with the help of both skilled and unskilled people. The week also includes an outing, time for personal sharings and is a good way to meet people living here. We invite you to attune to a price between £95 - £295.

Experience Week prerequisite Experience Week prerequisite

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LIVING IN COMMUNITY GUEST PROGRAMME Starts every Saturday except 7 January, 29 September and 10 November

Explore living in the Findhorn community for a month or more by joining the Living in Community Guest (LCG) Programme. This is a dynamic, creative and purposeful way to explore the meaning of service and to experience the gifts that come through living in community. Sharing all aspects of life in this vibrant environment opens the space for you to deepen your relationship with yourself, with God, with people, and nature creating an ever more meaningful experience of life. The programme is available in four-week segments, starting most Saturdays. It begins with clarifying your individual purpose and ends with a personal review to support you in integrating your experiences and to explore your next steps. Using the process of attunement you join the team of one of our service departments (gardens, kitchens, dining room, homecare or maintenance) where you can deepen your experience of love in action, and the awareness, joy and freedom that arise from serving in this way. When you want to join LCG for the first time or are returning to do the LCG Programme after several months or years, you need to participate in either Exploring Community Life, Spiritual Practice or one of our Service Weeks as a prerequisite. You can also apply after having taken part in our month-long programmes Learning English in Community or Ecovillage Training. The prerequisite programme can be done any time within three months prior to joining LCG. We will invite you for an intake interview and an attunement. Please

be aware that participation in the LCG Programme is not guaranteed in advance. LCG is also a necessary step towards making a longer commitment to the Findhorn Foundation through the Living Essentials Apprentice Programme. If you have just one month to be at Findhorn, you can participate in Exploring Community Life as your first week and then participate in the LCG Programme for the following three weeks. Income related price For first block of 4 weeks: £575 / £645 / £825 / £425 if you are age 25 or under For second block of 4 weeks: £475 / £545 / £725 / £325 if you are age 25 or under For third and further blocks of 4 weeks: £375 / £445 / £625 / £225 if you are age 25 or under Three-week segment: £445 / £525 / £685 / £325 if you are age 25 or under For further information please contact lcg@findhorn.org Please note: 15 & 22 December 2012 are restricted intake weeks. Only those who have done LCG before can apply for these weeks. Experience Week prerequisite

Findhorn Community Then and Now The Park - Pineridge

Essential Findhorn

SPIRITUAL & PERSONAL DEEPENING Living from purpose and soul 10 March - 1 June

This is a newly created programme to replace our Foundation Programme. It’s a core journey to deeply engage with your own inner wisdom, and is 12 weeks in which to come alive in a new way, weaving fresh insights into daily community life and your ordinary experience. It’s an opportunity to practise sustainability on all levels. If you are in a time of change or wanting a supportive and stimulating environment in which to look at current life choices, Spiritual & Personal Deepening offers you a powerful training that can become a framework for life. It is experiential learning that includes spiritual practice through service and love in action.You receive the best that Findhorn has to offer by engaging with long-term members of the community for modules in communication skills, conscious group dynamics, the founding principles of Findhorn, deep ecology - and more. Integration time includes a week on the island of Erraid, ritual, retreat, spiritual mentoring and reviews of your personal purpose and inner process.

By engaging with your Spiritual & Personal Deepening group, and being part of the Findhorn Foundation community, you can strengthen your sense of inner direction and explore the inner and outer qualities of leadership. If you intend to live within or around the community, this programme can serve as an important step towards a much deeper understanding of the Foundation, and is a good preparation before joining the Living Essentials Apprentice Programme. All applicants participate in an interview and attunement. Please see www.findhorn.org/deepening for price information. Experience Week plus either Exploring Community Life or a Spiritual Practice are prerequisite.

FinDHORN INTENSIVE A 15-month Modular Programme

8 - 14 September, 8 - 14 December, 2 - 8 March 2013, 1 - 7 June 2013, 7 - 13 September 2013, 7 - 13 December 2013 This is a 15 - month enquiry in applied spiritual living, over six residential weeks at Findhorn, with peer group support and individual mentoring between times. If you have been touched by Findhorn and want to bring this experience more fully into your everyday life, we invite you on this heart-opening journey. In it, you will • deepen and strengthen your connection with your inner self, while engaging with the challenges and rigours of daily life • open to new possibilities for living, relationships, and engaging creatively with all that surrounds you • discover healthy ways to bring your unique contribution to the world, positively adding to the ecology of life The group journey is an opportunity to be lovingly held, supported, challenged and encouraged while you reflect and engage with your life more deeply. During our residential weeks, we come together and create an environment in which to enquire, discover and practise. We draw on Findhorn’s mystery school approach, as well as our individual and collective practices and wisdom. We explore the frameworks of Incarnational Spirituality and Process Oriented 16

Psychology to help us understand and practise living our lives consciously. Steered by the group’s particular interests, we draw on the experience and inspiration of Findhorn to engage in new possibilities for sustainability in the areas of spirituality, creativity, ecology, culture and economy. When you are back home, in-between these weeks, you continue to deepen, ground and apply the learning. Regular peer group meetings, a mentor, and resource materials support you in this. The Findhorn Intensive supports you to find ways to open to your own intuition and spiritual connection, to attune to the world around you and to realise new possibilities of relating and co-creating with other people, nature, and life in all aspects. It invites you to reassess your life, find greater fulfilment, and bring more love into our world. For comprehensive information on the themes and particulars of the programme, as well as how to apply, please visit: www. findhorn.org/intensive Income related price: £2550 / £2950 / £3450 Experience Week prerequisite

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Living ESSENTIALS Apprentice Programme (LEAP) An agreement to serve

LEAP is our Living Essentials Apprentice Programme, our new staff intake programme, where you apprentice and learn the ways in which we live together here at Findhorn. We welcome you to come and contribute your own unique gifts and skills, so that together we can co-create a more loving and sustainable world. Applications will be considered through a process of attunement, and are subject to the needs of service departments and the availability of living space at the time of your application. Once accepted onto LEAP you engage with the joys and challenges of daily life in a spiritual community and ecovillage. We invite you to join in the practice of being present in every task and interaction, and to choose to live everyday life as a spiritual path, based on our core spiritual principles of inner listening, love in action and co-creation with nature. You join in a service department, participate in community meetings, engage in spiritual and personal development, and have regular reviews. We ask you to commit to participating fully, including some weekends, and we will provide you with food, basic accommodation and a supportive learning environment. If accepted onto the programme, you will spend up to three months as a Short Term participant. After a review, if you then

wish to make a longer commitment (minimum six months - up to two years) you will become a Long Term LEAP participant. Once you are on Long Term LEAP you deepen your journey by participating in an induction programme, have regular group meetings, and you are assigned a personal mentor for the initial six months. LEAP is a commitment to serve this centre and a move to becoming Foundation staff, and it is equally valid for you to take back out into the world, skilled and equipped to be a world server and leader. We welcome you to take the leap, explore, and come and live the soul of service with us. Please note staff positions are limited and there is no guarantee of a staff job at the end of LEAP. Income related price is £50 - £350 per month while on short term LEAP. £100 to £350 per month for your first six months on Long Term LEAP. For further information please visit our website or contact leap@findhorn.org. Experience Week plus two months or more of the Living In Community Guest Programme are prerequisite.

Cluny Then and Now

The Isle of Iona Easter Retreat 7 - 14 April Niels Paulsen To experience Easter week on the holy island of Iona. Transformation in Retreat 14 - 21 April, 23 - 30 June Niels Paulsen The power of the Transformation (box) Game combined with the peace and beauty of Iona.

ISLE OF IONA

Summer Retreats at Traigh Bhan Summer Retreat weeks from 30 June - 1 September Situated on the west coast of Scotland, Iona is a sacred island known as an historic place of pilgrimage. Traigh Bhan is the Findhorn Foundation’s retreat house on this magical island. Traigh Bhan offers the opportunity for quiet contemplation, while the island itself with its views and spectacular coastal scenery - is ideal for long walks of exploration and contact with nature’s beauty. If you need time to integrate the experiences 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 prayer and meditation. Our residential Foundation custodian can guide you in making the most of your time. Experience Week is a prerequisite for all retreats Booking Information For Foundation bus information to Iona and Erraid, please contact our Transport Department. Tel: +44 (0) 1309 678020 or email: transport@findhorn.org All retreats cost: £275 - £495 per person according to individual circumstances and includes 7 nights accommodation in shared rooms and vegetarian food for making meals. Please pay only your deposit when you make your booking. We ask you to attune to the final amount you pay while you are staying at Traigh Bhan on Iona. Maximum 6 guests per week. Arrival time is midday Saturday, and departure time is the next Saturday morning.

Special Weeks on Iona

Equinox Retreat 17 - 24 March Niels Paulsen

Space for the Heart 24 - 31 March Margo van Greta

Deeply experience this time of year on this beautiful island as we turn towards the light..

Meditations from the Buddhist tradition combined with the inspiration of Iona, connect us more deeply with our heart and with the qualities of love, compassion and peace.

Game of Transformation Retreat 28 April - 5 May Hanna Morjan & Liza Hollingshead A unique opportunity to play the original version of the Game of Transformation® while living and sharing together on Iona. NB Price: £435 Art & Meditation Retreat 2 - 9 June Karin Werner & Margo van Greta Connecting with the creative spirit through art, in the beauty of Iona. Cultivating inner peace and loving kindness with Buddhist meditation. Close to God 16 - 23 June Niels Paulsen & Erica Jakobs Explore the forces of nature by walking the island, gardening and cooking food together. Retreat for Gay Men 1 - 8 September Niels Paulsen Creative Space 6 - 13 October Kate & Stewart Friendship Bring your own creativity and current project, and be inspired by the island and wisdom of the group. Christmas for Gay Men 22 - 29 December Niels Paulsen

The Isle of Erraid Special Weeks Celtic Festivals & Retreats

ISLE OF ERRAID Satellite community of the Findhorn Foundation

The community on Erraid, a beautiful Hebridean island, is a part of the Findhorn Foundation, living and working together within the natural cycles of sea and land. The simplicity of life here and the quality of stillness are an invitation to slow down and experience a different way of being. You are welcome to join us for a week or more - we are open for guests for most of the year. Families are always welcome and children love the freedom and adventure the island offers. There are many ways of exploring Erraid community life: Love in Action Weeks - £225 to £395 by attunement Immerse yourself in the rhythms of our lives - gardening, cooking, chopping wood, polishing candles, meditating, singing - in a relaxed, friendly environment with plenty of time to enjoy the natural beauty of the island. Retreat Weeks - £275 to £395 by attunement Allow yourself to be held within the healing energies of the island as you take time for yourself - walking, sitting on the beach, reading, writing, connecting with nature. Our cosy retreat cottage is available for a more private space. Celtic Festival Weeks - £275 to £395 by attunement Join us as we celebrate the turning of the seasons and connect with the unique energies of the Celtic Festivals, surrounded by the island’s ancient and powerful landscape. Booking Information For further details, bookings, longerterm possibilities or for special rates for children and groups please contact us at: Tel: +44 (0)1681 700 384 email: erraid@live.co.uk www.erraid.com Findhorn Foundation, Isle of Erraid, Fionnphort, Isle of Mull, Argyll, PA66 6BN Scotland

Imbolc 28 January - 4 February The return of the Celtic Goddess Bride, representing the reawakening of the life force. The energy of renewal invites us to leave behind that which no longer serves and prepare for the coming of spring. Ostara - Spring Equinox 17 - 24 March The time of year when days grow longer and life unfurls from winter hibernation. As the natural world surges into spring we celebrate fresh growth in our own lives. Beltane 28 April - 5 May The arrival of summer! We celebrate the union of male and female energy, the power of fire and the burning creativity of passion in our own lives. Lithia - Summer Solstice 16 - 23 June The sun is at the height of its power and we celebrate the longest day of the year. It is a time of appreciation for the natural bounty overflowing from our gardens and for reflecting on the abundance in our own lives. Mabon - Autumn Equinox 15 - 22 September As summer fades and winter approaches we come together to celebrate the Harvest Festival, gathering in and feasting on the rich produce of our gardens and the achievements and blessings of our lives. Samhain 27 October - 3 November Traditionally the Celtic New Year and the time when the veil is at its thinnest between our world and the spirit world. A time to remember our loved ones and to honour our ancestors. Yule - Winter Solstice 15 - 22 December Yule marks the rebirth of the sun, the big turning point of the year. A time to release the old and embrace the energy of the new as the sun becomes stronger and the days grow longer once more. 19

Reaching Out

BUILDING BRIDGES

We offer A Great Day Out and residential weeks for: - school groups - socially excluded groups - local and general groups of all types For groups wanting to learn from our 50 years of building community, perhaps with a particular theme, we offer 2 - 4 day residential or non-residential tailor-made experiences.

Our Building Bridges programme to reach out to new friends and partners, serving an ever-broadening spectrum of people and organisations, continues in 2012. We hope to provide the opportunity for positive change for more and more people in diverse circumstances, through the heart-opening living and learning experiences offered here at Findhorn. Our two sites, The Park and Cluny Hill, provide a rich interactive environment for everything from a short taste of Findhorn magic to a full 7-day experience.

Our range of options include building self-confidence and social skills, spiritual practice, team building, discovery games, learning about permaculture and renewable energy, co-creation with nature, group projects in the garden and building sustainable community. We also offer residential Experience Weeks to established groups. For a full menu of activities we offer, visit www.findhorn.org/group-visits or email us at building.bridges@findhorn.org We look forward to welcoming you.

OUTREACH EDUCATION 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 and 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 event in your area, please contact Rosie Turnbull at the address below. You can see our current Outreach Education diary, listing Findhornrelated events and courses taking place in Europe and across the world, by going online at www.findhorn.org/outreach/ education

Sacred Dance in Berlin

Outreach Education, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres, IV36 3TZ, Scotland Tel: +44 (0)1309 691618 email: outreach@findhorn.org

FINDHORN FOUNDATION RESOURCE PEOPLE

There may be someone living in your local area who wants to share with others the inspiration and insight of the Findhorn experience. Resource People (RPs) offer to connect you with other Findhorn people in your area and sometimes organise Findhorn events near you. You can find a list of RPs at www.findhorn.org/rp or you can email Lisa Sutherland at rp@findhorn.org for more information.

Living Whole LIVING WHOLE: Shaping a Future with Grace, Beauty and Sustainability FINDHORN FOUNDATION & LORIAN ASSOCIATION You are invited to radically revision the way you relate to yourself, to the sacred, to nature, to the subtle worlds and to the earth. Join the Findhorn Foundation, the Lorian Association and David Spangler as you learn to apply incarnational principles in your life. In this series of programmes, we explore the unique incarnational intelligence that is rooted in our soul and embodied sacredness, develop our relationship to the subtle worlds - the earth’s ‘second ecology’ - and bring our inner resources of spirit and caring to contribute to the challenges in our world. The three modules may be taken separately or as a whole. In them, we: • explore practices that strengthen inner connection and coherent action • develop sensitivity to subtle energies in our world • expand our ability to bring energies of blessing into life After a week-long group enquiry at Findhorn, each module offers an opportunity to join an online community to support you to apply the learning in your homelife situation. This includes video-stream dialogues, peer meetings, personal mentoring and other resource materials. Module prices include 7 nights accommodation and all meals for the residential week as well as full tuition and mentoring fees for the online component. For further information see www. findhorn.org/livingwhole.

Living Whole: Self and Sacred Module • 21 - 27 April, residential week 9 weeks online learning community (optional) Adele Napier & Freya Secrest with David Spangler You are invited to deepen your personal sense of wholeness, strengthen your connection with and ability to live from a sacred ground of being, and discover the uniqueness you bring to life. In this week, we combine daily practice and reflection, live videostream discussions with David Spangler, and the supportive holding context of the Findhorn community to support you as you develop your capacity to live whole in yourself in a way that creates new possibilities for your future. The optional follow-on online community supports you to apply the learning in your life. Income related price: Residential week only: £595 / £695 / £795 Residential week + online learning: £795 / £995 / £1195 Living Whole: Co-creating with Nature and the Subtle Worlds Module • 22 - 28 September, residential week 6 weeks online learning community (optional) Judy McAllister & Freya Secrest with David Spangler We all engage with subtle energies constantly. The way we engage with them can have a profound impact on our lives, and the world. Come and spend a week exploring your capacities to understand, interpret, and foster life-enhancing, loving relationships with your environment. Daily practice and reflection, live video-stream discussions with David, and the holding context of the Findhorn community support you to develop your relationships with this ‘second ecology’ in a way that creates

new possibilities for a sustainable and graceful future. The optional follow-on online community supports you as you apply the learning in your life. Income related price: Residential week only: £595 / £695 / £795 Residential week + online learning: £695 / £895 / £1095

Living Whole: Subtle Activism for the Planet Module • 24 - 30 November, residential week 6 weeks online learning community (optional) Mary Inglis & Freya Secrest with David Spangler Accessing and applying our power of love and caring makes a difference. Come and develop your skills of subtle activism and energetic engagement, to make a positive contribution to the challenges in our world. The programme includes daily practice and reflection, live video-stream discussions with David, and the supportive holding context of the Findhorn community. Tapping our personal and collective energetic resources, we contribute towards a future of grace and sustainability for our planet. The optional follow-on online community supports you as you apply the learning in your life. Income related price: Residential week only: £595 / £695 / £795 Residential week + online learning: £695 / £895 / £1095

Workshops and Events

DECEMBER - JANUARY

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS 2012 For descriptions of all our Essential Findhorn, Erraid and Iona programmes please see the preceding pages. Centre pages contain a Calendar in Brief listing all our workshops, events and programmes together. Game of Transformation • 7 days 28 December 2011 - 3 January, 14 - 20 April, 4 - 10 August, 29 December - 4 January 2013 4 days 4 - 7 February, 10 - 13 March, 26 May 29 May, 7 - 10 July, 15 - 18 September, 9 - 12 October, 20 - 23 November GAME GROUP This is the original version of the Transformation Game®. It differs from the box Game that you may know as it is more complex and multi-levelled. Centred around a circular board symbolising each player’s world, this Game offers a playful yet substantial way of understanding and transforming key life issues. With two skilled guides and only five players, this is a wonderful opportunity to receive a high degree of masterful attention and make a quantum leap into greater wholeness. This workshop is a powerful springboard for spiritual growth and development, valuable at any stage of your life journey. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 (7 days) £425 / £495 / £655 (4 days) 22

New Year Spiritual Healing Retreat • 28 December 2011 - 3 January

New Year’s Celebration and Retreat • 28 December 2011 - 3 January

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Barbara Swetina & Javier Rodriguez

An opportunity to promote expanded awareness and healing through meditation and spiritual practices. We will alternate periods of silence and dialogue, stillness and movement, touch and contact, relaxation and activity, group and individual work, bringing careful attention to our inner and outer world. We will scan the past, recapitulating significant events, extracting blessings and releasing grievances, paving a luminous healing way for the New Year.

Between Christmas Eve and January 6th is a special time when the veil between the worlds is thinner than normal. Not only a time to celebrate and be merry, but also to reflect, turn inwards, be still and listen. This week provides an opportunity to consciously step over the threshold and into a new year. There will be a mix of community celebration through song, dance, creativity and ritual, while allowing time for a journey of selfreflection, connecting with the stillness ever present at the heart of our being. New Year’s Eve is celebrated with the community in traditional manner. Space for rest and relaxation, as well as for pure, delightful fun!

Income related price: £495 / £645 / £775

The coloured circles next to the workshop titles make it easier for you to identify areas of interest. • • • • •

Health & Wellbeing Spiritual & Personal Growth Nature & Sustainability Creativity & Celebration Leadership & Community

Income related price: £495 / £645 / £775

‘Extremely worthwhile and enabled me to dig deeper.’

Workshops and Events

JANUARY - FEBRUARY Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • 11 January - 1 February (calls are Wednesdays 11am - 12.30pm UK time) 20 April - 18 May (calls are Fridays 4 - 5.30pm UK time) 12 June - 10 July (calls are Tuesdays 8 - 9.30pm UK time) ONLINE Kathy White Do you want support as a parent but are frustrated that you can’t get away from work, the kids or other responsibilities to find it? Not a problem! You can join a teleseminar, where from the comfort of your own home, from anywhere in the world, you can question all your stressful parenting concepts and beliefs, share your parenting ups and downs and turn your parenting around with a group of other like-minded people who want to raise their children with simplicity, awareness and connection. Get help where you need it, and discover how to truly enjoy your job as a parent. Calls will be interactive, engaging and fun with exercises and connection in-between on the online forum.

Ecovillage Training • 11 February - 9 March

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Craig Gibsone, Gabrielle Haworth Hamm & Nadasree Gadas Drawing on the expertise of the Findhorn Ecovillage, this four-week programme gives you the tools needed for creating sustainable human settlements. The increasingly urgent global need for viable, sustainable human settlements is met by the ecovillage model for living. Ecovillages provide environmental, social, economic and spiritual sustainability, and an enhanced quality of life for all. Working with the simple principle of not taking more away from the Earth than we give back, ecovillages are consciously diminishing their ecological footprint. The principles of an ecovillage apply equally to urban and rural settings, to both developing and over-developed countries.

action plans. It draws on the experience and expertise developed within the Findhorn Ecovillage over the past 50 years, as well as on other local and international initiatives. Week 1: People Care. The New Paradigm - Design for Sustainability, Deep Democracy, Building Effective Groups Week 2: Fair Share. Economic Sustainability and Right Livelihood, Organic Food Production Week 3: Earth Care. Human Settlements and Wilderness Ecological Restoration Week 4: Design Projects. Designing for the Future, Integrating and Harmonising our Human Footprint Each module can be attended independently. Income related price: £1575 / £1735 / £2195 for all 4 weeks £445 / £485 / £595 per week

Ecovillage Training provides a practical forum for learning and for developing

Each Teleseminar lasts 4 weeks with one call per week. Each call is 90 minutes. Register for this programme online. Please see www.findhorn.org/ programmes/475 for more details. £97 plus the cost of the calls Game of Transformation - 4 days • 4 - 7 February Please see description on page 22

Essentials of Psychosynthesis • 11 - 17 February FINDHORN FOUNDATION Psychosynthesis Education Trust This entry point to psychosynthesis - known as a psychology with a soul provides tools and techniques directly applicable to personal and advanced development, whether you intend to embark on a deeper exploration in this subject or not. This intensive is a unique opportunity to further your life’s enquiry. Dynamic and stimulating, it offers experiential and theoretical grounding in this inclusive approach to personal and spiritual growth and therapeutic methods, in the context of Findhorn’s transformational environment, rhythms and practices. Income related price: £695 / £795 / £895

Humanising Your Workplace • • 25 February - 2 March FINDHORN FOUNDATION Yehuda Tagar Whatever you want from your life also needs to be present in your work - it’s where you spend most of your life. This is a leadership seminar, using the 7 Conditions for Sustainable Spiritual Development, to help you be an agent of change, transforming work into a place where people grow as people, giving opportunities for spiritual development. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 23

Workshops and Events

FEBRUARY - MARCH Findhorn Community Semester: The Human Challenge of Sustainability • • 25 February - 1 June, 1 September - 7 December

Life Purpose • 3 - 9 March, 9 - 15 June, 22 - 28 September

John de Ruiter:The Promise of Honesty • 10 - 12 March

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Susan Miles

FINDHORN FOUNDATION

This long-running, key Findhorn workshop points the way to knowing who you really are by discovering the essence of what touches you most and what makes your life meaningful. A variety of creative, meditative and practical exercises help you understand your life’s purpose. Be guided within the supportive context of the group towards an understanding of your current belief systems and the ways in which you relate to yourself and the world. Learn to align with your inner knowing, gain clarity on your next steps and appreciate the nature of your own deeply personal lifelong journey towards fulfilment.

If your heart is longing for you to live your life for what is true and real, this workshop will offer the opportunity to experience your deepest honesty, revealing known and absolute truth within. This is true living knowledge, and even as a tiny speck, it bids the response of your whole heart. Amongst all the complexity of life, it waits to receive you, to complete you, to give purpose and meaning, and to restore you truly. John de Ruiter has touched thousands through his public meetings and seminars. His responses to questions are practical yet profound, teaching that, “The easiest, most effortless and perfect answer can be known by all.”

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Experience Week prerequisite

Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545 Follow-on discount, page 47

FINDHORN COLLEGE This integrated undergraduate programme provides an exceptional opportunity for students to gain critical personal and intellectual skills for creating a more sustainable world. The four courses covered in the semester are: Worldviews and Consciousness; Applied Sustainability: Ecovillage Living; Exploring Self and Community through the Arts; Group Dynamics. Each course provides four credits from the University of Massachusetts upon successful completion. For fees and further detailed information, contact www.findhorncollege.org or www.livingroutes.org

The Blessed Way of Passion Intensive: AstroshamanicHealing® Touch

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10 - 23 March

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro, Ash & Simon Balderson AstroshamanicHealing® Touch is a bodywork application of Holistic Awareness and Bona Fide Sexuality. Its aim is to explore the body’s spontaneous energies of ecstasy and arousal, unveiling and directing their healing potentials with integrity, spiritual alignment and clarity of intention. We experience the multidimensional and shamanic dynamics of holistic sexuality, employing the body as a keyboard aimed at recovering and grounding planetary forces. With deep trance bodywork, we share ways of channelling profound passions, releasing blocks that hinder our potentials and celebrating the sacredness of life. Completion of the programme provides a solid basis for advanced work. There are two workshops, which may also be attended independently or expanded into a longer programme, including an optional integration week and further

workshops. Participants are held in the healing community environment and sacred landscape of the Findhorn Foundation, where this work originated in 1999. Clear group agreements are held at all times to create a safe space. Week 1 (Basic Workshop): Multidimensional Portal of the Senses This week is a complete introduction to AstroshamanicHealing® Touch and its basic applications. Through shamanic trance, energy work, dance, soul retrieval and gentle forms of physical contact we receive visions and insights, redeploying energy and passion in accordance with your life purpose and the web of life. We explore the holistic and spiritual dynamics of sexual energy, as they are playfully portrayed by the astrological archetypes, aligning ourselves with the flow of life and opening up to new horizons of purpose and harmony. We also experience the shamanic features of relationships, sharing ways to release intense feelings, promoting forgiveness, transformation and unconditional love.

Week 2 (Advanced Workshop): The Sexuality of the Void Bona Fide Sexuality is holistic and sacred sexuality embracing every aspect of life, including physical intimacy and chastity, spirituality and the divine. It is aimed at unveiling and expanding the awareness of our multidimensional nature, releasing denial and conditioning, while promoting forgiveness with a deep sense of integrity and service. During this second week you experience advanced applications of AstroshamanicHealing® Touch, including elements of Primal Embrace, a full body healing practice. The week is designed for people who intend to use this work both for yourself and in your practice with others. The previous week (or similar) is a prerequisite for attendance. Open to participants of all sexual orientations. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 per week £945 / £1125 / £1425 for both weeks

Workshops and Events

MARCH

Game of Transformation - 4 days • 10 - 13 March

Create Your Own Mandala • 24 - 30 March

On the Money • 24 - 28 March

Please see description on page 22

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Erik & Ann-Marie Grind

FINDHORN COLLEGE Jonathan Dawson

Deepening Awareness - The Work of Byron Katie® • 13 - 15 March

Mandala is an ancient symbol for wholeness and harmony. In this workshop we will explore our soul through mandala painting - joyful, healing and meditative. This week will give you tools to use the mandala as a path of self-discovery and artistic development. You will have the opportunity to complete a beautiful and colourful mandala reflecting your inner life.

Come and learn the essential design skills to create local money systems that last, in the company of eminent international designers who have done it. Local money gives us a proven tool to deal with the effects of financial crises, community breakdown, climate change and peak oil. Together we discover the wealth that lies at the heart of our communities and learn how to mobilise that wealth for the benefit of all. Further international community currency experts will join us by videolink.

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Kathy White This workshop is meditation and profound inquiry. You will be invited to sit, walk and apply The Work of Byron Katie as a meditation into the thinking, beliefs and assumptions that would prevent you from living in the clear reality of each moment. Find more aliveness and freedom, and discover that there is a kind and benign universe beyond your beliefs.

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

Income related price: £450 / £545 / £650 Restoring the Fragmented God: A Healing Voyage into Christian and Gnostic Shamanism • 31 March - 6 April

Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545 Follow-on discount, page 47

Findhorn Homecoming Week 17 - 23 March, 19 - 25 May, 18 - 24 August

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Nadasree Gadas

Learning Systemic Inner Skills • • 24 - 30 March

During our 50th birthday year, this is a special week for you to reconnect with Findhorn energy and inspiration - remember when you first arrived here and your life changed forever? We invite you to come and share the joy and celebration of who we are as a community, everyone who has helped this centre of love and light to fulfil its potential. We envision it being a week of dancing, sharing, playing, and love in action - re-connecting with the core principles that infuse our lives: deep listening to the wisdom within, attuning to life around us and serving with a smile. If you have been wondering when would be a good time to return to Findhorn, this is it! Let’s come together as friends reuniting and celebrating our lives.

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Stephen Busby & Adele Napier

Income related price: £465 / £595 / £825 Experience Week prerequisite

If you want to deepen your ability to work with people, learn new problem-solving skills and diagnose complex situations, this week will help you find new, holistic, sustainable solutions. You will learn to see and work systemically in an embodied way using constellation-based tools, and to cultivate awareness of interconnected invisible systems - navigating intuitively to allow movement and transformation to occur.

Who is God to us? Do we feel embarrassed or disturbed to use this word? How does the God of our early learning relate to our present experience? Is this a loving or a judging God? This workshop aims to heal, restore or deepen our relationship with God, and explore from a shamanic and holistic perspective, bridging the gap between direct experience and religious beliefs. It is a wide-ranging journey, encompassing a tapestry of shamanic practices from the Christian tradition, also with elements of Gnosticism, esoteric astrology and A Course in Miracles. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 The coloured circles next to the workshop titles make it easier for you to identify areas of interest. • Health & Wellbeing • Spiritual & Personal Growth • Nature & Sustainability • Creativity & Celebration • Leadership & Community

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS DECEMBER 2011

FEBRUARY

28 December Game of Transformation - 7 days • (P22) New Year Spiritual Healing Retreat • (P22) New Year’s Celebration and Retreat • (P22)

4 February Spiritual Practice - Manifestation (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Sprinklings of Light - Spring Cleaning at The Park (P14) Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22)

31 December Living in Community Guest Programme (P15)

JANUARY 11 January Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • (P23) 14 January Experience Week (P9) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) 21 January Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) 28 January Experience Week (P9) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) A Gift to Cluny - Spring Clean Celebration (P14) ERRAID - Imbolc (P19)

11 February Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Essentials of Psychosynthesis • (P23) Ecovillage Training - 4 weeks • (P23) 18 February Spiritual Practice - Holistic Sexuality (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) 25 February Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Humanising Your Workplace • • (P23) Findhorn Community Semester: The Human Challenge of Sustainability - 14 weeks • • (P24)

MARCH

The Blessed Way of Passion Intensive: Foundation AstroshamanicHealing® Touch 2 weeks • (P24) 13 March Deepening Awareness - The Work of Byron Katie® - 3 days • (P25) 17 March Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Findhorn Homecoming Week (P25) IONA - Equinox Retreat (P18) ERRAID - Ostara - Spring Equinox (P19) 24 March Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - The Power of Intention (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Create Your Own Mandala • (P25) Learning Systemic Inner Skills • • (P25) On the Money - 5 days • (P25) IONA - Space for the Heart (P18) 31 March Experience Week (P9) Family Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Restoring the Fragmented God: A Healing Voyage into Christian and Gnostic Shamanism • (P25) These Extraordinary Times • • (P30)

3 March Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Life Purpose • (P24) All Essential Findhorn Programmes are in blue, pages 8-17 These workshops require prior participation in Experience Week For bookings, please go to page 49 and www.findhorn.org

10 March Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Spiritual & Personal Deepening - 12 weeks (P16) John de Ruiter: The Promise of Honesty - 3 days • (P24) Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22)

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JANUARY - JUNE 2012 APRIL

MAY

JUNE

7 April Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) SPECIAL EVENT: Into Christ Consciousness • (P31) IONA - Easter Retreat (P18)

5 May Experience Week (P9) Gentle Experience Week (P10) Spiritual Practice - Nature (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Being with Nature - Gardening at The Park (P14) Quantum Leap / Transformation Game Retreat • (P32) Astroshamanic Trance Dance & Drumming: Basic Week 1 • (P32)

2 June Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) IONA - Art & Meditation Retreat (P18)

11 April Passing Over - Creating a Graceful Death and Transfer of Consciousness - 1 day • (P30) Tools For The Journey - NLP and Spirituality - 3 days • (P30) 14 April Ecovillage Experience Week (P9) French Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Manifesting Your Inspiration • (P30) Game of Transformation - 7 days • (P22) IONA - Transformation in Retreat (P18) 20 April Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • (P23) 21 April Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Permaculture (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Bringing Spirit into Business for Peace, Pleasure and Plenty - 4 days • • (P30) Peacebuilders Seminar: Facilitation and Mediation Skills for Peacemakers - 2 weeks • (P30) Living Whole: Self and Sacred Module • (P21) 28 April Experience Week (P9) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) In Perfect Timing - Gardening at Cullerne (P14) Transforming Conflict • • (P31) IONA - Game of Transformation Retreat (P18) ERRAID - Beltane (P19)

12 May Experience Week (P9) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Being with Nature - Gardening at The Park (P14) Astroshamanic Trance Dance & Drumming: Advanced Week 2 • (P32) Game of Transformation - Facilitation - 2 weeks • (P32) Network of Light - International Holistic Centres Gathering • (P32) 19 May Ecovillage Experience Week (P9) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) In Perfect Timing - Gardening at Cullerne (P14) Singing in the Singing Chamber (P14) Findhorn Homecoming Week (P25) Laughing Matters - Laughter Yoga • (P33) 26 May Experience Week (P9) Ecovillage Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life - 3 days • (P33) Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22) Co-creation with the Intelligence of Nature • (P33)

‘Findhorn is a remarkable community in Scotland dedicated to awakening and taking care of the planet.’

9 June Ecovillage Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Love in Action - Maintenance at the Park (P14) Life Purpose • (P24) Innovation Activism: The Future in Your Hands • (P33) Learning English in Community - 4 weeks • (P33) 12 June Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • (P23) 16 June Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Clay (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) The Original Quest: An Astroshamanic Journey of Soul Retrieval into Space and Time • (P33) IONA - Close to God (P18) ERRAID - Lithia - Summer Solstice (P19) 23 June Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) SPECIAL EVENT:The Planetary Game • • (P34) IONA - Transformation in Retreat (P18) 30 June Experience Week (P9) Spanish Experience Week (P10) Spiritual Practice (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Thriving in Changing Times • (P34) Your Exquisite Body of Light • (P35) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

7 July Experience Week (P9) German Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22) SPECIAL EVENT: Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song • (P35) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

4 August Experience Week (P9) Family Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Active Meditation (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Game of Transformation - 7 days • (P22) Science and Mysticism: A New Paradigm For Measuring Wellness • (P37) Biodanza - The Dance of Life • (P38) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

1 September Experience Week (P9) Japanese Exploring Community Life (P10) Spiritual Practice - Towards a ‘New We’ (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Week 4 • (P37) Learning English in Community - 4 weeks • (P33) Findhorn Community Semester: The Human Challenge of Sustainability - 14 weeks • • (P24) Co-Creative Healing - Deepening Your Healing Presence (module 1 & 2) - 2 weeks • (P39) IONA - Retreat for Gay Men (P18)

14 July Music Experience Week (P10) Spanish Experience Week (P10) Spiritual Practice - Nature (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Findhorn Nonviolence Intensive • (P35) Dreaming the New Dream - Shamanic Visions of Death and Rebirth • (P35) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18) 21 July Experience Week (P9) Family Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) The Elusive Obvious • (P36) Source of Inspiration - Being with Bees • (P36) Spanish Life Purpose • (P10) Mythodrama Module 1 - 2 days • • (P36) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

11 August Experience Week (P9) Italian Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Saying Yes: The Hero’s Journey • (P38) Joyful Parenting • (P38) Awakening to Change - A 5Rhythms® Waves® Dance Workshop • • (P38) Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Week 1 • (P37) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

23 July Mythodrama Module 2 - 5 days • • (P36)

18 August Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Nature (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Findhorn Homecoming Week (P25) Italian Week • (P10) Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Week 2 • (P37) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

28 July Experience Week (P9) Youth Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Family Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) World Work and Subtle Activism • (P36) What’s Your Tree? • • (P36) Creations in Nature • • (P36) Quintessence of the Arts - 2 weeks • (P36) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

25 August Experience Week (P9) Japanese Ecovillage Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Week 3 • (P37) Free Your Communication - 3 days • (P38) Biomimicry - Innovation Inspired by Nature • (P38) IONA - Summer Retreat Week (P18)

8 September Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Findhorn Intensive - 15 months (P16) 15 September Ecovillage Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Inner Resilience in Turbulent Times • (P40) Learn to Play in Pan’s Garden • (P40) Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22) ERRAID - Mabon - Autumn Equinox (P19) 22 September Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Permaculture (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Life Purpose • (P24) Living Whole: Co-creating with Nature and the Subtle Worlds Module • (P21) Being with the Spirit of Nature • (P40)

29 September Exploring Community Life (P11) SPECIAL EVENT: Love, Magic, Miracles • • (P39)

JULY - DECEMBER 2012 OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

6 October Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) SPECIAL EVENT: Caroline Myss Master Class - 3 days • (P40) IONA - Creative Space (P18)

3 November Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Manifestation (P12) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15)

1 December Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15)

12 November Findhorn 50th Birthday Week Celebrations • (P7)

8 December Spiritual Practice - Ritual and Ceremony (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15)

9 - 12 October Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22) 13 October Experience Week (P9) LGBTQ Experience Week (P10) Spiritual Practice - Living Intuitively (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Questioning Your Beliefs Around Money The Work of Byron Katie® - 4 days • (P41) Singing in Community • • (P42) Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - Training of Trainers - 4 weeks plus an optional week • (P41) 20 October Experience Week (P9) German Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Game of Transformation - Facilitation - 2 weeks • (P32) 27 October Experience Week (P9) French Experience Week (P10) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Introduction to the Healing Art of Esalen® Massage • (P42) ERRAID - Samhain (P19)

‘I was brought back to the roots. I feel empowered and encouraged to start life in a new way with more awareness and consciousness.’

17 November Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) 20 November Game of Transformation - 4 days • (P22) 24 November Experience Week (P9) Spiritual Practice - Primal Painting (P13) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Living Whole: Subtle Activism for the Planet Module • (P21) Restoring the Fragmented Heart: Soul Retrieval and the Way of Sacred Relationships • (P42)

15 December Experience Week (P9) Exploring Community Life (P11) Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) ERRAID - Yule - Winter Solstice (P19) 22 December Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) IONA - Christmas for Gay Men (P18) 29 December Living in Community Guest Programme (P15) Beyond 2012: The New Year Spiritual & Sensual Healing Retreat • (P42) New Year’s Celebration and Retreat • (P42) Game of Transformation - 7 days • (P22)

All Essential Findhorn Programmes are in blue, pages 8-17 The coloured circles next to the workshop titles make it easier for you to identify areas of interest. • Health & Wellbeing • Spiritual & Personal Growth • Nature & Sustainability • Creativity & Celebration • Leadership & Community These workshops require prior participation in Experience Week For bookings, please go to page 49 and www.findhorn.org

Workshops and Events

APRIL

Tools For The Journey - NLP and Spirituality • 11 - 13 April These Extraordinary Times • • 31 March - 6 April FINDHORN FOUNDATION Maria Olsthoorn & Susan Miles This is a healing journey to find clear pathways through the challenging and stressful present times we live in, affecting so many of us. With the group, we create a safe healing container for core issues, to transform and heal our deep seated resistance and fear. Experiencing your soul in the driver’s seat will allow you to come home to your inner source of deep contact and presence.

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Julia MacDonald

Please see description on page 21 How do we take our spirituality into our everyday life and live it? This workshop is designed to give you tools derived from NLP and mindfulness to enable you to respond resourcefully amidst the challenges of everyday life. Spiritual experiences are uplifting and fulfilling then we are back to cleaning our clothes, dealing with bureaucracy, tending to relationships, resolving conflicts. Gain tools to respond in a centred way and explore the connections between NLP and spirituality. Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Experience Week prerequisite Passing Over - Creating a Graceful Death and Transfer of Consciousness • 11 April (1 day) FINDHORN FOUNDATION William Bloom Just as we need to understand how to live, so we also need to know how to die. This workshop gives the core strategies for creating and supporting a graceful transfer of consciousness at death. The approach will be relevant to anyone wanting to prepare for their own passing or to support someone else. It is also for professional carers seeking a practical spiritual approach. It will help people too who want to bring healing to an incomplete and past encounter with someone’s death. The day draws on the classical practices of the Tibetan, Celtic and Egyptian books of the dead, but it requires no formal religious belief. It also incorporates important aspects of humanistic psychology, so that carers can be both spiritually effective and emotionally appropriate. William has been working with these strategies since his own severe illness and near-death experiences in the 1970s. www.williambloom.com

Manifesting Your Inspiration • 14 - 20 April FINDHORN FOUNDATION Markus Hirzig & Nadasree Gadas

Bringing Spirit into Business for Peace, Pleasure and Plenty • • 21 - 24 April FINDHORN FOUNDATION Jane Duncan Rogers & Susan Miles Every aspect of life goes better when you are in touch with your spirituality, including your business. Without it, a split is created which means you cannot access the most powerful energy there is. Learn how to translate your spiritual principles (such as ethical behaviour, inner guidance, expression of love) into your business, inspiring your clients and customers to keep coming back for more, while making a positive contribution to the world. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655

Many of us feel divinely inspired how many of us are able to root our inspiration in our daily lives and water it in a way that most helps it to grow? We will explore the energetic, mental, emotional and physical aspects of inspiration and follow these into manifestation. We will take time to be with and become aware of the more subtle levels within the body, gaining access to a potent flow of creativity and inspiration, and open the space between inspiration and rooting it in the world. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Game of Transformation - 7 days • 14 - 20 April Please see description on page 22 Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • 20 April - 18 May Please see description on page 23

£120

Living Whole: Self and Sacred Module • 21 - 27 April, residential week 9 weeks online learning community (optional)

Peacebuilders Seminar: Facilitation and Mediation Skills for Peacemakers • 21 April - 4 May FINDHORN COLLEGE Isabelle Duquesne Join this seminar to enhance your skills in conflict management: intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, social, and international. The programme delivers a comprehensive overview of mediation methodologies and techniques, with a variety of opportunities to practise. A portion of the content is dedicated to the psycho-spiritual exploration of the systemic causes and consequences of conflicts in our personal and public lives. Key world conflicts are also addressed theoretically and experimentally. Income related price: £945 / £1125 / £1365

Workshops and Events

APRIL

INTO CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS

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Co-creating our emerging future in a changing, challenging world

7-10 APRIL 2012 The breaking down of the old summons the breaking through of the new. The Into Christ Consciousness Gathering draws together different streams of experience to rebuild our relationship with the wholeness of Earth and to generate positive, compassionate and creative change. Throughout the ages the world’s spiritual traditions have pointed the way to a greater and inclusive reality, and quantum scientists are now talking the same language. We are all profoundly interconnected in an infinitely loving Universe. Join us for a participatory gathering in which we open to an expanded consciousness beyond the polarities of male and female, spirit and matter, dark and light – where we meet, balance and are reconciled. This is an opportunity to face fear and choose love. To awaken to Spirit and become more fully human, more truly divine. You are invited to share, co-create, be inspired and make ongoing lasting connections. Within the Easter mystery we create a group chalice connected in silence and meditation, with ceremonies of song and story, poetry and dance, practical discussion, and tools for empowerment. Together we can open a channel for a new spirituality and a new expression of Christ consciousness. • Does the beauty of the cosmos touch your soul? • Is your heart on fire to create something new? • Do you long to be a source of healing, embracing the wider whole? • Are you ready to claim your inner power and make a difference? • Do you want to engage from a place of inspiration, beyond fear?

Transforming Conflict • • 28 April - 4 May FINDHORN FOUNDATION Saskia Kouwenberg & Nadasree Gadas We all long for friendly, loving relations. Our quarrels and conflicts seem to be the ever-present spoilers. Magic wands are not on offer, but a rich array of

Conference organisers: Gillian Paschkes-Bell & Janice Dolley All who come are contributors, and include: William Bloom Author, educator and activist. Fionntulach Contemplative and teacher of the Celtic Christian order of the Céile Dé. Jeddah Mali Spiritual teacher dedicated to the future of our planet. Julia MacDonald Teacher and master NLP practitioner. Philip Roderick Christian priest passionate about Christ, mysticism, music and movement. Barbara Swetina Travelling artist and troubadour. William Meader Author and teacher, focusing on the Christ principle and the evolution of consciousness. Fay Barratt Interfaith minister exploring the wisdom of Mary Magdalene. Income related price: £395 / £495 / £595

principles, processes and skills increase our chances to create outcomes that enrich our lives and our relationships. We will quarrel together, look at conflict styles, dance feelings and explore how we can navigate conflict in more constructive, creative, cooperative and compassionate ways. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

Workshops and Events

MAY

Quantum Leap / Transformation Game Retreat • 5 - 11 May FINDHORN FOUNDATION Judy McAllister & Susie Schwartz This is a powerful tool to deeply explore your sense of spiritual identity. It is not theory - it’s experience. The result for you can be a leap in consciousness, a sense of personal peace, and clarification of your personal identity. We use silence, dialogue, meditation practices and play the Transformation Game® to delve into the self and find your own unique bottom line. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Network of Light - International Holistic Centres Gathering • 12 - 16 May In 1960, Eileen Caddy received the guidance, “You are part of a tremendous network and each member is closely linked . . . this is a network of light.” Holistic centres are emerging all over the world. This gathering will bring together many centres who play a vital role in the emergence of a new consciousness and weave together the network of light. Held this year in Europe for the first time in a decade, join us to learn from and support each other as we move into the new.

Findhorn Foundation Astroshamanic Trance Dance & Drumming • 5 - 18 May FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro Shamans use dance to reach expanded states of consciousness, communicate with spirits and bring healing on a planetary and individual level. The workshop is designed for newcomers as well as to consolidate previous experience with astroshamanic trance dance. It consists of two workshops, which can be attended independently, and provides a solid basis for more advanced work. Basic Week 1: Astroshamanic Trance Dance & Drumming Trance dance and sound are used as transformational tools to open to expanded states of consciousness and a profound awareness of ourselves and our environment. During the week we employ movement to animate deep emotions and stagnant energies, redirecting them to support highest potentials, empower authentic

visions and step into the healing flow. Includes astroshamanic chants, planetary alignment dances, sound healing and the basic astroshamanic drumming method. Advanced Week 2: Astroshamanic Trance Dance Healing A special opportunity to experience the transformational effects of shamanic trance dance, music and percussion on the human body, mind and spirit. This is an intense week designed for those who wish to deepen their experience, including participants who intend to use astroshamanic trance dance and sound production in their healing practice with others. The previous week (or another one-week trance dance workshop with Franco) is a prerequisite. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 per individual week £945 / £1125 / £1425 for both weeks

A 7-day option is available and will include a group version of the Game of Transformation. Income related price: £355 / £455 / £555 (5 day option) Income related price: £495 / £595 / £695 (7 day option)

Game of Transformation Facilitation • 12 - 25 May, 20 October - 2 November INNERLINKS Would you like to offer Transformation Game workshops? Or take your Game experience with friends to a deeper level? This specialised programme gives you a thorough background in the use of a facilitator’s manual of advanced rules. You will receive permission to offer and promote workshops using the Transformation Game name and logo; these are copyrighted and may only be used with permission. Bookings close

two months before the programme begins. We then send you the facilitator’s manual, so you have time to practise with it. For booking information contact InnerLinks on +44 (0)1309 690992 or email: innerlinks@findhorn.cc Price: £1850 Findhorn Homecoming Week 19 - 25 May Please see description on page 25

Workshops and Events

MAY - JUNE

Laughing Matters Laughter Yoga • 19 - 25 May FINDHORN FOUNDATION Manda Stretch & Susan Miles World peace through laughter? This is a recognised workshop (by Dr Kataria School of Laughter Yoga) to lead laughter yoga groups and re-connect with your childlike playfulness and inner spirit of laughter. It’s a hands-on experience with many opportunities to practise your new skills and learn everything you need to know to share laughter yoga with others. No previous experience is required and no yoga postures are involved.

Co-creation with the Intelligence of Nature • 26 May - 1 June

Innovation Activism:The Future in Your Hands • 9 - 15 June

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Judy McAllister & Monica Böni

FINDHORN COLLEGE Simon Bowen & Stephen Busby

The focus is on creating and/or deepening your personal connection with the intelligence of nature and other aspects of the subtle realms, drawing on the work of founder Dorothy Maclean and other key figures in Findhorn’s history. Through entering into partnership with this ‘second ecology’ you can enrich your life and open possibilities to co-create innovative responses to the kinds of challenges we individually and collectively face each day.

Learn to innovate to achieve positive sustainable change and harness, your creative potential. We will also work systemically to identify and shift recurring patterns. This powerful path to authentic innovation is for people who are passionate to ground their potential projects. You are requested to bring at least one live idea/proposal that you want to realise.

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Experience Week prerequisite

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Sarah Rozenthuler & Neale Donald Walsch During these times of upheaval we need some creative, challenging conversations about what is happening in our lives and in our world. Conversations about who we are, why we are here and how we can evolve to the next level personally, politically and globally. This is an opportunity to interact with Neale Donald Walsch in two live sessions via internet to his home in Oregon. Speak your truth, connect with your own wisdom, and transform how we talk together. Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655

Game of Transformation - 4 days • 26 - 29 May Please see description on page 22

Online: Joyful Parenting Teleseminars using The Work of Byron Katie® • 12 June - 10 July Please see description on page 23 The Original Quest: An Astroshamanic Journey of Soul Retrieval into Space and Time • 16 - 22 June

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Change Your Conversation, Change Your Life • 26 - 28 May

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £855

Life Purpose • 9 - 15 June

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro & Sverre Koxvold

Please see description on page 24

This classic programme offers practical tools for navigating beyond conventional time and space, diving into the mystery of death and birth, past and future, while also focusing on our present reality. We link our personal life to planetary and mythic history, connect with significant locations, release and transform grievances, bring healing in our local and global environment. The programme includes soul retrieval, shamanic time voyages, trance dance, connection with nature spirits, and tools to unveil our hidden human potential.

Learning English in Community • 9 June - 6 July, 1 - 28 September FINDHORN COLLEGE This dynamic 4-week programme gives you the opportunity to improve your English while integrating personal development and living in a spiritual community. You’ll spend mornings in a classroom with tuition in English, and outside the classroom you’ll have time for self-study, joining in community life with many opportunities to improve your conversation skills. Living and learning in community can be a powerful and transformative experience. Income related price: £1745 / £1895 / £2200

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 • • • • •

Health & Wellbeing Spiritual & Personal Growth Nature & Sustainability Creativity & Celebration Leadership & Community

Workshops and Events

JUNE

Thriving in Changing Times • 30 June - 6 July FINDHORN FOUNDATION Astrid Gude More than ever the balance between people and nature needs to be restored. Indigenous peoples knew that a change in one part of the web of life makes

a change in the whole. Drawing upon cross-cultural classical and esoteric shamanic practices and working in partnership with the invisible dimension we will acquire tools that empower us to be the change that leads to life on a healthy and peaceful planet. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Experience Week prerequisite

The Planetary Game • • 23 - 29 June

With Joy Drake, Kathy Tyler, Mary Inglis & InnerLinks Faculty Come and join us for this special event marking the Findhorn Foundation community’s 50th year! The Planetary Game is a large-scale version of the Game of Transformation. Born originally here at Findhorn more than 35 years ago as a way of representing our approach to life, the Game is one of the most creative impulses to come out of the community. Today players and trained facilitators engage with the different versions of it in over 40 countries around the world, and the box Game has been translated into 9 different languages. The Planetary Game involves up to 120 participants in five Playing Areas. Focused around a life-sized Game path on the floor, it provides an exciting, multi-dimensional environment in which we can connect with and honour our individual paths and contribution within the whole, while also engaging our hearts, minds and spirits with collective issues and challenges in today’s world. The Game begins with each participant choosing one of the Playing Areas to work in, formulating an intention that is personally meaningful, and selecting a role to play: Player, Insight, Setback, Angel or Witness. Each Area represents a particular aspect of human activity. As we are all involved in all of them, collectively we will deepen into each of them and learn from the interplay between them. Although there is personal growth, insight and healing, the Planetary Game is played at far more than just the personal level. Its effectiveness depends on our capacity to recognise ourselves in one another, to see the world within ourselves and ourselves within the world, and to respond accordingly. It requires us to take responsibility for being co-creative participants in the wellbeing of a wholeness larger than just our own.

We are each a fractal of the whole, of the soul and body of humanity, of the soul and body of the world. The currents of our times move through and come to focus in each one of us. Our work in the Game is to contain and hold these trends within ourselves and, from this alchemical process, to allow the makings of a new consciousness to emerge and give shape to new forms. The world today stands at a threshold moment, a moment which is echoed in us individually, and in our groups and collective structures. The future is calling for a radical revisioning of our relationship to ourselves, each other, and the whole earth community. The Findhorn Foundation community is consciously engaging with this moment in its 50th year. In the Planetary Game, we too can do this, playing not just for ourselves, but for one another, humanity and our world. Do come and join us as we bring collective wisdom to both personal and global issues, explore our interconnectedness, and engage our capacity to generate positive pathways and presence in these turbulent times. To see more, go to findhorn.org/planetarygame for a slideshow. Income related price: £695 / £895 / £1045

Workshops and Events

JU.LY

Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song • 7 - 13 July

symbols and healing energy contained within them. With live music from Kostantis and Laura. Barbara Swetina offering The Prayer of the Heart in which our shared sincere intention opens us into the dimension of stillness within all movement and sound, and leaves a trail of beauty in our souls as well as in the world around us.

with special guests Maria-Gabriele Wosien, Barbara Swetina, Laura Shannon and Kostantis Kourmadias, plus Bill Henderson, Kate O’Connell, Rory O’Connell, Peter Vallance and Hanna Morjan Sacred/Circle Dance brings together traditional dances from around the world with contemporary choreographies. This year our special guests are: Maria-Gabriele Wosien teaching Prayer and Celebration dances that express symbols in movement. Symbols connect different levels of reality, when put to music and rhythm, they have the power to dissolve all that has burdened the soul with time. Laura Shannon & Kostantis Kourmadias offering traditional Greek and Balkan ritual dances, with a focus on the

The dances range from joyful and fun to inward-looking and meditative and provide a channel for spiritual harmony and growth. Findhorn has been home to these dances for more than 30 years and we continue to share their transformational and healing power. In addition to the daily dance workshops there’s the chance to participate in the Festival Choir with Kate O’Connell, and Orchestra with Bill Henderson (bring an instrument!), and to provide music for the final night’s community dance and celebration. Dancing to live music is an important part of the Festival experience and evenings will feature Rory O’Connell and other musicians, with dances taught by Peter Vallance and our guest teachers. Every year our Festival welcomes old friends and new faces who come to share with us the joy and delight of dancing together in community. We look forward to welcoming you.

Income related price: £625 / £775 / £985

Your Exquisite Body of Light • 30 June - 6 July

Game of Transformation - 4 days • 7 - 10 July

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Tjitze de Jong & Susan Miles

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This week is about exploring your unique individual healership. You’ll familiarise yourself with directing energy flow and with embodying a bridge of positive intention between heaven and earth via hara and core. With a handson approach you discover how chakras actually function and how the various layers of the aura can be accessed, cleansed, repaired, charged. A full-on workshop to explore your healing potential.

Findhorn Nonviolence Intensive • 14 - 20 July

Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Dominic Barter, Kit Miller & Leo Sofer What would it be like to apply the principles of Nonviolent Communication to living in community for a week? To learn by doing, in the nitty gritty of heartbased living with a bunch of people you are still getting to know? Our focus is on finding out what works for human relationships, to move us towards the world we want to live in. Please see www.findhorn.org/ programmes/239 for price details

Dreaming the New Dream Shamanic Visions of Death and Rebirth • 14 - 20 July FINDHORN FOUNDATION Astrid Gude Any conscious process of transformation involves a vision and an awareness of what needs to die before the new can emerge. In partnership with the spirit world we will journey into realms beyond our physical existence, tap into states of light and connection, release what blocks our life force, and start to dream the good dream of a healthier, more harmonious and balanced life for all of creation. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Experience Week prerequisite

Workshops and Events

JULY

The Elusive Obvious • 21 - 27 July FINDHORN FOUNDATION Roger Linden & Susan Miles Liberation is the permanent evaporation of all sense of a separate self. What remains is silent, spacious presence - the Self, experienced as the tender, peaceful joy of unconditional love. Using enquiry, dialogue and silence we will explore the reality of the Self, our true nature. We will also practise simple, natural ways of easing the mental, emotional and physical strain of living with a false sense of separation. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

Source of Inspiration - Being with Bees • 21 - 27 July FINDHORN FOUNDATION Sverre Koxvold & Monica Böni We will spend some time with our bees and enquire into the qualities they

inspire in us as humankind - such as love, courage, rejoicing, inspiration, happiness, slowing down and appreciation. By increasing our understanding of bees, their lives and communities, we learn to live in harmony with ourselves and our community, supporting bees and ourselves. Practical experiences and tools to bring into your daily life. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855

World Work and Subtle Activism • 28 July - 3 August FINDHORN FOUNDATION Mary Inglis & Adele Napier An opportunity to explore the connection between the planetary and the personal, to experience our deep relatedness and find ways of engaging with the world using our subtle energies and spirit. Drawing on Process Oriented Psychology, David Spangler’s Subtle Activism, and the Transformation Game, we will work with principles and practices for bringing inner resources

and contributions to world issues, as a complement to outer activism. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 What’s Your Tree? • • 28 July - 3 August FINDHORN FOUNDATION Milena Fraccari & Rona Ribeiro A symbolic question based on the inspiration of Julia Butterfly Hill, who spent two years atop a thousand year old redwood tree in California to stop it being cut down. This is seven days of immersion in exploring your life’s mission and putting it into action. The aim is to activate your purpose, leadership potential, build community and make a meaningful difference in the world. What calls you and causes you to be bigger than you know yourself to be? Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Experience Week prerequisite

Creations in Nature • • 28 July - 3 August

Mythodrama Module 1 & 2

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21 - 22 July, 23 - 27 July

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Richard Olivier, Lesley Quilty, Jonathan Dawson & Gill Emslie Module 1: Inspirational Leadership Lessons from Shakespeare’s Henry V 21 - 22 July

Module 2: Activating the Archetypes Liberating Hidden Inner Potentials 23 - 27 July

Of all Shakespeare’s stories, Henry V offers us the deepest insights into the nature of inspiration. Using the unique experiential learning tool of Mythodrama, participants will consider Henry’s journey through leadership, drawing parallels with your own experiences, exploring who you are and how you currently communicate as leaders. Leaders need to be visible. They need to show up with vision and purpose in a way that inspires others and truly reflects their passion and commitment with authenticity.

We will use the unique experiential form of Mythodrama to live into and explore the wisdom of the four primary archetypes as defined by Jungian analyst Robert Moore: Sovereign, Warrior, Magician and Lover. We free ourselves from restrictive old patterns and effectively ‘act in’ the new archetypes that we need to liberate future potential in our lives by exploring our current state of access to each, then working with theatrical technique and ritual process.

Income related price: £195 / £295 / £395

Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Price for both modules: £575 / £695 / £925

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Dietmar Voorwold & Craig Gibsone An opportunity to contact the beauty of nature and your own inner sense of harmony. Using the wide open landscape canvas to create our art, during this week we go out to the beach, the river and the bay. We follow our intuition and use light and tides to experience the natural process of creating and letting go. Our art material: stones, sand, clay, shells, wood, leaves and the precious moment. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

Workshops and Events

AUGUST

Quintessence of the Arts • 28 July - 10 August FINDHORN FOUNDATION Christiane & Bruno Rossi A quest and an exploration of the self through art, nature and creativity. By drawing inspiration directly from your chosen place in nature as a focal point, we use movement, sound, text, and painting in a creative process to see ourselves, and the artistic experience itself, as a work of art. A group experience, a personal journey, and deep connection with nature. Income related price: £1045 / £1195 / £1345

Science and Mysticism: A New Paradigm For Measuring Wellness • 4 - 10 August

Game of Transformation - 7 days • 4 - 10 August Please see description on page 22

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Sam Berne Create more sustainability individually and collectively by exploring the wholeness between individual and global health, the rift between masculine and feminine energies, and the creation of higher alignment with the Earth. Each person receives a before and after reading of their energy fields and chakras - with detailed analysis. Using subtle energy modalities of movement, colour, sound, vision therapy, and essential oils we connect to our bio-intelligence for healing. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

‘Sometimes I tap into the the spirit of my Findhorn week and feel balanced for the entire day. ‘

4-Week Findhorn Foundation Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism

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11 August - 7 September

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro Holistic Awareness is based on the experience that all aspects of life are intimately related and part of the same whole. According to this perspective there is no separation and we can find our sense of purpose only if we acknowledge the wider reality in which we exist. This reality also includes what lies beyond our ordinary perception and can effectively deepen the awareness of who we truly are. Astroshamanism is a holistic system of healing aimed at expanding human perception through integration of the basic principles of shamanism with experiential astrology, the contemporary revival of archaic mystery traditions and the spirit of the Findhorn Community. This 4-week intensive offers a unique and thorough exposure to holistic and shamanistic practice and gives continuity of contact with the workshop focalisers. The workshop is designed for newcomers as well as if you wish to consolidate previous experiences with shamanism or related methods,

and bring shamanic healing into your life and relationships with others. It consists of 4 modules, which may also be attended independently. Completion provides a solid basis for advanced work. Week 1: Findhorn Foundation Astroshamanism (basic week) - A Journey Into the Inner Universe Focuses on clarification of your life intent and connection with your spirit guide. Participants work with basic astroshamanic techniques for expanding perception and reawakening authentic purpose. The programme includes astroshamanic voyages, trance dance, soul retrieval, ceremonial sharing, planetary chants, the ritual of the Sacred Cone and various opportunities for integrating shamanic work with ordinary reality. Week 2: Findhorn Foundation Astroshamanism (advanced week) The Voyage Through the Zodiac Participants experience the whole spectrum of astroshamanic archetypes, retrieving and transforming blocked energies, strengthening the relationship with your multidimensional self and life intent. This workshop is designed for people who intend to employ shamanism both for yourself and in

your practice with others. The Basic Week, or another one-week workshop with Franco, is a prerequisite for attendance. Week 3: Integration Week Being in the Findhorn Community and taking part in activities such as gardening, sacred dances, singing, nature walks, meditation and individual sessions with Franco and associates. Week 4: Astroshamanic Practitioner Intensive A special astroshamanic workshop for practitioners and advanced participants, this week provides focused preparation in some of the most highly effective features of astroshamanic work, offering tools to increase your accuracy and effectiveness. It is designed for participants who intend to use astroshamanism in their practice with others. Previous participation in an astroshamanic workshop and an interview with Franco are a prerequisite. Income related price per individual week: £525 / £645 / £855 Income related price for first 2 weeks only: £945 / £1125 / £1425 Price for all 4 weeks: £1795

Workshops and Events

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER Biodanza - The Dance of Life • 4 - 10 August

Joyful Parenting • 11 - 17 August

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Nadasree Gadas & Monica Böni

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Kathy White, Ilsemarie Weber & Mie Roche-Nishimori

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Kathy White

You are looking for support for how to be the best parent you can be for your children, and you can see how important a job parenting is, but you struggle with the daily slog of it. Join Kathy White and her family with your children (age 5 - 15) on a magical parenting journey of discovery at Findhorn, for clear communication, loving connections and fun. (NB one adult is required per child under the age of 8.)

Your parent/child relationship can be a place of heaven or hell depending on your communication. Great communication and loving connections with your child despite toddler tantrums, turbulent teenage years or anti-social adult child is what you desire but don’t know how to achieve. Discover how to feel love not friction between you and your child and how to have ongoing great communication between you.

Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655

Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545

Awakening to Change - A 5Rhythms® Waves® Dance Workshop • • 11 - 17 August

Biomimicry - Innovation Inspired by Nature • 25 - 31 August

How would it feel to be at ease in your body, trusting its wisdom and feeling free to enjoy yourself as a sensuous, vibrant being? To reconnect with your life force and reawaken to the beauty and pleasure of being alive, able to move and relate? Biodanza leads us gradually into deeper contact with and permission to believe in the goodness of our instinctive passions and to express the emotions that arise from that experience.

Free Your Communication - The Work of Byron Katie® • 25 - 27 August

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Saying Yes:The Hero’s Journey • 11 - 17 August FINDHORN FOUNDATION Arielle Essex When life doesn’t go according to plan, what helps? When disappointments or disasters challenge you to the core, how can you turn things around? How do you accept the unacceptable? All problems bring gifts in disguise. A miracle begins with a change of thought. The journey of the Hero begins with facing the challenge, transforming the demons and returning home with the gift. Arielle discovered this pathway to healing during her own personal journey, recently filmed in The Living Matrix documentary. She guides you to find your own way through. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

‘I found Findhorn to be a healing and nuturing space. A place for self reflection.’

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Deborah Jay-Lewin & Bettina Jespersen As the world changes around us we are called to dance deeper into our creative selves, to be honest about our vulnerability and access our strengths. Will we contract in fear or expand with trust and cooperation? We will use the 5Rhythms® practice, as developed by Gabrielle Roth, to sustain and inspire us, to deepen our ability to surrender, to embrace change and experience the solidarity of dancing in community. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925 Findhorn Homecoming Week 18 - 24 August

FINDHORN COLLEGE Megan Schuknecht & Sam Stier Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) offers tools to solve our complex problems in sustainable ways. It is a cross-disciplinary science that studies and emulates design lessons from the natural world to create effective and harmless technologies. Contemporary students need access to these approaches; this course will enable educators to bring the fundamentals of Biomimicry into the classroom with engaging activities. Income related price: £895 / £950 / £1200

Learning English in Community • 1 - 28 September

Please see description on page 25 Please see description on page 33 Findhorn Community Semester: The Human Challenge of Sustainability • • 1 September - 7 December Please see description on page 24

Workshops and Events

SEPTEMBER Co-Creative Healing - Deepening Your Healing Presence • 1 - 14 September (module 1 & 2) 24 - 30 November (module 3) February 2013 (module 4) April 2013 (module 5) June 2013 (module 6) FINDHORN COLLEGE Maria Olsthoorn & Javier Rodriguez

Deepen your understanding of the relationships between Body, Mind, Emotions and Spirit - how they interact and move together, always connected. This training explores inner stillness, awakens a deeper healing presence and affirms a confident connection with your divine core, beyond the limiting and sometimes challenging habits of your personality. The training consists

of six residential weeks over a ninemonth period with ongoing support and supervision. More information on www.findhorncollege.org/programmes/ cocreativehealing.php Income related price: £3195 / £3695 / £4295

Love, Magic, Miracles • • An Autumn 2012 International Conference 29 September - 5 October Conference Organisers, Michael Hawkins & Antonio Palmieri To mark the Findhorn Foundation community’s 50th anniversary year, our Love, Magic, Miracles conference will explore and celebrate the spiritual truth that love is the greatest power on earth. For millennia, spiritual teachers including Findhorn founders Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean have proclaimed this truth. A truth that crossed over to the cultural mainstream when the Beatles sang, All You Need Is Love. We also explore and celebrate magic and miracles, potent energies that form a weave for our week with love. Held in the unique and magical environment of the Findhorn Foundation, one of the world’s leading holistic and spiritual communities, the starting point will be from the inner, discovering how we can open ourselves to divine grace, manifest everyday miracles and make our lives and those around us more magical. While the panorama of the week will be global, the conference will provide the opportunity to celebrate how these energies have formed and influenced the role of the Findhorn Community and how the Community has inspired many through these three graces. Magic and miracles, like inner guidance, are particularly associated with the Findhorn Community which has worked discerningly with these energies, demonstrating that these qualities are part and parcel of everyday life. Our work with nature is a shining example of this. The conference will explore how magic flows from love, and how synchronicity and manifestation occur when our will is aligned with divine will. Magic will be explored as that certain something we feel in the presence of beauty

and mystery, when a moment is so special that we feel its power. We are in a period of unprecedented global change, when there is much that is seemingly despairing, unloving, grotesque and unacceptable in the world. By focusing on Love, Magic and Miracles, the energies birthed and sent out will serve the world. Hosting this conference in 2012 will be a fitting way of celebrating Findhorn’s 50th birthday and responding to the planet’s evolution. We are bringing together an inspiring team of international teachers and artists. They will help take our understanding of these graces to another level in a grounded and contemporary manner. Presenters include: Caroline Myss, Robert Holden, Andrew Harvey, Little Grandmother, J Philip Newell and Barbara Swetina This conference will be both blessed and a blessing for all, nurturing and inspiring; you and the planet will be graced with new tools, approaches and possibilities for your ongoing journey. We welcome your participation at this significant event. Income related price: £595 / £695 / £795 Follow-on discount, page 47

Workshops and Events

SEPTEMBER

Inner Resilience in Turbulent Times • 15 - 21 September FINDHORN FOUNDATION Nadasree Gadas & Monica Böni When so much is demanded of us to deal with unexpected circumstances, how can we experience our ability to bend, and not break? We invite you to focus on what needs softening and yielding in us to allow change to happen gracefully, instead of building skills to survive or cope. We share bodywork and a range of practices that support us in experiencing a sense of presence, inner peace, and in accessing strength and flexibility. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 ‘I feel empowered and encouraged to start life in a new way with more awareness and consciousness.’

Game of Transformation - 4 days • 15 - 18 September

Being with the Spirit of Nature • 22 - 28 September

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FINDHORN FOUNDATION Sverre Koxvold & Franco Santoro

Learn to Play in Pan’s Garden • 15 - 21 September

This workshop deepens trust in the guidance and healing that come from connecting with spirit and the world of nature. We explore the hidden magic of the gardens at Cluny to learn how energies in their various forms relate to and affect our inner world. The week includes practical gardening as well as landscape healing and shamanic rituals and practices. Listen to what speaks softly . . .

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Antje Rickowski & Monika Lohmann Like the changes in the sea and tides, our life continually transforms itself. Learning to harmonise with nature in our daily lives and endeavours is a skill that can be deepened and refined in this workshop. The Pangarden Game is a wonderful new systemic tool that allows us to reveal hidden dynamics and practise trusting our intuition in a busy world. Create clarity, joy, and ultimately more freedom and self-empowerment. Income related price: £575 / £695 / £925

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Life Purpose • 22 - 28 September Please see description on page 24

Caroline Myss - Master Class • On the Path to Becoming a Congruent Human Being 6 - 8 October

Through the course of my work I have been asked countless times about the purpose of life and have tried out many answers. Eventually I realised that the spiritual path is really very simple: the challenge facing each of us is to become a truly congruent human being. It takes a lifetime (or maybe thousands of them) but the goal we are after, regardless of all the words we use, is that we are seeking exactly that - inner congruence.

What would a congruent human being be like? Here are some examples:Your sense of self-esteem is rooted in personal integrity, no need to prove self-worth; your intuitive guidance works in harmony and not in opposition to intellectual and emotional resources; you are someone highly attuned and respectful of the energetic feedback constantly being channeled through your biological channels; you seek truth rather than fear it.

Simple to articulate, but not so simple or easy to become a congruent human being. Yet, accomplishing this is the jewel around which spins all the other goals we associate with the reasons we pursue a spiritual path. You cannot be truly healthy if you are out of alignment; you cannot be truly honest with yourself or others if your head and heart exist as two separate forces within you; you cannot ever know what the fulfilled life is if you are always compromising your intuition and inner guidance for fear of the consequences; you can never consider yourself a truly honest person if you live a life of continual compromise and self-betrayal. Nor can you fully heal when you fear truth and honesty.

So attuned are we to this need to be congruent that we can seek it in every relationship we have and even in every room we walk into. We immediately sense when we are out of alignment with someone or something or some place. Congruence is second nature to us because it is indeed our spiritual comfort zone. In this Master Class, my focus is on but one goal: Becoming a Congruent Human Being. What does this require? How would that change your life? What are the spiritual strategies you have to commit to, to stay on this path? Income related price: £425 / £495 / £655 Follow-on discount, page 47

Workshops and Events

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - Training of Trainers

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13 October - 9 November ECOVILLAGE EDUCATION

Based on the Ecovillage Design Curriculum - an official contribution to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Facilitated by: Pracha Hutanuwatr - Director,Wongsanit Ashram,Thailand May East - Director, Gaia Education Iain Davidson - Staff, Findhorn Foundation Michael Shaw - Director, Ecovillage International Jane Rasbash - Co-founder Grassroots Leadership Training Findhorn ecovillage experts You are invited to join this 4- (or 5-) week comprehensive programme based on the four core pillars of the Ecovillage Design Curriculum: the social, worldview, ecological and economic dimensions of sustainability. The workshop content draws on the experience and expertise developed in a network of some of the most successful ecovillages and community projects around the world. Design for Sustainability -Training of Trainers is an advanced workshop based at the Findhorn Ecovillage

Living Whole: Co-creating with Nature and the Subtle Worlds Module • 22 - 28 September, residential week 6 weeks online learning community (optional)

providing a practical forum for learning and developing skills needed to work effectively with design for sustainability at all levels. It comprises four separate week-long modules, which may be attended as a whole or separately, with an optional extra week for acquiring further skills to teach the EDE. The programme incorporates two days of Transition Towns Training. Topics include Week 1: Social Design • Building Community and Embracing Diversity • Communication Skills and Feedback • Facilitation and Decision-making Processes • Conflict Facilitation • Personal Empowerment and Leadership • Celebrating Life: Creativity and Art Week 2: Economic Design • Shifting the Global Economy to Sustainability • How Money Works: Community Banks and Currencies • Right Livelihood • Social Enterprise • Legal and Financial Issues

Questioning Your Beliefs Around Money - The Work of Byron Katie® • 13 - 16 October

Week 3: Ecological Design • Whole Systems Approach to Ecological Design • Local Water Supply and Care • Local Food • Appropriate Technology: Energy, Green Building and Retrofitting Week 4: Worldview • Spiral Dynamics • Listening to and Reconnecting with Nature • Awakening and Transformation of Consciousness • Personal Health, Planetary Health • Transition Towns Training Week 5: Deepening Training of Trainers (optional) • More Skills and Tools • Creating a Learning Community • Drawing Out Collective Wisdom • Teaching Practice - Experiential Approach • Inner Growth - Moving Out of Comfort Zones • Emergent Design,Workshop Design and Evaluation Income related price: £1735 / £1925 / £2395 for all 4 weeks £495 / £545 / £695 per module

all your beliefs around money and gain financial freedom regardless of what your bank balance is. Income related price: £325 / £395 / £545

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Kathy White & Paul Snider

Please see description on page 21 Game of Transformation - 4 days • 9 - 12 October Please see description on page 22

Are you stressed about your family finances? Do you want to make healthy choices but feel you can’t afford to? This could be an opportunity to stop and question what your parents taught you about money. Money is one of those topics that often goes underground in a family. In this workshop you will question 41

Workshops and Events

OCTOBER - DECEMBER

Singing in Community • • 13 - 19 October

Beyond 2012:The New Year Spiritual & Sensual Healing Retreat • 29 December - 4 January 2013

FINDHORN COLLEGE Bill Henderson & Kate O’Connell Develop your skills in teaching harmony singing and voice work, whether you want to set up your own choir, or to bring more singing into your own life, workplace or community. Drawing on 50 years of experience and enthusiasm, and a vast repertoire of songs, both sacred and secular, this is an experiential week, working with the power of the natural voice and song for beneficial change and healing - on a personal, community, and global level. Income related price: £495 / £645 / £775 Game of Transformation Facilitation • 20 October - 2 November Please see description on page 32 Introduction to the Healing Art of Esalen® Massage • 27 October - 2 November FINDHORN FOUNDATION Perry Holloman Esalen® Massage is a unique form of bodywork developed at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. This method creates an experience of deep relaxation, supporting the natural ability of body and mind to self-organise and heal. Participants will be presented with an overview of Esalen Massage techniques, enabling you to give a full body massage on completion of the course. This is complemented by meditation, yoga, and other movement disciplines to experience the qualities of awareness and flowing presence central to this method. This introductory seminar is suitable both for beginners wanting more experience in the healing art of touch, as well as trained professional bodyworkers interested in learning the Esalen approach. There will also be a month-long programme at the Findhorn Foundation starting in June 2013. Income related price: £625 / £775 / £985

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro

Findhorn 50th Birthday Week Celebrations • 12 - 18 November Participation is limited. Please see description on page 7

This is a unique opportunity to promote holistic awareness and planetary transformation in empowering and healing ways. We alternate periods of stillness and movement, energy work and sacred sensuality, relaxation and dance, community and inner life, bringing careful attention to both the spiritual and physical world. We scan the past, using shamanic recapitulation and bodywork, including elements of AstroshamanicHealing® Touch, extracting blessings and releasing grievances, paving an ecstatic way for the New Year.

Game of Transformation - 4 days • 20 - 23 November

Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855

Please see description on page 22

New Year’s Celebration and Retreat • 29 December - 4 January 2013

Living Whole: Subtle Activism for the Planet Module • 24 - 30 November, residential week 6 weeks online learning community Please see description on page 21 Restoring the Fragmented Heart: Soul Retrieval and the Way of Sacred Relationships • 24 - 30 November FINDHORN FOUNDATION Franco Santoro Exploring relationships from a holistic and shamanic perspective to heal connections with partners, relatives, friends and significant people in your life. We track and release blocks to our capacity to love and being intimate, identifying the underlying issues that hamper relationships, and we promote healing, fulfilment and peace. This is a profound process that supports right relationship aligned with our authentic soul purpose. Designed for all types of relationships. Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855

FINDHORN FOUNDATION Barbara Swetina & Javier Rodriguez Between Christmas Eve and January 6th is a special time, when the veil between the worlds is thinner than normal. Not only a time to celebrate and be merry, but also to reflect, turn inwards, be still and listen. This week provides an opportunity to consciously step over the threshold and into a new year. There will be a mix of community celebration through song, dance, creativity and ritual, while allowing time for a journey of selfreflection, connecting with the stillness ever present at the heart of our being. New Year’s Eve is celebrated with the community in traditional manner. Space for rest and relaxation, as well as for pure, delightful fun! Income related price: £525 / £645 / £855 Game of Transformation - 7 days • 29 December - 4 January 2013 Please see description on page 22

Presenter Profiles Partner Profiles Findhorn College provides transformative education based on a holistic approach to sustainability and personal empowerment. Courses in further and higher education integrate experiential and academic learning within the context of the Findhorn community and ecovillage. Findhorn College collaborates with a number of UK universities and partners abroad, developing new educational opportunities and experiences. We provide a range of modules for field study visits. www.findhorncollege.org tel: +44 (0)1309 690806 email: college@findhorncollege.org Findhorn Consultancy Service supports the transformation of consciousness in businesses, organisations and communities through trainings, supervision, executive coaching and organisational development services. tel: +44 (0)7812 704035 and +44 (0)7990 972827 email: robin@findhornconsultancy.com or gill@findhornconsultancy.com The Game of Transformation is a powerful self-development tool, centred around a game board. Since the Game was first offered at the Findhorn Foundation in 1978, thousands of people have played The Transformation Game® in its various forms. Many more have worked with the Angel® Cards, with over a million Angel decks sold to date. InnerLinks, the US-based and UK-based company that researches and develops Transformation Game products and programmes worldwide, offers workshops and facilitation workshops with the Foundation. tel: +44 (0)1309 690992 email: innerlinks@findhorn.cc The Lorian Association is a spiritual and educational research centre exploring an Incarnational Spirituality that empowers individuals to re-imagine self, sacred and the world.

Ecovillage Education at Findhorn offers courses for transition to a sustainable culture that engage with multiple ways of knowing - class lectures, observation, and hands-on projects. Participants develop analytic abilities and philosophical depth combined with practical skills to redesign our human presence in the world. Findhorn ecovillage features include a community-owned renewable energy system, organic communitysupported agriculture, Living Machine waste water treatment system, community currency and banks, ecobuildings, and an inclusive tightly knit social fabric. sustedu@findhorn.org

Barbara Swetina is a gifted musician who plays many instruments with a wide repertoire of songs. She brought sacred harmony singing into the heart of the community and teaches internationally.

Adele Napier is passionate about experiencing sacredness in everyday life and new possibilities for living. She develops and facilitates programmes, and practices as an Interfaith Minister and spiritual counsellor.

Caroline Myss PhD is a pioneer of energy healing. She is a medical intuitive internationally known for her work with sacred contracts, archetypes and chakras. Author of many books including Healing the Soul of Addictions.

Ann-Marie Grind is an artist, designer and worked in holistic health and leading workshops since 1980. Ann-Marie finds inspiration by following and expressing joy, beauty and presence in the now.

Christiane Rossi was at Findhorn from 1996 to 2008 as a staff member. She now lives in Paris.

Antje Rickowski is a naturopath, teacher and workshop leader with 20 years’ experience. At Findhorn since 1998, she recently developed the Pangarden Game, a holistic, supportive tool for exploring life questions. Arielle Essex her mission is to share the unique psychological and spiritual approach she developed during her extraordinary healing journey, as seen in The Living Matrix documentary. www.practicalmiracles.com Ash & Simon Balderson have lived, worked and played together since 1994. Their lifetime exploration of sacred sexuality has led to a passion for helping others reconnect with their own true expression of sexuality and joy. Astrid Gude is a therapist and shamanic practitioner with a background in diverse spiritual paths, currently working as a group facilitator at the Foundation.

Bettina Jespersen is Brazilian and loves bridging cultures. An accredited 5 Rhythms® teacher, she currently enjoys exploring the chaotic, lyrical dance of toddlerhood with her daughter. Bill Henderson is a musician/teacher. He has run community music workshops since the 1980s. He celebrates the role of music in building community and creating harmony. Bruno Rossi was at Findhorn from 1996 to 2008 as a staff member. He now lives in Paris.

Craig Gibsone has lived at Findhorn since the early days of the community. He is an workshop leader, artist, potter and permaculturist. Deborah Jay-Lewin has taught 5Rhythms® since 1994 and is a certified Waves® and Heartbeat® teacher. She lives and works in the Findhorn community where she combines 5Rhythms and creativity with sustainable living. Dietmar Voorwold is an artist, designer and art therapist who leads workshops in LandArt. He created some of the images seen in Findhorn Foundation brochures and holds workshops here. Dominic Barter consults with governments, organisations and communities internationally on bringing heart-based learning, healing and change into tough social and interpersonal situations.

Presenter Profiles Erik Grind is a mandala artist, teacher and musician who loves to facilitate spiritual and personal transformation through creative expression. Franco Santoro has been active in shamanism and holistic awareness since 1976. Workshop leader, author and shamanic facilitator, he is the creator of astroshamanism and other healing practices. Gabrielle Haworth Hamm was born and raised at Findhorn. After studying in London and exploring the world she now focalises Ecovillage Training and Ecovillage Design Education. Gill Emslie is a passionate workshop leader and experienced facilitator. She works locally and internationally, and in global hot spots, developing resilience in times of change.

community empowerment and greatly respects indigenous wisdom. Javier Rodriguez is a clinical psychologist with in-depth training in various approaches to personal development and transpersonal psychology. He has worked for more than 20 years as a workshop leader, therapist and coach.

Lesley Quilty is a creative consultant, facilitator, coach and theatre artist. An Associate of Olivier Mythodrama, she has over 20 years’ experience of personal and organisational development. www.oliviermythodrama.com

Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability workshop leader and storyteller, with experience as a consultant, researcher and author on themes relating to organisational development, third world development and the economics of sustainability.

Manda Stretch is passionate about Laughter Yoga. She is Scotland’s only endorsed LY Leader Trainer. She is known for her creative and transformative workshops.

Judith Bone is a long-term staff member who brings wisdom, grace and experience to sacred dance workshops and a variety of programmes on spiritual growth.

Ian Turnbull worked as a geologist before coming with his family to Findhorn. He is known for building the Nature Sanctuary, and enjoys singing with groups.

Judy McAllister has more than 30 years of Findhorn experience behind her. Judy is passionate about people and nature. Development - both spiritual and personal - is the hallmark of her work.

Ilsemarie Weber has lived at Findhorn for several years, running many of our Essential Findhorn programmes. She is an Interfaith Minister and passionate about spiritual and personal growth.

Julia MacDonald is a teacher and advanced Lightning Process practitioner, passionate about combining her cutting edge techniques for personal development with her spirituality to help herself and others move towards wholeness. www.juliamacdonald.co.uk

Jane Duncan Rogers aka The Spiritual Business Coach, helps self-employed and small business owners who want to grow their businesses for peace, pleasure and profit. www.richthinkers.co.uk Jane Rasbash has 20 years’ international experience successfully supporting the design, implementation and training of sustainable development and holistic programmes. Jane is passionate about 44

Leo Sofer has been learning and teaching NVC since 1999. He is also an intuitive storyteller, see his website www. StoriesOfTheJourneyHome.com.

John de Ruiter founded The College of Integrated Philosophy in Edmonton, Canada, where he holds weekly meetings and quarterly seminars. He also holds seminars in various parts of the world. www.johnderuiter.com

Hanna Morjan integrates selfexploration, celebration and spirituality through art, music and dance with a deep commitment to sustainable community. She is a long-term Findhorn staff member.

Isabelle Duquesne is a consultant, trainer, mediator and university teacher working internationally. She lived in the Foundation for 12 years, where she “learned the most fundamental lessons for her life.”

Kit Miller serves as the director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence. Before this she was director/celebrator of Bay Area NVC, California.

Kate O’Connell has a background in theatre, dance, music and community living. Since the late 1970s she has run choirs, workshops, festivals and community celebrations. Katharina Brocke works internationally for a Japanese peace organisation and draws from her rich experience of working and living within the Findhorn community for the past 28 years. Kathy White is a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie®, an HPC registered art therapist, and wife and mother of two. She lives at Findhorn and works in the UK.

Maria Olsthoorn trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing for six years. She has worked with individuals and groups in the community for more than 20 years, teaching transformational healing. Markus Hirzig goes deeper into listening and seeing reality every day. He has worked with Thomas Huebl since 2002. Mary Inglis is a long-term member of the Findhorn Foundation and leads courses worldwide in personal and group development, creativity and the Transformation Game®. May East works internationally with sustainability learning. Megan Schuknecht is manager of University Relations at The Biomimicry Institute and a biologist at the Design Table. Develops, evaluates and delivers Biomimicry Trainings and lectures to university audiences around the world. Milena Fraccari is a communication consultant, activist and international coordinator of What’s Your Tree, the programme inspired by the American activist and writer Julia Butterfly Hill. Monica Böni has been living in Findhorn since 1998 and is passionate about personal and spiritual development, and about remembering spirit in all aspects of life.

Presenter Profiles Monika Lohmann is a biologist who rediscovered her spiritual connection with nature at Findhorn. She is inspired by shamanism and life’s interconnectedness. Nadasree Gadas is a fiery Biodanza teacher from Brazil, passionate about body as expression of soul. She is enthused by transparency in relationships and the emergence of a new We. Neale Donald Walsch is an international speaker and author of the Conversations with God series of books. Paul Snider is a certified facilitator of The Work of Bryon Katie®. He sees money as a topic that is a source of much stress. He loves how The Work can simply undo all that stressful thinking. Perry Holloman has taught massage at Esalen since 1996 and has been a resident of the Esalen Community since 1979. He takes this healing art around the world. Peter Vallance has led Sacred Dance workshops for more than 20 years, bringing humour, experience and enthusiasm. He is also a storyteller and leads sacred journeys. Richard Olivier is Artistic Director and founder of Olivier Mythodrama, an Associate Fellow of Said Business School, University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation. Roger Linden is a psychotherapist and a teacher of meditation and the Feldenkrais method. He has been leading groups exploring the nature of liberation since 1999. Rory O’Connell has a background in jazz, Irish traditional and Balkan folk music. He particularly loves the atmosphere created by playing uplifting and soul-filled music with enthusiastic dancers. Sam Berne in his innovative holistic vision therapy approach uses subtle energies to help people open physical, emotional and spiritual vision.

Sam Stier is Director of Public Education and Conservation at The Biomimicry Institute. He develops science curricula and professional development courses for teachers, and consults with corporate clients offering research and training. Sarah Rozenthuler is a dialogue consultant with 10 years’ experience working with large organisations such as the World Bank, the BBC and the UK Civil Service. She is a psychologist and author. Saskia Kouwenberg trained as a journalist and developed - after 25 years’ human-rights activism - the Conflict Transformation, Mediation and Conflictology workshop for journalists.

Yehuda Tagar is an Australian/South African psychotherapist and consultant, founder of Psychophonetics, director for Persephone Institute and of Persephone College UK and course director at Health Creation.

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Simon Bowen is involved in innovative projects ranging from interactive media to business model design, experimental architecture, choreographic works, landscape art, web sites, graphic design and video productions. Stephen Busby works with a group of pioneers in systemic work (taking it into schools, companies, prisons and the NHS). He’s lived at Findhorn for many years. Susan Miles is a staff member of the Foundation. A lover of paradox and simplicity, she has been facilitating workshops here since 1994. Sverre Koxvold sailed into Findorn harbour on his quest for life, discovered the Foundation and fell in love with Cluny Hill and its gardens where he spent 10 years honing his connection with nature. Tjitze de Jong is a social worker, massage therapist and healer. He is a Barbara Brennan graduate including Advanced Studies, and founded his own healing school in 2007. William Bloom is an author, workshop leader and activist in the field of modern spirituality and holistic wellbeing. He has a long association with the Findhorn Foundation and aligns his work with the energy of the Cosmic Christ. www.williambloom.com

The Findhorn Foundation is based at two sites: The Park (postal code IV36 3TZ), near Findhorn village (population 700); and Cluny Hill (postal code IV36 2RD) in Forres (population 10,000) which is 5 miles from Findhorn and 26 miles east of Inverness.

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SPIRIT OF THE FUTURE

SUPPORT THE WORK & VISION OF THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION For 50 years the Findhorn Community has demonstrated new ways of living in harmony with life and nature, changing the lives of thousands of people with diverse needs and backgrounds, from all over the world. As a spiritual community, ecovillage and holistic learning centre we continue to inspire people to be the change. This year we are celebrating our many successes and achievements as we look behind us and see how far this community has come. Poised on this threshold, we are also looking forward with excitement and anticipation to the next 50 years. Now we are manifesting the Spirit of the Future - the many projects and new initiatives that will ensure that Findhorn continues to light the way towards a sustainable and peaceful world for the future. We need your participation and support to meet our goals and fulfil our aspirations for the future, and we invite and welcome your donations to help us continue to offer our services and grow. “The time I spent there has changed my life. I am in awe of how the community functions and the beautiful people that live there.” Lorrie Bell, Australia, donor

Make a difference If you feel inspired to help us realise this vision we welcome your support. To make a one-off donation or an ongoing monthly/ annual donation, please complete the form provided and post to: Supporter Relations, The Park, Findhorn, IV36 3TZ. You can also make a donation online at www.findhorn.org/donate or contact us directly at supportus@findhorn.org or on 01309 690808.

Signature: _________________________ Date: ________________ Please send this standing order form to us. We will then pass it on to your bank.

Every donation helps, large or small.Together we are touching minds and hearts around the world to build a positive future for generations to come.Thank you for supporting the spirit of the future.

GIFT AID (for UK Tax Payers) The value of your gift can be increased under the Gift Aid scheme at no extra cost to you. Please tick this box: Please treat all gifts of money that I make today and in the future to the Findhorn Foundation as Gift Aid donations. The Findhorn Foundation will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 you give.The Government will pay to the Findhorn Foundation an additional 3p on every £1 you give before April 2012.You must pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April one year to 5 April the next) that is at least equal to the amount of tax that the Findhorn Foundation will reclaim on your gifts for that tax year. Please notify us if you want to cancel this declaration, change your name or home address, or no longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains. Please see www.findhorn.org for further information.

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‘The Foundation has been a great inspiration in my life ever since I undertook an Experience Week there almost two decades ago. May the Foundation long continue its work.’

Booking, Travel & Practical Information How to Book our Programmes Please book online at www.findhorn.org or use the Booking Form, page 49 - 50 To reserve your place, please send a £95 deposit per person per programme which is non-refundable unless your programme is cancelled. Experience Week and some other programmes require a letter of introduction, see Booking Experience Week below. When booking a programme that starts in four weeks or less, full payment is required at the time of booking. Please book well in advance to ensure a place in the programme of your choice. Wait for confirmation of your booking before making travel arrangements. (Allow one week for confirmation.) The balance of your payment is due four weeks before the starting date of your programme. We will take this from your credit card automatically or you can send us a cheque or bank transfer. If you cancel after this point we can refund only 50% of the balance. If you cancel within one week of the programme, there is no refund. We suggest you arrange holiday insurance. Telephone / Fax Bookings office: +44 (0)1309 691653 Fax: +44 (0)1309 691663 Hours: Mon - Fri 9.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-5pm (closed Tuesday pm) For general enquiries: +44 (0)1309 690311 Hours: Mon - Fri 10am-5pm For Findhorn College bookings: +44 (0)1309 690806 or see www.findhorncollege.org For Erraid bookings: +44 (0)1681 700384 or see www.erraid.com

Booking Experience Week When you book Experience Week we ask that you write a letter introducing yourself. This is your first step into the spirit of the week and helps the

Experience Week facilitators get to know you and prepare the programme. It will remain confidential. Most people write between one and two pages. Please write or type it yourself. Write a simple, honest, authentic letter about yourself and why you want to participate in Experience Week. Mistakes don’t matter, just write it in your own style. Include your age and an overview of your present life (for example some of your life choices so far, present joys and challenges, relationships, your inner life). If you have had any emotional or health difficulties, please let us know how these are affecting your life now. Please enclose the letter with your deposit and booking form. Please wait for confirmation of your booking before making travel arrangements. Your Accommodation Week-long programmes end on Friday evening and accommodation is provided until Saturday morning. Accommodation is generally shared (this is part of the community experience). Single rooms may be available for an additional cost, but cannot be guaranteed in advance. If you use a wheelchair, please contact us well in advance so that we can make suitable arrangements. Fees include linen, towels and meals. We suggest you bring suitable clothing for all kinds of activities. The weather varies a great deal so include warm and waterproof clothing in all seasons! Our kitchens provide vegetarian food which is mostly organic, seasonal and locally sourced. Vegan, wheat free, and sugar free alternatives are available at each meal. If you require a diet that is more specialised than those provided, you must check with us in advance. We cannot guarantee to be able to fulfil your needs. We cannot cater for people with serious food allergies or multiple food intolerances.

Arriving Early or Staying On If we have space available, and you have been here before, we can offer you the opportunity to arrive on Friday and stay overnight before joining your programme. The cost is £37 per day for shared accommodation and all meals. Bookings for extra nights must be made through our Bookings office. We cannot guarantee availability. A list of local bed and breakfast guest houses is available at www.findhorn.org/bandb (Please note that most local B&Bs are not equipped to take credit cards.) Follow-on discounts If you book an Experience Week with a starting date in December, January or February and also book an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice directly following your Experience Week, we will give you a reduction of £100 off the total price. *John de Ruiter - The Promise of Honesty 10 March + Deepening Awareness 13 March. Follow-on Discount: £50 off the total price. *Ecovillage Experience Week 19 May + Ecovillage Exploring Community Life 26 May. Follow-on Discount: £100 off the total price. *Love, Magic, Miracles 29 September + Caroline Myss - Masterclass 6 October. Follow-on Discount: £100 off the total price. Bursaries We do not wish to exclude people with a low income, young people, people who are unwaged, or people from developing countries. We have set up a bursary fund to help all people access our services. Contributions to the Bursary Fund We welcome contributions to our bursary fund as a gift to help those people who cannot afford to pay the full amount to come here. A space is provided for bursary contributions on the booking form.

Booking, Travel & Practical Information If You Need a Bursary Limited bursary funds are available to help with the cost of participating in our programmes. We encourage you to apply for this funding if you need help with payment. All bursaries must be arranged in advance of arrival, so please apply well before the start date of your chosen programme(s). You can apply by writing to our Bookings office or calling us to request a bursary form. Please send this form together with your booking form. Concessions A reduction of £50 is offered for young people 25 and under, unemployed people, and people from developing countries, on the following programmes only: Experience Week, Exploring Community Life and Spiritual Practice. Payment We prefer payment by cheque, debit card, or credit card (sorry, we do not accept American Express). Please do not send cash. Payment should be in pounds sterling (GBP). In most countries it is possible to buy a cheque in GBP from your bank. We do not accept Eurocheques. It is possible to pay using a bank transfer. For more information please see: www.findhorn.org/ bookinginfo Pay Agreements Payment can sometimes be spread over a maximum of three months. Please arrange your pay agreement with the Bookings office. Travel Information You will find more detailed information at: www.findhorn.org/gettinghere Rail There are trains from London to Inverness and Aberdeen, with connections to Forres. Our buses meet three Saturday mid-morning trains at Forres station. At other times there are usually taxis at Forres station to take you to our Cluny Hill site or The Park. For rail information, please call: from UK: 08457 484950 from outside UK: +44(0)207 278 5240

Bus and Coach National Express: +44 (0)871 781 8178 and Citylink: +44 (0)871 266 3333 operate express services from London (Victoria Coach Station), Glasgow, and Edinburgh, to Aberdeen and Inverness. There are bus connections from Aberdeen and Inverness to Forres, and from Forres to The Park (distance 5 miles). Road From Edinburgh or Glasgow join the A9 at Perth. Leave the A9 turning right onto the A95 towards Grantown-on-Spey. At Grantown follow the A939/ A940 to Forres. For Cluny Hill, from the High Street turn right into Tolbooth Street. At the roundabout go straight across into St Leonards Road, and then turn left at the sign for Cluny Hill. For The Park, Findhorn, use the Forres bypass (A96), turning left for Findhorn and following road signs. Air Nearest airports are Inverness (26 miles away) and Aberdeen (85 miles away). There are connections from most major British and some European cities. See our website for travel infomation from airports. Short Visits If you are unable to stay for seven days for an Experience Week or other workshop, it is possible to participate in the daily life of the community by joining us as a short-term guest for between one and six days. You will have the opportunity to participate in our service departments, meditate in our sanctuaries and engage in other activities as available. This programme costs £18 per day, and includes lunch and dinner in the Community Centre. You need to find your own accommodation. A list of local bed and breakfasts is available at www. findhorn.org/bandb Advance notice is suggested, however, you may also contact the Visitors Centre upon arrival. Tel: +44 (0)1309 690311

Guided Tours For day visitors we offer guided tours from our Visitor Centre every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 2pm, and during the summer every Saturday and Sunday as well. Guided tours for groups can be provided by prior arrangement. If you would like more information, please call, write or email: Visitors Centre, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres IV36 3TZ Tel: +44 (0)1309 690311 email: enquiries@findhorn.org Please Note All information included in our publicity is correct at the time of going to press and is subject to change. While every effort is made to provide programmes and services as advertised, we do not accept liability for; •Cancellations or changes caused by availability of staff, low bookings, weather conditions, maintenance work, acts of God, acts of government or any other authorities, or any other situations beyond our control. •Pre-existing medical or psychiatric conditions or those which may arise during, or subsequent to, participation in one of our programmes. •Loss of, or damage to, personal property of our guests. We reserve the right to refuse admission to our programmes if, on arrival, participation appears to be inappropriate. We also reserve the right to ask any visitor to leave if your behaviour is disruptive to the functioning of the Foundation or interferes with the rights of others. Please do not bring your pets.

Pricing and Booking Form Income Related Pricing We want to ensure that our courses are accessible to people with diverse means. When you book, please choose the low, medium or higher price listed for your programme, based on your personal income. If you cannot afford the lowest price, please see our Bursaries information on page 47 - 48.

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Booking Form PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS FORM TO BOOK FINDHORN COLLEGE COURSES OR ERRAID WEEKS. Please contact them directly to make your booking. For contact details please see page 47. Please print clearly and in BLOCK CAPITALS. Please read pages 47 - 48 before completing this form. Person 1

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Accommodation Requirements (as available) I would prefer a single room, if available (supplement £20 per night) Please send me a list of local bed & breakfasts If booking as a couple:

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____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ Deposit / Full Payment Enclosed* £_________________ Single Room Supplement, if any (see bottom of page 49) £_________________ Optional contribution to Bursary Fund (see page 47) £_________________ Concession or Discount if applicable (see page 48) – £_________________ Total £_________________ Amount Enclosed £_________________ * To confirm your booking we require either payment in full or a non-refundable £95 deposit for each programme. The balance is due four weeks before the start of each programme (single room supplement, if any, to be paid on arrival). Experience Week bookings also require an introductory letter from each participant (see page 47) as do some other programmes. Please check course descriptions carefully. (Please tick boxes as appropriate) VISA/

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for Switch card, start date or Issue No: ________________ Security No (the last three digits on the back of your card): _____________________ Cardholder’s Name (as appears on card): ________________________________________________ Signature: _______________________________________ Cardholder’s Address: __________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________

I authorise the Findhorn Foundation to debit the remaining amount 4 weeks before the start of the programme. Cheque payable to the Findhorn Foundation. I / We enclose a letter applying for a bursary. Is there any medical history we should know about? We particularly need to know of a) any physical disabilities so that we may accommodate you appropriately, b) any infectious disease you have or suspect you may have; or c) if you need special medical or therapeutic care. All answers will be treated as confidential. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Send your completed form to: Bookings, Findhorn Foundation, The Park, Findhorn, Forres IV36 3TZ, Scotland, Fax +44 (0)1309 691663 50

Memories To celebrate 50 years of the Findhorn Foundation community, a visual feast of images from then and now, plus extras, including a 10 minute video, Findhorn Now, on a

Coming on a course at the Findhorn Foundation? Want to spend a few extra days experiencing life around the Foundation Park Campus?

Or do you just want to come and stay awhile and explore this beautiful part of the world?

Set on the Park campus, The Holiday Park has 2 eco-chalets and 23 holiday caravans, including a mobility caravan, for rent from luxury to economy.

Call 01309 690203 or visit our website www.findhornbayholidaypark.com

NEWBOLD HOUSE A community, retreat and workshop centre in Forres.

Expect a Miracle 4 GB USB Memory Stick Includes beautiful images of nature at The Park and Cluny, life at Findhorn, Eileen, Peter and Dorothy, plus a selection of then and now photos. Keep what you like and then use the rest of the space for your own files. price: £14 including post and packing www.findhorn.org/memories supportus@findhorn.org

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www.findhornpress.com for books, sets of cards and cds that will inspire and uplift you!

A welcoming space in a beautiful place Workshops, personal retreats, venue hire, volunteering holidays, nature connection & sustainable living courses Newbold House is a holistic education centre run by a resident community committed to sustainable living. Set in 7 acres of gardens and woodland on the edge of Forres, close to Cluny College and a short drive from Findhorn, we are also a great place to stay before or after a Findhorn Foundation programme. With welcoming hosts; spacious function rooms; comfortable accommodation; beautiful grounds and vegetable gardens; delicious food and a tranquil atmosphere we offer the perfect venue for workshops and courses. Newbold have been part of the wider Findhorn Foundation family for over 30 years; in this special 50th birthday year, we would love to welcome friends old and new to come and experience this special place. For Information and bookings: www.newboldhouse.org, ofﬁce@newboldhouse.org, or telephone: 0044 (0) 1309 672 659 111 St Leonards Road, Forres, IV36 2RE

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