Anthroposophical Society in Australia

Deepening The Script In Daily Life
2021-10-30 16:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Finding the path to the future through cosmic & earthly renewal of the Script in ourselves
The 3rd Etheric Geography webinar from the Stream of Life research group.

Looking for forces of renewal as we emerge from lockdown?
Wanting to deepen your connection to the enlivening forces of the World Script?
Then join us for our 2-hour webinar building on the work of Enlivening the Script Within, this time with the Cosmic Sun as our guide to lead us towards Advent, the festival of light.

What is it about?

This webinar returns to the format of the first webinar, Reading the World Script, with visual lectures and some contemplative exercises but now we turn from moon and water look to further possibilities of renewal through deepening the Cosmic Sun forces in our daily life. Continuing the macrocosmic, mesocosmic and microcosmic theme, we will work further with our connection to the salutogenic forces inherent in our thinking and imaginative life. For when we connect to the source of living thought, we ignite the light of the generative forces in our being.
Program
Do I have to have attended the earlier webinars?
No, the webinar is open to anyone and everyone interested in this theme. Recordings will be available for a small donation if you cannot attend.
Cost
$20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated
How to register
Register here!

Enquiries
Please contact Fiona Campbell or Martin Samson
Stream of Life Presenters
Martin Samson, author, poetic philosopher and theologian
Dr Fiona Campbell, cognition and creativity researcher, lecturer and artist
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic naturopath and integrative health consultant

The Two Marys: a pictorial contemplation for Advent
2021-12-05 17:00 - 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the mystery of the Solomon and Nathan Marys
This Advent webinar ponders the mystery of the two picture imaginations given by Rudolf Steiner on the two differing Nativity events, as described by St Matthew and St Luke.
Illustrating the talk with images of the Madonna from the great masters, from Rudolf Steiner and from her own interpretations on this intriguing theme, Dr Fiona Campbell explores the polarity of the old and young souls of the two Marys, wisdom in one, innocence in the other, through colour, mood, gesture and motif.
Registration
Register here!

Cost: $20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated.
Date: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, Sunday 5th December 2021
Presenter: Dr Fiona Campbell trained at Tobias School of Art and Therapy in England in visual arts and artistic therapy. She has been painting and pondering the Madonna theme for over 20 years.
For more information
Please see the flyer or contact Fiona Campbell

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2021-12-25 19:00 - 2022-01-05 19:45 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
The Festival of Christmas as the Renewal of the Faculty of Memory
and
The Inner Structure of the Cycle of the Year Reflected in the Twelve Days of Christmas
Presenter: Martin Samson

This online event will be presented as a contemplation with conversational deepening.
In each session there will be a half-hour consideration of the two themes, which complement each other and set a mood of soul for participants to work with over the ensuing night and day. The final minutes of the session will be for any further considerations and nuances that will help grow the work over the Christmas season in preparation for the coming year. The hope is that each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for resetting our soul for the work in the coming year.
Registration details
Register here
Recommended donation $50
Once registered, you will be sent the Zoom link two (2) days beforehand. Be sure to enter the event via this Zoom link, not via Eventbrite.
The session will start exactly five (5) minutes past 7pm (7.05pm)AEDT and it is recommended that you join the link a few minutes early. The link will be open 5 minutes before 7.00pm.
If there is enough interest there will also be an event at Epiphany on 6th January, to bring the process to completion.
Recommended reading
The section on Christmas in Sergei O Prokofieff’s book The Cycle of the Year.
For those who cannot attend
The contemplations will be recorded for people who have registered but can’t participate in person. They can be accessed and watched later.
For more information
See the flyer or contact Martin Samson

Image credit: William Blake, Illustration 1 to Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”: The Descent of Peace, 1814-1816., pen and watercolour. (courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)

What is Transformative Art & Architecture?
2022-01-20 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This online free public lecture by Johannes Schuster introduces the concepts underlying Transformative Art & Architecture and precedes a three-weekend course on this topic.
The question of Transformative Art & Architecture raises questions about the nature of ‘anthroposophical’ architecture:

Does it exist? Some well-known ‘anthroposophical’ architects think it doesn’t.
If it does exist, what are its aims and methods?
Does the Consciousness Soul Age ask us to think differently about future forms of Art & Architecture?
If so, what is the new Element of the Age and how are we to work with it as artists and architects ?

Online link to the lecture
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84860687920?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 848 6068 7920
Passcode: [REDACTED]
For more information
For more information, check the flyer here or for details of the weekend course, here or contact Johannes Schuster.

The Four Ethers and Universal Beauty
2022-01-22 - 2022-02-20 | Online
Universal Beauty has the power to transform
Presenters: Johannes and Sue Schuster
An online seminar over 3 alternate weekends

Great works of art have the ability to affect us on such a deep level that we may suddenly experience tears of joy or even speechlessness. Great works of art all share a quality of timelessness which transcends their Age, with an ability not just to awaken, but with a power to transform us. It seems that when such works of art touch on the good, the true and the beautiful, that they have ‘Universal Beauty.’
This seminar explores the nature of Universal Beauty in connection with Nature’s language of form, through the form signatures of the four elements, the four ethers and the four connected physical forces. Together these form four polarities, which Ernst Marti identified as Nature’s World Formula [1] This ‘world formula’ gives us a profound insight as to how spirit connects with matter, which is the key question for Transformative Art & Architecture.
Program
Over three alternating weekends, we will explore the question of how physical matter can be raised through art, to resonate on a higher etheric level, by employing the same vital life principles which nature uses. The point is not to copy nature’s forms, but rather understanding the form signatures of her underlying forces.
Johannes will explore the theoretic basis of the four ethers in morning lectures and discussions, whilst Sue will take the afternoon art practice sessions in drawing and clay modelling.
Enrolment details
Enrol here!
For more information
You can find more information about this course, including costs and program details, here or contact Johannes directly: 0414 724 587

[1] Marti, E., 2017. The Etheric: Broadening Science through Anthroposophy, Volume 1: The World of the Ethers (Vol. 1). Temple Lodge Publishing.

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 (Australia/Sydney) | 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
You may also like to share this flyer with others.

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 (Australia/Sydney) | 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

The Zodiac in Acting and Eurythmy
2022-02-19 09:00 - 10:00 (Australia/Sydney)
An Interview with Dawn Langman

Dawn Langman explores the fundamentals of Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique and the metaphysical principles on which it is based. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of humanity’s evolving consciousness.
Theodor Hundhammer is the founder of Eurythmy4you, an organisation that produces and ever increasing number of wonderful online courses and trainings in eurythmy, as well as engaging in extensive research about the therapeutic and health giving benefits of eurythmy. More recently Theodor has begun the Interview Show, either directly or indirectly related to eurythmy. Previous recordings can be found here.

This month Theodor is interviewing Dawn Langman

When?
Saturday 19th February, 2022
9:00am AEDT
8:30am ACDT
8:00am AEST
7:30am ACST
6:00am AWST

About Dawn Langman
Dawn Langman taught Speech Formation for ten years at Emerson College in Sussex. Following this, Dawn trained in Michael Chekhov’s acting technique in New York. Returning to Australia, she continued to research the integration of Speech Formation with Chekhov’s technique. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of humanity’s evolving consciousness. She currently teaches this methodology at the Drama Centre, Flinders University, South Australia.
In the interview, Dawn will speak about her new book and explain why we should pay attention to the zodiac in acting and eurythmy. Interested parties simply register and receive the link to the live stream free of charge. Further information can be found here.

Feature image: courtesy of Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar

Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs
2022-03-14 19:30 - 2022-04-13 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 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

2022 AGM of the Anthroposophical Society in Australia
2022-04-16
Hosted by the South Australian branch
A full day hybrid event in Adelaide, South Australia

The 2022 AGM of the ASinA will be hosted by the South Australian branch over the Easter weekend.

The online AGM program (below) is on Holy Saturday, 16 April 2022 from 10.o0am – 3.00pm ACST / 10:30am AEST / 8:30am WST.

Please contact your local state branch coordinator for the Zoom links.

AGM Online Program AEST

10.30am

(Broadcast from Adelaide)

Acknowledgement of Country
Introducing the Youth Section of Oceania

11.00am

2022 Welcome to AGM

Chairperson: Deborah Neale
Verse: Peter Fern
Reports and other business

12.15pm

Acknowledgements and Closing
Verse: Peter Fern

12.30pm
Lunch break

1.30pm

‘If our work on virtue (truth, courage and love) is without a relationship to Christ, is it anthroposophical?’

Thoughts on the relevance of Easter for the Anthroposophical Society today.

Presented by the Stream of Life Research Studio

3.00pm
Closing words from General Secretary Jane Bradshaw

7.30pm
(for Adelaide participants only)

‘Finding a bridge to courage, love and truth’
An evening of poetry, story, eurythmy and music with Jo-anne Sarre, Katrina Stowe and Anna Kotanidis. Special guest David Booth.
Aldinga Arts Eco Village
173 Port Road, Aldinga 5173

For more information
For information about the AGM, please contact Jane Bradshaw

For information about the live events in Adelaide, please contact Lyn Mayblom

The Empty Tomb
2022-04-17 17:00 - 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An Easter Sunday Pictorial Contemplation
With artist and phenomenologist Fiona Campbell

This Easter Sunday afternoon webinar ponders the significance of the empty tomb for apostles Peter, John and Thomas in light of their special destinies.

St John’s Gospel provides us with unique portrayals of the apostles through descriptive scenes that hold keys to their particular paths through discipleship before and after the Resurrection. There is much about these three individualities that is significant for us today.
Using the paintings of two modern masters, Fiona Campbell will lead us through a contemplation of their artworks using an immersive form of phenomenological observation called ‘beholding’ that allows us to experience an artwork from within it.
Suggested reading: John 20
Registration
Register here!
Payment and Registration Details
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via the Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
A recording of the webinar will be available.
Cost: $20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated.
Date: 5.00pm – 6.39pm AEsT, Sunday 17th April 2022
Presenter: Dr Fiona Campbell teaches interdisciplinary research training, communications and consciousness studies. She has a special interest in Goethean phenomenology and creative thinking. She is also a professional artist, trained at Tobias School of Art and Therapy in England in visual arts and artistic therapy. She has been painting and pondering the Easter theme for over 20 years.
For more information
Please see the flyer or contact Fiona Campbell

The Heart in a Radiance of Stars
2022-05-13 - 2022-05-15
Presenters: Gillian Rogers, Irmhild Kleinhenz, Iris Curteis
These times present a call to individuals and communities to find new ways of being, to cultivate courage and a deep recognition for the interconnectedness of life in all its visible and invisible forms.
This series of online presentations will explore heart-thinking and the development and evolution of the etheric heart to find greater strength and insight to meet these challenges. Using storytelling, shared research and conversation, we will deepen our appreciation and understanding of the transformative capacity of the heart as an instrument for spiritual perception and heightened social consciousness.

Program
5 March, 2 April, 13-15 May
Over three weekends: two sessions online and culminating in May in a face-to-face three-day seminar in Dorrigo, northern NSW.
Venue
Online, with the seminar venue in Dorrigo, NSW.
Cost

Online sessions $50.00 per session
$80.00 for two sessions
Seminar $300.00 (not including food and accommodation)
To book
Transfer fees to Gillian Rogers
Commonwealth Bank Glebe
BSB 062172
Acc 00652362
Please add your name and the date of the session/s you are booking in to.
For more information
Read the flyer about this course, including program and presenter details, or contact Iris Curteis for more information.

Foundation Course in Holistic Biography Work
2022-08-11 - 2022-08-14 | Online
Foundation Course
Take Charge of your life: Apply the resources of Holistic Biography work.
The Foundation Course is designed to assist with taking charge of one’s life’s journey. It facilitates deeper understanding of the physical, social and mental developmental stages in one’s life.

This course is the pre-requisite for joining our 3-year Online Training Program.
It is also available as a stand-alone course for personal or professional development – either as Learning Pack only, or with optional online real-time sessions.
To receive the preparatory Learning Pack enrol before July 2022
When and how
Thursday 11/08/2022 – Sunday 14/08/2022
Online Sessions, 5 hours/day
Cost
Fee: 470 AUD
For more information
Look here for more information about the course or please contact Karl-Heinze Finke

Callout for support: the APOAM Australian Post Graduate Orientation in Anthroposophic Medicine
2022-08-20 09:30 - 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
National Meeting for advance planning for
the APOAM Australian Post Graduate Orientation in Anthroposophic Medicine

Dear Members,
John and Sarah from the initial working group of the Australian Orientation in Anthroposophic Medicine (AOAM) would like to invite you to a Zoom meeting to share our initiative for this course. The initial inspiration for the course as well as where we are up to and what the next steps are that need to be taken in order for this to come to fruition will all be addressed in the meeting.
We are looking for support in particular areas, to be discussed during the meeting.
Skills required to implement this initiative
These areas include practical and networking skills, for example, finding and managing a venue, accommodation and catering, event management, general website administration, IT administrator for the online modules, marketing and publicity and financial/accounts management.
Agenda

An overview of the proposed course and current working group.
Overview of the curriculum.
Roles we are looking for help in and setting a date to formalise the uptake of roles.
Q & A

How to join the meeting
Time: 9:30 AM – 11 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
Date: Saturday August 20, 2022
Join Zoom here
Meeting ID: 837 3332 8848
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Want to find out more?
For further information please contact John Holmes

Tranformative Art & Architecture (TAA) Module 3
2022-08-25 08:00 - 2022-09-25 17:00 (Australia/Sydney)
The Human Being as Measure of All Things
Architectural Form and the Evolution of Consciousness

A Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA) seminar
An online 6-day seminar over 3 alternating weekends and 4 midweek evenings, starting on Saturday 27th August 2022, 9.45 am
What is it about?
To be able to objectively evaluate architectural form we must base our judgements on an objective set of criteria. From a spiritual perspective, the only truly objective criteria we have are those connected with the spiritual and physical nature of the human being.
The human being represents the 4th kingdom of nature, which stands in a close relationship to the three lower, animal, plant and mineral kingdoms . In this module we explore this very relationship between the four nature kingdoms. The progression of consciousness from the mineral – plant – and animal – to the human kingdom provides us with valuable insights as to the hierarchy of form as well as the link between form and consciousness. We conclude with a specific set of evaluation criteria.
Program
Over the three weekends participants will gain practical and theoretic insights into the following questions:

Why and how is the human being a universal point of reference for Architectural Form?
How is the development of consciousness mirrored both in the historic forms of art & architecture and in the forms of the 4 kingdoms of nature?
What relevance does the ascending hierarchy of form have with respect to our modern forms of art & architecture?
What is the Threefoldness of the Human Being and how is this mirrored in Architectural Form?
What is the relationship between the 3 dimensions of space and our faculties of thinking, feeling and willing?
What is the architectural equivalent of the “body” “soul” and “spirit”, of a building?
What objective criteria do we have by which architectural form is elevated to a higher level of consciousness?

Open lecture: Introductory Lecture about the aims and methods of Transformative Art & Architecture
Date: Thursday, 25th August 2022 7.30 – 9 pm (Melbourne Time)
This lecture is open to all and is compulsory for all new TAA students. Dedicated Zoom Link
If you cannot attend the lecture, a recording of a similar lecture is available via this Vimeo link.
Dates

Module 3-Level I will be offered over 3 alternating weekends and 4 midweek evenings, starting on Saturday 27th August 2022, 9.45 am
Cost

Discount rate if paid upfront for the full course

Professional: $900 (3 x $300)
Concession: $675 (3 x $225)
For Students: $450 (3 x $50)
Normal rate if paid per weekend
Professional: $1150 (3 x $350)
Concession: $825 (3 x $275)
For Students: $600 (3 x $200)
All payments dues in advance by the preceding Tuesday/s. The first payment due by Tuesday 23rd August 2022.
How to enrol
Complete this enrolment form and send it to Johannes & Sue
Upon payment you will receive an email the receipt, a more detailed program and the relevant zoom link which will remain the same for all sessions.
For more information
For more information, please visit the Biosculptural Architecture website

Working with Steiner's Seven School Sketches - further training for the artist
2022-09-02 14:00 - 2022-11-25 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A masterclass studio with artist Fiona Campbell
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches motifs were given to the teachers as part of Rudolf Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore objective spiritual laws, where form arises out of colour, not the reverse. The series moves from nature moods through the four elements to culminate in a Madonna and Child motif.

What are the Training Sketches?
Theses sketches are part of a comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs form a substantial part of this portfolio.
But these sketches are not images of external natural events; they refer to acts that are effective in nature and human, says Christiane Haid, head of the Visual Arts Section and the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities at the Goetheanum. She believes dealing with the creative forces can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
You are invited to join artist and researcher Fiona Campbell for an online masterclass (seven sessions) as she works with these motifs as culmination of a year-long project to bring Steiner’s sketches and motifs to celebrate the centenary of Steiner’s gift to visual artists of the comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists.
You don’t have to be a professional artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course.
A training for the configuration of the soul
They are 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 people should look like. Rather, they are a training for the soul. What does this mean?
Through working with each sketch, the painted is lead towards an inward experience of the 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.
Historical background
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. Steiner gave a series of motifs to the artists in the form of rough sketches, as a foundation for the renewal of the art of painting. the foundational program for painters seeking to work out of Anthroposophy. This program is comparable to the indications he gave to the eurythmists and has been practiced in different forms in anthroposophic art trainings since Steiner first gave the Nine Training Sketches to artist Henni Geck 100 years ago.
These masterclasses are part of a worldwide movement this year to celebrate Steiner’s artistic impulse, including the Goetheanum motifs, on the centenary of the burning down of the First Goetheanum. They are also offering lectures and courses to help realise Rudolf Steiner’s vision of a new impulse in the arts and make these motifs visible to the wider public.
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
2/16/30 September, 14/28 October, 11/25 November.
Session 1: Sunrise
Session 2: Sunset
Session 3: Trees in Sunny Air
Session 4: Trees in Storm
Session 5: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall
Session 6: Head Study
Session 7: Madonna and Child
How much does it cost?
Online series: $250 for 7×2 hr masterclasses or $42 for individual sessions.
Where do I register?
Register here!
Please register online. If you are a new participant please also complete the enrolment form.
You can download the enrolment form here (payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings included). The Zoom link will sent to you a few days before class.
Edited versions of the masterclasses are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
For more information
For more information about the masterclass or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell
You may also like to share this flyer with others.

About Fiona Campbell and her work

https://www.anthroposophyau.org.au/wp-content/uploads/CampbellSunMoonTreesVideoV6.mp4

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.

‘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).

Photo credit: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall, © Fiona Campbell

Parsifal Reimagined: Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project
2022-09-17 15:30 - 2022-11-12 17:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
presents
Parsifal Reimagined
A series of 5 creative writing workshops
reimagining the Parsifal legend for today’s world
Workshop facilitator: Fiona Campbell

“A journey of life and transformation
The light and darkness in our souls
The careless hero, the broken sword
The suffering king, the wasteland, the rite of life
The many maidens on the hero’s path
From dullness through doubt to glory”

How can we portray these many forms of ‘Grail’ experiences for our time? What is the story we are telling ourselves? And where will our narrative take us? Through creative writing, we seek to answer these questions for ourselves while also contributing together to the development of a new and original performance artwork.
Participate in this creation of performance art!
Come join our online fortnightly writing workshops to be part of this process as we work towards developing a script for our stage production in 2023. You don’t have to be a writer to enjoy these workshops, just a love of literature and bringing it to life.
Find out what it is like to be part of interactive community building working towards a multicultural, multimedia stage performance, as we explore the themes and our own meanings of the Parzival and Grail legends through the creative word.
A Poetry and Prose Reading
We anticipate the workshops will culminate in a Poetry and Prose Reading event on 26 November for participants to share their works with family and friends. This will be a hybrid event, online and on-the-ground in Mt Barker, SA, hosted by Ink Pots Arts.
Tell me more …
This series of fortnightly workshops builds on the material introduced in Stage 1: Parsifal Unpacked. Having deconstructed the interwoven storylines of the Parsifal, Grail and Arthurian legends, we now use this material as inspiration for reimagining this medieval epic using our own words and cultural contexts.
Each workshop uses one key theme elicited from Stage 1 as a prompt to explore its mood and meaning, using different techniques to evoke poems, short stories and imaginative word pictures.
These workshops will also provide the foundation for the Stage 3 script development.
Who are they for?
For anyone who wants to explore the Parzival legend through the creative word; who would like to deepen their own relationship to this story; or who enjoys being creative through crafting imaginative word pictures in community with others.
You do not have to be a practised writer to enjoy these workshops. The workshops provides both structured and unstructured exercises to help you learn how to craft with words.
Budding writers and poets of all levels of experience welcome!
Participation in Parsifal Unpacked is not prerequisite, but you do need a working knowledge of the story to get the most out of these workshops. Here are some helpful resources.
Readings and resources
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Perceval le Gallois by Chrétien de Troyes
Parzival: An Introduction by Eileen Hutchins
The Camelot Project, a digital library guide to people, places and images
Parsifal the opera, an online resources with background notes
Christ and the spiritual world – the search for the Holy Grail, GA 149, a lecture by Rudolf Steiner
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 3.30-5.30 pm ACST
Webinar workshops: 17 September | 1 October | 15 October | 29 October | 12 November
Poetry and Prose Reading: 26 November, time to yet decided
How much does it cost?
$200 full workshop series or $160 for students (proof/documentation required)
Where do I register?
You can register here

Find out more …
Download the flyer and share!
Find out more about The Parsifal Project here
Contact Artistic Director Jo-anne Sarre

This course is Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project, a year-long multimedia community project.

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth.” Rumi

About the facilitator
Fiona Campbell, workshop facilitator and project creative consultant
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist, writer and arts educator for 30 years.
Fiona trained in visual arts at Tobias School of Art, England and is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio which explores the phenomenological nature and spirituality in human life; she also teaches research training, cultural and consciousness studies in higher education.
Fiona has taught writing for audiences and worked on a number of creative writing research projects at the University of Technology, Sydney as well as writing blogs, articles and a descriptive form of characterisation used in phenomenological studies.
As well as her doctorate (UTS), she holds a BA Honours in English & Linguistics (Macquarie University), a MA in Information Science (UTS) and a diploma in Waldorf Education (Emerson College), a diverse range of studies and trainings that inform her teaching, creative work and research work. She also has specialist knowledge in Communications, Anthroposophic studies, sacred art and cultural studies, notably the Arthurian and Grail legends.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview about her anthroposophic-inspired approach to painting.

Featured image: In the fog, courtesy Creative Commons (CC)
Inserted mage: Parsifal, Odilon Redon, c. 1891, courtesy of Getty Images
Photos: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

The great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off
2022-09-24 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
…and the tragedy of duality in our time
The 1st of 3 practice-based webinars exploring key challenges of 5th epoch, 6th epoch and our cosmic future
as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum
Presenter: Fiona Campbell

We are familiar with the figures of Lucifer and Ahriman as portrayed in Rudolf Steiner’s definitive sculpture, the Representative of Humanity. There, both beings are held in balance by the shining figure of the Christ Being. Yet in daily life, it is the spectre of Ahriman that shadows us continually, through our engagement with technologies that both ease and complicate everyday tasks. Lucifer seems to recede into the background of our consciousness as more an eternal archetype than a current concern, a figure, perhaps, from the Biblical past.

Yet the motif of the Soul of our 5th Post-Atlantean epoch (left) shows both Lucifer and Ahriman irretrievably enmeshed, and not held apart by Christ. So we can ask the question: do we really understand their interwoven relationship and its consequences for us in contemporary life? That where one being is, the other is also always present? As a counterpart?
Rudolf Steiner describes this dual principle as an inescapable tragedy for the modern soul. So, how can we grapple with this? In the motifs that filled the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, we find some answers.

Tell me more …
This is the first of three intensive, practiced-based webinars that aim to deepen the work introduced in the Goetheanum Epoch Motifs series earlier this year. Questions about their relevance to today and how they could guide our future development emerged during this series. Let’s examine these questions further through immersing ourselves in the motifs.
Three webinars on the theme
Each webinars revisit one of the three motifs that embody our present, future and cosmic stage motifs of Steiner’s Goetheanum ceiling sketches. The three webinars concern:

The great Lucifer and Ahriman face-off and the tragedy of duality in our time | The Germanic/Persian motif |
The future of dualism: facing our shadow self | The Slavic motif |
The correlation between the IAO motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation | The IAO motif |

Each motif embodies a soul stage of human development – for the 5th epoch (current), the 6th epoch (future) and for our cosmic, eternal image.
We will explore these three motifs through their gestures, meanings and role in our soul/spiritual evolution using lecture, discussion, contemplation and some drawing.
Who are the webinars for?
For students of Anthroposophy, Steiner teachers, artists and anyone interested in understanding Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
You do not need to have attended the first Epochs series, nor do you need drawing skills to enjoy these workshops: the focus is on the experiencing the content through doing, not learning drawing techniques.
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEST
Webinar workshops: 24 September | 22 October | 26 November
Each session will be recorded and will be available for registrants.
Drawing materials list and background reading suggestions emailed at registration.
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $100 for 3 webinars | $40 per webinar | Concessions available – please contact Fiona.
Where do I enrol?
Enrol here!
Then download the payment details, materials list and suggested readings.
The Zoom link will be sent to you upon enrolment. You will be sent a reminder one hour before the webinar starts.
If you lose your email with the link, you will need to register again.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter: Fiona Campbell PhD. is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. The nature of consciousness in our inner and outer development is one of her special interests, a topic she has lectured and researched 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 or listen to a 2020 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Background notes
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
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 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.

‘I must not ever leave you.
You will in future often find me at your side;
I shall not go from you until you find
the power of that which you are to become.’
(The Soul’s Probation, Scene 5)
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Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

From the Burning - What lives now?
2022-10-18 18:00 - 2022-12-31 23:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
100 years since the physical destruction of the first Goetheanum
A series of lectures, artistic presentations, exhibitions and workshops commemorating the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum in Dornach on New Year’s Eve, 1922.
Dates

Lectures: 7pm Tuesday evenings, 18 October – 20 December 2022
Exhibitions: Opening hours of Rudolf Steiner Book Centre
Workshop: Saturday 12 November
Panel: 7.30pm Thursday 17 November
New Year’s Eve vigil: 31 December
Program
You can download the full program here

Location
Sydney Rudolf Steiner House
307 Sussex Street
Sydney Australia
Please note: most lectures will be live streamed, but not all. Check the booking page for details
Booking
Book here
For more information
Please contact Annet van Kesteran or the Arts Impulse Group

This program is sponsored by the St John’s Group board, Sydney Branch and the ASinA

I would enkindle all human beings
From out of the Spirit of the cosmos
To become a flame
And unfold in fire
The very nature of their being.

Verse excerpt from Truth-wrought-words, Rudolf Steiner 1925

Feature image: The only remaining sketch of the burning Goetheanum, Helmut Lauers © Verlag am Goetheanum, 1993.

Facing Our Shadow Self in the 6th Epoch
2022-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
| The Slavic Motif and Our Shadow Self |
The 2nd of 3 practice-based webinars exploring the tragedy of dualism
in the 5th epoch, 6th epoch and our cosmic future
as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

‘I must not ever leave you.
You will in future often find me at your side;
I shall not go from you until you find
the power of that which you are to become.’
(The Soul’s Probation, Scene 5)

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
Our shadow self is usually seen as being our disowned self, those aspects of our selves we don’t or won’t accept. This shadow is also a development of our innate dualistic nature. So, how can we grapple with this? In the motifs that filled the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, we find some answers.
This is the 2nd webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off . But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.

Tell me more …
We use the motif (pictured above) representing the 6th epoch, still far in our future, to understand the nature of our double or shadow as a picture of dualism in our souls.

What really is this shadow?
How will we experience it?
Do all beings have a shadow, even angels?
And how does this affect our future evolution and spiritual development?

We explore these questions through study, discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.

Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
You do not need to have attended any previous webinars in this series nor do you need drawing skills to enjoy these workshops: the focus is on the experiencing the content through doing, not learning drawing techniques.
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEST
Webinar workshops: 22 October | 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $60 for 2 webinars | $35 per webinar | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details, materials list and suggested readings.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background notes
What exactly is dualism?
The term ‘dualism’ has various characterisations in different cultures and time periods. But in general, it means there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. In theology, for example, a dualistic principle is Good and Evil or God and the Devil as independent yet equal forces in the world. Light and Darkness is another example of dualism common to most cultures.
According to Rudolf Steiner, dualism in our human evolution is expressed through two opposing yet interdependent entities called Lucifer and Ahriman. Both these names can be found in the Bible and in Zoroastrianism as mighty beings, like fallen angels. But today they are experienced in our soul life as polar-opposite forces that we unconsciously swing between, like a pendulum. The first webinar in this series, The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic Face-off, explored their influence in our daily lives in some depth. A video of this webinar is available on request.
This webinar considers how this split might evolve into a separate shadow self.
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
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 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
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Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

LOGOS: Consecrating Humanity conference
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-06 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Conference of
The Christian Community
in Australia and New Zealand

Celebrating 100 years of Christian Community

4th – 6th November 2022

It is 100 years since the foundation of The Christian Community in 1922 in SwitzerlandCome share in community with all our priests from the Australia-New Zealand Region and Oberlenker Oliver Steinrueck from Berlin, Germany.
LOGOS: Consecrating Humanity program
Download the program here
Where is it being held?

The Michael Centre,
37A Wellington Park Drive,
Warranwood,
VIC, Austtralia

Where do I register?
Download the registration form here

What is Phenomenology?
2022-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
a webinar, a dialogue, a sharing and questioning session

Phenomenology is a way of seeing the world
Phenomenology is the study of the lived experience as it was/is lived
Phenomenology a means of investigation which permits us to grow beyond ourselves
Goethean Science is phenomenological in approach, and is well known in anthroposophical circles as a qualitative approach to understanding the natural sciences. But phenomenology as a methodology for wider anthroposophic-based application is becoming increasingly popular in our circles; and the term ‘lived experience’ has gone into the our everyday language.
But it can be confusing! Everyone has a different understanding of just what phenomenology is and how to apply it.
Tell me more
This webinar aims to unpack phenomenology as a philosophy, as a research methodology, and as a practice from the perspective of different researchers and practitioners from different fields and disciplines who use this approach in their work.
The session takes the form of presentations and dialogue as to our shared understandings of what we each mean by phenomenology. And if you are not a practitioner but would like to know more, come along and ask questions. We’d love to share our passion with you!
Who is it for?
Any one interested in finding out more about phenomenology. All welcome!
Program
We open with the questions: What counts as phenomenology? What is the essence of phenomenology, for all forms and approaches?
Seven researchers and practitioners share their experiences: Martin Samson (theology), Fiona Campbell (human sciences), Joanna Jaaniste (dramatherapy), Peter Stewart (Goethean Science), Greg Burgess (architecture), Lisa Devine (theology) and Teresa Carapeto (Education).
Each presenter describes their understanding through the lens of these four key characteristics:

An open attitude: how do I see with “new eyes”?
Dwelling: how do I immerse myself into the object, how do I engage with the experience, the information?
Disclosure: how can I reveal the essence of the phenomenon in question?
Description: sharing my experiences of working phenomenologically. How do I do this?

Q&A session followed by a summing up of what we’ve learned.
How does it impact my professional practice? My way of seeing the world?
So what is phenomenology? and can anyone practice it?
And is there interest for further discussion in an ongoing group?
When will this webinar take place?
7pm Wednesday 16th November 2022 online
Cost
By donation
Registration
To register
How to join the webinar
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell or Martin Samson

The IAO Motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation
2022-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The IAO: the Cosmic Image of the Human Being
and the Foundation Stone Meditation
The final webinar of 3 practice-based workshops exploring key challenges of 5th epoch, 6th epoch
and our cosmic future as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
This is the 3rd and final webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off exploring the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum, as a transformative picture of the spiritual history of humanity. They raise questions about their relevance to today and how they could guide our future development. Each motif embodies a soul stage of human development as we traverse our starry and earthly path as individuals and as humanity as a whole.
Tell me more
The tragedy of dualism in our souls, and how it manifests has been the leitmotif of this series. In this final workshop, we contemplate how the path from the IOA as cosmic word resounding from the beginning of time to the IAO, the cosmic image of the human being, is a picture and a guide as to how to grapple with our innately dualistic natures.
In this presentation, we explore these theme through discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.
Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.
When is it on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEDT
Webinar workshops: 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $35 | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details and materials list.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background reading
The Foundation Stone Meditation GA 260
Background notes
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
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 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
.
Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

‘In the beginning was the Word’
“Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us’

Wonder Before the Face of God: An Advent Contemplation
2022-12-18 17:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the Annunciation
for 4th Sunday in Advent
With artist and phenomenologist Fiona Campbell

Let’s contemplate together Mary’s wonder as she receives the message from the Angel Gabriel of the impossible gift that is to be bestowed upon her.

This Advent webinar features the icons of contemporary Ukrainian artist Ivanka Demchuk Using wonder as our gateway, the workshop uses a phenomenological approach to art contemplation that combines perception with contemplation.
Suggested reading: Luke 1:26–38

Registration
Register here!
Payment and Registration Details
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via the Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
A recording of the webinar will be available.
Cost: $20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated.
Date: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, Sunday 18th December 2022
Presenter: Dr Fiona Campbell trained at Tobias School of Art and Transpersonal Studies in England in visual arts and artistic therapy. She later undertook formal training in phenomenology at the University of Technology Sydney, for her doctorate and uses this methodology to find new ways for the modern person to approach both art and nature.
She has been painting and pondering on the theme of the Virgin Mary for over 20 years. You can browse a gallery of her artworks here.
For more information
Please download the flyer or contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Annunciation by Ivanka Demchuk

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2022-12-25 19:00 - 2023-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening
25 December 2022 – 5 January 2023

Presenter: With Martin Neeme-Samson
Theme

The Pre-Earthly Deeds of Sophia and Sophia’s Resurrection Body
In each session there will be a half-hour consideration of the two themes, which will complement each other and set a mood of soul for participants to work with over the ensuing night and day.
The final minutes of the session will be for any further considerations and nuances that will help grow the work over the Christmas season in preparation for the coming year.
The hope is that each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for resetting our soul for the work in the coming year.
Date/Time
Daily 7.00 pm – 7.45 pm AEDT from 25 December – 5 January

Cost: $70 donation recommended
Registration
Register here!
Once you are registered, the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/22) before we start. The session will start 7:05 pm and it is recommended that you join the link a few minutes early. The link will be open from 6.55pm.
The link is the same one for each session.
The contemplations will be recorded
For more information
Please contact Martin Samson

Feature image: Erythraean Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo © Wiki Commons
Insert image: Theotokos Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople © Wiki Commons

Attending the Fire: A Global Online Event on New Year's Day
2023-01-01 09:30 - 10:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Goetheanum online
Attending the Fire: An Invitation for Collective Intention

Hosted by the Anthroposophical Society in America
Foundation Stone Meditation on New Year’s Eve: A Speaking Together

100 years ago on this New Year’s Eve night, the first Goetheanum burned to the ground, marking a painful transition moment for the anthroposophical movement.
Looking ahead to New Year’s Eve 2022-2023, we remember in our hearts a significant moment one hundred years ago; the burning of the first Goetheanum.
Because we cannot all physically gather together in honour of this time, we can find creative ways to deepen our individual and collective intention.
The Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) wishes to offer you resources and practices that can serve to unite us, from far and wide, as a community.
We invite you to join us on Zoom at that time, to meet with other anthroposophical friends and groups from all over the world for a speaking of the Foundation Stone Meditation.
At 11:45 p.m. Central European Time 31 December 2022
For Australian participants
At 9.45 a.m. AEDT 1 January 2023

Zoom link to the event
Download this flyer to find the Zoom link for the event on page 3 or page 5, page 8 for the text of the meditation.

Video Resources for preparation
Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs – Webinar 1, The Creation with Fiona Campbell, a experiential workshop

First Goetheanum with Esther Gerster & Daniel Hafner

More New Year’s Eve Resource Packet Here
For more information
Please look here for more information about this event.

It is our great task this day to observe how in the world around us it is New Year’s Eve — all is passing and disappearing and dying away; but how in the hearts of human beings who are conscious of their real humanity, of their divine humanity, there must be the mood of New Year, the mood of the beginning of a new era,
of the uprising of new life.

Rudolf Steiner’s final words in the First Goetheanum,
December 31, 1922

Feature photo: Goetheanum poster, courtesy ASA

2023-01-19 - 2023-01-22 | Online
Holistic Adult Learning
Guiding Groups/Creating and Holding an Open Space
All of the Training modules are available online as stand-alone courses for personal and professional development.
Learning Packs are available at any time – see our Shop. Optional online sessions are scheduled each year.
Enrol now to receive the preparatory Study Guide
To receive the preparatory Learning Pack enrol before January 2023
When and how
Friday 9/1/2023 – Sunday 21/1/2023
Online Sessions, 5 hours/day
Cost
Fee: 550 AUD
For more information
Look here for more information about the course or please contact Karl-Heinze Finke

Foundation Course in Holistic Biography Work
2023-01-26 - 2023-01-29 | Online
Foundation Course
Take Charge of your life: Apply the resources of Holistic Biography work.
The Foundation Course is designed to assist with taking charge of one’s life’s journey. It facilitates deeper understanding of the physical, social and mental developmental stages in one’s life.

This course is the pre-requisite for joining our 3-year Online Training Program.
It is also available as a stand-alone course for personal or professional development – either as Learning Pack only, or with optional online real-time sessions.
To receive the preparatory Learning Pack enrol before July 2022
When and how
Thursday 26/1//2023 – Sunday 29/1//2023
Online Sessions, 5 hours/day
Cost
Fee: 470 AUD
For more information
Look here for more information about the course or please contact Karl-Heinze Finke

Complementaries and Counter Images: Working with Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds through Art
2023-02-10 14:00 - 2023-05-19 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
A masterclass studio
with Fiona Campbell

Imaginative exercises based on meditative exercises given by Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds using colour, archetypal processes, observation and contemplation
This 7-session course provides an artistic entry into his preparatory exercises of inner and outer observation, contemplation and moral development. It aims to nourishes creativity and feeds the soul life.
Through exploration of the complementaries and counter-colours, we can strengthen both our imaginative faculties and our life forces.
You don’t have to be a trained artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course, but you do need self-motivation, some knowledge of Steiner’s meditative and colour work and some painting technique.
Background information
With the increasing, encroaching advent of AI-generated images filling our screens, through film, tv and internet, the essential creativity that lives in the soul of every human being is under threat. AI-generated art is not creative. It does not arise out of human creativity but out of machines. In the face of this attack on our human-ness, we need to bring a counter-impulse by strengthening our capacity to create inner images.
By working artistically and contemplatively with colour and the forming forces, we can nurture the emergent qualities of our humanity, such as our uniquely human capacities to create and to think and to think creatively, We can counter this dehumanising force,
We need to enliven our inner images to counter the life-destroying images of AI-generated art.
Who are the masterclasses for?

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone seeking a non-intellectual pathway into Steiner’s meditative path.
For anyone interested in gaining an appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities through painting.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Required: familiarity with the anthroposophic approach to art and painting skills. Watercolour wet-on-dry skills is preferred but other techniques, such as wet-on-wet or chalk pastels are acceptable but technical advice is not directed towards these media.
Please note: this is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners in painting unless you are adventurous and self-motivated!
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
10 February-19 May
The workshops are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $260 for 7×2 hr masterclasses, including video recording.
How do I register?
Registrations closed. Come back next year!
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

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 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 and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her artwork or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos…” Rudolf Steiner

Photo image: Black Study I, Fiona Campbell 1996, courtesy of Fiona Campbell
