Coloured Light and Coloured Shadows Workshops
2024-11-09 - 2025-03-22 | NSW
Callout to participants!
Are you intrigued to be working with living coloured light and luminous coloured shadows to create different realms that our Faust experiences?
Movers, dancers, artists, speech and drama actors, and those interested in the magic of puppets are invited to research and create with us in collaborative weekly workshops.
Download the flyer
When
Weekly workshop from November 2024 to March 2025.
Contact us
Contact us through our website or email Venessa Crane.

Finance at the Threshold
2024-11-15 09:00 - 2024-11-20 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, 3067, Australia
Exploring Rudolf Steiner’s contribution to the transformation of economic life
A residency with Christopher Houghton Budd, PhD.
15th – 20th November 2024

When is it?
15-16 November: 2024 Financial Literacy Conference: Life without a Central Bank $350* ($300* conc)
One day intensives:

18 November: Business (NFP & for profits) day focus $175* ($150* conc)
19 November: Financing education & public policy $175* ($150* conc)
20 November: Day for young people $175 ($150* conc or $50* for young people)

Cost for full residency
$550* ($500* concession) to attend the full residency
*booking fee not included.
Who is this for?
15-16 November: Those who would like to learn how bookkeeping and accounting are the foundation needed to heal the divide between the real and financial markets, in addition to enabling people (young and old) to achieve their goals in life.
18 November: Those who work in organisations whether small or large businesses, whether for profit or not-for-profit.
19 November: Teachers, those wanting to start or restructure (whether tweaking or a total reformation) schools, parents of schoolchildren, and those interested in public policy for how education is financed.
20 November: Young people, especially those who feel disempowered, disconnected or demoralised.
Bookings
Book here
For more information
Find out more about Christopher Houghton Budd, download the program flyer, or contact Matthew Bond for further enquiries.

Understanding Money Today
2024-11-23 10:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Bellingen Youth Hub, 2 William St, Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia
with
Dr Christopher Houghton Budd

In conversation with economic and monetary historian, Dr Christopher Houghton Budd, entrepreneur, author and academic with a PhD in Banking and Finance, London City University, UK.
As well as numerous publications, such as Finance at the Threshold and Beyond Gold. Christopher is particularly involved in exploring the socio-economic challenges of our times. This conversation will be based upon sustainable financial options in our times and towards the future.

When
10.00 am – 3.00 pm AEDT
Saturday 23 November 2024
Where
Youth Hub
2 William St
Bellingen, NSW
Cost
$60 (early bird $50), under 18 free
Bookings
Please contact Irmhild Kleinhenz 0444 551 381 to book.
Bookings are essential (numbers limited)
Hosted by the Novalis Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, Inc.

Feature image: courtesy of Christopher Houghton Budd

The Advent of Mary: A Christmas Contemplation
2024-12-01 16:30 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Studio

presents
An artistic contemplation on the Marys of St Matthew and St Luke
Join us for this webinar on the 1st Sunday in Advent for an exploration of the lives and spiritual origins of the two Marys
This Stream of Life Studio workshop looks particularly at the Sophianic impulse the two Marys carry in very different ways, and its significance for our human development today. Using a phenomenological approach, we will immerse ourselves in contemplation of four original artworks (paintings and poetry), followed by discussion.
Suggested readings
The Fifth Gospel by Rudolf Steiner
The Two Marys, by Fiona Campbell
When
4.30pm – 6.00 pm AEDT, 1 December 2024.
Cost
Entry by donation: $AUD 20 or whatever you would like to give to support our research.
Bookings
Book here
The Zoom link will be sent out two days before the event, and then again one hour before we start.
For more information, please contact Fiona Campbell or Jude Neeme-Samson.
Download the flyer to share or keep

Feature image: New Life © Fiona Campbell

Advent Festival Urunga
2024-12-08 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Urunga Neighbourhood House, 34 Bonville St,, Urunga, NSW, 2455, Australia
All Welcome!
To celebrate Advent as preparation for Christmas with a talk and presentations offered by Kathy Taylor and Irmhild Kleinhenz.
Bring a plate to share and join us for afternoon tea.
Donations accepted
When
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm, Sunday 8 December 2024
Where
Urunga Neighbourhood House
Contact
Please contact Kathy Taylor Gossett

Hosted by the Novalis Branch of the Anthroposophical Society, Inc.

Feature image: by Maria Ede-Weaving courtesy of Druidry.

Three Kings and a Rose Cross
2024-12-14 15:30 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
An artistic workshop for Christmas

Join me for a creative afternoon workshop of art and conversation, exploring Rudolf Steiner’s enigmatic Three Kings motif, created by Steiner in pastels for Christmas 1923.
The Three Kings festival will be significant for our future, Steiner states:In the Rose-Cross we have the fourfold human being: in the Cross the physical human, the etheric human and the astral human, and in the roses, the Self. How do we connect the roses of the Christmas tree with the cross of Easter? And how do the Three Magi from the East play into this? What is Mary’s special role here?
Art-making is a way of knowing, of understanding through doing and creating. Working together, we seek to find answers to these questions, while preparing ourselves for the coming Christmas festival.
Join us in person in Mount Barker SA on 8 December or online on 14 December
About the workshop
Artist Fiona Campbell will lead participants through the process of building up the motif in colour, recommending colours and gestures, and providing expert guidance in how to create a beautiful, ,meaningful artwork to take home.
You do not need drawing/painting skills to enjoy this hands-on workshop.
When is it on?
Online: 3.00 pm- 5.00 pm Adelaide (ACDT), Saturday 14th December, 2024.
Mount Barker: 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Adelaide (ACDT), Sunday 8th December, 2024.
Cost
Online workshop
$40 includes video recording
Mount Barker workshop
$60 with art materials provided, afternoon tea included.
$30 if you bring your own materials
Space limited, so book soon.
Bookings
Book here
You will be sent the workshop details after booking, with a list of suggested materials after payment.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Three Kings © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

Supporting Patients with COVID
2024-12-15 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
For Anthroposophic Practitioners and Students

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2024-12-25 19:00 - 2025-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Women and Men in the Life of Christ:
A New Archetype of the Zodiac and Planets
With Jude Neeme-Samson
Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening

In each session, there will be three fifteen-minute considerations of the two themes, which will complement each other and set a mood of soul for participants to work with over the ensuing night and day.
Each day will have the nurturing aspect of a retreat for our soul and our spiritual work in the coming year.
Jude will begin the first fifteen minutes session with the esoteric development of the zodiac and planets in the cycle of the year.
Then we will explore what the twelve disciples in the Gospel narratives represent as archetypes of the zodiac stars in their task in guiding the Christ in experiencing Human life.
In the third quarter of the hour we will explore the women disciples in the Gospel narrative and their role as representatives of the 7/12 planets in guiding Christ into the experience the life forces of humanity.
The final fifteen minutes will be quietly contemplating artistic works of the day’s content that will help grow the work over the Christmas season in preparation for the coming year.
Once you are registered the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/24) before we start. The session will start 7:05 pm and it is recommended that you join the link a few minutes early. The link will be open from 6.55pm. The link is the same one for each session.
If there is enough interest there will also be an event on Epiphany, January 6th to bring the process to completion.
Download as flyer
When
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm AEDT
25 December 2024 – 5 January 2025
Cost
Recommended donation $70
To book
Book here
The contemplations will be recorded for people who have registered but can’t participate in person. They can be accessed and watched later. The link to the viewing folder will be sent out with the zoom link.

Feature image: Fifth apocalyptic seal: The unveiled Isis courtesy of Anthrowiki

Living Into The Becoming World
2025-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
A Lecture on Rudolf Steiner’s Artistic Impulse For The Future
with Fiona Campbell
Thursday, 13th February 2025 7.00 PM – 8:15 PM ACDT

How art can be a schooling path for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
A pictorial presentation on how Rudolf Steiner’s extensive portfolio of training sketches, motifs, watercolours and blackboard drawings are a gift to all artists seeking an ever-renewing source of creativity. How working with Steiner’s images can help us shift from our habitual ways of seeing the world as form and ‘breathe’ into the becoming and dying away world of Human in Cosmos.
This webinar is the third in the series on Art as a Spiritual Practice.
Watch the first lecture in this series!
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support this initiative.
A video recording wiill be available for three months after the event.
How to join the webinar
Book here
Participants will be sent the Zoom link by email two (2) days beforehand, and then again one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via your Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
For more information
Contact the organiser.

Feature image: The Birds Fly Through Us, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Spirit in Human, Human in Spirit: Investigations with Painting
2025-02-14 14:00 - 2025-05-09 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
Painted Space Studio presents
A course in the spiritual/physical nature of the human being

“In the head the power of faith;
in the heart the might of love ;
in the full human being, all-sustaining hope.”
Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner’s picture imaginations arose from direct experiences of the spirit. He captured many of these pictures in his pastels sketches and paintings, called the Training Sketches for the Artist. He suggested that working artistically with these sketches would act as an impulse in us to find new directions for the future of art as a path for spiritual-scientific inquiry.
This online masterclass in painting over seven fortnightly sessions examines the human being in connection to the spirit from three different perspectives: the spiritual impulse in the human being, the human impulse in the spiritual world, and the threefold human being as spirit, soul and body.
We use three of Steiner’s training sketches as our starting point for this exploration.
What are Steiner’s Training Sketches?
The Training Sketches can be seen as ‘picture seeds’ and were given to the artists in answer to a request from the painter Henni Geck for a new impulse in art. Henni Geck (1884-1951) was the first painter to use these indications.
Who is the course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand the hidden forces of Cosmos and Nature.

Painting skills and understanding of core anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Selected readings by Rudolf Steiner complement the practical work.
When is it?
14 February-9 May 2025, Fridays 2pm-4pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD for ongoing participants
$290 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here!
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.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: The Threefold Human Being © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

The inner nature of colour: as pictorial, as luminous
2025-02-14 14:00 - 2025-05-10 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Painted Space Studio workshop

When we experience the life of colour,
we step out of our own skins and take part in cosmic life.
Rudolf Steiner

Colour as a way to the spirit
This online painting course offers the opportunity for a deeper experience and understanding of the inner nature of colour. Building on Goethe’s Theory of Colour, yet quite different from it, Rudolf Steiner shows us the world of colour as one might experience it in the soul world.
About Steiner’s colour circle
We work in conjunction with Rudolf Steiner’s colour circle and Colour lectures (CW 291, CW 275). In these lectures, Steiner describes the colours as having either a pictorial (image) and or a luminous (lustre) nature. We explore what this means for our understanding and experience of colour that has implications for how we perceive what we call ‘reality’.
In this approach, Steiner lays a foundation for a practical technique of working with colour that leads us to a new form of artistic creativity, a new way of understanding of colour, which is the central of the anthroposophic approach to painting.
Who is it for?

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone pursuing a deeper understanding of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.
For participants in the 2nd year of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.

Desirable background:: experience of working with Goethe’s Theory of Colour.
Recommended: basic watercolour wet-on-dry or veiling skills (you can use wet-on-wet or pastel if preferred, but wet-on-dry watercolour painting is recommended).
Background readings: Steiner’s Colour lectures Part I: ‘The Nature of Colour’
When is it?
15 February-10 May 2025, Saturdays 3pm-5pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$300 AUD/$195 USD
$310 for PD certificate
Video recording and handouts included in the fee.

Book here!

The payment options, Zoom link, and list of materials will be sent after booking.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell
This course also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It follows on from Working with Colour Moods. Together, they are integral to the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach to colour and painting.

Feature image: Steiner’s Colour circle

Life Drawings Exhibition 22 February - 8 March
2025-02-22 - 2025-03-08 | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000

Working with colour, out of colour: a one-day painting intensive
2025-02-22 | Online
A Painted Space Studio workshop

“A whole world opened and showed me colour as a living being.”
Goethe

This intensive workshop is a must for anyone who wishes to understand the role of colour in Steiner’ education and in Anthroposophy in general.
It introduces us to colour as an experience using the immersive wet-on-wet painting technique. It provides you with basic watercolour painting skills and a grounding in Goethe’s Theory of Colour (which underlies the Steiner/Waldorf school curriculum for the visual arts).
Central to this approach is that form arises out of colour, not that colour is attached to form. In this way, we learn to understand colours as having individual gestures, moods that are not bounded by physical form yet nevertheless, follow physical laws.
Painting ‘out of colour’
But how do we paint ‘out of colour’ and not form? And how does this relate to the colours in nature, in the sky, the colours of the rainbow? To answer these questions, we start with Goethe’s colour circle as our guide. By immersing ourselves into the colour circle as it moves from light to dark, heaven to earth and back, we learn how colours work with each other, -and how we respond to them!

Why Goethe’s colour circle ?
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 each colour, one by one, we come to a deep, intuitive relationship with them. This, in turn, connects us more strongly to colour in the world around us.
Who is it for?

For Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to learn about colour to support their teaching practice (PD certificates available).

For anyone interested in learning to paint in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach.

This short intensive also provides an introduction to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. Working with Colour Moods follows on from this course, a further exploration of Goethe’s Theory of Colour but introducing the wet-on-dry watercolour painting technique.
When is it?
All-day workshop, 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm AEDT, Saturday 22 February 2025
Cost
$120 AUD/$80 USD
$130 for PD certificate
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Bookings
Book here!
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

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

Autumnal Conversations With Your Garden: Goethean Observation and Drawing
2025-02-26 17:00 - 2025-05-07 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio presents

Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1914

Immersing ourselves in Nature as She turns inward …
Autumn is the wonderful time of year to turn our eyes to the changes Nature brings to the garden: the reds and golds of European trees, the bounty of fruits and late vegetables, all mixed in with the evergreens and native plants following their own local seasonal changes.
Whether you have your own garden or like to walk in a local park, a nature reserve or even just tend a few pot plants on your balcony, being with plants in their endless cycles of becoming and dying away is both energising and de-stressing for us. A health-giving counterblance to computer work!
Using Goethean phenomenology to guide us, these six online workshops will help you to become more ‘at home’ with nature.
The workshops use mixed media and different drawing 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.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops fresh, new eyes for seeing and engaging with the world around us. It brings us into a more participatory connection with both nature and ourselves.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.
For nature lovers who would like to learn a non-confrontational way of drawing plants.
For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature

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?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEDT, Wednesdays 26 February – 7 May, 2025
Cost
$220 AUD/ $145 USD
$230 PD certificate
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Bookings

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.
Contact

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

Me and My Shadows
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-15 | Kameroi Rudolf Steiner School, 220 Forest Way,, Belrose, NSW, 2085, Australia
Spiritual Science revealed in Goethe’s masterpiece Faust
Read our leaflet

You are warmly invited to attend our performance. We are endeavouring to bring some of what Steiner brought of the mysteries revealed in Goethe’s “Faust” in the weeks leading to the centenary of Steiner’s crossing of the threshold.
Download the poster
What is it about?

Me and My Shadows is a multimedia performance that brings the power of Goethe’s and Steiner’s words with original score played by live musicians, Eurythmy movement and coloured light and coloured shadow and puppetry art in community. Performances will take place in March 2025 at Rudolf Steiner School theatre.
This production of Faust will bring a modernised translation using Goethe words. In addition, a new character -‘The Teacher’ will present Steiner’s explanations of the strange experiences Goethe wrote as his characters cross the threshold into different spiritual realms. Steiner was deeply impressed with the accuracy of Goethe’s descriptions, even naming the temples he designed, after Goethe, Steiner had the intention of creating a space that would honour and support productions of Faust (and his own ‘Mystery Plays‘) and might even be able to communicate with the plays,
Faust reimagined
This re-imagining of the 17th -18th Century play Faust explores relevant and crucial contemporary themes such as an epidemic, mental health, struggles with addiction, trauma, cancelling, experiences with spiritual beings and living life as a flawed human being who causes much destruction and pain.
Me and my Shadows will be presented by many creatives as a collaboration of writer and composer, actors, musicians, choir, eurythmy, light and coloured shadow artists and crew to bring to the beautiful little theatre at Kamaroi School ,Belrose Sydney in March 2025.
Gratitude for the St John Sydney Group, The Christian Community Sydney, Kamaori Rudolf Steiner School, The Anthroposophical Society in Australia, Inala, members from Lorien Novalis Steiner School, Gleneaon Steiner School, the School of Spiritual Science and the many individuals who have already dedicated hundreds of hours for their practical and financial support.
Performance dates
2025
Friday 7 March at 7.30pm Opening night
Saturday 8 March at 2.00pm.
Senior accessible session

Friday 14 March at 7.30pm
Saturday 15 March at 2.00pm
Where
Kamaroi Rudolf Steiner School
220 Forest Way, Belrose NSW 2085
For more information
Please contact us
Bookings
Book here!

Working with Colour Moods
2025-03-08 15:00 - 2025-05-03 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
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.
Beppe Assenza

This course introduces the iconic wet-on-dry (layering/veiling) technique, 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 is Rudolf Steiner’s preferred technique for any painting that seeks to build a bridge to the spirit. It is not an easy skill to develop but very satisfying to master. In this course, we use the Assenza approach to introduce the technique and use it to explore colour’s moods and dynamics in free composition.
Find out why we prefer watercolour over acrylics and oils in this short article.
What is the Assenza approach ?
Beppe Assenza (1905-1985) was inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s colour theory to work phenomenologically with colours i.e. out of our lived experience of painting them, rather than out of any prescribed theory. The Assenza method is both free and playful and yet methodological in its exploration of the language of colour. it is also a good foundation to classic veil painting.
The Assenza approach focuses on developing creativity as well as painting skills.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in learning the wet-on-dry watercolour technique.
For artists, art therapists and Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to deepen their understanding of colour (PD certificates available).

When is it?
3.00 pm-5.00 pm AEDT, Saturdays, 8 March-3 May 2025
Four fortnightly sessions plus video recording
Cost
$220 AUD/$145 USD
$230 for PD certificate
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.

BOOK HERE

The payment options, Zoom link, and a list of materials will be sent to you after booking.

For more information

This course also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Sou.. It follows on from the introductory workshop, Working with Colour, Out of Colour. Together, they provide a sound foundation in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach to colour and painting.

Contact

Feature image: Green Mood, © Fiona Campbell

The Parsifal Project: Introductory Workshop to the Performance
2025-03-09 13:30 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Anthroposophic Bookshop, 96 Halifax Street,, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia
An Introductory Workshop to this Unique Story and its Re-imagining with Fiona Campbell & Jo-anne Sarre

Bookings

Spiritual Food for BD Farmers and Home Gardeners
2025-03-13 19:00 - 2025-04-10 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Spirit in Matter

presents

5 Consecutive Lectures
Spiritual Food for
BD Farmers and Home Gardeners
All Welcome
with

Johannes Schuster

When
Starting 13th March, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm AEDT
Cost
Join the Full Lecture Series: Early Bird Price: AUD$72 (Until February 20)
Regular price: AUD $97 | Couples: AUD $144 | Concession: AUD$72
Register for Free Lecture

Register for remaining Lectures

Find out more
Watch an introduction to the the theme

Visit the website or contact for more information.

Inscribing Signs with a Finger Dipped in Light...
2025-03-14 - 2025-11-01 | NSW
Professional Education
Towards A Cultural-Spiritual Approach to Dying and Death
Our aim is to develop a sincere, earnest relationship with Death, an understanding of the individual path of dying, and the deep reverence and honouring of the actual, autonomous moment of death. Through Anthroposophy we can discover death is the most sacred moment in our life. Through this course, we develop with you Spiritual-Cultural approaches and creative processes that encourage you to contemplate dying and death in your own life, that enable you, as a Companion, to use this transformative knowledge and spiritual awareness autonomously and with integrity to support those journeying towards the threshold. We offer: a deep study of anthroposophy, visual art and sculpture, music, eurythmy and creative speech, poetry, creative writing, oral storytelling and folktale research. We all work out of our professional and personal insights and spiritual understanding and invite you to bring your own individual spirituality to the course content.
There is a further increasingly urgent concern we address: the way our fear of death and dying has separated us from life imbued with Spirit and pushed us deeper into materialism and consequently, onto a path of destruction we now know by the term of ‘omnicide’. Our course is shaped by our resolve to find new approaches to dying and death not only for our own sake, but for the sake of Earth’s healing and health, the sacred interconnectedness of life, and the evolution of humanity towards freedom and love.

Who is the course for?
This Schooling Course is a spiritual pathway to understand dying, death and rebirth. It is not a hands-on home care course as we feel these are offered by others with competence and commitment. What we offer is a process of inner development for those of you dedicated to accompanying the dying with your authentic spiritual insights through cultural and creative means. We recommend our Course if you wish to care for family and friends, your community, or consciously prepare yourself for death, are grieving a loved one, or seeking greater understanding of the journey beyond the threshold. Our Course equally provides personal and professional development if you seek greater emotional intelligence, self- awareness and lifelong learning in relation to your profession, for example: counsellors, health practitioners and therapists, carers, social- and support workers, educators, and those who wish to care for the newly deceased, such as funeral personnel and celebrants.
Course intention

To facilitate a process through which participants develop their own healthy and integrated relationship to dying and death
To educate and mentor participants who intend to become trusted Companions of the dying, and accompaniment of those who have crossed the threshold
To enable participants to offer, where appropriate, artistic and contemplative activity for, or with, the dying and their loved-ones as ways to experience threshold crossings

Find out more
Introductory video to the course
Prospectus
Please explore the prospectus and contact us with any questions. A detailed programme will be available ion application.
Please direct enrolment inquiries to Iris Curteis
Contact
Iris Curteis 0487 719 476

Feature Image: courtesy of Iris Curteis

Into the Next Hundred Years
2025-03-27 15:30 - 17:30 (Australia/Brisbane) | 8 Narrawa Rd, Wights Mountain, Brisbane, QLD, 8 Narrawa Rd, Wight's Mountain, QLD, 4520, Australia
Invitation
Into the Next Hundred Years

You are warmly invited to celebrate Rudolf Steiner’s life and work through eurythmy, biodynamic preparation stirring, short contributions, stories, conversations, a bonfire and … please bring a plate to share some food.

Hosted by the No 8 Community and students of Pacifica College of Eurythmy.
Thursday 27th March
3.30 pm AEST prompt start
8 Narrawa Rd,
Wights Mountain QLD 4520,
Please park at Samford Valley Steiner School.

Creative Life of Language Workshop
2025-03-28 18:00 - 2025-03-30 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama
Presents

Bookings
Book here!
For more information

Mercedes Logan

Great Expectations: International 2025 Kolisko conference
2025-04-11 - 2025-04-14 | Taikura School, 505 Nelson Street North, Hastings, New Zealand
Meeting the Challenge of Expectations
for Self, Each Other and of Life
11-14 April 2025, Hastings New Zealand

Welcome to Kolisko 2025
This year our conference focuses on the theme of expectations and meeting the expectations we hold, often unconsciously, for ourselves, for each other, and for life. Our theme for the conference evolved through conversations with parents, teachers and health professionals around the knotty issues they are facing in their daily work environment

Our aim with the conference is to develop new and more comprehensive ways to look at our developing Self, to better understand the also changing and developing Other, and to work with the great expectations we carry.
Kolisko conferences began to honour and continue the work of Dr Eugen Kolisko. Dr Kolisko was the first Waldorf school doctor. He worked together with Rudolf Steiner and the first Waldorf school’s teachers to create a school curriculum based in knowledge of the developmental stages of the incarnating child and through this support their individual maturation and longer term health. Dr Kolisko was also instrumental in establishing therapy modalities in art, including a therapeutic eurythmy curriculum for school children and young people.
Download the program and timetable
Where

Taikura Rudolf Steiner School, Hastings, New Zealand

Fee

Early Bird of NZ $420.00 GST incl. Your registration must be received and paid for by February 9 2025.
Registrations received from February 10 are at the regular fee of NZ $460.00 GST incl.
Registrations close on Monday March 24, 2025.
Register here!
For more information
Email: kolisko2025@gmail.com
Facebook: Kolisko 2025

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

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

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The Cleansing of the Temple: Holy Week
2025-04-14 - 2025-04-20 | Canberra Christian Community, 7 Holtze Close, Hackett, ACT, 2602, Australia
The Christian Community in Canberra
presents
A Journey Through Holy Week

Images: Nina Sombart

The Parsifal Project: Waltjapiti, The Spark Within
2025-04-26 17:30 - 2025-05-04 14:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Living Arts Centre, Mt Barker School, 27 Sims Road, Mount Barker, SA, 5251
Based on the medieval legend of Parsifal, reimagined in a modern Australian context, exploring themes of spiritual enlightenment, personal transformation, earth regeneration, and women.
Bookings
Contact: Jo-anne via quill@inkpot.com.au

Threefolding on the Threshold
2025-04-29 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Perth) | Wadkins House, 59 Railway Parade, Mt Lawley, WA

Memes That Matter: Conversations That Count
2025-05-06 07:00 - 2025-11-25 08:00 (Australia/Perth) | Online
Memes That Matter: Conversations That Count
is a social experiment based on two premises: that we know more than we think, and that visual metaphors can tap into this knowledge. To this end, I have created a series of memes that comment on current affairs with an eye to their metaphysical meaning. Memes that Matter is an attempt to explore these meanings in fortnightly meet-ups. Each session will explore a socially relevant topic through the lens of a particular meme and will consist of:

Introduction to the meme and its topic
Conversations in small breakout
Sharing in community

Memes that Matter is a social artwork and operates on a gift basis. It is inspired by Joseph Beuys’ idea of society as an artwork and its conceptual underpinnings: the transpolar politics known as social three-folding, conceived by Rudolf Steiner.
Our first topic will deal with: The irony of it all.
When

Meet-ups start on the 06 May 2025 and continue fortnightly ( 20 May, 3 June,17 June etc).

Timezones

Timezone A / Australia (AWST): 7–8 AM
Timezone B / Australia (AWST): 6–7 PM

The meet-ups start on Tuesday 06 May 2025. You can join at any time.
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Humor and Rudolf Steiner: A Presentation by Van James
2025-05-11 13:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
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Inaugural Conference of the Agriculture Section Branch in Australia
2025-06-06 - 2025-06-09 | Tombarra by the River, 579 Northangera Rd, Budawang, NSW, 2622, Australia
‘Researching the Essence of Biodynamics
– Its Role in the Future of Agriculture’
6th-9th June, 2025

The inaugural conference of the Agriculture Section Branch will be held on June 6-9, 2025 with the theme of ‘Researching the Essence of Biodynamics – Its Role in the Future of Agriculture‘. We are pleased to announce Terry Forman, Brian Keats and Ueli Hurter as keynote presenters.
The conference involves a blend of talks, group discussions, workshops, eurythmy and speech, meditations, biodynamic farm tours and future planning.
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Costs
$300 – will include all meals, with as much organic or biodynamic ingredients as possible.
For accommodation assistance, contact Nicchia 0448533616
Conference venue

Tombarra Centre, 579 Northangera Rd, Mongarlowe NSW 2622
Bookings
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For more information, email us or contact Mark Patton 0488 318 467.

Feature image: courtesy Simon Martin
Photo image: courtesy of Simon Martin

Working with the Four Elements in Nature: Veil Painting Course
2025-06-07 15:00 - 2025-08-02 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The basis of artistic creation is not what is,
but what might be; not the real, but the possible.

Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

This online course uses the gestures of the material states of solid, fluid, gas, and heat (earth, water, air and warmth) to explore the hidden forces of Nature, and how they reveal themselves through the gestures and patterns through Nature’s imprint on the physical world around and in us.
What will I learn?
The course is an opportunity to develop your veil painting skills through developing brush mastery and enlivened perception of the world in and around us. After working with each different element, participants will create an artwork with a nature theme, bringing all four gestures together in one artwork.
Each element has a different gesture that characterises the phenomenal world of the etheric or life world. These gestures provide variations in veiling approaches that go beyond being mere ‘outer’ techniques and point to how the task of the artist is not to paint the visible, but reveal the invisible.
We use watercolour wet-on-dry painting, the preferred technique of any anthroposophic painting training. It is not an easy skill to develop but very satisfying to master.
You can read more about the anthroposophic approach and why we prefer watercolour over acrylics and oils in this short article.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in learning the wet-on-dry watercolour technique.
For artists, art therapists and Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to deepen their understanding of colour (PD certificates available if requirements are met).

When is it?
3.00pm-5.00pm AEST fortnightly on Saturdays
7 June- 2 August 2025
Cost
$240 AUD/$160 USD
$250 for PD certificate
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.

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The payment options, Zoom link, and a list of materials will be sent to you after booking.
For more information
This course also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It provides the beginnings of a sound foundation in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach to colour and painting.

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Photo credit: Sunlit Tree By A Waterfall, I © Fiona Campbell
