Ousmane Pame, Findhorn Fellow, President of Global Ecovillage Network - Africa, and Mayor of the Eco-town of Guédé Chantier, shares his personal story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... How has the New Story Summit effected positive change in your life and in your work in the world? The New Story Summit was a great inspiring moment in my journey on this planet. It was an opportunity to learn about the inspiring experiences of world community leaders, expand my human connections … Continue reading

Kaia Nightingale shares her personal story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... At the Summit I met beautiful, conscious, creative people enthusiastically embracing a new story, co-creating it, willing to help dream it into being, people who resonate so deeply with me. I felt confirmed, strengthened by all they were doing and by who they are within themselves. I felt absolutely at home, deeply inspired by the poetry, activism, ceremony, breadth of intellect and art work. Perhaps the … Continue reading

Hege Sæbjørnsen shares her personal story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... After a long period of rewarding but exhausting work for a foundation in London, a round of redundancies and a particularly challenging break up, my energy levels were dangerously low and I was partly mired in my own victim stories. While life had been serving me several big portions of ‘opportunities to grow’ for a while, new shoots were also emerging and I could feel a shift starting to happen. For a … Continue reading

Lynnaea Lumbard, Co-President of United States based NewStories, shares her story one year on from Findhorn's New Story Summit.... Two Words: We survive. That is the essence of the new story. We make it, we figure it out, we navigate the paradigm shift from fear to love, greed to generosity, competition to collaboration, killing each other to synergizing with each other. At least that’s what I’ve come to since we were last together. I had a rather odd year of wrestling with debilitating … Continue reading