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Title	Findhorn Foundation and Community
Venue	The Park, Findhorn, Forres IV36 3TZ Morayshire. and Cluny Hill College, St Leonards Road, Forres IV36 2RD Morayshire
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Contact	Visitors Centre
Tel	+44(0) 1309 690311
Email	enquiries@findhorn.org
Web	www.findhorn.org
Schedule	The Findhorn Foundation offers a range of holistic workshops, certificated trainings and special events throughout the year, from our own Essential Findhorn programmes to international conferences, all set in the unique environment of our working community and ecovillage. Our programmes are an integral part of the community's work and give participants practical experience of how to apply spiritual and holistic values in daily life.
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Events	For a full calendar of our workshops and events please click here. http://www.findhorn.org/workshops/calendar.php
	Listed below are just a few of the many events organised by the Findhorn Foundation


21-04-12	Bringing Spirit into Business for Peace, Pleasure and Plenty
	Facilitators: Jane Duncan Rogers & Susan Miles
	There's no doubt about it, business and every other aspect of your life just goes better when you are aligned with spirit. It's that simple. What's not so simple is working out how to let that essence flow through your daily business. This workshop is for self-employed people, small business owners, people who run charities, or anyone responsible for a budget and the results they get. It will show you exactly how to engage spirit in marketing for a more authentic impact in the marketplace, how to bring the sacred back into the sales conversation, and how the organisation of your business reflects your sense of commitment to who you really are in the world: a spiritual business person, wanting to make a difference to those around you, contributing to making the world a better place, and having a lot of fun and pleasure along the way.

14-04-12	Transformation Retreat on Iona
	Facilitator: Niels Paulsen
	The power of the Transformation (Box) Game combined with the peace and beauty of Iona. Situated on the west coast of Scotland, Iona is a sacred island known as a historic place of pilgrimage. Traigh Bhan is the Findhorn Foundation's retreat house on this magical island, offering 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

07-04-12	Into Christ Consciousness
	Facilitator: Findhorn Easter Event
	In Findhorn's 50th birthday year we invite you to join our co-creative Easter Gathering in the transformative field of consciousness emerging at this time, calling us to expand into the greater reality that has always been there and take a further step beyond fear and into Love. Down the ages, mystics of the world's spiritual traditions have awakened to this reality and now quantum scientists are re-discovering that there is a greater whole beyond our sense-bound perception. Human consciousness is evolving, and the process is speeding up - towards the realisation that there are no boundaries in Love, for what one is, all are. This reality calls us to birth and embody our inner divinity and, in so doing, embrace our universal humanity. This is Christ Consciousness

17-03-12	Iona Equinox Retreat
	Facilitator: Niels Paulsen
	Equinox Retreat on Iona is an opportunity to deeply experience this time of year as we turn towards the light, within the peace of this beautiful island. Situated on the west coast of Scotland, Iona is a sacred island known as a historic place of pilgrimage. The retreat takes place at Traigh Bhan, the Findhorn Foundation's retreat house on Iona. 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

13-03-12	Deepening Awareness
	Facilitator: Kathy White
	This workshop offers an experience of slowing down in The Work and to meditate on the thoughts we are having in each moment. Once thoughts are identified, we sit with each thought and question it through The Work and let the answers arise from awareness, rather from our everyday mind. By alternating walking and sitting meditations with The Work in a background of silence, we learn to undo the concepts of the world that would prevent us from living more in the luminescent reality of each moment. Discover there is a kind and benign universe beyond belief. In this the truth of liberation can emerge.

10-03-12	Dialogues in Profound Reality
	Facilitator: John De Ruiter
	John de Ruiter is an artisan of living philosophy, a master of evolution. From his embodiment of profound knowledge, he teaches on life's most transformational principles, offering realisation and revival to any heart that yearns for truth. To that deepest yearning, John brings the sweetness of reality, the whole spectrum appearing through two openings: honesty and knowing

25-02-12	Humanising Your Workplace
	Facilitator: Yehuda Tagar
	An impulse of spiritual renewal of culture reaches the ground only when it becomes accessible to everyone in their ordinary life. For personal and spiritual development to become the core agenda of many, work must become the major opportunity for spiritual development, because the workplace is where most people spend the majority of their productive time

11-02-12	Essentials of Psychosynthesis
	Facilitator: Psychosynthesis Trust
	This dynamic and stimulating course provides tools and techniques that have a direct application to both personal and advanced development as well as being an essential entry point if you are considering further training in psychosynthesis. Essentials is a unique opportunity to further your personal and transpersonal/spiritual journey. Participants have found that they find the experience of Essentials moving, life-changing and enhancing, quite apart from the in-depth introduction to the vision, models, fresh therapeutic methods and techniques of psychosynthesis.

04-02-12	Spiritual Practice. Manifestation
	Facilitator: 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 exercises and release disturbing patterns, converting them into energy to support our goals

28-01-12	A Gift to Cluny: Spring Clean Celebration
	Facilitators: Susan Miles and Niels Paulsen
	Do you feel drawn to offer your energy as a gift to the wonderful Cluny and all the people who benefit from being here? This week will be a time of purification and renewal as we complete tasks and play together to clean and transform the building and ourselves. Please come and join us as we align our bodies, minds and spirit in this annual ritual of cleansing and celebration.

21-01-12	Exploring Community Life
	Facilitator: Findhorn Foundation
	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 a programme. You may also find this to be an attractive option for coming back to visit and reconnect with the community

28-12-11	New Year Spiritual Healing Retreat
	Facilitator: Franco Santoro
	An opportunity to promote expanded awareness and healing through meditation and spiritual practices. We will alternate periods of silence and dialogue, stillness and movement, touch and contact, relaxation and activity, group and individual work, bringing careful attention to our inner and outer world. We will scan the past, recapitulating significant events, extracting blessings and releasing grievances, paving a luminous healing way for the New Year

15-12-11	Spiritual Practice. Winter Solstice
	Facilitator: Monica Boni
	During this time of Solstice and the longest night of the year, it is the perfect moment for deepening our meditation practice and opening to our own inner life. Join us to meditate, contemplate, share with each other, and practise loving where we are, who we are with, and what we are doing.

19-11-11	The Wonder of Being. Awakening to an Intimacy Beyond Words
	Facilitator: Jeff Foster
	Many of us seem to find ourselves living in the future, always seeking and striving for wealth, success, love, fulfillment, even spiritual enlightenment. Yet right at the heart of life there is an intimacy, a simplicity, a wholeness that is totally beyond words – and which cannot be reached through any kind of effort. In our attempts to change, to improve ourselves or become enlightened, we end up ignoring this wordless intimacy which is our birthright and our true home. In this 3-day intensive Jeff Foster shares the timeless message of nonduality, something that is ultimately impossible to put into words, in a simple, human and down-to-earth way

05-11-11	Living Whole: Subtle Activism for the Planet
	Facilitators: Mary Inglis and Freya Secrest, with David Spangler
	This course does not require previous participation in an Experience Week. Living Whole: Self and Sacred, and Living Whole: Co-Creating with Nature and the Subtle Worlds (see Living Whole Series link below), or relevant Incarnational Spirituality online class with Lorian, is recommended but not a prerequisite

29-10-11	Spiritual Practice. Primal Painting
	Facilitator: 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

15-10-11	Foundation Training in Astroshamanic Drumming
	Facilitator: Franco Santoro
	Shamans use dance to reach expanded states of consciousness, communicate with spirits and bring healing on a planetary and individual level. This training deepens the practice of trance dance and shamanic sound production. The training is designed for newcomers as well as if you want to consolidate previous experience with astroshamanic trance dance. Completion of the training provides a solid basis for more advanced work and allows you to continue autonomously with clarity and sense of purpose

29-09-11	Love, Magic and Miracles
	International Autumn Conference
	This week-long, timely conference will explore and celebrate the spiritual truth that love is the greatest power on earth. For millennia, spiritual teachers such as Buddha, Jesus, Eileen Caddy and Dorothy Maclean (Findhorn Founders) have proclaimed this truth. A truth that crossed over to the cultural mainstream when the Beatles sang, All You Need Is Love

02-09-11	Living Whole: Co-creating with Nature and the Subtle Worlds
	Facilitators: Judy McAllister and Freya Secrest
	We all engage with subtle energies constantly. The way we engage with them can have a profound impact on our lives and the world. Come and spend a week exploring your capacities to understand, interpret and foster life-enhancing, respectful and loving relationships with your environment

13-08-11	Restoring the Fragmented Heart: Soul Retrieval and the Way of Sacred Relationships
	Facilitator: Franco Santoro
	A workshop that explores relationships from a multidimensional and shamanic perspective with the aim of healing connections with partners, relatives, friends and significant people in one's life. We will track and release blocks to our capacity to love, identifying the underlying issues that hamper relationships, promoting healing, fulfilment and peace. The workshop involves a profound process of recapitulation and energy assessment of our human interactions with the aim of gaining empowerment and wholeness, supporting and implementing righteous relationships aligned with our authentic soul purpose. The week is designed for all types of relationships, encompassing couples in intimate or platonic connections, partnerships in work or service, rapports with friends and relatives

06-08-11	Biodanza. The Dance of Life
	Facilitator: Nadasree Georgete Gadas
	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 re-connect with your life force and reawaken to the beauty and pleasure of being alive, able to move and relate? Biodanza leads us gradually into deeper contact and permission to believe in the goodness of our instinctive passions and to express the emotions that arise from that experience. Using music and movement to create integrative 'vivências' (the intense lived experience in the moment), this system has a profoundly re-balancing effect on our bodies and psyche. The group becomes the healing matrix where transformation happens, as we open up to each other and allow ourselves to express our feelings and passion more authentically

23-07-11- 29-07-11	Co Creation and the Subtle Realm
	Facilitators: Judy MacAllister and Monica Boni
	The twin ideas of personal connection with the Divine and co-creation with the intelligence of nature are the cornerstones on which the Findhorn Foundation was built. Given the times we live in, these ideas, and their practice, are more relevant than ever. Finding and holding true to our own centre, reaching out to and engaging with the subtle realms, is a powerful way forward for each of us. We will engage with the historical as well as the present day application of these cornerstones. The impact that this could have on our collective movement towards the future is inestimable. The path before us, the future of our world, is not an easy one to truly face. It becomes easier when we fortify ourselves with hope and love, those qualities that are the essence of what the cornerstones bring into our lives

16-07-11	Spiritual Practice - Nature
	Facilitator: Katharina Brocke
	An introduction to the subtle dimensions of the Earth. We will practise the tradition of attunement to the loving intelligence within the nature kingdom which first brought the Findhorn Community to international recognition. Acknowledging the divine within us and outside of us, we will seek an understanding of our oneness with all creation, letting the balance within nature create balance within ourselves. Through a combination of exercises in perception, attunement and meditation, as well as making a flower essence and working in the garden, we will be drawn closer to the beauty and uniqueness of our own soul

09-07-11	Iona Summer Retreat

02-07-11- 08-07-11	The Elusive Obvious
	Facilitators: Roger Linden and Sue Miles
	Liberation is the permanent evaporation of all sense of a separate self. What remains is silent, spacious presence the Self, experienced as the tender, peaceful joy of unconditional love. Using enquiry, dialogue and silence we will explore the reality of the Self, our true nature. We will also practise simple, natural ways of easing the mental, emotional and physical strain of living with a false sense of separation. This is a retreat week, held in the midst of a working community. We will use this combination to explore our relationship to the "elusive obvious", discovering how our search for consciousness, presence and awakeness is unnecessary when we notice what is happening

21-06-11- 27-06-11	Interspecies Communication
	Facilitators: Anna Braytenbach and the Foundation Community
	We all have the ability to communicate with other species. One of the founding principles of the Findhorn Foundation is co-creation with Nature and communication with other realms, but many of us are unsure how to access those things beyond our everyday five-sensory reality. In this three-day Interspecies Communication workshop, Anna Breytenbach will show how communication creates a valuable bridge between the worlds, and participants will be guided in the universal language of telepathy and the use of natural intuition and abilities to communicate with other species

11-06-11- 12-06-11	Embracing a New Chapter for Mankind
	Facilitator: Jeddah Mali
	During this workshop we will look at the options that are available to mankind at this time of increased challenge and also examine the poignant question: What if the key to meeting those challenges is actually an undiscovered part of our hardwiring as human beings? We will begin by examining the fundamental roots of existence, comparing scientific discoveries with the historical contribution of religion and philosophy. We will address whether there is a common map around which all life orientates itself, and if a greater understanding of that map can prompt new perceptions and new conclusions. Using recent scientific research on heart-brain communication, we can start to see how the human being is actually hardwired for harmony

04-06-11- 10-06-11	Ancient Healing Tools for Modern Times
	Facilitator: Astrid Gude
	More than ever the balance between people and nature needs to be restored. Indigenous people know that a change in one part makes a change in the entire web. Drawing upon cross-cultural classical and esoteric shamanic practices, and working in partnership with the invisible dimension, we will acquire tools that empower us to become the change that leads to life on a healthy and peaceful planet. We'll learn how to transform the energy we manifest in the world, work with spirit allies, and experience changes in consciousness that help us overcome our separation from the natural world and our spiritual source and make us a healing presence within the web of light

21-05-11- 27-05-11	Remembering the Council of Nature
	Facilitators: Marlow Hotchkiss,Leslie Roberts and the Foundation Faculty
	Council is an ancient form and modern practice that encourages attentive listening and heart-felt, compassionate expression. Council engenders a deep sense of community and for many is held as a life practice. This week we will trace the arc of our collective story - from our core personal expression, through dialogues with nature and connection with our lineage, to building a circle of trust, a culture that supports who we are becoming and how we know each other

07-05-11- 10-05-11	Awakening the Sacred Feminine and Masculine
	Facilitators: Miranda Macpherson and Bob Duchmann
	Our true nature as boundless beings does not have gender, but our human expression unfolds as feminine or masculine, or both. With this come particular orientations, gifts and differences that want to be embraced, enjoyed and embodied fully as part of the human manifestation of God. In this retreat, we will explore how the feminine and masculine relationship can be a profound vessel for awakening

30-04-11- 05-05-11	Celtic Journeys of Mysticism
	Facilitators: Peter Vallance and Sue Clutterbuck
	Our week will begin with the Findhorn Community celebration of Beltane which uses ancient song, dance, story and ritual to celebrate the awakening of the earth and the Sacred Marriage of the Oak King and the Goddess of the land. We'll visit ancient sites of earth and ancestral energy, burial cairns, stone circles and standing stones in the north and north east of Scotland. Exploring the Celtic belief in three parallel universes, we hope to come to our own in-visible awakening to the wisdom of Caledonia and its peoples

23-04-11	Easter Conference: Conscious Medicine
	Our Easter conference will explore how the emerging scientific picture of a conscious (or psycho-energetic) universe relates to healthcare and medicine. How do our thoughts, emotions, beliefs and unresolved traumas get downloaded into the physical body? How can we heal dis-ease by shifting our energy and consciousness and aligning with the universal energy field (or unconditional love)? And how can we help others to heal themselves?

09-04-11- 15-04-11	Spiritual Practice - Nature
	Facilitator: Katharina Brocke
	An introduction to the subtle dimensions of the Earth. We practise the tradition of attunement to the loving intelligence within the nature kingdom which first brought the Findhorn Community to international recognition. Acknowledging the divine within us and outside of us, we will seek an understanding of our oneness with all creation, letting the balance within nature create balance within ourselves

27-03-11- 31-03-11	Change, Presence and the Art of Leadership
	Facilitators: Robin Alfred and Gill Emslie
	We have amazing depths of capacity and ingenuity. To access them we need to be awake and present. This workshop will enable you to deepen your capacity to facilitate change in yourself and others and to inspire, influence and generate collective wisdom in a rapidly changing culture. We will work through mythodrama and Process Work. Both are highly participative and focus on the realisation of the full potential of individuals and groups

19-03-11- 25-03-11	Equinox Retreat - Iona
	Facilitator: Niels Paulsen
	an opportunity to deeply experience this time of year as we turn towards the light, within the peace of this beautiful island. The retreat takes place at Traigh Bhan, the Findhorn Foundation's retreat house on Iona. 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

12-03-11- 18-03-11	Spiritual Practice - The Power of Intention
	Facilitator: Astrid Gude
	Learn new tools that can easily be integrated into everyday life and that allow you to transform your inner landscape. You can create new neural pathways that bring about personal healing and contribute to the creation of a positive world for all of life. We release blocking beliefs and reconnect with our unlimited potential to shine

12-02-11- 18-02-11	Spiritual Practice - Manifestation
	Facilitator: 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 work and release disturbing patterns, converting them into energy to support our goals. Mornings are spent in Foundation work departments

05-02-11- 11-02-11	Your Exquisite Body of Light
	Facilitators: Tjitze de Jong & Sue Miles
	The emphasis of this week is on exploring and uncovering 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 hands-on approach you'll discover how chakras function and how the various layers of the aura can be accessed, cleansed, repaired and charged

29-01-11	Erraid - Imbolc
	This is the time of year when the Celtic Goddess Bride returns, representing the reawakening of the life force. The energy of renewal helps us to leave behind what no longer serves us and prepare ourselves for the coming of Spring

22-01-11	Spiritual Practice
	Space for you to explore and connect with your innermost self. Spiritual practice means different things to different people and can include meditation of many kinds, other practices, or simply be how we live our daily lives. This programme supports you to continue a path of transformation and growth in your everyday life. It gives time to explore meditation, exercises and to approach ordinary activities in a new way that encourages space for creativity and laughter. We look at what supports or may sabotage the deepening of your inner connection

01-01-11	Personal Deepening Programme
	In this programme your coach and mentor will help you to create a personal curriculum from our range of programme offerings. We suggest you attend a minimum of two, ideally four or five, week-long residential programmes at Findhorn, over a two year period. In the between times you will have the support of monthly mentoring online or by phone. This arrangement is flexible and will be set up according to your personal circumstances and preference. Examples of areas in which we can co-create this programme with you include: Deepening Spiritual Connection; Personal Leadership; Inner and Outer Sustainability; Spiritual Ecology; Creativity