School of Spiritual Science
2019-11-17 13:00 (Australia/Sydney)
Members only – Blue card required

Research as a path of professional and spiritual development
2019-11-19 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Research as a path of professional and spiritual development – Anthroposophy in action
A talk with Fiona Campbell starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.
Rudolf Steiner was first and foremost a researcher who saw any limits to knowledge as a challenge for inner growth. But he frequently urged his listeners to conduct their own research, not just follow his. One of the tasks of the School of Spiritual Science is research within the different professions but you don’t have to belong to the School to do research. So if I want to research my professional or personal practice, how do I go about it? Are my experiences valid? And what actually is research?
In this presentation, Fiona Campbell discusses the increasingly critical need for research in the Anthroposophical movement and how to go about it. But first, the path to becoming a spiritual investigator begins with understanding what is means to be a researcher. Dr. Fiona Campbell has been teaching interdisciplinary research skills and researcher development for 10 years and anthroposophical studies for 25 years. She specialises in learning and teaching development, drawing on her visual arts training, social science degrees and adult education expertise.

School of Spiritual Science
2019-11-23 00:00 - 2019-11-24 00:00 | Milkwood Steiner School, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

Seasonal Art Studio
2019-11-23 09:30 - 16:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Presenters: Ebba Bodame and Meg Quinlisk
Be introduced to the art of making a seasonal table, inspired with craft making and relax whilst experiencing water colour painting.
https://sydneyrudolfsteinercollege.com/product/sas2019-november-2019-seasonal-art-studio/

Saturday Morning Dialogues
2019-11-23 10:00 - 14:00
Themed conversation gatherings, in congenial locations around Melbourne

“What’s next – Gathering our themes and thoughts from the past year”
At Ample Cafe – 123-129 Howard St. North Melbourne (near Vic Market)
Sponsored by Ligsma Kirpe Trust Fund, supported by ASinA – Vic Branch

5G at the cross roads
2019-11-23 13:00 - 17:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Forum – 5G at the cross roads.
The aim of the Forum is to provide fact-based information about the nature of wireless radiation, so citizens can make informed life-style decisions.
The Forum will host a panel of eminent experts, such as radiation physicist Victor Leach, cognitive science researcher and educational designer Julie McCredden PhD and Stop5G Australia co-founder Steve Galvin.
Anthroposophy can shed Light upon the threats of wireless technologies from areas such as Pedagogy, Environmental Agriculture and Medicine.

Food, Nutrition and Spirituality development
2019-11-26 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Food, Nutrition and Spirituality development.”
A talk with Kathryn Sunantha starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House

“For most people are thoroughly convinced that the more they eat, the better they are nourished. Of course it is not true. One is often much better nourished if one eats less, because then one does not poison oneself.”

Tonight’s talk will explore food, eating, nutrition and spiritual development according to the teachings of Rudolf Steiner.

Explore the different types of food and eating to support, fuel and take you towards your greatest expression in life. How minerals, fats and carbohydrates work in your body as well as the art of eating and cooking for health, wellness and spiritual nutrition.

Advent
2019-11-29 09:30 - 2019-12-01 14:30 | Byron Shire
This workshop will look atInnI why Advent is an important time as part of an inner work path.
Advent

29 November – 1 December

Advent can be seen as a picture that is able to support our understanding of the helps and hindrances on the path that leads us towards the transformation of the soul’s capacities to enable a living relationship with the spiritual world. Through our conscious relationship to the kingdoms of nature, the weeks of advent teach us how to grow in greater harmony with these kingdoms and overcome the blocks that prevent harmony with others. This is an essential preparation for new spiritual births to take place.
Friday evening, plus Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 – 2:30pm.
To book or enquire please email innerworkpath@gmail.com

The Angels are Coming
2019-12-03 18:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
The Angels are coming.
Opening of the art exhibition with beautiful painted Angel painting to coincide with Advent.
Opening at 6pm.

Reflections on Advent and the task of becoming a true human being
2019-12-03 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Reflections on Advent and the task of becoming a true human being

A talk with Renate Long-Breipohl

The Mystery of Christmas
2019-12-10 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
The Mystery of Christmas
A talk with David Wansbrough

All over the world irrespective of religions there is some sense that there is a renewal. How does the Christmas Festival actually work into our physical bodies? All over the world irrespective of religions there is some sense that there is a renewal. How does the Christmas Festival actually work into our physical bodies?

Members and Friends Meeting
2019-12-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Members’ and friends meeting.
This meeting is open to everyone who has an interest in the Sydney Branch.
The focus will be on the budget for 2020 and members contribution for 2020.
Please have a look here for more details.

Christmas Festival
2019-12-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Orana School, Kurrajong Room, Unwin Place, Weston, ACT, 2611, Australia
The Canberra Branch invite everyone local and living regionally to
The Christmas Festival 7pm Saturday 14 December 2019 in the Kurrajong Room, Orana Steiner School upper campus, Unwin Place Weston
In December 2018 – we enjoyed a particularly rich afternoon and the program for this evening is shaping up well thanks to Riitta Korpinnen, Barbara Fisher and James Wishart.
Please take note – ABSOLUTELY NO nuts and sesame including homous, in the Kurrajong Room

Creating inner light in our hearts
2019-12-17 19:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
“Today it is unhealthy to believe that one can do something in a particular limited area without taking into consideration the fact that since the middle of the 19th century the earth has been a single organism in regard to social relationships. One simply must take this reality into account…”
Rudolf Steiner gave us this advice a century ago and we are tasked with integrating this view into festivals like Christmas.
The iconography and customs are derived from the winter darkness of the North, while it is summer in our hemisphere.
The Uriel imagination gives us a radiant picture of the light that pervades the earth and the cosmos.
The Golden Legend is a story that connects our past evolution as human beings with the future ideal of spiritual life for all humanity.
Through the birth of the Christ-child, we can now create inner light in our hearts.
A presentation of these ideas will be given with Jessie Phelps and insights from Martin Samson, who has worked extensively with these themes. The Festival Choir will sing and musical contributions are welcome.
Starting at 7pm at Rudolf Steiner House.

The Christmas Mysteries
2019-12-20 00:00 - 2019-12-22 00:00
This workshop will look at the celebration of the higher I awakening of the individual within the collective spiritual year.
The Christmas Mysteries

20 December – 22 December

The Christmas mystery is among other expressions a celebration of the higher I awakening of the individual within the collective spiritual year.
It is a time in which the spiritual world becomes more accessible. The preparation and effort we make helps to support the spiritual births and the unfolding steps towards deepening our spiritual life, and allows us to manifest the resulting capacities in daily life.
More details about this weekend course will become available closer to the time.
To book or enquire please email innerworkpath@gmail.com

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)

Holy Nights reading of Cosmic New Year
2019-12-26 17:00 - 2019-12-30 20:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Everyone is welcome to this joint study of the lecture series given by Rudolf Steiner exactly 100 years ago.

Please have a look here for more details.

A bridge to spirit
2020-01-03 15:00 - 2020-01-05 17:00 | Byron Shire
This course will be helpful for teachers, therapists, parents and anyone working with supporting others, as well as those wanting to understand their own relationship to addiction in its various forms. Please have a look here for more details.

Epiphany - The Birth of Christ at the baptism in Jordan and the Virgin birth
2020-01-06 10:30 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Join us for a presentation and discussion by John Pater on this subject.
Please have a look here for more details.

Drought proofing and fire proofing the land.
2020-01-16 08:00 - 17:00
This is a workshop that will include visiting a farm where biodynamic principles are applied.
Please have a look here for more details.

Finding our humanity - freedom and responsibility for earth
2020-01-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Sophia Mundi Steiner School, 1 St Helliers St, Abbotsford, Vic, 3067, Australia
Join John Craig Holdrege, founder and director of the Nature Institute, and educator in delicate empiricism and Goethean phenomenology, to explore freedom and responsibility for the earth at Sophia Mundi Steiner School, St. Heliers St. Abbotsford.
Special bushfire crisis offer – $30 to anyone under 40 years or those affected by fires. (Includes lunch and snacks.)
Talk only – $25/$15 (conc) 17/1/19
Talk & Workshop – $85/$60 (conc) 17/1/19 & 18/1/19
Evening Talk – From Nature as Object to Nature as Presence: A scientist’s journey
As a young man in the early twentieth century, Aldo Leopold viewed nature as something to exploit for human interests. His views and actions transformed radically over time. He came to view life on earth as a community of interwoven beings. He was instrumental in the formation of Wilderness area in the United States. What were the key moments and experiences in his life that allowed this radical transformation? In this talk Craig will depict Leopold’s inner and outer journey, from which we can learn a great deal.
Saturday Workshop
Building on the Friday evening talk, we will consider the dilemma that our thoughts and actions have become so disconnected from the wisdom that lies at the heart of the natural world. Can we become more aware of the modern habits of mind that often lead to destructive actions? How do we transcend such habits? What faculties can we develop so that the myriad voices of the earth begin to transform our perceptions, thoughts and actions? We will engage in exercises to enhance our attentiveness both to phenomena in the world and our own thinking processes.
Craig Holdrege, Ph.D., is co-founder and director of the Nature Institute in Ghent, NY. He is deeply interested in the interconnnected nature of things and how we can understand life in truly living ways as a basis for responsible human action. His studies of plants and animals, as well as his commentaries on scientific thinking and perception and a deep respect for our fellow creatures. He was a Waldorf high school teacher for 21 years and is active in teacher education programs. Craig is the author of books, monographs and many articles. His most recent books are: Thinking Like a Plant: A Living Science for LIfe and Do Frogs Come From Tadpoles? Rethinking Origins in Development and Evolution.
The Nature Institute, founded in 1998, is nonprofit organisation in Ghent, New York (natureinstitute.org). At the Institute we work to transform the capacities of thinking and observation to gain an intimate, living understanding of the naturalworld that can form the basis of a deepened sense of responsibility toward nature. We develop phenomenological and contextual approaches to understanding and interacting with nature, and provide commentary on one-sided and narrow technological “answers” to today’s problems. We carry out research, offer adult education programs, and produce publications.
Booking: https://www.trybooking.com/BGCVS
or contact Tanya Coburn tanya.clare@email.org.au or 0422 019 970.
Further information about Craig Holdrege: https://natureinstitute.org/about/staff/choldrege.htm

Finding our humanity: freedom and responsibility for earth
2020-01-18 09:00 - 17:00 | Sophia Mundi Steiner School, 1 St Helliers St, Abbotsford, Vic, 3067, Australia

The Social and Political Challenges of our Times
2020-02-01 14:00 - 16:00 | DOCKLANDS Library, The Dock, L.2, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Cnr. Collins & Bourke Sts, Docklands, VIC
Hear Gerald Hafner address a positive future
The Social and Political Challenges of our Times – What can Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order contribute as a new way for the future?
Gerald Hafner leads the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. He studied Waldorf education, was a founder of the Green party in Germany, an MP in the German Parliament and an MEP in the European Parliament 2009-14. He is the co-founder of ‘Mehr Demokratie’ a grass roots global oranisation and NGOs such as “Petra-Kelly-Stiftung”, “Stiftung Aufarbeitung” and :”Democarcy International”.
Booking: http://www.Trybooking.com/BHUTW
Tickets: $20/$15 concession

Steiner education - a pedagogy committed to a better future for humanity
2020-02-02 14:00 - 16:00 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Hear Gerald Hafner address a positive future.
Steiner Education – a pedagogy committed to a better future for humanity.
Developing the unique, individual qualities of each child as a positive contribution to the future of human society.
Gerald Hafner leads the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. He studied Waldorf education, was a founder of the Green party in Germany, an MP in the German Parliament and an MEP in the European Parliament 2009-14. He is the co-founder of ‘Mehr Demokratie’ a grass roots global oranisation and NGOs such as “Petra-Kelly-Stiftung”, “Stiftung Aufarbeitung” and :”Democracy International”.
Booking: http://www.Trybooking.com/BHUUG
Tickets: $20/$15 concession

Orientation Year
2020-02-03 09:00 - 13:30 | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
Aurora Australia College of the Arts
Orientation Year – Eurythmy, Meditation, Painting
8 weeks

Working towards a better society
2020-02-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Working towards a better society
Experiences in relation to the building up of initiatives, social movements and parliament.
A talk with international lecturer Gerald Hafner.
Gerald Hafner leads the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland. He studied Waldorf education, was a founder of the Green party in Germany, an MP in the German Parliament and an MEP in the European Parliament 2009-14. He is the co-founder of ‘Mehr Demokratie’ a grass roots global oranisation and NGOs such as “Petra-Kelly-Stiftung”, “Stiftung Aufarbeitung” and :”Democracy International”.

Painting Class
2020-02-08 09:00 - 10:30 | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
Aurora Australis College of the Arts
3 weeks

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.

Different Returns - Discussion
2020-02-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
After the collapse of the investment scheme with Tony Famularo, a lot of lessons have been learned by many people. So what are the lessons? How can we make sense of what the invest collapse, loss and subsequent legal struggles have brought into our lives. This will be a discussion nd everyone is invited to bring their own story whether or not related to this particular investment.

Re-hydrating the Landscape
2020-02-15 11:00 - 14:00
For more details on this workshop, please have a look here.
