In the issue of the journal “Das Goetheanum” no. 40, Sonja Zausch describes – based on an experience in the summer of 2024 during a course with Goetheanists in the Karawanken/Austria – the Goetheanistic observation of plants as a possible support for the perception of social processes and insights. If you want to read the...
Author: Leadership Team (Leadership Team)
Invitation to the Tabor Academy in Prague
As part of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the Curative Educational Course, the Tabor Academy in Prague also organized a day of festivities. Ralf Giese, member of the Training Council, Jan Göschel and Sonja Zausch were invited to give talks at the celebration for colleagues and students at the Anthroposophical Society. Ralf Giese...
Impressions of the autumn conference Report of a seminarist from the Bingenheim community, Germany
One hundred years ago, Rudolf Steiner founded anthroposophical supportive education with his Curative Educational Course. On October 5, 2024, the Section for Inclusive Social Development will be formally welcomed into the community of sections at the Goetheanum as the 12th section. Although the “birth” of the Section was mentioned several times during the conference, the...
4th Kaspar Hauser Festival in the east coast from November 7 (Thursday) to 10 (Sunday)
The Karl Koenig Institute in collaboration with the four Camphill communities in Columbia County, New York, is hosting the 4th Kaspar Hauser Festival in the east coast from November 7 (Thursday) to 10 (Sunday). The festival is coming up! It is still possible to attend in person in Copake and in Triform-accommodation space is available....
New publication: Christian Texier: A curative education dialogue
with illustrations by Timothy Falk A SUPPORTIVE EDUCATIONAL CONVERSATION conveys a little of the ‘joyful science’ that Rudolf Steiner expounded in his Curative Educational Course in 1924. The book is intended as a contribution to the 100th anniversary of the lecture series and at the same time provides a humorous and illustrated introduction to anthroposophical...
Conference series Community in Conversation
Save the Date! WHEN 28-31 May 2025 WHERE Cultural Centre Järna, 153 91 Järna, near Stockholm in Sweden What are you interested in? Those who would like to participate in the inclusive preparation group are invited to a first Zoom meeting on 9 December 2024 at 11:30 a.m. (German time). We will then discuss what...
Who are you – and who am I? – Report of a participant at the autumn conference
The theme of the International Conference on Supportive education and inclusive social development was actually: 100 years together, not really celebrating in any concrete way. 100 years after a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner in the summer of 1924 to a rather small audience in Dornach, almost 1,000 people from all over the world gathered...
The HUMAN dance project and its process
This year, the 10th grade of the Rudolf Steiner School Zürcher Oberland participated in the integrative HUMAN dance project together with the people of the Hof Wagenburg. People with and without special needs live at the Hof Wagenburg. Students from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education also danced. In total, we...
Further impressions of the autumn conference from participants
… many positive things – gratitude – diversity – beautiful evening programs – humor – relationship to the Goetheanum – encounters – people from 55 countries – people of almost every age – joy – energy – sensing the future and transformation … What do I take with me in my daily work and what...
The Merkurstab: Special edition “100 years of the Curative Educational Course”
With an article by Jan Göschel on “Curative education and inclusive social development on an anthroposophical basis” as well as further articles by Martin Niemeijer (“The images of the child’s constitution”), Bernd Kalwitz (“Auto-aggression and self-injurious behavior in the supportive education context”), Karl-Reinhard Kummer (“The mystery of autism: an attempt at an inventory”) and Almut...