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.
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.
Angus Marland
TRUSTEE
Angus Marland grew up on a farm in Suffolk, England, which gave him a lifelong love of the natural world. In his early twenties, he arrived at Findhorn for what was intended to be a weekend visit—quickly turning into full-time community life. He focalised Maintenance and Construction and later focalised the beginnings of Cluny and the island community of Erraid.
In 1980 he moved to Edinburgh and founded an environmental charity, based in the University’s Centre for Human Ecology, which created the UK’s first national exhibition on energy conservation and renewables, and later established a whole-farm organic research project which was adopted by the Scottish Agricultural College. He also served as a trustee of the Salisbury Centre during the 1980s.
In 1990, he co-founded a company to design and build constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and sustainable urban drainage. Returning to Findhorn in 2001, He served as an NFA councillor for seven years, chaired the Titleholders Association, was Sanctuary Group focaliser, Finance Manager for the Findhorn Foundation, and focaliser of the Park Garden.
In 2016, Angus and his wife Elisabeth moved to the northwest coast to run a B&B and returned to Findhorn in March 2025.