ENVISIONAGING THE VISION

Monday morning Matinee, 10 August 2009. Five of us discussed how we saw life at Kalikalos now or how we would like it to be. There were five of us involved as some staff had their day off and, interestingly, we all came up with different ideas of what it meant to them. Does this mean we don’t all share the same vision or is it simply we are not totally sure of what that vision could be?  It was a great exercise to raise awareness and create an insight into the understanding of each person.  We would like to share the highlights of today’s discussion.

 

Jo Beebee (Community Guest) - This is a place for sharing, laughing and meeting people from all over the world.  It’s a place for the rhythms of the day to be practiced with love and where work does not feel like a chore and a drain on energy. However, there is not enough space on the site to socialise outdoors without disturbing others late at night.

 

Enid Pinder (Staff) - Kalikalos gives the opportunity to live in a community, to grow and learn to a deeper level of understanding about ourselves and others.  It’s an environment where we can explore balancing our own needs against the needs of the group.  And It’s also a place to develop a spiritual practice.

 

Jock Millenson (Co-founder) – I see this as a place for learning, researching and practicing how to live and relate holistically. It earns its living from workshops and retreats. Here diverse characters join together to pull toward a common goal. I believe it is a place where we can give and receive compassionate feedback about our socially self-hindering patterns to each other. At Kalikalos we aim to admit our conflicts and work to resolve them peacefully. This inevitably involves self work which creates a group yoga with no guru.

 

Ilsemarie Fulford (Findhorn Community Member)- Kalikalos is an experimental, transient place where people live, work and play and are together to learn from each other.  Perhaps it needs to find ways to encourage empowerment, compassion and justice, to co-create and cooperate.  Maybe here the different levels of life can be integrated through an holistic approach, where we care for each other and the environment.

 

Christos (Jakiz) Apostolos (Holly Foundation Provisional Trustee) - A feeling of confusion over not having enough spiritual practice and a need for at least 2 hours per day and a feeling we should do less work so we could have more time for the beach or for rest.  I raise the question of what type of people we want to attract to the centre.

 

Final words from Jock – if it’s not holistic it’s not sustainable, if it’s not fun it’s not sustainable!