Creating and transforming communities
Conscious Communities provides project planning, turn-key construction services, process-oriented facilitation, and multi-disciplinary training programs to community groups, individuals; development companies.
We offer a holistic approach to creating or transforming communities and the spaces in which communities live, work; play.
Our work explores the marriage of modern technology with ancient wisdom, process work, & organic, natural high-performance building methods to create happier, healthier, more loving communities and community spaces.
What is a conscious community?
A physical place whose inhabitants share a common purpose that reflects an intention to become more loving to themselves, each other and our planet.
our history
Conscious Communities was born in 2018 to provide consultancy services to Findhorn Eco-Village’s development company to build out the final phase of the community’s 20+ year development project.
The Company’s Founder, Greg Paul, is a professionally qualified quantity surveyor and former housing developer, turned experimental bio-energetic builder who has more recently founded or co-founded various international projects & initiatives that seek to restore human and planetary well-being.
OUR SERVICES
Visioning & design brief presentations
- Consolidating progressive project ideas into clear, deliverable visions and design briefs.
- Generating stakeholder engagement for conscious community development projects.
- Facilitating process work to create clarity surrounding identity, place & purpose.
Co-creative design processes involving the whole community
- Facilitating whole-community workshops & design charettes to develop detailed design briefs and project vision statements for physical community development projects.
- Creating comprehensive visual presentations of community visions & briefs.
- Refining visions & briefs with further whole-community input until a vision that properly represents the collective viewpoint has emerged.
Turn-key community development projects
- Full-service implementation packages to suit individual or group needs.
- Whole-community design charette & workshop or individual/company vision & design scheme.
- Build-out of physical development.
- Tailored training & facilitation programs to suit individual needs or support social cohesion of project.
Training & facilitation
- Workshops, retreats & seminars on all things conscious community – bio-mimicry, bio-architecture & natural building, social dynamics, self-governance & emotional wellbeing.
- Group masterminds on conscious community building for construction companies & property professionals.
Design & build of cutting-edge ecological developments
- Taking unique and progressive visions & design briefs and turning them into reality.
- Marrying organic build techniques and cutting-edge technology to create natural homes and community buildings that nurture wellbeing.
- Delivering professionally constructed warrantied homes and buildings.
Let’s work together
We offer a holistic approach to creating or transforming communities and the spaces in which communities live, work; play.
Current Projects – Findhorn Eco-Village
The project includes the development of 38 homes plus craft units and community facilities within an established community of around 600 people. Conscious Communities was engaged on a consultancy basis to:
- Facilitate a co-creative design process which engaged the whole community.
- Obtain planning permission for the project from both the community’s own Planning Group and the Local Authority.
- Design the selection processes for plot purchasers and facilitate sales of plots to aligned community members.
- Establish the design parameters for the multiple development projects to create within.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY…
North Whins, Findhorn Ecovillage
“Greg has brought an energy to the project that was much needed and helped us take a very challenging project through a complex planning phase. The design process that he helped us facilitate, with the involvement of over 300 community members, was an important exercise in community co-creation that we are very happy with the outcome of. It has been a fruitful and collaborative engagement.”
Alex Walker
Executive Director, Duneland Ltd
“It’s something very important you are doing, you know? Because you are SEEDING new possibilities on this planet that go way beyond what most people think is imaginable. And because you are doing it, you are in fact shifting things for us all. I have to express my deepest gratitude to you.”
Margot Anand
International best-selling author, founder of Sky Dancing Tantra
“Greg Paul is one of the great minds (and hearts) of our time. He embodies a vast spectrum of skills and innate knowledge which I have benefitted tremendously from. I am deeply grateful for his kindness, enlightenment and guidance.”
Natalia Rose
Clinical nutritionist, author, founder of Detox the World