LEAP
The Living Essentials Apprentice Programme

LEAP is our Living Essentials Apprentice programme, our new staff intake programme, where you apprentice and learn the ways in which we live together here at Findhorn. We welcome you to come and contribute your own unique gifts and skills, so that together we can co-create a more loving and sustainable world. Applications will be considered through a process of attunement and subject to the needs of service departments and availability of living space at the time of your application.

Once accepted onto LEAP you engage with the joys and challenges of daily life in a spiritual community and ecovillage. We invite you to join in the practice of being present in every task and interaction, and to choose to live everyday life as a spiritual path with us - based on our core spiritual principles of inner listening, love in action and co-creation with nature. You join in a service department, participate in community meetings, engage in spiritual and personal development, and have regular reviews. We ask you to commit to participating fully, including some weekends, and we will provide you with food, basic accommodation and a supportive learning environment.

If accepted onto the programme, you will spend up to three months as a Short Term participant. After a review, if you then wish to make a longer commitment (minimum six months - up to two years) you will become a Long Term LEAP participant.

Once you are on the Long Term LEAP programme, you deepen your journey by participating in an induction programme, have regular group meetings, and you are assigned a personal mentor for the initial six months. LEAP is a commitment to serve this centre and a pathway to becoming staff, and it is equally valid for you to take back out into the world, skilled and equipped to be a world server and leader. We welcome you to take the leap, explore, and come and live the soul of service with us.

Please note staff positions are limited and there is no guarantee of a staff job at the end of the programme.

Income related price is £50–£350 per month while on short term leap; £100–£350 per month for your first six months on Long Term LEAP. For further information please contact

Experience Week plus three months of the Living in Community Guest Programme are prerequisite.

We welcome applications for this programme all year round.