Experience the Findhorn Garden: Co-creating with the Intelligence of Nature
In July we're holding a new programme Experience The Findhorn Garden: Co-creating with Nature's Intelligence, a week-long residential immersion at the Park Ecovillage that goes to the heart of one of our founding practices. If you feel drawn to deepen your relationship with nature and explore what co-creation means in practice, this is for you.
When Joern guides you around the Findhorn Peninsula, many surprises await…
A week to listen, learn and live in relationship with Nature:
The Findhorn Garden
4 - 11 July | Park Ecovillage, Findhorn
More than a gardening week
The gardens are where the learning happens, and the experience goes beyond how to tend a flower bed or grow food. This week is about developing your ability to listen to the intelligences of nature, to sense the life in the land around you, and to discover what becomes possible when humans and nature work in conscious partnership. It's also an introduction into community life and how we can create this in our lives.
The founding practice of co-creation with nature helped put Findhorn on the map in the 1960s when Dorothy Maclean began receiving guidance from the plant devas. The garden flourished in sandy soil and the mystery of how it was possible attracted attention. The practice is an ongoing aspect of our community and Dorothy believed it's something we can all experience and develop. The invitation is to Come Closer and notice the nudges when we're quiet and attentive to our interconnection with life.
Judy McAllister introduces participants to the Devas in the Original Garden
What the week is like
During the week you'll start each morning with optional meditation in the Light of Findhorn Sanctuary and Taize singing. From there the days move through morning and afternoon sessions:
a guided walk through the Park Ecovillage and Cullerne Gardens, offering the new community supported agriculture scheme;
time in the Sanctuary and Original Garden learning about love in action through hands on practical projects suitable for everyone;
a guided beach walk with Joern around the Findhorn peninsula and the original Findhorn Village;
an afternoon in the Woodland Garden with Judy exploring how to attune to and co-create with nature's intelligences;
growing food through permaculture methods and learning about sustainable living with Craig in one of the Whisky Barrel homes;
an afternoon with Jonathan and the Findhorn Hinterland Trust on the wilder land they steward just beyond the Park
a morning with Janice practicing Being the Voice of Nature
Evenings bring the group together — a film about the magic of the Original Garden, a deep conversation about co-creation, and on the final evening, sharing around the fire at the Earth Lodge.
What you will take with you
Angus and Yuko at tea break
You'll leave with new connections, lasting memories, and practices you can take home: ways to listen to nature's intelligence and co-create with the living world around you through everyday life.
No prior experience with gardening, spiritual practice or community living is needed. Accommodation is shared within the Park Ecovillage. Nourishing vegetarian meals are prepared with care and local produce.
Come join us!
Prices start at £945. If financial support would make a difference please just reach out to us via bookings@findhorn.org. We're keen to make our programmes as accessible as possible.
Judy McAllister recently read a passage by Dorothy Maclean, one of Findhorn's original co-founders. A beautiful reminder of where this all began. We invite you to enjoy this short video below.
