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Living the questions together creates community | Daniel Wahl

1 June 2017 Leave a Comment

"To participate in intentional communities that are actively living the questions together is a powerful learning accelerator. "While I lived in the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage, I had the privilege to co-direct Findhorn College and set up the world’s first ‘MSc in Sustainable Community Design’ in collaboration with Heriot Watt University. "Community design cannot be left to professional architects, engineers and planning officials alone but, once trained in whole-systems design, these … Continue reading

Filed Under: Regeneration and Resilience Tagged With: change agents, civic engagement, community living, designing regenerative cultures, ecovillage living, education for regeneration, Findhorn Ecovillage, living in community, regenerative design, whole systems design

Escape the Rat Race: Ecovillages and Communal Living | Save the Earth Coop

28 February 2017 Leave a Comment

"Have you ever thought of escaping the “rat race” and the stresses and strains of modern day life to pursue a calmer, sustainable, more social and spiritual existence? I think this might have crossed a lot of people’s minds at some point or another, and now, more and more people around the world are turning their dreams into reality. "The growth in the number of ecovillages is staggering! Just a quick Google search will list dozens of projects around the world already under construction or … Continue reading

Filed Under: Ecology & sustainability Tagged With: alternative living, community living, ecovillages, living in community, sustainable living

Findhorn Foundation Elder, Craig Gibsone, on his Love Affair with Life

4 January 2017 2 Comments

Craig Gibsone, who has played a leading role in the community for nearly 50 years, and is affectionately known as a feral elder, shares about his life and work at the Findhorn Foundation and Ecovillage. He is one of our most inspiring educators, as well as a painter, potter, musician, builder and permaculturist, co-author of ‘Permaculture – A Spiritual Approach', and co-focaliser of the Findhorn Applied Ecovillage Living (AEL) course, starting in February. When asked what is the glue that has … Continue reading

Filed Under: Ecology & sustainability Tagged With: Applied Ecovillage Living, community living, ecovillage education, ecovillage living, Findhorn Ecovillage

The Findhorn Effect | Adelle Horler

3 December 2016 Leave a Comment

What if real life – the job, the traffic, the accelerating treadmill – isn’t the way it needs to be? South African journalist, Adelle Horler, visited the Findhorn Foundation and found a place of accelerated growth and understanding where "it’s possible to live in a way that mindfulness, gratitude and kindness can be part of the fabric of every day, not something you squeeze into free time or remember when you see a beautiful sunset." Read the full story in the accompanying pdf.... Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: community living, ecovillage living, Findhorn Foundation and Community

People in this Town Live Without Politics, Religion and Money

21 September 2016 Leave a Comment

Findhorn's sister community of Auroville is an experiment in peaceful co-existence through humanity unity. Watch video

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: Auroville, community living, human unity, peaceful coexistence, unity of human family

The Great Affluence Fallacy

20 August 2016 Leave a Comment

"In 18th-century America, colonial society and Native American society sat side by side. The former was buddingly commercial; the latter was communal and tribal. As time went by, the settlers from Europe noticed something: No Indians were defecting to join colonial society, but many whites were defecting to live in the Native American one. "This struck them as strange. Colonial society was richer and more advanced. And yet people were voting with their feet the other way. "If colonial culture … Continue reading

Filed Under: Social, cultural & community evolution Tagged With: affluence, autonomy versus community, communal society, community living, freedom and community, local community movements, Millennial Generation, Native American society

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