The novel ‘Burgschattenkinder’ illuminates the post-war history in dealing with people with disabilities with obviously personal experiences and a search for truth. Read the detailed review by Sonja Zausch, published in ‹Das Goetheanum› No. 45/2023: Download as PDF (German)
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5th Meeting of Partners of the Federação Hispano-Portuguesa
“Grab the Fish, don’t let it escape. The Encounter as a Path” This has been the motto of the IV Spanish-Portuguese Meeting of Companions, which the institutions of the Spanish-Portuguese Federation of Curative Pedagogy and Social Therapy organize biannually, since the first meeting was held in 2014. On this occasion, being the itinerant meeting between...
ECCE Has Concluded Its Work
On Sept. 25, the General Assembly of the European Co-operation in Anthroposophical Curative Education and Social Therapy (ECCE) took the final decision to discontinue ECCE. The 2022 and 2023 financial reports were approved, the directors were discharged and the earlier decision to donate the remaining financial surplus to the Council was ratified. This concluded an...
Impressions from the Conference on Religion and Spirituality
From 4 to 6 October 2023, about 80 people from the field of curative education and inclusive social development came together at the Goetheanum in Dornach to work on questions about the role of religion, ritual and spirituality. It was an open and warm-hearted collaboration, from which new impulses and further questions emerged. The pictures...
2023 Council Delegates Annual Meeting
This year’s conference from 06.-08.10.23 with the country delegates was entirely focussed on the planning of the anniversary conference of the curative education course with the founding of the new Section for Inclusive Social Development from 02.-06.10.2024 at the Goetheanum in Dornach! With a lot of enthusiasm and creativity, we have planned a great program...
Meeting of the International Training Council in Sekem (Egypt)
The Training Council (the coordination group of the International Training Circle) held its autumn meeting in Sekem in Egypt. We discussed with our colleagues perspectives on the design of curative education tasks within the framework of the local Waldorf school and vocational training. For a year now, a 3-year basic course in anthroposophy, curative education...
Start of the new Asia-Pacific Training in Bangkok
The first module of the Asia-Pacific training in Curative Education and Social Therapy took place in October in Bangkok, Thailand. This newly established program for English speaking Asia welcomed more than 40 participants from Malaysia, China and the Philippines, as well as Thailand. The program is an initiative of the Anthroposophic Medical Association in Thailand...
“Community in Conversation – Learning Inclusion Together”
A cordial “Save the Date” to the inclusive conference “Community in Conversation – Learning Inclusion Together” from 08–11.05.2024 in Altenschlirf in the middle of Germany. “Save the Date” means that you make a note of the date of the conference because you would like to attend. The conference is organized in cooperation with the partner...
Support for Kfar Rafael
With good thoughts and wishes for safety and peace for all those directly affected by the war, we pass on the request for support that has reached us from the social therapeutic community Kfar Rafael in the south of Israel. Almost the entire community had to be evacuated due to the war to ensure physical...
Perspectives 2023-3 – Online now!
The new issue of the journal Anthroposophic Perspectives in Inclusive Social Development is now available – as always bilingual (German and English), in print and online! In the current issue you will find the following articles: Thomas Suska – The Social Therapeutic Task in the Field of Tension between Individuation and Socialization Joan Sleigh –...