Anthroposophical Society in Australia

2022 AGM of the Anthroposophical Society in Australia
2022-04-16 | NSW
Hosted by the South Australian branch
A full day hybrid event in Adelaide, South Australia

The 2022 AGM of the ASinA will be hosted by the South Australian branch over the Easter weekend.

The online AGM program (below) is on Holy Saturday, 16 April 2022 from 10.o0am – 3.00pm ACST / 10:30am AEST / 8:30am WST.

Please contact your local state branch coordinator for the Zoom links.

AGM Online Program AEST

10.30am

(Broadcast from Adelaide)

Acknowledgement of Country
Introducing the Youth Section of Oceania

11.00am

2022 Welcome to AGM

Chairperson: Deborah Neale
Verse: Peter Fern
Reports and other business

12.15pm

Acknowledgements and Closing
Verse: Peter Fern

12.30pm
Lunch break

1.30pm

‘If our work on virtue (truth, courage and love) is without a relationship to Christ, is it anthroposophical?’

Thoughts on the relevance of Easter for the Anthroposophical Society today.

Presented by the Stream of Life Research Studio

3.00pm
Closing words from General Secretary Jane Bradshaw

7.30pm
(for Adelaide participants only)

‘Finding a bridge to courage, love and truth’
An evening of poetry, story, eurythmy and music with Jo-anne Sarre, Katrina Stowe and Anna Kotanidis. Special guest David Booth.
Aldinga Arts Eco Village
173 Port Road, Aldinga 5173

For more information
For information about the AGM, please contact Jane Bradshaw

For information about the live events in Adelaide, please contact Lyn Mayblom

A Winter's Tale
2022-04-12 18:00 - 22:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 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.

The Seven Gestures of Healing
2022-04-11 10:30 - 2022-04-16 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney Christian Community Chapel, 7 Montague Pl., Sydney, NSW, 2041, Australia
A Journey of Holy Week
With the Sydney Christian Community

The Seven Gestures of Healing in the Depth of Humanity through the Journey of Holy Week is the theme of this Holy Week program, held daily at 10.45am from Monday through to Saturday.

The Seven Sayings from the Cross at 3pm on Good Friday
Everybody is welcome to participate, donations welcome.

Find out more!
Please contact Rev. Lisa Devine by text on 0401 367 808

Spirit Triumphant: Preparing for Easter
2022-04-10 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Quakers Friends Meeting Room, 17 Bent St. Turner, 17 Bent St, Turner, ACT, 2612, Australia
A Canberra Branch festival on Palm Sunday

Spirit Triumphant: Preparing for Easter – exploring how we can bring light into darkness in our daily lives.

You are invited to prepare for this special day by reading the attached lecture by Rudolf Steiner.
Please bring your own contribution to share with others through, thoughts, meditations, verses, pictures or another artwork you choose to bring along.
We will then sing together and finish with a verse.

The program will be followed by an Easter themed High Tea.

Date/Time
3-5pm Sunday 10 April 2022
Venue
Quakers Friends Meeting Room, 17 Bent St. Turner, ACT 2612
Cost
Entry by donation. Please bring something special to share. Refreshments will be provided. Donations to help cover the venue cost will be much appreciated.

RSVP
Please let us know you are coming by contacting Hannah Semler or call Riitta 0408 221 385

Eurythmy with Adam Chan
2022-04-02 15:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Canberra Christian Community, 7 Holtze Close, Hackett, ACT, 2602, Australia
Eurythmy for coordination, deeper learning, social awareness, inner strength, and connectedness.
Classes for children and adults starting in Canberra, at the Christian Community Chapel.
Time/Day

For children Saturdays 3.00 PM – 3.45 PM
For adults Saturdays 4.00 PM – 5.00 PM

Venue
Christian Community Chapel, 7 Holtze Close, Hackett.
For more information
Please contact Adam Chan

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

Geometry

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

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

What is lazure? And what is its purpose?
2022-03-27 11:30 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong, NSW, 2575
A painting workshop with artist Fiona Campbell
in conjunction with the Canberra Christian Community

As part of the current chapel upgrade, the new altar wall will be lazured, creating a pure experience of colour, as though one could ‘spiritually pass through’ the walls. Dr Fiona Campbell will be undertaking this process.

To give the members of the community a sense of what lazure painting involves and why we use it in chapels and other anthroposophic institutions, Fiona is offering an afternoon practice-based workshop after the service on 27 March.
Come for the Act of Consecration at 10am, then stay for a shared lunch and workshop. Fiona will introduce the lazure philosophy and process, then you will have the opportunity to paint a portable wall yourself.

Time/Day
Sunday 27 March 11.30am to 4.00pm AEDT.
Both the service and workshop will be at Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong NSW 2575.
Cost
$50 with materials provided. Please bring soup and/or bread for lunch to share.
For more information
Download the workshop flyer.
To register or for more information, contact Fiona Campbell or Rev. Ioanna Panagiotopoulus

How does Earth Move ... and Human Beings along with Her?
2022-03-27 10:00 - 2022-04-03 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Shepherd’s Ground, 15 Green Wattle Creek Rd, Butterwick, NSW, 2321, Australia
A presentation by Brian Keats

Journey Outline

In this age we are conditioned to think that our existence began with a Big Bang, that the Earth is a mere speck of dust in the universe and it moves in an ellipse around the Sun. Furthermore we constantly hear that the Earth would be better off without humans living on it. It is self evident that we are on the verge of destroying it – even without the wars taking place.

But is there another picture of our journey with the Earth that is not hopeless and soul destroying?
In the context of world history there is a deep and profound scenario that can be recognised, that can empower us to consciously meet the ever evolving future!
The presentation starts with a prehistory context going back to the time of the Great Flood and the powerful, mysterious and seemingly mythical Krsna. Time passes by through Manus (also known as Noah), Vishvakarman and Zorathustra. Recorded history brings us people like Moses and others like Gautama Budha. Consciousness is changing all the while and so is our relationship to the world around us, the sky above and our emerging selfhood. In the Greek era we have the birth of logic amongst the leaders of humanity. Models of the sky movements started to be thought out, models created. Then the great moment came when an “I” consciousness, individuated consciousness, becomes possible for all of humanity. Ptolemy came up with an Earth centred model of our solar system. This is the first model we will look at in detail to uncover the extraordinary wisdom in it.

The solar system models of genius astronomers evolve expansively over the centuries but there is a consistent thread weaving through many of them.
We will trace the thread to get a better grasp and expand our ability to visualise and appreciate how we moving through space today … and sense into the emerging future … and how these movements are intimately related to you and I?
Cost
$80 for both days
Dates
27 March, 3 April 10.00-4.00pm AEST
Venue

Shepherds Ground 15 Green Wattle Creek Rd., Butterwick 2321

There will be a limit of 10 persons and a commitment is needed to attend both days for the full session.
There will be an optional 3rd day to deepen the experience by doing geometric drawings related to exploring the nature and lawfulnesses of infinity.
No prior learning is necessary.

For more information
Please book here or contact Simon Brownbridge 0439 709 296 for more information.
Download the flyer here.

Photo credit: artwork courtesy of Sophia Montifiore

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

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

For more information
Click here to register or contact Van James

Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs
2022-03-14 19:30 - 2022-04-13 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
with Dr Adam Blanning
Courtesy of the Pedagogical Section in Australia, a 6-week on-line study preparation and a 4-week online Saturday morning Therapist’s and Doctor’s Course, open to teachers who have committed to the prior study with Dr Adam Blanning.

Study Group preparation sessions
6 Monday evenings 7.30-8.30pm
Working on Dr Adam Blanning’s book Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs with Curative Educator Barbara Baldwin and consultant in special needs in Steiner education, Dr Jackie Cox-Taylor.
Two weeks study on each polarity March 14th, 21st, 28th and April 4th, 11th, 18th

When
4 Saturday Morning Sessions 8 – 9.30 am April 30th, May 7th, 14th, 21st
Enlivening our observation skills allows us to see consistent behavioural dynamics that show up in children’s movement, learning, sensing and memory. Diverse therapeutic indications are given that will encourage children to unfold new growth and maturation, from the inside out.
Bookings
Trybooking
Total Cost: $290 AU
For more information
Contact Peggy Day, Pedagogical Section

The 2nd Etheric Geography Conference
2022-03-11 - 2022-03-13 | Linuwel School, 133 Morpeth Road, Linuwel, NSW
The Effect of Thinking on the Health of Our Ecosystems

Hosted by the NSW Branch
This 3-day conference builds on the work begun in the 1st Etheric Geography conference in 2019 and continued during the World Script webinars in 2021, with lectures, practice-based exercises, contemplation and discussion.
And finally, we get to work outdoors!
Conference theme
What is our connection to the sacred? to our ecosystems? and how does our consciousness affect them? And is affected by them? We have explored the connections between human being, Nature and Cosmos. We connect to these worlds through the rhythms we create in life, the sacred spiritual cycle of the year. Through rhythm, ritual, festivals and depth of community we can learn how our thinking, feeling and doing affect the health of the World Script at all levels of environment. And vice versa.

The 2nd Etheric Geography Conference will focus on the interconnection between human and environment, and how sacred landscape and eco-systems work upon us and our living consciousness, as individuals and in community.
Through inner awareness, we can learn the healing power of thought, of how we see and conceive the becoming world.

Conference venue
Linuwel Steiner School (see address below). There is some basic accomodation at the school.
Cost
$200 includes conference and meals (accomodation not included)
Be prepared to do activities outside! so bring hats and rain-gear. Basic drawing materials provided but feel free to bring pastels etc if you have them.
Download the registration form
Download daily program
Bookings and Payment in advance by 10 March 2022 so we know the meals and art materials numbers.

Conference information
For booking or conference enquiries, please contact Ruth Gallagher
For student or hardship concessions, please contact Ron Vaisey
Program and presenter information
The Stream of Life Research Studio
You can find more information about the program content and presenters here
Martin Samson, author, poetic philosopher and theologian
Fiona Campbell PhD, cognition and creativity researcher, lecturer and artist
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic naturopath and integrative health consultant
Want some background preparation?
Catch-up recordings
There were three webinars in 2021 replacing the postponed 2021 conference. Missed all three webinars? Don’t worry, you can get up to speed by listening to the videos. Please contact Martin Samson if interested in accessing these.

Contact: Martin Samson

Food for the earth, life for the soil
2022-02-26 10:30 - 2022-05-08 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
Restoring health and balance to the environment through vitality and sensitivity

Hands-on Biodynamic intensives 2022 Module 1

Dates
Saturday 26 Feb /Gladesville
Biodynamic 2-stage no-turn compost. Vortex stirring of soil spray. Seven different composts. Garden problems, pests and diseases. Calendar 1.
Sunday 6 Mar /Annandale (10.30 am -1.30 pm)
Preparing a vegie bed. Soil fertility for degraded and sandy soils. Testing your soil. Carbon capture and storage in your own garden. Planting Calendar 2.
Saturday 26 Mar /Warrah Farm, Dural
Making BD500 and Soil Activator. Farm tour and talk with farm manager. Food security. Added nutrition from BD – grown food. Calendar 3.
Sunday 8 May / Sydney
A day with the stars. Rhythmic planetary relations and dynamic interplay affecting earth. Nodes, eclipses, scientific tests, life forces, film. Sun / Moon / Mercury.
Calendar 4.

Cost

$395, incl. all materials, notes
$330 for 3-year members

Pre-registration by 20 February
For more information, phone 02 9550 1682

Facilitators: Andreas, Daniel, Diane, Steve

The Zodiac in Acting and Eurythmy
2022-02-19 09:00 - 10:00 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
An Interview with Dawn Langman

Dawn Langman explores the fundamentals of Chekhov’s psycho-physical technique and the metaphysical principles on which it is based. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of humanity’s evolving consciousness.
Theodor Hundhammer is the founder of Eurythmy4you, an organisation that produces and ever increasing number of wonderful online courses and trainings in eurythmy, as well as engaging in extensive research about the therapeutic and health giving benefits of eurythmy. More recently Theodor has begun the Interview Show, either directly or indirectly related to eurythmy. Previous recordings can be found here.

This month Theodor is interviewing Dawn Langman

When?
Saturday 19th February, 2022
9:00am AEDT
8:30am ACDT
8:00am AEST
7:30am ACST
6:00am AWST

About Dawn Langman
Dawn Langman taught Speech Formation for ten years at Emerson College in Sussex. Following this, Dawn trained in Michael Chekhov’s acting technique in New York. Returning to Australia, she continued to research the integration of Speech Formation with Chekhov’s technique. She examines this technique in relation to the specific challenges and gifts provided by the actor’s constitution of body, soul and spirit, and in the context of humanity’s evolving consciousness. She currently teaches this methodology at the Drama Centre, Flinders University, South Australia.
In the interview, Dawn will speak about her new book and explain why we should pay attention to the zodiac in acting and eurythmy. Interested parties simply register and receive the link to the live stream free of charge. Further information can be found here.

Feature image: courtesy of Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar

Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a schooling for the ordering of the soul-life
2022-02-12 16:00 - 2022-05-21 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
They ‘lead us to confront the greatest of riddles – that of human destiny’
A series of 7 experiential webinars + weekend studio

Immerse yourself in this unique journey through our soul/spiritual development! From our primeval beginnings, through Lemuria and Atlantis to today and into the 6th Slavic epoch, we can capture something of the ‘quiver’ of recollections of spiritual history lying deep in our soul-life through working actively with these motifs.

What is it about?
This practice-based course explores Steiner’s Goetheanum ceiling sketches, a sequence given to the painters as a picture progression of the spiritual history of humanity. He described them as a training in karmic vision that could potentially awaken a perception of karma. We will work with selected motifs through lecture, study, contemplative observation and drawing.
Background notes
Rudolf Steiner created a substantial portfolio of drawings, pastel sketches and paintings for the renewal of the visual arts, many destined for the interior of the First Goetheanum, with the purpose of helping us find a new relationship to art as a basis of spiritual awakening. The artforms in the first Goetheanum were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
Art works upon the human soul to awaken in it a feeling, a deep feeling, for the spiritual realities of what is portrayed. By actively working with these motifs, we can approach an inner experience of their truths. Not only through the content but through the inward experience of them. By working actively with their forms and processes, we can learn to transform the soul body so that it can prepare itself for karmic awakening.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the first Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola, culminating in the motif of the Representative of Humanity. We will explore these motifs: their gestures, meanings and role in our soul/spiritual evolution.
Program
7 x 1.5hr webinars approx. twice a month on Saturday afternoons, 4.00-5.30pm.
12/2 Workshop 1: The Elohim motif from the Creation trio – completed
26/2 Workshop 2: Lemuria and Atlantis
19/3 Workshop 3: Ancient India – Ancient Greece
2/4 Workshop 4: The IAO motif: the Cosmic Word
23/4 Workshop 5: Faust and his Genius
7/5 Workshop 6: The Germanic and Slavic motifs
21/5 Workshop 7: Lucifer, Ahriman and the Representative of Humanity
Each session includes a short lecture, experiential artwork, contemplation and discussion as the foundation of a schooling for the ordering of our soul life. The series culminates in an optional weekend studio where participants can turn their sketches and studies into artforms that reflect their personal relationship to the evolution of consciousness.
Each session will be recorded and will be available for registrants.
Art material list and background reading suggestions emailed at registration.
Who is it for?
For students of Anthroposophy, Steiner teachers, artists and anyone interested in understanding Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
Beginners in drawing are welcome. You do not need technical skills in the visual arts to find these workshops fruitful. These experiential workshops employ the anthroposophic approach to colour and process but the focus is on experiencing, not learning drawing techniques.
What dates are the workshops?
Saturday afternoons 4.00-5.30pm AEDT (until it ends, then AEST)
Webinar workshops: 12/26 February | 19 March | 2/23 April | 7/21 May
Weekend studio workshop: 3-5 June 2022
Missed most of the webinars but want to join individual sessions?
You can still join us and catch up via the video recordings. Just contact Fiona Campbell
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $200 for full 7 webinars | $33 per individual workshop.
Weekend studio: Linuwel School, Maitland NSW, 3-5 June
What’s included in the price?
A video of each webinar, list of suggested readings and a curated selection of copies of the motifs for private study only.
Where do I register?
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom workshop link and a list of suggested readings and materials. The Zoom link will be sent again one (1) hour before the webinar.
Register here!
Please login for each session via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell and share this flyer with others who might be interested. Thank you!

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition.
In this course Fiona is presenting one of her special interests, the nature of human consciousness, a topic she has lectured on for 25 years. Her artistic research on the Goetheanum motifs complements this interest.
Fiona is also a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where she focuses on her other two specialisations, phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona on her website, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has taught since 1994) or listen to a recent ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Fiona is concurrently offering Working with The Nine Trainings Sketches for the Painters, a masterclass online studio for painters interested in working more deeply with Rudolf Steiner’s training sketches.

‘In the Goetheanum were forms that would awaken a perception of karma’ (April 27, 1924)

Steiner’s Persian Epoch Motif, large cupola, Goetheanum

Steiner’s Egyptian Epoch Motif, large cupola, Goetheanum

Steiner’s Slavic Human Being, small cupola, First Goetheanum

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

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

Cost

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

Working with Steiner’s Nine Training Sketches for Painters
2022-02-04 14:00 - 2022-04-22 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A masterclass studio with artist Fiona Campbell
The Nine Training Sketches motifs were given to the painters as a new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help the artist explore objective spiritual laws. They are a training for the soul.
You are invited to join artist and researcher Fiona Campbell for an online masterclass (six sessions) as she works with these nature mood motifs in preparation for an exhibition. Paint alongside her and share in her process as she works through the series of nine motifs from rough sketch to finished artwork.
You don’t have to be a professional artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course.
What are the Training Sketches?
Steiner gave a series of nine and seven motifs to the artists in the form of rough drawings, as a foundation for the renewal of the art of painting. They were called training sketches, but sometimes people wonder what it is they are training. They are not guides to technique, nor are they supposed to be copied literally. They are not answers to what artworks of sunrises and trees and angels should look like. Rather, they are a training for the soul. What does this mean?
Theses nature mood sketches lead the painter towards an inward experience of each motif. This opens up the way to true moral and spiritual experiences. By learning to unite herself with the inner essence of these motifs, the artist can reveal through her work traces of her soul experience of the cosmos.
Background information
In June 2022 it will have been one hundred years since the painter and sculptor Henny Geck asked Rudolf Steiner for a course that would bring about a renewal of the art of paining. To celebrate this event, the Visual Art Section will hold an Intensive Week at the Goetheanum from 1-8 August 2022 and has invited artists to submit their work for the conference exhibition. Fiona has been working with the training sketches for 25 years and intends to submit works for the exhibition. You can view some of her previous works on these themes here.
Who are the masterclasses for?
For artists, Steiner teachers, art therapists and art students looking to find a path in soul/spiritual development through the arts; and for anyone interested in understanding more about Rudolf Steiner’s impulse in Art.
To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated that participants work alongside Fiona in-class and on their own between sessions.
Required

familiarity with Steiner’s or Goethe’s colour theories
basic watercolour wet-on-dry skills (you can use wet-on-wet or any other painting media, such as oils or acrylics, if you prefer but technical advice is not directed towards these media)

This is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners.
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
4 /18 Feb, 4/18 Mar, 1/22 April
Studio intensive: there will also be a face-to-face weekend studio 4/6 June for intensive work.
The online masterclasses will continue after April if there is enough interest.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $200 for 6×2 hr masterclasses or $40 for individual sessions
Weekend studio: venue and cost tba.
Where do I register?
Contact Fiona to register
Payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings available upon registration.
For more information
For more information about the masterclass or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell
You may also like to share this flyer with others.

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition. She has been a professional artist and arts educator for over 30 years.
She is also teaches interdisciplinary research training and consciousness studies. She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where her focus is phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College (where she has taught since 1994) or listen to a recent ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Fiona is concurrently offering Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs as a training for the ordering of the soul for people interested in the spiritual history of humanity, a topic on which she has been giving lectures and workshops for 25 years.

‘and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos’
(Steiner 1-4 January 1915).

Some examples of the process of working with a sketch

Steiner’s Sketch no. 5: Summer Trees

Fiona’s interpretation of no. 5: Summer Trees – in process

Sketch no. 5 Summer Trees – finished work

Featured image: Sketch no. 4: Blossoming Trees, in process
Photos credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

28 Days of Insights, Art and Encounter
2022-01-31 22:00 - 23:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Goetheanum online
‘28 Days of Insights, Art and Encounter’, the online study programme offered by the Goetheanum, creates a space for finding inner strength and for keeping one‘s thinking flexible by sharing contents and artistic activities with others.
“In times of change or restlessness the need for orientation grows. Focusing on a particular thought of one‘s own choice can be a source of strength in that situation,” says Edda Nehmiz, the Goetheanum Studies coordinator. Not just accepting a given thought but approaching it from different angles, experiencing it as flexible yet not arbitrary – is what the Goetheanum Studies programme is aiming to achieve.
This international study programme offers study work and colloquia at a fixed time for 75 minutes per day online and 20 minutes daily, each of eurythmy, art and short contributions via video. Study work in German/English/Spanish/Portuguese and French. The language of communication in the colloquia is English.
Program
This international study programme is being offered three times a year.
Next online courses (plenum in English)
1 31 January to 27 February 2022, 12 noon CET/10 pm AEDT
2 4 September to 1 October 2022, 9 am CET
Apply here!
Apply here
For more information
For more detailed information about this course, check here or other online courses, check here.

St John's Gospel monthly study group
2022-01-30 20:00 - 2022-04-24 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Facilitator: Martin Samson
Working with contemplative phenomenology on the Gospel of John, this ongoing study group will explore an anthroposophical path to awakening the soul and spiritual senses. There will be opportunities for discussion, guidance, and questions around meditation and living a spiritual year.
This study builds on the The Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations led by Martin Samson over Christmastide to Epiphany in 2021-22 and isa prototype for five months to see if it works for everyone involved. After the May evening, it will review to assess its continuation.
Program

Understanding methods of Contemplative Phenomenology.
Working with Rudolf Steiner’s approach to the Gospels, starting with the Gospel of John as an esoteric initiation text.
Understanding meditation from an anthroposophical approach and living with the spiritual cycle of the year.

There is likely to be ongoing work to do between meetings. This will be up to the participants how much they undertake the recommendations.
When and where
8.00pm-9.30pm AEDT on the last Sunday of each month (January through to May) to allow for the various time zones involved
Registration details
Please look at the next panel down on this email for registration detail, or click here
One registration will give you access to five events.
Cost
The recommended donation is $50 for the five events.
To register
You will be sent the zoom link in an email two days before the event. Please login via the Zoom app and not Eventbrite.
Register here!

For more information
For more information or to register after 30 January 2022, please contact Martin Samson

The Representative of Humanity online
2022-01-22 06:00 - 2022-04-02 07:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Exploring Rudolf Steiner’s Sculptural Group
A series of ongoing zoom seminars hosted by Rudolf Steiner House, London

All welcome, no need to book, no charge!
Date/Time for early birds in Australia
Time: 7.00pm-8.30pm (UK time)/6.00am-7.30am (AEDT)
Dates: 22 January, 5/19 February, 5/12/19 March, 2 April Australian time

Program
21 January: Introducing Rudolf Steiner’s Sculptural Group with Howard Smith
In his last years, Rudolf Steiner worked intensively on the wooden statue usually known as “The Representative of Mankind”. This work of art encapsulates the essence of earth evolution and the mission of Christ, keeping the balance between the adversarial forces. This illustrated talk will look at some of the main details in the work, and it’s message to us today.
Howard is a life-long student of Anthroposophy. He has a PhD in Chemistry and worked as a researcher into the properties of water and as a science teacher. He founded the Science Group of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain and now works as a piano technical specialist.
4 February: Dynamic Relationships in the Representative of Humanity with Angus Jenkinson
Steiner’s extraordinary statue seems to capture perhaps the most essential dynamics in the drama of a human life. Can we perceive these? What do we see? What do these dynamic relationships mean? Does it illuminate the Earth and its people? And in our own body, soul, and spirit? Do these dynamics reveal secrets such as those of evil, failure, and loving victory? Angus will enquire how this majestic artwork reveals dynamics of our souls and how our souls may help us understand the statue in a deeper way. Might this be life changing?
Angus Jenkinson is a transdisciplinary research fellow and class holder who also works with organisational purpose. He is the author of 4 books, including From Stress to Serenity: Gaining Strength in the Trials of Life and as co-author of Liquidity on the ecology of money. He is writing a book on Ecologic.
18 February: The Christ with Peter Van Breda
The central figure of the sculpture, known as the representative of humanity, represents the Christ. He stands, in characteristic gesture, beside and beneath the forces that take us ‘out of ourselves’ and beside and above the forces that would harden, drag us down and bind us to the earth. What can we learn of the Christ by contemplating this figure ?
Peter Van Breda lives in London and is a priest of The Christian Community, a movement for religious renewal.
4 March: Exploring Inner Balance with Caroline Chanter
Gerard Wagner worked with the Representative of Humanity as an image of balance applicable to polarities in the human being, in general life, and in art. Polarities between the ‘opposing forces’, represented by Lucifer and Ahriman, exist also in the colours. Because of this, painting can consciously become a balancing act between the ‘luciferic’ and ‘ahrimanic’, which in turn unites the heart of the painter with the feeling of inner balance that has arisen through the uniting of polarities. Could this be an approach to a new Christian Art?
Caroline Chanter is a painter and art therapist. She teaches at the ‘Rudolf Steiner Painting School’ in Dornach and at ‘Swaasthyakala Niketan’, a painting therapy school in Bangalore, India. She has written two books about Gerard Wagner the latest an extensive biography A Life with Colour (Rudolf Steiner Press 2021).
11 March: The Representative of Humanity and the Revelation of the New Mysteries, a conversation with Marguerite Miller
With a focus on the role of the Representative of Humanity, Marguerite will offer an introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s preparation of humanity for the reappearance of Christ in the etheric. In an open conversation to follow, we will seek to create a shared imagination of our own role in freely manifesting the future within the stream of the New Mysteries.
Marguerite Miller is a translator who lives in the American Midwest. During her decades of engagement with spiritual science she has pursued her interest in the history of the Mysteries and the history and gestures of Rudolf Steiner’s teaching.
18 March: What is asked of the human being in our time? with Deborah Ravetz
Schiller said: ‘Live with your century, but do not be its creature. Work for your contemporaries; but create what they need, not what they praise.’ To be a contemporary means to be aware of what is happening in the present and to bring new impulses for the future. This talk will use story, art and literature to suggest a way in which we can acknowledge the past, be part of understanding our present and respond to the challenge of finding creative ideas for humanity now.
Deborah Ravetz trained as a painter and Social Sculpture practitioner. She lectures and writes on the evolution of consciousness through art history, literature and biography. The focus of her interest is the quest for authentic selfhood, the possibility of community, freedom and service.
1 April: The Role of Resistance – The Adversaries, servants of God or enemies of Man? with Geoffrey Norris
What is evil and how do we face it ? We maybe recognise those beings portrayed in the sculpture, Lucifer and Ahriman, as enemies to be fought with and overcome. Or can we relate to them as servants of God who have actually been sent to help us ? As we see the portrayal of these beings sited together at the right hand side of the representative of humanity how do we relate to them ? Could they be serving us AND tempting us ? Then when we go on to contemplate them ‘fallen’ and ‘bound’ as they appear in the statue how do they enter our consciousness ?
Geoffrey Norris is a speech artist and teacher, actor and director who gives regular speech classes and seminars.

Cost
Voluntary donations towards costs and overheads are gratefully received and can be made by transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose.
Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776
How to join
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836,
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kw5KhlMVS
For more information
Please contact Sue Peat for more information about the series
Contact Brendon McQuillan join the London e-mailing list
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Featured image: Representative of Humanity (detail) by Rudolf Steiner and Edith Maryon, 1924, courtesy of AnthroWiki

The Four Ethers and Universal Beauty
2022-01-22 - 2022-02-20 | Online
Universal Beauty has the power to transform
Presenters: Johannes and Sue Schuster
An online seminar over 3 alternate weekends

Great works of art have the ability to affect us on such a deep level that we may suddenly experience tears of joy or even speechlessness. Great works of art all share a quality of timelessness which transcends their Age, with an ability not just to awaken, but with a power to transform us. It seems that when such works of art touch on the good, the true and the beautiful, that they have ‘Universal Beauty.’
This seminar explores the nature of Universal Beauty in connection with Nature’s language of form, through the form signatures of the four elements, the four ethers and the four connected physical forces. Together these form four polarities, which Ernst Marti identified as Nature’s World Formula [1] This ‘world formula’ gives us a profound insight as to how spirit connects with matter, which is the key question for Transformative Art & Architecture.
Program
Over three alternating weekends, we will explore the question of how physical matter can be raised through art, to resonate on a higher etheric level, by employing the same vital life principles which nature uses. The point is not to copy nature’s forms, but rather understanding the form signatures of her underlying forces.
Johannes will explore the theoretic basis of the four ethers in morning lectures and discussions, whilst Sue will take the afternoon art practice sessions in drawing and clay modelling.
Enrolment details
Enrol here!
For more information
You can find more information about this course, including costs and program details, here or contact Johannes directly: 0414 724 587

[1] Marti, E., 2017. The Etheric: Broadening Science through Anthroposophy, Volume 1: The World of the Ethers (Vol. 1). Temple Lodge Publishing.

What is Transformative Art & Architecture?
2022-01-20 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This online free public lecture by Johannes Schuster introduces the concepts underlying Transformative Art & Architecture and precedes a three-weekend course on this topic.
The question of Transformative Art & Architecture raises questions about the nature of ‘anthroposophical’ architecture:

Does it exist? Some well-known ‘anthroposophical’ architects think it doesn’t.
If it does exist, what are its aims and methods?
Does the Consciousness Soul Age ask us to think differently about future forms of Art & Architecture?
If so, what is the new Element of the Age and how are we to work with it as artists and architects ?

Online link to the lecture
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84860687920?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 848 6068 7920
Passcode: [REDACTED]
For more information
For more information, check the flyer here or for details of the weekend course, here or contact Johannes Schuster.

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2021-12-25 19:00 - 2022-01-05 19:45 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
The Festival of Christmas as the Renewal of the Faculty of Memory
and
The Inner Structure of the Cycle of the Year Reflected in the Twelve Days of Christmas
Presenter: Martin Samson

This online event will be presented as a contemplation with conversational deepening.
In each session there will be a half-hour consideration of the two themes, which 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 Christmas season in preparation for the coming year. The hope is that each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for resetting our soul for the work in the coming year.
Registration details
Register here
Recommended donation $50
Once registered, you will be sent the Zoom link two (2) days beforehand. Be sure to enter the event via this Zoom link, not via Eventbrite.
The session will start exactly five (5) minutes past 7pm (7.05pm)AEDT and it is recommended that you join the link a few minutes early. The link will be open 5 minutes before 7.00pm.
If there is enough interest there will also be an event at Epiphany on 6th January, to bring the process to completion.
Recommended reading
The section on Christmas in Sergei O Prokofieff’s book The Cycle of the Year.
For those who cannot attend
The contemplations will be recorded for people who have registered but can’t participate in person. They can be accessed and watched later.
For more information
See the flyer or contact Martin Samson

Image credit: William Blake, Illustration 1 to Milton’s “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”: The Descent of Peace, 1814-1816., pen and watercolour. (courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens)

Adam and Eve Breakfast & The Oberufer Paradise Play
2021-12-24 07:30 - 09:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 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.

Priesthood for the 21st Century
2021-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
Proseminar Training in Australia
with The Christian Community
Presenter: Rev. Lisa Devine
A movement for Religious Renewal founded with the inspiration and guidance of Rudolf Steiner
First Year is open to anyone interested.
Entry into the second year is by invitation.
For more information
There will be an introductory online meeting at 7.30pm on 17 December 2021. Contact Rev. Lisa Devine 0401 367 808

Christmas circle gathering
2021-12-11 13:30 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 111 Dawson Creek Rd, Highvale, 111 Dawson Creek Rd, Highvale, QLD, 4520
qldanthropoSophia are hosting a Christmas gathering
Kate Sharp of qldanthropoSophia and Paul Bailey warmly welcome you to share together the rebirthing of the spirit child within in the ritual space of Christmas. In a time when, more than ever, we are each called upon to carry our convictions with new trust, a deepening of the yearly festivals can guide and nourish us.

Feel free to bring a Christmas circle sharing (not obligatory). Afterwards we will listen to a Christmas tale, followed by artistic responding to the questions: What speaks to us today? A Christmas nibble to follow.
Cost
Donation only
Where
Kate and Paul’s studio
111 Dawson Creek Rd,
Highvale NW of Brisbane
When
1.20pm for 1.30pm-4.30pm AEST, Saturday 11 December, 2021.
RSVP to save a chair
For more information
Please check the flyer here or contact qldanthropoSophia

Let us continually find our true nature by seeking eternally for the experience of the Holy Night, for the birth of Christ in the depths of our souls
Angelus Silesius

Foot oiling - a Holistic Health Care workshop
2021-12-11 13:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Charlotte’s Retreat, 195 North Bank Rd., Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia
Naturosophy – the wisdom of healing.
A Saturday afternoon practical workshops in December.
Remedies alone do not resolve a condition, they need home-care nursing treatments to ensure their greater efficacy. It is essential for nurses, parents and carers to know how to treat a fever. and inflammation of the ear, nose and throat with complementary nursing.
Workshop dates
We will start with a brief foot bath. Please bring the following to reduce the wash load:

three towels
a foot mat
a large sheet

Costs
Sessions will cost $65.00 (hardship concessions are by negotiation). Afternoon tea included
Presenters: Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophical Naturopath and Charlotte Rogers, anthroposophical nurse.

The Two Marys: a pictorial contemplation for Advent
2021-12-05 17:00 - 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the mystery of the Solomon and Nathan Marys
This Advent webinar ponders the mystery of the two picture imaginations given by Rudolf Steiner on the two differing Nativity events, as described by St Matthew and St Luke.
Illustrating the talk with images of the Madonna from the great masters, from Rudolf Steiner and from her own interpretations on this intriguing theme, Dr Fiona Campbell explores the polarity of the old and young souls of the two Marys, wisdom in one, innocence in the other, through colour, mood, gesture and motif.
Registration
Register here!

Cost: $20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated.
Date: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, Sunday 5th December 2021
Presenter: Dr Fiona Campbell trained at Tobias School of Art and Therapy in England in visual arts and artistic therapy. She has been painting and pondering the Madonna theme for over 20 years.
For more information
Please see the flyer or contact Fiona Campbell

The Nine Nature Mood Training Sketches for Painters by Rudolf Steiner
2021-12-04 00:00 - 2021-12-12 23:15 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Online
A masterclass series in painting out of the indications of Rudolf Steiner
When asked if he would renew the art of painting out of spiritual-scientific insights, as he did with eurythmy for the art of dance, Rudolf Steiner gave nine “Nature Mood” sketches saying, ‘Try starting like this…’ and created a series of training sketches for the artists.
This online masterclass with artist, author and educator Van James will follow up on The Art and Individuality of Color: Rudolf Steiner’s Color Theory and his Painting Indications for Artists, and go deeper into these colour indications by taking up the nine training sketches as a starting point for a renewed art of painting.
Who is it for?
Art students, Teachers, Therapists, Artists and anyone interested in Art and especially Rudolf Steiner’s impulse in Art. It is recommended, but not necessary, to have taken the previous course and beginners are welcome. Six, one-and-a-half-hour sessions will include illustrated lectures, demonstrations, studio art sittings and question and answer periods. Sessions will occur every other weekend in order that participants may have sufficient time to complete the watercolour painting exercises.
Costs
Regular course: Rs 7680 = USD $120
Certificate Course: Rs 25,900 = USD$350
Registration details
Register here!
For more information
You can find more information about this series of painting classes here

“If we were to speak more deeply of painting, the significance of the connection between the inner soul-life of the universe and colour would reveal itself. It would be meaningless ever to paint with colours, if colours were not something very different from what they appear to be to outer physical perception… Colour is the language of nature’s soul, the speech of the soul of the universe.”
Rudolf Steiner

Celebration of Spirit, Wonder & Connectedness
2021-12-02 19:30 - 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Living Arts Centre, Mt Barker School, 27 Sims Road, Mount Barker, SA, 5251
Presenting story, eurythmy, poetry, music, song & visual arts
with staff and students of Mt Barker Waldorf School and invited guests.

For some months now, a small group of artists in the Mount Barker Waldorf community have been working together to enable an event which we anticipate will bring you nurturing, connection and enlivening through celebration of the Arts.
The celebration includes presentations by Alumni Isla Francis Hannan and Creative Speech & Drama artist Dawn Langman, poetry recitation, a dramatised performance of “The Rock Spring Wonder” from Steiner’s Mystery Dramas (including eurythmy and creative dance by staff and students), contributions from the string ensemble, and a choral piece. Aboriginal guest artist David Booth will be exhibiting his paintings in the LAC foyer alongside Rosemary Toogood and Peter Surguy. Each aspect of the celebration is to be guided and inspired by the three themes of Spirit, Wonder & Connectedness.
We warmly extend an invitation for you to join us!

Cost
Free but bookings are essential
Book here!
For more information
Please contact Jo-anne Sarre

Care after death - a demonstration
2021-11-27 13:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Charlotte’s Retreat, 195 North Bank Rd., Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia
The anthroposophic approach to care of the body after death.
Naturosophy – the wisdom of healing.
This practice-based afternoon workshop introduces the laying out and care of the body and the 3-day vigil..
Costs

Sessions will cost $65.00 (hardship concessions are by negotiation). Afternoon tea included
Presenters
Presenters Irmhild Kleinhenz , naturopath, and Charlotte Rogers, nurse, have more than 50 years combined training and experience in the anthroposophic approach to medicine and nursing.
For more information
Please contact Irmhild Kleinhenz
