Anthroposophical Society in Australia

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

What is Phenomenology? Further investigations
2023-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
Further investigations into the nature and practice of phenomenology

This webinar is the 2nd in our series and a follow-up to our first dialogue (16 November 2022). You are invited to join us again!
The aim of these webinars is to provide an interdisciplinary view of how different fields/disciplines understand phenomenology, whose approach they use e.g. Goethean, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Zajonc etc. and how they implement their approach in their professional practice.
Tell me more about phenomenology
Phenomenology is essentially the study of the structures of consciousness, though it is better known as the study of the lived experience. It concerns how a phenomenon is experienced, as it is experienced, and aims to describe those experiences, rather than theorise or explain them. Moreover, in studying the experience, phenomenology opens the way to understanding our consciousness of that experience. In turn, this can change our way of seeing the world (Campbell 2018*).
Goethean Science is phenomenological in approach, and is well known in anthroposophical circles as a qualitative approach to the natural sciences. But phenomenology as a methodology for wider anthroposophic-based application is becoming increasingly popular in our circles in the sphere of the arts and human sciences.
Phenomenology can be a philosophy, a research methodology, or a practice – or all three. It can take different forms in different fields and even within the same field/discipline, depending on whose philosophical foundations you are applying.
Sounds complex but fascinating? Then come along and find out more.
Program
Three researcher/practitioners share their experiences: Joanna Jaaniste (Dramatherapy), Bronwen Haralambous (Education) and Lisa Devine (Counselling and Theology)
Each presenter describes their understanding through the lens of these four key characteristics and how it impacts their professional practice or way of seeing the world through the lens of these four questions:

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?

A short introduction to some common tools/methods used in phenomenological research will be overviewed.
Q&A session to follow
When will this webinar take place?
6.30 pm AEDT/5.30 pm AEST Wednesday 15th February 2023 online.
Please note: the webinar is not being recorded.
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support us.
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

*Fiona Campbell (2018), ‘Flow, resistance and thinking : a phenomenological study of creativity‘ Doctoral thesis, UTS Digital Thesis Collection.

What is Phenomenology? And how do I begin?
2023-03-29 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
A webinar on how to practice phenomenology in the workplace

This webinar is the 3rd in our series and a follow-up to our first two dialogues (16 November 2022 and 15 February 2023). You are invited to join us again!
This series of webinars aims is to provide an interdisciplinary view of how different professions understand and implement phenomenology, including how this form of research supports professional practice. Through sharing our collective experience of working phenomenologically, we address the questions: what is phenomenology? and how do I practice it?
Are you interested in learning how to work phenomenologically?
In our first two webinars, we have heard from a range of practitioners and researchers how they approach phenomenology in their professional practice and some techniques they use. Now, in this third and final webinar, we introduce how to begin working phenomenologically yourself.
Program
Firstly, Robin Steele will be presenting her hermeneutic research into therapeutic change through psychophonetics.
Then, an open discussion on how to take the first steps in developing a phenomenological method for researching spiritual science.
Participants are invited to submit their questions in advance to the organisers to help facilitate the discussion.
For both parts of the program, we will be using this framework:

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?

A practice-based workshop is planned for 13 May in Sydney and potentially early Spring -TBA
When will this webinar take place?
6.30 pm AEDT/5.30 pm AEST Wednesday 29th March 2023 online.
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support us.
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

Phenomenology is essentially the study of the structures of consciousness, though it is better known as the study of the lived experience.

It concerns how a phenomenon is experienced, as it is experienced, and aims to describe those experiences, rather than theorise or explain them. Moreover, in studying the experience, phenomenology opens the way to understanding our consciousness of that experience. In turn, this can change our way of seeing the world (Campbell 2018*).

*Fiona Campbell (2018), ‘Flow, resistance and thinking : a phenomenological study of creativity‘ Doctoral thesis, UTS Digital Thesis Collection.

Anthroposophical Society in Australia 2023 AGM
2023-04-29 15:45 - 17:45 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The ASinA’s 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held from 3.45pm-5.45pm, beginning at 3.45 with Rod Tomlinson speaking of Communal Inner Striving and Anthroposophy.
Official AGM Business 4.30pm-5.45pm, on Saturday, 29 April, 2023

Online access: Zoom Broadcast from Kingston, Tasmania. The Zoom link has been sent to members.
Venue: Room 1A, Adult Education Building, Hutchins Street, Kingston, Tasmania.

Festival of Change
2023-05-20 15:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Introduction to Social Sculpture Zoom

In this free zoom session we will offer concise descriptions of what we will individually and collectively present during a 5-day Festival of Change & provide ample time for Q&A.

Presenters
Irmhild Kleinhenz – Functional Threefoldness within the Human Body
Hamish Mackay – Economy Life
Gillian Rogers – Social Rights Life
Iris Curteis – Spiritual Cultural Life

Contact

Contact Iris Curteis

Book here

Meeting ID: 881 7770 7254
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Three Sisters of the Threshold - Death, Sleep and Meditation
2023-06-25 19:00 - 2023-07-02 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A mid-winter series of contemplations
on aspects of death and the threshold

Learning what to expect when we cross the threshold of death. How sleep and meditation prepare us for the journey in the spiritual world.
This is a 45 minute contemplation taking place each day from 7.00 pm -7.45 pm AEST (with fifteen minutes conversation at the end of each evening.)
In each session there will be a 45 minute consideration of the 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 mid-winter season to prepare our inner transformation to the threshold. The hope is that each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for resetting our soul for the rest of the year.
When
Eight Days: Sunday 25 June 2023 – Sunday 02 July 2023 (Inclusive)
Cost
Recommended Donation: $55 for the eight presentations.
To register
Register here!
Once registered the recurring zoom link will be sent out two days, two hours and ten minutes before the first session. The same link will be used every day.
Please login via your Zoom app. You will also receive a link to the archive folder for viewing the recording. Please use this as a study resource and do not share it with others.
Recommended reading
The Imaginative Life Tableau
For more information
Enquiries directed to Martin Samson

Picture credit: Pity by William Blake (1795)

Anthroposophical Professional Development Initiative
2023-08-01 - 2023-11-21 | Online
Introducing a new online course
For terms 3 & 4, 2023
What is the Anthroposophical World View?
The aim of these two blocks of lectures and workshops is to present an overview of what is often experienced as an overwhelmingly large and complex body of knowledge, particularly for student teachers and other professionals working in anthroposophically-based groups and organisations.

A closer understanding of how spirit and matter permeate each other lies at the very heart of any truly monistic world view, such as the one Rudolf Steiner gave to the world. It is out of this very understanding that Anthroposophy can be concretely applied in so many practical fields of life.
Lecture series

Term 4 Lecture Series II: An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Cosmology
Download the lecture program

Full course program
Three Worlds – 4 Ethers : Connecting Spirit and Matter
Block 1 (Term 3) explores the links between the physical, astral and spiritual worlds and how nature and the human being are placed within this multi-tiered reality. This also includes the Manifestation process by which spirit incarnates into physical form and substance via the medium of the 4 Ethers, which form the bridge between spirit and matter.

Steiner’s Cosmology: The Cosmic Mission of Humanity and Earth
Block II (Term 4) explores the larger Chronological context, which leads us to the question of humanity’s cosmic origins and future destiny. Where did humanity come from? Where are we going? What is our cosmic purpose and mission on Earth and within the larger spiritual universe? Rudolf Steiner’s surprising answers can throw a profound light on such questions, including the problem of good and evil, human freedom and the longer-term consequences of the seeds we are planting right now, both as individuals and collectively as a humanity. The cosmological picture also provides a context to the currently raging, worldwide battle between Good and Evil and can help us face this battle with renewed confidence and strength in our humanity.

Download the program here.
Cost
Please check the program flyer for fees
Enrolment
Download the enrolment form
For more information

For a 15-minute video introduction
Contact Johannes on: +61 (0) 414 724 587

You and I are we - questions of community
2023-09-01 18:00 - 2023-09-03 22:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Newcastle Waldorf School, 30 Reservoir Rd, Glendale, NSW, 2285, Australia
Hosted by the Oceanic Youth Circle

It is with pleasure that the Oceanic Youth Circle announces its very first conference. Our youth initiative began about a year ago, meeting fortnightly over Zoom, and studying anthroposophy together.
Who is it for?
Consider this a call to anyone who is young (18-35), working in Anthroposophy, or just interested in Anthroposophy to come together for a weekend of learning and connection.

We have three amazing guest speakers, Dr Richard Drexel, Dr Helen Proctor, and Nathaniel Williams PhD. Dr Richard and Dr Helen are both anthroposophic doctors, visiting from New Zealand. Nathaniel Williams is the head of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland.
Our theme You and I are we – questions of community arose from an impulse we collectively share. Spiritually navigating the last three years has been no easy task for anyone, however, the challenges those times brought have given birth to new impulses of change. It is this theme that we would like to explore together.
Venue
Newcastle Waldorf School
30 Reservoir Rd, Glendale NSW 2285, Australia
Date
Fri 1st Sep 2023, 6:00 pm – Sun 3rd Sep 2023, 10:00 pm AEST
Cost
$140 for the weekend, which includes lunch and dinner. There is also accommodation available, just reach out and we can organise something. If you are experiencing finical difficulty, please reach out as we can help with the cost. We don’t want finances to be a barrier for anyone.
Registration
For tickets
Program
Draft Program
Spread the word!
Please feel free to share this announcement with your friends, colleagues, and anyone who might be interested in joining this unique gathering of young anthroposophists. Together, we can create a vibrant and supportive community, empowering each other to explore anthroposophy’s wisdom and apply it in our lives.
We hope to see you at the conference, so that we can embark on this journey together during these challenging times of change. If you have any questions at all, send us an email at youthsectionoceania@gmail.com
Warm regards,
The Oceanic Youth Circle

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2023-12-25 19:00 - 2024-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Creation of the Etheric Heart and the Future of Humanity
and
The Cosmic Communion of the Human Being

Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening Online with Jude (Martin) Neeme-Samson and Craig Logan

In each session, there will be three fifteen-minute considerations 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.
Each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for our soul and our spiritual work in the coming year.

When

25 December 2023 – 5 January 2024
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm Sydney time

Bookings
Book here

Once you are registered the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/23) 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.
For more information
Download the flyer or contact Jude Samson-Neeme

Feature image: The Sistine Madonna, Raphael circa 1512 and circa 151

A Virtuous Journey: Living with the 12 Virtues as a Cycle of the Year
2024-03-21 19:00 - 2024-12-22 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Exploring the Virtues
Working with the 12 monthly virtues as an exploration, contemplation and mediation

Rudolf Steiner gave twelve virtues to be worked on for each zodiac. Whilst we have this list from Steiner, he gave very little else directly.
This course takes up his introduction. It will explore each of the virtues more deeply, and what they mean in relation to the zodiac over the cycle of a year. We will be working with a discourse, a contemplative practice of verse and Heart Awareness to bring the virtues to life exploring both the practical and spiritual aspects of each of the virtues.
Find out more
Download the program
When is it?
Starts March 21 with Aries as the theme. The paper and contemplation will be emailed on the 21st of each month related to the virtue and the corresponding zodiac sign. and we will meet online (via zoom) at 7pm AEDT for 1 hour on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month to explore,
Cost
$240 for the year donation suggested.
You can register directly or organize an alternative payment schedule for this upcoming course by emailing me here.
Bookings
Buy tickets

Course leaders
Jude Samson and Craig Logan.
Download the flyer or contact Jude for more information

Breathing Out The Winter: A Therapeutic Intensive
2024-07-27 14:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents

An Art Intensive For Nourishing The Soul Forces

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
This intensive therapeutic painting workshop brings the health-giving forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies as we breathe out the Winter and breathe in the renewed life coming towards us.

Late Winter can be a difficult time: Nature’s death shudder is still with us, but already signs of hope and new growth are appearing in the earth. By preparing our souls for the burgeoning forces of Spring, we nurture the new forces arising in our inmost being and bring them into harmonious rhythm with Nature’s rhythms.

Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive experience using wet-on-wet painting or pastels and is for anyone in need of soul nourishment.

Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.

Why join the live class? Benefits of live participation
When you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating community. Think of it as a group of people coming together with the specific intention to build substance, to create something together, to bring something into the world that benefits both ourselves yet also puts positive, creative forces into the world. And we create within a divine-spiritual community. Divine beings look over our shoulders; we create in their company and in the company of like-minded others.The gift is in the giving, in the doing, as much as in the product.
Who is it for?
Beginners welcome! You do not need to be an experienced artist to benefit from this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
When

2-5pm ACST, 27-28 July 2024
Cost
$190 AUD/$134 USD including recordings
Bookings
Book here

You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after payment.

The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space

Feature image: excerpt of painting of the cycle of the plant, Weleda Calendar 2000 © Alexander Winter

Working with Steiner's Nature Mood Sketches
2024-08-31 15:00 - 2024-11-23 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
The Seven School (Friedwart) Sketches series

This fortnightly online course introduces you to Rudolf Steiner’s approach to painting and his understanding of how the formative forces shape and move the world around us through his own pastel sketches. The course uses the wet-on-dry veiling technique or pastels, if preferred.
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches were first given to Waldorf teachers as part of Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore invisible yet objective laws of Nature. The series leads us from the archetypal nature moods of sunrise and sunset through the four elements to the human world, culminating 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. Along with The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs, they form an important 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 at the Goetheanum. She believes that working with the creative forces in and around us can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
Who is this course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature and Human.

For anyone interested in the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy this course.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 31 August-23 November 2024
Seven two-hour fortnightly sessions. Participants are expected to do some homework between classes. Edited recordings of the sessions are available post-class but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
Cost
$300 AUD/$205 USD
$305 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

How to join the workshops
The Zoom link, payment details, a list of materials and suggested readings will be sent to you after booking.

Other Painted Space Studio workshop courses

For more information

Contact

‘…and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos‘

Steiner

Feature image: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall No. 6 © Fiona Campbell

A Conversation With Your Garden: Plant Observation And Drawing
2024-09-11 17:00 - 2024-11-20 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
A Series of Workshops on Goethean Observation and Nature Moods

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
Spring is the ideal time of year to turn our eyes to Nature and learn her secrets through Goethean observation, drawing and reflection. Spending time up close with Nature in the garden, a park, a local nature reserve or even just with a few pot plants on your balcony is both energising and healing.
(Of course, any time of the year in Nature is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation especially suited to drawing and observation.)
What will we do?
Through the six online workshops, learn to see anew the wonder of your own garden. Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, from quiet contemplation, careful observation, and mood immersion, to sketching, colour work and reflection.
Learn the core stages of a phenomenological process and practice the different drawing/sketching techniques to take us through this process. Techniques include charcoal, pencil, paint and pastel. Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, the world around us becomes more alive – living and becoming.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops new eyes for the world around us. It offers us another way of being in the world, one that brings us into a more participatory connection with Nature and ourselves. We learn to step into the world and feel at home with it.
Who is it for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature
For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.

Suitable for all levels. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy these workshops.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
When is it on?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, 11 September to 20 November 2024
How do I book?

Book here
Please complete the online form to book for this series of workshops. You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
More information
Find out more about this course and others from Painted Space or contact Fiona Campbell.

Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Feature image: Ethereal Space of Plant Growth, Plate I, The Plant between Sun and Earth © Olive Whicher

Supporting Patients with COVID
2024-12-15 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
For Anthroposophic Practitioners and Students

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2024-12-25 19:00 - 2025-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Women and Men in the Life of Christ:
A New Archetype of the Zodiac and Planets
With Jude Neeme-Samson
Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening

In each session, there will be three fifteen-minute considerations 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.
Each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for our soul and our spiritual work in the coming year.
Jude will begin the first fifteen minutes session with the esoteric development of the zodiac and planets in the cycle of the year.
Then we will explore what the twelve disciples in the Gospel narratives represent as archetypes of the zodiac stars in their task in guiding the Christ in experiencing Human life.
In the third quarter of the hour we will explore the women disciples in the Gospel narrative and their role as representatives of the 7/12 planets in guiding Christ into the experience the life forces of humanity.
The final fifteen minutes will be quietly contemplating artistic works of the day’s content that will help grow the work over the Christmas season in preparation for the coming year.
Once you are registered the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/24) 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.
If there is enough interest there will also be an event on Epiphany, January 6th to bring the process to completion.
Download as flyer
When
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm AEDT
25 December 2024 – 5 January 2025
Cost
Recommended donation $70
To book
Book here
The contemplations will be recorded for people who have registered but can’t participate in person. They can be accessed and watched later. The link to the viewing folder will be sent out with the zoom link.

Feature image: Fifth apocalyptic seal: The unveiled Isis courtesy of Anthrowiki

Living Into The Becoming World
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
A Lecture on Rudolf Steiner’s Artistic Impulse For The Future
with Fiona Campbell
Thursday, 13th February 2025 7.00 PM – 8:15 PM ACDT

How art can be a schooling path for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
A pictorial presentation on how Rudolf Steiner’s extensive portfolio of training sketches, motifs, watercolours and blackboard drawings are a gift to all artists seeking an ever-renewing source of creativity. How working with Steiner’s images can help us shift from our habitual ways of seeing the world as form and ‘breathe’ into the becoming and dying away world of Human in Cosmos.
This webinar is the third in the series on Art as a Spiritual Practice.
Watch the first lecture in this series!
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support this initiative.
A video recording wiill be available for three months after the event.
How to join the webinar
Book here
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
Contact the organiser.

Feature image: The Birds Fly Through Us, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Spirit in Human, Human in Spirit: Investigations with Painting
2025-02-14 14:00 - 2025-05-09 16:00 (Australia/Sydney)
Painted Space Studio presents
A course in the spiritual/physical nature of the human being

“In the head the power of faith;
in the heart the might of love ;
in the full human being, all-sustaining hope.”
Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner’s picture imaginations arose from direct experiences of the spirit. He captured many of these pictures in his pastels sketches and paintings, called the Training Sketches for the Artist. He suggested that working artistically with these sketches would act as an impulse in us to find new directions for the future of art as a path for spiritual-scientific inquiry.
This online masterclass in painting over seven fortnightly sessions examines the human being in connection to the spirit from three different perspectives: the spiritual impulse in the human being, the human impulse in the spiritual world, and the threefold human being as spirit, soul and body.
We use three of Steiner’s training sketches as our starting point for this exploration.
What are Steiner’s Training Sketches?
The Training Sketches can be seen as ‘picture seeds’ and were given to the artists in answer to a request from the painter Henni Geck for a new impulse in art. Henni Geck (1884-1951) was the first painter to use these indications.
Who is the course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand the hidden forces of Cosmos and Nature.

Painting skills and understanding of core anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Selected readings by Rudolf Steiner complement the practical work.
When is it?
14 February-9 May 2025, Fridays 2pm-4pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD for ongoing participants
$290 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here!
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: The Threefold Human Being © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

The inner nature of colour: as pictorial, as luminous
2025-02-14 14:00 - 2025-05-10 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Painted Space Studio workshop

When we experience the life of colour,
we step out of our own skins and take part in cosmic life.
Rudolf Steiner

Colour as a way to the spirit
This online painting course offers the opportunity for a deeper experience and understanding of the inner nature of colour. Building on Goethe’s Theory of Colour, yet quite different from it, Rudolf Steiner shows us the world of colour as one might experience it in the soul world.
About Steiner’s colour circle
We work in conjunction with Rudolf Steiner’s colour circle and Colour lectures (CW 291, CW 275). In these lectures, Steiner describes the colours as having either a pictorial (image) and or a luminous (lustre) nature. We explore what this means for our understanding and experience of colour that has implications for how we perceive what we call ‘reality’.
In this approach, Steiner lays a foundation for a practical technique of working with colour that leads us to a new form of artistic creativity, a new way of understanding of colour, which is the central of the anthroposophic approach to painting.
Who is it for?

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone pursuing a deeper understanding of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.
For participants in the 2nd year of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.

Desirable background:: experience of working with Goethe’s Theory of Colour.
Recommended: basic watercolour wet-on-dry or veiling skills (you can use wet-on-wet or pastel if preferred, but wet-on-dry watercolour painting is recommended).
Background readings: Steiner’s Colour lectures Part I: ‘The Nature of Colour’
When is it?
15 February-10 May 2025, Saturdays 3pm-5pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$300 AUD/$195 USD
$310 for PD certificate
Video recording and handouts included in the fee.

Book here!

The payment options, Zoom link, and list of materials will be sent after booking.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell
This course also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It follows on from Working with Colour Moods. Together, they are integral to the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach to colour and painting.

Feature image: Steiner’s Colour circle
