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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 –...
How Children learn to Walk, Speak and Think 3rd edition May 2023 Floris Books ISBN: 978-1-7825-0847-2 In his classic work on early childhood development, Karl König explores the first three years of a child’s life by examining the three major achievements that occur during this stage: learning to walk, speak and think. These are three...
Jos Meereboer 1. Auflage 2023 Verlag am Goetheanum ISBN: 978-3-7235-1720-8 Menschen mit Autismus erleben die Welt – in unterschiedlich starkem Maße – oft wie von außerhalb und müssen sich teils ihrer eigenen leiblichen Wirklichkeit durch zunächst für Außenstehende schwer verständliche Handlungen vergewissern. Der erfahrene niederländische Heilpädagoge Jos Meereboer legt mit dieser einfühlsamen und anschaulichen Schrift...
