Anthroposophical Society in Australia

Cafe Book Face
2019-10-19 09:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Cafe Book Face at Warranwood is a space for conversations, deep or casual, cosmic or personal, over a coffee and/or books.
11.30 am Watercolour painting with Clair-Louise
Coin donations for events and coffee to support Michael Centre

Sponsored by the Michael Group

Cafe-Book-Face Warranwood
2019-11-16 09:30 - 13:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Cafe-Book-Face is a space for conversations, deep or causal, cosmic or personal, over coffee and/or books.
11.30am Watercolour painting with Claire-Louise Hayashi
Coin donatioin for events and coffee to support Michael Centre activities

The Paradise Play - Adam and Eve Celebration
2019-12-24 07:30 - 09:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Performed by the friends of The Michael Group. Sponsored by the Michael Group
Followed by an address, carol singing and breakfast.
Please bring a plate to share.
(The Paradise Play is not recommended for children under 9 years of age)

CAFE-BOOK-FACE
2020-02-08 09:30 - 13:00
Commencing for 2020.
Relax with a coffee, browse real books, and chat with like-minded students and friends of Anthroposophy.

Adam and Eve Breakfast & The Oberufer Paradise Play
2021-12-24 07:30 - 09:30 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
… Like to a God he is become,
Knowledge he has of evil and good,
He can lift up his hand on high,
Whereby he liveth eternally.

The Oberufer Paradise Play portrays creation and ‘the fall’ together with the spiritual forces that lie behind the events we see acted out on the stage. It prepares us to celebrate the birth of Christ and is the first of the Oberufer plays which were collected by Karl Julius Schroer, one of Rudolf Steiner’s teachers. They were passed on by oral tradition from a community living on the island of Oberufer on the Danube. The three plays represent a unique survival of the medieval mystery play tradition
The Oberufer Paradise Play will be performed followed by an address, carol singing and breakfast. Please bring a plate to share for breakfast.
For more information
Please contact Maria Garrido
Please note: the Paradise play is not suitable for children under 9 years old.

A Winter's Tale
2022-04-12 18:00 - 22:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
“A sad tale’s best for Winter… I will tell it softly; yond crickets Shall not hear it.”

A play by William Shakespeare presented by the Michael Drama Group
A story of love, death, madness and transformation through suffering – not quite a tragedy, or a romance, or a comedy, but an enigmatic blend of all three. The play takes us through a process of dying away, of descent and of Winter, but also that of emerging from darkness into light with the new life of Spring.

This performance will run for 4 hours including an interval.
Dates
9 April, 4pm
10 April, 4pm
12 April, 6pm
13 April, 6pm
The performance commences at 4pm or 6pm sharp. Please be seated by this time. Arrive early for on site parking.
Venue

Michael Centre, Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood

Bookings

Bookings now open!
For more information about the play, there is an article about it in the Vic News Autumn edition.

Whitsun Celebration
2022-06-04 17:00 - 20:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
The Michael Festivals Group invites you and your family to a
Whitsun Celebration

You are warmly welcomed to attend the Michael Centre for a celebration of Whitsun evening on Saturday, 4 June from 5pm.

For more information
Please download the flyer for more information about the program and community sharing details.
Or contact Alison 0409 408 309
Online booking Whitsun 2022 RSVP

Logos: Consecrating Humanity - a callout to artists
2022-08-15 - 2022-09-01
Celebrating the 100 years
of the Christian Community in our Melbourne Community

Dear Artistic Community,
You are invited to participate in the forthcoming Christian Community Art Exhibition in Melbourne from 2nd October to 13th November, 2022.
The art exhibition will begin the Melbourne celebrations of 100 years since the foundation of the The Christian Community in the world.
Logos: Consecrating Humanity conference information here.
Our exhibition theme explores the conference theme: Logos Consecrating Humanity.
For more information about art work submissions
We have altered the final date for entry from 1st August to 1st of September 2022 to give you more time to create your works for the exhibition.
Information about submissions
Entry form for artists

Art Exhibition Sub-Committee
We look forward to hearing from you and creating a beautiful exhibition celebrating ‘Logos Consecrating Humanity’.

Cheryl Nekvapil, Katherine Rudolph, Lisa Pearson

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

Celebrating 100 years of Christian Community

4th – 6th November 2022

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

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

Where do I register?
Download the registration form here

End of Earthly Life Matters
2022-11-12 09:00 - 17:30 | Melbourne Christian Community, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia
A Day Seminar on Palliative Care, After Death Care and the Vigil
at the Christian Community, Hawthorn, VIC

Program

9am : Arrival and Registration 9.15am : Welcome and Opening
9.25 – 10.25am : “An Anthroposophical Palliative Care Approach”. Pippa will share her knowledge and experiences out of her work as an anthroposophical palliative care nurse and introduce us to the core principles and things we can do ourselves when caring for someone.
10.25 – 11.25am : “End of Life Legalities and Documents, Death Care and Funeral Practicalities” with Melinda.
11.25 – 11.45am : Morning tea break
11.45am-1pm : “Soul and Spirit Care at End of Life” with Cheryl, Pippa and Melinda. Supporting a dying person and their carers and community around them in body, soul and spirit. This is an interweaving of many things including nursing care, conversation, counselling, meditation, prayer, ritual and ceremony.
1 – 2pm : Lunch. Bring your own lunch.
2 – 3.15pm : “The Vigil- Death Care” The laying out of a person’s body in preparation for a vigil with Pippa.
3.15 – 4pm : Questions and Closing Thoughts.

4 – 4.15pm : Afternoon Tea
4.15pm – 5.15pm : Festival to Remember Those who have Died.
5.15pm : Finish/Departure

**All welcome to attend The Act of Consecration of the Human Being at 8am.

About the presenters
Pippa White has a Diploma of Nursing and a Diploma of Holistic Nursing (Anthroposophical Nursing). She has worked as a palliative nurse for 15 years, both in institutional and home based care and for 11 years as an anthroposophical nurse both in general nursing and palliative care. She has facilitated many parent workshops for home nursing care for children and on topics of death and dying.

Melinda Whyman is the Community Activator for the not-for-profit ‘Tender Funerals-Greater Eastern Melbourne’ initiative. She has previously worked as a holistic funeral director guiding individuals, families and communities through all aspects of the funeral care process.
Cheryl Nekvapil is a priest of The Christian Community working in Melbourne. Since 2016, she has worked with Pippa and Melinda in offering holistic care for body, soul and spirit for people in end-phase of life and in death care.

When
9am – 5.15pm Saturday 12th November
Where

The Christian Community, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn

Program flyer
Download the flyer here
Find out more

Please contact either Cheryl Nekvapil or Pippa White

Photo credit: Guardian Angel, Ninetta Sombart

Save the date! A conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Conference
2023-12-27 08:00 - 2023-12-31 17:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Recognising and Affirming the Mystery Deed of the Christmas Conference as We continue to Cultivate the Life of the Spirit in our Time

We welcome your participation in this important event to commemorate and celebrate the Christmas Conference, which was held 100 years ago in Dornach, Switzerland.
On this, the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Conference, it is our deepest wish to gather together a group of like-minded, like-striving souls to raise our consciousness to understand what was placed before humankind 100 years ago so that through this our hearts may be warmed and our thinking enlivened so that we may strive towards the future with Michael strength and Christened heart for the good of humanity.
When

Wednesday 27th to Sunday 31st December
Where
The Michael Centre Wellington Park Dr, Warranwood, Victoria
Program
Download the program here
Register here
For more information
Please contact Helen Vogel

At the Goetheanum
That Good May Become… 100 Years Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum, 26-31 December 2023
The commemoration conference of the General Anthroposophical Society and the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland has an extensive program of workshops, lectures and performances for those who can visit Switzerland at this time.
FInd out more here
Download the program

O Light Divine,
O Sun of Christ!
Warm Thou
Our Hearts,
Enlighten Thou
Our Heads,
That good may become
What from our Hearts we would found
And from our Heads direct
With single purpose.

Excerpt from the Foundation Stone Meditation

Photo credits: courtesy of Birgith Lugosi

Anthroposophical Medical Conference: Bringing healing-forces through anthroposophic medicine
2025-04-14 - 2025-04-18 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
14th -18th April 2025

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 2025 Anthroposophic Medical Conference in Melbourne, Australia! I would like to thank the Australian Anthroposophic Medicine Association and the Michael Centre for hosting the conference this year.
Location
The Michael Centre, Warranwood, Melbourne, VIC

Download the program
Find out more
Bookings

Michael Centre Drama Group
2026-03-19 19:00 - 2026-05-28 21:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia

The Prophet: Music Theatre Workshops & Performance
2026-04-13 10:00 - 19:00 | Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067, Australia
