Anthroposophical Society in Australia

Moral Intuition in Practice
2021-09-04 16:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
“To be or not to be. That is the question”
A conversation guided by Lisa Devine concerning practical Anthroposophy in our biographies, and using this quote as guide.
Registration
Register for a zoom link here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Feature image: by Nina Sombart

Gravitas and Grace: Grief as Initiation, Part 2
2021-09-14 19:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This is the second in a series of three sessions and part of a larger program of training for pastoral palliative work to be launched in September and co-ordinated by Lisa Devine.
The third session is on 28 September.
Registration
Please register here in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Feature image: Engel, oil painting by Ninetta Sombart

Enlivening The Script Within
2021-09-18 11:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Developing a salutogenic approach to life through reconnecting to the World ether
The 2nd Etheric Geography webinar presented by the Stream of Life research group

Inspired by our first webinar?
Looking for ways to enliven and strengthen your own inner forces?
To deepen your understanding of the dynamic nature of the World ether?
Then join us for our 1-day intensive continuing the themes introduced in Reading The World Script.
But now we turn to human life: exploring how the forces and patterns of the Script work in our soul life, in our thinking and in our own life body.

What is it about?
This intensive is more practice-based and interactive than the first, as we workshop how to enliven the life forces within so as to be prepared to meet the challenges of today. By bringing the starry imaginations into our picture-making process with Martin, learn how to enliven our thinking through experiential work with Fiona, and then study the effects of these formative forces on our health with Irmhild. We will close the day with a contemplative healing ceremony.
Do I have to have attended the first webinar?
No, the intensive is open to anyone and everyone interested in this theme. There are pre-webinar exercises that will only take a few minutes of your time to practice, and some readings if you would like some background material to help provide you with some context.
Preparing for the intensive – materials, readings, exercises.
So that the intensive can be interactive, ensuring participants get the most out of the intensive, a selection of exercises and readings will be sent out once you have registered. There is also a list of materials you will need to collect in advance, to be used during Fiona’s sessions.
Will the intensive be recorded if I can’t attend that day?
The medical lecture will be recorded. However, the contemplative healing ceremony and experiential work will not be recorded, due to the nature of these activities.
What is salutogenesis?
Salutogenesis is a way of looking at health from the perspective of what does it mean to be a healthy human being, as opposed to focusing on our pathologies. It uses physical, soul and spiritual principles to understand the source of health.
Event details
When: 11.00 am -5.00pm AEDT, Saturday 18th September 2021
Cost: $50 for the day plus registration fee. Fee includes 3 preparatory exercises to practice in advance. Hardship concession on request.
Program
11am-12.00pm Welcome and Theme: Key Elements for a Moon Astrology with Martin Samson
12-1pm Theme: Developing Water Thinking, experiential work with Fiona Campbell
1pm-2pm lunch
2pm-3pm Theme: Developing Water Thinking, further experiential work with Fiona Campbell
3pm-4pm Theme: How do I understand salutogenesis in relation to my own health? with Irmhild Kleinhenz
4pm-5pm Ceremony: Contemplative healing work with Martin Samson
Presenters
Martin Samson, author, poetic philosopher and theologian
Dr Fiona Campbell, cognition and creativity researcher, lecturer and artist
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic naturopath and integrative health consultant
For more information
Enquiries: Martin Samson msamson@email.org.au
Click here for more details about the program and the presenters
REGISTER HERE !

Therapeutic Art Training at Sienna Academy, 2nd module
2021-09-20 - 2021-10-15 | The Sienna Academy, 32 Nimbus Drive, Flaxton, QLD, 4560
The Sienna Academy promotes artistic and therapeutic painting courses that bring healing through working with the spiritual archetypes of light, darkness and colour. Artistic mediums include water colour moist-on-moist and veil painting; charcoal, pastel and pencil drawing.
Courses weave together 3 main strands of teaching: developing the student’s artistic abilities; developing the skills to work therapeutically as a painting therapist and making more conscious the inter-connectedness of inner and outer colour world as a path of self- development.
There are daily lectures and discussion bringing alive insights given by Rudolf Steiner about the Human Being, together with medical lectures and case studies to help each person to go on their own healing journey; a necessary prerequisite for being able to work effectively with others. The students own practise at home involves daily painting, charcoal work, observation exercises, meditation, study and written assignments.
The Post Graduate Training taught in Australia and China takes 3.5 years to complete. Students come together for two 4-week blocks of training a year. In addition, the course includes students’ independent work at home, practicals essays and a Final Case Studies Work.
For more information, see here
Dates for 2021
April 5 – 16 Carmine Red (past event)
April 19 – 30 Cobalt Blue (past event)
Sept. 20 – Oct. 1 Orange
Oct. 4 – 15 Turquoise
Online Modules
(For students unable to travel)
March 29 – 16 Carmine Red (past event)
April 19 –May 7 Cobalt Blue (past event)
Sept. 13 – Oct. 1 Orange
Oct. 4 – 22 Turquoise
The cost for on-site modules
$850 each module (14 Modules)
Materials are not include in the cost.
The Post Graduate Training is accredited by iARTe (International Association of Anthroposophic Arts Therapies Educations – formerly European Academy)

Responsibility and Reciprocity Yarning Circle - postponed
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-26 | Yipirinya School, Lovegrove Drive, Alice Springs, NT, 0871, Australia
Responsibility and Reciprocity Yarning Circle postponed
Imagine a time before Pine Gap, imagine First People holding a corroboree at Jessie Gap to welcome all children born on this continent – no matter where their parents came from – so that they are safe; so that they can belong and the old people can look out for them. Imagine holding this corroboree after invasion, after massacres, after frontier wars. Imagine the high cultural ethics and profound generosity of spirit it takes to carry this – to still welcome, to be willing to share knowledge, and teach ‘right way’
We invite you to the Responsibility and Reciprocity Yarning Circle to meet local families, learn about Arrernte culture from local elders on country and build an authentic understanding of the changes we need to make.
Cost
$400 per adult, $100 for children over the age of 4.
Need more information?
Read the flyer, go to the Heartwood website or contact Iris Curteis

Movement for Education
2021-09-27 - 2021-09-30 | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Eurythmy and movement workshops for children

Movement for Education workshops were designed to respond to the increasingly risk-cushioned and nature-disconnected world of childhood, by helping lower school teachers in Steiner Schools develop skills for working with movement in the classroom.

What will you do?
You will be introduced to a variety of movement discplines inspired by the anthroposophical understanding of the human being. These are developmentally responsive and integrate all aspects of the child: body , soul and spirit.

Workshop 1
Focus: Classes 1-3 for the 6-9 year old child.
Dates: 27-30 September 2021
Cost: $545 +GST $54

Presenters

Sue Simpson, Sally Davison and Blossom Rubsamen.

Need more information?
You can find more information here and here or please contact Pacifica Eurythmy for registration details.

Gravitas and Grace: Grief as Initiation Part Three
2021-09-28 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This is the third in a series of three sessions and part of a larger program of training for pastoral palliative work co-ordinated by Lisa Devine.
Registration
Please register here in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Feature image: Engel, oil painting by Ninetta Sombart

The Actuality of Rudolf Steiner: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Steiner in the 21st Century
2021-10-09 - 2021-10-11 | Online
International Steiner Symposium
Rudolf Steiner wrote and spoke prolifically about a wide range of areas, from social and political theory to philosophy, from spirituality to ethics, and from education to biodynamics. A common thread in this vast corpus of work was Steiner himself pointing out that everything he wrote and said was contextually bound by his experiences and surroundings.
This invites the question: What can be learnt from Steiner’s works which can help us understand today’s society and our role within it?
This online symposium seeks to address this question through an interdisciplinary collection of papers and contributions dealing critically and constructively with Steiner’s work. As such, it sits within the Institute for Education and Social Innovation’s (ibugi) broader research project of the same title: The Actuality of Rudolf Steiner.

What’s it about?
The symposium is part of the broader ibugi project which opens a dialogue with Steiner’s ideas and discourses and investigates where and whether approaches to the topics such as Consciousness and Reality, Gender and diversity, Social justice and social innovation and Ethics can be found in his works.
As part of an interdisciplinary research symposium, the presenters do not claim to provide final interpretations and readings of Steiner. Rather, they are interested multifaceted, individual and creative perspectives in order to promote academic examination of research questions that seem relevant to today.
Local speakers
The symposium is international, with speakers and researchers from round the Anthroposophical world presenting on this theme, through the lens of their own fields of expertise. From our local region, Dr Neil Boland who is well known for his research into Steiner Education in New Zealand has a prerecorded paper titled The actuality of anthroposophy in the 21st century academy, concerning anthroposophy as a path of knowledge which seeks to lead what is spiritual in the human being to what is spiritual in the cosmos, and its visibility and status in the academy; and Dr Fiona Campbell, who researches cognition and creativity, is speaking about Goethean phenomenology as a cultural therapeutic for our times.
Who is it for?
The symposium is for anyone who seeks to understand the challenges that are coming to meet us from the future, for anyone who is open to new ideas, to thinking freely and working together interactively in the fields of education and social innovation.
The symposium is also free and online so accessible to anyone.
When: Oct 9, 2021 – Oct 11. The symposium runs on Central European Summer Time (CET), so the opening lectures on the Friday night are in the middle of the night AEDT but the Saturday and Sunday lectures are accessible in the evenings. E.g. Fiona’s paper will be given at 11pm AEDT.
Where: Online. Holding the symposium online enables international contributions and participation. Recordings of some sessions will be available.
Cost: Free
Registrations now open.
Click here to register

What effect will digital technology have on our future development?
2021-10-13 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
We don’t encourage computer use in Steiner Education – do we need to rethink our stance on this?
Sydney Rudolf Steiner College presents Workshop 5 of this 6-week online course with Fiona Campbell
Join our Steiner Education students as they ponder and debate five big questions about the tricky nature of human consciousness and its effect on the way we understand history, past, present and future.
In the early sessions we looked back to humanity’s far past to understand the concept of ‘evolving consciousness’ and why this concept is central to Steiner philosophy. We then examined its role today in the foundations of Steiner Education.
Now, in session 5, we will follow up this discussion by looking to the future and ask: What effect will digital technology have on our future development? We don’t encourage its use in Steiner Education in primary years – do we need to rethink our stance on this?

In this workshop we will discuss the pros and cons of using digital technology in educational contexts and its implications for human development and our evolving consciousness. When we look to the far future, what could be some of the consequences of our current immersion into the virtual world and our reliance on what it offers?

So, if you have ever wondered about ‘evolving consciousness’ in Steiner works, or are involved in a Steiner school, or even just intrigued, join us for our online workshops where we unpack some of the big questions about our past and how they shape the possibilities of our future development. Whether your interest is Steiner Education or Steiner philosophy, come and join in to the conversation.
This online course is led by Dr Fiona Campbell who has researched the topic of evolving consciousness for 25 years. Fiona also has a Masters in Digital Media and Information Science and has taught digital technology skills for almost ten years. She has been teaching at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College since 1994 and combines her wealth of knowledge and experience in Anthroposophy, information science and visual arts with her studies about human consciousness and phenomenology.
Book now!
Course Dates: 13th & 20th October.
Venue/Time: Zoom online 7:30pm to 9pm (Sydney time)
Cost: For the cost of individual sessions please contact Jing Li
Contact Us
For more information, click here or email Jing Li

SA Anthroposophic Bookshop open at Spring Fair
2021-10-23 10:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Mt Barker Waldorf School, 27 Sims Rd, Mount Barker, SA, 5251, Australia
The Anthroposophic Bookshop will be open for Mount Barker Waldorf Spring Fair for books, toys, beeswax candles, Weleda products and Advent candles.

What is Transformative Art & Architecture?
2021-10-28 19:30 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A free public lecture introducing The Spiritual Architecture of the Creative Process seminar
The Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA) Professional Development Initiative was founded by Johannes Schuster in 2017.
The aim of this initiative is to develop and promote an Anthroposophically based Theory of Transformative Art & Architecture, which is based on the spiritual view of the human being and universe taught by Rudolf Steiner. The methodology arising from this theory is known as Biosculptural Architecture. Course participants may choose to do further study to qualify as Biosculptural Consultants.
The vision of TAA is for the forms of Art & Architecture to become forces for “Goodness, Truth and Beauty” in the world. This vision takes its inspiration from Rudolf Steiner himself, who in one of his lectures to the workers at the first Goetheanum, spoke of the forms of Art & Architecture of the future as having the power to:

… teach (human beings) how to love,
…. pour a spiritual fluid into hearts and souls…..
…. turn evil into good….
Rudolf Steiner, “Ways to a new style in Architecture”, 1914

How to join the lecture
No need to register in advance. Just join the meeting by clicking the button below

Join the lecture here.

For more information
You can find more information about the course on the flyer. Or visit the Biosculputural Architecture website.
Enquiries: contact Johannes Schuster.

The Spiritual Architecture of the Creative Process
2021-10-30 - 2021-11-14 | Online
How the cosmic creative process is mirrored in nature and the human being. How we can practically use this to transform the world.
A Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA) seminar
An online 6-day seminar over three weekends from Saturday 30th October to Sunday 14th November 2021.

What is it about?
This “Creative Process” seminar begins with the question of how spirit condenses into matter, which is also how nature manifests her forms. From the human perspective however it is the other way round: if we want to transform the world, we must learn how to raise matter up to spirit, which is what the theory of Transformative Art & Architecture (TAA) is concerned with. The archetypal creative process therefore has a downward manifestation phase, as well as an upward transformation phase. This is how spirit and matter interact to become one.
Read the course program here. You can find also more information about the course on the flyer
Presenters
Johannes Schuster has been actively involved with Anthroposophy for over 30 years. He currently works as a Biosculptural-Architectural Consultant and adult education tutor. His special interest has been the study of etheric forces and how these become the mediating link between spirit and matter. This has been the basis of his interest and involvement with art and architecture.
Sue Schuster is an Art teacher with extensive experience in both main stream and Steiner Education, from primary through to senior secondary levels. She has also been active in Adult Education and Steiner Teacher Training programs in Australia and overseas.
You can read more about Johannes and Sue here.
Dates
28 October 2021: free public lecture: What is Transformative Art & Architecture?
Seminar Dates
30-31 October 2021
6-7 November 2021
13-14 November 2021
Cost
There are two rates: a discount rate for the full course and a weekend rate for those who prefer to pay in instalments.
Discount rate for the full course
Professional: $900 (3 x $300)
Concession: $675 (3 x $225)
For Students: $450 (3 x $150)
Weekend rate per weekend
Professional: $350
Concession: $275
For Students: $200
Al payments dues in advance by the preceding Tuesday.
How to enrol
For enrolment form and registration information
Click here.

Or visit the Biosculputural Architecture website.
Enquiries: contact Johannes Schuster.

Image: photo courtesy of Johannes Schuster

Deepening The Script In Daily Life
2021-10-30 16:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Finding the path to the future through cosmic & earthly renewal of the Script in ourselves
The 3rd Etheric Geography webinar from the Stream of Life research group.

Looking for forces of renewal as we emerge from lockdown?
Wanting to deepen your connection to the enlivening forces of the World Script?
Then join us for our 2-hour webinar building on the work of Enlivening the Script Within, this time with the Cosmic Sun as our guide to lead us towards Advent, the festival of light.

What is it about?

This webinar returns to the format of the first webinar, Reading the World Script, with visual lectures and some contemplative exercises but now we turn from moon and water look to further possibilities of renewal through deepening the Cosmic Sun forces in our daily life. Continuing the macrocosmic, mesocosmic and microcosmic theme, we will work further with our connection to the salutogenic forces inherent in our thinking and imaginative life. For when we connect to the source of living thought, we ignite the light of the generative forces in our being.
Program
Do I have to have attended the earlier webinars?
No, the webinar is open to anyone and everyone interested in this theme. Recordings will be available for a small donation if you cannot attend.
Cost
$20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated
How to register
Register here!

Enquiries
Please contact Fiona Campbell or Martin Samson
Stream of Life Presenters
Martin Samson, author, poetic philosopher and theologian
Dr Fiona Campbell, cognition and creativity researcher, lecturer and artist
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic naturopath and integrative health consultant

Fever, ear, nose and throat treatments
2021-11-13 13:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Charlotte’s Retreat, 195 North Bank Rd., Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia
Naturosophy – the wisdom of healing.
Three Holistic Health Care Saturday afternoon practical workshops in November and 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
Please bring the following to reduce the wash load.

Saturday, 13th November : Fever, Ear, Nose and Throat treatments (please bring one large sheet, two towels, one hot water bottle with a cover, a pair of woollen socks, a head band for the ear compress and a scarf for the throat compress).

Saturday 27th November: Care after Death Demonstration (no equipment from your is needed)

Saturday 11th December: Foot oiling (we will start with a brief foot bath, so please bring a towel foot mat, two towels and 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.
For more information
Please contact Irmhild Kleinhenz

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Priesthood for the 21st Century
2021-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | ACT
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

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.

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)

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 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.

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

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

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
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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
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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

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
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You can find more information about this event here.
