Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy
2025-07-30 - 2025-08-02 | Parahyangan Catholic University, Jaian Ciumbuleuit no. 94, Bandung,, West Java, Indonesia
30th July – 2nd August 2025

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Warm greetings from Indonesia.
We are pleased to extend an invitation to participate in the International Anthroposophy Conference, which will be held in Indonesia from 30 July to 2 August 2025. This significant event will bring together individuals and organisations from around the world who are committed to the values and practices inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.
The conference will offer a rich program of keynote lectures, workshops, artistic activities and collaborative dialogues, all aimed at deepening our shared understanding of anthroposophy and its application in various fields of life, including education, agriculture, medicine, economy business and community development.
In the spirit of international collaboration, we kindly ask for your support in sharing the attached flyer with your members, colleagues, and wider network. Your assistance in spreading this information would be greatly appreciated and will contribute to the diversity and depth of the conversations we hope to cultivate during the conference.
Find out more
You can see completely information on our website, download the full flyer or follow us on instagram with the address anthroposophy.indonesia
Should you require any additional information or materials, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We sincerely hope that members of the Steiner Education Australia association and other interested individuals will be able to join us for this meaningful gathering.

Sincerely,
Kenny Dewi
Chief Coordinator

Breathing Through The Cycle Of The Year: A Therapeutic Intensive
2025-08-04 17:00 - 2025-08-07 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The soul of the Earth
Lives through the seasons’ changing –
Summer and Winter.

This therapeutic painting intensive evokes the breathing cycle of the year’s seasonal changes through colour, gesture and meditative verse.
Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive, deeply healing experience of the power of the health-giving forces of the earth’s harmonious breath. Rudolf Steiner tells us that the cycle of the earth is a kind of mighty breathing process of earth in relation to the surrounding cosmos (Lecture I, The Cycle of the Year). This lecture is optional background reading for the intensive.
Flowing, breathing colours are highly beneficial for revitalising the burnt-out soul. Find renewal in this special guided intensive over four late afternoons. From Summer’s light, we dive down into the warmth and sleep of Autumn and Winter, before emerging into the life and light of Spring.
Who is it for?
For anyone in need of soul nourishment and renewal. Particularly suited for conditions of insomnia, depression, burnout and long covid.
You do not need to be an experienced artist to participate in this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.
Benefits of live participation
When you paint alone, you are doing it for yourself. But when you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating etheric substance for everyone. Think of it as like visual prayer, a group of people coming together with the specific intention 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.
When
5.00pm to 6.15 pm AEST, Monday 4th August to Thursday 7th August.

Cost
$210 AUD/$140 USD
Video recordings available after the intensive

Bookings
Book here
Please complete this form to book for this short intensive workshop. You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and a reading after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the first workshop. Use the same link for each session.
Find out more
Please contact Painted Space Studio

Feature image: Blossoming Fruiting Trees © Fiona Campbell

Working with Steiner’s Training Sketches for the Artists
2025-09-06 15:00 - 2025-11-29 17:00 | Online
Introducing Steiner’s anthroposophic training path for painters
with Painted Space Studio

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

Steiner

The Nine Nature Moods or Training Sketches are the definitive foundation and starting point of Steiner’s impulse for the Arts. Given as ‘picture seeds’ to lead us into the future, they open the door to the new anthroposophic approach to painting.

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 but wet-on-wet or pastels are also possible if you prefer.

What will we do?

Starting with the sunrise, these sketches take us on an imaginative journey following the sun, moon and seasons as expressions of the spiritual laws in play between earth and cosmos. We work with each sketch creatively yet with careful attention to the forces they embody, first in pastel, then in watercolour to create a wonderful series of heavenly and earthly imaginations.

Who is it for?

For anyone interested learning about the core anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to develop their artistic practice.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. Beginners are welcome, but some watercolour painting experience is desirable. If preferred, you may choose to work with soft pastels only.

What is the importance of the Training Sketches?

Sunrise I, from the Nine Nature Moods series

You can see some interpretations of these sketches here.
These nine nature mood sketches are the starting place for anyone seeking to understand Steiner’s new impulse for the visual arts. 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.
The nine sketches are part of a comprehensive 28 motif portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. Along with Steiner’s watercolours, The Seven School or Friedwart Sketches and many others (the Goetheanum epochs motifs are supplementary to the portfolio), they form the foundation of an anthroposophic art training in painting and drawing. Steiner first gave them to artist Henni Geck in 1922 for the new of painting, just as he earlier developed eurythmy as a new art of movement.

When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 6 September – 29 November 2025
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 to get the most out of the course, including individual feedback, unless your time zone makes this impossible.

Cost

$290 AUD/$190 USD
$300 AUD for PD certificate, conditions apply*
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

The payment options, Zoom link, a list of materials and suggested readings will be sent to you after booking.

For more information

Contact

* PD (Pr0fessional development certificates) require 75% attendance and exercises on Padlet
Feature image: Moonrise (2022) © Fiona Campbell
Feature quote: from Artistic and Moral Experience, in Colour, Part III

A Conversation With Your Garden: Goethean Observation and Drawing
2025-09-10 17:00 - 2025-11-19 18:30 | Zoom online events, Australia
Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Learn to see your garden with new eyes and learn new drawing techniques!

These six online workshops uses the core stages of the phenomenological process of Goethean phenomenology using charcoal, pastels, shaded and dynamic drawing.
Spring and Autumn are ideal times of year to turn our eyes to Nature to learn her secrets. The cycle of the plant is particularly on display to us, as seed becomes leaf, leaf becomes bud, then flower turns to fruit and finally, seeds return to the earth. (Of course, any time of year in the garden is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation, which are especially suited to observation and drawing.)
What will we do?
Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, using quiet contemplation, careful observation, mood immersion, sketching and colour painting.
Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, we learn to step more deeply into the cycles of life.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops fresh, new eyes for the world around us. It offers us another way of being in the world, one that brings us into a more participatory connection with both Nature and ourselves and helps us develop new organs of perception.

Phenomenology is the way of the future!

Who is it for?

For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.
For nature lovers who would like to learn a non-confrontational way of drawing plants.
For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature

Suitable for all levels. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy these workshops. Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
When is it?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, Fortnightly Wednesdays 10 September – 19 November, 2025
Cost
$225 AUD/ $145 USD
$230 PD certificate, conditions apply
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here

Find out more!
Contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space Studio

Feature image: The Plant between the Sun and Earth by G.Adams and O. Whicher plate VIII

The Michaelic Mystery: An Artistic Journey Exploring
2025-09-12 14:00 - 2025-11-21 16:00 | Online
This masterclass in painting explores the nature and mission of Michael, the Archangel of our age, in connection with the human life and the seeds we plant for the future. .
Our path of inquiry draws on Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on this theme, starting with The Cycle Of The Year As A Breathing Process, Lecture V and lectures from The Michael Mystery.
Who is the course for?

For students of Anthroposophy who want to experience spiritual science through the arts, knowing through doing.

Painting skills and understanding of fundamental anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Bookings
Who is Michael ?
Michael (pronounced Micha-el) is a higher being whose name means ‘who is like God’. He an archangel of Christian, Judaic and Islamic religions and is often portrayed in art as slaying a dragon or Satan or with scales for weighing souls on the Day of Judgement.
He is said to inspire a cosmopolitan or world consciousness in us, at a time when human beings are becoming more and more individualised and egocentric, and our world more and more chaotic. His silent words provide a sure, steady, conscious pathway to bring our own spirit into harmony with World Spirit.
Thinking as a Michaelic person has always to do with endeavouring to implant something of the spiritual into the wider cultural-scientific and social economic life of our time.
For more information
Contact Painted Space Studio

Feature image: Michael and the Dragon, © Fiona Campbell 1999

The Michael age has dawned. Hearts begin to have thoughts. Enthusiasm no longer flows from mystical obscurity, but from the inner clarity that thought conveys. To grasp this is to receive Michael into one’s soul. Thoughts that today seek to grasp the spirit must spring from hearts that beat for Michael as the fiery cosmic prince of thought.’ Rudolf Steiner

Working with Composition: Bringing Ego Organisation into Painting
2025-09-13 15:00 - 2025-11-22 17:00 | Online
An exploration of the role of composition in painting in relation to the ego or “I”as the organiser of our soul life, through painting, drawing and art history observation. The health-giving effects of working consciously with the principles of the fourfold human being underpins this studio course.
What is composition?
Historically, artists have always drawn on the laws of perception to arrange the elements within a work of art, to create balance, focus, unity or harmony in the work. This need for the visual ordering of colour, line, form and space is essential to our feelings of connection to or our aesthetic enjoyment of a work of art. But why is this so?

Why do we experience harmonious peace in a Raphael Madonna yet also harmonious dynamism in a Turner stormy sea?

Do the elements of a work need to be arranged in a balanced compositional way to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye? Or can we also find satisfaction in chaos and unstructured movement? and what is happening within us when we experience this sense of enjoyment with a painting?
Simply, what is the role of our “I” when creating or contemplating an art work? How do bring presence to our paintings?
What will we do?
In this online course, we explore the principles of composition and learn how to leverage these principles to bring the multiple elements of our painting together into unified wholeness. We learn how perception influences our ego organisation and our experience of harmony and balance when viewing both the great masters and our own work.
First, we explore some classic laws of visual organisation, such as the rule of thirds and the golden ratio, by observing how these laws are inherent in famous artworks.
We then learn how these principles relate to the role of our ego as organiser of our soul forces; then how to apply such principles to our own work. Thus, the art work becomes a reflection of the activity of the ego on the fourfold human being, according to the anthroposophic approach to painting.
There is particular focus on the salutogenic effects of consciously working with ego organisation in painting.
Who is it for?
This is a Schooling course but you are welcome to join us!

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone interested in an artistic understanding of the role of our higher self or I in visual composition.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Required: some familiarity with the anthroposophic approach to art and basic painting technique. Watercolour veiling/wet-on-dry skills are preferred.
Please note: this is not a step-by-step instructional class so not advised for beginners in painting unless you are adventurous and self-motivated!
What dates are the classes?
3pm-5pm AEST Saturdays
13 September-6 December 2025
The workshops are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
How much does it cost?
$300 for PD or for new participants.
$280 for ongoing participants
Recordings available post-course for private study.
How do I book?
Book here
After registration, participants will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested readings and materials.
The Zoom workshop link is sent one (1) day before the class.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space Studio

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell is the director of Painted Space Studio. She a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and also trained as an art therapist.
She has special expertise in the anthroposophic approach to painting and has been teaching painting for 25 years.
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 or listen to a ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Feature image: Indigo and Umber Study I © Fiona Campbell 2000

World Goetheanum Forum 2025 in Sekem, Egypt
2025-09-24 - 2025-09-28 | Sekem, 3 Cairo-Belbes Road, Heliopolis,, Cairo, 11361, Egypt
World Goetheanum Forum 2025
24th -28th September 2025

For the first time, the World Goetheanum Forum is going to Sekem, the place of lived sustainable development and United Nations Champion of the Earth 2024! As a ‘Sustainable Native’, Sekem has almost 50 years of experience in ecological, social, economic and cultural sustainable development.
Celebrating diversity!
We encounter diversity in new partnerships, from seed companies to an upcoming children’s festival. Diversity is evident in all encounters between partners at events such as regional meetings and the World Goetheanum Association’s partner meeting. At the same time, ‘diversity’ poses a challenge to us because, socially, we are only at the beginning, and, if we do not develop further, we will reach the end ecologically. That is why diversity is one of the goals of sustainable development. We want to feel, think and explore this idea together in Sekem from 24 to 28 September. This is what our contribution in terms of content attunes us for.
We invite you to actively engage with partners and practitioners worldwide in forum work on sustainable development.
Looking forward to welcoming you in SEKEM, on behalf of the preparation group,
Download the program
Associated events
Pre-forum: ‘Sustainable Development for Global Impact: Scientific Conference’ at Heliopolis University on Wednesday, 24th September from 10 am to 4 pm
Post-forum: ‘Celebrating Farming: Climate Heroes of Egypt’, at Sekem, Sunday, 28th September from 10 am to 2 pm.

Preparation group

SEKEM
Helmy Abouleish

Goetheanum – Section for Agriculture
Johannes Kronenberg

World Goetheanum Association
Andrea Valdinoci and Katharina Hofmann

Find out more …
Contact the World Goetheanum Association
Web registration

Feature image: courtesy of the World Goetheanum Association
Photo: courtesy of Sekem

Angels Watch Over Us: A Contemplation For Advent
2025-12-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Painted Space Studio

presents
An Advent contemplation to lead us into Christmas
on how the angelic orders have guided and protected us through the ages

How can we strengthen our connection with the spiritual beings around us?
Where do we most often encounter them in our earthly lives?
At a time when world and personal events can seem to overwhelm, we can remind outselves that we are in the special care of higher beings who accompany us throughout our earthly lives and beyond.
Through contemplating artwork and verse, we reflect upon how we humans have encountered and imagined the angelic orders above us through the ages, and why such imaginations are so important to our souls’ peace and strengthening.

Suggested reading
Our Spiritual Companions by Adam Bittleston
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support this initiative.
When
5.00pm – 6.15 pm AEDT
14th December 2025
Bookings
Contact
Fiona Campbell

“See, I am sending an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.”
Exodus 23:20

Feature image: Angel s Watch Over Us ⓒ Fiona Campbell

Working with colour, out of colour: a one-day painting intensive
2026-02-21 15:30 - 20:00 | Online
A Painted Space Studio workshop

“A whole world opened and showed me colour as a living being.”
Goethe

This intensive workshop is a must for anyone who wishes to understand the role of colour in Steiner’ education and in Anthroposophy in general.
It introduces you to colour as an experience! We use the immersive wet-on-wet painting technique to help us transpose ourselves into the colour, so that we can say: “I am blue’ or ‘I am at one with golden yellow’. This is an important process for understanding how to work with colour, out of colour, selflessly.
The workshop provides you with basic watercolour painting skills and a grounding in Goethe’s Theory of Colour (which underlies the Steiner/Waldorf school curriculum for the visual arts).
Painting ‘out of colour’
But how do we paint ‘out of colour’ and not form? And how does this relate to the colours in nature, in the sky, the colours of the rainbow? To answer these questions, we start with Goethe’s colour circle as our guide. By immersing ourselves into the colour circle as it moves from warm to cool, light to dark, heaven to earth and back, we experience the full spectrum of colour – and of ourselves.

Why Goethe’s colour circle ?
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 each colour, one by one, we come to a deep, intuitive relationship with them. This, in turn, connects us more strongly to colour in the world around us.
Who is it for?

For Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to learn about colour to support their teaching practice (PD certificates available).

For anyone interested in learning to paint in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach.

This short intensive also provides an introduction to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. The Essence of Anthroposophic Art: Veiling the Colours follows on from this course, a further exploration of Goethe’s Theory of Colour but introducing the wet-on-dry watercolour painting technique.
When is it?
3.30pm-8pm AEDT, Saturday 21 February 2026
Cost
$150 AUD
$160 AUD for PD certificate
Video recordings and readings included in the fee, available for private study.
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after booking. The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
Bookings
Book here!

For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

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

A Conversation With Your Garden (Autumn): Goethean Observation and Drawing
2026-02-25 17:30 - 2026-05-06 19:00 | Online
Painted Space Studio presents

Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1914

Immersing ourselves in Nature as She turns inward …
Autumn is the wonderful time of year to turn our eyes to the changes Nature brings to the garden: the reds and golds of European trees, the bounty of fruits and late vegetables, all mixed in with the evergreens and native plants following their own local seasonal changes.
Whether you have your own garden or like to walk in a local park, a nature reserve or even just tend a few pot plants on your balcony, being with plants in their endless cycles of becoming and dying away is both energising and de-stressing for us. A health-giving counterblance to computer work!
Using Goethean phenomenology to guide us, these six online workshops will help you to become more ‘at home’ with nature.
The six workshops use mixed media and different drawing techniques to take us through this process. Techniques include charcoal, pencil, paint and pastel. Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops fresh, new eyes for seeing and engaging with the world around us. It brings us into a more participatory connection with both nature and ourselves.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.
For nature lovers who would like to learn a non-confrontational way of drawing plants.
For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature

Suitable for all levels. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy these workshops. Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
When is it?
5.30-7.00pm AEDT, 25 February-6 May 2026
Cost
$230 AUD
$240 AUD PD certificate (75% participation required).
Video recordings included in the fee, available for three months.
Bookings

You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
Contact

Feature image: Autumn Pastel © Fiona Campbell 1998

The Essence of Anthroposophic Art: Veiling the Colours
2026-02-28 15:00 - 2026-04-25 17:00 | Zoom online events, Australia
A Painted Space Studio workshop

If I delve deeper into the characters of the different colours, they show me their dynamic qualities. Out my experience, I can then let the colours guide me.

Beppe Assenza

This course introduces the iconic veil painting technique so closely identified with Rudolf Steiner’s artistic approach.
We delve into the language of colour using transparent surfaces of liquid colour in free compositions inspired by Beppe Assenza’s playful but meditative approach to painting.
This is the preferred technique of any anthroposophic painting training. It is not an easy skill to develop but very satisfying to master.
Rudolf Steiner developed this technique as a way of of interfacing with the spirit through painting.
You can read more about the anthroposophic approach and why we prefer watercolour over acrylics and oils in this short article.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in learning the veiling (wet-on-dry) watercolour technique.
For artists, art therapists and Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to deepen their understanding of colour (PD certificates available).

When is it?
3.00 pm-5.00 pm AEDT, Saturdays, 28 February-25 April 2026
Five fortnightly sessions plus video recording
Cost
$240 AUD
$250 for PD certificate (75% attendance and participation required)
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
The payment options, Zoom link, and a list of materials will be sent to you after booking.

BOOK HERE

For more information
This course is a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It is preceded by the introductory workshop, Working with Colour, Out of Colour. Together, they provide a sound foundation in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach to colour and painting.

Contact

Feature image: New Life Emerges © Fiona Campbell 2010

Surfaces as Interfaces to the Spirit
2026-03-07 15:00 - 2026-05-02 17:00 | Zoom online events, Australia
“…when we apply the lifeless paint to a surface,
we must get the light behind the surface. We must spiritualise
the surface and create a secret inner radiance.”
Rudolf Steiner

This course explores the nature of painting as a coming-into-being experience that has the capacity to open our souls to the life of the cosmos.
One key difference between most modern art schools and the approach offered by Rudolf Steiner is that we make a clear distinction between drawing and painting, between the qualities of the line and those of the surface.
Why is this so? What difference can it make to paint with surfaces rather than with lines? And what does this even mean?
Painting is a two-dimensional art of coloured surfaces. If we work consciously with this thought, work actively with this understanding, our whole relationship to how we paint (as opposed to what we paint) is changed and transformed.
Working with transparent surfaces creates an interface to our inner world, which in turn leads us to the threshold of our inner being – and beyond. In fact, Steiner states that artists, especially painters, are already working at the threshold of consciousness.
But care must be taken! If we open ourselves too much to the spiritual world, then we may be in danger of losing ourselves to it. Meditative verses can help us here, so we will also work with appropriate meditations during the course.
Who is it for?

For artists, art therapists and art students seeking a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For advanced participants of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.

Required: watercolour wet-on-dry or veiling skills. This is not a demonstrated course so you must feel comfortable with your painting technique.
Desirable: Working with Colour Moods or equivalent experience of working with watercolour painting.
When is it?
Saturdays 3pm-5pm AEDT
7 March – 2 May 2026
Fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$260 AUD
$270 for PD certificate
Video recordings and other resources included in the fee. The payment options, Zoom link, and list of materials will be sent after booking.

Book here!

For more information
This course also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It follows on from Working with Colour Moods.

Contact

Background reading
A Contemplation on Surfaces as Interfaces to the Spirit, a lecture by Fiona Campbell
‘The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature’, In Colour GA 291 by Rudolf Steiner

Feature image: Musical Improvisation © Fiona Campbell 2010
