Anthroposophical Society in Australia

The Crown of Grassroots
2022-02-06 20:00 - 2022-03-06 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Theatre of the Sea presents Garments for Survival 2022
This year much depends on what we understand as a good life in a good society. The current trends of surveillance capitalism, mediarchy, and transhumanism are increasingly defining what our lives will be like. What are we prepared to wear and do we have any other options?
Garments for Survival 2022 – society in the change room presents a series of online presentations; a global changeroom where you can try on The Crown of Grassroots and other garments for survival. Each garment will be a metaphor for a new thinking around social structures.
Our aim is not to offer solutions but to facilitate a type of thinking that can find them. To this end we are imagining Garments of Survival as field of collective enquiry in which new ideas can articulate themselves through and in community.
Join Horst and Jennifer Kornberger to cut the cloth of social three-folding, direct democracy, civil society and basic income.
Program
series one – five Sundays
Sun 06 Feb The Crown of Grassroots
Sun 13 Feb The Snakeskin Glove
Sun 20 Feb Coatings of Canvas
Sun 27 Feb Cocoon in Common
Sun 06 Mar Sack Cloth

Perth AWST 5.00 pm
Tokyo JST 6.00 pm
Sydney AEDT 8.00 pm
Wellington NZDT 10.00 pm

Cost

contributions by donations – this project is enabled by contributions from participants in line with community supported culture.
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You can find more information about this event here.

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

Inner Transformation Through Art: Veil Painting
2022-03-27 09:00 - 2022-03-29 15:00 (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur) | Online
Online class with artist and author Van James
Veil Painting

This course will explore the art of wet-on-dry watercolour or veil painting for self-development. It will introduce the materials and techniques necessary for a basic understanding and ability in the performance of this method. The class is for both beginners and as a review for those with some experience in painting. It will cover, in a practical studio approach, the essentials of basic colour theory, the nature of ‘painting out of the colour’, and simple themes dealing with nature moods (sunrise and the plant). This course is specifically for adult inner development although reference to curriculum application for teachers will be indicated.

For more information
Click here to register or contact Van James

Inner Transformation through Art: Geometric Drawing
2022-03-31 09:00 - 2022-04-02 15:00 (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur) | Online
Online class with artist and author Van James

Geometry

This course will trace the development of Geometric Drawing through the Steiner-Waldorf school curriculum from the early grades with freehand geometry, as practiced in Form Drawing, to the middle school use of instrument-aided constructions. We will touch Geometric Drawing’s relationship to Perspective Drawing and how both prepare for Projective Geometry in high school. We will proceed slowly in order to see how Geometric Drawing is a balancing activity that engages thinking, feeling and volition, focusing these soul forces and centring one’s being.

This course is specifically directed towards Steiner school teachers and teaching specialists, lower and upper school.
For more information
Click here to register or contact Van James

An introduction to the Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science.
2022-06-11 23:00 - 2022-06-25 00:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Goetheanum online
The Goetheanum is inviting new members, friends or anyone interested in finding out more about the Society, to attend an online introduction to the Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science.
Program
Please note that the program begins at 11pm AEST (times below are Swiss time).
Module I — 11 June 2022 (CEST)
Topic: The Anthroposophical Society and its School of Spiritual Science as a cosmopolitan impulse – Foundation and activities over the past hundred years
Language English with interpretation into German, Spanish and French.

15:00 – 15:30 h Welcome and contribution by Executive Council member Ueli Hurter
15:30 – 15:45 h Contribution from the Sections of the School of Spiritual Science
15:45 – 16:30 h Questions & conversation, moderated by Johannes Kronenberg

Module II — 18 June 2022 (CEST)
Topic: The Anthroposophical Society and its School of Spiritual Science as a cosmopolitan impulse – Current activities
Language English with interpretation into German, Spanish and French.

15:00 – 15:30 h Welcome and contribution by Executive Council member Ueli Hurter
15:30 – 15:45 h Contribution from Andrea de la Cruz (Youth Section)
15:45 – 16:30 h Questions & conversation, moderated by Johannes Kronenberg

Module III — 25 June 2022 (CEST)
Topic: The Anthroposophical Society and its School of Spiritual Science as a cosmopolitan impulse – Questions and future visions
Language English with interpretation into German, Spanish and French.

15:00 – 15:30 h Welcome and contribution by Executive Council member Ueli Hurter
15:30 – 15:45 h Contribution from the Goetheanum Stage
15:45 – 16:30 h Questions & conversation, moderated by Johannes Kronenberg

To register
Register here.

藝術史教學 Teaching Art History
2022-07-10 - 2022-09-17
將內在生命融入以藝術、文化 意識與意識演化
Engaging the Inner Life with Art, Cultural
History and the Evolution of Consciousness
與Van James
This online course will present an overview of Art History in eight sessions particularly designed for educators interested in teaching adolescent students. It will include why this subject is important at this age and how it can be presented in a way that engages the young person at a critical time in their inner development. We will explore the History of Art by looking at painting and sculpture from different cultural periods, its significance for the time and how it expresses the evolving consciousness of its period. We will observe the techniques, methods and materials and discuss the stories contained in the pictures on many levels.
Illustrated lectures, conversations and questions, as well as artistic work will provide the pathway for experiencing how art is the family picture album of humanity and an illustrated glimpse into the evolution of consciousness.
English recording with live Chinese translation
英語演講並提供中文翻譯回放
When?

In USA (English)
July 10,17,31 (Asia) = July 9,16,30 (USA)
August 7,14,21 (Asia) = August 6,13,20 (USA)
September 4,18 (Asia) = September 3,17 (USA)
7:00 – 9:00 AM (Indian Standard Time)

(Click here to know your time zone)

In Asia (English/Chinese)
Thursdays, July 14, 21, August 4, 11, 18, and Sundays, Aug. 28, September 11, 25

亞洲時間(英語/中文)：
(週二)七月14日、21日、八月4日, 11日, 18日
(週日)八月28日、九月11日, 25日

通過精神感知向我揭示的人類進化規律，
在我的腦海中清晰地呈現在藝術的發展過程中。
–魯道夫施泰納，自傳。
Sponsored by NurturerStudio
本活動由NurturerStudio贊助
Contact
For more information, please look here
or download the flyer: English or Chinese)
電郵： nurturerstudio@gmail.com

“What had been revealed to me through spiritual perception
as the law of human evolution appeared in clear
manifestation before my mind in the development of art.”
– Rudolf Steiner, Course of My Life

Save the date! Envisioning the Future, Youth Section online 16 July
2022-07-16 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Goetheanum online
Coming together in the spirit of our common work
16 July 2022 online | 21-25 June 2023 at the Goetheanum

Greetings from the Youth Section at the Goetheanum!

We are reaching out to you today to invite you to save the date for two special gatherings.

In preparation for this call, we would like to ask for your help in shaping the content by sending us any questions relating to the Youth Section’s work that are currently living in your local groups.

Envisioning the Future | Youth Section Worldwide Call
The first meeting is an online call via Zoom on Saturday 16th of July 2022 from 15:00 – 17:00 CEST. At this meeting, Constanza Kaliks and Nathaniel Williams together with the Youth Section at the Goetheanum’s team would like to share with you their vision for the Section’s leadership transition period. We hope this will be the first of many moments in which we begin envisioning with you all the foundations of the new period of work that will start in Spring 2023, when Nathaniel Williams will overtake the leadership of our Section.

Some of the questions we would like to touch upon are:

What is the purpose and task of the Youth Section in the context of the Anthroposophical Movement and our present times?

How can we develop an understanding for our foundations, which in 2024 will become 100 years old.

And how can these inform our future steps? How is the relationship of the Youth Section to the rest of the movement, for example the School of Spiritual Science and the other Sections, the General Anthroposophical Society and the local Societies?

Additionally, we will also welcome the recently founded Youth Section in Oceania to our Worldwide Network!

Youth Section Co-Workers Gathering | June 2023 at the Goetheanum

The second save the date we would like to share with you is for a Youth Section Co-Workers Gathering at the Goetheanum from 21-25th June 2023. This gathering will be an opportunity for delegates of each local Youth Section to come to the Goetheanum and work with one another for an intensive week. It would be wonderful if you could already save the date and let us know if you would like to attend this and help shape the program. This event is organised in the spirit of out 2019 meeting “Building Bridges Beyond Borders”.

We hope you are as excited as we are to come together again, first online and then in person in a year’s time! Please let us know if you will be there.

With our best thoughts from the Goetheanum,

Andrea de la Cruz, Gaia Termopoli, Ioana Viscrianu, Jacinta Gorchs and
Johannes Kronenberg with Constanza Kaliks

Youth Section at the Goetheanum

Roots & Renewal
2022-07-22 08:00 - 09:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An online series marking significant milestones in the 100-year renewal of anthroposophy

Hosted by the Regional Councils of the Anthroposophical Society in America
Join the Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) for a new online series on the 100-year renewal and celebration of anthroposophy. We hope you will join the Eastern, Central, and Western Regional Councils as they host this engaging program of three online session.
SESSION 1: From Artemis to the Representative of Humanity and Beyond
When: July 22, 2022 at 8 am AEST
Exploring the connections between the burning of the Temple of Ephesus, the birth of Alexander the Great on 21 July 356 BC., and the burning of the 1st Goetheanum 100 years ago in 1922. This session will be enlivened with group eurythmy, singing, and break-out sessions. This session will be recorded and emailed after the live presentation.
We will be working with a compilation of Rudolf Steiner’s insights from these lectures:

World History in the Light of Anthroposophy – And as a Foundation for Knowledge of the Human Spirit, GA 233: Lecture IV, 27 December 1923 ~ Lecture V, 28 December 1923 ~ Lecture VIII, 31 December 1923, Dornach
The Easter Festival In Relation to the Mysteries, GA 233A, lecture IV. The Mysteries of Ephesus. The Aristotelian Categories, 22nd April, 1924, Dornach.

How do I register?
Register here!
SESSION 2: 100 years with the ‘Movement for Religious Renewal’
17 September 1922 at 8 am AEST
A panel of Christian Community Priests from the Regions, including Rev. Craig Wiggins
SESSION 3: The Founding of ‘The Esoteric Youth Group’
A snapshot into the biographies of the original members of the Circle. From The Esoteric School – Esoteric Lessons 1913-1923, in the collected works of Rudolf Steiner
October 17, 2022 at 8 am AEST
For more information
You can find more information about this series on the ASA website.

‘You know that among the many clichés which became current in the nineteenth century, it was said that the great pioneer of the nineteenth century closed his life by calling out to posterity: “More light!” As a matter of fact Goethe did not say “More light!” He lay on his couch breathing with difficulty and said: “Open the shutters!” That is the truth. The other is the cliché that has connected itself with it. The words Goethe really spoke are perhaps far more apt than the mere phrase “More light”. The state of things at the end of the nineteenth century does indeed arouse the feeling that our predecessors have closed the shutters. Then came the younger generation; they felt cramped; they felt that the shutters which the older generation had closed so tightly must be opened. Yes, my dear friends, I assure you that although I am old, I shall tell you more of how we can now attempt to open the shutters again.’
Rudolf Steiner, GA 217, THE YOUNGER GENERATION – Lecture 1 – Dornach, 3 October 1922

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

Five Southern Hemisphere Post-Atlantean Cultural Ages
2022-08-31 19:00 - 2022-10-12 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
What role do Southern Hemisphere high cultures play in the evolution of consciousness?
This series of lectures is relevant to anyone who wishes to understand the earth as a whole organism, not just people in the southern hemisphere!
Rudolf Steiner’s Seven Post-Atlantic cultural Epochs are located in the Mesopotamian Cradle. There are other cultures in the world that also play a role in guiding humanity. For example the emergence of the Mexican culture. But what of others: Australian, South American, African and Polynesian?
When?
Seven lectures: Wednesday evenings 7 – 8.30pm
August 31; September 7, 14, 21, 28; October 5, 12
Where?
This is a hybrid event, live at Rudolf Steiner House and online via Zoom.
A recurring Zoom link will be sent two days before the first event.
Recordings will be available afterward.
How to register
Register here!
For more information download the flyer or contact Martin Samson

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

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

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

Driven by the Spirit into the Desert
2022-11-21 06:00 - 07:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A webinar with Rev. Patrick Kennedy
in the Shining a Light into the Darkness Zoom Series

Our spiritual evolution does not take place separate from what is happening in the world. What used to take place in the hidden places of mystery schooling in the world is now a factor within history: The school of our becoming is life itself. In this presentation we will pick up the key elements that Rudolf Steiner names in his lecture from July 30th of 1918 and with them see better into the nature of what is happening in our time. What is revealed places us within powerful cultural streams of the present time – “Americanism, Bolshevism and Jesuitism” – and reveals the profound challenge we are called to face in establishing the truly a human – and a truly human culture – within this context. It is a societal level expression of what is revealed as a mystery image at the opening of the ancient gospel texts: the temptation of Jesus in the desert.

When
Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 PM EST/Monday November 21 at 6.00am AEDT
Background Reading
Problems of the Time, 30 July 1918, Berlin
Registration
Register here!
Recordings of the webinars are not guaranteed. All efforts will be made to do so but please do not count on it. If you are unable to join the live webinar, please do not register but rather check back in a few weeks after the webinar. Successful recordings will be listed for sale here.
Proceeds will benefit the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America

About Rev. Patrick Kennedy
In April of 2006, Patrick Kennedy was consecrated into the priesthood in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to attending the seminary in Stuttgart, Germany, Patrick studied and worked in the field of early childhood education and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in cultural anthropology. He has worked as a priest in the congregations in Devon, Pennsylvania and the Greater Washington, D.C., area. Then, in Chestnut Ridge, New York, he took up the roles of both seminary director and resident priest in the local congregation. In July 2019, Patrick, his family, and the entire seminary moved to the Toronto area.

This series is hosted by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society in America

Image credit: Temptations of Christ, 12th-century mosaic in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice

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.
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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’

Truth, Beauty & Goodness: A Holy Nights Contemplation
2022-12-25 08:00 - 2023-01-07 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Raphael’s Madonna Sequence
The Holy Nights represent a time outside of regular time, when we cross the bridge into the new year, renewing our commitment to the wisdom and richness of our inner life. It is a time for finding strength and inspiration for the coming year. The Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) offers this program to guide you with intention, and in community, through a contemplative and nourishing space.
What is it about?
A contemplative practice with Raphael’s Madonna Series, online through Zoom. Plus a bonus recording about the creating a Holy Nights practice with Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams!
When
December 22, 2022 with Brian Gray
December 25, 2022 – January 6, 2023 (13 consecutive days) with numerous presenters
January 7, 2023 with Orland Bishop
Time
4.00 am AEDT/9.00 am Pacific
Sessions are 15 minutes over the holy nights, with two 90 minute sessions before and after.
Can’t join live? Each gathering will be recorded and posted on our Participant Portal (link emailed upon registration).
Cost
This event is free with suggested donations of $25 (Candle), $50 (Light), or $100 (Star).
Your donations help support the work of those contributing to this event and future events. Thank you for your support.
Register
Register here!
For more information
Please look here for more information and the full program schedule.

Feature Image: Sistine Madonna, Raphael c.1513-1514 courtesy WikiCommons

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.

Form Drawing for Teachers
2023-02-19 - 2023-03-12 | Online
The How, the Why, and the When of
a Linear Language of Form in Education

Online workshops with Van James, artist, author, educator based in Hawaii, USA
About the workshops

What is the underlying importances of Form Drawing?
How does it benefit the growing child?
Why is it taught in Steiner-Waldorf schools and when (at what grade levels) is it appropriate and most beneficial?

We will address these questions and many more in this practical online art course for teaching children the creative art of form drawing.
Who are the workshops for?
For class teachers, homeschool parents, art instructors, art therapists and educational specialists.
No experience necessary.

Dates

In Asia: Sundays February 19 and 26 & March 5 and 12 2023,
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Indian Standard Time)
In USA: Saturdays February 18 and 25 & March 4 and 11, 2023,

Cost
Rs.6995 = $105 USD
Registration
Please look here for more details.
For more information
Please contact Van James at the Nurturer’s Studio

About Van James
Van James is an artist, author, Steiner-Waldorf educator and international advocate for the arts. A longtime teaching-artist in Hawai’i and a mentor for Gradalis Teacher Education. Van is a council member of the Visual Art Section of North America, a mentor with the Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development, editor of Pacifica Journal, and an award-winning author of numerous books on culture and the arts including Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart, The Secret Language of Form: Visual Meaning in Art and Nature and the recently published Teaching Art History: Engaging Adolescents in Art, Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness.
Find out more about Van James here or Click here for Van’s YouTube Channel on painting

“We must begin with inner, not outer perception, by stimulating in the child a strong sense of symmetry. Even in the case of the very youngest children we can begin to do this. For example: we draw some figure on the blackboard and indicate the beginning of a symmetrical line.Then we try to make the child realise that the figure is not complete; they must find out how to complete it. In this way, we awaken an inner, active urge in the child to complete something as yet unfinished.This helps them to express an absolutely right conception of something that is a reality. The teacher, of course, must have inventive talent but that is always a very good thing. Above all else the teacher must have mobile inventive thought.”

In A Modern Art of Education by Rudolf Steiner

Meeting Christ in the Etheric in Response to the Challenges of our Times
2023-03-27 07:00 - 08:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Webinar with James Dyson, MD
Part of the “Shining a Light into the Darkness” series.
What is it about?
Human consciousness has slowly come from the cosmos to the earth via the ethers & the elements which have mediated the Logos into the earth to create the human being as an image of the Divine. That creative process, working from Logos into the human body, came to its culmination around the time of the Mystery of Golgotha. Before that, human initiation had to be a journey backward to reconnect to the elements and their etheric connections that bridged to the Spirit. All earlier initiation was to bring the earthly ego from the 4fold nature of the elements, and awakening the ego into the etheric world and the spirits beyond.
This process became ever more difficult as time proceeded. This separation (as expressed in “The stars once spoke to man…”) through the ethers and elements, by the time of Golgotha had grown silent and led to the widespread desecration of soul which Jesus of Nazareth had to encounter.
Humanity, as it has crossed into 21st century, is now walking the path that Jesus of Nazareth walked in his 20s when he was meeting the deserted altars. We are meeting the destitution of the soul, the denial of the Logos, meaninglessness: the power of the Logos no longer reflected in the environment around us.
How do human beings find their way to speaking the Logos back to the stars? Christ’s penetration of the body of the earth, bringing His being now closer to humans in the etheric realm, can manifest in many ways but, archetypally, in the meeting of one human being with another. We meet the etheric world through the human encounter – where ‘conversation is more precious than the light, and the light is more precious than gold.’ Through human encounter, human communication, we can meet Christ’s etheric body. Through human connection we regain connection to the Logos.
When
Monday, 27 March 2023 at 7.00am AEDT
Registration
Register here

About James Dyson
James Dyson, M.D. was a co-founder of one of the few English speaking anthroposophical medical clinics, Park Attwood, in the UK where he worked from 1979 to 2003. He has practiced as a doctor in Steiner Waldorf Schools and in centers for social therapy. His areas of special interest are developmental psychology and adult mental health, and he is a regular contributor to anthroposophic therapeutic trainings in the UK and internationally. James has added Psychosynthesis to his training and is a prolific lecturer of Rudolf Steiner’s body of work in the healing fields.

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.

Annual General Meeting of the General Anthroposophical Society
2023-03-31 - 2023-04-02 | Goetheanum online
Notice of the Annual General Meeting of the General Anthroposophical Society (31st March – 2nd April) at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland.
Theme: Society for a Common World

Here is a recording of Peter Selg’s “1923: Rudolf Steiner’s Commitment to an Anthroposophical Society for the Future online in preparation for the upcoming Annual General Meeting of the General Anthroposophical Society (31st March – 2nd April).
The next lecture in the series will be Claus Peter Röh “Once I answered YES: Dag Hammerskjöld’s Destiny Drama” on May 11th.
You can find the full program here

The Illumination: A Pictorial Contemplation for Easter
2023-04-09 17:00 - 18:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An online contemplation exploring the phenomenon of light in the darkness, as experienced by the disciples on the path from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday.
Using the paintings of modern masters, artist Fiona Campbell leads this art contemplation using a special form of phenomenological observation called beholding that allows us to experience an artwork from within it.
Suggested reading: St John Chap. 13, St Luke Chap 24.
When
Date: 9th April 2023
Time: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEST
Cost
$20 donation or amount of your choice is much appreciated.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell
How to register
Register here
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.
About the presenter
Dr Fiona Campbell is an artist, lecturer and phenomenologist with a special interest in the Goethean approach. Out of her research and practice, she has developed a form of Goethean observation called beholding which is especially suited to the deep contemplation of artworks.
Trained at Tobias School of Art and Therapy in England and UTS in Communications, she has been painting and researching the Easter theme for over 20 years. Fiona is a founding member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, which promotes the phenomenological way of seeing the world.
Event flyer

Organiser website

Feature image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

What is Veil Painting? And why do we use it?
2023-04-28 12:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
“The basis of artistic creation is not what is,
but what might be; not the real, but the possible.
Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

A beginner’s guide to wet-on-dry painting
With artist Fiona Campbell

This online workshop introduces the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique in all its variations, from classic veiling to more flexible layering and blending.
The workshop will be recorded and available for six months.
Why use this technique?
The workshop also covers why we use it in the anthroposophical approach to painting, including its effect on the painter and viewer and its applications in difference contexts, such as art therapy, meditation, Steiner school curriculum, lazure wall painting and general artistic work.
Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this special ist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist. She draws on Rudolf Steiner’s Colour lectures, his ‘portfolio’ of training sketches for artists and his numerous references to the role of art and the task of the modern artist.
We will cover:

Materials required for this technique
The basic wet-on-dry technique
Forming from positive and negative space
Blending, intensifying, enhancing
How form arises out of colour
Soul/spiritual indications
Different applications for different contexts e.g. therapeutic applications, artistic approaches

When
Friday 28 April, 2023 at 12.00pm AEST
Cost
$65 includes video recording
How to register
Registrations closed. Video recording of the workshop available for $65
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She does interdisciplinary research on phenomenology, creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project. She is also teaches research methods and consciousness studies in Masters and post graduate trainings.
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, read about her lecturing work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has regularly taught since 1994) or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Examples of the range of wet-on-dry techniques

Photo credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Projective Geometry, The World of Life and The World of Soul
2023-05-01 19:00 - 2023-06-12 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A part-time online course facilitated by the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar

Projective geometry began as an exact science yet its own development has turned even science inside out. Rudolf Steiner saw in this meeting of opposites a new beginning – and called it the polarity of space versus counterspace. It is the interplay of etheric and physical and the forms of the plant-world tell of this mystery.
This polar (threefold) relation lives also in the soul’s thinking, feeling and willing. What does Rudolf Steiner mean by ‘pure thinking’ ? Well, projective geometry leads us to experiences of that. The new soul condition indicated in Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom is that of the thinking will – yet this is no mere admixture of the two.
There is no need to read Philosophy of Freedom before the course, but participants will need to read at least the short 8th and final chapter – entitled “Practical Conclusion – of the Earlier Work Truth and Science” (GA 3). Super-condensed and real work for the mind, this elicits an experience, alive in thought, of what human freedom means.

Date/time
Duration: Term 2. Mondays 1 May to 12 June.
Monday evenings from 7.00 – 9.00pm (Melbourne time)
Cost
Cost: $445 per term
To register
Register here!
For more information
For enrolment questions, please contact Carmen in the office on +03 9876 5199 or email her.
About the tutor

Gordon Woolard is an experienced Steiner teacher and educator from kindergarten to class 12. His trainings include university Physics, the Foundation and Education years at Emerson College, the Wynstones Science Teachers’ course, the Michael Hall Kindergarten training, Joinery and Cabinet Making, a post grad teaching diploma for SpLD (Dyslexia) and Audrey McAllen’s Extra Lesson training. Gordon Woolard, Dip SpLD AMBDA PATOSSMathematical Association
He is also an independent specialist teacher and trainer.

Therapies for Care and Recovery Workshop
2023-05-12 - 2023-05-14 | Taruna College, 33 Te Mata Peak Road, Havelock North, New Zealand
A three-day workshop focussed on practical, effective care and intervention strategies to alleviate symptoms of trauma, stress and anxiety.
Across our New Zealand community, we are seeing many people affected by trauma, stress, and anxiety. In response, we want to widen the circle of those able to offer supportive nursing therapies that we know provide valuable care and recovery in such experiences in any situation.
Whether you are a nurse, therapist or caregiver we invite your registration for this three-day workshop focussed on practical, effective care and intervention strategies to alleviate symptoms of trauma, stress and anxiety.
This is an opportunity to explore both patterns of physiology and presenting symptoms, through a lens that includes their weaving between body and spirit. Central to our learning process, healing plants and external treatments will become familiar to you, preparing you to assess and safely offer supportive therapies, based on a sound rationale.
Our inspiration is Anthroposophic Medicine, where nursing care and therapies work out of a positive concept of health that recognises a self-regulated equilibrium. Central to this approach is the emphasis on human autonomy along with the vital importance of care and the therapeutic relationship. Within this picture a signature of the anthroposophic nursing pathway is caring that recognises it is our knowing, our way of being and our way of acting that makes a quintessential difference.
In addition to working with a range of external treatments and healing substances, this workshop introduces biography work, the inner path of the nurse or therapist and casework to help with individualised support across various situations and settings.

When and where
12 – 14 May 2023
Taruna College,
33 Te Mata Peak Road
PO Box 8103
Havelock North
New Zealand
Cost
$550 NZ (includes $100 NZ registration deposit)
Register
Register here
Nurse Tutors
Deborah Bednarek RN MN ANS
Find out more about Deborah here.
Michelle Vette RN MN ANS
Find out more about Michelle here
For more information about this workshop
Get in touch to register your interest via info@taruna.ac.nz
For more information about the Anthroposophic Nursing Training
Taruna College in New Zealand offers the Foundation Course in Anthroposophic Nursing (FCAN). This part-time education process over two years aligns with the criteria developed by the International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing (IFAN) for foundation courses in anthroposophic nursing and will prepare nurses to work with external treatments including hydrotherapy, compress use and body oilings.
You can download the Taruna Nursing Course flyer here.

Parzival and Feirefiz: Co-Creating a New Grail Ritual
2023-05-26 03:00 - 04:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Exploring the Grail mysteries over the course of three workshops (plus a bonus performance session!). We will hear presentations on themes of colour, tone, sound, ritual and more. We will also have the opportunity to explore our biographies and converse in pairs and groups. See below for the schedule and more details!
About the series
The medieval initiation story of Parzival (also written Percival, Perceval, Parsifal and Peredure), a knight who goes in search of the Holy Grail, has been an archetypal and spiritual inspiration for many great thinkers, including Rudolf Steiner. There are several retellings of this story, most famously Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic poem and Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal.
Wagner’s Parsifal does not include Feirefiz, the Black brother of Parzival, as Eschenbach’s story does. Why is this? It appears to be the tragic outcome of a worldview that places the white European narrative first – at the cost of other experiences, cultures, and races.
Using the Parzival narrative as a foundation, and an exploration of themes of light and dark within music and art, this workshop series will explore questions around brother and sisterhood, inclusion, and race. We will also explore how ritual can be a healing structure to connect with the ostracised Other and build wholeness and inclusion in our society. Seen through this lens, the story of the quest for the Holy Grail can be reimagined more as a collective or collaborative social process, a journey to the Other, than as a singular quest for individual enlightenment.
Cost
Suggested: $60
Youth & Equity: $30
Supporter: $95
When
May 21, June 4, and June 18, at 3am Sydney/10 am Pacific for 75 min. via Zoom
Registration
Register here!
Then check your inbox for a confirmation email with all links and resources.
Each gathering will be recorded and posted in our Participant Portal (link emailed upon registration).
For more information
Detailed information about the program and the presenters.

This series of webinars is hosted by the Anthroposophical Society in America

There is a knighthood of the 21st century whose riders do not ride through the darkness of forests, but through the forests of darkened minds. Out of them shines healing. They must create inner justice, peace, and conviction in the darkness of our time.
~ Karl König

Image credit: courtesy of the ASA

Bridging the Temple Between: A Whitsun Festival
2023-05-28 02:30 - 04:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This Whitsun, let us bridge the temple between and celebrate our shared strivings towards the Spirit.
In partnership with the World Social Initiative Forum (WSIF), we warmly invite you to a Zoom festival spotlighting five anthroposophical organizations working internationally. Join us as we celebrate these initiatives from Nepal, the Philippines, Kenya, Argentina, and the UK. This program is free with the opportunity to donate and support this work and the organizations represented.
For more information and registration
Check here
Not able to attend in person? We will record this event and send it out within 24 hours

This webinar is hosted by the Anthroposophical Society in America

The human being is a bridge between the past and the future.
The present is a moment-moment as bridge.
Spirit grown to soul in matter’s husk
comes from the past:
soul growing to spirit as seed encased
journeys toward the future.
Grasp future things through past ones:
hope for evolving things through what has evolved.
So grasp existence in evolving growth:
so grasp what will be in what exists.
~Rudolf Steiner

Image credit: courtesy of the ASA
