Findhorn International Forum on Sustainability 12
Findhorn International Forum on Sustainability 12
The Findhorn International Forum on Sustainability (FIFS) will empower your response to the sustainability crisis by once again combining carefully selected people who are influential in this critical area with an environment that stimulates new perspectives on old problems. This, the twelfth programme, will continue to be a vibrant opportunity to meet inspiring people from businesses, NGOs, social enterprises and organisations, hatch new ideas and reflect on your own personal resilience - all in the hands of expert facilitator Robin Alfred.
Sun 25 - Thurs 29 June 2023
Findhorn provides a safe, natural environment that allows event participants to retreat from their normal
working lives to spend some time focusing on what really matters. Its remote location set amongst such natural beauty provides additional space to reflect on important issues and experience.
Julie Cotter (Director of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development)
working lives to spend some time focusing on what really matters. Its remote location set amongst such natural beauty provides additional space to reflect on important issues and experience.
Julie Cotter (Director of the Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development)
Five days of exchange with an immensely diverse and inspiring group of professionals (now friends) on anything from "what is my life's purpose?" and "how can I have a bigger impact and stay positive?" to "what is the political system that can best support sustainability?" Amazing.
Charlotte Dufour (Founder, Narayan; Nutrition and Food Systems expert)
I arrived with a high level of anxiety about a number of complicated challenges and management issues.
The programme at Findhorn provided me with the time, space and perspectives I needed to feel in control again. When I went back to the office the following week, colleagues commented on how much younger I looked!
Craig Bennett (CEO, The Wildlife Trusts)
The programme at Findhorn provided me with the time, space and perspectives I needed to feel in control again. When I went back to the office the following week, colleagues commented on how much younger I looked!
Craig Bennett (CEO, The Wildlife Trusts)
I’m leaving feeling calm, much emboldened and connected.
Nigel Topping (Former CEO, We Mean Business, and UK High Level Climate Action Champion for COP 26)
To ensure a high quality programme experience for all participants, this programme is by application only. Please select to contact us for more information.
Please consider offsetting the carbon emissions from your travel to this event. For more information about our committement to reduce our carbon emissions please click here.
Application
Following COP 27 in Egypt and the sense of increasing urgency needed to implement and improve on the landmark Paris Agreement, we will look at ways we can accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable and low carbon future.
The format seeks to make optimum use of the environment of the Findhorn Community within The Park Ecovillage, which is, in our view, a vigorous and thriving research centre for the future of the world.
The format seeks to make optimum use of the environment of the Findhorn Community within The Park Ecovillage, which is, in our view, a vigorous and thriving research centre for the future of the world.
The agenda will emerge from the interests and inspirations of the participants linked to the themes of sustainable development and the low carbon transition. This format of a flexible structure and an emergent agenda has proved to be highly creative, responsive, energising and productive at previous events.
Pausing to consider ‘first principles’ and the ‘wider context’ has merit and Findhorn offers a place where visitors can reflect on questions like: how can governments and non-state actors accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement and SDGs? Am I in the right place doing the right thing at the right time? How do I feel about what I am doing? Am I optimistic we can 'make it' or might I and we need to move to a state of compassionate and managed decline?
What questions, insights and inspirations are walking with you at the moment? Bring them to FIFS and dialogue with like-minded participants to dig deeper.
Price
Tiered pricing based on your personal or professional circumstances. This includes the programme, four nights' accommodation and all vegetarian meals
£1495 - Corporate / for-profit organisation rate
£1250 - NGO / not-for-profit organisation rate
£990 - Individual rate.
£1495 - Corporate / for-profit organisation rate
£1250 - NGO / not-for-profit organisation rate
£990 - Individual rate.
Watch this video from Robin Alfred to find out more about what to expect from FIFS this June.
