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Social Policy Ecology Research Institute – SPERI

March 30, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

Mr Dam Trong Tuan, the Executive Director ofSocial Policy Ecology Research Institute (SPERI), will be attending the 2012 Gathering at the Findhorn Foundation. His specialised areas of knowledge are Social Capital and Grassroots Civil Society Development, and Customary Law in Watershed Natural Resources Governance.

SPERI an independent civil society institution was founded in June 5, 2006 as a merger of the three Vietnamese development organisations. They are Towards Ethnic Women (TEW, 1994), Center for Human Ecology Studies in the Highlands (CHESH, 1999) and Centre for Indigenous Knowledge Research and Development (CIRD, 2000).

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Findhorn 2012 – Exploring the Topic of Eldercare

March 19, 2012 by Centers' Gathering 1 Comment

One of the hot topics of community life is eldercare and we will explore this during the 2012 Gathering. Here we introduce you to members of the Findhorn Foundation who have been invited to join the participants and engage in the discussion.

Stan Stanfield, a long-time member of the Foundation, has been involved in a wide range of its educational activities, including focalising the Education department. He is a friend of Ralph White, co-founder of the Holistic Centres Gathering, from their time in Cluny Maintenance in the 1970’s. Stan has recently written his memoirs about his life on the spiritual path and at the Foundation, which will be published by Findhorn Press in 2012. An active member of the Cluny family and beyond the age of retirement, Stan will share his thoughts on the role of elders within the community. [Read more…]

Divination Foundation

March 15, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

The mission of the not-for-profit online community Divination Foundation (DF) is to explore, develop and promote spiritual technologies, to demonstrate the use of spiritual tools that help people be in harmony with their higher selves and, in a very practical sense, make the right moves at the right time, for the benefit of both the individual and the collective.

The Divination Foundation educates based on decades of research on ancient spiritual traditions; advises individuals and institutions on how to make visionary decisions that are in alignment with timeliness wisdom; teaches people how to execute such decisions to manifest their profound desires; and generally supports the greater cultivation of wisdom, courage and love. [Read more…]

Findhorn 2012 – Staffing and Volunteers

March 12, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

During the 2012 Gathering we will explore a variety of topics, including staffing and volunteers. The following members of our community have been invited to join the participants and each session is co-created by all involved, sharing experience and learning from each other.

Monica Bohni, is focaliser of the Spiritual and Personal Development Team and involved in our staff intake programme LEAP (Living Essentials Apprentice Programme) where people apprentice and learn the ways in which we live together here at Findhorn. [Read more…]

News about the 2012 Gathering

March 7, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

It’s now only two months until the International Holistic Centres Gathering – The Network of Light – an occasion when many different centres, often from different cultures, speak openly, honestly and warmly of their experiences, lessons, hopes and concerns. In this way, we deepen our sense of the worldwide movement towards holistic, spiritual and ecological awakening, and find inspiration and community in the often hard won wisdom of others.

Invitations have been sent far and wide and we now have participants coming from communities and holistic centres in the USA, (including Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington and New York), Canada, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Poland, Russia and India. They represent a diverse range of spiritual traditions, business models and environments, one a remote retreat centre, another completely off the grid, and a third located in one of the busiest cities in the world! [Read more…]

Findhorn 2012 – Fundraising and Manifestation

March 5, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

We will explore various topics during the 2012 Gathering, including fundraising and manifestation. Members of the Findhorn Foundation have been invited to join the participants to share their knowledge and experience, and learn from the exchange of ideas and information. Each session is co-created by all involved and promises to be an interesting and interactive meeting.

Debbie Herron originally worked in rural and inner city community development specialising in regeneration. She then lived on the Isle of Erraid, one of the most beautiful of all the Hebridean Islands off the West Coast of Scotland, to learn more about living simply and sustainably in community. [Read more…]

Findhorn 2012 – Governance and Decision Making

February 29, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

During the 2012 Gathering we will explore the topics of governance and decision making and the Chair of Management of the Findhorn Foundation has been invited to join the discussion. Each session is co-created by all involved and is an opportunity for participants to share their experience and learn from the exchange of ideas and information.

Ana Rhodes Castro has been living and working in the Findhorn Foundation since 1994. Ana has been a member of the Central Management team over the last seven years, six of those spent being responsible for the area of Spiritual and Personal Development. This comprised of internal trainings, conflict facilitation, supervision and other internal structures that support the Findhorn Foundation to function gracefully and efficiently at an individual and collective level. [Read more…]

The 2012 Gathering and Two Day Group Transformation Game

February 27, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

The Holistic Centres Gathering is traditionally five days of discussion, presentations, sharing and learning, as well as an experience of the host community. The Findhorn Foundation, who are hosting the 2012 Gathering, traditionally offer seven day programmes, hence this year there are two options.

The five night option commences on Saturday 12 May and concludes on Thursday 17 May. The seven night option concludes on Saturday 19 May and includes an interactive group version of the Transformation Game, played in teams around a path on the floor.

The Group Game provides a unique opportunity for personal learning and group experience as well as time to integrate the experience of the Gathering. It will enable you to focus on areas that interest you both individually and collectively, to work creatively together to bring insight and resolution to them and explore ways of moving forward together, supporting each other with our work around the world in our respective centers and communities. [Read more…]

The Network of Light – Then and Now

February 22, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

“Scattered around the Earth are untold thousands of individuals, small groups and communities quietly creating a society based upon the unity of the human family and co-creation with the forces of nature. Part of our work at Findhorn is to link with a wide range of these centres, organisations and individuals to reveal an emerging pattern that we call the ‘network of light’.”

Reading these words recently in the Faces of Findhorn, published in 1980, I had a strong feeling this was the voice of my friend Ralph White, who I’d met two years earlier at the Holistic Centres Gathering in Hawaii. I sent him an email and he wrote straight back saying, “Yes, I recognize those words. They’re what I felt all those years ago and they’ve actually been proved true. It’s a wonderful thing!” [Read more…]

Findhorn 2012 – Education, Programming and Communications

February 20, 2012 by Centers' Gathering Leave a Comment

During the 2012 Gathering we will explore a variety of topics and members of the Findhorn Foundation will join the participants to engage in the discussion. Over the next few months, until the Gathering commences in May, we will introduce you to some of the members of our community who have been invited to share their knowledge and experience, and learn from the exchange of ideas and information.

Representing Education:

Yvonne Cuneo, originally from Australia, has over the past 11 years worked in the Maintenance Team, been Head of Communications and a member of the Management team. Yvonne is now a member of the Building Bridges Team, a sacred dance teacher and a Game of Transformation facilitator. She combines co-creating programmes for the corporate world with writing the Foundation’s email newsletter and creating and delivering bespoke programmes for visiting groups.

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