Findhorn Community

Findhorn Community is a leading international centre of transformative learning, rooted in a spiritual ecovillage community in the north of Scotland. It has been home to thousands of residents from more than 40 countries. The Foundation offers a range of workshops, programmes and events in the environment of a working ecovillage. 

The Foundation’s belief in sustainability is expressed in the built environment with ‘ecological’ houses, innovative use of building materials such as local stone and straw bales, and applied technology in the Living Machine sewage treatment facility and electricity-generating wind turbines. The Ecovillage is intended to be a tangible demonstration of the links between the spiritual, social, ecological and economic aspects of life, for use as a teaching resource. 

It is a founder member of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) a non-profit organisation that links together a diverse worldwide movement of autonomous ecovillages and related projects. The Ecovillage project has received Best Practice designation from the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat).

‘When we slow down and deeply listen, the differences dissolve.’

One of the 60 participants in ‘Moving Beyond COP26’, September 2021

Location: Northern Scotland

Book: The Findhorn Garden – Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation – Goodreads.com

Website: https://www.findhorn.org

Video 1: Findhorn Foundation

Video 2: Conversation with Founders