Online registration closes on October 5, 16:00 GMT+2 Now also online: Education – always! Developing what lives in me and moves the world Goetheanum, Dornach (CH), Oktober 5-9, 2020 – and online everywhere! This year’s major international Autumn Conference for Curative Education and Social Therapy will take place at the Goetheanum in Dornach (Switzerland) from...
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The human encounter as the basis of care and support: A new article by Sebastian Monteux and Angelika Monteux
Sebastian Monteux and Angelika Monteux’s article “Human encounters: The core of everyday care practice” appeared in the scholarly periodical “International Journal of Social Pedagogy” on September 7, 2020. Abstract: Although there is increasing recognition within health and social care policy that relationships are central within ‘people work’, little attention is given to exploring the nature...
Child Study – 3rd Lecture of the Latin American Lecture Series (10 September 2020)
We are pleased to announce the next lecture in our open Latin American lecture series: «La observación del niño-joven como camino interior» – Marcela Almeyda (Argentina) (Child study as an inner path) Marcela Almeyda is a psycho-pedagogue (special needs teacher), active for many years in inclusive Waldorf schools and co-founder and member of the leadership...
Im Gedenken an Renate Sleigh (3.12.1930-3.7.2020)
Renate Sleigh, die Pionierin der Camphill-Bewegung in Afrika, ist am 3. Juli 2020 im Alter von 89 Jahren in Kapstadt verstorben. In grosser Dankbarkeit für ihren lebenslangen Einsatz für den Gemeinschaftsbildungsimpuls der Camphill-Bewegung und die anthroposophische Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie dürfen wir mit Ihnen hier zwei Texte teilen: eine biografische Skizze von Anne Weise sowie eine...
Obituary Dr. Wolfgang Feuerstack (16.05.1929 – 21.08.2020)
Wolfgang Feuerstack, the founder of the Weckelweiler Gemeinschaften, was a member of the executive council of the Association of Anthroposophic Institutions for Curative Education and Social Therapy (Verband anthroposophischer Einrichtungen für Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie e.V.) from 1986–94, and as such was for many years a member of the Section Circle of the International Conference for...
The School on the Hill: 2nd lecture of the Latin American Lecture Series (August 27, 2020)
We are pleased to announce the second lecture of the new Latin American open lecture series: «El Colegio del Cerro: Una experiencia de pedagogía curativa al aire libre» – Sol Sepúlveda (Chile) (The school on the hill: experiences from curative education in the open air) Sol Sepúlveda works in the therapeutic area of the Alexander...
The social therapy community in Roshni, Pakistan
A current report based on mail correspondence between Alexander Kühne – farmer and house representative in Roshni and country delegate from Pakistan for the Council – and Sonja Zausch – member of the Council’s leadership team. Basically things are going very well on the island of the community. The supporting association responsibly takes over the...
Emergency Support for Step Together Association (Beirut, Libanon)
The Step Together Association in North Beirut is the only center of anthroposophic curative education in Lebanon. Already struggling as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing political, economic and social crisis in the country, the Step Together community has now been hit – like its neighbors – by the devastating explosion that...
Living In Between Spaces – Webinar Series of the World Social Initiative Forum
Our partner, the World Social Initiative Forum (WSIF), has launched a series of webinars on current issues of the global social future. The pandemic has uncovered so many systemic problems on a global scale that almost everyone sees the need for a drastic paradigm shift – showing strong resistance to return to what was “normal”....