In October 2022, the annual autumn conference of the Anthroposophic Council for Inclusive Social Development took place at the Goetheanum with the theme “Vulnerability – Love – Balance”. The Future Shapers team facilitated a 3-day online workshop with the title “Communities of the Future”. It was based on the work of our international Study Group,...
The integration of the Council’s professional library into the Goetheanum Library catalog system is underway. This will make it much easier for researchers and interested parties to access the most comprehensive collection of literature on the Council’s field of work. The Council’s specialized library for anthroposophic curative education, social pedagogy, social therapy and social work...
Report by Sonja Zausch The Social Therapy Working Group met in Zurich/Switzerland for its autumn conference in October – shortly after the international conference in Dornach. The host institution was “Zürcher Eingliederung” and the host was Udo Pfeil, who is the workshop manager here. We have received wonderfully diverse impressions from an organization that is...
Report by Sonja Zausch Filled with the warm autumn sun, ripe fruits, warm people and powerful nature in the southern Bulgarian region near the Greek and Macedonian borders, I write these lines. The association SOFERA was founded four years ago by parents, therapists and pedagogues. A place for social farming – with regular meetings of...
For some years now, modular professional education in anthroposophical curative education has been taking place at the Waldorf teacher training organization Gita – Centro antroposófico in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. The course is aimed at teachers, doctors, therapists, psychologists and social workers from all over Mexico. The first group is currently preparing to graduate...
This year’s autumn conference, which was attended by 450 people with and without special needs from about thirty countries, offered diverse ways of access to the broad field of health: from Argentina on neglect and abandonment, from Georgia on being open in meeting others, from early childhood therapy, the gentle gesture towards trust; also: how...
After 3 years of covid-related restrictions, we were finally able to organize an in presence convention in Italy last August, in the beautiful Steiner School “Novalis” in Conegliano (TV). Since 1992 the Italian Association for Curative Education and Social Therapy has been active in connecting people and organizing lectures and conferences. Although we have been...
The Camphill Research Symposium will be held this year on November 10 and 11, 2022, on-site at Camphill Soltane and online, with contributions from various current research projects on community, arts, and inclusion from Camphill worldwide. The registration is free of charge. (Language English) Flyer for download Download program
Lebendiger Dialog (Living Dialogue). A Film by Pascale Karlin and Joël Karlin (2022) (German with German, English and Spanish subtitles) In accompanying people with autism, we are challenged in ways that we probably only experience as essential here. It’s like feeling our way through a space where we never know what we’ll encounter or be...
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: Klaus-Peter Freitag – Inclusion and Waldorf Education Christine Gruwez – The Colorfulness of the Cross Doris Unger – In...
