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

What is Phenomenology? And is it time to consign 'subjective/objective' to the past?
2023-05-31 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
A webinar discussion
on consciousness and the nature of being

This webinar is the 4th in our popular ongoing series. Join us again! or join us for the first time. All welcome!
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?
Program
We have another exciting program to share with you:

Robin Steele presenting her hermeneutic research into therapeutic change through psychophonetics.
Kate Sharp sharing her methodology as an art therapist.
then, an open discussion on the thorny question of subjective vs. objective.

Subjective vs objective
This dichotomy has been the bedrock parameter for judging research in the past, but is it time to consign this dualistic way of perceiving the world to history?
The modern desire for absolute and certain knowledge, what the philosopher John Dewey called ‘the quest for certainty’,* is foundational to this attitude. In the past, scientifically-rigorous, valid and reliable outcomes replaced the unknowns of opinions, beliefs and ‘supernatural’ experience with known facts. And despite qualitative research’s increasing acceptance, this mentality is still shaping our response to phenomenological research, to our understanding of human consciousness and indeed, to Anthroposophy itself,
This question will be the theme up for discussion and questioning in the second part of the webinar.
When will this webinar take place?
6.30 pm AEST Wednesday 31st May 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

Who are the Stream of Life Research Studio?
Stream of Life is a fluid, collective group of researchers and practitioners who are interested in exploring Anthroposophy with open and inquiring minds and hearts. The founding members of the Studio are Dr Fiona Campbell, whose core research work concerns consciousness, cognition and creativity; and Dr Martin Samson, who studies how the spiritual and physical work in union with each other in the starry realms.

Different members have different fields of expertise but all are working out of Anthroposophy and use some form of phenomenology as their primary research methodology, in an approach that stretches beyond the world of natural science into the arts, humanities and human sciences.

Phenomenology 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*).

*John Dewey, (1930). The quest for certainty: A study of the relation of knowledge and action. The Journal of Philosophy, 27(1), pp.14-25
*Fiona Campbell (2018), ‘Flow, resistance and thinking : a phenomenological study of creativity‘ Doctoral thesis, UTS Digital Thesis Collection.

The Riddle of the Labyrinth
2023-06-04 13:30 - 15:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
And the Mystery of the Maze

What is the origin and meaning of the Labyrinth?
Why is it found in so many cultures around the world?
How is it different from a Maze?
Why are these forms so popular today?
What is its significance for us?

Let’s explore together the mystery and magic of these forms in a two-hour, online artistic course with artist and educator Van James.
When
Sunday 4 June from 1.30pm to 3.30pm AEST
Cost
$US20
Register here!
Presenter
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.
Click here for Van’s YouTube Channel on painting

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)

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

Reshaping a World Movement
2023-09-27 - 2023-10-01 | Goetheanum, Rüttiweg 45 4143, Dornach, Switzerland
Save the Date ➝ September 27 – October 1, 2023
Goetheanum World Conference

A transdisciplinary working conference at which common challenges and questions of our time will be worked through, and artistic interventions, impulses for the future and encounters will be given space.
How can the work of Anthroposophy be renewed and strengthened in a rapidly changing world? After more than 100 years, what are the next steps? Together we want to reshape the world movement that emerged from Anthroposophy!
Find out more here!

What is veil painting? Exploring the four elements through gesture
2023-09-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
With artist Fiona Campbell
This online workshop uses the four elements – warmth, air, water, earth – to build on the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique, introduced last April in What is veil painting? And why do we do it?
The workshop teaches classic veiling; participants will create an artwork with a nature theme with guidance from the presenter. The workshop will be recorded and available for three months.
Why we use this technique?
The workshop demonstrates the classic veiling technique, as used in therapy and meditative practices. We use the theme of the four elements to explore how different brush strokes embody different activities and moods, and the effects this has on both painting and painting.
Each element has a different gesture that characterises the phenomenal world of Nature. These gestures provide variations in veiling approaches that go beyond being mere ‘outer’ techniques and point to how we must learn to paint out of our inner soul life rather than out of ‘special effects’.
The workshop also explores the fundamentals of the anthroposophic approach to painting.
Who is it for?
For anyone interested in learning more about this unique watercolour approach to enlivening colour.
For anyone interested in the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.
When
Saturday 30 September, 2023 at 2.00pm AEST
Cost
$65 includes video recording
How to register
Book here
How to join the workshop
The Zoom link and a list of materials will be sent to you after you register.
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.
Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this specialist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist.
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. 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.
You can find out more about Fiona here or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“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

Photo credit: Trees in Sunny Air, © Fiona Campbell

Art in the light of the Christmas Conference
2023-10-31 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
A fundraising lecture by Dr Christiane Haid
Dr Christiane Haid is the head of the Section for Beautiful Sciences (Literary Arts & Humanities) and the Section for the Visual Arts at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. She will be live-streaming her lecture from Dornach.

All funds raised on the night will be donated to the Section for Beautiful Sciences and the Visual Arts Section in Dornach.

When
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM AEDT

Where
307 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2001
via Zoom (please register below)

How to register
Register and pay here

For more information
Please contact John Pater

One will strive to make beauty the mediator of truth and through truth to give beauty a permanent foundation and a higher dignity

Friedrich Schiller

Photo credits: courtesy of Sektion für Bildende Künste

Supportive therapies
2023-11-11 - 2023-11-13 | Taruna College, 33 Te Mata Peak Road, Havelock North, New Zealand
Taruna College 11-13 November 2023

As a nurse, therapist or caregiver, we invite you to register for this three day workshop focussed on practical, effective care and intervention strategies.  Come and be a part of widening the circle of those offering supportive  therapies in the community. Through our learning process, healing plants  and external treatments will become familiar to you, preparing you to assess  and safely work with the therapies based on a sound rationale.  In addition we introduce

biography work
the inner path of the nurse or therapist, and
casework to help with individualised care across various situations and   settings.

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Cost
$550 all materials, refreshments and lunch included Tutors: Deborah Bednarek RN MN ANS and Michelle Vette RN MN ANS

Registration
Registration via the Taruna website or ring 068777174

Livestream lectures from the Goetheanum
2023-11-22 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Goetheanum online
Coming up

November 22, 20:00 | Constanza Kaliks: Emmanuel Levinas
November 30, 20:00 | Peter Selg: Paul Celan
December 21, 20:00 | Peter Selg: Rudolf Steiner’s preparation of the Christmas Conference

All times are Central European Time (CET) – Livestreams will appear below at the indicated time / date.
Otherwise, recordings of previous lectures will be displayed.

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AnthroArt Training to start in Taiwan
2023-11-25 - 2023-12-01 | Shan Mei Zhen AnthrArt Center, Taiwan
Shan Mei Zhen AnthroArt Centre presents
a new anthroposophic training in Taiwan

The first session of a anthroposophic art training will begin in Taiwan in November 2023 with the theme The Art and Individuality of Color: An Overview of the Painting Indications and Color Theory of Rudolf Steiner. Given in both English and Chinese the three- to four-year course will meet both in-person and online with home projects as part of the program.
Where
Shan Mei Zhen AnthroArt Center in Taichung, Taiwan
When
Saturday, November 25 through Friday, December 1, 2023.
Find out more
Download the flyer or for further information, schedule and timetable contact: albertruby.tai@gmail.com or to register use the QR code (for Chinese speakers only):

Artistic Director
Van James is an artist, author, Steiner-Waldorf educator and international advocate for the arts. A longtime teaching-artist in Hawai’i, he is a council member of the Visual Art Section, School of Spiritual Science, in North America, and an award-winning author of numerous books on culture and the arts including Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart: A Natural Approach to the Art of Drawing (SteinerBooks, 2012), Painting with Hand, Head and Heart: A Natural Approach to the Art of Painting (Waldorf Publications, 2023) and Teaching Art History: Engaging the Adolescent in Art Appreciation, Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness (Waldorf Publications, 2022).

The Four Large Watercolors: Seasonal Painting with Van James
2024-01-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Seasonal Painting themes based on
Rudolf Steiner’s originals of 100 years ago

New Life, Three Crosses, Archetypal Plant and Archetypal Man/Animal will be explored in connection with the festival times of year: Christmas/Winter, Easter/Spring, Saint John’s/Summer, and Michaelmas/Autumn. These were the last four watercolour paintings created by Rudolf Steiner in connection with a deepening of his work in Spiritual Science and the significance of the cycle of the year.
Find out more
Contact Nurturers Studio for more information

Working with Colour, Out of Colour
2024-03-02 16:00 - 2024-04-06 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio

A short online course
introducing how to work with colour in painting

Anthroposophic approach to painting
How do we experience colour? And what does it mean that form arises out of colour, and not that colour is attached to form? So how do we paint ‘out of colour’ and not form? To answer these questions, we start with Goethe’s Theory of Colour as our foundation. Using immersive wet-on-wet watercolour, we explore the qualities and gestures of each colour, and learn how colours have a life of their own, qualities that express their very essence, when painted ‘out of colour’.
Why Goethe’s Theory of Colour?
Goethe proposed a revolutionary method of approaching the phenomena of colour, one which integrates the observer with the experience. Further, Goethe was concerned with the qualities of colours, which he called the ‘deeds and sufferings of the light’. By immersing our senses in the colours, we come a deep, intuitive relationship with them that connects us more strongly to both the physical and soul worlds.
This course provides a foundation to the approach to painting used in Steiner (Waldorf) schools and to the anthroposophic understanding of colour itself.
Who is it for?

For Steiner class teachers who would like to learn more about the nature of colour as used in the Steiner School curriculum
For anyone interested in learning the fundamentals of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.

When is it?
2 March-6 April, Saturdays 4pm-5.15pm AEDT
Six weekly sessions plus recording
Cost
$170 AUD/$120 USD
$190 AUD for PD certificate
Bookings
Book here!
For more information
Find out more about this course and others,

About Painted Space Studio
Painted Space Studio offers a comprehensive training program in art, emphasising its potential as a spiritual practice. By recognising art as a bridge to the spiritual, the studio provides individuals with an creative path for harmonising and strengthening their inner being through art.
Painted Space uses the anthroposophic approach to art as its framework, but leads each artistically-striving individual towards the full expression of their own creativity, which goes beyond mere aesthetics and taps into the profound connection between the human spirit and the creative process.
Director: Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Goethe’s symmetric colour wheel with associated symbolic qualities (1809)

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

Three Crosses Painting Workshop
2024-03-24 09:30 - 11:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online
Painting the Easter theme
based on Rudolf Steiner’s original of 100-years ago

On the centennial of Rudolf Steiner’s Easter motif, this online painting session will work with the formative colour story of The Three Crosses by Rudolf Steiner and will explore the connection with the festival time of year: Easter/Spring. This was one of the late watercolour paintings created by Rudolf Steiner in connection with a deepening of his work in Spiritual Science and the significance of the cycle of the year in relation to the human soul.
What is it about?
On Saturday evenings in the US and Sunday mornings in Asia, artist-educator Van James will guide beginners, intermediate and experienced artists through this colour-imagination of the mystery of Golgotha as depicted in colour. This is a practical painting workshops including illustrated conversation and discussion meeting on the weekend of March 23/24, 2024.
When is it on?
Sunday 24 March for Asia/Oceania participants
Saturday 23 March for US participants.
Who is it for?
No experience is necessary (have painting materials prepared and ready).
A recording will be available.
Find out more
Contact Nurturer’Studio for more information and registration or download the flyer.

Sponsored by www.nurturerstudio.com

Feature image: Three Crosses, by Rudolf Steiner

Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation
2024-04-08 08:00 - 2024-04-14 15:00 (Asia/Kuala_Lumpur) | Online
Painting Grade 1 to Grade 6
with Van James

This course is part of the Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation Cycle 2, but we welcome public and international participants. This course will trace the visual artistic development of the child through their painting and work with color in the primary and elementary school years.
The course will include the importance of the threefold human being, multi-intelligence teaching, and understanding some of the latest neurological research as a basis for the importance of education. Wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry watercolour painting of stories and letters, landscapes and maps, figures and naturalistic forms will all be practiced with the intention of experiencing and understanding the purpose and place of art in elementary school education and for adult human development.
This is one of the intermodules for Malaysia Waldorf Teacher Preparation Cycle 2 (Inter Module 4). However, for this ONLINE module, we open up to public and welcome international participants as well.
When is it?
8th – 10th April 2024; 12th – 14th April 2024
9am – 3pm via Zoom (Malaysia time; GMT +8)
NOTE: The workshop is conducted in English. Video recordings with Chinese translation can be provided upon request. Note that it is not a live translation.
Cost
USD 195
The video recordings will be opened for viewing from April 5th to June 30th, 2024.
Registration
Register here

Find out more
Please download the flyer or contact Steiner Education Malaysia.

Feature image: Sunrise, Steiner Training Motifs, by Van James

Working with Colour, Out of Colour: A Foundation Course with the Threefold Academy
2024-04-29 18:00 - 2024-05-02 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A four-day online intensive
on colour
29 April – 2 May

For more information
Contact Abhinporn Kittipeerapat

The Art of Color: A Head Study and Mother and Child Imagination after Rudolf Steiner’s Indications
2024-05-11 - 2024-05-12 | Shan Mei Zhen AnthrArt Center, Taiwan
AnthroArt
presents
The Art of Color: A Head Study and Mother and Child Imagination after Rudolf Steiner’s Indications
As part of the AnthrOArt Painting Program at Shan Mei Zhen we are offering a weekend painting session on portrait and figure painting based on Rudolf Steiner’s indications of the Head Study and Mother and Child sketches for teenagers.
The so-called Friedwart Sketches, given by Rudolf Steiner 100-years ago this year, are the basis for both high school painting exercises and an adult painting training. We will consider the history and makeup of these themes together with a hands-on approach of painting them, as much as possible, “out of the color”. We will likewise see how these sketches are visual meditative verses in color rather than in words. Illustrated slide presentations will be a part of the program and Color Eurythmy will complement the work in watercolor. We will see how the themes are a part of a larger initiative put forward by Rudolf Steiner for the unfolding of “artistic feeling” and universal human development.
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When
Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12, 2024
Where
Shan Mei Zhen, Taichung, Taiwan
For more information
Contact smz.waldorf@gmail.com

Feature image: Head Study, Rudolf Steiner from the Seven School (Friedwart) Sketches

Asia-Pacific Rhythmical Massage Therapist Training Program: Module II
2024-05-27 - 2024-06-07 | Banrak Kindergarten, 23 Saeng Chan,, Phra Khanong, Khlong Toei,, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand
A 3 year training in Rhythmical Massage Therapy
as indicated by Dr. Ita Wegman & Dr. Margarethe Hauschka

This new training based in Bangkok is strongly experiential and includes:

Intensive practical training sessions of the basic principles and practices of Rhythmical Massage Therapy.
Medical studies that expand the natural scientific understanding with the holistic approach.
Medicinal plant studies.
Introduction to hydrotherapy and external applications including the knowledge and use of aromatic oils.
Professional and personal development studies and artistic activities

Training involves not only mastering the techniques of the massage itself, but also developing an understanding of the human being in health and illness, both from a conventional and anthroposophic perspective. Students learn a subtle rhythmic quality of touch, which works to strengthen and enliven the life supporting processes in the human body.
When
Module II 27th May – 7th June 2024 (12 days)

Polarity in Anabolic and Catabolic process, Hands on Rhythmical Massage, Therapy Practice, Elderly care and Eating disorders.
Where

Banrak Kindergarten, 23 Saeng Chan, Phra Khanong, Khlong Toei, Bangkok 10110

Fees

42,000 Baht/Module or 210,000 Baht/program includes venue, training program, lunch and 2 breaks.
Does not include flight ticket, visa registration fee, breakfast and dinner, accommodation and transportation.

Registration

Write your Short or Brief Biograpy, to let us know you more and your motivation to join our program, Medical License or License to touch, Photo and Copy of your passport. If you are the medical students, please provide your condition or certification of your education or study in medicine.

Find out more
Download the flyer

For International and Asia-Pacific region Name : Thidarat Iwashige or phone : +66 81 874 5217

For Local Thailand: Kanyanat Likithuttasilp or phone : +66 90 927 9798

The Art of Chalkboard Drawing with Van James
2024-07-21 14:00 - 2024-07-28 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Three workshops with Van James
Waldorf techniques and curriculum for teachers and parents

Blackboard drawing is a vital medium in the art of teaching. From the elementary grades
right through high school the visual storytelling that takes place on the blackboard
allows for a deeper learning that can occur beyond words and numbers; what can be
experienced through colors and forms, in pictures. Pictorial thinking is a critical capacity
for keeping alive and nurturing the imagination throughout childhood and into adult life.
This course will cover the basics of chalk drawing for teachers at the various grade
levels, noting how the board drawings can change with the age and development of the
child. Reviews of participant work on black paper or school blackboards will be
facilitated with a Google Classroom or Padlet link.
When
July 14, 21 and 28 2024
Bookings and fees
Book here

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.

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.

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‘…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
