Our FF SCIO Trustees
Marilyn Hamilton
CHAIR
Dr. Marilyn Hamilton, inspired by the Gaia Code of Care for Self, Others, Place, and Planet, designs, delivers, and supervises learning experiences with Soul Power that build capacity for the wellbeing of the four archetypal Voices of the Human Hive: Citizens, City Managers, Business/Innovators, and Civil Society.
Marilyn is Co-Founder of Living Cities.Earth and Founder of Integral City Meshworks. She authored the Integral City website and book series and curated City Change in a VUCA World.
An international keynote speaker and faculty member at several universities, Marilyn has held CEO, COO, CFO, and CIO roles in both private and not-for-profit sectors. Within Ecovillage Findhorn, she has served as Findhorn College Director/Chair, FIRE Director, DevCom/New Sanctuary Surveyor and Charette Focaliser, Just Transition Synergizer, Local Place Plan Co-Chair, Education Circle Working Group member, Islands of Coherence Meditation Focaliser, Cullerne House Investor, Findhorn Fellow, Evolutionary Leader, Fellow of Urban Arena Europe, and Ambassador for World Unity Week.
Born in Canada, Marilyn has lived in Park Ecovillage Findhorn since 2018.
Liza Hollingshead
TREASURER
Liza Hollingshead is a long-term member of the Findhorn Ecovillage Community, dedicated to service and to the values established by the founders. She has witnessed the Findhorn Foundation and community evolve over fifty years of profound change and global influence. Liza helped Eileen Caddy write her autobiography and was one of the first independent members of the community.
She has a strong interest in education and has served as a Game of Transformation Guide since 1978, developing deep personal growth and facilitation skills—particularly in objectivity, patience, acceptance, teamwork, and group dynamics.
Liza founded and led Ecologia Youth Trust, successfully operating it as a global charity for thirty years, raising funds, building partnerships, and completing its mission with integrity. Her experience spans financial management, GDPR, and charity law.
Currently, she serves on the NFA Council as Treasurer and Families & Children representative. Her recent initiative, Community Learning Circles, shares inspiration from Findhorn’s legacy with current members. Liza is deeply committed to upholding the founders’ values and believes inheriting the Findhorn Foundation SCIO with an educational purpose is an essential step toward continuing the community’s global impact. She sees this work as an act of service—bringing the values of loving action, inner listening, and respect for nature into the world.
Judy McAllister
TRUSTEE
Judy has lived & worked in the Findhorn community for 48 years, working in the Findhorn Foundation (Trust and SCIO) for 43+ years, primarily in Spiritual and Personal Development, but also in Education, the Guest Department, Maintenance, Management etc. She collected many 'hats' including Foundation Focaliser (read CEO - 5 years), New Findhorn Directions Board member (5 years - chair for some of that time), and FF Trust trustee (nearly 10 years).
Judy is currently a Findhorn Fellow, and a Director of InnerLinks (47 year association with the Game of Transformation). She has delivered, at Findhorn and elsewhere, countless workshops and trainings (including: Game of Transformation-related trainings, Co-Creation with Nature, meditation retreats, leadership trainings). Judy served on the Co-Creation Spirituality conference team and was a close associate of Dorothy Maclean with whom she travelled and taught (10+ years) before Dorothy returned to the community in 2009. Judy held focus for Dorothy’s caring circle from then until her passing in 2020 at 100 years of age.
Judy collated & edited Dorothy's book Come Closer. With 2 Dutch colleagues she co-authored Earth Fever – Living Consciously with Climate Change. Her own book - Forest Voices - When Nature Speaks was published in 2018.
Dr Sara Trevelyan
TRUSTEE
Dr. Sara Trevelyan originally trained as a medical doctor and began her career in psychiatry in the Scottish Borders and Glasgow. After leaving the health service to raise her family, she became Co-Director, alongside her then-husband Jimmy Boyle, of the Gateway Exchange, a pioneering day centre in Edinburgh. She later retrained in counselling and psychotherapy in the Person-Centred Approach and has worked in private practice for over twenty years. Sara is also trained in Barbara Brennan Energy Healing and as an Interfaith Minister.
Sara has been a regular visitor to the Findhorn community since the early 1990s. Eileen Caddy was both mentor and friend, and Sara has participated in many community activities and conferences. She serves as a Resource Person and Findhorn Fellow, and is a descendant of Sir George Trevelyan.
She has also served as a trustee of the Salisbury Centre in Edinburgh and is currently a trustee of Growing2Gether, a youth-focused charity based in Findhorn. Living life as a sacred path lies at the heart of Sara’s work, and she is deeply committed to embodying the three guiding principles of Findhorn.
Sara has a son living with his family in London and a daughter living with her family in California. She is a proud grandmother of four and is passionate about creating environments that are nourishing and protective of all life.
Christian Sarti
TRUSTEE
Christian Sarti was born in Luxembourg to a French mother and a father of Italian origin. A father of five and grandfather of six, he brings experience of life's changes and a longstanding commitment to spiritual exploration.
His journey began with transcendental meditation around the age of 20. Interest in Alice Bailey's work led him to Findhorn, which he first visited in 1985 as Luxembourg's delegate to the European Humanity Gathering. He became a Findhorn Foundation Resource Person the following year and continues in that role.
Christian has trained in Rebirthing, Person-centred Psychotherapy, Voice Dialogue and Weaving, and spent several years exploring the Diamond Approach. He enjoys writing and producing videos and published The Other World.
Now retired from his work as a careers counsellor in Luxembourg's civil service, Christian is grateful for his available time and feels honoured by the opportunity to serve Findhorn Foundation SCIO as a Trustee.
Dr Christopher Connolly
TRUSTEE
Christopher arrived at Findhorn in February 1974 to the sound of migrating geese overhead. He lived first in the Park and then helped start up Cluny Hill in 1976.
He moved to London in 1979 to co-found The Sporting Bodymind Group with John Syer, where they pioneered applied sports psychology. Christopher was psychologist for Olympic teams, national sports bodies and Premier League football clubs, as well as researching performance at the Royal College of Music.
He returned to Findhorn in 2022 and recently bought a house in Forres. He continues to work internationally with leaders and teams as well as running transpersonal coaching programmes at Spirit at Work.
He has authored six books: his first was Sporting Body Sporting Mind in 1984, and most recently Transition Expertise and Identity in 2024, both published by Cambridge University Press.
Christopher attempts to integrate a Buddhist practice with western traditions and his Celtic roots. He finds this easiest to do in cooking and working in his garden, which he loves.
Kevin Featherstone
TRUSTEE
Kevin, born and raised in and around the Findhorn Foundation, spent years in its Youth Project, eventually becoming a youth worker. Growing up in the Park taught him that community is life's foundation and left him with a lasting wonder at nature.
He became an engineer and spent eight years building things, from a solar car at Sono Motors to e-bike fleet software in Munich, where he listens to people's needs and translates them for developers. Communication is his real strength.
This journey showed him that community is one of our strongest levers for living meaningful lives within planetary boundaries. He reads and writes about energy, governance and post-growth economics. At Sono he facilitated self-leadership training, practised radical candour and joined a reading circle on Laloux's Reinventing Organisations; he has since founded his own.
Becoming a trustee brings his ‘two halves’ together: the engineer and the child of this community.
Dr Simon Divecha
TRUSTEE
Simon is a consciousness action researcher and organisational change specialist. He focuses on, and cares most about, the paradigm shift that we are all helping to host: from separation and human exceptionalism to co-creative, agile and wise societies.
Practically, Simon works with people who've touched what is profoundly true and who want to stabilise this in life, love and work. His background is as a board director, CEO and consultant, with charities, education, energy, construction and health. His fascination with this led to a University Medal for his outstanding doctoral research on these subjects and applying this in groups he stewards such as Soulsentient.
Natural habitat: mountains and an outdoor office by the bay.
Susan Hall
TRUSTEE
Susan Hall lives on two acres in the eastern Algarve, Portugal, with her husband Jim, where she is a grower, writer and community development professional. They tend the land together. After a busy international career, Sue is now retired.
Susan studied History, then trained in law, before finding her way into community development, spending over 25 years working on international programmes funded by DFID, the EU and the UN. Along the way, she served on the boards of several charities and networks, and was head of the European and International Unit for the Community Development Foundation.
Findhorn has been a spiritual thread running through her life since the early 1980s. She now serves as a Resource Person for the Findhorn Foundation in Portugal, has organised local events using Findhorn processes, volunteered with COIF, and supported the Online Enterprise Fair in 2025.
Sue feels called to bring her experience into service of the SCIO's stewardship and the Foundation's wider legacy.