Anthroposophical Society in Australia

An Artistic Evening As Antidote
2025-10-26 11:00 - 12:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Kameroi Rudolf Steiner School, 220 Forest Way,, Belrose, NSW, 2085, Australia
Exploring aspects, humorous and grave, of the Threshold.
An Artistic Evening as a medicinal antidote.
Please note: date/time changed to Sunday 26th October at 11am.

With support from the Anthroposophical Society in Australia.

Feature image: Rainbow in the sky, a sign of Covenant between God and Earth, by Marc Chagall

The Life Of Gesture Part 2
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2025-11-09 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama
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When Life Gives You Lemons
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-16 | Noosa Pengari School, 86 Nyell Road, Doonan, Qld, 4562
A medical initiative to develop a therapeutic care response to crisis

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A Conversation Circle with Jane Bradshaw and Michelle Vette
2025-11-16 12:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | 8 Narrawa Rd, Wights Mountain, Brisbane, QLD, 8 Narrawa Rd, Wight's Mountain, QLD, 4520, Australia
Salutations to one and all!

Members and friends of the Anthroposophical Society are invited to lunch and a conversation circle with Jane Bradshaw (General Secretary of the ASinA) and Michelle Vette (General Secretary ASinNZ) on 16th November 2025 at Wight’s Mountain, Samford Valley, QLD.

Conversation Circle

Theme: Beyond 100 years … what is now being asked of us? Are we awake to the call of the time?
Everyone with an interest in Anthroposophy is welcome to come along.

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When
12.00 pm AEST on Sunday 16th November 2025
Program
Lunch will be at noon, then at 1pm the Conversation Circle.
Please bring food to share; and let Susan Margaret know if you plan to come. And feel free to share this invitation.
Where
Pacifica Eurythmy Studio,
No. 8 Narrawa Road,
Wights Mountain,
Samford Valley, QLD
More information
Jane and Michelle will be in Noosa Heads from 10-15th November, Brisbane on 16th November, and travelling south on 17th November. If you would like to make personal contact with Jane please email her.
If you have any questions about the conversation circle, please email Susan Margaret for clarification.

Star of Wonder Hackett Christmas Market
2025-11-22 | Canberra Christian Community, 7 Holtze Close, Hackett, ACT, 2602, Australia
You are invited to a Christmas Market!

Please join us to experience the wonder of slow Christmas.

Handmade Christmas gifts on sale, including candles, felt toys and decorations, cards, baked goods, plants, pre-loved books and clothing.

Take some time out to enjoy handmade gifts, food, and experiences to nourish the soul.
Program
10am Accordion display, demonstration, and have-a-go;
11am Puppet Play for little children and their parents;
Children’s workshops throughout the day;
1:30pm Shadow puppet play for all ages.
There will also be the opportunity to have your portrait done by a skilled artist, simple wheel potttery, as well as feasting on hot food, drinks, and cakes.
When
22n November, 2025 from 9am to 2pm AEDT
Let us know you are coming!
Tickets for workshops and puppet plays will be available on the day.
Where
Canberra Christian Community
7 Holtze Close
Hackett, Canberra ACT

Flowform Workshop
2025-11-29 - 2025-12-07

The Twelve Holy Nights Workshop
2025-11-29 09:00 - 15:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
How can we prepare to meet the Masters, teachers of mankind, and receive their blessings?

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Beach Vigil for Marine Life
2025-12-04 20:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Star Of Greece Restaurant, 1 Esplanade,, Port Willunga, SA, 5173, Australia
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Angels Watch Over Us: A Contemplation For Advent
2025-12-14 17:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio

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An Advent contemplation to lead us into Christmas
on how the angelic orders have guided and protected us through the ages

How can we strengthen our connection with the spiritual beings around us?
Where do we most often encounter them in our earthly lives?
At a time when world and personal events can seem to overwhelm, we can remind outselves that we are in the special care of higher beings who accompany us throughout our earthly lives and beyond.
Through contemplating artwork and verse, we reflect upon how we humans have encountered and imagined the angelic orders above us through the ages, and why such imaginations are so important to our souls’ peace and strengthening.

Suggested reading
Our Spiritual Companions by Adam Bittleston
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support this initiative.
When
5.00pm – 6.15 pm AEDT
14th December 2025
Bookings
Contact
Fiona Campbell

“See, I am sending an angel before you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.”
Exodus 23:20

Feature image: Angel s Watch Over Us ⓒ Fiona Campbell

Summer Solstice Festival
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | rudolf steiner book centre, 307 Sussex ST, Sydney, NSW, 2070

The Twelve Days of Christmas: An online Holy Nights course
2025-12-25 19:00 - 2026-01-06 20:00 (Australia/Sydney)
CANCELLED
The Temple of Humanity on the Far Shore of Time
The work of the hierarchies in us through birth, death, destiny, sleep, and meditation.
A contemplation with Jude Neeme-Samson

When
25th December 2025 – 05th January 2026 (possible Epiphany event on January 6th).
This is a one hour contemplation each day from 7.00 pm – 8.00 pm AEDT
Program
In each session, there will be three fifteen-minute considerations of the 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 understanding of the Temple of our Humanity on the Far Shore of Time as described by Rudolf Steiner and how it affects the development of our earthly bodies throughout our life.
In the second part we will explore the nature of sleep and meditation as they affect our journey to the temple in the life after death.
Then we will explore further developments of the Meditation ‘Wisdom Lives in the Light’ in relation to the threefold expression of our karma and spiritual development of our humanity
The final fifteen minutes we will work of the twelve day’s in a way that will help grow the work over the Christmas season in preparation for the coming year.
Cost
$70 AUD for the 12 nights.
Bookings
Book here
Once registered, the recurring zoom link will be sent out two days, two hours and ten minutes before the first session. The same link will be used every day.
Please login via your zoom app
You will also receive a link to the archive folder for viewing the recording. Please us this as a study resource and do not share it with others.
For more information
Enquiries: Jude

Feature image: An imaginative painting of Rudolf Steiner’s wooden sculpture The Representative of Man, by Gabriela de Carvalho.

Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul
2026-02-21 - 2027-12-04 | Online
Painted Space Studio
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An online training in art as a spiritual practice
for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
2026 Enquiries open now!

What is it about?
This two-year online training offers a unique approach to learning painting and drawing, where artistic practice becomes a schooling process for the soul.
This is a path of inner work through creative practice.

A study of spiritual science through artistic practice, where the study is the artistic exercise and the texts are supplementary to these exercises.
A vision of into the tasks and role of the artist of the future – beyond self-consciousness to world consciousness.

Rudolf Steiner was adamant that Anthroposophy should not just be taken in as concepts or theories, which has a hardening effect on the soul, but be experienced by whole human being. Rudolf Steiner states that without the artistic element, Anthroposophy cannot go into the future, for it will go ‘short of breath’ and become nothing but a dead corpse of the living force it should be.

MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE SCHOOLING
Delivery mode
A combination of pre-recorded technical videos, mini-lectures, fortnightly Zoom meetings, individual mentoring, self-directed home study and workshop intensives.
Participants can also proceed at their own pace with the videos, but still benefit from professional guidance and sharing with an international artistic community of like-minded souls.
The course package is a combination of:

six courses (three a year over two years)
six lecture webinars (over two years)
five workshop intensives (two+ a year)
an individual project (can be done in conjunction with a course or workshop)
regular study group
two individual consultations
self-directed artistic work

Who is the schooling course for?

Students of Anthroposophy interested in an creative and experiential path to inner work, meditation and understanding Spiritual Science.
Artists trained at conventional art schools who wish to learn about the anthroposophic approach to art.
Waldorf (Steiner) teachers and therapists who wish to extend their professional practice by deepening their understanding of the anthroposophic impulse in art.

READ WHAT PAST PARTICIPANTS IN FIONA’S COURSE HAVE TO SAY
Duration?
February-December 2026, over three terms.
Enrolments are accepted by term, according to previous experience.
Duration of the course: Total of 110 hrs contact hours + 400-600 hrs approx self-managed creative work at home over two years. (This is approx. 2.5 to 3 hours a week, five days a week)
A Diploma is awarded at the completion of the course, providing all requirements are fulfilled.
Professional Development certificates are also available on completion and for individua modules, 75% active attendance required.
Enrolments
ENROL HERE
For more information
Read more about the individual course options or contact Fiona Campbell
About Painted Space Studio
Painted Space Studio is led by Dr Fiona Campbell, who brings her extensive research and training in the artistic, therapeutic, and pedagogical aspects of the anthroposophic approach to art to all courses. She believes in artistic practice being an holistic practice that engages the human being in our totality as physical, psychical and spiritual.
Fiona trained in visual arts and artistic therapy at Tobias School of Art. She has three research-based degrees, including a PhD in creative thinking and a Diploma in Waldorf Education from Emerson College, England. She has been a professional artist since 1992, a member of the Anthroposophical Society since 1978 and the School of Spiritual Science since 1992.

THIS SCHOOLING COURSE IS AN INITIATIVE OF THE VISUAL ARTS SECTION

In an inartistic atmosphere, (Anthroposophy) 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

Rudolf Steiner
Lecture III’, The Arts and their Mission,
2 June 1923, Dornach, CW276

Feature image: Black Study I, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Inscribing Signs with a Finger Dipped in Light 2026
2026-03-01 - 2026-11-30
Towards A Cultural-Spiritual Approach to Dying and Death
Once, we understood dying and death through imaginations, inspirations and intuitions. For many, this consciousness, understanding and reverence of dying and death, and life beyond the threshold, have been lost, silenced and ‘dropped’ from our individual and communal cultural-spiritual life.
By offering a deep study of Anthroposophy/Spiritual Science, our course provides a pathway towards understanding the significance of dying and death in the context of your own life.
If it is your intention is to become a Companion to the Dying, this step is a prerequisite, as it will give you the integrity, competence, transformative knowledge and awareness to support those journeying towards the threshold.
Our aim is to enable you to develop a sincere relationship with Death, an understanding of the individual path of dying and reincarnation, and reverence of the autonomous moment of death.
Our use of the arts and creative activities – visual art, sculpture, music [Music Thanatology], creative speech, poetry, creative writing, oral storytelling and folktale research, and eurythmy – will cultivate and integrate your perception of death as the most sacred, the most individual moment in life.
This insight allows us to develop with you spiritual-cultural approaches and creative processes you can apply with autonomy and integrity both as Companion to the Dying and your own life.
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When

Course duration: March – November 2026
Flyer
Please download the flyer and contact us with any questions.
Contact
Inscribing Signs, running successfully since 2024, welcomes your inquiries and expressions of interest for 2026.
Course Convenors
Irmhild Kleinhenz 0444 551 381
Iris Curteis 0487 719 476

In Cooperation With: The Section For Literary Arts & Humanities, The Section For Performing Arts, and The Collegium Of The School Of Spiritual Science,
Goetheanum, Dornach

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Emergence: Bringing Creative-Spiritual Impulses into Healing
2026-07-01 - 2026-07-05 | Gymea Eco Retreat & Spa, 128 Boonydoon Rd, Uki, NSW, 2428
Naturopathic Retreat & Conference

1st–5th July 2026

Immerse yourself in a five-day retreat designed for natural therapists seeking to deepen their practice.
This Retreat offers a space to reflect, connect with like-minded colleagues and discover renewed inspiration for supporting a more conscious approach to illness and healing.

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Why you should attend
Many practitioners are finding the increasingly materialistic trend in natural therapies professions both unsatisfying and lacking in deeper inner work.
This five-day retreat and conference is designed for practitioners seeking to deepen their natural therapies practice and vocation. It will offer a space to reflect, connect with like-minded colleagues and discover renewed inspiration for supporting a more conscious approach to illness and healing.
Who this retreat is for?
We invite all professional practitioners of Naturopathy, Homoeopathy, Herbal medicine, Nutrition, Traditional and Integrative Medicine as well as practitioners and therapists who have a deep intuition for healing work.
Where is it?
Gymea Eco Retreat & Spa
128 Boonydoon Rd
Uki NSW 2428
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Find out more
For general enquiries, please contact Irmhild Kleinhenz, +61444 551 381 or visit the event website

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