St John's Gospel monthly study group
2022-01-30 20:00 - 2022-04-24 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Facilitator: Martin Samson
Working with contemplative phenomenology on the Gospel of John, this ongoing study group will explore an anthroposophical path to awakening the soul and spiritual senses. There will be opportunities for discussion, guidance, and questions around meditation and living a spiritual year.
This study builds on the The Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations led by Martin Samson over Christmastide to Epiphany in 2021-22 and isa prototype for five months to see if it works for everyone involved. After the May evening, it will review to assess its continuation.
Program

Understanding methods of Contemplative Phenomenology.
Working with Rudolf Steiner’s approach to the Gospels, starting with the Gospel of John as an esoteric initiation text.
Understanding meditation from an anthroposophical approach and living with the spiritual cycle of the year.

There is likely to be ongoing work to do between meetings. This will be up to the participants how much they undertake the recommendations.
When and where
8.00pm-9.30pm AEDT on the last Sunday of each month (January through to May) to allow for the various time zones involved
Registration details
Please look at the next panel down on this email for registration detail, or click here
One registration will give you access to five events.
Cost
The recommended donation is $50 for the five events.
To register
You will be sent the zoom link in an email two days before the event. Please login via the Zoom app and not Eventbrite.
Register here!

For more information
For more information or to register after 30 January 2022, please contact Martin Samson

Working with Steiner’s Nine Training Sketches for Painters
2022-02-04 14:00 - 2022-04-22 16:00 | Online
A masterclass studio with artist Fiona Campbell
The Nine Training Sketches motifs were given to the painters as a new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help the artist explore objective spiritual laws. They are a training for the soul.
You are invited to join artist and researcher Fiona Campbell for an online masterclass (six sessions) as she works with these nature mood motifs in preparation for an exhibition. Paint alongside her and share in her process as she works through the series of nine motifs from rough sketch to finished artwork.
You don’t have to be a professional artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course.
What are the Training Sketches?
Steiner gave a series of nine and seven motifs to the artists in the form of rough drawings, as a foundation for the renewal of the art of painting. They were called training sketches, but sometimes people wonder what it is they are training. They are not guides to technique, nor are they supposed to be copied literally. They are not answers to what artworks of sunrises and trees and angels should look like. Rather, they are a training for the soul. What does this mean?
Theses nature mood sketches lead the painter towards an inward experience of each motif. This opens up the way to true moral and spiritual experiences. By learning to unite herself with the inner essence of these motifs, the artist can reveal through her work traces of her soul experience of the cosmos.
Background information
In June 2022 it will have been one hundred years since the painter and sculptor Henny Geck asked Rudolf Steiner for a course that would bring about a renewal of the art of paining. To celebrate this event, the Visual Art Section will hold an Intensive Week at the Goetheanum from 1-8 August 2022 and has invited artists to submit their work for the conference exhibition. Fiona has been working with the training sketches for 25 years and intends to submit works for the exhibition. You can view some of her previous works on these themes here.
Who are the masterclasses for?
For artists, Steiner teachers, art therapists and art students looking to find a path in soul/spiritual development through the arts; and for anyone interested in understanding more about Rudolf Steiner’s impulse in Art.
To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated that participants work alongside Fiona in-class and on their own between sessions.
Required

familiarity with Steiner’s or Goethe’s colour theories
basic watercolour wet-on-dry skills (you can use wet-on-wet or any other painting media, such as oils or acrylics, if you prefer but technical advice is not directed towards these media)

This is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners.
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
4 /18 Feb, 4/18 Mar, 1/22 April
Studio intensive: there will also be a face-to-face weekend studio 4/6 June for intensive work.
The online masterclasses will continue after April if there is enough interest.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $200 for 6×2 hr masterclasses or $40 for individual sessions
Weekend studio: venue and cost tba.
Where do I register?
Contact Fiona to register
Payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings available upon registration.
For more information
For more information about the masterclass or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell
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About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition. She has been a professional artist and arts educator for over 30 years.
She is also teaches interdisciplinary research training and consciousness studies. She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has taught since 1994) or listen to a recent ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Fiona is concurrently offering Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a training for the ordering of the soul for people interested in the spiritual history of humanity, a topic on which she has been giving lectures and workshops for 25 years.

‘and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos’
(Steiner 1-4 January 1915).

Some examples of the process of working with a sketch

Steiner’s Sketch no. 5: Summer Trees

Fiona’s interpretation of no. 5: Summer Trees – in process

Sketch no. 5 Summer Trees – finished work

Featured image: Sketch no. 4: Blossoming Trees, in process
Photos credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a schooling for the ordering of the soul-life
2022-02-12 16:00 - 2022-05-21 17:30 | Online
They ‘lead us to confront the greatest of riddles – that of human destiny’
A series of 7 experiential webinars + weekend studio

Immerse yourself in this unique journey through our soul/spiritual development! From our primeval beginnings, through Lemuria and Atlantis to today and into the 6th Slavic epoch, we can capture something of the ‘quiver’ of recollections of spiritual history lying deep in our soul-life through working actively with these motifs.

What is it about?
This practice-based course explores Steiner’s Goetheanum ceiling sketches, a sequence given to the painters as a picture progression of the spiritual history of humanity. He described them as a training in karmic vision that could potentially awaken a perception of karma. We will work with selected motifs through lecture, study, contemplative observation and drawing.
Background notes
Rudolf Steiner created a substantial portfolio of drawings, pastel sketches and paintings for the renewal of the visual arts, many destined for the interior of the First Goetheanum, with the purpose of helping us find a new relationship to art as a basis of spiritual awakening. The artforms in the first Goetheanum were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
Art works upon the human soul to awaken in it a feeling, a deep feeling, for the spiritual realities of what is portrayed. By actively working with these motifs, we can approach an inner experience of their truths. Not only through the content but through the inward experience of them. By working actively with their forms and processes, we can learn to transform the soul body so that it can prepare itself for karmic awakening.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the first Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola, culminating in the motif of the Representative of Humanity. We will explore these motifs: their gestures, meanings and role in our soul/spiritual evolution.
Program
7 x 1.5hr webinars approx. twice a month on Saturday afternoons, 4.00-5.30pm.
12/2 Workshop 1: The Elohim motif from the Creation trio – completed
26/2 Workshop 2: Lemuria and Atlantis
19/3 Workshop 3: Ancient India – Ancient Greece
2/4 Workshop 4: The IAO motif: the Cosmic Word
23/4 Workshop 5: Faust and his Genius
7/5 Workshop 6: The Germanic and Slavic motifs
21/5 Workshop 7: Lucifer, Ahriman and the Representative of Humanity
Each session includes a short lecture, experiential artwork, contemplation and discussion as the foundation of a schooling for the ordering of our soul life. The series culminates in an optional weekend studio where participants can turn their sketches and studies into artforms that reflect their personal relationship to the evolution of consciousness.
Each session will be recorded and will be available for registrants.
Art material list and background reading suggestions emailed at registration.
Who is it for?
For students of Anthroposophy, Steiner teachers, artists and anyone interested in understanding Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
Beginners in drawing are welcome. You do not need technical skills in the visual arts to find these workshops fruitful. These experiential workshops employ the anthroposophic approach to colour and process but the focus is on experiencing, not learning drawing techniques.
What dates are the workshops?
Saturday afternoons 4.00-5.30pm AEDT (until it ends, then AEST)
Webinar workshops: 12/26 February | 19 March | 2/23 April | 7/21 May
Weekend studio workshop: 3-5 June 2022
Missed most of the webinars but want to join individual sessions?
You can still join us and catch up via the video recordings. Just contact Fiona Campbell
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $200 for full 7 webinars | $33 per individual workshop.
Weekend studio: Linuwel School, Maitland NSW, 3-5 June
What’s included in the price?
A video of each webinar, list of suggested readings and a curated selection of copies of the motifs for private study only.
Where do I register?
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom workshop link and a list of suggested readings and materials. The Zoom link will be sent again one (1) hour before the webinar.
Register here!
Please login for each session via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell and share this flyer with others who might be interested. Thank you!

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition.
In this course Fiona is presenting one of her special interests, the nature of human consciousness, a topic she has lectured on for 25 years. Her artistic research on the Goetheanum motifs complements this interest.
Fiona is also a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where she focuses on her other two specialisations, phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona on her website, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has taught since 1994) or listen to a recent ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Fiona is concurrently offering Working with The Nine Trainings Sketches for the Painters, a masterclass online studio for painters interested in working more deeply with Rudolf Steiner’s training sketches.

‘In the Goetheanum were forms that would awaken a perception of karma’ (April 27, 1924)

Steiner’s Persian Epoch Motif, large cupola, Goetheanum

Steiner’s Egyptian Epoch Motif, large cupola, Goetheanum

Steiner’s Slavic Human Being, small cupola, First Goetheanum

Food for the earth, life for the soil
2022-02-26 10:30 - 2022-05-08 16:30 | SA
Restoring health and balance to the environment through vitality and sensitivity

Hands-on Biodynamic intensives 2022 Module 1

Dates
Saturday 26 Feb /Gladesville
Biodynamic 2-stage no-turn compost. Vortex stirring of soil spray. Seven different composts. Garden problems, pests and diseases. Calendar 1.
Sunday 6 Mar /Annandale (10.30 am -1.30 pm)
Preparing a vegie bed. Soil fertility for degraded and sandy soils. Testing your soil. Carbon capture and storage in your own garden. Planting Calendar 2.
Saturday 26 Mar /Warrah Farm, Dural
Making BD500 and Soil Activator. Farm tour and talk with farm manager. Food security. Added nutrition from BD – grown food. Calendar 3.
Sunday 8 May / Sydney
A day with the stars. Rhythmic planetary relations and dynamic interplay affecting earth. Nodes, eclipses, scientific tests, life forces, film. Sun / Moon / Mercury.
Calendar 4.

Cost

$395, incl. all materials, notes
$330 for 3-year members

Pre-registration by 20 February
For more information, phone 02 9550 1682

Facilitators: Andreas, Daniel, Diane, Steve

Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs
2022-03-14 19:30 - 2022-04-13 20:30 | Online
with Dr Adam Blanning
Courtesy of the Pedagogical Section in Australia, a 6-week on-line study preparation and a 4-week online Saturday morning Therapist’s and Doctor’s Course, open to teachers who have committed to the prior study with Dr Adam Blanning.

Study Group preparation sessions
6 Monday evenings 7.30-8.30pm
Working on Dr Adam Blanning’s book Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs with Curative Educator Barbara Baldwin and consultant in special needs in Steiner education, Dr Jackie Cox-Taylor.
Two weeks study on each polarity March 14th, 21st, 28th and April 4th, 11th, 18th

When
4 Saturday Morning Sessions 8 – 9.30 am April 30th, May 7th, 14th, 21st
Enlivening our observation skills allows us to see consistent behavioural dynamics that show up in children’s movement, learning, sensing and memory. Diverse therapeutic indications are given that will encourage children to unfold new growth and maturation, from the inside out.
Bookings
Trybooking
Total Cost: $290 AU
For more information
Contact Peggy Day, Pedagogical Section
