Anthroposophical Society in Australia

12 Portals – A Life in 7 Year Cycles
2024-01-13 15:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong, NSW, 2575
Word Sisters
presents

12 Portals – A Life in 7 Year Cycles
A Series of Workshops and Performances

When & Where
Saturday 13th January
Workshop 3-5 pm, Shared supper 6pm
Performance 7.00pm with shared supper 6pm
Harmony Centre Mittagong
11 Beresford St, Mittagong NSW
Tuesday 16th January
Tuesday Preview and Sharing 7 pm
Rudolf Steiner House, 307, Sussex Street, Sydney

Saturday 20th January
Rudolf Steiner House, 307, Sussex Street, Sydney

Cost
Saturday 13th
Entry by donation
Saturday 20th January
Workshop $25, $20 conc.
Performance $25, $20 conc.

Bookings
Contact: Renate 0408806468
Download the flyers

Mittagong Performance and Workshop
Sydney Performance and Workshop

About Word Sisters
Word Sisters have been creating as a collaborative community since 2017. We are four creative arts practitioners (performers, storytellers, workshop facilitators, poets, and writers) who have a common background in Anthroposophy. We initially met over 20 years ago exploring Steiner’s Speech and Drama methods through workshops in Western Australia. By combining Steiner’s Speech and Drama indications, eurythmy, creative writing and biography work, we devise performances and related workshops. A playful curiosity and phenomenological research approach has enabled us to craft and share two performance/workshop projects.
Dancing Backwards, performed at the ASinA Perth Conference in 2018, and the Adelaide Fringe in 2019; explored the impact of the planets as vowel qualities within our biographies; and 12 Portals, A Life in 7 Year Cycles, refined in Adelaide in 2022 with Dawn Langman, and performed in Perth, December 2022, and due to be shared in Sydney and Mittagong, January 2024. 12 Portals explores the impacts of the zodiac and consonants within life phases 0-84.
Word Sisters each contributes unique artistic strengths and for over five years have met regularly on Zoom. As three members live in Perth and one in Yamba, NSW, we manage our schedules to work physically together, usually in Perth, to develop works through embodied processes.

Read a review of their work

Word Sisters are:
Jenny Hill BA, Dip Ed, M Ed, Dip Speech and Drama, is a professional storyteller with extensive experience in performance, education and community projects. Her present focus is in providing professional development in early childhood education.
Dale Irving BA, Dip Ed, B Ed, M Ed, PhD, is a former public school drama teacher and arts’ educator, who now works with biography consultation after training with Karl-Heinz Finke. She presents courses for the Perth Rudolf Steiner College.
Renate Millonig Dip Speech & Drama (Harkness Studio), BA, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Public Health, Grad Dip Arts, extensive work as performer, director, speaker, trainer and workshop facilitator in mainstream and Steiner-related arts / education contexts.
Rosemary Stevens BA Hons, MA, DCA (PhD) is a published author who teaches creative and professional writing at Curtin University. Her involvement with anthroposophy began in the early 80s as a pioneer parent of the Perth Waldorf School, where she was playgroup leader in the foundational years.

Feature image:Homo signorum, Heinrich von Laufenberg, Regimen, ca. 1450/60

Are Thoresen Visits Melbourne in February 2024
2024-02-01 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 2 Union St, Kew, 2 Union St, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
The Victorian Branch of the ASinA presents
A Program with Are Thoresen

Program

1st February: Hygienic Occultism and the Changes of the Spiritual World after the death of Rudolf Steiner.
2nd-4th February: Christianising the Elemental World and working with the Christ Force in healing through Hygienic Occultism in order to avoid translocating illnesses.
Find out more

Date and Time
7.00 pm, Thursday, 1st February 2024
10.00 am-3.00 pm, 2nd – 4th February 2024
Cost
$35, concession $30
$350, concession $300

Location
Aurora Australis, Anthroposophical College of the Arts 2 Union St, Kew
For more information
Please RSVP to Jenny Meltzer M: 0411 273729 or Birgith Lugosi

Art as a Spiritual Practice - and Why We Need This
2024-02-15 19:00 - 20:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
What can art do for us? The Arts are well known as a activity for supporting our health and wellbeing by nourishing us with creativity, music, plays, inspiring films and beautiful pictures. But practised in a structured, disciplined yet imaginative way, art, any of the Arts, can act as meditation does – as a schooling path of spiritual development.
This webinar discusses how essential it is for Anthroposophists to have some form of artistic practice to strengthen and order the soul life, to ‘school it’, so that we have the forces to meet the challenges coming to meet us out of the future – and how to go about this.
The webinar also acts as an introduction to the new v online training, starting in March.
In the act of creating, spirituality and art meet
Rudolf Steiner intended the artistic to be central to the pursuit of spiritual investigation he named ‘Anthroposophy’, just as he believed creativity to be central to what it means to be human. Yet access to the spiritual is not simply a given today. In our materialistic age, the soul needs awakening to its inmost needs, perhaps far more than we realise. The path to the spiritual needs to be actively cultivated with our whole being, not just our head. The arts play a role here beyond the aesthetic.
Becoming artistic is an inner need of Anthroposophy. Without it, Anthroposophy cannot go into the future. If not imbued with the artistic impulse, then Anthroposophy will go short of breath, according to Steiner:

In an inartistic atmosphere it goes short of breath; only in an artistic element can it breathe freely. Rightly understood, it will lead over to the genuinely artistic without losing any of its cognitional character.

This webinar also introduces the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When
7pm AEDT 15 February, 2024
Cost
Entry by $20 donation
How to book
Book Here!

For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell for more information.

The spiritual world lives in the artistic, as a “living, colourful, form-bearing weaving and being’ reality”
Therefore, working with the arts, out of the arts, must become central to our way of engaging with Anthroposophy.

Feature image: OIA, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Grail Quest
2024-02-16 16:30 - 2024-05-17 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Tarremah Steiner School, Kingston, Tasmania, 27 Nautilus Grove, Huntingfield, TAS, 7055, Australia
... a journey into the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner

Grail Quest is a two-year part-time self development course inspired the the insights of Rudolf Steiner. Program includes biography work, singing, storytelling, craft, visual arts and much more.
Gerry Josephson has been running these life-changing courses for over 30 years.
Enrol now for the 16th February 2024 intake.
When
Fridays 4.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Saturdays 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.
Where
Tarremah Steiner School, Nautilus Grove, Huntingfield
For more information
Please contact Gerry Josephson on 0406788050 or download the flyer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Creative Life of Language Workshop
2024-03-15 18:00 - 2024-03-17 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama
Presents
An introductory workshop exploring the creatives forces of language

About the workshop

Through movement and Speech we will explore the creative forces of language; vowels as gateway to the soul, consonants as gateway to the world. Our work is based on the integration of Rudolf Steiner’s approach to speech and Michael Chekhov’s acting technique.
Facilitators

Dawn Langman, Katrina Stowe and Nicole Ostini

When

15 March 6pm-8pm
16 March 9am – 4pm
17 March 9am – 11am

Where
Samford Valley Steiner School Hall
5 Narrawa Crt
Wights Mountain 4520 QLD

Cost
Cost for the 3 day workshop $250 (self-catering)

Find out more

Contact Katrina Stowe or download the flyer
Registration close on Sunday 10th March 2024

About Heart Fire
Announcing a new speech and drama initiative inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner,
Heart Fire Centre for Speech and Drama
Situated in proximity to Pacifica College of Eurythmy, Heart Fire is based in Samford Valley, Queensland and is the initiative of Nicole Ostini, Katrina Stowe and Dawn Langman. Dawn’s life work has been to research and develop an integrated speech and acting methodology based on Rudolf Steiner’s approach to the art of Speech and Michael Chekhov’s, also Anthroposophically inspired, art of acting. Nicole and Katrina are both graduates of the 4-year training developed by Dawn Langman since her arrival back in Australia in 1995. They are both performers and experienced teachers at primary, secondary and adult levels and have been working together with Dawn, over several years now, to lay the foundation for a full and part time training and an artistic ensemble that will continue the research into and development of the integrated speech and acting methodology.
Over the next years we are planning a series of introductory workshops that will provide opportunities for teachers and performers, intending or established, to experience the richness and transformative and health bestowing benefits of this approach. We are also working towards the possibility of a 4-year full-time training sometime in the future.
Introductory workshop
This workshop will be held at Samford Valley Steiner School just outside of Brisbane on Friday evening 15th, Saturday 16th and Sunday morning 17th March 2024. Please see accompanying flyer.
Dawn Langman’s account of Heart Fire’s Methodology
The Heart Fire Centre for Speech and Drama is a fully integrated speech and acting methodology that has arisen out of many years of research into the impulse given by Rudolf Steiner for a renewal of the performing arts of the Word: drama, storytelling and poetry recital.
This impulse has been served by many pioneers over the years. One of the challenges that has faced all of us called to this work has been to develop an acting methodology that could seamlessly integrate with the groundbreaking work of Marie Steiner and her pupils to incarnate a renewal of the art of speech. Called Sprachgestaltung (in English, Speech Formation or Creative Speech) it trains the speaker to channel the divine creative activity of the macrocosmic beings of the stars and planets as it manifests through the sounds of language, the consonants and vowels.
Initially the acting side of the process relied on the already existing talent and /or professional experience of those who first trained with Marie Steiner. The demands of the speech work in those early years were so huge and all-consuming in themselves that the need for a fully articulated acting process equally grounded in the spiritual scientific lawfulness that Anthroposophy provides was not immediately clear. However, in recent years the further evolution of the speech work and the potential that it has to make a contribution to the wider culture, has been challenged by the lack of such a process.
Over the lifetime of my own work and search for answers to these questions, including an initial mainstream speech and acting training followed by my deep immersion in the art of Speech Formation, I was fortunate to discover and train in the acting methodology developed by the great Russian actor Michael Chekhov. He is acknowledged as one of the great actors, and teachers of acting, of the twentieth century. It was his destiny to function in the mainstream world of film and theatre and to translate the spiritual lawfulness of Anthroposophy into language and processes that could inspire and school the actors’ artistic striving whether or not they were consciously in search of the spiritual dimension of their art. His achievement at this level has meant that it has only been more recently acknowledged how deeply his work was embedded in the spiritual scientific principles of Rudolf Steiner.
It was not in Chekhov’s destiny to master the art of Speech Formation. It was his work to lay the foundation of a spiritually scientific acting process. However, he fully recognized and spoke about the role of both speech formation and eurythmy in developing capacities that actors and artists of the spoken word will need for theatre to fulfil its function in the future. In ways appropriate to our evolving present consciousness, it must be able to reveal the spiritual realities at work within our human destinies and evolution, explore the mystery of ‘why we are here and why we suffer’. (Olga’s final speech from The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov.)
The Three Streams:
The Heart Fire methodology consists fundamentally of a systematic exploration of each of the three streams of work that makes possible their thorough integration at each level of the process.
Chekhov’s spiritual/psycho/physical acting methodology: Chekhov’s psycho-physical exercises attune our body/soul/ instrument to be an organ of perception and expression that provides a healthy basis in movement and gesture for accessing the emotional life of the actor and the revelations of the soul and spirit as they manifest in drama, poetry and story.
Speech Formation/ Creative Speech: An exploration of the consonants, vowels, rhythms and other elements of language, leads to the initial experience that words are not just agreed abstract symbols that carry information to our brains but have the power to create events and awaken and refine our deepest life of thought and feeling. Further training transforms us step by step into conscious co- creators with the spiritual powers, through whose Word we and all things are created.
Eurythmy: Through this art of movement the basic elements of speech eurythmy deepen and intensify our work with vowels and consonants. As we progress further, we are introduced to the cosmic gestures that reveal the inner life of the macrocosmic beings of the stars and planets who so intimately weave into the evolving consciousness of human beings as expressed through drama, poetry and story.
The integration of these streams enriches the artistic striving of actors, storytellers and reciters by providing an objective path to dimensions of reality not otherwise accessible.
Please pass this information on to anyone who you think may be interested.
For further information
Nicole Ostini or Katrina Stowe

A Virtuous Journey: Living with the 12 Virtues as a Cycle of the Year
2024-03-21 19:00 - 2024-12-22 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Exploring the Virtues
Working with the 12 monthly virtues as an exploration, contemplation and mediation

Rudolf Steiner gave twelve virtues to be worked on for each zodiac. Whilst we have this list from Steiner, he gave very little else directly.
This course takes up his introduction. It will explore each of the virtues more deeply, and what they mean in relation to the zodiac over the cycle of a year. We will be working with a discourse, a contemplative practice of verse and Heart Awareness to bring the virtues to life exploring both the practical and spiritual aspects of each of the virtues.
Find out more
Download the program
When is it?
Starts March 21 with Aries as the theme. The paper and contemplation will be emailed on the 21st of each month related to the virtue and the corresponding zodiac sign. and we will meet online (via zoom) at 7pm AEDT for 1 hour on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month to explore,
Cost
$240 for the year donation suggested.
You can register directly or organize an alternative payment schedule for this upcoming course by emailing me here.
Bookings
Buy tickets

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

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

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

Sponsored by www.nurturerstudio.com

Feature image: Three Crosses, by Rudolf Steiner

The Second Initiation of Lazarus at the Foot of the Cross
2024-03-29 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Research Studio
presents
A Contemplation for Good Friday
‘What works between you and me, woman?’

Join us on Good Friday for a online contemplation on the mystery of Christ’s last words to Mary, mother of God and John, the beloved disciple, as they stood by the cross on Golgotha, in light of the events at the Marriage at Cana.
We begin with a phenomenological art contemplation on the theme, led by Fiona Campbell, followed by a meditation from Jude on Mary and John at the foot of the cross.
Suggested reading: St John Chap. 19
When
7.00pm – 8.30pm AEDT, Good Friday 29th March 2024
Cost
$20 donation or amount of your choice is much appreciated
Bookings
Book here
Zoom Link will be sent by email two days, two hours and ten minutes before the event!
For more information
Download the flyer to share or contact Fiona Campbell or Jude Neeme-Samson
Fiona Campbell

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

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

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

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

Working with Colour Chords
2024-04-27 15:30 - 2024-06-29 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
A foundation course in wet-on-dry painting
with artist Fiona Campbell
We explore how colours work with each other and upon each other in harmony, in polarity and as complementaries. It follows the Assenza approach to colour and painting, which is based on Goethe’s and Steiner’s theories of colour.
This fortnightly course also provides you with the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to wet-on-dry painting, where translucent coloured surfaces are continually overlaid with each other, so that new colours and new surfaces arise out of their meeting. From this colour interplay, forms gradually arise.
This online course is part of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
What is the Assenza approach?
Beppe Assenza (1905-1985) was already an established artist when he became inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s work on the nature of colour and his colour theory. Unlike the Wagner and Collois d’Herbois schools of anthroposophic art, he chose to work phenomenologically with colours i.e. out of our lived experience of painting red, blue, yellow, etc. His approach is both free and playful and yet methodological in its exploration that produces an open, atmospheric picture surface. In this way, we train our perceptual faculties while deepening our soul experience of colours in composition.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in exploring the different techniques under the wet-on-dry umbrella.
For artists, art therapists and Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to deepen their understanding of colour (PD certificates available).

This course is core to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
27 April-29 June 2024, Saturdays 3.30pm-5.30pm AEDT (10 hours class time)
Five fortnightly sessions plus video recording
How much does it cost?
$230 AUD/$165 USD
$250 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for three months.
How do I register?
Register here
For more information
For more information about the course or for any questions, please contact Fiona Campbell

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
Under the name Painted Space, she runs a schooling course that combines inner work with visual arts training.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

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.
Assenza

Feature image: New Life, by Fiona Campbell, 2017
Insert image: courtesy of Painted Space

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

For more information
Contact Abhinporn Kittipeerapat

The Challenges Facing Agriculture: Ueli Hurter Tour VIC
2024-05-07 11:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
The Challenges Facing Agriculture
and What Biodynamics Offers
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Melbourne visit: morning

Farms and farmers are constantly facing challenges, be it the weather, soil health, cost of inputs/production, fair return for products etc.
2024 celebrates a centenary of the biodynamic movement. It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner presented the Agriculture Lectures in Europe, which were the start of what became known as Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture. To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour

When is it?
11.00 am Tuesday 7 May
Where
The Michael Centre
37A Wellington Park Drive,
Warranwood 3134
Cost
$30 cash only

For more information
Please contact Steve Kapolice or phone 0407640495

Farmer as Priest on His Land: Ueli Hurter Tour VIC
2024-05-07 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
Farmer as Priest on His Land
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Melbourne visit: evening

Farms and farmers are constantly facing challenges, be it the weather, soil health, cost of inputs/production, fair return for products etc.
2024 celebrates a centenary of the biodynamic movement. It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner presented the Agriculture Lectures in Europe, which were the start of what became known as Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture. To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour

When is it?
7.00 pm Tuesday 7 May
Where
Aurora Australis Anthroposophical College of the Arts,
2 Union Street,
KEW 3101
Cost
$30 for the members of the Anthroposophical Society, $35 for non-members.

For more information
Please contact Birgith Lugosi phone 0448 844 453.

Harmony of Land, People, Community: Ueli Hurter Tour TAS
2024-05-08 - 2024-05-10 | NSW
Bio-Dynamics Centennial Recognition Events
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Tasmania May 2024

Biodynamic Tasmania has organised a series of events to celebrate the 100 years anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s agriculture lectures, which in time became known as the birth of bio-dynamic agriculture. These events are part of a suite of events across Australia and New Zealand designed to celebrate the Biodynamics centenary this year.
It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner presented the Agriculture Lectures in Europe, which were the start of what became known as Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture. To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Dialogue between healing and regeneration: Keynote speaker Ueli Hurter
The celebrations in Tasmania aim to develop authentic dialogue between “healing” and “regeneration” across land, people and community, such that new harmonies may emerge and guide further BD developments into the future.
Tasmania Program
Download the program, which shows the range of activities and public presentations planned for 8-10 May in Southern Tasmania, some of which feature the global head of Bio-Dynamic Agriculture, Ueli Hurter.
*Note – specific event location addresses are supplied during the registration process via Humanitix or by contacting the organisers via the contact details above.
As can be seen in the program above and on the downloadable flyer, there is a mix of smaller group activities (e.g., BD compost making and a presentation/discussion on BD bee keeping with students, parents and interested people at the Tarramah Steiner School), facilitated discussions on a range of BD related topics (e.g., lunar and planetary cycles) and growing edges for BD (e.g., dialogue between Indigenous and BD approaches to caring for land), and more focussed discussions (e.g., Anthroposophy and community; exploring the herbs used for in BD preparations making; etc).
Each of these activities represent different facets of the role BD can/does play in responding to major challenges all of us face, such as climate change, food security and quality, cost of living, and building regenerative communities. These challenges will be the focus of two public presentations by Ueli Hurter on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Cost
All events attendance/participation require registration so that venues can be adequately prepared. There will be a small registration fee to cover the venue costs for the public presentations. All other events are free of charge.
Registration for events
Wed 8th May -Caring for Country Roundtable – Magical Farm Tasmania (Allens Rivulet)
Wed 8th May – Ueli Hurter public presentation one – BD responses to the climate crisis and social and planetary healing
Thurs 9th May – Bronzewing Botanicals Herb Farm Tour (Allens Rivulet) & Anthroposophy and Community Future Directions Meeting (Raphael Institute – Margate)
Thurs 9th May Biodynamics in schools with Ueli Hurter (Tarremah Steiner School – Huntingfield)
Thurs 9th May – Ueli Hurter-public presentation two – Economic models, challenges and opportunities of building regenerative BD food secure communities
For more information
Visit the Bio-Dynamics Tasmania website or contact Bio-Dynamics Tasmania: Trevor Crowe or phone Cole Bradshaw on 0429 961 125

About Ueli Hurter
Ueli Hurter has been the co-head of the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum since 2010 and currently sits on the executive board of the International Biodynamic Association. A native of Switzerland, he completed agricultural apprenticeships in Switzerland, Germany and France. He has formerly served as President of the Swiss Demeter association and as Swiss spokesman to Demeter International.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour Australia-wide

Working with Verses and Meditations
2024-05-08 10:00 - 2024-07-03 11:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Painted Space studio course
8 May-4 July 2024
In this online course, we explore how to work artistically with your favourite verses and meditations. Finding the essence of a verse or meditation, its central motifs and gestures, is key to creating meaningful pictures to accompany any sacred or profound text.
By finding the balance between illustration and self-expression, we bring the words alive, deepening their meaning and effect upon our souls.
What will we do?
Five workshops using mixed media and contemplative practice. Suitable for all levels.
When
10.00am-11.30am Wednesdays,
8 May-4 July 2024
Cost
COST: $200 AUD/$150 USD
Bookings
Book here
Recordings of each workshop will be accessible to participants for three months after the end of the course.
Find out more
Browse the courses at Painted Space Studio or contact Fiona Campbell for more information.

And in remembering does the soul
weave meaning and being together.

Rudolf Steiner

Feature image: Parsifal meets Sigune, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

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

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

Breathing with the Climate Crisis: Ueli Hurter Tour NSW
2024-05-11 - 2024-05-12 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Biodynamics Sydney Centenary Conference Sun-Soil-Food
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Sydney visit: 11th and 12th May

A series of lectures, discussions and artistic presentations to celebrate the 100 years contribution of biodynamics to science, the life of the soil and cultural life.
The Sydney Centenary Conference has an exciting lineup of international, interstate and local speakers.
Hear how climate change can be mitigated by using (not just storing) atmospheric carbon in the soil to combat greenhouse gases.
Meet experts and people from related fields – nutrition, soil fertility, and social initiatives.
Create networks and opportunities to work together for a common goal.
Find out about practices which have been in use globally for 100 years and have proved their efficacy many times over.
Enjoy cultural offerings – music, drama, eurythmy and art
You can also visit the lunchtime Sale Table and Rudolf Steiner Book Centre, which will be open at all the breaks.
There are also two art exhibitions on the ground floor and the top floor.
Most importantly, you will be part of the living human presence which is so important for the speakers and the conference as a whole.
When is it?

11th May 2024, 9.30am-5.00pm
12th May 2024, 9.30am-9.00pm
Where
Rudolf Steiner House,
307 Sussex Street
Sydney 2001
Cost
$240

Keynote lectures
Sun-Earth-Moon, with Ueli Hurter, 9.30 am, Saturday 11th May
Encounters with the principles and practices used in the worldwide biodynamic agriculture movement, .Can a positive solution be found in a contribution to environmental crises?
A Desert Miracle with Helmy Abouleish, SEKEM Community, Egypt. 1.30pm Sunday 12th May
Muslims, Jews, Christians working and liveing together using biodynamics and government cooperation.
Live stream bookings
Register for lectures by Ueli Hurter and Helmy Abouleish CEO,SEKEM Community, Egypt and others here
The zoom lectures are by donation to cover many of the costs of holding this conference.
For the full program
Visit the Biodynamics Sydney website
For more information
Please contact Deborah Saffir, Daniel Piason or Diane Watkin at 0422447092 or biodynamicssydney@gmail.com

About the Centenary of Biodynamics
2024 celebrates a centenary of the biodynamic movement. It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner presented the Agriculture Lectures in Europe, which were the start of what became known as Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture. To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour

The Farmer as the Priest of the Land: Ueli Hurter Tour QLD
2024-05-13 - 2024-05-14 | Varied
Bio-Dynamics Centennial Recognition Events
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Queensland 13th-14th May 2024

QLD Biodynamics has organised a series of events celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures, which in time became known as the birth of bio-dynamic agriculture. These events are part of a suite of events across Australia and New Zealand designed to celebrate the BioDynamics centenary
To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Queensland Program
The Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May events on the program below include two public keynote presentations by Ueli Hurter the global head of Bio-Dynamic Agriculture.
As can be seen in the program, there is a mix of community and biodynamic activities. Each of these activities represents different facets of the role Biodynamics can/does play in responding to major challenges all of us face, such as climate change.
These challenges will be the focus of two public presentations by Ueli Hurter on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th May.
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Cost
Open the members of the Anthroposophical Society and the general public
All events attendance/participation require registration so that venues can be adequately prepared. There will be a small registration fee to cover the venue costs for the public presentations. All other events are free of charge.
For more information
Please contact Rob Birse or phone 0431 895 168 or 0480 231 171.

Bio-Dynamics Centennial Celebration: Ueli Hurter Tour SA
2024-05-15 | Ngeringa Farm and Vineyard, 107 Williams Rd, Mount Barker Summit, SA, 5251, Australia
Bio-Dynamics Centennial Celebration
in South Australia May 2024
The Biodynamics Centenary Tour
Adelaide Hills visit

Adelaide Hills Bio-Dynamic Group in collaboration with Ngeringa Farm and Vineyards are running a series of events to celebrate the 100 years since Rudolf Steiner gave his agriculture lectures, which was the birth of bio-dynamic agriculture.
2024 celebrates a centenary of the biodynamic movement. It has been 100 years since Rudolf Steiner presented the Agriculture Lectures in Europe, which were the start of what became known as Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture. To acknowledge the centenary, Ueli Hurter from Switzerland, the head of biodynamics globally, is undertaking a speaking tour of Australia in May. Ueli Hurter visits biodynamic farms and can report on their health and success.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour
In the course of the two events planned, in the Hills, we aim to celebrate 100 years of Bio-Dynamics (BD) in the world, to bring those interested in or working in BD in South Australia together and to consider how BD can help the world face the challenges of time and our future.
Program
Download the South Australia Program
Download the poster
When is it?
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Where
Field Day: Ngeringa Farm and Vineyard
Mount Barker SA
Book here for the Field Day
Evening talk: Biodynamic Responses to the Climate Crisis – Agricultural, Social and Planetary Healing
Book here for the evening talk

Cost
Entry fee $25 for the field day, $10 for the evening talk.
All events attendance/participation require registration so that venues can be adequately prepared.
For more information
Please contact Adelaide Hills Bio-Dynamic Group coordinator Simon Martin or phone 0425 144 655
About Ueli Hurter
Ueli Hurter has been the co-head of the Agriculture Section at the Goetheanum since 2010 and currently sits on the executive board of the International Biodynamic Association. A native of Switzerland, he completed agricultural apprenticeships in Switzerland, Germany and France. He has formerly served as President of the Swiss Demeter association and as Swiss spokesman to Demeter International.
Find out more about Ueli Hurter’s Biodynamics Centenary Tour Australia-wide

Working with Thresholds
2024-05-24 14:00 - 2024-08-23 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A online masterclass in painting
with artist Fiona Campbell

Our human life moves and breathes between thresholds: macrocosm and microcosm, waking and sleeping, birth and death. This painting masterclass works with the thresholds in our lives and in nature, with special attention paid to the nature of polarities and the breathing impulse.
This content of this course is complemented with the study of selected lectures from Rudolf Steiner’s Macrocosm and Microcosm
Why painting?
Why study this subject through painting rather than meditation and study?
Understanding comes through the experiential rather than purely theoretical. This means that, rather than a study of texts followed by an illustrative artistic exercise, the study is the artistic exercise, it is the meditative practice, and the texts are complementary readings that inform and guide our practice.
This is a path of inner work through artistic practice.
Who is it for?

For artists, art therapists and students of Anthroposophy who want to deepen their understanding of Steiner’s macrocosm and microcosm model for human existence (PD certificates available).
For anyone interested in exploring the nature of thresholds through painting.

This course is supplementary to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
2pm-4pm fortnightly on Fridays AEST
24 May-23 August 2024
How much does it cost?
$280 AUD/$190 USD
$300 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
How do I register?
Register here
For more information
For more information about this course , please contact Fiona Campbell
For more information about Painted Space Studio courses in general, browse the courses on offer.

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
Under the name Painted Space, she runs a schooling course that combines inner work with visual arts training.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fees

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

Registration

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

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

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

Art as Revelation, as Transformation
2024-06-27 19:00 - 20:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Breakthrough Experience as a Source of Inspiration and Renewal

Art … forms a bridge across the abyss. That is why art must realise that its task is to carry the spiritual-divine life into the earthly; to fashion the latter in such a way that its forms, colours, words, tones, act as a revelation of the world beyond.
Rudolf Steiner

The word ‘revelation’ comes from ‘reveal’ or ‘to lay bare’. the reveal of a truth, a spiritual reality, a moment of revelatory significance.
Revelation in art usually denotes some sort of spiritual or religious experience when viewing art in a gallery, watching a play or listening to music.
But in the life of an artist or viewer of art, a revelation can also be a breakthrough experience for the mind and soul; a sudden opening of a door of understanding of art or themselves or the world beyond the everyday mundane; a breakthrough to inspiration and understanding in a way never before experienced.
It is like shining a light in the interior of the soul to see something as if for the first time, even though it was already there, waiting to be seen.
Such revelations in our artistic practice or in viewing art can lead to self transformation but also to see the purpose and role of art in the world in a completely new way.
This webinar looks at the nature of revelation, of thresholds, of breakthrough experiences in artistic contexts and how they can be signposts on a path of transformation.

The 2nd lecture in the Art as a Spiritual Practice series, itself part of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.

When
7pm AEST 27 June, 2024
Cost
Entry by $20 donation
How to book
Book Here!
The video recording of the webinar will be available after the event.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell for more information.

Every genuine work of art bears witness to the experience of the threshold.

Herbert Witzenmann

Feature image: Threshold, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Development of the Moral and Ethical forces through Steiner Pedagogy and Curriculum
2024-07-16 08:30 - 2024-07-17 13:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Castlecrag, 121 Edinburgh Rd, Sydney, NSW, 2068, Australia
The Pedagogical Section in Australia
presents

Researching the Development of the Moral and Ethical forces in the Child and Young Person through Steiner Pedagogy and Curriculum

July 16th – 17th 2024
Castlecrag Campus of Glenaeon School, Sydney

Come and work with Philippe Ruebke, (Co-Leader of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum), Andrew Hill (Teacher Educator and CEO of SEA), Peggy Day (Pedagogical Section Coordinator, Australia) and Tim Dunn (high school teacher and teacher educator.) these school holidays.

Open to all teachers and school leaders.
Program

Tuesday 16th July
8.30am Speech and incarnation of the Ego– tba
9.15am Philippe Ruebke – The developing moral life of the child within Steiner Waldorf Pedagogy and Curriculum
10.00 Andrew Hill – the class teacher student and their growing connection to the moral in the world
10.45 Morning Tea
11.15 Discussion Groups and then sharing back in the main hall
12.30- Lunch
1.30 Stage Specific Workshops
Early Childhood- Peggy Day
Class Teacher – Andrew Hill
High School- Tim Dunn
3.00pm Afternoon Tea
3.30pm – Peggy Day- Deeper background pictures of moral forces
4.15pm Whole group discussion
5pm – Close
Wednesday 17th July
8.30 Speech and the incarnation of the ego
9.30 am Tim Dunn – the high school student and their path toward discernment – followed by group discussion.
10.30 Morning Tea
11.00 Stage Specific Workshops/Discussions
12.15 Future Research Questions and On-line Gatherings
1 pm Close

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Bookings
Book here!
Find out more
Contact Peggy Day

Feature image: The Knight of the Holy Grail, Martin Wiegand (1867-1961)

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

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

About Van James
Van James is an artist, author, Steiner-Waldorf educator and international advocate for the arts. A longtime teaching-artist in Hawai’i and a mentor for Gradalis Teacher Education. Van is a council member of the Visual Art Section of North America, a mentor with the Academy of Himalayan Art and Child Development, editor of Pacifica Journal, and an award-winning author of numerous books on culture and the arts including Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart, The Secret Language of Form: Visual Meaning in Art and Nature and the recently published Teaching Art History: Engaging Adolescents in Art, Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness.

The Art of Acting Workshop
2024-07-26 18:00 - 2024-07-28 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama Presents

Drama workshop at Samford Valley Steiner School
Friday 26th July – Sunday 28th July 2024

About the workshop
Through the integration of Rudolf Steiner’s approach to speech and Michael Chekhov’s acting technique, we will explore the development of character, dramatic mood and interaction.

Find out more
Find out more about Heart Fire Centre
Download the details of the workshop
Where
Samford Valley Steiner School Hall
5 Narrawa Crt
Wights Mountain 4520 QLD
When
6pm-8pm 26 July 2024 9am – 4pm 27 July 2024 9am – 11am 28 July 2024
Cost
Cost for the 3 day workshop
$250 plus booking fee
$25 optional Saturday night dinner

Facilitators
Dawn Langman, Katrina Stowe and Nicole Ostini

For more information
Enquiries: Katrina Stowe
Bookings
Registration closes on Friday 12th July 2024

Book here!

Download the poster

Feature image: courtesy of Raphaela Mazzone

Breathing Out The Winter: A Therapeutic Intensive
2024-07-27 14:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents

An Art Intensive For Nourishing The Soul Forces

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
This intensive therapeutic painting workshop brings the health-giving forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies as we breathe out the Winter and breathe in the renewed life coming towards us.

Late Winter can be a difficult time: Nature’s death shudder is still with us, but already signs of hope and new growth are appearing in the earth. By preparing our souls for the burgeoning forces of Spring, we nurture the new forces arising in our inmost being and bring them into harmonious rhythm with Nature’s rhythms.

Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive experience using wet-on-wet painting or pastels and is for anyone in need of soul nourishment.

Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.

Why join the live class? Benefits of live participation
When you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating community. Think of it as a group of people coming together with the specific intention to build substance, to create something together, to bring something into the world that benefits both ourselves yet also puts positive, creative forces into the world. And we create within a divine-spiritual community. Divine beings look over our shoulders; we create in their company and in the company of like-minded others.The gift is in the giving, in the doing, as much as in the product.
Who is it for?
Beginners welcome! You do not need to be an experienced artist to benefit from this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
When

2-5pm ACST, 27-28 July 2024
Cost
$190 AUD/$134 USD including recordings
Bookings
Book here

You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after payment.

The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space

Feature image: excerpt of painting of the cycle of the plant, Weleda Calendar 2000 © Alexander Winter

Working with Steiner's Nature Mood Sketches
2024-08-31 15:00 - 2024-11-23 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
The Seven School (Friedwart) Sketches series

This fortnightly online course introduces you to Rudolf Steiner’s approach to painting and his understanding of how the formative forces shape and move the world around us through his own pastel sketches. The course uses the wet-on-dry veiling technique or pastels, if preferred.
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches were first given to Waldorf teachers as part of Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore invisible yet objective laws of Nature. The series leads us from the archetypal nature moods of sunrise and sunset through the four elements to the human world, culminating in a Madonna and Child motif.
What are the Training Sketches?
Theses sketches are part of a comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. Along with The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs, they form an important part of this portfolio.
But these sketches are not images of external natural events; they refer to acts that are effective in nature and human, says Christiane Haid, head of the Visual Arts Section at the Goetheanum. She believes that working with the creative forces in and around us can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
Who is this course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature and Human.

For anyone interested in the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy this course.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 31 August-23 November 2024
Seven two-hour fortnightly sessions. Participants are expected to do some homework between classes. Edited recordings of the sessions are available post-class but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
Cost
$300 AUD/$205 USD
$305 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

How to join the workshops
The Zoom link, payment details, a list of materials and suggested readings will be sent to you after booking.

Other Painted Space Studio workshop courses

For more information

Contact

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

Steiner

Feature image: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall No. 6 © Fiona Campbell

A Conversation With Your Garden: Plant Observation And Drawing
2024-09-11 17:00 - 2024-11-20 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
A Series of Workshops on Goethean Observation and Nature Moods

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
Spring is the ideal time of year to turn our eyes to Nature and learn her secrets through Goethean observation, drawing and reflection. Spending time up close with Nature in the garden, a park, a local nature reserve or even just with a few pot plants on your balcony is both energising and healing.
(Of course, any time of the year in Nature is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation especially suited to drawing and observation.)
What will we do?
Through the six online workshops, learn to see anew the wonder of your own garden. Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, from quiet contemplation, careful observation, and mood immersion, to sketching, colour work and reflection.
Learn the core stages of a phenomenological process and practice the different drawing/sketching 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.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, the world around us becomes more alive – living and becoming.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops 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 Nature and ourselves. We learn to step into the world and feel at home with it.
Who is it for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature
For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.

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 on?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, 11 September to 20 November 2024
How do I book?

Book here
Please complete the online form to book for this series of workshops. 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.
More information
Find out more about this course and others from Painted Space or contact Fiona Campbell.

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

Feature image: Ethereal Space of Plant Growth, Plate I, The Plant between Sun and Earth © Olive Whicher

The Oceania Youth Group Festival
2024-09-27 - 2024-10-30 | Willunga Waldorf School, 1 Jay Dr,, Willunga, South Australia, 5172, Australia
Oceania Youth Group
presents
The Youth Festival

We are excited to announce that this year our annual gathering ‘The Youth Festival’ will be held at Willunga Waldorf School from 27-30th September! There will be guest speakers, eurythmy, camping, bonfire, storytelling and biodynamic farming.

Costs
We want to make this event as accessible to everyone as possible, so price will be $120 for the entire festival including meals. Year 12 is free and under 24 is half price. Those unable to stay for the entire event are welcome to join in whenever they can at a reduced price.

Who is it for?
Age limit is 18-35 roughly. A bit over or under is ok!

We are really looking forward to this event and the adventure that it will take us on.
Hope to see you there!

For more information
Download the poster!

Email Rebecca Debski for enquiries.

This is an Anthroposophic initiative.

Working out of love in the Struggle towards the light. Who are you?
A journey through biodynamic farming and the arts for young adults.
