This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
This is a series of Infographics that share the journey of the 4 Voices of the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland. The stories follow them as they explore integral perspectives while they collaborate on preparing a Local Place Plan to deliver to Moray municipality. The articles were originally published in the Rainbow Bridge - the [...]
We continue the story of Ecovillage Findhorn seeking its Community Purpose and Aims. Last Sunday, at another community gathering, we moved on from exploring Purpose to defining Primary Aims. Guided by Gordon McAlpine/NFA and Tessa Brock/EF, we welcomed back 55 Questors including 11 Harvest Hosts. In groups of 5 we took the challenge [...]
This week Ecovillage Findhorn has immersed ourselves in a Purpose Quest. We learned from 5 Inspirational Sources (see full inspirations here). Whole Community Purpose Strategic Framework Global Ecovillage Network Dorothy MacLean Patrick Lewington From these inspirations, we drafted 8 Potential Purpose Statements (see them here). And from these we identified 5 Themes: Spiritual [...]
As Findhorn Ecovillage has explored its Community Purpose, it considers how relationships between people and organizations shift and change within the community. Some responses, resistances and resources have surprised me. But then I remembered one of my core learnings about Community comes from Parker Palmer. Many years ago he wrote a quizzical but profound [...]
From the 5 Inspirations and 8 Potential Purpose Statements the Findhorn Community discovered 5 Key Themes. Exploring how they resonated with the expressions of those themes revealed where was most energy for Patterns of Purpose. We are a Spiritual Community. We connect with the Intelligences of Nature. We Evolve and Support [...]
As Ecovillage Findhorn Community explored 5 Inspirations for its Community Purpose, it drafted 8 potent and potential Purpose Statements. (Inspired by Strategic Framework): We are an inclusive, vibrant spiritual community exploring co-creation with all life, seen and unseen. We are a caring community here for the benefit of all. We take personal and [...]
The Community of Findhorn has been journeying on a Purpose Quest. We started by contemplating 5 Inspirations. Working in small clusters of 5 people, for each inspiration we asked ourselves: In what way does this Inspiration express Community Purpose? (Circle 3 phrases) what do you resonate with – affirm, want to retain? (Strikethrough 2 [...]
This newsletter is published quarterly using a cycle of perspectives on the Integral City viewed from: Planet, People, Place and Power. The theme of this issue is Power. As the prime author, Spirit was a guiding energy that revealed the 12 Integral City Intelligences, 4 Voices, Master/Gaia Code and made the astonishing connections [...]
Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) is Integral City Network of the Year 2023. The Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) catalyzes communities for a regenerative world. GEN is a growing network of regenerative communities and initiatives that bridge cultures, countries, and continents. GEN builds bridges between the 4+1 Voices of the City - that GEN names [...]