Springhouse: A Living Example
This design originated from Springhouse; founded in 2014 in the Blue Ridge mountains of Floyd County, Virginia and a living example of what can happen when this roadmap is used to create a healthy community and culture.
Springhouse envisions a regenerative culture where all people are connected to the vitality within themselves, their community, and the Earth. Springhouse creates and shares a model of regenerative culture through vitality-centered education that equips people to courageously respond to the world’s emerging needs. Springhouse offers a Day School program for adolescents, self discovery programs for adults, and cultural design programs to study and practice Sourced Design. Springhouse has a main campus in Floyd County, and a location in the town of Floyd, Virginia dedicated to building regenerative culture through the arts.
One of the founders and Springhouse’s Executive Director, Dr. Jenny Finn, had a profound experience as an early adult where she woke up to a deeper source through a mystical experience, that was then deepened by her experience with cancer in her mid-twenties. Since then, Jenny has been devoted to that source, designing structures that foster vitality in people, communities, and organizations for nearly 30 years. Her research, mentoring, and teaching invites people to strengthen the relationship they have with themselves in order to serve the world with greater clarity, courage, compassion, and creativity. Her work has taken many forms including non-profit leadership, trauma and hospice care, chaplaincy, clinical private practice, community building through the expressive arts, and education. Jenny views the school system as the strongest leverage point we have to create regenerative culture and views education as the way we build that culture. Along with the deeply dedicated Springhouse team, she is redesigning education in ways that foster the vitality within and around us all.
Springhouse envisions a regenerative culture where all people are connected to the vitality within themselves, their community, and the Earth. Springhouse creates and shares a model of regenerative culture through vitality-centered education that equips people to courageously respond to the world’s emerging needs. Springhouse offers a Day School program for adolescents, self discovery programs for adults, and cultural design programs to study and practice Sourced Design. Springhouse has a main campus in Floyd County, and a location in the town of Floyd, Virginia dedicated to building regenerative culture through the arts.
One of the founders and Springhouse’s Executive Director, Dr. Jenny Finn, had a profound experience as an early adult where she woke up to a deeper source through a mystical experience, that was then deepened by her experience with cancer in her mid-twenties. Since then, Jenny has been devoted to that source, designing structures that foster vitality in people, communities, and organizations for nearly 30 years. Her research, mentoring, and teaching invites people to strengthen the relationship they have with themselves in order to serve the world with greater clarity, courage, compassion, and creativity. Her work has taken many forms including non-profit leadership, trauma and hospice care, chaplaincy, clinical private practice, community building through the expressive arts, and education. Jenny views the school system as the strongest leverage point we have to create regenerative culture and views education as the way we build that culture. Along with the deeply dedicated Springhouse team, she is redesigning education in ways that foster the vitality within and around us all.