Community workshops and courses

With Jacqueline Buckingham. At the solstice moment, the sun appears to pause. We too can pause and take time to reflect on the past year – to sift through the events and harvest the gifts. We can then consciously bring those gifts with us as we move forward into the new year. Join this retreat in the Ecovillage Findhorn community for a journey of Stillness and Light, as we reflect, celebrate and create, and mark this turning point of the year with a solstice ritual.

An online ritual with Margo van Greta

Join us for a journey of reflection, release, and creative invocation. The solstice is a time of transition and potential transformation. As we navigate through turbulent and changing times in various aspects of our lives, we are encouraged to respond in new and creative ways.

The lightly held retreat offers a host who welcomes you to the community and can answer any questions you may have. Then you can explore at your own pace depending on what you want to do. Your host will support your stay and sign-post guests to the activities on offer. At the end of the retreat, there is a group sharing and completion opportunity to meet with the other guests and your host and share your insights and highlights and reflect with the group. The retreat price £495 includes: Self-catering accommodation in the bunkhouse.

Contact Pip to escape from commercial consumerism and enjoy a festive season here at the Ecovillage Findhorn Community. A chance to hibernate and reflect; time to play and connect with others. You’ll be in a small group but also have the opportunity to participate in optional community activities.

The Christmas retreat week invites you to stay 7 days in our self-catering Guest Lodge, with 8 private bedrooms and 4 shared bathrooms and a shared kitchen living space. For more information and to book a place on this retreat contact Pip via email: homecare@ecovillagefindhorn.uk

A twelve-night guided journey with Carolin Waldman, of reflection, renewal, and intuitive alignment inspired by the ancient Rauhnächte – the mystical nights between Christmas and Epiphany when the veil between worlds is said to grow thin.

Rooted in ancestral European traditions, this offering is an invitation to consciously cross the threshold into the new year with presence, intention, and spiritual attunement through ritual, journaling, sound, and shared community.

🌙 Daily reflections, themes, and prompts via WhatsApp/email

🔥 Opening & closing gatherings (Dec 24 + Jan 5)

🕯 Optional evening sessions (Dec 26 – Jan 5) with guided sound meditation, tea, and writing around a shared altar (in-person in Findhorn / on Zoom online)

🎶 New Year’s Sound Bath on Jan 1st (separate booking)

💌 Spontaneous extra offerings to deepen the experience

Offered on a donation basis by your attunement.

Any questions or contributions? Get in touch for more info or to book your place.

📧 carolin.findhorn@gmail.com

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Join InnerLinks Findhorn on this five-day residential workshop to consciously complete this year and begin the New Year by playing the Game of Transformation at its birthplace, the Park Ecovillage community in Findhorn. Use this special time to envision what’s next .

We are so happy to be holding the ‘Crossing the Threshold Retreat’ again in Findhorn! Barbara Swetina is joined for the first time by a wonderful Sufi Guide and Dance Mentor, Jilani Cordelia, which promises to be a highlight for the end of the year! During this magical time Barbara and Jilani invite you to 6 days of celebration in a community of heart, drawing on the riches of the Sufi tradition in song, dance, soul work, creativity and ritual.

There will also be time for a journey of self-reflection, connecting with the stillness found in nature and at the heart of our being. New Year’s Eve is celebrated within the community in our traditional manner, with pure, delightful fun.

You’re also very welcome to join the retreat if you have your own accommodation.

Begin 2026 from a place of inner strength and support with Joy Drake, in a free live Zoom gathering of spiritually attuned friends from around the world.

What is my soul asking of me now?

During this gentle, powerful and uplifting session with Joy, you’ll enjoy guided visualisations, reflective journaling prompts, and subtle supportive connections all held within an amplified field of transformation. This simple time of turning inward with Soul Infusions can shift the entire trajectory of your year. 

Step Out with Joy offers you the opportunity to slow down, listen to your inner voice, tune into your deeper knowing and release what no longer fits. Come and allow finely tuned inspirational energies to help you move forward with compassion and confidence, and fill 2026 with more of your Soul’s vitality!

Held by Togme Sangpo Buddhist Group, with Margo van Greta, this Buddhist purification process is basically a psychological one. It is our mind that creates negativity, and it is our mind that transforms it by creating positive energy. ​We will use powerful visualisation, mantra and meditation.

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Join Margo van Greta for 6 two-hour online sessions. The Work That Reconnects is a form of group work designed to cultivate the intention and ability to take part in the healing of our world. In this experiential online course, we will move deeper through the stages of the Spiral.

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Join Deborah Lewin for an Open Floor Movement workshop in the Universal Hall – easing and loosening the fixed shapes of our story about ‘The Past’, ‘The Present’, ‘The Future’.
Our own past, our own present, our own future, are these set in stone? How would it be to soften that which we think we know about them?

Be it in the body, in the emotions, in the mind, or at the soul level, might we consciously loosen those places where we find fixed beliefs. Inviting the ease and fluidity of more spacious possibilities?

Price Early Bird £85 until 12 Dec 2025 | Full Price £110 from 13 Dec 2025

A spiritual tool that catalyses change, with Margo van Greta, at The Park, Findhorn.

The Transformation Game is a spiritually based tool that catalyses change in the format of a board game. It provides a playful yet substantial way of understanding and gracefully transforming the way you play your life.

An Advanced workshop with Bridget O'Donnell and Michael Vawser

This workshop is for couples who have attended a foundation training in Nonviolent Communication. It’s tailored specifically for couples to gain support to navigate conflicts, recognise shame, and develop skills to encourage more connection, intimacy & harmony.

We will share practices that you can continue to do at home.

Join Margo van Greta for 6 weekly sessions online, exploring transforming your shadow into light. Feeding your Demons is a powerful process where you give attention to aspects of yourself that need release or transformation. It's a way to make peace with your emotions through a guided meditation.

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Calling all firstborn women! Join leadership development expert Dr Gill Emslie as facilitator, with co-host Lisette Schuitemaker (co-author of The Eldest Daughter Effect), for a retreat to connect with other eldest daughters who share your experiences.

Our upbringing can shape us into caring, capable and responsible women. With ‘responsibility’ as our middle name, we quickly find ourselves in positions of leadership. Together we will dive into which qualities we wish to keep, and which to tune down for greater freedom and realising our leadership potential.

Join Ali Newell, co-founder of Capacitar Scotland, over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.

Capacitar is used around the world, wherever people are facing trauma. This training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The techniques will help your clients experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. Capacitar practices, which are used across the world, help renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Please email alinewell56@gmail.com to book a place or find out more. Discounts are possible for those who would find the cost prohibitive.

Join John Philip Newell for a series of 9 lectures on Celtic Wisdom, drawn from his award-winning book, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul (Harper Collins).

John Philip is an international teacher and writer in this lineage. The full series takes place on Tuesdays (with one exception), in the Universal Hall. Funds raised will go to the Universal Hall.

18 November: Sacred Soul

24 November (Monday): Sacred Feminine

2 December: Sacred Flow

13 January: Sacred Song

20 January: Sacred Imagination

27 January: Sacred Earth

17 March: Sacred Matter

24 March: Sacred Compassion

31 March: Sacred Journey

Join Diana Whitmore and Kim Shiller on a four-day Intensive Immersion into the principles and practice of spiritual psychology, based on Psychosynthesis and Positive Psychology. Explore how Soul is guiding both our ‘calling’ for meaning and purpose, and also the here and now embedded in our foreground existential issues and challenges. A framing of non-dualism in psychosynthesis (it is transcendent and immanent – ‘the supreme synthesis’).

Join us to embark on an empowering opportunity for psychospiritual and inner development, leading to enhanced self-expression in your personal and professional life.

The Findhorn community has deeply esoteric roots and Roberto Assagioli, the founder of Psychosynthesis, was an initiate tasked with bringing this transpersonal approach into the world to help the transformation of consciousness.

Email diana.whitmore3@gmail.com for more information or to book.

A spiritual tool that catalyses change, with Margo van Greta, at The Park, Findhorn.

The Transformation Game is a spiritually based tool that catalyses change in the format of a board game. It provides a playful yet substantial way of understanding and gracefully transforming the way you play your life.

Join Ali Newell, co-founder of Capacitar Scotland, over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.

Capacitar is used around the world, wherever people are facing trauma. This training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The techniques will help your clients experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. Capacitar practices, which are used across the world, help renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Please email alinewell56@gmail.com to book a place or find out more. Discounts are possible for those who would find the cost prohibitive.

Join Robin Alfred, Open Circle Consulting, at the Park, Findhorn, for an advanced facilitation training applying mystical understanding to the nature of the group field.

We will be looking at how to create group coherence, which is a product of radical presence, shared intention and conscious vulnerability.

This training is for advanced practitioners with at least two years’ experience of facilitation. It is designed to support the evolution of your facilitation by applying energetic and mystical understanding to the interplay between you, the group field and the higher organising principle of the group.

The training will be highly experiential and emergent, building on the experience and interest of the participants.

Dance North’s annual festival of contemporary dance and performance will return on Friday 29 to Sunday 31 May 2026 with a curated programme of performances, workshops, talks and activities focused on Global Indigenous Artists.

Join Ali Newell, co-founder of Capacitar Scotland, over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.

Capacitar is used around the world, wherever people are facing trauma. This training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The techniques will help your clients experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. Capacitar practices, which are used across the world, help renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Please email alinewell56@gmail.com to book a place or find out more. Discounts are possible for those who would find the cost prohibitive.

Join Ali Newell, co-founder of Capacitar Scotland, over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.

Capacitar is used around the world, wherever people are facing trauma. This training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The techniques will help your clients experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. Capacitar practices, which are used across the world, help renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Please email alinewell56@gmail.com to book a place or find out more. Discounts are possible for those who would find the cost prohibitive.

A spiritual tool that catalyses change, with Margo van Greta, at The Park, Findhorn.

The Transformation Game is a spiritually based tool that catalyses change in the format of a board game. It provides a playful yet substantial way of understanding and gracefully transforming the way you play your life.

Become a certified permaculturist on this two-week course in the heart of the Findhorn Ecovillage, blending theory, hands-on practicals and community wisdom. You'll emerge with the skills to create and implement designs aligned with the ethics of Earth Care, People Care and Fair Share. The course is accredited by The Permaculture Association and taught by renowned expert and certified educator, Lusi Alderslowe, through Gaia Education.

Details and costs coming soon – click on the link to sign up for details as they’re confirmed.

Join Diana Whitmore and Kim Shiller to deepen into your soul’s journey within a community context. Findhorn is a demonstration centre of bringing spirit into matter and this programme shares how spirit is coming into the ‘matter’ of our lives, so that our lives increasingly become a reflection and living embodiment of our soul.

The programme explores the seven archetypal ways or paths to Self- realisation, to recognise our transpersonal nature and ‘The power of deep motivation that indicates the essential nature or “keynote” of the individual.’ (Assagioli 1983, founder of Psychosynthesis).

‘The Ways’ combines psychology and spirituality as a map or guide towards becoming who we most deeply are. A ‘Way’ can account for what is unique and what is universal in all of us.

This experiential programme will take us on a journey through the Seven Ways. The expected outcomes include each participant recognising their ‘keynote’ and discovering new ways to express this in their lives and realising a deeper sense of purpose. Embark on a journey through the Seven Ways and discover your deepest essence.

Email diana.whitmore3@gmail.com for more information or to book.

A spiritual tool that catalyses change, with Margo van Greta, at The Park, Findhorn.

The Transformation Game is a spiritually based tool that catalyses change in the format of a board game. It provides a playful yet substantial way of understanding and gracefully transforming the way you play your life.

Invited by Peter Caddy in 1976 to bring Sacred Dance to the community, Bernhard Wosien experienced the practice of  ‘Attunement’ a ritualised way of forming a circle, holding hands and ‘tuning in’.  This touched his heart and inspired him to develop an approach to dance that he first called ‘Stepping into Silence’ (Schreiten in die Stille).

From this beginning, Sacred Dance at Findhorn has grown and moved out into countries all over the world. On this 50th anniversary celebration, we invite you to join us as we celebrate our Sacred Dance practice from its beginnings to its path in the future.

A spiritual tool that catalyses change, with Margo van Greta, at The Park, Findhorn.

The Transformation Game is a spiritually based tool that catalyses change in the format of a board game. It provides a playful yet substantial way of understanding and gracefully transforming the way you play your life.