Accompanying people in need of assistance who also develop or have developed a mental illness is a great challenge. It is often difficult to even determine that, in addition to a cognitive impairment, there is also a mental disorder, or that a child with an mental disorder also has a cognitive impairment. Professional support requires...
The World Goetheanum Association was founded on 18. Mai 2018. It is an association of partners, consisting of companies, institutions, initiatives and self-employed persons who are active on an anthroposophical basis in the most diverse fields of life and work. In the World Goetheanum Association, they jointly create a platform for interdisciplinary and cross-sector cooperation...
Today, people with mental illnesses meet us everywhere, far beyond the fields of psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy. Mental illness can represent a compromise for the management of the present moment which develops in the course of each human biography, in the interplay between a tendency towards illness, which is brought along and inherited, as...
Last year (2018), the Association for Curative Education and Community Development of Taiwan (ACECDT) was founded as an umbrella organization for the movement for anthroposophic curative education and social therapy in Taiwan. ACECDT is a non-profit organization intended to enhance the development of anthroposophic curative education and social therapy, to help make a room for...
On September 6, 7 and 8, 2019, the first national meeeting of the Anthroposophic Movement for Inclusive Social Development was held in Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina. The conference was a call to work on the question of the inner path. Surrounded by beautiful nature, 95 people from different regions of the country took part. Since school...
From July 18-21, 2019, the Camphill Research Symposium, an annual event cosponsored by the Camphill Academy and the Camphill Foundation in North America, partnered with the International Communal Studies Association to host their triennial conference in the Camphill communities in Upstate New York. Over 150 people attended the event, with a diverse range of papers,...
From the end of July to the beginning of August, the first four-week module of a new training in anthroposophic curative education and social therapy took place in Cuernavaca, about an hour’s drive from Mexico City. Mexico has a very active Waldorf school movement and for many years there has been a lot of interest...
Bart Vanmechelen, Member of the Leadership Team, visited New Zealand from July 5-12. Trisha Glover, Council Delegate for New Zealand, shares from this encounter. Bart moved through the whole of the country, both the North Island and the South Island, visiting the four Hohepa communities in New Zealand. Rich learnings and exchanges were had by...
A New Training Initiative in Hungary Report by Rüdiger Janisch, USA, 20.08.2019 After Nicoletta Kovacs and Ovidiu Recan had lived at The Camphill School in Beaver Run (Pennsylvania, USA) for a year and participated in the training of the Camphill Academy, the long-held intention and search to establish anthroposophical curative education in Hungary began to...
First of all, it should be emphasized that the two initiatives for anthroposophical curative education in Ukraine are carried by great courage and perseverance. If there were not about 25 educators, therapists and curative educators, as well as a large number of supporters from Europe, this power could not unfold with the love for the...
