This programme offers a supportive and stimulating way to join in community life while deepening your own inner experience and connection to spirit. It is a great choice for when you are staying on after a programme, or returning to Findhorn to reconnect. It can also give a deeper sense of what it is like to live at Findhorn if you are thinking about staying here longer, and it is a prerequisite for joining some of our longer term programmes.

Exploring Community Life is less formally structured than Experience Week with more room for flexibility. The week includes sharings, a group project, a nature outing, and if there is general interest, the Transformation Game.

Working within one of our departments during the week offers a rich and practical contextual group experience for learning, based on our guiding principle of ’work is love in action’. Most evenings you will have the opportunity to explore different aspects of community life such as spiritual and personal development, creative arts and ecology, and to join in with community activities.

Price:
£345 participants with low income
£425 participants with medium income
£525 participants with high income

Price from November 1st:
£385 participants with low income
£455 participants with medium income
£555 participants with high income

includes 7 nights accommodation & all meals

The current prices above for medium and high incomes have increased slightly from previously published prices in our printed brochure. We find it necessary to make these changes to help cover the rising costs of providing our programmes. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Special Price - if you book an Experience Week between 29 November and 28 February inclusive, and also book an Exploring Community Life or Spiritual Practice week directly following your Experience Week, we will give you a reduction of £115 on the total price.

Please note: We guarantee to run the Exploring Community Life week even with only one or two participants, offering an opportunity to join in a community work department and to experience the richness of community life.

ECL qualifies as a prerequisite for the Living in Community Guest Programme.


'I wanted to ground this experience so I did an Exploring Community Life programme. We were a smaller group and we decided, as part of our activities, to do psychosynthesis exercises, dance, draw a mandala, meditate and visit Cawdor Castle. In the afternoon we experienced service as love in action by being in the kitchen, gardens or homecare departments.'