Dr. Jan Göschel

Head of the Section & Member of the Leadership Team

Dr. Jan Göschel is a long-standing member of the Camphill community at Beaver Run near Philadelphia, where he lives when he is not in Dornach or traveling. In addition to his Section responsibilities, he is president of the Camphill Academy, an association of supportive education and social therapy training centers in the USA and Canada. Before shifting his work primarily to training, he was a high school teacher at The Camphill School. Born and raised in Germany, he spent one year as a volunteer at Camphill Village Minnesota, before studying psychology and Waldorf education in Edinburgh. He later qualified as a special education teacher in the US and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cologne, with a dissertation on child study in anthroposophic curative education.

Regional Focus:

• Switzerland
• North and South America
• Asia-Pacific Region
• Africa

Responsibilities:

• Section leadership (including participation in the Goetheanum leadership)
• Management
• Publications (incl. Editorial Team ‘Perspectives’)
• Professional Education / Training
• Research
• Library and Archive

E-mail: jan.goeschel@goetheanum.ch