Board of Directors
Clive Kitson (Chair) (Independent educator; past Manager of the Education Area, The Findhorn Foundation)
Judith Bone
Judith is a long-term member of the Findhorn Foundation. She is responsible for all Core Programmes, and facilitates workshops and trainings on personal transformation and spiritual growth. Judith is a Director of Findhorn Foundation College.
Janice Dolley, BA (Hons), Qualified Teacher
For 30 years Janice was a lecturer at the Open University in the Social Sciences, Senior Training Officer in Community Education, and Course Chair of programmes in Training and Development. Now she is Executive Director of the Wrekin Trust (a charity promoting spiritual education), and Co-ordinator of the Forum for Spiritual Education ... towards a University for Spirit. She is a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation, World Youth Service and Enterprise, the Coach House Kilmuir Trust and Learning for Life in West Cork. She co-founded The Bridge Trust and CANA (Christians Awakening to a New Awareness); and was co-author, with Ursula Burton, of Christian Evolution- Moving towards a Global Spirituality. Janice also has been an elected Borough Councillor and Governor of nine schools.
Geoffrey Colwill FRICS (Retd.)
Geoffrey has a background in commercial real estate, computers, financial consultancy, and cancer and AIDS charities over 30 years. He has been living in the Forres area as a member of the Findhorn Community for the last 5 years. His current roles include Finance Director of the Findhorn Foundation, IT Manager for New Findhorn Directions, consultant to the development of the The Park Ecovillage ,and passionate sailor with the Moray Gig, a youth sail training project.
Joycelin Dawes
Joycelin's academic training was in Social Sciences, particularly the government and politics of the UK. Professionally, she worked as an intelligence analyst in the Ministry of Defence and then as a research assistant to MPs in the House of Commons for 20 years. She has also been involved in community work, as a school governor and in citizens’ advice. Joycelin was a teacher for 6 years in a secondary school. She is Chair of The Quest Project and Editor for The Quest - Rediscovering A Sense Of Soul, a self-inquiry open learning course for spiritual and personal development. Website : www.thequest.org.uk
David Fulford (Education Manager, Findhorn Foundation)
Staff
Diane Nance-Kivell, BA, Dip Ed., Post Grad Dip. TESOL, Dip. Yoga Teaching (Education Manager)
Diane is an adult educator who has spent 17 years in the Australian tertiary sector in a variety of teaching and management roles. Diane is also a yoga teacher and director of Core Yoga Studios and is currently the Education Manager of Findhorn Foundation College.
Fiona Potter-Irwin, BA Pg Dip Couns (Administration Assistant)
Fiona has many years’ experience in administration. She is also a counsellor specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Melissa Godbeer M.Msc. Metaphysical Science (Focaliser Findhorn Community Semester)
Prior to arriving in Findhorn, Melissa worked and lived in Kwa-Zulu Natal – South Africa, directing a non-profit organisation. Melissa’s key outreach work involved the education of marginalised youths based within cities and informal settlements through the means of right livelihood, sustainability, gender equality, cultural and spiritual diversity. Whilst living at Findhorn Melissa has been researching a PhD in Metaphysical Science relating to community living.
Course Facilitators
Jonathan Dawson, BA, MA, MPhil
Jonathan is a sustainability educator and activist. He has spent much of the last 20 years involved in development work in Africa and South Asia, as a researcher, author, project manager and consultant, working primarily in the field of small enterprise and community economic development. Currently, he lives at the Findhorn Community, where he teaches on several programmes and courses. He is Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network for Europe, in which capacity he is heavily involved in writing, representational and networking activities.
David McNamara, M.S. Psychology, Ph.D. Psychology
David’s primary interest in life is the exploration of the nature and development of consciousness and self-awareness, which tend to fall in the realm that the world calls “spiritual” or “psychological.” He has studied with various teachers and explored a variety of paths, from Buddhism to Jungian Psychology to Christian spirituality to shamanism, and is committed to bringing the results of this kind of self-awareness into the creation of a more sustainable, meaningful, and compassionate world. Professionally, David has chosen training and practice in clinical psychology to support kids, teens, and their families in both healing trauma and bringing these values of compassion and greater possibilities into their lives. Along with his life-partner Alexandra, David lives at Findhorn, having returned to the community after a twenty year exploration “in the world.”
Deborah Jay-Lewin, Dip. Drama and Movement in Therapy, Accredited teacher with Gabrielle Roths' Moving Centre, New York, ITEC Diploma Holistic Massage
Deborah been working with a variety of client groups, using a range of creative medium, for the last 17 years. This includes working with people with special needs, womens’ groups and as an organisational consultant. Deborah’s speciality is in working with movement and dance. She has been involved in an educational capacity with the Findhorn Foundation Community since 1990 where she lives with her husband and two children in an ecological strawbale house. Deborah is a guest teacher for the Moving Centre UK and in 2005 began further training with Gabrielle Roth in the 'Heartbeat' material - studying and working with emotional expression through dance.
Gill Emslie Dip. PW
Gill has extensive experience as an international trainer and facilitator, drawing on her training in transpersonal psychology, as a consultant to organisations and communities, and as a psychotherapist, to deliver trainings in group dynamics and conflict facilitation, social design, personal development, staff training, supervision, and developing the relationship between individual purpose and its application in the workplace and the world. Gill currently works within the corporate and voluntary sectors both in Europe and Latin America as well as teaching in a variety of educational programmes.
Sue Clutterbuck, Cert.Ed., B.Ed.(Hons.), MA (Ed), Pg.Dip.Th., M. Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professionals.
Sue has been in Education for over 25 years, qualifying as an early years and primary teacher in 1978. She has taught across a wide range of ages and settings, from pre-schoolers to mature students and in small village schools to large Higher Education Colleges. In 1993 she left the primary school classroom, completed a Masters degree and moved into Further and Higher Education. Over the last ten years she has been involved with students of all ages, specialising in Education and Early Childhood; helped prepare undergraduates for teaching, and taught post-graduates from a variety of professional backgrounds. In 2002 she completed a two year Diploma in Therapeutic Communication and Emotional Aspects/Counselling in Education with Children at the Tavistock Clinic in London. She worked with children in local schools during her training. Sue has also been connected with alternative education through Summerhill School and the Third Sector Schools Alliance for many years.
Karin Werner, Dipl. SozPäd, Dipl. ATh
Karin has a degree in social pedagogy and education, and is a trained art therapist. She has also studied Fine Art, Psychodrama and Gestalt Group Work, group dynamics and consciousness building, Shiatsu, Kinesiology, Metamorphic Massage, and is a Guide for the Game of Transformation. Karin has taught at the Berlin School for Art Therapy, and worked with the arts in a general hospital and in private practice. She has been part of the education team in the Findhorn Community for 23 years, creating workshops, courses and trainings, and bringing aspects of health and healing into personal creative and artistic development. Inspired by the living world of nature, Karin creates her own art through painting, drawing and sculpting. (www.creativehealth.org.uk)
Ben Fuchs, MA
Ben is a founding director of Mangaan Training and Consultancy (www.mangaan.com). Prior to this, he was a partner in the Centre for Staff Team Development (London and Bath). Originally from the USA, he has lived in the UK since 1987. He has over 15 ears experience working in the fields of personal and professional development. Over the past 9 years, he has been developing innovative programmes for teambuilding, conflict facilitation and organisational change. He works internationally as a trainer, consultant and mentor with a variety of organisations.
