Exploring Community Life (ECL) is a great way to have time in the community to deepen your experience, or to give you space for integration following another programme. You may also find this to be an attractive option for coming back to visit and reconnecting with the community.

If you are thinking about a longer term commitment to staying at Findhorn, ECL can give you a good sense of what it is like to live at Findhorn and it is a prerequisite for joining some of our longer term programmes such as Living in Community and the Foundation Programme.

The programme offers a supportive and stimulating way to join in community life while deepening your own inner experience and connection to spirit. It follows a less formal structure than Experience Week and includes time in work departments to become more familiar with our guiding principle of ‘work is love in action’. There are also sharings, a group project, a nature outing and if there is interest, we play Transformation Game. Evenings provide opportunities to join in with community activities and explore different aspects of living here, including spiritual and personal development, creative arts and sustainable living.

Income related price (click here for more information): £395 / £495 / £595

includes 7 nights accommodation & all meals

Special Price - if you book an Experience Week that starts between 28 November 2009 and 28 February 2010 inclusive, and also book an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice week directly following your Experience Week, we will give you a reduction of £115 on the total price.

Please note: We guarantee to run the Exploring Community Life week even with only one or two participants, offering an opportunity to join in a community work department and to experience the richness of community life.

'I wanted to ground this experience so I did an Exploring Community Life programme. We were a smaller group and we decided, as part of our activities, to do psychosynthesis exercises, dance, draw a mandala, meditate and visit Cawdor Castle. In the afternoon we experienced service as love in action by being in the kitchen, gardens or homecare departments.'