Our Field of Work
Our interdisciplinary network covers a wide spectrum of specific areas of work, organizations and professions. They are connected by a shared set of goals:
- To contribute to the development of societies, in which all human beings can live a fulfilled life;
- To do so by working in situations where the possibility of a fulfilled life is at risk because of a disconnect between an individual biographical situation and the conditions of the human environment (as in the case of disabilities or fragile social, cultural and economic circumstances);
- And to always connect support for the development and growth of the individual human being at the center with support for the development and growth of the human and social environment.
The people, associations and organizations that work together in the Section for Inclusive Social Development support people in all phases of life. They facilitate access to education, health and social inclusion for children, youth and adults. They do so in dialogue with other organizations in the fields of disabilities, special and inclusive education, social pedagogy, social work, social therapy, social psychiatry and other related pedagogical, social and therapeutic professions.
Different names and definitions exist for many of these professional disciplines in the various countries and regions around the world. The Section’s partner organizations therefore each take different national and regional conditions, systems and concepts as their starting point, but also try to set new and innovative accents and impulses that go beyond existing approaches, working methods and professional profiles. What the partner organizations of the Section have in common is that they find an essential basis for their work in anthroposophical spiritual science with its transdisciplinary and contemplatively expanded approach to the human being and the world, as founded by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and further developed in a wide range of fields of practice since then.
In Rudolf Steiner’s ‘Curative Education Course’ in particular, this perspective continues to be a source of inspiration for the Council’s member organizations, and they continue to carry together the worldwide movement for anthroposophic curative education and social therapy that has grown out of this course.
The partnership with the Section enables the participating people and organizations to work together in a collegial way worldwide, in connection with the School of Spiritual Science, with its headquarters at the Goetheanum in Dornach (Switzerland) and in cooperation with its other sections and fields of work.
Charter Inclusive Social Development on an Anthroposophic Basis: German | English