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2019 North American Day of Sustainable Communities

June 21, 2019 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

Background:

European Day of Sustainable Communities will be hosted for the third consecutive year in 2019. The European network called ECOLISE has organized coordination, funding, and website listing participating events. Last year in Europe, communities in 24 countries joined the celebration by organizing over 100 events. The momentum is continuing to grow!

Foundation for Intentional Communties (FIC) aim to launch the first North American Day of Sustainable Communities this year. A small amount of seed funding has been secured from GENNA Alliance, enough to coordinate preliminary activity and gain traction for future years. We will be coordinating with European organizers to help launch the Day.
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Network Weaving with Kashi Ashram

February 25, 2019 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

By the Kashi Community

Findhorn in the north of Scotland and Kashi in central Florida are over 4,000 miles apart. Yet they are closely connected now since Findhorn resident and Holistic Centers Network Executive Director, Christine Lines, enjoyed a recent stay at Kashi Ashram. She arrived in early December, initially for one month, and then extended into February before returning to Findhorn for the spring. [Read more…]

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The Planet Within

February 12, 2019 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

On our planet today, a new civilisation is seeking to be born, yet significant work still lies ahead to bring it into being. Groups have a powerful responsibility in this endeavour by building greater cooperation and partnership across all dimensions of life.

The Planet Within is a co-creative gathering focusing on group consciousness, May 29th – June 2nd, at the Comunità di Etica Vivente in the stunning countryside of Umbria, Italy. This gathering is a bold, co-creative, pioneering step towards realising the potential of the group life and it’s impact on the evolution of the Cosmos. Book your place by 15 February to secure the early bird. [Read more…]

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Experience Damanhur in California

November 5, 2018 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

Damanhur is a spiritual community and a United Nations recognized model for a sustainable society in Damanhur, Italy. “To walk in Damanhur is to walk through past, present and future. Ancient mysteries and the forgotten wisdom of great civilizations coalesce with a fresh, tech-infused vision of an evolving potential future.” [Read more…]

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Mount Madonna honour the life of their founder Baba Hari Dass

October 31, 2018 by Christine Lines 1 Comment

Baba Hari Dass, master yogi, teacher, and the founding inspiration of the Mount Madonna Center and Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, and Sri Ram Orphanage in India, died peacefully at home in Bonnie Doon, California on September 25, 2018.

Baba Hari Dass, or Babaji, as he was affectionately known by the many thousands of students and devotees who knew him, was a silent monk born on March 26, 1923 in Almora in the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India. [Read more…]

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About the Breitenbush Kitchen and Cookbook

October 26, 2018 by Christine Lines 2 Comments

By Peter Moore

Business Director
Breitenbush Hot Springs

When I found my way to Breitenbush, in the spring of 1978, just a few souls lived here. There were no divisions of labor between us then, so everybody worked to do everything that needed to be done—new foundations and roofs for cabins, miles of trenches for new pipes (drinking water, geothermal heating pipes from the hot water wells we drilled, septic pipes, electric conduit pipes), cooking to keep the workers going, and lots more. Our fledgling community, which grew to about a dozen in the first three or four years, consisted mostly of twenty-somethings, with a couple of teenagers and one or two over-thirty people. We all shared a lot of meals together. [Read more…]

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Nature Nurture and Human Nature

October 15, 2018 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

By Peter Moore

Business Director
Breitenbush Hot Springs

Nature density as a remedy for nature deprivation was not among the original concepts we started with when we began the arduous work of repairing and preparing to re-open the defunct Breitenbush resort. In the 1970s we were enamored with more holistic lifestyle notions, including self-reliance, appropriate off-the-grid technologies, organic foods, consensus decision-making, egalitarian gender and labor relationships, and a kind of “be here now” nature-based spirituality, not to mention love of the hot springs.
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The early days of Breitenbush Hot Springs

October 3, 2018 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

By Peter Moore

Business Director
Breitenbush Hot Springs

I first arrived at Breitenbush Hot Springs in the spring of 1978, more than 40 years ago. I was 28 years old and had just gotten back to the USA after 4 years travelling in Europe and Asia. Upon returning from India and Nepal, I hiked a long section of the Pacific Crest Trail, a trail that extends more than 3000 kilometers, from the southern border of the US and Mexico all the way to the northern border with Canada. [Read more…]

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More valuable than Consulting

May 28, 2018 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

In the world of business the path is hardly ever clear, however, in most industries there are decades of academic research, more data than a single person could ever read in a hundred lifetimes and lines of professionals stretching for miles. All ready to help shore up the directions businesses are headed in.

Nate Huges, Assistant Director of Menla, speaking during the 2018 Gathering

The story is very different for younger industries such as holistic centers. The path, just like for most businesses, isn’t clear or certain. It’s much harder to find research, data and industry best practices to learn from and benchmark the organization to. It takes ingenuity to mould other industry practices to an industry that doesn’t quite fit the norm. It’s often long hours, team brainstorms, and simply putting faith in doing something that hasn’t been done before.

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Filed Under: 2018 Omega, Community News, Featured Posts, Testimonials

People. Environment. Achievement. PEA Awards

November 6, 2017 by Christine Lines Leave a Comment

The Findhorn Foundation is honoured to have been chosen by the P.E.A. (People. Environment. Achievement.) Awards, the UK’s leading sustainability awards, as their charity of the year. Now in their seventh year, P.E.A. honours the individuals and teams behind the products, services and businesses that are changing the face of our planet.

This recognition acknowledges the Foundation as the UK’s pioneer in supporting people to reconnect with themselves and with the rest of nature, which P.E.A. Awards see as the crucial work of the next ten years for individuals and businesses. [Read more…]

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