Glenora (“golden valley”) seems an appropriate name for a farm community that has taken root in the Cowichan Valley just south of Duncan on Vancouver Island. Glenora Farm Community is now a member of the Camphill Association of North America. The Camphill Movement is a worldwide organization of schools, training colleges and adult villages where caregivers and people with developmental disabilities live, learn and work together, sharing in a culturally rich and productive environment. This way of working is based on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner in his lectures and writings on Anthroposophy, with the assumption that every individual, regardless of ability, is an independent spiritual being. Developmental disabilities are treated, not as illnesses, but as a part of the fabric of human experience, and are cared for in the context of a healthy home and community life.
Vision & Mission
It is our endeavour to create an environment in which those who are in need of special care, and those who provide it, can relate to each other as companions, rather than as professionals and clients. Thus we make room for creativity and personal fulfillment in the context of each individual's privacy and spiritual freedom. In the way we live together, in the way we care for the land and in the things we make, we intend to uphold the ideals of Camphill, in which each contributes what he or she is able to, and receives in turn what he or she needs.