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Renewal CouRses 2015

Dear Friends,

Inspired by the Spirit, in freedom, we seek to fill a need that springs from the heart—namely, to experience ourselves as a part of the spiritual world and lastingly connected to those we love who live in that realm. The longer we live, the more we become aware of the creative workings of those who have crossed the threshold.

We are dedicating this 16th year of our Renewal courses to Georg Locher, the godfather and for many years the genial uncle of this program. Georg, who passed away on December 15th, taught us the importance of setting high standards and staying close to the source of anthroposophy. Each summer for more than a decade, he traveled with his beloved cello from his home in England not only to teach us but also to give us beautiful music, always taking a moment to squeeze in a few words of wisdom before playing for us. Those who attended these summer sessions will remember Georg’s warmth and generosity of spirit, how he helped us experience challenging concepts through the arts. Whenever he spoke yearly at our St. John’s festival of the stern gaze of the Archangel Uriel, I always pictured Georg’s teacherly gesture, warm yet stern and broaching no compromise.

Look inside this booklet and you will find a new course taught by Georg’s son, Adrian Locher, a speech and drama artist as well as a member of the governing council of the Anthroposophical Society in the United Kingdom. In addition, there will be grade-specific courses for Grades 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Christof Wiechert will return with a dynamic course that will give your teaching new wings. We are grateful to have Michaela Gloeckler returning, along with many exciting courses that we hope will stir you into visiting us again. It is our wish that the days spent on our beautiful campus in Wilton, New Hampshire, will renew you, warm you, and support you with new and old friendships on a shared path of destiny!

Lisl Hofer, as our newly appointed Manager of Renewal Courses, will carry preparations for the program from January through May. I’m so grateful to have her kind and steady hand supporting the work in preparation for your visit. Also, our dear Lauryn Morley will be present during the summer to make sure all the details are taken care of. We are grateful to welcome back our volunteers Barbara Coughlin and John Fallon who have offered us precious help and nurturing presence for many years.

Meanwhile, we send you our warmest wishes and hope to welcome you—or welcome you back—to Renewal in Wilton!

Until we meet again,

Karine Munk FinserCoordinator of Renewal Courses

“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge which leads the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. It enters into man as a need of his heart, of his feeling.”

–Rudolf Steiner

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The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily - Performing the Story with Marionettes with Joan Almon, Janene Ping, and Debra Spitulnik

During this course we will study Goethe’s fairytale of The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, with its archetypal images and rich language. This story was given to Rudolf Steiner on his 21st birthday and played a major role in his life. Its images grew in him over a 25-year period and became the foundation for the first of his four Mystery Dramas.

Many fairy tales contain images of enchantment of the male or female figure. In this tale both the Lily and the Prince suffer from different forms of enchantment. They are restored to their true nature through the sacrifice of the Green Snake, who gives up her life for them and becomes a bridge so that humanity may cross back and forth between this earthly world and the supersensible world. All of the 19 characters in the tale go through a transformation as they work together to break the enchantments and allow the underground temple to rise.

“An individual helps not, but he who combines himself with many at the proper hour can bring great change”, says the wise man with the lamp, describing what each must do. In the end, the Lily and the Prince are united in marriage, and the

risen temple becomes the most frequented of all on earth.

We will study this complex tale, having read it in advance of the course along with some material about it by Rudolf Steiner. We will compare the story with other fairy tales and their archetypal images, and we will also work on the art of

speaking the tale. Central to our study will be a deepened understanding of the tale through puppetry performance. Using the large marionettes developed by the Green Snake performing group in Washington, DC, we will perform the play for the local community on a full stage with speech, lighting, and music. The course is open to all but is designed especially for those with some experience in puppetry who wish to further their skill in community marionette performance.

Speech with Debra Spitulnik

Materials fee: $25

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Joan Almon has been a Waldorf early childhood educator for over 30 years, based in Maryland but working internationally. She developed a deep love for fairy tales and puppetry and helped develop the Green Snake troupe that performed Goethe’s fairy tale over a seven-year period. In 1999 she co-founded the Alliance for Childhood, an advocacy group that seeks to provide a healthy and creative childhood for all children.

Janene Ping is in her 25th year as an early childhood educator at the Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School in upstate New York. Janene has brought a deepening of esoteric themes through puppetry arts to many past Renewal courses. She has also taught adult education classes specializing in Waldorf early childhood education at the Rudolf Steiner Institute, Sunbridge College, and Sophia’s Hearth.

Debra Spitulnik, a long-time class teacher at the Washington Waldorf School, is devoted to enlivening education through the art of speech and story. She was a part of the original group from Maryland that developed the Green Snake performing troupe and had the honor of speaking the tale for their initial performances. Debra is the founder of The Authentic Voice, a private coaching and speech practice.

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The Paths of Intuition in education: Teaching with Insight, Courage, and Joywith Christof Wiechert

Intuition means doing the right thing at the right moment. We will explore how we can bring health-giving forces to the class while remaining inspired and healthy as teachers. Practical approaches to teaching, to classroom management, and to daily rhythms will be examined so that they enrich our daily work with the children. We will discuss how to teach with insight, joy, and courage and how to create a classroom where the children experience this joy daily. The health of the class and of the teacher will be explored in a practical way.

Afternoons will be dedicated to the art of the child study, which stands at the heart of the faculty meeting and represents an essential part of our work as teachers. We will include many examples of children, including some of the children who offer us the greatest challenges. Participants are invited to bring case studies on a confidential basis. (Please bring drawings, paintings, or handwork for this purpose.) Together we will learn to find creative approaches to the questions our children are bringing to the classroom.

Eurythmy with Cezary Ciaglo

Christof Wiechert, a popular lecturer and seminar leader the world over, spent 30 years teaching at the Waldorf School in The Hague, where he was himself a pupil. During this time he was the co-founder of the Dutch Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar. For many years, Christof was a council member in the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. Together with Ate Koopmans, he developed the “Art of Child Study” course. In 1999 he began to work for the Pedagogical Section of the Society, and from 2001 until 2011 served as Leader of the Pedagogical Section of the School for Spiritual Science at

the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. He is married with five children.

Christof Wiechert, who was the Leader of the Pedagogical Section in Dornach for over a decade, will offer a daily lecture to his own group, and to the grade-specific participants. These are the titles of the lectures he will offer.

1) Practical Advice Compared with Study of Man2) The Development of Intuition in the Process of Teaching3) The Art of Education and Living in and with Technology.4) The World of the Twelve Senses and the Zodiac

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The Four Temperaments in the Workplace: Transforming the Way we Work with One AnotherWith Adrian Locher

This workshop is designed to help people in the workplace better understand themselves and their colleagues. Through an interactive exploration of the four temperaments, we can learn to recognize our habitual behavior and way of being as belonging to a temperament—or combination of temperaments—deeply rooted in our physical and spiritual make-up. By understanding how these temperaments express themselves in the workplace, we learn to consciously create a more harmonious working environment, thereby reducing stress and anxiety and improving our working conditions and outcomes.

This workshop is practical, using tools from the world of theater, revealing the different characteristics of the four temperaments through body movement, voice, and mask. The use of mask as a way of embodying the temperaments leads to an immediate experience of their unique qualities. We learn to recognize ourselves and our colleagues in a playful way. Through role play, we study how the temperaments can work together, or not, and how to bring about a greater harmony in our interaction with others. Finally, through further exercises, we become aware of ourselves as human beings who can move between the temperaments and play them, like strings of an instrument. We become aware of the masks we wear in life and at work and how we can strengthen the core being of our essential humanity.

The results of this workshop can be a greater self-knowledge and an increased ability to work effectively in a team. The workplace can become a more loving place and our meetings with colleagues a more human encounter.

Daily lecture by Christof Wiechert

Materials fee: $15

Adrian Locher works in the fields of theatre, youth and adult education. After graduating from Michael Hall School, Sussex, England, he trained in Speech and Drama at Peredur Centre for the Arts and completed a degree in History of Ideas at Sussex University. Adrian was involved as actor and translator in the international touring productions of Rudolf Steiner’s four mystery dramas (Portal Productions 1990 -95). He co-founded the Stroud Performing Arts Foundation Courses (1995 -98) and Taurus Voice Theatre Company (2000), which toured extensively in the UK with productions celebrating the power and beauty of the spoken word. Since 2006 Adrian has been

the artistic director of the ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean, creating land and arts-based educational projects for young people from around the world (www.ashacentre.org). In 2013 he joined the Council of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain.


Laying the Foundation: Teaching Grade 1with Christopher Sblendorio

Forming the first grade class is no easy task, but it can be great fun. It lays the foundation for all the learning that the children will encounter in elementary school. To put it modestly, this is a delicate process.

We will learn how to make the celebrated “morning circle” a meaningful work of art, a drama that brings chaos into healthy movement, form, and order. We will learn how to awaken in children a love for letters, words, and reading. We will learn how to introduce the magical world of numbers and the four processes. We will make a start at building a repertoire of jolly songs and poems, profound stories and plays. We will discuss why loving the children and their parents and our work is the only way to succeed as a teacher.

This will be a very practical “hands-on” course. Be prepared to skip about and sing, play the pentatonic recorder, draw and paint, and be really dramatic.


Materials fee: $25

Christopher Sblendorio, after getting a university degree in education and training at Emerson College, taught his first year at the Rudolf Steiner School in NYC. He then led four classes, first through eighth grades, at the Rudolf Steiner School in Great Barrington, MA. He now is teaching a new first grade in California at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School. He is also known as professional clown, musician, country dance caller, published writer—in short a jack of all trades and master of none, except perhaps of teaching children how to have fun while learning.

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Find the Middle Path: Exploring the Landscape of Grade 2with kate Golden

Can there be anything better than teaching second graders? Full of energy and a love for learning, children at this age are ready to apply the good habits learned in first grade and to deepen their social and academic capacities.

In addition to child development, which gives us our map for the year, we will explore the second grade landscape as it wends its way from the mountaintop of the saint stories to the forests and valleys of the fables. We will discuss the language arts and math curriculums, as well as the artistic curriculum and possibilities for crafts projects. Second grade assessment will be discussed, and how to support its findings in the classroom. In order to address every student’s need to feel safe and happy, we will look at student social interactions and how to create a thriving second grade classroom for all the children. We will practice successful approaches to classroom management, as well as working with parents and colleagues while refreshing our own strength and vitality.



Materials fee: $25

kate Golden, a class teacher for 21 years in the Pacific Northwest, is currently teaching her fourth second grade at the Seattle Waldorf School. She attended the first summer session teacher training at Antioch University New England and recently completed the Master’s program.

In the course of her career, she has served as college and grade school chair, as well as an AWSNA representative for her school and a Trustee. She is particularly interested in the administrative work of Waldorf schools and the collaborative working it offers for creative social interaction. Her favorite book by Rudolf Steiner is Philosophy of Freedom, which she occasionally even understands!


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Grade 4: Working with the Image of Man at the Heart of Waldorf EducationWith Dennis Demanett

Although the threefold image of the human being informs all aspects of Waldorf education, only rarely does this picture come directly to the children in our lessons. In the fourth grade, when we bring to the students our conversation about the relationship of human beings to animals, we clearly speak about the head, the heart, and the limbs of the human being. Why do we do this at this age? As self-awareness emerges at this time of transformation in the 8-10 year old, what is the image of man that we would wish to have living behind all the subjects we teach to the fourth grade children? We will discover that this is a crucial time in every child’s life and that the image of man that emerges is essential to our students’ achieving that all-important goal of Waldorf education: namely, freedom.

In this course we will examine child development, asking questions about every aspect of the fourth grade curriculum, beginning with “Man and Animal,” but then moving on to local geography, language arts, math, and the Norse mythology.

We will balance discussion and presentation with singing, speech, drawing, and painting. Please bring your questions to the course or send them along ahead of time to [email protected].



Materials fee: $25

Dennis Demanett, a Waldorf class teacher for 38 years, has just completed eighth grade with his fourth class and is currently on sabbatical from the Pasadena Waldorf School. He trained in England, where he took his first class through at the Ringwood Waldorf School. Moving to Hawaii, he taught grades 7-8, grade 8, and grades 3-4 at the Honolulu Waldorf School. He then took his second class for 8 years at Pine Hill Waldorf School. The last 17 years he has taught two classes in Pasadena.


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The Golden Age: Grade 5 in a Waldorf SchoolWith Patrice Maynard

The grade five curriculum is a gallop though ancient history, a walk over the rainbow from mythology to recorded history, a transformation from nature studies to “real” science in botany, a magic switch from form drawing to geometry drawing, the preparation of algebraic thinking in decimal fractions, and the most important turning of all as the “child” becomes a true student in command of learning for herself or himself.

Often called the “year of balance,” this can also be a year of tumult with so much to achieve in a single year! Heavy incursions of media and modern life along with an early awakening of sexuality can hover too closely in this year. This last year of authentic childhood can be rewarding, challenging, great fun, and full of triumphs as the Greek mood gathers the students into upright identity and accomplishment. Dancing, singing, hymns of praise to the gods, rich stories, remarkable geography, hilarious and satisfying drama, high-caliber instrumental work, and good company await the fifth grade teacher.

We will explore curriculum, personal replenishment, collaboration with parents and colleagues, artistic balancing of the teacher’s energies, and the protective strength of meditative rhythms, along with the urgency for vibrant and creative Waldorf education to carry on through the onslaught of Common Core State Standards, assessment by testing, and fear all around and inside. We will balance larks and laughter with seriousness of purpose!


Materials fee: $25

Patrice Maynard is the Director of Publications and Development at the Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), which publishes resources for Waldorf teachers, literature for children, and helpful enrichment materials for parents and the wider Waldorf community. As Leader of Outreach and Development in the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America for nine years, she raised significant funds for research into

the Waldorf approach and for programs to deepen the understanding of Waldorf education. From 1991 through 2004, she was a class teacher as well as a music teacher at Hawthorne Valley School in upstate New York; prior to that time she served on the founding board of the Merriconeag Waldorf School in Freeport, Maine.


The Turning Point of Childhood: Teaching Grade 6With Helena Niiva

To land securely in sixth grade, a teacher has to appreciate the unquestionable authority of “cause and effect.” This plays out in Roman history and the transition from seven kings to republic and empire, in which common sense and the rule of law replace divine guidance. Sixth grade also involves teaching the three G’s—geology, geometry, geography—and learning to respect the awfulness of "earth writing" and the phenomena of shape and form. The English curriculum enjoys a strong dose of common sense, too, in the practice of writing business letters. Participants taking this Renewal course will also have the opportunity to restore some levity through age-appropriate music, sword and morris dancing, and—for those worthy of the event—a knighting ceremony, which will provoke discussion around rites of passage and preparation for adolescence.



Materials fee: $25

Helena Niiva grew up in Finland, where she received her elementary teacher education degree from Jyvaskyla University, with specialization in music, speech, and special education. After working in Finland for several years, Helena moved to Stuttgart, Germany to begin her studies in anthroposophy. As a faculty member at the Lexington Waldorf School in Massachusetts, she has taught German and chorus, as well as directing a musical every spring. To prepare herself to become a class teacher she took her Masters in Waldorf Education at

Antioch University New England. Since then Helena has graduated two eighth grades and is currently teaching sixth grade.

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The Brave New World of Seventh Grade with Sue Demanett and Louis Bullard

Because humankind’s development resonates in the individual, seventh graders are well served by a curriculum that explores themes of rebirth, discovery, the historic period of awakening consciousness soul, self, and the tentatively emerging ego. How can we as teachers foster this process healthily, especially in an all-about-me culture?

Against the background of child development in the light of Anthroposophy, this course will offer a survey of the rich Waldorf curriculum of seventh grade with in-depth samples of some lessons. The subjects include history, geography, physiology, math, English, physics and chemistry. We will work on projects and activities, experience ample labs, and devote time to the many practical and supporting aspects that teachers need to thrive in this grade, such as developing social interactions in the class and evolving the changing roles of teacher and student.

Please bring colored pencils, pens, compasses, recorders, selections of songs and poems you consider grade appropriate and would like to share as well as questions and talking points you would like addressed. Resource lists will be provided to participants.



Materials fee: $25

Sue Demanett has been engaged in Waldorf Education for nearly forty years, teaching in four Waldorf schools and four teacher education programs. She has been a class teacher, a subject teacher of math and English, and a high school teacher. For the past eighteen years at the Pasadena Waldorf School, she has devoted herself to grades 6, 7, and 8, has chaired the middle school, and helped to launch the high school. She is presently very much enjoying a sabbatical year.

Louis Bullard has been involved with Waldorf Education for almost 25 years including 16 years as a class teacher throughout the grades. He is an experienced outdoor educator and has worked in Waldorf summer camps around the world—most recently in China. Before becoming a Waldorf teacher, Louis worked as a chemist in a variety of industries. He is looking forward to sharing his insights into how chemistry and physics relate to the curriculum in the middle school.


How to Survive the 8th Grade and Come out Smiling!With Darcy Drayton

Eighth grade is perhaps the most demanding phase of the eight-year cycle: not only is the curriculum dynamic and challenging, but so are the students! For the teacher, enthusiasm, equanimity, careful planning, and a dose of humor are needed to maintain a healthy balance.

The goal of this course is to help teachers meet these deep issues in very practical ways. We will explore how to bring each subject in a way that can be fun and enlivening for both students and teacher. Rudolf Steiner was able to design a curriculum that gives the students just what they need— in the study of historical revolutions and modern times, in the demonstrations and experiments of organic chemistry and physics, in the construction of Platonic solids that mirror the world around them, to the very bones in their bodies that help them engage this brave new world.

We will take advantage of the group’s wisdom to brainstorm many aspects of this year’s curriculum: resources, block schedules, students’ main lesson work, writing assignments, correction of student work, projects, class outings, art, music, the class play, parent meetings, social dynamics within the class, the teacher’s future life after eighth grade, and more.

Finally, we will weave in some anthroposophical insights and meditations in order to gain access to the essential help that is available from the spiritual world.

Movement with Julianna Lichatz


Materials fee: $25

Darcy Drayton, a graduate of the Antioch Waldorf Teacher Education Program, has taken two classes through eight years at Pine Hill Waldorf School. Prior to this she was at the Waldorf School in Lexington, MA, serving as the Business Manager for four years and the woodwork and upper elementary school art teacher for another four years. Darcy often mentors teachers and schools around the Northeast, as well as leading anthroposophical study groups with teachers at Pine Hill and in the

Wilton community. In addition, Darcy is an artist working in oils and watercolor, a poet, and a writer of children’s literature. As a Quaker, she has worked in prisons for many years as a facilitator in a program of “Alternatives to Violence.”

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Revealing Child Development through Drawing— Blocks and Blackboards Preparation Grades 1-8with elizabeth Auer

This course offers an overview of drawing in the elementary grades with various media and themes appropriate to child development from ages 7 through 14.

While the mornings will focus on drawing through the grades as a group, afternoons will offer individual grade-specific preparation including the practice of blackboard drawing and main lesson book drawing. Participants will accumulate dozens of examples for immediate and future use in the classroom.

In addition, lunch time seminars will focus on block schedules, block contents including written material and other aspects of classroom teaching. We will look at the importance of drawing in the classroom, how it enhances and deepens the lesson content for the child and fosters an engaged and active learning experience, as well as what children’s drawings can tell us about child development.

This course will benefit the new teacher, both in and out of the Waldorf classroom as well as more seasoned teachers who want to enhance their drawing skills throughout the elementary grades.

Materials fee: $25

elizabeth Auer, M.ed, a graduate of the Waldorf Teacher Training program and the Remedial Resource Waldorf Teacher Training program, holds a diploma in Art and Design. She has taught drawing as a classroom activity for over 20 years, both at Antioch University New England, and at numerous Renewal and other courses. Since taking a class through from grade 1-8 she recently completed work on her latest book, Learning about the World through Drawing—ideas for the classroom grades 1-8. She is also the author of Creative Pathways and has illustrated several other books. She currently works as a freelance consultant and educator.

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Music in the Morning: Pedagogical Applications of Singing and Recorder Playing in the Classroomwith David Gable

Music is integral to Waldorf education. Singing in the morning uplifts the soul and helps the students enter gently into the day’s work. As they get older, singing rounds and canons fosters their ability to listen to and work with each other. Music unites breathing, listening, artistic expression, and—in the case of recorder playing—motor activity; it helps integrate head, heart, and hands—right into the fingertips.

In this course we will develop techniques for singing, playing, and instruction to enhance our own music making as well as our teaching. In addition, we will study excerpts from some of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on music to further our understanding of the importance of music in the education of the whole child.

Participants should have a basic understanding of music notation and some prior experience with playing the recorder, but need not be fluent in either area. They are invited to bring their own soprano recorder and any others (alto, tenor or bass) to which they have access; a limited number of the larger instruments will be available for use by those who do not have them. Also they should procure a copy of Steiner’s lecture The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone, which is available online from the Rudolf Steiner Archive: www.rsarchive.org/ (under lectures).

Let’s make music!


Materials fee: $15

David Gable holds degrees in music performance from the University of Michigan School of Music and Boston University’s School of Fine Arts, as well as a Master of Education degree with Waldorf certification from Antioch/New England Graduate School. He worked for several years as a freelance violinist in the Boston area before transitioning into Waldorf education. Since 1988 he has been on the faculty of the Waldorf School of Cape Cod, where he has taught the eight-year main lesson cycle three times in addition to developing and teaching a choral and instrumental music program for the upper grades.

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kindling the Imagination, Cultivating Understanding, and exercising Practical Skills: Foreign Languages in Grades 1, 2, and 3With kati Manning and Lorey Johnson

In the Waldorf School everything in the first three years of foreign language instruction is connected to the child’s imagination. Finger play, songs, dances,

stories, and games are all presented in an engaging multi-sensory fashion that draws the children into participating and listening. The children simply become the waves that crash on the shore, the cat that purrs, the mouse that scurries. Rhythm and repetition enable the children to develop their amazing powers of memory which, if properly cultivated during

these early years, will provide a solid foundation for practical vocabulary that the children need by the end of third grade. The use of grammatical structures, joyfully repeated in games and dialogs during these early years, will make the study of grammar more accessible in the later grades.

Materials fee: $15

Lorey Johnson has taught French at Pine Hill Waldorf School for over 30 years. She has traveled widely in France, where she also spent two years as a student. Lorey still returns regularly to Europe, leading summer tours. Back home in the U.S., she actively works with the training of Waldorf foreign language teachers.

kati Manning, a German and Spanish teacher in both public and private schools, has taught at the Waldorf School at Moraine Farm since 1987. For the last 15 years, she has been active in teacher training and consulting at many Waldorf schools across the country. Kati, whose family worked in the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, has also written a series of widely used German texts.


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Healing Aspects to Address Trauma in Childhood, Adolescence, and in BiographyWith Michaela Gloeckler, MD

You determine to go forward. . . . Shuddering seizes you, the hair on your head stands on end, your soul lies in your hand. – Hori

With these words written 3,000 years ago, an Egyptian combat veteran who signed his name “Hori” gave expression to his feelings of going into battle. More recently, in the aftermath of World War II, the term “shell-shocked” was used to describe soldiers’ feelings of withdrawal and aggression, numbness and emotional paralysis, loss of appetite, extreme fatigue, and so forth. By the end of the last century the diagnosis PTSD (“post-traumatic stress disorder”) had entered the official DSM III professional lexicon, in which trauma was defined as an external factor leading to inner distress.

By now trauma is a household word, and no one living in today’s society is immune. It forms part of our present times—”the age of the Consciousness Soul”—in which one’s soul-bodily constitution can become estranged from the spirit and experience itself as though walking through a “death landscape”. Like the condition of pain, traumatic experiences may initially be filtered through cognitive and emotional processes before becoming identified as an extreme threat to health.

Within the seriously traumatized person, however, may be concealed a search for self. Since the path of individualization is a painful process, it may be helped or hindered by traumatic experiences, especially those that stir our inner wish to transform ourselves, those around us, or indeed the world at large. Healing processes available through Waldorf pedagogy and anthroposophic medicine can help renew or re-ensoul the traumatized children and adolescents by working on their individual I-forces.

In this course we will discover how to develop an appropriate and effective understanding of trauma in these age groups. We will explore methods to help address the symptoms of trauma, from early signs of lost presence and joy in life to more advanced stages of the condition. Our essential focus will be on ways to strengthen the I-forces which are the source of re-integrating and harmonizing the more or less deeply disturbed soul-bodily constitution.

Music with Nell Wiener

Materials fee: $15

Michaela Gloeckler, MD, studied German language / literature and History in Freiburg and Heidelberg and, from 1972 till 1978, medicine in Tübingen and Marburg, followed by further training as a pediatrician at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and the Bochum University Clinic. For ten years she served as pediatrician at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and worked as medical adviser at the Rudolf Steiner School of Witten in Central Germany. In 1988 she was appointed Head of the Medical Section at the School for Spiritual Science in Dornach,

Switzerland. For the past 25 years she has been active as author, lecturer, and trainer of medical doctors around the globe.


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Anthroposophy and Buddhism: The Reality and Possibilities of RelationshipWith Michael D’Aleo

In the past two decades there has been a significant increase in the number of people interested in Waldorf education and anthroposophy who also have an interest in Buddhism. These two spiritual streams have quietly existed side-by-side for decades but a deeper mutual understanding between these two streams has only just begun.

In this course we will look at specific lectures, thoughts, teachings, and fundamental world views from both streams. Specific emphasis will be placed on the relationship between the foundational work of Rudolf Steiner—The Philosophy of Freedom—and the Heart Sutra of Buddhism. Some key questions will include:

• How does Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom relate to the Buddhist concepts of Emptiness and Interdependence as expressed in the Heart Sutra?

• How can we understand karma and reincarnation through the lens of each of these spiritual streams?

• How are the Christ Impulse and the Bodhisattva Ideal related yet different?

• How are the three principle streams of Buddhism reflected differently in the lectures of Rudolf Steiner?

The intention of this course is to explore the depth and breadth of possibilities within these two streams. In a lecture late in life, Rudolf Steiner predicted that in future times these two streams would come together. Is the present interest in the relationship of these streams a quiet beginning of such a process?

Clay with Elizabeth Auer

Materials fee: $25

Michael D’Aleo has been a science teacher and lecturer in Waldorf schools, foundation study programs, and teacher training centers as well as a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism for over two decades. In the context of a lifelong interest, study, and practice in the sciences, Michael brings his lifelong investigation of these different streams to further a better understanding of both Anthroposophy and Buddhism.


Co-Workers, Sisters, and Friends: Women Students and Spiritual Researchers around Rudolf Steiner

Mathilda Scholl, Edith Maryon, Johanna von Keyserlinck, Elizabeth Vreede, Ita Wegman, Lili Kolisko With Christopher Bamford

It is often forgotten that a number of remarkable, spiritually accomplished women were among Steiner’s closest pupils and friends. They need to be remembered since they bring something quite different to Anthroposophy. We might call it a “Sophianic” element, though they would never have thought of it that way. For them, what they did was simply Anthroposophy, in the purest, most dedicated form that they could. It is time to return their voices to the conversation: to learn from them.

Setting aside Marie Steiner as being in a different category, I have chosen six such women. These six were true “esoteric students”—spiritual researchers. They were creative, innovative, and at the same time intensely practical, humble, and selfless servants of Anthroposophy, each in her own way. The first was a mystic, the second an artist, the third a clairvoyant, the fourth a mathematician and astronomer, the fifth a physicians, and the sixth a scientific researcher. Together they trace the development of Anthroposophy from its earliest years to the years immediately following Steiner’s death.

These women understood and practiced Anthroposophy as Rudolf Steiner taught and practiced it: as an inner path from the inside out, until there was no distinction between inside and outside. They made Anthroposophy their own in their own way, and therefore they could participate in it selflessly and actively. Rudolf Steiner often said of them that they understood his work better than anyone else.

During our week together, we will explore and seek to live into their lives and work. Though they are of a very different time and place, we shall try to find their contemporary relevance.


Materials fee: $25

Christopher Bamford, as editor-in-chief of SteinerBooks, has introduced, edited, and translated numerous volumes by Rudolf Steiner. He is also a respected authority on Western esotericism, the author of two books, and an international lecturer. Two of his essays have been recognized in Best Spiritual Writing.

Week 2


Week 2

Re-Imagining MathematicsWith Jamie York

As a student, was your experience of math uninspired? Are you seeking inspiration in order to enliven your math classroom? For many people mathematics brings up painful memories from their youth—usually sitting at a desk, slogging through endless math problems.

In this course we will get stumped with math puzzles, have fun with math games, and play with numbers. We will experience the joy, as well as the struggle, of “doing math”. We will live into geometry, discuss math curricula, and glimpse the history and philosophy of mathematics.

The intention of this course is to redefine your idea of what constitutes mathematics. Though not a curriculum course, much of the content will be

drawn from the Waldorf math curriculum. The course is open to everyone—whether a math teacher, parent, math-phobe, or math lover.

Come join our math party!

Materials fee: $15

Jamie York went to public school in Connecticut, received two computer science degrees, and began teaching math in 1985 at a boarding school in New Hampshire. In 1994, after spending two years in Nepal serving as a Peace Corps volunteer, Jamie’s search for meaningful education led him to the Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado, where he is still teaching elementary and high school mathematics. Jamie consults and teaches math workshops at a variety of schools around the world, and serves on the faculty at

the Center for Anthroposophy training Waldorf high school math teachers. He is the lead author of the Making Math Meaningful series of math books.


Week 2

Nature’s Alphabet: Exploring the Relationship between World and WordWith Paul Matthews and Patrice Pinette

Henry David Thoreau found the language of nature within as well as around him: Now I am ice, now I am sorrel. Each experience reduces itself to a mood of the mind. Earth informs our language in countless ways; now, more than ever, it’s vital to enter into conversation with the natural world, and to enliven the

words between us in community. Prompted by such poets and naturalists, we will follow their inspiration in the practice of deep listening, and respond with words of our own. Writing together will include playful and collaborative work with Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, all of them manifestations of the world as well as modes of perception and language.

What if stone, stream, wind, and flame lent their particular virtues to our sentences? I will speak to you in stone-language, writes Octavio Paz, answer with a green syllable. The beauty of Renewal’s

natural setting will ground our reflections. Beginners and more experienced writers are equally welcome.


Materials fee: $10

Paul Matthews teaches at Emerson College in the UK while traveling widely with his work, speaking his poetry and encouraging others in the use of imagination. His inspirational books on the creative process, Sing Me the Creation, and Words in Place, explore the relationship between word and world. The Ground that Love Seeks and Slippery Characters are gatherings of his poetry.

Patrice Pinette teaches creative writing, literature, and eurythmy in Waldorf high schools and adult education programs. Inspired by alchemy between the arts, she collaborates with artists and musicians in workshops, readings, and exhibits. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies, and her new chapbooks, Letters from Home and Magnolia & Company, are forthcoming. An adjunct faculty member at Antioch University New England, she earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.


Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Seeds and Spirit: The Ancient Art of Healing with HerbsWith Deb Soule

During our week together we will explore how herbs nourish, strengthen, and heal the body, mind, and spirit through the different seasons of the year and how herbs can be used to support common health conditions.

We will spend time each day in a nearby medicinal herb garden learning how to identify, grow, harvest, dry, and prepare various types of herbal preparations: tinctures, non-alcohol glycerites, elixirs, infused medicinal oils, salves, flower essences, herbal steams, and special flower baths. We will also spend quiet reflective time with plants, trees, water, soil, pollinators, and elemental beings. Each day will focus on a different part of the plant, learning the healing properties of various roots (ashwagandha root, astragalus root, burdock root, dandelion root, solomon’s seal root), leaves (comfrey, gotu kola, lemon balm, rosemary, thyme, sacred basil, sage), flowers (calendula, elder, hawthorn, lady’s mantle, linden, rose), and seeds and fruits (elder berries, hawthorn berries, oat seed, schisandra berries).

Inner and outer experiences will help to build and deepen each participant’s knowledge, insights, respect, and reverence for the healing plants. Deb will also share how she incorporates biodynamics into her gardening practices.

No previous experience with the healing powers of herbs is necessary.


Plant sketching with Elizabeth Auer

Materials fee: $25

Deb Soule practices as an herbalist, educator and biodynamic gardener and is the author of How To Move Like a Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines from Plants. In 1985 she founded the herbal apothecary Avena Botanicals in Rockport, Maine, where she and her staff produce by hand over 200 herbal remedies. She has been using biodynamic practices on her farm since 1998 and in 2011 Avena Botanicals became the first farm in Maine to be Demeter-certified. Avena’s three-acre gardens serve as a healing space for the community, a habitat for pollinators and a living classroom for students. They also produce over

1800 pounds of medicinal herbs for Avena’s apothecary. Various classes and herb walks happen at the farm along with a small clinic run by a family physician who is training in anthroposophical medicine.

Week 2


Michelangelo for Beginners: Carving in MarbleWith Daniel O’Connors

Have you ever dreamt of carving a block of marble into a form that reveals something of your innermost self? Are you teaching stone carving in the upper elementary grades or in a high school? Are you carving stones as an art form or wishing to take this process a step further?

There are elements of form to be found in every sculpture, whether you like the form or not. Starting with a pick chisel, mallet, and a rough piece of marble, we will shape a roundish form using the principles of convex and concave. Adopting a method similar to the one the Greeks used to sculpt their

human figures, we will take away layer after layer of marble until we find our desired form.

In shaping forms that rounds towards us or flow away from us, we stand in between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. These are the thoughts which will help us find a free-breathing form within our piece of marble stone. It will be an encounter through an intensive, self-reflecting conversation with our work.

Since we will be spending several hours a day carving, this course demands physical strength and perseverance. It is intended for practical arts teachers and anyone who feels interested in learning to carve in marble.

In order to have a different experience with the elements of concave and convex, the course will be supplemented by Eurythmy.

Please bring safety glasses!


Material fee: $45

Daniel O’Connors completed an apprenticeship as a chemical technician at Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in Basel before launching his studies at the Plastikschule (Practical Arts School) at the Goetheanum in Dornach. Since then he has worked for more than 30 years in several Waldorf schools, as well as in public schools in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. He has brought the art of stone carving to students, adults, and apprentices of various companies. He presently works as a practical arts teacher at the Monadnock Waldorf School in Keene, NH.

Week 2


The Art of Christianity: A Journey through Art HistoryWith David Lowe

Art in Western Europe since “the turning point of time” and even up to modern times has largely been an expression of Christianity. As a result, we can study through art the step-by-step progress of the Christ Impulse in the world, discovering the stages through which it has come to expression. The same applies to human soul development.

We will follow these developments from early Christian times, starting with the wall paintings in the Catacombs and moving on to the mosaics of Ravenna and the transformative achievements of Giotto. Then we will explore a period when the narrative of Jesus’ birth, baptism, and the work of Christ Jesus on earth ending in His death and resurrection was the focus of the work of many different artists, among them Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Rembrandt. There are many others working at this same time in Southern and Northern Europe including Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Durer, and Grunewald, to mention but a few.

Moving closer to the modern age, we will see how the Christ Impulse works further on in artists of the 18th and 19th centuries including Turner, Palmer, Blake, and Goya. We will devote a special session to van Gogh, Kandinsky, and other painters nearer in time to ourselves.

From all of these masters we will develop a picture of the mysteries that are appropriate to our own age of the Consciousness Soul. These we can then compare to the initiation rites of earlier times including the Christian Initiation practiced during the Middle Ages. There will be plenty of opportunity for conversation as well as a full-day excursion to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Fine Arts Museum in Boston.


Materials fee: $35

David Lowe, born in Yorkshire, England, studied Philosophy and Politics at Oxford University and later History of Art at Oxford Brookes. He attended Emerson College from 1980-81. In his mid-thirties he spent a year following Goethe’s journey through Italy, a voyage that had a transformative effect on his life. With the painter Simon Sharp, he co- authored the book, Goethe and Palladio, based on the first part of their shared journey. David lectures in the United Kingdom and the United States as well as organizing study groups and workshops at Steiner House in London.

Week 2


Week 2

embracing the Darknesswith Charles Andrade

Since childhood we are taught to fear the dark. We may repel its mystery and depth by whatever light we can shine upon it in the belief that we are safer when darkness is kept at a distance. However, therapists and spiritual masters teach us that ultimately we cannot avoid this most important element of spiritual discovery but must embrace and experience its dark beauty if we are to realize the mystery and wonder that is the light of our own soul.

Utilizing a Goethean understanding of color as a mediating force between Light and Darkness, participants will experience the radiant glow of darkened spaces as they journey into the luminous world of color, light, and darkness in guided water media exercises that, slowly through the week, will offer creative interpretation of their own beautiful darkness.

Required Reading: Learning to Walk in the Dark, by Barbara Brown Taylor

Materials fee: $30

Charles Andrade has developed his painting style out of his initial training in anthroposophic art therapy, which he studied at the Tobias Center for Arts & Art Therapy in England. While a student of Goethean color theory as elucidated by the artist and color theorist Liane Collot d’Herbois, he learned how color is a living interaction between darkness and light. He is also schooled in the art of Lazure, a unique wall treatment that creates soul-nourishing interior environments. His art work can be found in private collections in North America and Europe.

As owner and operator of Lazure Custom Wall Designs for over 25 years, Charles lectures, teaches fine art classes, and offers Lazure workshops worldwide.


Week 2

Social and Organizational Leadership and Renewalwith John Cunningham, Barbara Richardson, and Torin Finser

This course is intended for teachers in leadership roles or administrators and board members wishing to focus on issues of governance in Waldorf

schools and other organizations working out of anthroposophy. This year the focus of the course will be communication and the resolution of disputes.

We will be joined by John Cunningham, an experienced Waldorf teacher who has been a pioneer in bridging the practices of Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Circles with our work in the schools and other anthroposophical

initiatives. He has developed very specific ways to think through and work with conflict. We will also have the benefit of Eurythmy in the Workplace, led by Barbara Richardson, the Center for Anthroposophy’s Coordinator of Foundation Studies and an experienced workshop leader. Torin Finser, who pioneered this course many years ago, will contribute regular sessions on applied anthroposophy, biography, and self development in support of leadership development.

This course is recommended for those participating in the new Administrator and School Leadership offering through Antioch University New England, but is open to others as well.

John Cunningham is both a Waldorf teacher and a certified NVC trainer. He trained individually with Marshall Rosenberg, the developer of Compassionate Communication (also called Nonviolent Communication, or NVC). Since June 2000, John has been giving trainings in NVC throughout the country as well as consulting to the Waldorf school movement (see www.empathyconexus.com).

Barbara Richardson is a Eurythmist specializing in Eurythmy in the Workplace. She leads Eurythmy in the Teaching Sensible Science courses and also in Mentoring seminars. Barbara lives in Freeport, Maine and is currently Coordinator of Foundation Studies for the Center for Anthroposophy.

Torin Finser, Chair of the Education Department at Antioch University New England and General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America, is widely traveled as a lecturer and adviser in Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, South America, and all across the United States and Canada. Torin is the author of numerous books including Organizational Integrity: How to Apply the Wisdom of the Body to

Develop Healthy Organizations. His latest book is entitled A Second Classroom: The Parent-Teacher Relationship


Week 2

Self-education through Intuitive Thinking and Artistic PerceptionWith Signe Motter, elizabeth Auer, Douglas Gerwin, Hugh Renwick, and Cezary Ciaglo

This course is intended for prospective teachers, parents, and those interested in exploring anthroposophy and the arts. Beginning with an overview of the essential aspects of the human being, participants will study themes from

Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path by Rudolf Steiner and engage in lively conversation. Each afternoon session will include supportive exercises in painting and clay modeling.

This seminar is recognized as a capstone course in “foundation studies” by Antioch University New England and the Center

for Anthroposophy. (Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy and the Arts is a prerequisite for Waldorf teacher training.) Participants are requested to have read Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path beforehand.


Materials fee: $30

Signe Motter has served in pioneer and leadership positions at both the Monadnock Waldorf School and the Center for Anthroposophy, where she currently serves as President of its Pedagogical Advisory Council and Board of Trustees. An adjunct faculty member at Antioch University New England, she has taught in Waldorf schools for over thirty years. Currently she is a class teacher at the Waldorf School of Princeton, New Jersey.

elizabeth Auer, a graduate of the Waldorf Teacher Training program and the Remedial Resource Waldorf Teacher Training program, holds a diploma in Art and Design. She has taught drawing as a classroom activity for over 20 years, both at Antioch University New England and at numerous Renewal and other courses. After taking a class from grades 1-8 she recently completed her latest book, Learning about the World through Drawing: Ideas for the Classroom Grades 1-8. She is also the author of Creative Pathways and has illustrated several other books. She currently works as a freelance consultant and educator.

Hugh Renwick, a retired Waldorf high school and class teacher, currently resides in Wilton, New Hampshire and San Miguel, Mexico. While in Mexico he and his wife Carol have been giving introductory courses in anthroposophy, the twelve senses and Waldorf pedagogy.

Douglas Gerwin, Director of the Center for Anthroposophy (CfA) and Executive Director of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education, has taught history, literature, German, music, and life science at the Waldorf high school level since 1983. Douglas is founder of CfA’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program as well as author and editor of several books related to Waldorf education, most recently a collection entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human Sexuality and the Education of Youth in Waldorf Schools (2014).


What Is the Center for Anthroposophy?The Renewal Courses described in this brochure constitute one of four programs offered by the Center for Anthroposophy. In addition to the two weeks of Renewal, the Center sponsors:

Foundation Studies in Anthroposophy and the ArtsOffered as one-year or two-year part-time program in Waldorf schools around the country or on an individually mentored basis. These courses are designed to strengthen communities of Waldorf school parents, trustees, and friends, as well as to prepare teachers for Waldorf training. New courses are offered each year in different venues.Contact: Barbara Richardson, [email protected]

Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program (WHiSTEP)Offered each July, this three-summers program prepares Waldorf high school teachers in the specialized disciplines of arts & art history, English, history, life sciences, mathematics, and physical sciences. A new cycle of this program is launched each year in Wilton, NH.Contact: Douglas Gerwin, [email protected]

Pedagogical Eurythmy TrainingOffered as a part-time program for trained eurythmists preparing to teach in a Waldorf school. Program is held in Wilton, NH with additional mentoring sessions in Waldorf schools around the country.Contact: Leonore Russell, Coordinator [email protected]

Affiliated Programs and ActivitiesWaldorf Teacher education at Antioch University New england Offers Waldorf teacher training for elementary school teachers in Keene, NH

Cadmus Library Offers reading room and archive of rare books and journals related to anthroposophy and Waldorf education in Wilton, NH. Color Shop & More Offers Waldorf toys and gifts, anthroposophical books and cards, Weleda health products, as well as a full range of high-quality art supplies in Wilton, NH

Donate to the Center for AnthroposophyEach year the Center raises scholarship funds to support teachers in all of its programs. We warmly invite you to make a secure tax-deductible donation online at the website of the Center. Read how your contribution helps "Working in Concert" at www.centerforanthroposophy.org

Center for Anthroposophy Renewal Courses

Registration Form - Week 1 - June 21 to 26, 2015 (See the other side for Week 2)

__________________________________________________________________________NAME

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PLeASe ReGISTeR eARLY! All courses have limited openings and will be offered only when sufficient enrollment is reached. All fees are due upon registration. Once registered, you will receive a detailed course schedule with directions to the campus. You may cancel your registration before June 1 and receive full refund, less $75 cancellation fee. No refunds available after June 1. Limited scholarship assistance is available on first come first served basis. Please call the Admissions Office at 603-654-2566 and describe your needs and available resources. Practicing Waldorf teachers in need may be eligible for a special discount scholarship; please call to inquire. We reserve the right to cancel any course at 7 days’ notice, with full refund.

Those signing up before March 30, may ask for a $50 discount. One discount per registration form!

TUITION ($625/course) $__________

LESS DISCOUNT (if any) $__________

ROOM ($180 single or $130 double) $__________The number of campus dorm rooms is limited. Should we run out of space, a list of alternatives will be provided for you to make other arrangements. CAMPUS FEE ($25.00) $__________Paid by day students not staying in the dorms

MATERIALS FEE $__________(Where applicable)

Try our online registration; it is quick, safe and convenient:www.centerforanthroposophy.org/programs/renewal-courses/registration/

Select one course per week, indicate your second choice, and mail completed registration form together with your check to: Center for Anthroposophy, P.O. Box 545, Wilton, NH 03086

To make a credit card payment, please call 603-654-2566 Monday through Friday 9:00AM to 4:00 PM (EST). e-mail registration-related questions to: [email protected] or course-related questions to: [email protected]

MEALS (select from the following options):

FULL BOARD $215.00 $__________ (5 each: Breakfasts @ $9.50, Snacks @ $3.50, Lunches @ $17.00 and Dinners @ $13.00)

LUNCHES ONLY (5) $85.00 $__________ MORNING SNACKS (5) $17.50 $__________

DINNERS ONLY (5) $65.00 $__________ TOTAL $_______________ (tuition, fees, room & board)

Single meals may be purchased over the counter: Breakfast $11.00, Snack $4.50, Lunch $17.50, Dinner $13.50.

Center for Anthroposophy Renewal Courses

Registration Form - Week 2 - June 28 to July 3, 2015 (See the other side for Week 1)

__________________________________________________________________________NAME

__________________________________________________________________________ ADDRESS

__________________________________________________________________________ CITY STATE ZIP

__________________________________________________________________________ PHONE E-MAIL

__________________________________________________________________________ SCHOOL (Practicing teachers: please list the name of the school where you currently teach)

__________________________________________________________________________ SELECTED COURSE (For the World Languages course, please indicate the language you teach)

__________________________________________________________________________ SECOND CHOICE

PLeASe ReGISTeR eARLY! All courses have limited openings and will be offered only when sufficient enrollment is reached. All fees are due upon registration. Once registered, you will receive a detailed course schedule with directions to the campus. You may cancel your registration before June 1 and receive full refund, less $75 cancellation fee. No refunds available after June 1. Limited scholarship assistance is available on first come first served basis. Please call the Admissions Office at 603-654-2566 and describe your needs and available resources. Practicing Waldorf teachers in need may be eligible for a special discount scholarship; please call to inquire. We reserve the right to cancel any course at 7 days’ notice, with full refund.

Those signing up before March 30, may ask for a $50 discount. One discount per registration form!

TUITION ($625/course) $__________

LESS DISCOUNT (if any) $__________

ROOM ($180 single or $130 double) $__________The number of campus dorm rooms is limited. Should we run out of space, a list of alternatives will be provided for you to make other arrangements. CAMPUS FEE ($25.00) $__________Paid by day students not staying in the dorms

MATERIALS FEE $__________(Where applicable)

Try our online registration; it is quick, safe and convenient:www.centerforanthroposophy.org/programs/renewal-courses/registration/

Select one course per week, indicate your second choice, and mail completed registration form together with your check to: Center for Anthroposophy, P.O. Box 545, Wilton, NH 03086

To make a credit card payment, please call 603-654-2566 Monday through Friday 9:00AM to 4:00 PM (EST). e-mail registration-related questions to: [email protected] or course-related questions to: [email protected]

MEALS (select from the following options):

FULL BOARD $215.00 $__________ (5 each: Breakfasts @ $9.50, Snacks @ $3.50, Lunches @ $17.00 and Dinners @ $13.00)

LUNCHES ONLY (5) $85.00 $__________ MORNING SNACKS (5) $17.50 $__________

DINNERS ONLY (5) $65.00 $__________ TOTAL $_______________ (tuition, fees, room & board)

Single meals may be purchased over the counter: Breakfast $11.00, Snack $4.50, Lunch $17.50, Dinner $13.50.

This advanced track master’s program is designed for practitioners who wish to:

•Furthertransformandevolvetheirpracticethroughappliedspiritualscientificinquiry

•Developmethodologicalapproaches toworkinadisciplinedandfocusedwaywithquestionsarisingfrom their practice

•Conductresearchinaspecialized focusareaoftheirchoice

•Enhancetheircapacityforcollaborativeinquiryandworkin transdisciplinarycontexts

•Innovateandplantseedsfor futuredevelopmentwithintheir fieldofpractice

WeareinvitingWaldorfEducators,Therapists,CurativeEducators,SocialTherapists,AdultEducators,BiographicalCounselors,TherapeuticCommunityBuilders,Nurses,Physicians,andAnthroposophicprofessionalsinrelatedfieldstojoinusinthisprocessofjointinquiryinthepursuitofaction-orientedhealingandeducationalinsight.

ParticipantswilltypicallyhaveatleastEITHER5to7yearsofprofessionalexperienceinarelevantfield,withapracticebasedonanthroposophicfoundations,ORwillhavecompletedStage2ofaprogramoftheCamphillSchoolofCurativeEducationandSocialTherapyandbeconcurrentlyenrolledintheadvancedlevelofthatprogram.Theprogrammayalsointerestpractitionerswhohavecompletedaprofessionaltrainingprogramwithoutformalaccreditationinthepastandnowwanttoearnamaster’sdegreefromanaccrediteduniversity.

ANNOUNCING aTwo-SummerMaster’s DegreeProgram(M.Ed.) withaTransdisciplinary FocusonHealingEducation

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The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily:Performing the Story with MarionettesWith Joan Almon, Janene Ping, and Debra Spitulnik

The Paths of Intuition: Educating with Insight, Courage, and Joy With Christof Wiechert

The Four Temperaments in the Workplace: Transforming the Way we Work with One AnotherWith Adrian Locher

Laying the Foundation: Teaching Grade 1With Christopher Sblendorio

Finding the Middle Path: An Exploration of the Landscape of Grade 2With Kate Golden

Working with the Image of Man at the Heart of Waldorf Education: Teaching Grade 4With Dennis Demanett

The Golden Age: Grade 5 in a Waldorf SchoolWith Patrice Maynard

The Turning Point of Childhood: Teaching Grade 6With Helena Niiva

The Brave New World of Seventh Grade With Sue Demanett and Louis Bullard

How to Survive the 8th Grade and Come out Smiling!With Darcy Drayton

The Gift of Drawing: Blocks and Blackboard Preparation for the Classroom, Grades 1-8With Elizabeth Auer

Music in the Morning: Singing and Recorder Playing in the Classroom With David Gable

Foreign Languages in Grades 1, 2, and 3:Kindling the Imagination, Cultivating Understanding, and Practical Language SkillsWith Kati Manning and Lorey Johnson

Healing Aspects to Address Trauma in Childhood, Adolescence, and in BiographyWith Michaela Gloeckler, MD

Anthroposophy and Buddhism: The Reality and Possibilities of Relationship With Michael D’Aleo

Co-Workers, Sisters, and Friends: Women Students and Spiritual Researchers around Rudolf Steiner With Christopher Bamford

Re-Imagining Mathematics With Jamie York

Nature’s Alphabet: Explore the Relationship between Word and WorldWith Paul Matthews and Patrice Pinette

Roots, Leaves, Flowers, Seeds, and Spirit: The Ancient Art of Healing with Herbs With Deb Soule

Michelangelo for Beginners: Carving in MarbleWith Daniel O’Connors

The Art of Christianity: A Journey through Art History With David Lowe

Embracing the Darkness With Charles Andrade

Social and Organizational Issues With John Cunningham, Barbara Richardson, and Torin Finser

Self-Education through Intuitive Thinking and Artistic Perception With Signe Motter, Hugh Renwick, Elizabeth Auer, and Douglas Gerwin

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