The Searching Spirit Centre

Exploring meaning and purpose in crisis times

 

These are times of crisis and breakdown, when it’s hard to find a sense of meaning and purpose in our own lives, or in the bigger picture. This is a vision for a place to help people searching at the level of spirit or soul, for a higher purpose that’s beyond personal and material concerns.

OUR VISION

A small core community, welcoming searchers to stay for 1 week to 6 months; rooted in Nature, growing some of its own food. Guests will be part of the community, helping with the market garden and cooking, and with space and support for spiritual exploration and learning.

We aim to offer guests an experience of teaching practices from several spiritual traditions, such as Christian prayer, Buddhist meditation, Sufi singing, Celtic Nature contact, spiritual ecology, without any establishment dogma. For more on possible role models for spiritual community, see this blog.

We also aim to help guests learn skills they may need for the uncertainties ahead: how to strengthen communities under pressure, how to adapt as stability erodes, as well as food growing and craft skills.

Whilst there’s plenty to worry about in today’s world, our hope is to find strength and joy in our contact with each other, with Nature, and with the sacred: to nourish a belief in positive change, and to help make it a reality.

WHAT NEXT?

A small group is forming, and we’re looking for a few more people who’d like to be actively involved in growing this vision to reality. We are  aiming to run a few pilot programmes in 2025, and are exploring possible locations for the Centre in Powys, Mid Wales, If you’re interested in joining us, please contact Alan Heeks: , 07494 203014. Those involved so far include:

Alan Heeks: founder of Magdalen Farm Trust, Seeding our Future.
Justine Huxley: founder-director of St Ethelburga’s.
Simon Lockett: pioneer priest, started Golden Valley Pilgrim Way.
Will Beharrell: founder of Fathom Trust.