Community workshops and courses

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.

Join Bridget O’Donnell in this Foundation Training in Nonviolent Communication especially for women. This workshop will focus on women's issues, empowerment, and spiritual growth.

Join Bridget O’Donnell in this day workshop for NVC Graduates. We will explore female rage and unpack underlying beliefs that perpetuate anger, keeping you in patterns of suppression and niceness, which leads to explosive expression. Using NVC principles we navigate mindfully, with care, safety and respect, finding Understanding and Relief.

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, and Nancy Adams over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple energy body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.
The training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The practices will help those with whom you work experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. They will also renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community and in teamwork.
Capacitar, which means to empower, is a grassroots global network for trauma healing and transformation particularly in place of crisis or conflict in 45 countries across the world. www.capacitar.org.   www.capacitaruk.org/scotland.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Cost: £600 for the four-module course. 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 Margo van Greta for six weekly meditation sessions. The 16 Guidelines Meditations course explores how the mind works. We aim to gradually let go of destructive patterns of thought and behaviour while developing self-confidence and a compassionate connection with others.

Join Margo on Tuesday June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, and July 16.

Join Margo van Greta for 4 two-hour online sessions – 4, 11, 18 and 25 June. 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. This experiential online journey will work through the Spiral of The Work That Reconnects in a supportive group.

Join Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s beekeepers for this hands-on one-day workshop.

It’s open to everyone from 8 to 98, total beginners to experienced beekeepers who have an open and enquiring mind and want to know more about bees.

You will be guided by three very experienced beekeepers who have a great passion to pass on their practical knowledge.

Practical details:

Wellington boots are good footwear for beekeeping so bring your own if you have them, although we should be able to lend you a pair if you don’t.

It is essential to let us know if you are allergic to bee stings or even think that you might be.

All protective equipment will be provided.

Children (minimum age 8 years) need to be accompanied by an adult and separate places need to be booked for all participants.

Price:

£30 for FHT members/ bursaries (become a member from only £10 per year: www.findhornhinterland.org/support/join/ )

£60 for non-members

£10 per child when also booking 1 adult ticket

You can also enjoy Thursday’s with the Bees – every Thursday from 10-12.30, join the beekeepers as they inspect the hives.

Join community focalisers (facilitators) for a five-day experience in the Park ecovillage and in Findhorn village. When there's a longing for a new way of being, this Week invites you to slow down, listen in and remember what's possible. Enjoy a lived experience of being in community, with simple practices and time in nature, exploring what shifts when we move from 'I' to 'We'.

Join Deborah Lewin for this Vital Moves experience.

At the heart of Systemic Constellations work is a belief that the roots of the issues we struggle with most lie deep in the unconscious of our wider familial, social, and cultural systems.

Now more than ever, in the face of global uncertainty and change, it is crucial we find ways to centre, stay open-hearted and untangle ourselves from what we inherited, which isn’t ours to carry.

We invite you to join us in this shared exploration.

Join Celebrating One Incredible Family for a series of story-creating workshops.

Findhorn Journeys - Your personal story - What drew you here? What did you learn?

The remaining 5 modules will be announced soon.Telling our stories helps with sense making, affirms belonging and shapes identity.

www.celebratingoneincrediblefamily.org co-creates our collective autobiography – are your stories there? Our beautifully diverse community needs all the different voices to share its real story. These workshops focus on specific areas of our community history. In the session we support each other to tell and capture our stories.

To book please email coifcentral@gmail.com

Join Bridget O’Donnell for this weekend workshop. Through role-play, interactive activities, and games (that address varied learning styles), explore how to understand yourself and others, ask for what you want, express yourself honestly, and listen deeply to loved ones.

Join Celebrating One Incredible Family for a series of story-creating workshops.

This one: Our Roots – stories about founders, formative influences, core principles, vision and purpose.

The remaining 5 modules will be announced soon.

Telling our stories helps with sense making, affirms belonging and shapes identity.

www.celebratingoneincrediblefamily.org co-creates our collective autobiography – are your stories there? Our beautifully diverse community needs all the different voices to share its real story. These workshops focus on specific areas of our community history. In the session we support each other to tell and capture our stories.

To book please email coifcentral@gmail.com

Join Bridget O’Donnell for this one-day workshop.

If I see others as the ENEMY, it's impossible to connect with them to try to understand. Learn to shift how we see others even when we disagree. In this one-day advanced NVC course you will learn how to cultivate compassion and see their behaviour as a tragic expression of un-met needs.

Join Jacqueline Buckingham for a five-day retreat in the world-renowned Findhorn Ecovillage community. Enjoy this beautiful corner of Scotland, as you learn to communicate with animals and other aspects of nature.

Join Laura Pasetti and the Theatre of the 7 Directions for a 5-day theatrical journey in Findhorn. Explore a new relationship with the other-than-human world through movement, voice and ritual. Each day follows one of the Four Directions (East, South, West and North), guiding participants into a deep, introspective encounter with land, elements and inner landscapes. The work culminates in intimate, site-specific personal portrayal where nature is not backdrop but partner in performance. No acting experience needed! Only your imagination and the longing to co-create a new story.

Join Ali Newell, co-founder of Capacitar Scotland, and Nancy Adams over four weekends to become a Capacitar practitioner. Learn wellness techniques and simple energy body practices – such as acupressure, Tai Chi, Pal Dan Gum, fingerholds and more – to help you support people in challenging and stressful contexts.
The training is especially effective for those working in education, health and social care or community activism. The practices will help those with whom you work experience a soothing of the nervous system, and a calming and grounding. They will also renew, revitalise, and build resilience in community and in teamwork.
Capacitar, which means to empower, is a grassroots global network for trauma healing and transformation particularly in place of crisis or conflict in 45 countries across the world. www.capacitar.org.   www.capacitaruk.org/scotland.

Sat 28th/Sun 29th March 2026

Sat 25th/Sun 26th April 2026

Sat 30th/Sun 31st May 2026

Sat 4th/Sun 5th July  2026

Cost: £600 for the four-module course. 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 community focalisers (facilitators) for a seven-day experience rooted in the spiritual soil of the Park Ecovillage. The Findhorn Garden is both a place and a practice, a decades-long experiment in cooperation with nature. Through time in the gardens, shared reflection and simple community rhythms, explore what it means to listen to the land, to one another and to the wisdom within.

Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s Alan Watson Featherstone will lead a walk with a broad focus on biodiversity, sharing insights into the ecosystems and natural processes that shape this landscape.

Join Barbara Swetina and Joachim Goerke for a seven-day musical retreat that blends piano concerts, community singing, improvisation, sacred dance and shared stillness to cultivate connection, healing and joy. Participants will immerse themselves in music, nature and Findhorn’s rich singing culture in a welcoming, non-judgmental environment. Open to all, no prior musical experience required, the week offers deep nourishment through the power of song and stillness amidst a growing international singing family.

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 community focalisers (facilitators) for a five-day experience in the Park ecovillage and in Findhorn village. When there's a longing for a new way of being, this Week invites you to slow down, listen in and remember what's possible. Enjoy a lived experience of being in community, with simple practices and time in nature, exploring what shifts when we move from 'I' to 'We'.

Join Margo van Greta online for transforming your shadow into light. Using guided visualisation you will find and release blocked energy, transform the power that has been repressed, and allow new resources arise. This is an experiential practice group accessible to everyone.

Margo van Greta is offering a free webinar where we will explore becoming a Work That Reconnects Facilitator. Do you appreciate the power and transformative effects of The Work That Reconnects? If yes, would you like to bring that into your organisation, group or neighbourhood?

Join Laura Pasetti and the Theatre of the 7 Directions for a Teen Ecotheatre Summer Camp – a 10-day immersive, creative experience for young people aged 14-17 from around the world, combining theatre-making with time spent in nature. Through a wide range of activities including movement, storytelling, improvisation, and outdoor exploration, participants work together to create an original performance inspired by the environment around them. The camp encourages confidence, creativity, and connection, supporting each participant to express themselves and collaborate as part of a group. No previous theatre experience is required, just curiosity and a willingness to explore.

Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s Heather Paul will guide participants through different areas of the Hinterland, with a special focus on lichens.

Navigating the limits, possibilities and paradoxes age brings, with Helen Sieroda and Diana Whitmore.

More Than a Number is for those ready to move beyond the cliché ‘age is just a number’, to explore the deeper questions growing older invites. Whether you’re navigating retirement, an empty nest, redefining your role in the world, or seeking deeper meaning, this is an opportunity to celebrate how far you’ve come, and explore the challenges and gifts the future might hold.

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 Deborah Lewin for this Vital Moves experience.

We are living in times of “unprecedented” change. The need to adapt in a resourced way is an essential life skill.

The challenges of life can easily weigh us down – both the small challenges of everyday life and the large challenges facing our planet. With so much feeling out of our control, it is important for us to come together and find pathways of empowered action that help to alleviate the sense of helplessness. We will dance as we learn how to embrace the changes in our lives.

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 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.

Join Venerable Angie Muir in this weekend retreat based on Tibetan Buddhist practice. Healing in Buddhism goes deeper than symptom relief. It reaches the root. We connect with the powerful healing presence of Medicine Buddha. Through mantra, visualisation and meditation, we invoke inner transformation that frees us from suffering at its source.

Join Findhorn Hinterland Trust’s beekeepers for this hands-on one-day workshop.

It’s open to everyone from 8 to 98, total beginners to experienced beekeepers who have an open and enquiring mind and want to know more about bees.

You will be guided by three very experienced beekeepers who have a great passion to pass on their practical knowledge.

Practical details:

Wellington boots are good footwear for beekeeping so bring your own if you have them, although we should be able to lend you a pair if you don’t.

It is essential to let us know if you are allergic to bee stings or even think that you might be.

All protective equipment will be provided.

Children (minimum age 8 years) need to be accompanied by an adult and separate places need to be booked for all participants.

Price:

£30 for FHT members/ bursaries (become a member from only £10 per year: www.findhornhinterland.org/support/join/ )

£60 for non-members

£10 per child when also booking 1 adult ticket

You can also enjoy Thursday’s with the Bees – every Thursday from 10-12.30, join the beekeepers as they inspect the hives.

Margo van Greta is offering a free webinar where we will explore becoming a Work That Reconnects Facilitator. Do you appreciate the power and transformative effects of The Work That Reconnects? If yes, would you like to bring that into your organisation, group or neighbourhood?

Join Theatre of the 7 Directions for a five-day Ecotheatre Experience of gentle, creative exploration in the beautiful landscape of Findhorn.

Procession on the Land is a shared journey where walking becomes meaningful and the land becomes our partner in reflection and expression. Together, we will move through the landscape, pause at chosen places, and create simple acts of gratitude, storytelling and connection through movement and voice. The experience culminates in a collective ceremonial sharing.

No acting experience is needed, everyone is warmly welcome. Lunch is included each day.

If you’re longing for time in nature, creative expression and meaningful connection, we would love you to join us.

To book, email: info@theatreofthe7directions.com

WhatsApp: +44 7760383804

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.

Join Margo van Greta for 4 two-hour online sessions: 10,17, 24 September, 1 October. 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. This experiential online journey will work through the Spiral of The Work That Reconnects in a supportive group.

Join the Findhorn Hinterland Trust for a fun, hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to use a range of woodworking tools while collaborating to create a one-of-a-kind wooden bench.

This is not about precision carpentry, but about creativity and problem-solving – working with raw, characterful planks that rarely follow straight lines or perfect angles, and shaping them into something both functional and beautiful. The process is as much about exploration as it is about making.

Led by Steve, an experienced and enthusiastic woodworker, this is a rewarding opportunity to learn practical skills, work as a team, and create something lasting. All protective equipment will be provided.

Join community focalisers (facilitators) for a five-day experience in the Park ecovillage and in Findhorn village. When there's a longing for a new way of being, this Week invites you to slow down, listen in and remember what's possible. Enjoy a lived experience of being in community, with simple practices and time in nature, exploring what shifts when we move from 'I' to 'We'.

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.

The Findhorn Bay Festival is a biennial, 10-day celebration of arts and culture that takes place in variety of areas around Findhorn Bay and beyond.

This multi-award-winning festival welcomes the world to Moray to celebrate the very best of local, national and international cultural experiences in live performances, exhibitions, talks, outdoor arts, education programmes and lots of free activities for people of all ages to enjoy.

Join Margo van Greta for 10 facilitated sessions where you cultivate the skills and confidence to facilitate The Work That Reconnects. This helps people to transform despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action through the Spiral journey of Gratitude, Honouring our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes and Going Forth.

Join Helen Sieroda and Diana Whitmore for this accredited professional training in the foundations of coaching.

Coaching is more than a set of techniques, it’s a way of seeing, listening and accompanying others through change. Gain essential coaching skills and principles with our Association for Coaching & Institute of Leadership Accredited Foundations Course. Learn tools, practices and theory to tackle real-life questions and issues.

If you feel called to:

• Support people through life’s transitions

• Nurture leadership that is ethical

• Foster wellbeing and resilience

• Contribute to meaningful change in organisations and communities

…this programme offers a space to explore what coaching can truly be.

Join Deborah Lewin close to midwinter in Scotland, at a time when our bodies need the warmth and joy of movement. Come and delight in the chill and the dark that we will light up with movement, connection, glittering stars, candles and hot tub…

Taking the time to gather close to the winter solstice and the end of the year, we will explore how Open Floor movement practice can support the discovery and integration of what has been and who we are becoming.