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SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY, LEARNING CENTRE, ECOVILLAGE

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS 2013

Welcome to Findhorn Co-creating a positive future for people and planet We have made it – past the threshold of Findhorn’s 50th year and through the portentous year of 2012 – and here we are with a full programme of events at Findhorn for you in 2013.

Welcome to a new world, a new spirit, and a new way of being.

The one thing that stands out at this moment in time is a renewed conviction and confidence in the principle of co-creation, one of the pillars of the Findhorn Foundation community. Without this deep sense of the relationship of each one to each other, and with all of nature, how can solutions to our personal challenges be complete and how can lasting positive change manifest? This is a turning point for us all, no matter our place in the whole community of this planet, and co-creation is at its heart.

In 2013 you will find all the programmes that make Findhorn a unique place to experience and learn about the nature of your world. Essential Findhorn programmes from Experience Week to the 15-month-long Findhorn Intensive, give opportunities for grounded, practical, everyday insights and practice. Being part of the community, for a week or a year, is a doorway in time, a space to connect, a bridge to the new.

We look forward to welcoming back Joanna Macy, Caroline Myss, and to experiencing the major conference for this year: Forgiveness – The Great Undoing. Findhorn Ecovillage Experience will run for its 15th year, and for the first time we will be welcoming a conference of the International Communal Studies Association on sustainable living. Opportunities to celebrate creativity and wellbeing include the event EarthSings and our annual highlight, Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song.

You are welcome as our honoured guests and as part of the community to co-create with us the future we are all looking forward to.

Wishing you all the very best,

Eva Ward PS Thank you for the past many years of editing this programmes brochure, it is now time to hand over to the new. It has been a joy and a privilege.

FINDHORN FOUNDATION’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!

Findhorn Ecovillage Experience (previously known as Ecovillage Training, now in its 15th year) is an official contribution to the main learning goals of the UN DESD since its launch in 2005. This programme provides 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.

Front cover photo: Time for quiet comtemplation by the Findhorn River. Photo: Bill Arras Back cover photo: Trapeze in Cluny Garden. Photo: Dietmar Voorwold

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CONTENTS Welcome to Findhorn

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Findhorn Foundation & Community

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Visiting Findhorn

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Essential Findhorn Programmes

5 - 15

Findhorn Foundation Island Communities

16 - 17

Reaching Out

18 - 19

Workshops and Events (January - March)

21 - 23

Calendar in Brief

24 - 27

Workshops and Events (March - December)

28 - 37

Presenter Profiles

38 - 40

Support Us

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Booking, Travel & Practical Information Workshops and Events Index Booking Form

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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 • 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 more details, and for information about bursaries, please see page 42.

• Our programmes require a minimum age of 18 years for participation unless otherwise stated in the programme description. © 2012 Findhorn Foundation. All rights reserved.

Editor: Eva Ward & Sandra Mitchell / Art Director, Designer: Yasko Takahashi / Compiled by: Jacqueline Palmer & Egbert Efting Dijkstra / Produced by: Big Sky Print All images are © Findhorn Foundation and Adriana Sjan Bijman / Ash Balderson / Astrid Kortsen / Avalon dos Santos / Bill Arras / Dietmar Voorwold / Edward Fitsell / Eian Smith / Eva Ward / Gabrielle Hamm / Geoff Dalglish / Graham Meltzer / Hugo Klip / Lianne Milligan / Michael Mitton / Peter Vallance / Sverre Koxvold / Thomas George / Ulf Bley / Yasko Takahashi

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FINDHORN FOUNDATION COMMUNITY

The Findhorn Foundation and Community works in cocreation 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 and positive responses to the challenges and opportunities of our times. Experiencing life at Findhorn is the perfect way to learn about wholeness, integrity, purpose, leadership, love, beauty, co-creation, communication, joy and service.

We pioneer a holistic approach to sustainability that integrates four aspects – spiritual, social, environmental and economic.

By developing not just the externals of sustainability such as ecohousing, ecological sewage treatment and renewable energy, but also addressing the inner life of human beings and giving people an opportunity to experience being part of an interconnected web of life, the Foundation has become a unique centre for learning and a valuable and potent force for change.

Our holistic approach to sustainability is demonstrated in our three main areas of activity: spiritual community; ecovillage; learning centre. Community life provides the spiritual and social framework of sustainability upon which our ecovillage and economic activities are woven. The Foundation financially depends upon sharing our learning with others through our guest programme of workshops and events.

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We offer a transformative environment where new ways of thinking and being in the world have space to grow, and where learning takes place naturally through ordinary activities in daily life. Practising community values for a month, a week, or even a day can often lead to changes that increase self-esteem, promote healthy relationships, give a sense of empowerment and can encourage leadership.

Our activities give rise to further new projects, systems and structures that support and sustain humans and our environment; the Findhorn Foundation is a founding member of the Global Ecovillage Network, New Findhorn Association, Park Ecovillage Trust, Ekopia Resource Exchange, CIFAL Scotland, and several other initiatives.

The Findhorn Foundation currently has 120 members of staff and is part of a growing community of more than 300 people in the local area who support and practise spiritual and sustainable values, including small businesses and charities primarily working in education, the environment, healing and the arts. We are proud of our pioneering role and look forward to continuing as a seed centre, catalysing and demonstrating effective change, and to helping to co-create a positive future for humanity and the planet.

Essential Findhorn

ESSENTIAL FINDHORN PROGRAMMES

Experience Week and our 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 to 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.

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.

Inspired action is a commitment to open and honest interactions, working together, growing organic food, building ecohouses, 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 activity. Elements of these unique Essential Findhorn programmes can also be found in all our other 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 6.

If you can stay for only a few days, you can participate as a ShortTerm 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 43 for more details.

If you would like to bring a group, we can offer tailor-made experiences ranging from a day up to a week. See page 20.

Accommodation When you attend one of our workshops or events you’ll be accommodated either at our Cluny 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 42 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. The Blue Angel Café in the Universal Hall in The Park offers a range of freshly made organic food and is open every day. 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 5

Essential Findhorn

Experience Week Changing the world from the inside out For Experience Week dates please see calendar on pages 24 -27.

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 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

En Castellano Semana de Experiencia 13 - 19 julio Contacto: maita@maita.es

The programme runs from Saturday to Friday evening, and includes seven nights accommodation and all meals, from the first Saturday lunchtime through until 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 below.

Experience Week runs at The Park and at Cluny Hill and there are opportunities to experience both sites during the week.

Please join us for an adventure in new ways of living and relating, and help to create a positive future for humanity and our planet.

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 Bursaries and Concessions are available, see page 42. If you book an Experience Week directly followed by an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice in certain times of the year, we will give you a reduction of £100 off the total price. Please find details on page 42.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMMES

3 - 9 agosto Contacto: castellano@findhorn.org En Français Semaine d’Expérience 20 - 26 avril, 6 - 12 juillet email: francais@findhorn.org Em Português Semana de Experiência 14 - 20 de Setembro email: portugues@findhorn.org 6

open to transformation within yourself and the group. All of these elements are also part of the Special Experience Weeks we offer.

In Deutsch Findhorn Erfahrungswoche 11. - 17. Mai Kontakt: Gabriele Backhaus email: info@gbackhaus.de 18. - 24. Mai Kontakt: deutsch@findhorn.org 24. - 30. August Kontakt: Beate Frey email: info@heilung-und-tanz.de In Italiano Settimana di Esperienza 10 - 16 agosto A Findhorn contattare: email: italia@findhorn.org

In Italia contattare: Isabella Popani Tel/Fax: +39 (0)735 777065 email: info@isabellapopani.it Connessione con la Natura 17 - 23 agosto Please see description on page 34.

See follow-on discounts on page 42. email: italia@findhorn.org

日本語体験週 ４月27日〜5月3日 お問い合わせ：広瀬麻奈

email: himana@gol.com

6月15日〜21日 お問い合わせ：大森経子

email: megamiyama21@yahoo.co.jp

Essential Findhorn Special Experience Weeks Family Experience Week 6 - 12 April, 27 July - 2 August, 10 - 16 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, recommended minimum age of 5 years, 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.

Erraid Experience Week 22 - 28 June, 28 September - 4 October

Youth Experience Week 27 July - 2 August

This special Experience Week is on the beautiful Isle of Erraid on the west coast of Scotland, where a small community, part of the Findhorn Foundation, lives and works together in co-creation with nature. While you are engaged in the full programme, you experience the close connection to nature and the elements in this ancient, magical landscape, where every aspect of life is deeply connected to the weather, the moon and the tides.

See page 17.

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: £335 / £425 / £555

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 for adults £225 / £325 / £425 for age 5 - 11 £335 / £425 / £555 for age 12 - 17 Ecovillage Experience Week 13 - 19 April, 11 - 17 May, 8 - 14 June, 14 - 20 September Following a similar structure to our original Experience Week, this special 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: £435 / £525 / £675

LGBTQ Experience Week 26 October - 1 November Music Experience Week 6 - 12 July Barbara Swetina 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 experience in music is necessary.

Income related price: £475 / £625 / £845

‘The programme exceeded my expectations because it goes far beyond an ordinary stay in communty.

It invites us to expect a miracle.’

This Experience Week gives space to celebrate being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer together in the supportive and unique environment at Findhorn. A week of community life and opening to the new.

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 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 us well in advance. email: guestdept@findhorn.org building.bridges@findhorn.org

Gentle Experience Week 8 - 14 June 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.

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675

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Spiritual Practice 2 - 8 March, 6 - 12 April, 8 - 14 June 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, 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: £435 / £525 / £675 Experience Week prerequisite

Special Spiritual Practice Weeks Spiritual Practice – Holistic Sexuality 16 - 22 February Franco Santoro 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.

Spiritual Practice – The Power of Intention 16 - 22 March Astrid Gude 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.

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Spiritual Practice – Nature 20 - 26 April, 13 - 19 July, 3 - 9 August Katharina Brocke

Spiritual Practice – Clay 15 - 21 June Craig Gibsone

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.

With the landscape of Findhorn Bay and the surrounding coastline as an inspiration for our week, we journey with the four elements – earth, air, fire and water – using the medium of clay to focus and centre ourselves, and to create spiritual alchemy. Clay is a magical and primal substance that comes alive and takes form, bringing us a sense of co-creating with the spiritual dimension of all things. Included is time for reflection and insight that can be used to strengthen your inner commitment to a spiritual life.

Spiritual Practice – Permaculture 18 - 24 May, 21 - 27 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.

Spiritual Practice – Active Meditation 10 - 16 August Astrid Gude This journey within uses 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.

Essential Findhorn Spiritual Practice – Ritual and Ceremony 14 - 20 September 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.

Spiritual Practice – Living Intuitively 19 - 25 October Nadasree Georgete 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.

Spiritual Practice – A New ‘We’ 9 - 15 November Nadasree Georgete Gadas Experiencing a feeling of separation limits our sensitivity to others and 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.

Spiritual Practice – Primal Painting 7 - 13 December 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: £475 / £625 / £845 Experience Week prerequisite

Spiritual Practice – Manifestation 23 - 29 November Franco Santoro Learn how to use spiritual practice in order 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 our goals.

‘Delicious food, gracious company and a serene environment.

What a joy!’

Exploring Community Life For Exploring Community Life dates please see calendar on pages 24 - 27 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.

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 Essentials Apprentice Programme.

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 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.

We invite you to attune to a price between £95 - £295.

Experience Week prerequisite A Gift to Cluny – Spring Clean Celebration 26 January - 1 February

In Perfect Timing – Gardening at Cullerne 27 April - 3 May, 11 - 17 May

Love in Action – Maintenance at The Park 27 July - 2 August

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 is a time of purification and renewal as we complete tasks and play together to clean and transform the building and ourselves. No ordinary spring clean, this is a grand opportunity to clear out ‘old baggage’ on all levels.

In Cullerne Gardens, we co-create with nature to grow flowers and food for the community, bringing beauty and nourishment to all. Share our love for the gardens by joining our team for a week or two. Together, we will do lots of sowing, preparing, mulching and planting out in our fields and polytunnels, while celebrating and enjoying being at Findhorn in the spring.

Experience being part of a team offering service for a higher purpose.

On a practical level, we use this time 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.

Sprinklings of Light – Spring Cleaning at The Park 2 - 8 February Would you like to offer your energy, love and service in preparation for the new season at The Park? As a group we 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.

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Coming Home to the Garden – Gardening at The Park 4 - 10 May, 18 - 24 May As the natural world bursts into spring flowers and fresh green leaves, we invite you to join us in a hands-on gardening week. We’ll help to create an abundant summer of flowers, fruit and vegetables, while exploring Earth mysteries and the connection between our inner and outer gardens.

‘It has opened me up to many more of the possibilities in love as well as letting go of old pain to move on.’

‘I did not expect to get so much love, peace and new ideas.’

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Living in Community Guest Programme Starts every Saturday except 5 January, 30 March, 28 September 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 Findhorn Ecovillage Experience. 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

Mo Haley LCG participant It gave me the chance to become part of the service department team, which I loved, and to integrate more into the community. LCG helped me to really connect to others and to the Findhorn way of life.

Silke Ruck Spiritual Deepening participant This programme provided a perfect opportunity and environment to reflect upon myself and my life; a life-changing experience and some of the most wonderful and important weeks of my life.

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 (see page 9) 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 or £425 if you are age 25 or under For second block of 4 weeks £475 / £545 / £725 or £325 if you are age 25 or under For third and further blocks of 4 weeks £375 / £445 / £625 or £225 if you are age 25 or under Three-week segment £445 / £525 / £685 or £325 if you are age 25 or under For further information please contact lcg@findhorn.org Please note: 22 June, 7 and 21 December are restricted intake weeks. Only those who have done LCG before can apply for these weeks.

Experience Week prerequisite

Dave Robinson LEAP participant For me LEAP provided the opportunity to continue serving the community; love in action.

This way of service feeds the individual and the collective at the same time, and the learning comes through the challenges presented by everyday life and interactions with others. Living in community there are many mirrors, and most importantly, an invitation to move continually toward authenticity.

Many people in the world today find their everyday environments compromised by deep separation. There is an invitation in the LEAP programme to move beyond this way of living and find more holistic ways.

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Spiritual Deepening

– Living from Purpose and Soul 2 March - 24 May This programme is a 12-week core journey to deeply engage with your own inner wisdom, and 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 or go deeper in your inner connection, Spiritual Deepening offers you powerful experiential learning that can become a framework for life.

It is a heart opening process during which you can discover more of what has touched you previously here in the Findhorn Foundation.

You receive the best that Findhorn has to offer by engaging with long-term members of the community for input on topics like the founding principles of Findhorn, character styles, conscious group dynamics, communication skills ­– and more. It is experiential learning that includes spiritual practice through service and love in action. Integration time includes a silent day every week as well as a 4-day silent retreat, a week on the island of Erraid, ritual, spiritual mentoring and reviews of your personal purpose and inner process. By engaging with your Spiritual 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 are intending to live within or around the community, Spiritual Deepening can serve as a step on the path to a deeper experience of the Findhorn Foundation, and to participation in the Living Essentials Apprentice Programme.

All applicants participate in an interview and attunement.

For more information and updates on the programme and for the current price scale please visit our website: www.findhorn.org/deepening.

Income related price: £2950 / £3500 / £4250 Experience Week plus either Exploring Community Life or a Spiritual Practice Week are prerequisite.

Brochure mailing Are you one of the many people who have received this brochure via the post?

Every year in November and April our community comes together to send out more than 8,000 copies of our brochure to all corners of the world. A beloved community event, the mailing is a great way to meet old and new friends and demonstrate love in action.

Starting with an attunement, we hold a vision that the brochures we send will bring the essence of Findhorn, love, light and our deep gratitude to each and every individual reader.

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Dorothy Maclean having fun with friends

Essential Findhorn

Living Essentials Apprentice Programme (LEAP) An agreement to serve LEAP is our 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 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 spend a minimum of two months and up to six months as a Short Term LEAP 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. After your Long Term LEAP induction days, your programme means you will have weekly group meetings and you are assigned a personal mentor for the initial six months.

LEAP is a commitment to serve this centre and a pathway towards becoming a member of staff. It is equally valid for you

to take back out into your life, 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 the programme. We welcome applications for this programme all year round.

For further information please contact leap@findhorn.org Income related price is £50 - £350 per month while on Short Term LEAP; £100 - £350 per month for your first six months on Long Term LEAP. Experience Week plus three months of the Living in Community Guest Programme are prerequisite.

Often we find names we know on the address stickers – old friends who have lived here in the past, people with whom we spent good times together when they were on programmes, or even our own family members. These are good opportunities to stop for a moment and send our warm thoughts.

We hope our brochure inspires you.

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Essential Findhorn

Findhorn Intensive

– A 15-Month Modular Programme Residential weeks for this programme: 8 - 14 December 2012, 2 - 8 March 2013, 1 - 7 June 2013, 7 - 13 September 2013, 7 - 13 December 2013, 8 - 14 March 2014 (This programme will start again in September 2014) 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

individual and collective practices and wisdom. We explore the frameworks of Incarnational Spirituality and Process Oriented 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 fulfillment, and bring more love into our world.

The group journey is an opportunity to be lovingly held, supported, challenged and encouraged while you reflect and engage with your life more deeply.

For comprehensive information on the themes and particulars of the programme, as well as how to apply, please visit www.findhorn.org/intensive

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

Income related price: £2550 / £2950 / £3450 Experience Week prerequisite

What they say about this programme.... Ángel: It has been a space of growing and exploring through different approaches. One of the best ideas is having three months to live what we experienced intensively in a week. The peer groups and the mentoring sessions within these three months have been real support to my process.

Ulf: The Findhorn Intensive helped me to see what already is in my life, that life-affirming living doesn’t mean that I have to make a big change through hard struggle.

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David: For anybody thinking of doing the Intensive ... stop thinking and just do it.

Andrea: Findhorn Intensive for me was what its name says: intense! I was able to come back to a deep spirituality in my everyday life. It was good to travel back and forth anchoring the vital experiences of Findhorn in the group again and again and very helpful for changing my life at home.

Sara: I feel more in touch with living from my centre in ways which nourish and restore balance. If you want encouragement to embrace life and the subtle realms with more sensitivity and joy, and be part of a group committed to deepening and growing the Findhorn spiritual impulse, this is a wonderful programme to sign up for!

Essential Findhorn

Incarnational Spirituality – An approach to Living Whole 27 April - 3 May, 31 August - 6 September, 16 - 22 November Findhorn Foundation & Lorian Association We live in times of profound transition and transformation. If we are to shape a hopeful and holistic future, we need a worldview that is centred in collaboration and partnership. A view that honours and engages each person’s individuality and unique contribution, whilst also honouring and engaging the manifest diversity of the whole earth community with all its physical and nonphysical ecologies.

You are invited to reimagine and reshape your relationship 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 we come together in a community of exploration to deepen our understanding of the many facets of the sacred in manifestation, and expand our spirituality into creative daily action.

Over three modules, which may be taken separately or as a whole, 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 Each week combines daily practice, reflection and live video-stream contact with David Spangler, and participation in Findhorn community life to strengthen new habits of wholeness in our lives.

We strongly encourage you to read the recommended book for each module prior to participating.*

For further information please visit www. findhorn.org/incarnationalspirituality Income related price per individual weeks: £595 / £725 / £945 Incarnational Spirituality:The Generative Self 27 April - 3 May Freya Secrest & Adele Napier with David Spangler via video-stream A key principle of Incarnational Spirituality is that we are in essence generative, able to know and live our unique capacity as a presence of blessing in the world. In this week you explore your relationship with yourself and with the sacred in and around you, in ways that help you discover your innate gifts and weave your powers of love and creativity more fully into your life. *Reading prerequisite: An Introduction to Incarnational Spirituality by David Spangler

Incarnational Spirituality: Resonance and Relationship 31 August - 6 September Freya Secrest & Judy McAllister with David Spangler via video-stream Resonance is an important principle of relationship that brings each of us into connection with earth’s second ecology, a subtle, non-physical network of intelligence within our planet. In this week, we will deepen our attunement to the qualities of sacredness within ourselves, in order to foster lifeenhancing, respectful and co-creative relationships with Gaia’s physical and non-physical ecologies. *Reading prerequisite: Engaging Subtle Worlds by David Spangler or To Hear The Angels Sing by Dorothy Maclean Incarnational Spirituality: Subtle Activism 16 - 22 November Mary Inglis & Freya Secrest with David Spangler via video-stream Subtle activism is the art of using your own subtle energy field – your own presence – in relationship with subtle and spiritual forces of the planet to promote wholeness, healing and transformation. In this week you learn practices of energetic engagement, develop your skills in subtle activism, and explore how you can make a difference in the energetic wholeness of your own, and our collective, life. Included is a specially designed day-long version of the Transformation Game®. *Reading prerequisite: World Work by David Spangler

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Island Retreat

Isle of Iona

Summer Retreats at Traigh Bhan

Summer Retreat Weeks start every Saturday from 29 June - 31 August.

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.

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

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.

All retreats cost: £275 - £495 per person according to individual circumstances and includes 7 nights accommodation in shared rooms and vegetarian food for shared meals. Please pay only your deposit when you make your booking. We ask you to attune to the final amount you pay, with our residential custodian, while you are at Traigh Bhan on Iona. Maximum 6 guests per week. Arrival time is midday Saturday, and departure time is the next Saturday morning.

Experience Week is a prerequisite for all retreats.

Special Weeks on Iona Easter Retreat 30 March - 6 April Niels Paulsen You can experience Easter week on the holy island of Iona.

Equinox Retreat 16 - 23 March Niels Paulsen Deeply experience this time of year as we turn towards the light, within the peace of this beautiful island.

Transformation in Retreat 23 - 30 March, 22 - 29 June Niels Paulsen The power of the Transformation (box) Game combined with the peace and beauty of Iona.

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Creative Space 1 - 8 June Ian Turnbull, Rosie Turnbull Bring your own creativity and current project, and be inspired by the island and the wisdom of the group.

Close to God 15 - 22 June Erica Jakobs, Niels Paulsen Explore the forces of nature by walking the island, gardening, and cooking food together.

Retreat for Gay Men 31 August - 7 September Niels Paulsen A time to just relax and be who you are.

Art & Meditation Retreat 14 - 21 September Karin Werner, Margo van Greta Connecting with creative spirit through art, in the beauty of Iona. Cultivating inner peace and loving kindness with Buddhist meditation.

NB Sliding scale £305 - £525 Space for the Heart 21 - 28 September Margo van Greta Meditations from the Buddhist tradition combined with the inspiration of Iona, to connect more deeply with our heart and with love, compassion and peace.

Game of Transformation Retreat 26 October - 2 November 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: £455

Island Community

Isle of Erraid

Erraid is a beautiful Hebridean island in view of Iona, where a small community, part of the Findhorn Foundation, lives and works together within the natural cycles of sea and land. The quality of stillness and the simplicity of life here are an invitation to slow down and experience a different way of being.

Celtic Festival Weeks 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. £290 to £490 by attunement

You are welcome to join us for a week or more to experience the island’s magical energy, explore its magnificent landscape and wildlife, our unique lifestyle and community life. We are open for guests for most of the year. Families with children are always welcome. There are several ways of exploring Erraid:

Erraid Experience Week This year we have two Experience Weeks on Erraid, starting on 22 June and on 28 September. For more information please see our Special Experience Week section on page 7.

Love in Action Weeks Immerse yourself in the rhythm of our lives. Enjoy the wild beauty of the island while joining in community activities such as gardening, cooking, chopping wood, polishing candles, meditating, sacred singing and much more…. £240 to £490 by attunement Retreat Weeks Allow yourself to be held within the healing energies of the island as you take time for yourself – going for walks, sitting on the beach, reading, writing, connecting with nature. Our cosy retreat cottage is available for a more private space. £290 to £490 by attunement

Booking Information For further details, bookings, long-term possibilities or for special rates for children and groups please contact us at: Tel: +44 (0)1681 700384 Email: erraid@live.co.uk Please find more information on our website: www.erraid.com Our prices are on a sliding scale according to individual circumstances. Please be aware that you attune to the final amount you pay at the end of your stay on Erraid.

Special Weeks - Celtic Festivals & Retreats Imbolc 26 January - 2 February The return of the Celtic Goddess Bride, representing the reawakening of the life force after winter. The energy of renewal invites us to leave behind that which no longer serves and prepare for the coming of spring.

Ostara – Spring Equinox 16 - 23 March 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 27 April - 4 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 15 - 22 June The sun is at the height of its power and we celebrate the longest day of the year.

A time of appreciation for the natural bounty overflowing from our gardens and for reflecting on abundance in our own lives.

Mabon – Autumn Equinox 21 - 28 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 26 October - 2 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.

New Year Retreat 30 December - 4 January 2014 Celebrate the New Year with us on Erraid. A time to release the old and embrace the energy of the new. Connect to your dreams and visions for the year to come.

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Reaching Out

BUILDING BRIDGES

Our Building Bridges programme to reach out to new friends and partners, serving an ever-broadening spectrum of people and organisations, continues in 2013. 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.

Building Bridges has also established a new holistic learning stream, Findhorn Co-Ability Project, bringing together in community people with diverse abilities. The project aims to focus on the many positive elements adults with learning disability can bring to community, and provides a platform for participants to develop their potential and offer their gifts.

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.

We also offer a yearly 4-day programme where people from business, NGOs and charities, who are interested in exploring issues of sustainability, meet themselves, meet Findhorn and meet each other – by invitation only (please email building. bridges@findhorn.org if you’d like to be considered). We are also open to creating bespoke experiences for business teams.

We offer A Great Day Out and residential weeks for: • school groups • socially excluded groups including those with learning disabilities • 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 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.

Welcoming Diversity The Building Bridges team are running a new programme for disengaged young people from our local area, the Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP), with our partners Action for Children and Moray Council.

It brings young people ages 16 - 19 to the Foundation, one day each week for three months. Through this they experience an array of new activities including pottery, gardening, working in the kitchen, chopping wood, playing games and having quiet times alone.

The participants build trust, grow in self-confidence, learn about responsibility, come together as a team and find their own voice. Further YEP programmes are planned for 2013.

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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.

Reaching Out

OUTREACH WORKSHOPS We respond to invitations from all over the world, offering workshops and activities to share the spiritual values and group skills that have been developed and are still evolving, within the Findhorn Foundation community.

We use a variety of tools – sacred song and dance, games, meditation, intention and silence – to build group consciousness and community. If you would like to set up an event in your area, please contact Rosie Turnbull at the address below. You can see our current Outreach Workshops diary, listing Findhorn-related events and courses taking place across the world, by going online at www.findhorn.org/outreach/workshops.

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

Sacred Dance in Berlin, photo by Lutz Pagel

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. There are currently 190 RPs in 33 countries all over the world. You can find a list of RPs at www.findhorn.org/rp or you can email at rp@findhorn.org for more information.

Resource People Gathering in June 2012

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Workshops Workshops and and Events Events

DECEMBER - MARCH

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS 2013

28 December 2012 - 4 January 2013 Game of Transformation 7 days also 13 - 19 April, 17 - 23 August, 28 December - 3 January 2014 4 days 2 - 5 February, 2 - 5 March, 25 - 28 May, 13 - 16 July, 21 - 24 September, 9 - 12 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.

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23 February - 1 March

Humanising Your Workplace Yehuda Tagar

Exploring Elderhood Alan Heeks, Ineke Vollebregt

Whatever you want from your life also needs to be present in your work – it’s where you spend most of your time.

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 and giving opportunities for spiritual development.

Elderhood is a call to find a new sense of yourself and your life purpose, where your presence and being are as important as the doing. Exploring elderhood may call you at any stage of your life, in your 50s through to your 70s or beyond . . . the issues of our time mean the voice, wisdom and embodiment of eldership are urgently needed. This gathering seeks your unique contribution as an elder, and the group’s, to see how we can meet both the needs of the world and our own.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 2 - 5 March Game of Transformation - 4 days Please see description on this page.

Income related price: £695 / £725 / £945 (7 days) £435 / £525 / £675 (4 days) 2 - 5 February Game of Transformation - 4 days Please see description above.

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Workshops and Events

FEBRUARY - MARCH 9 February - 8 March Findhorn Ecovillage Experience Craig Gibsone & Gabrielle Haworth Hamm, Nadasree Georgete Gadas Drawing on the expertise of the Findhorn Ecovillage, this monthlong programme gives you the tools needed for creating sustainable human settlements. Incorporating the Permaculture Design Certificate syllabus since 2007.

Findhorn Ecovillage Experience provides a practical forum for interactive learning and for developing 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.

4-Week Findhorn Foundation Training in Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Franco Santoro 4-week intensive or individual weeks (except for week 3).

Holistic Awareness accepts that all aspects of life are intimately related and part of the same whole, and that we can find our sense of purpose only if we acknowledge the wider reality in which we exist. Astroshamanism is a holistic system of healing for expanding human perception by integrating the basic principles of shamanism with experiential astrology, contemporary archaic mystery traditions and the spirit of the Findhorn Community. This month-long intensive is designed for newcomers as well as to consolidate previous experiences with shamanism or related methods. Completion of the programme provides a solid basis for advanced work.

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Week 2: Fair Share (16 - 22 February) Alternative Economic Models, Right Livelihood & Organic Food Production Week 3: Earth Care (23 February 1 March) Ecological Settlements and Wilderness Restoration Week 4: Design Projects (2 - 8 March) Permaculture: Designing for the Future

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.

2 - 29 March

Week 1: People Care (9 - 15 February) Growing Community, Building Effective Groups & Deep Ecology

Price: £2195 If you are unable to meet the full cost above, we do have a number of bursary sponsored places available at £1625.

Please don’t hesitate to ask.

1. Basic Week (2 - 8 March): A Journey Into the Inner Universe Clarification of your life intent and connection with your inner guidance.

You work with basic astroshamanic techniques for expanding perception and reawakening authentic purpose.

The workshop includes soul retrieval, astroshamanic touch and bodywork, trance dance, energy work and opportunities for integrating shamanic work with ordinary reality.

2. Intermediate Week (9 - 15 March): The Voyage Through the Zodiac Experience the whole spectrum of holistic awareness and astroshamanic archetypes, retrieving and transforming blocked energies, strengthening the relationship with your multidimensional self and life intent. This workshop is designed for using shamanism both for yourself and in your practice with others.

The previous week, or another edition of the Basic Week, is a prerequisite.

3. Integration Week (16 - 22 March): Grounding the Vision During this week participants have time and space for integrating the experiences of previous weeks, with

your own rhythms and visions, while being in the Community and in our service departments, taking part in optional activities such as gardening, sacred dances, walks, individual or group astroshamanic healing sessions. This week is not available to be booked separately.

4. Advanced Week (23 - 29 March): Astroshamanic Practitioner Intensive This is a special workshop for practitioners and advanced participants providing focused preparation in some of the most highly effective features of astroshamanic healing work, offering tools for increased accuracy and effectiveness. It is open to participants who have completed the previous weeks or any previous edition of Findhorn Foundation Astroshamanism.

The month-long programme serves as a prerequisite for the Living in Community Guest programme.

Income related price per individual week: £535 / £665 / £875 Income related price for first 2 weeks only: £975 / £1155 / £1465 Price for all 4 weeks: £1835

Workshops and Events

MARCH

9 - 15 March Transition to Resilience Module 1: 8 - 14 December 2012 (see website) Module 2: 9 - 15 March 2013 Module 3: 9 - 15 November 2013 Module 4 & 5 will be held in 2014 Kosha Anja Joubert, Robin Alfred This is a learning journey for change makers, who wish to realise projects related to resilience and sustainability in their regions, communities or workplaces. It is the fruit of collaboration between the Global Ecovillage Network; Transition Town Network; Permaculture Academy; Centre for Human Emergence; Damanhur; Cloughjordan; Findhorn Foundation and The Hub. We will travel together, focusing on the circles of I - We - World.

The programme consists of 5 modules held over a period of 18-months with the option of taking each module individually.

Price: £835 per module There are a limited number of Findhorn Foundation bursary places available at £575.

Grundtvig funding was available for Module 1 & 2 and we envisage being able to make this funding available for subsequent modules. Further information is available at www.findhorn.org/T2R

EarthSings

Singing for Unity and Wellbeing Easter Event: 30 March - 5 April

Our commitment to singing as a path of healing, celebration and union through spirit is the impetus for the Foundation to once again host an EarthSings conference.

Through harmony singing, mantra chanting, devotional and community singing in nature, we intend to create a healing field within which we can achieve transformation through song. As Ella Fitzgerald once said, “The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

Hosted by Peter Vallance with contributions from local song teachers Bill Henderson, Kate O’Connell and Barbara Swetina, the conference will feature daytime workshops, large and small-scale participatory events, and evening concerts for which negotiations with well known Scottish and Gaelic singers are currently taking place. These concerts and other evening participatory events will be open to the local community and we look forward to joyful singing filling the Hall every night.

We warmly welcome you to join with us in song.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. – JJ.M.Barrie M Barrie

Presenters include: Kathy Bullock, teacher of African-American sacred music, brings her deep appreciation of music’s beauty, power and spiritual possibilities.

16 - 22 March Pathways to the Self Maria Olsthoorn, Susan Miles

Ali Burns, Song maker and Community Choir director, is fascinated by the sound of voices singing and loves the way that singing can unburden people from daily life.

The focus of this week is a rich journey of deep self-enquiry. Our intention is to teach you an effective map for your transformational journey and facilitate the healing of your core wounding and defenses. With the group we will support the emergence of your joyful and authentic healing presence. You may find that your life transforms as a result.

Fionntulach, spiritual leader of the Ceile De, will teach Fuinn, Gaelic chants rooted in pre-Christianity, which seek to harmonise the spiritual, otherworldly, and physical parts of ourselves.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 Experience Week prerequisite

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

Frank Kane, sought-after workshop facilitator, works with the essence of the voice as revealed in Georgian song, offering a path of self-discovery.

Michael Stillwater, multi-talented artist and facilitator, inspires people through music to reconnect with their inner spirit and authentic voice.

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WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS JANUARY 12 January Experience Week Living in Community (LCG)

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20 April French Experience Week Spiritual Practice – Nature

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If you book an Experience Week directly followed by an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice, between 1 December 2012 - 23 February 2013, we will give you a reduction of £100 off the total price.

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Life Purpose SPECIAL EVENT: Michael Roads Unconditional Love (5 days)

Living in Community (LCG) The Art of Balance Game of Transformation - 7 days

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 Humanising Your Workplace 21 Findhorn Ecovillage Experience (4weeks) 22

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Living in Community (LCG) SourceSounding – The Sound of You The Joy of Working with Herbs 27 April Experience Week Japanese Experience Week In Perfect Timing – Gardening at Cullerne

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JANUARY - JUNE 2013 MAY 4 May Experience Week Coming Home to the Garden – Gardening at The Park Living in Community (LCG) Deepening Awareness – The Work of Byron Katie® (4 days) 11 May Ecovillage Experience Week German Experience Week In Perfect Timing – Gardening at Cullerne

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26 June SPECIAL EVENT: Conference of the International Communal Studies Association (Option 2)

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Living in Community (LCG) The Elusive Obvious SPECIAL EVENT: Joanna Macy – The Work that Reconnects Esalen® Massage Certification Training

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All Essential Findhorn Programmes are in blue, pages 6 - 15 These workshops require prior participation in Experience Week For bookings, please use form on pages 45 - 46 or go online at www.findhorn.org

Living in Community (LCG) 11 Ambition,Values & Leadership: A Mythodrama Scotland Training (4 days) 30 The Original Quest – An Astroshamanic Journey of Soul Retrieval into Space and Time 30 Isle of Iona – Close to God

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 The Foundations of Energy Healing Science 30 Create Your Own Mandala 30 25 May Experience Week

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Living in Community (LCG) Game of Transformation - 4 days Being with Bees

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15 June Experience Week Japanese Experience Week

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Spiritual Practice – Clay

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 Isle of Erraid – Lithia – Summer Solstice 17 22 June Erraid Experience Week Living in Community (LCG) SPECIAL EVENT: Conference of the International Communal Studies Association (Option 1) Isle of Iona – Transformation in Retreat

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The Longing to Belong Findhorn Nonviolence Intensive

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Isle of Iona – Summer Retreat Week 16 13 July Experience Week Spanish Experience Week Spiritual Practice – Nature Living in Community (LCG) Game of Transformation - 4 days Right Livelihood: Creating Meaningful Work in Challenging Times

Exploring Community Life Living in Community (LCG) SPECIAL EVENT: Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song Sacred Sexuality – A Holistic Exploration into Spirituality & Sexuality Empowering Life Direction

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10 August Experience Week Family Experience Week Italian Experience Week

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Living in Community (LCG) Interspecies Communication (3 days) Spiritual NLP Biodanza – The Dance of Life

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Exploring Community Life Living in Community (LCG) The Findhorn Way – A Workshop Leader’s Toolkit Awakening to Change – 5Rhythms® Nature Connection Game of Transformation - 7 days

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24 August Experience Week German Experience Week

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All Essential Findhorn Programmes are in blue, pages 6 - 15 These workshops require prior participation in Experience Week For bookings, please use form on pages 45 - 46 or go online at www.findhorn.org

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Isle of Iona – Summer Retreat Week 16 27 July Experience Week Family Experience Week Youth Experience Week

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Life Purpose Interspecies Communication (3 days) Your Exquisite Body of Light Joyful Parenting

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Living in Community (LCG) Incarnational Spirituality: Resonance and Relationship Bending, Not Breaking

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Isle of Iona – Retreat for Gay Men

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7 September Experience Week

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 Astroshamanic Trance Dance and Drumming 35 14 September Ecovillage Experience Week Portuguese Experience Week Spiritual Practice – Ritual and Ceremony Living in Community (LCG) Learn to Play in Pan’s Garden Isle of Iona – Art & Meditation Retreat 21 September Experience Week Spiritual Practice – Permaculture

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 Sacred Dance Teacher Training (2 weeks) 35 Hara Intensive (2 weeks) 37 12 October Experience Week Exploring Community Life

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Living in Community (LCG) 19 October Experience Week Spiritual Practice – Living Intuitively

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Living in Community (LCG) 11 Questioning Your Beliefs About Money (4 days) 37

Dreaming the New Dream – Shamanic Visions of Death and Rebirth 37

Spiritual Practice – Manifestation

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Living in Community (LCG) Game of Transformation - 4 days Essence and Empowerment – The TARA Approach

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Living in Community (LCG) Game of Transformation - 4 days Transition to Resilience Module 3

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If you book an Experience Week directly followed by an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice, between 1 December 2012 - 23 February 2013, we will give you a reduction of £100 off the total price.

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Workshops and Events

MARCH - APRIL 23 - 29 March

6 - 12 April

Holistic Inner Skills – The Art of Working with the Whole Stephen Busby, Adele Napier How often do we see parts of a picture while the whole escapes us? In this week you will learn to access inner sources of information and support, and cultivate sensitivity to wholeness in everyday life.

Using real-life issues we will explore deep systemic influences and develop skills for bringing transformation and more consciousness into your life and work, embodying more of your higher potential.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

13 - 19 April

Life Purpose Also on 3 - 9 August, 2 - 8 November

The Art of Balance Samantha Forrest

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.

This workshop provides an opportunity to develop a relationship with your chakra system, working with a different chakra each day, for seven days. We explore the subtle art of balance within mind, body and spirit, as we share laughter, chant, meditate, go out into nature, and engage in lots of creative expression. A dynamic week to enhance self-awareness, help you access your intuition, promote healing, and free your soul.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 Experience Week prerequisite

Unconditional Love

A 5-day Intensive with Michael Roads

6 - 10 April On a fundamental level, humanity lives a life of illusions. We exploit ourselves and the planet in the manner of a species that is going insane.

We are, however, in a unique period of living transition. The energy of the world is making a shift and we have the opportunity to move from the caterpillar forward to the butterfly stage of humanity. The way each of us lives our lives as human beings will determine whether we reach this stage.

To experience unconditional love means a huge consciousness shift in our relationship with ourselves, with the people of the world, and with the nature of the world.

It means embracing ‘newness’ and releasing the ‘more of the same’ syndrome in order to move forward.

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Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 Game of Transformation - 7 days Please see description on page 21.

Forward is: • releasing fear • taking responsibility for yourself • challenging only if you decide it is • the only place that is new • self-empowering • the way of creation Forward is unconditional love. To choose love means you have to live love. By living this creative love you are recreating yourself.

Michael looks for ways to present his intensives that are new and in the moment, so it is difficult to describe an actual process. Each group has its own dynamic, and it is this dynamic in consciousness to which Michael responds.

“Words cannot express the emotions and the highs I experienced at the Intensive, but I’ll try anyway. It felt like I changed trains from a local to an express with a beautiful view. Once again, thank you for the opportunity to grow again in leaps and bounds.” – Gerda, previous Intensive participant Income related price £535 / £665 / £875

Workshops and Events

APRIL - MAY 20 - 26 April

4 - 7 May (4 days)

SourceSounding – The Sound of You Dennie Noal, Kathy White

Deepening Awareness – The Work of Byron Katie® Kathy White, Karen Gibbens

SourceSounding is a powerful tool to discover and express your own authentic voice and deepen awareness of your true self. When used alongside The Work of Byron Katie® to undo your limiting stories and beliefs, it can reveal your full potential and the boundless creative energy that you are. As you get in touch with the voice and self that abides in all consciousness, you gain aliveness and awareness that you are consciousness itself.

Enter into the silence of a retreat for four days. Through sitting and walking meditations alongside your deep inquiry into Truth you will gain a clearer reality of each moment. Find more aliveness and freedom beyond your stressful thoughts, and discover that there is a kind and friendly universe beyond all your concepts. Using The Work of Byron Katie, we will guide you to relax into the stillness and deepen your awareness.

of deep emotions, we explore the healing dynamics of human interactions and share ways of expressing and using feelings and passion in alignment with our life’s purpose. We also explore the multidimensional features of relationships, sharing ways to release intense feelings to promote forgiveness, transformation and unconditional love.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 11 - 17 May The Joy of Working with Herbs Eveline Rodenburg, Ineke Vollebregt If you want to know more about herbs and work with them in a practical way, this is an opportunity to do it in the beautiful Findhorn gardens! Together we will explore plants, share information about them and enjoy making them into tinctures, mixtures, oils, balms and creams that support your body. We will connect to nature and its essence while working with herbs.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

The Blessed Way of Passion: A Journey into the Multidimensional Portal of the Senses Franco Santoro Working with expanded states of consciousness, gentle forms of physical contact and the transformational power

Re-Energising Quality Circle Time –

The Heart of Health and Wellbeing in Primary Schools 1-day special event with Jenny Mosley

16 May 27 - 30 April (4 days) Bringing Spirit into Business for Peace, Pleasure and Plenty 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: £595 / £725 / £945

This one-day workshop will give tools to enable schools to re-evaluate and reinvigorate all of the key features of Jenny Mosley’s Quality Circle Time Model.

Key features are how to: • value teachers’ own wellbeing and morale • set up three key listening systems • place the Golden Rules at the heart of all we do with children and parents • motivate children through Golden Time both as an incentive and as a consequence • create powerfully positive playtimes and lunchtimes policy • support children ‘beyond’ the normal motivational strategies through Circles of Support The workshop will be highly active, peppered with traditional games and activities and inspirational ideas.

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MAY - JUNE The Original Quest – An Astroshamanic Journey of Soul Retrieval into Space and Time Franco Santoro, Sverre Koxvold

18 - 24 May The Foundations of Energy Healing Science Maria Olsthoorn, Susan Miles Removing the veil of mystery from energy healing. How does this modality restore health and wellbeing? We explore how disease develops and what creates health. You learn about the human aura and the psychodynamics of the chakras. You learn to perceive the subtle realms, explore guidance and intuition and a powerful hands-on-healing technique to care for your friends and family.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 Create Your Own Mandala Ann-Marie Grind, Erik Grind Mandala is an ancient symbol for wholeness and harmony. In this workshop we explore our soul through mandala painting – joyful, healing and meditative. This week will give you tools to use the mandala as a path of selfdiscovery and artistic development. You have the opportunity to complete a beautiful and colourful mandala reflecting your inner life.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 25 - 31 May Game of Transformation - 4 days 25 - 28 May Please see description on page 21.

Being with Bees Sverre Koxvold, Franco Santoro What can we learn from bees? We spend some time with our bees and enquire into the qualities they can inspire in us – love, courage, creativity, appreciation, sharing, silence. We’ll be looking into how bees live in their communities, taking us deeper into our own purpose for being here and allowing us to dance with who we really are or aspire to be.

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1 - 7 June Children of the Elements – Caretakers of the Earth Astrid Gude Shamanic traditions see earth, air, water and fire as living beings, moving within and around us, shaping the universe, and open to work in partnership with us. In our fast-paced lives we easily disconnect from nature, creating dis-ease. Through dance and song, poetry and prayer, time in nature, meditation and shamanic journeying we will explore, realign with and celebrate these great cosmic forces, creating balance and harmony within and without.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 8 - 14 June Ambition,Values & Leadership: Mythodrama Scotland – Drawing on Shakespeare’s Macbeth 8 - 11 June (4 days) Gill Emslie, Joan Wilmot, Lesley Quilty, Robin Shohet Taking Shakespeare’s ‘Scottish Play’ Macbeth as a warning tale of what can go wrong if ambition is not appropriately linked with ethics, and values do not translate into sustaining behaviours, we will imaginatively ‘live through’ the journey of the character Malcolm as he works in a wise, collaborative, and courageous way for the liberation of a Scotland free from tyranny; praising and raising others, and creating a culture of stewardship.

Income related price: £475 / £625 / £845

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. It is part of the Holistic Awareness series of workshops, see www.findhorn.org/holisticawareness for more information.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 29 June - 5 July The Elusive Obvious 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 explore the reality of the Self, our true nature. We also practise simple, natural ways of easing the mental, emotional and physical strain of living with a false sense of separation.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

Workshops and Events

JUNE - JULY Conference of the International Communal Studies Association Communal Pathways to Sustainable Living – Past, Present and Future Option 1: 22 - 28 June / Option 2: 26 - 28 June (3 days) Conference organiser: Dr Graham Meltzer Growing public awareness of the human causes of climate change is bringing with it a critical need for information about, and demonstration of, low impact sustainable lifestyles.

In response to this need, we are pleased to be hosting the 11th international conference of ICSA, the International Communal Studies Association.

With a focus on the link between community and sustainability, the conference will bring together communal scholars and community activists from around the world.

Showcasing sustainable lifestyles within communal settings, this is a rare opportunity in the unique setting of the Findhorn Ecovillage to share academic research and lived experience of collective life in intentional communities.

Catering for researchers wishing to present and hear scholarly papers, and for people who live communally and are seeking to gather with like-minded souls to share ideas, experiences and inspiration, the programme will include parallel sessions of scholarly paper presentations, participatory workshops and celebratory activities such as singing, dancing, storytelling and performance.

Our exciting list of presenters includes 80 experts in their field coming from 22 different countries.

There are two options for attending the conference: Option 1 is a full residential week and includes an opportunity for participants to fully immerse themselves in the culture and practice of the Findhorn Foundation and community via a 3-day shorter version of Experience Week.

Experience Week is the programme we offer to first-time guests, many of whom find it a poignant, heart-opening and, in some cases, life-changing experience. For further information please see page 6.

Option 2 is for the 3-day conference only and is nonresidential.

For full details of the options and online registration, please see the conference website at www.findhorn.org/icsa We welcome your participation at what we hope will be a rich and memorable event.

Income related prices: Option 1: £625 / £775 / £985 Option 2: £195 / £295 / £395

Joanna Macy - The Work that Reconnects A 6-day Intensive with Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone

29 June - 4 July We live at a time of planetary emergency, perhaps not knowing what to do or feeling despair. The Work that Reconnects strengthens our capacity to give our best response to the social and ecological challenges confronting us. It has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the globe find creativity, solidarity, and courage to act. Drawing from living systems theory, spiritual teachings, and deep ecology, it involves a transformative journey around a spiral of four successive stages (see illustration).

When we come from gratitude, we become more present to the life around us and to the many gifts we receive. This also brings a sharper awareness of the vast violation underway.

We honour our pain for the world by making space to hear our sorrow, fear, outrage and other feelings in response to what is happening in our world. As we do so, profound caring and interconnectedness with all life are revealed.

Seeing with new eyes, we deepen our recognition of our mutual belonging in the living Earth. We learn to understand the new kind of power this gives and the many ways we can apply this to our participation in the Great Turning to a life-sustaining society. Fresh vision and practical steps are clarified in the final stage of going forth.

Come explore with us the hidden depths in each stage of the spiral, where rich meaning and treasures are to be found.

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

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JULY

29 June - 26 July Esalen® Massage Technique Johanna Holloman, Perry Holloman Esalen® Massage is a unique form of bodywork developed over the last 40 years at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. This technique is known for its long integrating strokes, creating an experience of deep relaxation supporting the natural ability of body and mind to self-heal.

This training provides participants with in-depth experience and practice of basic Esalen Massage techniques, enabling you to give a professional full body massage upon completion of the course. Our study of massage is complemented by daily meditation, yoga and other movement disciplines.

Through our daily massage and movement practice, we experience in our own bodies the qualities of aliveness and flowing presence central to this method. This process of self-exploration is a key element of grounding the teaching in the experience of the body itself, and transforms what would simply be a ‘technique’ into a true healing art. The deeper intent of our time together

6 - 12 July Findhorn Nonviolence Intensive 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 our website www.findhorn. org/programme/239 for price details.

is to learn to touch others by first learning to be touched, not only by the hands of our fellow students, but by an expansion of our awareness throughout our own bodies, selves and souls.

The environment of the Findhorn Foundation fits well with this method as a path of healing. Participants have the opportunity to experience life in the community, and feel the natural power of the local landscape which so strongly supports inner spiritual awakening.

Learning the art of Esalen Massage often changes lives. Whether your intent is to deepen your knowledge of bodywork, or to spend time healing yourself through touching, our time together will stay with you for many years to come. Whatever your intention, join us for this fourweek journey. Our hearts will convey our experience through our hands as we learn to heal ourselves and others through this wonderfully effective method of Esalen Massage.

Income related price: £2675 / £2875 / £3075 For this programme a non-refundable deposit of £150 per person is required.

13 - 19 July Right Livelihood: Creating Meaningful Work in Challenging Times 13 - 17 July (5 days) Jonathan Dawson, Satish Kumar

The Longing to Belong Astrid Gude

We live in extraordinary times. Rarely has so much rested on the choices, responses and contributions of one generation. How can we rise to the challenge of the moment, seeing opportunity in place of burden; call to vocation and service in place of fear and drudgery?

“As soon as you rest in the house of your own heart, doors and windows begin to open outwards to the world,” writes Pat O’Donohue. Every so often we feel homeless in ourselves, disconnected from the natural world and lacking a sense of purpose and meaning.

Using a variety of tools from Gestalt work and spiritual traditions we embark on a journey that invites us to reconnect and belong.

This week offers opportunities for meditation, reflection, pilgrimage and exploration of the role of work in today’s world. We will spend time alone in nature, walking in the Scottish Highlands as a support to connect with your gifts, to deeply understand the nature of today’s challenges and emerging opportunities, and to develop clarity about the nature of the unique contributions you can make.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 Experience Week prerequisite

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 Game of Transformation - 4 days 13 - 16 July Please see description on page 21.

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AUGUST

20 - 26 July Sacred Sexuality – A Holistic Exploration into Spirituality & Sexuality Ash & Symon Balderson This workshop is a lovingly held invitation for you to get to know yourself more deeply and to experience even more presence and authenticity in your life.

Together, we will joyfully discover how to use our sexual energy to heighten spiritual awareness, and we will playfully explore how to integrate sacred sexuality into every moment. As we deepen into ourselves we will open a more loving connection with others.

Empowering Life Direction Robina McCurdy, Susan Miles Discover your gifts, activate your passion, empower your vision, navigate your life direction, and enable your support systems – then create a roadmap to get from where you are now to where you want to be. This workshop has the potential to awaken your essential energy while exploring your unique service to humanity and planet. Working within the living organism of the group, we will learn how to maintain spiritual connection, choose appropriate action and access group support.

27 July - 2 August Creations in Nature 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: £595 / £725 / £945

Income related price: £645 / £775 / £985

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875

Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song 20 - 26 July

with special guest Erik Bendix plus Laura Shannon, Susanne Anders Bartholomäi, Bill Henderson, Kate O’Connell, Rory O’Connell, Barbara Swetina, Peter Vallance and Hanna Morjan Sacred/Circle Dance brings together traditional dances from around the world with contemporary choreographies. This year our special guest is Erik Bendix who will share Klezmer and Balkan dances. Klezmer is the traditional music of Eastern European Jews, played at weddings and other celebrations.

Erik has played a significant role in the revival of traditional Yiddish (or Klezmer) dance in the USA and brings extensive knowledge of dances from Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and the Ukraine. He sees dancing as a way to share beyond words, to understand other cultures by standing in their shoes and learning to move as they do.

Erik enjoys working with live musicians and teaches each dance as a whole experience rather than as an assembly of parts.

Erik comes highly recommended by Laura Shannon who will offer traditional Greek and Armenian ritual dances. These dances can be understood as a language of symbols and patterns, which when danced transmit hidden wisdom and healing energy. Kostantis Kourmadias will provide live music with Laura.

Susanne Anders Bartholomäi will share a daily attunement with DanceMeditation which allows us to become fully present and aware of our bodies while focusing our minds and opening our hearts.

In addition to the daily dance workshops there’s the chance to participate in the Festival Choir with Kate O’Connell, or in the Orchestra with Bill Henderson (bring an instrument!).

Together these groups provide music for the final night’s community dance and celebration.

Dancing to live music is an important part of the Festival experience. Evenings will feature Gadje Dilo, the O’Connell’s Band and other musicians, with dances taught by Peter Vallance and our guest teachers. A Scottish Ceilidh Dance will be held by Peter, and on Sunday morning Barbara Swetina will lead the Taizé service.

We look forward to welcoming you to share with us the joy and delight of dancing together in community.

Income related price: £645 / £775 / £985

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Workshops and Events

AUGUST 3 - 9 August

Interspecies Communication 3 - 5 August (3 days) Also on 10 - 12 August Anna Breytenbach We all have the ability to communicate with other species. One of the founding principles of Findhorn is co-creation with nature and communication with other realms, but many of us are unsure how to access worlds beyond our everyday five-sensory reality. Anna Breytenbach will show how communication creates a valuable bridge and you will be guided in using your natural intuition and abilities to communicate. Practical and experiential exercises and meditations to connect deeply with animals and other species.

Life Purpose Please see description on page 28.

Your Exquisite Body of Light Tjitze de Jong, Nadasree Georgete Gadas 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.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

Income related price: £335 / £425 / £555

17 - 23 August The Findhorn Way – A Workshop Leader’s Toolkit Judith Bone, Susan Miles For those of you who have participated in Experience Week and other programmes, and would like to learn more about the way we work with groups here, this week will provide you with a more in-depth look. Our approach will be experiential and fun and you will come away with information and resources to use in holding your own groups and gatherings.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 Experience Week prerequisite Game of Transformation - 7 days Please see description on page 21.

10 - 16 August Joyful Parenting Kathy White

Spiritual NLP Iain Davidson, Mike Leigh

Bring your children and experience the Findhorn community while you learn some simple and profoundly effective ways to get beyond your stressful parenting moments and be in conscious relationship. It is possible to discover new ways to enjoy your children and get support on how to be the best parent you can be. Drop your worry and guilt and spend a week connecting, communicating, having fun and truly enjoying the gift of your family life.

If Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of human excellence, and excellence can be modelled, then can we model spirituality and how could it be applied to developing our own individual path?

NB one adult is required per child under the age of 8.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675

Biodanza – The Dance of Life Nadasree Georgete Gadas

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Join Mike Leigh and Iain Davidson in a unique exploration of how we can use key skills and techniques from NLP to accelerate our personal growth and development by modelling spirituality.

Awakening to Change – A 5Rhythms® Waves Dance Workshop Deborah Jay-Lewin 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 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: £595 / £725 / £945 Nature Connection Antonio Palmieri, Inga Ongaro, Isabella Guerrini

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, moving and relating? Biodanza leads us gradually into deeper contact with, and permission to believe in, the goodness of our instinctive passions, expressing the emotions that arise from that experience.

What’s nature? Are we aware that we are part of it? Through this inspiring journey we’ll experience together how easy it is to get in touch with all forms of life, that with us form nature. We’ll learn to look at events as they unfold, and the glory and wonder that comes from nature, and to accept it all with a heart full of grace. In both English and Italian.

See follow-on discounts on page 42.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945

Workshops and Events

SEPTEMBER 31 August - 6 September Bending, Not Breaking – Practising Inner Resilience Nadasree Georgete Gadas, Monica Böni When life throws unexpected circumstances at you, how can you experience your inner strength and your ability to bend, and not break? Instead of trying to survive or cope by building stronger walls against life, we invite you to focus on what needs softening and yielding to allow change to happen gracefully. We share bodywork and a range of practices that support the experience of presence, grace, inner peace, strength and flexibility.

24 - 30 August Free Your Communication in Relationships – The Work of Byron Katie® 24 - 26 August (3 days) Kathy White, Susan Miles Can you express your true voice 100% of the time? Do you find it easy to speak out and say whatever you want with skill and kindness? If not, are you ready to break free from your habits and free your communication now? This workshop will help you root out why you are unable to express your truth.

You can discover new ways to express yourself and who you really are. We use the very simple tool of The Work of Byron Katie to undo the beliefs that prevent your clear communication.

Income related price: £335 / £425 / £555 Being with the Spirit of Nature Sverre Koxvold, Franco Santoro 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 . . .

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 7 - 13 September Astroshamanic Trance Dance and Drumming Franco Santoro In this workshop trance dance and sound are used as transformational tools to open the pathway 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, empowering our authentic visions and stepping into the healing flow that allows us to reshape the world within which we live. The programme also includes astroshamanic chants, planetary alignment dances, sound healing, shape-shifting rituals, and the exploration of the basic astroshamanic drumming method.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 14 - 20 September Learn to Play in Pan’s Garden 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: £595 / £725 / £945 21 - 27 September Game of Transformation - 4 days 21 - 24 September Please see description on page 21.

Essence and Empowerment – The TARA Approach Stephanie Mines The TARA Approach is an integrative design that fuses Western neuropsychology and a simple meridian based touch system. We live in a world of increasing sensory inundation where identifying and following your purposeful inner guidance becomes more and more complicated. The TARA Approach guides you back to your essential purpose, the one you brought with you when you were conceived and empowers you to follow your truth into this world where it is desperately needed.

Income related price: £595 / £725 / £945 5 - 18 October (2 weeks) Sacred Dance Teacher Training Judith Bone, Peter Vallance Sacred Dance is a powerful vehicle to create community, healing, peace and inspiration in the world. These traditional dances and contemporary choreographies work on many levels. In these two weeks you learn 16 dances in depth and have the opportunity to teach and receive feedback. You learn skills to lead groups, create a programme of dances, and attune to the energy of the dance. Suitable for those who already have some experience of dance.

Income related price: £975 / £1155 / £1465

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Workshops and Events

SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER

Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi

28 September - 4 October

Contributors include:

Conference Organisers: Robin Shohet, Ilsemarie Weber, Ben Fuchs

Sobonfu Somé will lead a powerful grief ritual, connecting unresolved grief, self-forgiveness and forgiveness of others.

Most of us long to let go and move on, but even knowing that it is in our best interests, we struggle to do this. What would our inner and outer worlds look like if we opened our hearts to a deep acceptance of ‘what is’, as opposed to what we and others think ‘should be’?

Richard Olivier will present his work on Family and Organisational Constellations to help our understanding of the deeper nature of conflict, and will use Mythodrama and Shakespeare’s The Tempest to explore forgiveness.

Seeing forgiveness as a means to undo much of the personal suffering that keeps us stuck, and self-forgiveness as a vital practice for healthy and happy living, we desire to hold a space with conference participants in which to examine questions such as: • Forgiveness – what is it, and importantly, what is it not?

• Why is it so difficult?

• The role of self-forgiveness • Why does revenge play so big a part in our lives?

• What practical tools can help us move on?

• What can we learn from people who have forgiven against all the odds?

• How would our lives be different if we committed ourselves to letting go of all our hurts?

• Where do we ourselves need forgiveness? Can we face and accept that we have betrayed/hurt as well as have been hurt/betrayed?

Our vision is for the week to be co-created with participants, be experiential and provide a mixture of collaborative methods, input from speakers, live mediation, workshops, ritual and time devoted to practical application.

We intend to begin from a place of not knowing and a willingness to have some of our deepest assumptions about ourselves and others questioned.

We warmly welcome you to participate in a collaborative inquiry with us.

Income related price: £625 / £775 / £985 Please note: We are offering a £100 earlybird discount for bookings made and paid in full before 3rd April 2013.

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Phyllida Anam-Aire has done extensive work and research with sick and dying people, bringing with her the wisdom of the Celtic traditions.

Maria Arpa will facilitate a live mediation session demonstrating tools she uses in helping to resolve conflict.

Jo Berry will talk about her work, begun when her father was killed by an IRA bomb. When she met the bomber, her compassion and empathy moved him deeply and they now give talks together.

Marina Cantacuzino will introduce The Forgiveness Project and share her enthusiasm for her exhibition which has been taken all over the world.

Roger Linden will speak on liberation, the naturalness of love and wellbeing, and the ease with which they can be restored.

Stephanie Mines will share her extensive knowledge about shock and our inability to let go – the somatic aspect of forgiveness.

Lesley Quilty, clown doctor, will invite us to see ourselves in a light-hearted way.

OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation teach a variety of approaches to forgiveness in their syllabus for training Interfaith ministers, and will be supporting the conference.

Findhorn Playback Theatre will play back to us the stories of forgiveness that we bring and will be an important part of building community for the week.

www.findhorn.org/forgiveness

Workshops and Events

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 16 - 22 November Hara Intensive 5 - 18 October (2 weeks) Nadasree Georgete Gadas

Dreaming the New Dream – Shamanic Visions of Death and Rebirth Astrid Gude

Week 1: Hara Intensive – A Centring Retreat 5 - 11 October Sitting like a mountain and standing with awareness in life’s fullness being the powerful link between heavens and earth. In this retreat we focus on body and practices that enhance coming to your centre in your hara or tantien (known in Eastern traditions as the gravity centre of the body). There is also sitting meditation and silence, and learning to listen, speak and move from this centre, sharing the wonder and tenderness of presence.

Week 2: Hara Intensive – Practice, Reflection and Mentoring 12 - 18 October In this deepening week we continue to focus on and inhabit the hara, practising movement, meditation and silence, as well as expressing ourselves from this centre.

To support the grounding of the practice in your life, we offer three mentoring sessions for three months after the programme.

Income related price: £535 / £665 / £875 first week only £975 / £1155 / £1465 for both weeks and mentoring

19 - 25 October Questioning Your Beliefs About Money 19 - 22 October (4 days) Kathy White, Paul Snider Are you stressed about your finances?

Do you have a healthy relationship to money? This is an opportunity to stop and question your beliefs and all you’ve been taught about money. Break free from a state of lack and turn around your economic life using a radical tool for your freedom: The Work of Byron Katie®. Gain financial liberation regardless of what your bank balance is, and have a more abundant, creative and productive life that isn’t burdened by money worries.

Income related price: £435 / £525 / £675 2 - 8 November Life Purpose Please see description on page 28.

9 - 15 November Game of Transformation - 4 days 9 - 12 November Please see description on page 21.

23 - 25 November (3 days)

Caroline Myss

Details will be posted on our website.

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: £535 / £665 / £875 Experience Week prerequisite 28 December - 3 January 2014 New Year Celebration – Crossing the Threshold Barbara Swetina, Fabien Barouch, Javier Rodriguez Between Christmas Eve and January 4th 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: £535 / £665 / £875

Transition to Resilience Module 3 Please see description on page 23.

Game of Transformation - 7 days Please see description on page 21.

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Presenter Profiles Presenter Profiles Adele Napier is passionate about how we experience sacredness in everyday life and open to new possibilities for living.

She develops and facilitates programmes which deepen enquiry into this, and practises as an Interfaith Minister and spiritual counsellor.

Alan Heeks is 63, and is author of Men Beyond 50 and The Natural Advantage.

He has led many groups on vision finding, living sustainably, and elderhood.

Ann-Marie Grind is an artist, designer, holistic health practitioner and workshop leader since the 1980s. She finds inspiration by following and expressing that which creates joy, beauty and presence in the now.

Anna Breytenbach is a professional animal communicator who has received advanced training through the Assisi International Animal Institute in California and has been practising for several years in the USA, Canada and South Africa with domestic and wild animals. www.animalspirit.org Antje Rickowski is a naturopath, teacher and workshop leader with 20 years of experience. Living in Findhorn since 1998, she recently developed the Pangarden Game: a holistic, supportive tool for life questions.

Ash & Symon Balderson have lived, worked and played together since 1994.

At the Findhorn Foundation they are moving deeper into loving and learning within community, helping others to reconnect with their own true expression of sexuality and joy.

Astrid Gude is an educator, therapist and shamanic practitioner with a background in diverse spiritual paths, currently working as a group facilitator at the Foundation.

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.

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Ben Fuchs is an organisational consultant and facilitator with a background as a counselling psychologist. He currently works in leadership development, bringing awareness to difference and diversity, improving communication, and developing strategies for reconciliation and collaboration.

Chris Johnstone is a physician and coach who writes and teaches about resilience, happiness and positive change. He has worked closely with Joanna Macy for more than two decades and was a coauthor of the book Active Hope – How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy.

Craig Gibsone has lived at Findhorn since the early days of the community and is an educator, artist, potter and permaculturist.

Deborah Jay-Lewin has taught 5Rhythms® since 1994, is a certified Waves® and Heartbeat® teacher and combines her knowledge and creativity with her interest in sustainable living. www.vitalmoves.co.uk Dennie Noal is founder of SourceSounding, certified voice expression facilitator, coach and counsellor. Her passion and work is about authentic self-awareness, our thinking and non-duality.

Dietmar Voorwold is an artist, designer and art therapist who leads workshops in LandArt. He has created some of the images seen in Findhorn Foundation brochures and has held many workshops at Findhorn.

Dominic Barter consults with governments, organisations and communities internationally on bringing heart-based learning, healing and change into tough social and interpersonal situations.

Fabien Barouch is a founding member of the New Findhorn Association and a long-term resident of The Park. He is an experienced facilitator and has a passion for nature.

Franco Santoro has been active in shamanism and holistic education since 1976. Workshop leader, author and shamanic facilitator, he is the creator of astroshamanism and other healing practices.

Freya Secrest MSD is spiritual director and one of the founding members of the Lorian Center for Incarnational Spirituality and currently serves as Lorian’s administrator. She has worked in the field of alternative education since 1974.

Gabrielle Haworth Hamm was born and raised in Findhorn. She coordinated a student political group, People & Planet, and has worked as Partnership Manager for OneWorld UK, an international charity based in London.

Gill Emslie is a passionate educator and experienced facilitator. She works locally and internationally and in global hot spots, developing resilience in times of change.

Graham Meltzer has enjoyed a lifelong involvement with intentional communities, and lived two years on a kibbutz, eight years in Australia’s largest commune and six years at Findhorn. He has worked previously as an architect, academic and photographer, and is currently a designer and educator at Findhorn.

Hanna Morjan integrates self-exploration, celebration and spirituality through art, music and dance with a deep commitment to develop sustainable and resilient communities. She is a long-term Findhorn member.

Erik Grind is a mandala artist, teacher and musician who loves to facilitate spiritual and personal transformation through creative expression. www.mandalas.nu

Iain Davidson has lived and worked at the Findhorn Foundation for five years. He is an NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner and ran his own IT consulting business. He is developing a Transition to Resilience curriculum with European partner organisations.

Eveline Rodenburg is a naturopath and has a strong connection to plants and their usefulness as food, medicine or dye. She lives and works in the Findhorn Foundation.

Ilsemarie Weber lives and works at Findhorn and has run many of our Essential Findhorn programmes. She is an Interfaith Minister and passionate about spiritual and personal growth.

Presenter Profiles Ineke Vollebregt lived at Findhorn in the 80s and on the Isle of Erraid, left for a warmer climate and came back again in 2006. She has worked in a variety of service departments and focalises many Experience Weeks.

Inga Ongaro grew up in a community and nature reserve in Brazil immersed in nature, and now lives in the Findhorn Foundation working in the gardens.

Isabella Guerrini is a landscaper in Energy Healing Garden Design and a teacher in language, symbolism and energy of nature in workshops with children and adults.

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 Javier Rodriguez has an MA in Clinical Psychology and specific in-depth trainings in various approaches to personal development and Transpersonal Psychology. He has been working for more than 20 years as a workshop leader, therapist and coach.

Jenny Mosley is the founder of the Quality Circle Time Model, originally a long-serving teacher, a Masters in Education lecturer and researcher. Jenny is a prolific author and education pioneer.

Her charity All Round Success explores the magic that happens when schools promote intergenerational circle time for children and older people in residential homes.

Joan Wilmot is a passionate supervisor/ mentor, trainer and psychotherapist. She has worked in the UK and internationally for 35 years and is a member of the International Playback Theatre Network and conductor of Findhorn Playback Theatre.

Joanna Macy is the root teacher of The Work That Reconnects; her groupwork and many books are informed by a long life of activism. Joanna is the co-author, with Chris Johnstone, of the book Active Hope – How to face the mess we’re in without going crazy.

Johanna Holloman teaches yoga with precise therapeutic alignment as a means towards inner development

and embodiment of presence. She is a psychologist and teacher of the Diamond Approach® as well as Esalen® Massage Bodywork.

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

StoriesOfTheJourneyHome.com.

Jonathan Dawson is Head of Economics at Schumacher College, formerly a longterm resident of the Findhorn ecovillage and was President of the Global Ecovillage Network. His most recent book is Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits.

Lesley Quilty is a creative consultant, facilitator, coach and theatre artist. An Associate of Olivier Mythodrama and founder of Mythodrama Scotland. She has more than 20 years’ experience of personal and organisational development.

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.

Judy McAllister has more than 30 years of Findhorn experience behind her and is passionate about people and nature.

Development – both spiritual and personal – is the hallmark of her work.

Karen Gibbens is a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie®, mother of two and passionate tango dancer.

Formerly a bereavement and suicide counsellor, Karen offers a safe and nurturing space for self-discovery.

Karin Werner is an art therapist, gives courses and trainings in Healing through Art, and works with creative expression through painting, drawing and clay sculpture. www.creativehealth.org.uk 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 27 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 previously worked in the Spiritual and Personal Development Department of the Findhorn Foundation.

Kit Miller serves as the director of the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.

Before this she was director/celebrator of Bay Area NVC, California.

Kosha Anja Joubert serves as President of the Global Ecovillage Network. She codesigned the Ecovillage Design Education and pioneered the development of the Transition to Resilience training.

Liza Hollingshead has been a Game of Transformation guide for more than 20 years. She is director of Ecologia Trust, a charity supporting an orphaned children’s village in Russia.

Margo van Greta works with spiritual and personal development and internal training at Findhorn. She is a passionate Buddhist, a drummer, and facilitates transformation.

Maria Olsthoorn trained at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing. She has been working with individuals and groups in the community for more than 20 years, teaching transformational healing.

Mary Inglis is a long-term member of the Findhorn community. She leads programmes worldwide in personal and group development, creativity, and the Transformation Game.

Michael Roads is a spiritual author and teacher who holds profound and popular talks, workshops and 5-day intensives in which he offers pathways through love to deepen our spiritual relationship with nature and with self.

Mike Leigh is a chartered psychologist, NLP Master Practitioner and executive coach who offers NLP diploma trainings.

The theme of his practice has been to make the connections between work, organisations and people to develop people and organisations for the benefit of both.

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.

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Presenter Profiles Monika Lohmann is a biologist who rediscovered her spiritual connection with nature at Findhorn. She is passionate about shamanism and about life’s interconnectedness.

Roger Linden is a psychotherapist and teacher of meditation and the Feldenkrais method. He has been leading groups exploring the nature of liberation since 1999.

Nadasree Georgete Gadas is a fiery Brazilian Biodanza teacher, passionate about body as expression of soul. She is enthused by transparency in relationships and the emergence of a new ‘we’.

Rosie and Ian Turnbull have raised their family and developed a variety of community skills during their three decades of living at Findhorn.

Niels Paulsen is an experienced workshop leader and a trained practitioner in massage, healing and personal development.

Paul Snider is a certified facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie®. He attended Harvard Business School, has run a family business, and sees money is a topic that has been 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 brings 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.

Robin Alfred has extensive experience of coaching, training and organisational development in a wide variety of contexts. He is founding director of the Findhorn Consultancy Service, a lead presenter for Olivier Mythodrama and is chair of the Findhorn Foundation’s Trustees.

Robin Shohet is co-author of Supervision in the Helping Professions, a textbook translated into seven languages. He has been a supervisor and management consultant for more than 30 years.

Robina McCurdy is a New Zealander working internationally with sustainable land use (Permaculture) education / design and organic production, with a community empowerment emphasis. She is currently facilitating local food resilience projects around NZ.

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Samantha Forrest is an artist, seer and Reiki Master, with 28 years experience in the educational field. Her passion is to expand vision and make life a more exciting and beautiful place.

Satish Kumar is a former Jain monk and long-term peace and environment activist, a co-founder of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence magazine. His autobiography, No Destination, describes the 8,000 mile pilgrimage he made from India to America, via Moscow, London and Paris, to deliver a humble packet of ‘peace tea’ to the then leaders of the world’s four nuclear powers.

Stephanie Mines teaches internationally and is the author of numerous books including the award winning We Are All in Shock. Her new books on sensory integration will be released in 2013. She was the keynote speaker at the Findhorn conference on Conscious Medicine in April 2011.

Stephen Busby works with a group of pioneers in systemic work (taking it into schools, companies, prisons and the NHS). He’s lived in 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 holds Foundation workshops about spirits, nature and gardens. He sailed into Findhorn Bay on his quest for life, discovered the Foundation and fell in love with Cluny Hill and its gardens where he worked for 10 years. As a beekeeper, he has a special interest in co-creating with them.

Tjitze de Jong is a social worker, massage therapist and healer since 1985. He is a Barbara Brennan graduate including Advanced Studies, and has focalised many

workshops, founding his own certificated healing school in 2007.

Yehuda Tagar is an Australian/South African psychotherapist and the founder of Psychophonetics, trainer of Applied Psychosophy and the director and principal of Persephone College UK.

Findhorn Birthday Book ‘Spirit of the Future’ – 50 years of Findhorn Foundation Community Filled with the spirit of Findhorn, beautiful images, inspiring interviews and stories as well as previously unpublished archive material from the early years.

144 pages, £27.50 / concession £25 (plus postage and packing) PDF version £15 Available from Cluny Reception, the Visitors Centre, Newbold House, Phoenix shop or online at www.findhornbirthdaybook.webs.com For enquiries please email us at project@findhornimages.com

MEMORIES and MIRACLES A memory stick filled with photographs, videos and audio This 4GB USB flash drive made from recycled materials also contains a selection of Eileen’s and Dorothy’s Guidance, an audio clip of Peter Caddy and there is still storage space for your own files! £14 each (incl p&p worldwide) Available from Cluny Reception, the Visitors Centre or online at www.findhorn.org/memories For enquiries please email us at supportus@findhorn.org

Support Us

SPIRIT OF THE FUTURE

SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE FINDHORN FOUNDATION Gratitude We’d like to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt thanks to all those who have supported our work and vision over the past 50 years.

Whatever form your contribution took, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We truly could not have achieved all that we have without your support.

These are just a few of the milestones from the past 18 months achieved as a direct result of your support: • built a new fully accessible, eco friendly workshop space • sponsored 214 bursaried places • launched three new educational outreach programmes for vulnerable adults in Scotland • built two new eco mobiles for our elders and young families • installed a biomass boiler – to reduce our dependency on oil and gas and reduce our fuel bills • renovated our retreat house, Traigh Bhan, on the Isle of Iona • updated our IT systems • repaired the roof, and refurbished bathrooms and bedrooms, at Cluny

Together we are touching hearts and minds around the world Since the beginning of the Findhorn Foundation as a spiritual community over 50 years ago, thousands of people have come from all over the world to explore new ways to live in harmony with life and nature.

Today a key aspect of our work is providing learning opportunities through experiencing community, inspiring and changing the lives of people who come here. In order to keep participation in our programmes as affordable and accessible as possible, we have to find creative ways to fund many of the day-to-day essentials that sustain the community and its structures and services.

Thanks to the support of our worldwide network of donors, we are still thriving more than 50 years later and continuing to offer the Findhorn experience to the world.

Leave a Lasting Legacy You can help nurture the work of the Findhorn Foundation in the world by remembering the Foundation in your will. Your legacy will be a gift for the future that will live on to make our shared vision of a positive and sustainable world a continuing reality. If you would like to find out more please visit our website: www.findhorn.org/legacies or email legacies@findhorn.org

‘Listen to the sounds of nature whenever you have the chance.’

Dorothy Maclean

You can make a difference If you feel inspired to help support our work, you can donate online at www.findhorn.org/donate or contact us directly at supportus@findhorn.org or on 01309 690808.

Every donation helps, large or small – we need your support.

Together we are touching minds and hearts around the world to build a positive future for generations to come.

Supporter Relations Findhorn Foundation The Park Findhorn Moray IV36 3TZ Scotland Tel: +44 (0) 1309 690808 email: supportus@findhorn.org

www.findhorn.org/donate Scottish Charity Number SC007233

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Booking, Travel & Practical Information How to Book our Programmes Please book online at www.findhorn.org or use the Booking Form, page 45 - 46.

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.

Occasionally we need to cancel a workshop and will inform you no later than four weeks before the workshop is due to begin to arrange an alternative or a refund.

Telephone / Fax Bookings office: +44 (0)1309 691653 Fax: +44 (0)1309 691663 Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 12.30pm and 1pm - 4.30pm (closed Thursday pm) For general enquiries: +44 (0)1309 690311 Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm 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.

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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, 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 oppor tunity to arrive on Friday and stay overnight before joining your programme (sorry, not available in July or August). The cost is £38 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 directly followed by an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice, between the following dates, we will give you a reduction of £100 off the total price. 1 December 2012 - 23 February 2013 and 30 November 2013 - 22 February 2014.

Programmes in Italian - Experience Week on the 10 August followed by Nature Connection on 17 August. A reduction of £100 off the total price.

Earlybird Discounts Forgiveness – The Great Undoing 28 September £100 off when you book and pay in full by 3 April.

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.

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 no later than two weeks before the start date of your chosen programme(s) and not sooner than three months before.

Please tick the box on the booking form and our Bookings office will send you a bursary application form to fill in.

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.

Booking, Travel & Practical Information Payment

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We prefer payment by debit card, credit card, or cheque (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

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 information from airports.

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 midmorning 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

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. If you hold a passport from outside the UK and EU, you need a visa that enables you to do voluntary work in the UK. 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

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.

How to find us

FINDHORN

Guided Tours

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).

For day visitors we offer guided tours from our Visitors Centre every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm, during the summer. Guided tours during the winter and 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, Moray IV36 3TZ Tel: +44 (0)1309 690311 email: enquiries@findhorn.org

Road

Please Note

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, Forres, 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 (post code for navigation IV36 2RD).

For The Park, Findhorn, use the Forres bypass (A96), turning left for Findhorn and following road signs (post code for navigation IV36 3TD).

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.

Bus and Coach

•Loss of, or damage to, personal property of our guests.

The Findhorn Foundation is based at two sites: The Park (post code for navigation IV36 3TD), near Findhorn village; and Cluny Hill (post code for navigation IV36 2RD) in Forres which is 5 miles from Findhorn and 26 miles east of Inverness.

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Workshops and Events Index The coloured circles next to the workshop titles make it easier for you to identify areas of interest.

Essential Findhorn Health & Wellbeing Spiritual & Personal Growth

Nature & Sustainability Creativity & Celebration Leadership & Community

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Special Events Caroline Myss Conference of ICSA EarthSings – Singing for Unity and Wellbeing Festival of Sacred Dance, Music and Song Forgiveness – The Great Undoing Jenny Mosley – Re-Energising Quality Circle Time Joanna Macy – The Work that Reconnects Michael Roads – Unconditional Love

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••P10 P22 •••P30 P22 P35 • P34 •• P30 •• P35 ••• •••P35 P34 •••P29 P30 P10 •• P30 •• P33 •• •••P29 P37 P7 ••••• P33 •• P17 •• P17 •• P17 ••• P17 ••• P17 •• P17 ••• •••P17 P32 ••P35P6 ••P7P7 ••P7P7 P7 • •••P7P7 P9 • P21 •••P22 P14 •••• P32 •• •••P35 P21 •••P37 P22 P28 •• ••P21

A Gift to Cluny A Journey Into the Inner Universe Ambition, Values & Leadership: Mythodrama Astroshamanic Practitioner Intensive Astroshamanic Trance Dance and Drumming Awakening to Change – 5Rhythms® Being with Bees Being with the Spirit of Nature Bending, Not Breaking – Practising Inner Resilience Biodanza – The Dance of Life Bringing Spirit into Business for Peace, Pleasure & Plenty Children of the Elements – Caretakers of the Earth Coming Home to the Garden Create Your Own Mandala Creations in Nature Deepening Awareness – The Work of Byron Katie® Dreaming the New Dream Ecovillage Experience Week Empowering Life Direction Erraid: Beltane Erraid: Imbolc Erraid: Lithia – Summer Solstice Erraid: Mabon – Autumn Equinox Erraid: New Year Retreat Erraid: Ostara – Spring Equinox Erraid: Samhain Esalen® Massage Certification Training Essence and Empowerment – The TARA Approach Experience Week Experience Week – Ecovillage Experience Week – Erraid Experience Week – Family Experience Week – Gentle Experience Week – LGBTQ Experience Week – Music Experience Week – Youth Exploring Community Life Exploring Elderhood Findhorn Ecovillage Experience Findhorn Intensive Findhorn Nonviolence Intensive Free Your Communication in Relationships Game of Transformation Hara Intensive Holistic Awareness and Astroshamanism Holistic Inner Skills – The Art of Working with the Whole Humanising Your Workplace 44

In Perfect Timing Incarnational Spirituality Interspecies Communication Iona: Art & Meditation Retreat Iona: Close to God Iona: Creative Space Iona: Easter Retreat Iona: Equinox Retreat Iona: Game of Transformation Retreat Iona: Retreat for Gay Men Iona: Space for the Heart Iona: Summer Retreat Iona: Transformation in Retreat Joyful Parenting Learn to Play in Pan’s Garden Life Purpose Living Essentials Apprentice Programme (LEAP) Living in Community Guest Programme (LCG) Love in Action Nature Connection New Year Celebration – Crossing the Threshold Pathways to the Self Questioning Your Beliefs About Money Resonance and Relationship Right Livelihood Sacred Dance Teacher Training Sacred Sexuality Service Weeks SourceSounding – The Sound of You Spiritual Deepening Spiritual NLP Spiritual Practice Spiritual Practice – Active Meditation Spiritual Practice – Clay Spiritual Practice – Holistic Sexuality Spiritual Practice – Living Intuitively Spiritual Practice – Manifestation Spiritual Practice – Nature Spiritual Practice – Permaculture Spiritual Practice – Primal Painting Spiritual Practice – Ritual and Ceremony Spiritual Practice – The Power of Intention Spiritual Practice – Towards a ‘New We’ Sprinklings of Light Subtle Activism The Art of Balance The Blessed Way of Passion The Elusive Obvious The Findhorn Way – A Workshop Leader’s Toolkit The Foundations of Energy Healing Science The Generative Self The Joy of Working with Herbs The Longing to Belong The Original Quest – An Astroshamanic Journey The Voyage Through the Zodiac Transition to Resilience Your Exquisite Body of Light

•••P10 P15 P34 •• •••P16 P16 •••P16 P16 ••P16 P16 ••P16 P16 ••P16 P16 P34 •• •••P35 P28 ••P13 P11 P10 • •••P34 P37 •••P23 P37 P15 • P32 •• ••••P35 P33 ••P10 P29 •••P12 P34 P8 •• P8 •• P8 ••• P8 •• P9 •• P9 •• P8 ••• P8 ••• P9 ••• P9 ••• P8 •• P9 ••• P10 ••P15 ••P28 P29 P30 • •••P34 P30 P15 • •••P29 P32 ••P30 P22 P23 • ••P34

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 and Concessions information on page 42.

PRICES INCLUDE ACCOMMODATION AND ALL MEALS

Cluny Hill

The Park

Booking Form

PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS FORM TO BOOK ERRAID WEEKS. Please contact them directly to make your booking. For contact details please see page 42.

Please print clearly and in BLOCK CAPITALS. Please read pages 42 - 43 before completing this form.

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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:

single beds

double bed

Our programmes require a minimum age of 18 years for participation unless otherwise stated in the programme description.

Some workshops require previous participation in Experience Week. Please see Calendar in Brief (pages 24 - 27) to check if your programme requires Experience Week.

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Booking Form I / We wish to book the following programme(s) Title

Date Cost

____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ ____________________________________________________________ _____________________ £_________________ Deposit / Full Payment Enclosed* £_________________ Single Room Supplement, if any (see bottom of page 45) £_________________ Optional contribution to Bursary Fund (see page 42) £_________________ Sub-Total £_________________ Concession or Discount if applicable (see page 42) – £_________________ Total £_________________ Amount Enclosed £_________________ * To confirm your booking we require either payment in full if booking within four weeks prior to start date 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 42) as do some other programmes. Please check course descriptions carefully.

(Please tick boxes as appropriate) VISA /

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No: __________________________________________Valid Until: _________

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.

Please send me a bursary application form.

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, Moray IV36 3TZ, Scotland, Fax +44 (0)1309 691663 46

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Findhorn Foundation The Park Findhorn Moray IV36 3TZ Scotland For general enquiries: +44 (0)1309 690311 enquiries@findhorn.org

www.findhorn.org

Scottish Charity Number SC007233