Threefolding - Spiritual Freedom, Social Equality, Associative Economics
2022-09-16 12:30 - 2022-09-18 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Kin Kin School of the Arts, Main Street, Kin Kin, QLD, 4571, Australia
In a world of unprecedented challenges & unpredictable changes, how will we thrive?

A highly interactive, thought-provoking and engaging weekend seminar in September

Threefolding is the concrete transformation of the present unitary state. It shifts challenges into opportunities, shapes practical social outcomes, forms healthy communities and reminds us of our spiritual intentions.
What is it about?
In this seminar, we will explore:

why our current cultural, social rights & economic systems are failing,
how this directly impacts on our Freedom to be truly human
and what we can do together to innovate positive change

Using storytelling, creative engagement, board games and a deep conversation.
How much does it cost?
Full price $700
Earlybird $600 (14 days prior to event)
Family/Group/team $600
Earlybird Group $500
When and where?

12.30pm-5.00pm AEST
16, 17, 18 September 2022
Kin Kin School of the Arts (see map below)
Where do I book?
Book here
Like to know more?
Download the flyer and program or contact Iris Curteis or Hamish Mackay.

Featured image: Coming together, courtesy of Iris Curteis

Parsifal Reimagined: Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project
2022-09-17 15:30 - 2022-11-12 17:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
presents
Parsifal Reimagined
A series of 5 creative writing workshops
reimagining the Parsifal legend for today’s world
Workshop facilitator: Fiona Campbell

“A journey of life and transformation
The light and darkness in our souls
The careless hero, the broken sword
The suffering king, the wasteland, the rite of life
The many maidens on the hero’s path
From dullness through doubt to glory”

How can we portray these many forms of ‘Grail’ experiences for our time? What is the story we are telling ourselves? And where will our narrative take us? Through creative writing, we seek to answer these questions for ourselves while also contributing together to the development of a new and original performance artwork.
Participate in this creation of performance art!
Come join our online fortnightly writing workshops to be part of this process as we work towards developing a script for our stage production in 2023. You don’t have to be a writer to enjoy these workshops, just a love of literature and bringing it to life.
Find out what it is like to be part of interactive community building working towards a multicultural, multimedia stage performance, as we explore the themes and our own meanings of the Parzival and Grail legends through the creative word.
A Poetry and Prose Reading
We anticipate the workshops will culminate in a Poetry and Prose Reading event on 26 November for participants to share their works with family and friends. This will be a hybrid event, online and on-the-ground in Mt Barker, SA, hosted by Ink Pots Arts.
Tell me more …
This series of fortnightly workshops builds on the material introduced in Stage 1: Parsifal Unpacked. Having deconstructed the interwoven storylines of the Parsifal, Grail and Arthurian legends, we now use this material as inspiration for reimagining this medieval epic using our own words and cultural contexts.
Each workshop uses one key theme elicited from Stage 1 as a prompt to explore its mood and meaning, using different techniques to evoke poems, short stories and imaginative word pictures.
These workshops will also provide the foundation for the Stage 3 script development.
Who are they for?
For anyone who wants to explore the Parzival legend through the creative word; who would like to deepen their own relationship to this story; or who enjoys being creative through crafting imaginative word pictures in community with others.
You do not have to be a practised writer to enjoy these workshops. The workshops provides both structured and unstructured exercises to help you learn how to craft with words.
Budding writers and poets of all levels of experience welcome!
Participation in Parsifal Unpacked is not prerequisite, but you do need a working knowledge of the story to get the most out of these workshops. Here are some helpful resources.
Readings and resources
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
Perceval le Gallois by Chrétien de Troyes
Parzival: An Introduction by Eileen Hutchins
The Camelot Project, a digital library guide to people, places and images
Parsifal the opera, an online resources with background notes
Christ and the spiritual world – the search for the Holy Grail, GA 149, a lecture by Rudolf Steiner
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 3.30-5.30 pm ACST
Webinar workshops: 17 September | 1 October | 15 October | 29 October | 12 November
Poetry and Prose Reading: 26 November, time to yet decided
How much does it cost?
$200 full workshop series or $160 for students (proof/documentation required)
Where do I register?
You can register here

Find out more …
Download the flyer and share!
Find out more about The Parsifal Project here
Contact Artistic Director Jo-anne Sarre

This course is Stage 2 of The Parsifal Project, a year-long multimedia community project.

“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth.” Rumi

About the facilitator
Fiona Campbell, workshop facilitator and project creative consultant
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist, writer and arts educator for 30 years.
Fiona trained in visual arts at Tobias School of Art, England and is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio which explores the phenomenological nature and spirituality in human life; she also teaches research training, cultural and consciousness studies in higher education.
Fiona has taught writing for audiences and worked on a number of creative writing research projects at the University of Technology, Sydney as well as writing blogs, articles and a descriptive form of characterisation used in phenomenological studies.
As well as her doctorate (UTS), she holds a BA Honours in English & Linguistics (Macquarie University), a MA in Information Science (UTS) and a diploma in Waldorf Education (Emerson College), a diverse range of studies and trainings that inform her teaching, creative work and research work. She also has specialist knowledge in Communications, Anthroposophic studies, sacred art and cultural studies, notably the Arthurian and Grail legends.
You can find out more about Fiona at Painted Space, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview about her anthroposophic-inspired approach to painting.

Featured image: In the fog, courtesy Creative Commons (CC)
Inserted mage: Parsifal, Odilon Redon, c. 1891, courtesy of Getty Images
Photos: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Floriade in the community
2022-09-18 10:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Weston Creek Orchard, Unwin St, Weston, ACT, Australia
Weston Creek Orchard and Southern ACT Catchment Group
presents
Floriade in the community

Enjoy Spring with Floriade flower displays set within a blossoming orchard. Explore, relax, meet local members and other local groups involved in biodynamics, public community parks and gardens.
There is a BBQ from 11am and seeds to take home to plant in your garden.
Find out more
Please contact Petra Cram

With funding form Floriade Community Gardens

Eco-Tourism and Wellbeing Program
2022-09-21 09:30 - 2022-11-16 15:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Claret Ash Farm, 1680 Strathalbyn Road, Flaxley, SA, 5153, Australia
Ink Pot Arts Eco-Tourism and Wellbeing Program 2022

Ink Pot Arts in partnership with Janesce and Brother Bear Café, and supported by Country Arts SA offer this unique Wellbeing Experience for both visitors to the region and local residents, that will refresh & lift your spirits!

Walk through a honeysuckle-covered archway into the Janesce Pavilion and relax… and be nurtured by the natural beauty that surrounds you as you paint or draw, make clay pots, or explore Aboriginal or textile Art. All this is on offer under the skilled guidance of our fabulous team of artists!
Program
Meet the artists and what they are offering by downloading the program here.

When

Wednesdays, 21st September – 16th November, 2022 at various times

Location
The Janesce, Pavilion, Claret Ash Farm, an organic and biodynamic farm near Flaxley in the Adelaide Hills.
Claret Ash Farm
1680 Strathalbyn Road
Flaxley, SA 5153 Australia
Costs
Booking is essential for each workshop and costs vary, according to event. Please check the program for booking details and costs of each workshop.

This event is sponsored by Janesce – organic plant-based skin care & Country Arts SA

The great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off
2022-09-24 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
…and the tragedy of duality in our time
The 1st of 3 practice-based webinars exploring key challenges of 5th epoch, 6th epoch and our cosmic future
as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum
Presenter: Fiona Campbell

We are familiar with the figures of Lucifer and Ahriman as portrayed in Rudolf Steiner’s definitive sculpture, the Representative of Humanity. There, both beings are held in balance by the shining figure of the Christ Being. Yet in daily life, it is the spectre of Ahriman that shadows us continually, through our engagement with technologies that both ease and complicate everyday tasks. Lucifer seems to recede into the background of our consciousness as more an eternal archetype than a current concern, a figure, perhaps, from the Biblical past.

Yet the motif of the Soul of our 5th Post-Atlantean epoch (left) shows both Lucifer and Ahriman irretrievably enmeshed, and not held apart by Christ. So we can ask the question: do we really understand their interwoven relationship and its consequences for us in contemporary life? That where one being is, the other is also always present? As a counterpart?
Rudolf Steiner describes this dual principle as an inescapable tragedy for the modern soul. So, how can we grapple with this? In the motifs that filled the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, we find some answers.

Tell me more …
This is the first of three intensive, practiced-based webinars that aim to deepen the work introduced in the Goetheanum Epoch Motifs series earlier this year. Questions about their relevance to today and how they could guide our future development emerged during this series. Let’s examine these questions further through immersing ourselves in the motifs.
Three webinars on the theme
Each webinars revisit one of the three motifs that embody our present, future and cosmic stage motifs of Steiner’s Goetheanum ceiling sketches. The three webinars concern:

The great Lucifer and Ahriman face-off and the tragedy of duality in our time | The Germanic/Persian motif |
The future of dualism: facing our shadow self | The Slavic motif |
The correlation between the IAO motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation | The IAO motif |

Each motif embodies a soul stage of human development – for the 5th epoch (current), the 6th epoch (future) and for our cosmic, eternal image.
We will explore these three motifs through their gestures, meanings and role in our soul/spiritual evolution using lecture, discussion, contemplation and some drawing.
Who are the webinars for?
For students of Anthroposophy, Steiner teachers, artists and anyone interested in understanding Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
You do not need to have attended the first Epochs series, nor do you need drawing skills to enjoy these workshops: the focus is on the experiencing the content through doing, not learning drawing techniques.
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEST
Webinar workshops: 24 September | 22 October | 26 November
Each session will be recorded and will be available for registrants.
Drawing materials list and background reading suggestions emailed at registration.
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $100 for 3 webinars | $40 per webinar | Concessions available – please contact Fiona.
Where do I enrol?
Enrol here!
Then download the payment details, materials list and suggested readings.
The Zoom link will be sent to you upon enrolment. You will be sent a reminder one hour before the webinar starts.
If you lose your email with the link, you will need to register again.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter: Fiona Campbell PhD. is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. The nature of consciousness in our inner and outer development is one of her special interests, a topic she has lectured and researched for 25 years. Her artistic research on the Goetheanum motifs complements this interest.
Fiona is also a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio, where she focuses on her other two specialisations, phenomenology and creative cognition.
You can find out more about Fiona on her website, read about her teaching work at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College or listen to a 2020 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.
Background notes
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.

‘I must not ever leave you.
You will in future often find me at your side;
I shall not go from you until you find
the power of that which you are to become.’
(The Soul’s Probation, Scene 5)
.
Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

In the Spirit of Michael Festive Conference
2022-10-02 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
The Victorian Branch of the theAnthroposophical Society in Australia
invites you to their
In the Spirit of Michael Festive Conference

Program
2nd October
9.00 am-10.00 am: “The Creation and Appreciation of Art from the Perspective of Spiritual Science” A lecture by Lukas Ryan

10.30 am-11.30 am: The ‘Lightroot’ as Nutrition towards Michaelic Thinking” A lecture by Atika Rea

12 noon-1.00 pm Lunch

1.00 pm-2.30 pm: “Seeing, Feeling and Following Michael’s Call” A lecture by Stephanie Isvik

3.00 pm-4.00 pm: “The Spirit of Michael” Eurythmy Performance Aurora Australis Performing Group

30th September:
There will also be a First Class, Lesson 17 given by Stephanie Isvik from Southern Highlands Friday at 7pm at 2 Union St, Kew
Location

Aurora Australis – Anthroposophical College of the Arts
2 Union St, Kew
Cost
$100 or $60 concession

For more information
Please RSVP your attendance to Birgith Lugosi Ph: 0448 844 45
Download the program

Sun, Moon, and Tree: An Exhibition of Works
2022-10-18 18:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Archetypal processes in Nature
Nine Nature Moods following the seasonal shifts
between Earth and Cosmos
An Exhibition

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 the opening of the exhibition of works by artist and researcher Fiona Campbell as part of the celebration of the centenary of the founding of a new direction for artists concerned with exploring the interplay of cosmic and earthly laws through painting.
There will be a short talk at 7pm about the works, followed by a lecture on Steiner’s sketches and motifs, particularly his epoch motifs from the ceiling of the first Goetheanum. This lecture is part of the After The Burning program of events being run by the Sydney Branch.
This series was painted during Fiona’s online masterclass (six sessions) earlier this year and owe a debt of gratitude to the participants in the course for their dedication and inspiration.
Location
The exhibition opens at 6pm Tuesday 18 October at Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex St, Sydney 2001.
How much does it cost?
Entry by donation
For more information about the exhibition
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition. 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).

From the Burning - What lives now?
2022-10-18 18:00 - 2022-12-31 23:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
100 years since the physical destruction of the first Goetheanum
A series of lectures, artistic presentations, exhibitions and workshops commemorating the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum in Dornach on New Year’s Eve, 1922.
Dates

Lectures: 7pm Tuesday evenings, 18 October – 20 December 2022
Exhibitions: Opening hours of Rudolf Steiner Book Centre
Workshop: Saturday 12 November
Panel: 7.30pm Thursday 17 November
New Year’s Eve vigil: 31 December
Program
You can download the full program here

Location
Sydney Rudolf Steiner House
307 Sussex Street
Sydney Australia
Please note: most lectures will be live streamed, but not all. Check the booking page for details
Booking
Book here
For more information
Please contact Annet van Kesteran or the Arts Impulse Group

This program is sponsored by the St John’s Group board, Sydney Branch and the ASinA

I would enkindle all human beings
From out of the Spirit of the cosmos
To become a flame
And unfold in fire
The very nature of their being.

Verse excerpt from Truth-wrought-words, Rudolf Steiner 1925

Feature image: The only remaining sketch of the burning Goetheanum, Helmut Lauers © Verlag am Goetheanum, 1993.

Facing Our Shadow Self in the 6th Epoch
2022-10-22 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
| The Slavic Motif and Our Shadow Self |
The 2nd of 3 practice-based webinars exploring the tragedy of dualism
in the 5th epoch, 6th epoch and our cosmic future
as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

‘I must not ever leave you.
You will in future often find me at your side;
I shall not go from you until you find
the power of that which you are to become.’
(The Soul’s Probation, Scene 5)

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
Our shadow self is usually seen as being our disowned self, those aspects of our selves we don’t or won’t accept. This shadow is also a development of our innate dualistic nature. So, how can we grapple with this? In the motifs that filled the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, we find some answers.
This is the 2nd webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off . But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.

Tell me more …
We use the motif (pictured above) representing the 6th epoch, still far in our future, to understand the nature of our double or shadow as a picture of dualism in our souls.

What really is this shadow?
How will we experience it?
Do all beings have a shadow, even angels?
And how does this affect our future evolution and spiritual development?

We explore these questions through study, discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.

Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
You do not need to have attended any previous webinars in this series nor do you need drawing skills to enjoy these workshops: the focus is on the experiencing the content through doing, not learning drawing techniques.
When are they on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEST
Webinar workshops: 22 October | 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: | $60 for 2 webinars | $35 per webinar | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details, materials list and suggested readings.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background notes
What exactly is dualism?
The term ‘dualism’ has various characterisations in different cultures and time periods. But in general, it means there are two fundamental kinds or categories of things or principles. In theology, for example, a dualistic principle is Good and Evil or God and the Devil as independent yet equal forces in the world. Light and Darkness is another example of dualism common to most cultures.
According to Rudolf Steiner, dualism in our human evolution is expressed through two opposing yet interdependent entities called Lucifer and Ahriman. Both these names can be found in the Bible and in Zoroastrianism as mighty beings, like fallen angels. But today they are experienced in our soul life as polar-opposite forces that we unconsciously swing between, like a pendulum. The first webinar in this series, The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic Face-off, explored their influence in our daily lives in some depth. A video of this webinar is available on request.
This webinar considers how this split might evolve into a separate shadow self.
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
.
Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

LOGOS: Consecrating Humanity conference
2022-11-04 - 2022-11-06 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Conference of
The Christian Community
in Australia and New Zealand

Celebrating 100 years of Christian Community

4th – 6th November 2022

It is 100 years since the foundation of The Christian Community in 1922 in SwitzerlandCome share in community with all our priests from the Australia-New Zealand Region and Oberlenker Oliver Steinrueck from Berlin, Germany.
LOGOS: Consecrating Humanity program
Download the program here
Where is it being held?

The Michael Centre,
37A Wellington Park Drive,
Warranwood,
VIC, Austtralia

Where do I register?
Download the registration form here

In the Hut of a Thousand Suns
2022-11-12 - 2022-11-13 | Tarremah Steiner School, Kingston, Tasmania, 27 Nautilus Grove, Huntingfield, TAS, 7055, Australia
Exploring the Nature Of ‘Evil’ Through Folktales, Storytelling, Creative Activities & Deep Conversation

We’ve never lived in a more profound paradox: our destruction of the Earth and ourselves through climate collapse, the escalation of A.I., the increasing loss of human rights, while simultaneously facing unprecedented opportunities to develop our consciousness, understanding of interconnectedness, and ethical individuality.

Paradox is ripe with possibilities; folktales are riddled with paradox, refuse ‘standard rules of behaviour’ and put forward dilemma, questions, and contradictions. They force us to develop moral-ethical imagination, our ability to think in new, unexpected ways, see parallels and relationships which hadn’t existed before, and become at least dimly aware of the complexity of our inner-selves (Spaulding).

Storytelling has always been something we share, and folktales are part of our human biology. When we hear a story, as a couple, family, or community, our brains harmonise. Through creative images and inspiration provided by stories, we get inside ideas together – like an orchestra, synchronising individual skills and instruments to interpret the idea of the symphony to create music in which everyone a has a part. Folktales offer innovative strategies for survival, that aren’t unrealistic dreams, but observations and aspirations for the world we live in. And our insistence on belonging, community, and human connection is one of the greatest acts of courage and resistance in the face of oppression (O’Donohue).

What can you expect from this seminar? Storytelling that initiates both community and individuality. Folktales that reveal how and why loneliness and isolation attract Evil, why unused creative power, transgression and disrespect lack awareness and carry the potential of self-destruction. You’ll experience the power of Story and storytelling, gain an understanding of the importance of opening and closing story-space, access tools that craft the telling of tales and build valuable insight into the theme and the Fifth Secret (Steiner): Evil exists so we wake up, transform it and move toward Spirit-soul-consciousness.
How much does it cost?
Standard $350
Early Bird Singles $290
Couples p.p. $250
Teams [p.p.] $225
When is it on?
12/13 November; 19/20 November
Venues
Launceston Venue: Tamar Valley Steiner Early Childhood 41 French Str, Launceston
Hobart (Huntingfield) Venue: Tarremah Steiner School, ‘Silvereye Room’, 27 Nautilus Grove, Huntingfield 7055

Bookings
Book here!

For more information
Contact Iris Curteis mob: 0487 719 476
About Iris Curteis
I am a Storyteller and Social Artist; I encountered Anthroposophy as an 18-year-old, and met wonderful, inspiring teachers in Europe and Australia. My background includes studies in visual art, storytelling, speech formation, and dramatic art (Europe), B.A. and B.A. hon. in creative writing, and a Ph.D. on storytelling and community building (Australia). This workshop is ‘experiential’, interactive and practical. It offers space for deep conversations about how and why storytelling empowers our imagination, and the many ways creativity and creative thinking encourage us to appreciate our lives as works of art.

End of Earthly Life Matters
2022-11-12 09:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Melbourne Christian Community, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia
A Day Seminar on Palliative Care, After Death Care and the Vigil
at the Christian Community, Hawthorn, VIC

Program

9am : Arrival and Registration 9.15am : Welcome and Opening
9.25 – 10.25am : “An Anthroposophical Palliative Care Approach”. Pippa will share her knowledge and experiences out of her work as an anthroposophical palliative care nurse and introduce us to the core principles and things we can do ourselves when caring for someone.
10.25 – 11.25am : “End of Life Legalities and Documents, Death Care and Funeral Practicalities” with Melinda.
11.25 – 11.45am : Morning tea break
11.45am-1pm : “Soul and Spirit Care at End of Life” with Cheryl, Pippa and Melinda. Supporting a dying person and their carers and community around them in body, soul and spirit. This is an interweaving of many things including nursing care, conversation, counselling, meditation, prayer, ritual and ceremony.
1 – 2pm : Lunch. Bring your own lunch.
2 – 3.15pm : “The Vigil- Death Care” The laying out of a person’s body in preparation for a vigil with Pippa.
3.15 – 4pm : Questions and Closing Thoughts.

4 – 4.15pm : Afternoon Tea
4.15pm – 5.15pm : Festival to Remember Those who have Died.
5.15pm : Finish/Departure

**All welcome to attend The Act of Consecration of the Human Being at 8am.

About the presenters
Pippa White has a Diploma of Nursing and a Diploma of Holistic Nursing (Anthroposophical Nursing). She has worked as a palliative nurse for 15 years, both in institutional and home based care and for 11 years as an anthroposophical nurse both in general nursing and palliative care. She has facilitated many parent workshops for home nursing care for children and on topics of death and dying.

Melinda Whyman is the Community Activator for the not-for-profit ‘Tender Funerals-Greater Eastern Melbourne’ initiative. She has previously worked as a holistic funeral director guiding individuals, families and communities through all aspects of the funeral care process.
Cheryl Nekvapil is a priest of The Christian Community working in Melbourne. Since 2016, she has worked with Pippa and Melinda in offering holistic care for body, soul and spirit for people in end-phase of life and in death care.

When
9am – 5.15pm Saturday 12th November
Where

The Christian Community, 319 Auburn Rd, Hawthorn

Program flyer
Download the flyer here
Find out more

Please contact either Cheryl Nekvapil or Pippa White

Photo credit: Guardian Angel, Ninetta Sombart

What is Phenomenology?
2022-11-16 19:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
a webinar, a dialogue, a sharing and questioning session

Phenomenology is a way of seeing the world
Phenomenology is the study of the lived experience as it was/is lived
Phenomenology a means of investigation which permits us to grow beyond ourselves
Goethean Science is phenomenological in approach, and is well known in anthroposophical circles as a qualitative approach to understanding the natural sciences. But phenomenology as a methodology for wider anthroposophic-based application is becoming increasingly popular in our circles; and the term ‘lived experience’ has gone into the our everyday language.
But it can be confusing! Everyone has a different understanding of just what phenomenology is and how to apply it.
Tell me more
This webinar aims to unpack phenomenology as a philosophy, as a research methodology, and as a practice from the perspective of different researchers and practitioners from different fields and disciplines who use this approach in their work.
The session takes the form of presentations and dialogue as to our shared understandings of what we each mean by phenomenology. And if you are not a practitioner but would like to know more, come along and ask questions. We’d love to share our passion with you!
Who is it for?
Any one interested in finding out more about phenomenology. All welcome!
Program
We open with the questions: What counts as phenomenology? What is the essence of phenomenology, for all forms and approaches?
Seven researchers and practitioners share their experiences: Martin Samson (theology), Fiona Campbell (human sciences), Joanna Jaaniste (dramatherapy), Peter Stewart (Goethean Science), Greg Burgess (architecture), Lisa Devine (theology) and Teresa Carapeto (Education).
Each presenter describes their understanding through the lens of these four key characteristics:

An open attitude: how do I see with “new eyes”?
Dwelling: how do I immerse myself into the object, how do I engage with the experience, the information?
Disclosure: how can I reveal the essence of the phenomenon in question?
Description: sharing my experiences of working phenomenologically. How do I do this?

Q&A session followed by a summing up of what we’ve learned.
How does it impact my professional practice? My way of seeing the world?
So what is phenomenology? and can anyone practice it?
And is there interest for further discussion in an ongoing group?
When will this webinar take place?
7pm Wednesday 16th November 2022 online
Cost
By donation
Registration
To register
How to join the webinar
After registration, 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
Please contact Fiona Campbell or Martin Samson

Driven by the Spirit into the Desert
2022-11-21 06:00 - 07:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A webinar with Rev. Patrick Kennedy
in the Shining a Light into the Darkness Zoom Series

Our spiritual evolution does not take place separate from what is happening in the world. What used to take place in the hidden places of mystery schooling in the world is now a factor within history: The school of our becoming is life itself. In this presentation we will pick up the key elements that Rudolf Steiner names in his lecture from July 30th of 1918 and with them see better into the nature of what is happening in our time. What is revealed places us within powerful cultural streams of the present time – “Americanism, Bolshevism and Jesuitism” – and reveals the profound challenge we are called to face in establishing the truly a human – and a truly human culture – within this context. It is a societal level expression of what is revealed as a mystery image at the opening of the ancient gospel texts: the temptation of Jesus in the desert.

When
Sunday, November 20 at 3:00 PM EST/Monday November 21 at 6.00am AEDT
Background Reading
Problems of the Time, 30 July 1918, Berlin
Registration
Register here!
Recordings of the webinars are not guaranteed. All efforts will be made to do so but please do not count on it. If you are unable to join the live webinar, please do not register but rather check back in a few weeks after the webinar. Successful recordings will be listed for sale here.
Proceeds will benefit the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America

About Rev. Patrick Kennedy
In April of 2006, Patrick Kennedy was consecrated into the priesthood in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to attending the seminary in Stuttgart, Germany, Patrick studied and worked in the field of early childhood education and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in cultural anthropology. He has worked as a priest in the congregations in Devon, Pennsylvania and the Greater Washington, D.C., area. Then, in Chestnut Ridge, New York, he took up the roles of both seminary director and resident priest in the local congregation. In July 2019, Patrick, his family, and the entire seminary moved to the Toronto area.

This series is hosted by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Branch
of the Anthroposophical Society in America

Image credit: Temptations of Christ, 12th-century mosaic in St Mark’s Basilica, Venice

Three-folding – Spiritual Freedom, Social Equality Associative Economics
2022-11-26 - 2022-11-27 | Roseheath, 177 Waterworks Road, Dynnyrne, TAS, 7005, Australia
This is an interactive seminar in which each day is carefully structured around storytelling, collaborative activities, and creative presentations combined with deep conversation
Tell me more
This Threefolding seminar is an opportunity to explore, re-view and question how human nature might be shaped by a viable, healthy social organism through the right relationship of our cultural, political and economic life. Central to this picture is an acknowledgement that any integrated system of social life must also foster the development of individual potential to the fullest degree compatible with the freedom and well-being of others.
Aldous Huxley wrote in 1946 that ‘the outcome of centralisation of economic and political power is the progressive loss by the masses of their civil liberties, their personal independence and their opportunities for self-government’. This is more and more a feature of contemporary life where big tech, big Pharma, big banks and pervasive mass media dictate our reality.
So how might we co-exist in ways that extend and illuminate our highest good amidst social arrangements that enable us to have the right thoughts on matters of social concern? And if so, what kind of thoughts must exist so that the right social arrangements can arise?
When is it on?
9:00 – 4:00 AEDT, 26/27 November 2022.
Venues
177 Waterworks Rd, Dynnyrne
Bookings and Costs
Book here!

For more information
Contact Iris Curteis mob: 0487 719 476 or download the flyer

The IAO Motif and the Foundation Stone Meditation
2022-11-26 16:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The IAO: the Cosmic Image of the Human Being
and the Foundation Stone Meditation
The final webinar of 3 practice-based workshops exploring key challenges of 5th epoch, 6th epoch
and our cosmic future as represented in the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum

Presenter: Fiona Campbell
This is the 3rd and final webinar in the The Great Luciferic/Ahrimanic face-off exploring the ceiling motifs of the first Goetheanum, as a transformative picture of the spiritual history of humanity. They raise questions about their relevance to today and how they could guide our future development. Each motif embodies a soul stage of human development as we traverse our starry and earthly path as individuals and as humanity as a whole.
Tell me more
The tragedy of dualism in our souls, and how it manifests has been the leitmotif of this series. In this final workshop, we contemplate how the path from the IOA as cosmic word resounding from the beginning of time to the IAO, the cosmic image of the human being, is a picture and a guide as to how to grapple with our innately dualistic natures.
In this presentation, we explore these theme through discussion, contemplation and a little sketching of the motif.
Who are the webinars for?
For anyone interested in Steiner’s approach to the spiritual evolution of humanity.
But you don’t have to have attended previous webinars to enjoy the presentation and discussion.
When is it on?
Saturday afternoon 4.00-5.30pm AEDT
Webinar workshops: 26 November
Each session will be recorded and a video of the event will be available post-webinar.
A list of suggested drawing materials and background readings is also included in the cost.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $35 | Concessions available on request – please contact Fiona.
Video recording included in the cost
Where do I book?
Book here!
After booking, I will send you a confirmation email containing the zoom link to join the meeting.
Then download the payment details and materials list.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

Background reading
The Foundation Stone Meditation GA 260
Background notes
About the first Goetheanum
2022 marks the centenary of the burning of the first Goetheanum on New Year’s Eve in 1922/23. As part of the 100th anniversary of the fire, artists and members of the Anthroposophical Society around the world have been working with the forms and motifs of the 1st Goetheanum. These three webinars are part of this world-wide activity.
For the ceiling of the first Goetheanum, Steiner gave a series of ‘epoch’ motifs to the artists – 12 sketches for the large cupola of the 1st Goetheanum and 7 Sketches for the small cupola. These motifs map the spiritual history of humanity and were intended to support a training in karmic vision through Art.
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Photo credits: from The Language of Color in the First Goetheanum by Hilde Raske

‘In the beginning was the Word’
“Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us’

Inscribing Signs with a Finger Dipped in Light
2022-12-10 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 15 Haydon Street, North Dorrigo NSW 2453, Australia
Hosted by Story Vision
A Spiritual-Cultural Approach to Dying, Death and Life

Presenters: Irmhild Kleinhenz, Iris Curteis
Inscribing Signs with a Finger dipped in Light is a one-day presentation that offers non-denominational insights, creative activities, holistic approaches to dying, death and life. We will use poetry, storytelling, contemplative exercises to explore the questions:

What is Death?
What does it mean to die?
How do I accompany someone who is dying?
How do I prepare myself?

Time/Date
9:00am – 5:00pm, 10th December; 2022.
Venue
15 Haydon Street, North Dorrigo NSW 2453, Australia
Costs
General Admission $120
Early Bird Singles $90 (8 November)
Early Bird Couples p.p. $200 (8 November)
Couples $220
Enterprises, professional groups (3+) $100 pp.
Bookings
Book here!
Download program
For more information
Contact Iris Curteis mob: 0487 719 476 or Irmhild Kleinhanz 0444 551 381

About the presenters
Iris Curteis, PhD, Storyteller and Social Artist
Iris Curteis is a storyteller and social artist who encountered Steiner’s work as an 18-year-old and had the privilege to meet and learn from inspiring, knowledgeable, and creative teachers in Europe. She studied visual arts, dramatic arts [speech formation] in Stuttgart; a BA & BA Hon. in Creative Writing (SCU; UNE), and explored Storytelling and Community Building in her PhD thesis [SCU]. Working as a storyteller for several decades has convinced her that storytelling empowers our imagination and creative thinking and encourages us to appreciate our lives as works of art. As a social artist, she is passionate about using art, threefolding and creativity to examine and change the way we think, build our capacity to shape more humane communities and support transformational change. She has explored the power of the human voice and the possibility to use the creative spoken word, sounds and storytelling to support those who are approaching death; to overcome a sense of overwhelm and loneliness. Storytelling takes us into a liminal space – a crossing of thresholds – that can support us to gently and consciously enter a different state of being.
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic Naturopath and Mentor, ISAM, ANTA accredited fellow.
Irmhild has over forty years of experience in Anthroposophic medical therapeutic work. Her background includes studies in the Anthroposophic Medicine Orientation Training, Lukas Klinik, Switzerland, studies in the prescription of Curative Eurythmy, Goetheanum, Switzerland.
Irmhild works with allied medical practitioners and therapists to ensure a highly professional and personal approach to health care. She holds public lectures on health and spiritual enrichment, works as a tutor and mentor for allied health professionals and Steiner teachers and supports Steiner schools as a school health consultant.

Photo credit: At the Threshold of the Spiritual World, Lianne Collot d’Herbois

Wonder Before the Face of God: An Advent Contemplation
2022-12-18 17:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the Annunciation
for 4th Sunday in Advent
With artist and phenomenologist Fiona Campbell

Let’s contemplate together Mary’s wonder as she receives the message from the Angel Gabriel of the impossible gift that is to be bestowed upon her.

This Advent webinar features the icons of contemporary Ukrainian artist Ivanka Demchuk Using wonder as our gateway, the workshop uses a phenomenological approach to art contemplation that combines perception with contemplation.
Suggested reading: Luke 1:26–38

Registration
Register here!
Payment and Registration Details
After registration, participants will be sent the Zoom link one (1) hour beforehand.
Please login for the webinar via the Zoom app and not via Eventbrite.
A recording of the webinar will be available.
Cost: $20 or a donation of your choice is much appreciated.
Date: 5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, Sunday 18th December 2022
Presenter: Dr Fiona Campbell trained at Tobias School of Art and Transpersonal Studies in England in visual arts and artistic therapy. She later undertook formal training in phenomenology at the University of Technology Sydney, for her doctorate and uses this methodology to find new ways for the modern person to approach both art and nature.
She has been painting and pondering on the theme of the Virgin Mary for over 20 years. You can browse a gallery of her artworks here.
For more information
Please download the flyer or contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: Annunciation by Ivanka Demchuk

Bellingen Christmas and Epiphany Festivities
2022-12-24 16:00 - 2023-01-06 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Charlotte’s Retreat, 195 North Bank Rd., Bellingen, NSW, 2454, Australia
Christmas Eve
‘The Two Jesus Children’: a shared meal and a Madonna meditation contemplation, followed by a Madonna painting experience.
Introduced by Irmhild Kleinhenz and Charlotte Rogers. 4.00 pm-7:15 pm AEDT
New Year’s Eve
‘Remembering the First Goetheanum: with introduction, geometry and images.
Presented by Bronwyn Bellemore and Charlotte Rogers. 4.00 pm AEDT and followed by a shared meal.
Epiphany, January 6
‘The Gifts of the Three Kings’: we share the creation of the healing remedy for our gardens and properties.
This event is presented by Irmhild Kleinhenz .Commencing at 3.00 pm AEDT and followed by a shared meal.
Cost
For all three talks, a donation bowl will be present.
Location
Charlotte’s Health Retreat
195 North Bank Rd
Bellingen NSW 2454
Booking
Please RSVP Charlotte Rogers 0402469699
Please note the different starting times for each event.
All welcome!

Truth, Beauty & Goodness: A Holy Nights Contemplation
2022-12-25 08:00 - 2023-01-07 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Raphael’s Madonna Sequence
The Holy Nights represent a time outside of regular time, when we cross the bridge into the new year, renewing our commitment to the wisdom and richness of our inner life. It is a time for finding strength and inspiration for the coming year. The Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) offers this program to guide you with intention, and in community, through a contemplative and nourishing space.
What is it about?
A contemplative practice with Raphael’s Madonna Series, online through Zoom. Plus a bonus recording about the creating a Holy Nights practice with Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams!
When
December 22, 2022 with Brian Gray
December 25, 2022 – January 6, 2023 (13 consecutive days) with numerous presenters
January 7, 2023 with Orland Bishop
Time
4.00 am AEDT/9.00 am Pacific
Sessions are 15 minutes over the holy nights, with two 90 minute sessions before and after.
Can’t join live? Each gathering will be recorded and posted on our Participant Portal (link emailed upon registration).
Cost
This event is free with suggested donations of $25 (Candle), $50 (Light), or $100 (Star).
Your donations help support the work of those contributing to this event and future events. Thank you for your support.
Register
Register here!
For more information
Please look here for more information and the full program schedule.

Feature Image: Sistine Madonna, Raphael c.1513-1514 courtesy WikiCommons

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2022-12-25 19:00 - 2023-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening
25 December 2022 – 5 January 2023

Presenter: With Martin Neeme-Samson
Theme

The Pre-Earthly Deeds of Sophia and Sophia’s Resurrection Body
In each session there will be a half-hour consideration 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.
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.
Date/Time
Daily 7.00 pm – 7.45 pm AEDT from 25 December – 5 January

Cost: $70 donation recommended
Registration
Register here!
Once you are registered, the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/22) 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.
The contemplations will be recorded
For more information
Please contact Martin Samson

Feature image: Erythraean Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo © Wiki Commons
Insert image: Theotokos Mosaic, Hagia Sophia, Constantinople © Wiki Commons

Attending the Fire: A Global Online Event on New Year's Day
2023-01-01 09:30 - 10:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Goetheanum online
Attending the Fire: An Invitation for Collective Intention

Hosted by the Anthroposophical Society in America
Foundation Stone Meditation on New Year’s Eve: A Speaking Together

100 years ago on this New Year’s Eve night, the first Goetheanum burned to the ground, marking a painful transition moment for the anthroposophical movement.
Looking ahead to New Year’s Eve 2022-2023, we remember in our hearts a significant moment one hundred years ago; the burning of the first Goetheanum.
Because we cannot all physically gather together in honour of this time, we can find creative ways to deepen our individual and collective intention.
The Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA) wishes to offer you resources and practices that can serve to unite us, from far and wide, as a community.
We invite you to join us on Zoom at that time, to meet with other anthroposophical friends and groups from all over the world for a speaking of the Foundation Stone Meditation.
At 11:45 p.m. Central European Time 31 December 2022
For Australian participants
At 9.45 a.m. AEDT 1 January 2023

Zoom link to the event
Download this flyer to find the Zoom link for the event on page 3 or page 5, page 8 for the text of the meditation.

Video Resources for preparation
Working with Steiner’s epoch motifs – Webinar 1, The Creation with Fiona Campbell, a experiential workshop

First Goetheanum with Esther Gerster & Daniel Hafner

More New Year’s Eve Resource Packet Here
For more information
Please look here for more information about this event.

It is our great task this day to observe how in the world around us it is New Year’s Eve — all is passing and disappearing and dying away; but how in the hearts of human beings who are conscious of their real humanity, of their divine humanity, there must be the mood of New Year, the mood of the beginning of a new era,
of the uprising of new life.

Rudolf Steiner’s final words in the First Goetheanum,
December 31, 1922

Feature photo: Goetheanum poster, courtesy ASA

2023-01-19 - 2023-01-22 | Online
Holistic Adult Learning
Guiding Groups/Creating and Holding an Open Space
All of the Training modules are available online as stand-alone courses for personal and professional development.
Learning Packs are available at any time – see our Shop. Optional online sessions are scheduled each year.
Enrol now to receive the preparatory Study Guide
To receive the preparatory Learning Pack enrol before January 2023
When and how
Friday 9/1/2023 – Sunday 21/1/2023
Online Sessions, 5 hours/day
Cost
Fee: 550 AUD
For more information
Look here for more information about the course or please contact Karl-Heinze Finke

Foundation Course in Holistic Biography Work
2023-01-26 - 2023-01-29 | Online
Foundation Course
Take Charge of your life: Apply the resources of Holistic Biography work.
The Foundation Course is designed to assist with taking charge of one’s life’s journey. It facilitates deeper understanding of the physical, social and mental developmental stages in one’s life.

This course is the pre-requisite for joining our 3-year Online Training Program.
It is also available as a stand-alone course for personal or professional development – either as Learning Pack only, or with optional online real-time sessions.
To receive the preparatory Learning Pack enrol before July 2022
When and how
Thursday 26/1//2023 – Sunday 29/1//2023
Online Sessions, 5 hours/day
Cost
Fee: 470 AUD
For more information
Look here for more information about the course or please contact Karl-Heinze Finke

Complementaries and Counter Images: Working with Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds through Art
2023-02-10 14:00 - 2023-05-19 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | ACT
A masterclass studio
with Fiona Campbell

Imaginative exercises based on meditative exercises given by Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds using colour, archetypal processes, observation and contemplation
This 7-session course provides an artistic entry into his preparatory exercises of inner and outer observation, contemplation and moral development. It aims to nourishes creativity and feeds the soul life.
Through exploration of the complementaries and counter-colours, we can strengthen both our imaginative faculties and our life forces.
You don’t have to be a trained artist, or even very experienced, to enjoy this course, but you do need self-motivation, some knowledge of Steiner’s meditative and colour work and some painting technique.
Background information
With the increasing, encroaching advent of AI-generated images filling our screens, through film, tv and internet, the essential creativity that lives in the soul of every human being is under threat. AI-generated art is not creative. It does not arise out of human creativity but out of machines. In the face of this attack on our human-ness, we need to bring a counter-impulse by strengthening our capacity to create inner images.
By working artistically and contemplatively with colour and the forming forces, we can nurture the emergent qualities of our humanity, such as our uniquely human capacities to create and to think and to think creatively, We can counter this dehumanising force,
We need to enliven our inner images to counter the life-destroying images of AI-generated art.
Who are the masterclasses for?

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone seeking a non-intellectual pathway into Steiner’s meditative path.
For anyone interested in gaining an appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities through painting.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Required: familiarity with the anthroposophic approach to art and painting skills. Watercolour wet-on-dry skills is preferred but other techniques, such as wet-on-wet or chalk pastels are acceptable but technical advice is not directed towards these media.
Please note: this is not a step-by-step instructional class so not suitable for beginners in painting unless you are adventurous and self-motivated!
What dates are the classes?
2-4pm AEDT Friday afternoons
10 February-19 May
The workshops are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
How much does it cost?
Online series: $260 for 7×2 hr masterclasses, including video recording.
How do I register?
Registrations closed. Come back next year!
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

About Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
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 and is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project.
Fiona has been involved with Anthroposophy for over 40 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about the core principles and practice of Steiner’s work to her classes. You can find out more about her artwork or listen to an ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“Colour is the soul of Nature and of the entire cosmos…” Rudolf Steiner

Photo image: Black Study I, Fiona Campbell 1996, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

What is Phenomenology? Further investigations
2023-02-15 18:30 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Stream of Life Research Studio presents
Further investigations into the nature and practice of phenomenology

This webinar is the 2nd in our series and a follow-up to our first dialogue (16 November 2022). You are invited to join us again!
The aim of these webinars is to provide an interdisciplinary view of how different fields/disciplines understand phenomenology, whose approach they use e.g. Goethean, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Zajonc etc. and how they implement their approach in their professional practice.
Tell me more about phenomenology
Phenomenology is essentially the study of the structures of consciousness, though it is better known as the study of the lived experience. It concerns how a phenomenon is experienced, as it is experienced, and aims to describe those experiences, rather than theorise or explain them. Moreover, in studying the experience, phenomenology opens the way to understanding our consciousness of that experience. In turn, this can change our way of seeing the world (Campbell 2018*).
Goethean Science is phenomenological in approach, and is well known in anthroposophical circles as a qualitative approach to the natural sciences. But phenomenology as a methodology for wider anthroposophic-based application is becoming increasingly popular in our circles in the sphere of the arts and human sciences.
Phenomenology can be a philosophy, a research methodology, or a practice – or all three. It can take different forms in different fields and even within the same field/discipline, depending on whose philosophical foundations you are applying.
Sounds complex but fascinating? Then come along and find out more.
Program
Three researcher/practitioners share their experiences: Joanna Jaaniste (Dramatherapy), Bronwen Haralambous (Education) and Lisa Devine (Counselling and Theology)
Each presenter describes their understanding through the lens of these four key characteristics and how it impacts their professional practice or way of seeing the world through the lens of these four questions:

An open attitude: how do I see with “new eyes”?
Dwelling: how do I immerse myself into the object, how do I engage with the experience, the information?
Disclosure: how can I reveal the essence of the phenomenon in question?
Description: sharing my experiences of working phenomenologically. How do I do this?

A short introduction to some common tools/methods used in phenomenological research will be overviewed.
Q&A session to follow
When will this webinar take place?
6.30 pm AEDT/5.30 pm AEST Wednesday 15th February 2023 online.
Please note: the webinar is not being recorded.
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support us.
Registration
To register
How to join the webinar
After registration, 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
Please contact Fiona Campbell or Martin Samson

*Fiona Campbell (2018), ‘Flow, resistance and thinking : a phenomenological study of creativity‘ Doctoral thesis, UTS Digital Thesis Collection.

Form Drawing for Teachers
2023-02-19 - 2023-03-12 | Online
The How, the Why, and the When of
a Linear Language of Form in Education

Online workshops with Van James, artist, author, educator based in Hawaii, USA
About the workshops

What is the underlying importances of Form Drawing?
How does it benefit the growing child?
Why is it taught in Steiner-Waldorf schools and when (at what grade levels) is it appropriate and most beneficial?

We will address these questions and many more in this practical online art course for teaching children the creative art of form drawing.
Who are the workshops for?
For class teachers, homeschool parents, art instructors, art therapists and educational specialists.
No experience necessary.

Dates

In Asia: Sundays February 19 and 26 & March 5 and 12 2023,
9:30 AM – 11:30 AM (Indian Standard Time)
In USA: Saturdays February 18 and 25 & March 4 and 11, 2023,

Cost
Rs.6995 = $105 USD
Registration
Please look here for more details.
For more information
Please contact Van James at the Nurturer’s Studio

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

“We must begin with inner, not outer perception, by stimulating in the child a strong sense of symmetry. Even in the case of the very youngest children we can begin to do this. For example: we draw some figure on the blackboard and indicate the beginning of a symmetrical line.Then we try to make the child realise that the figure is not complete; they must find out how to complete it. In this way, we awaken an inner, active urge in the child to complete something as yet unfinished.This helps them to express an absolutely right conception of something that is a reality. The teacher, of course, must have inventive talent but that is always a very good thing. Above all else the teacher must have mobile inventive thought.”

In A Modern Art of Education by Rudolf Steiner

The Threshold
2023-03-04 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture, 15 Blackall St, Barton, ACT, 2600
An artist’s musings on ageing and the end of life, from the point of view of women
by Judith Clingan AM

There will be three performances: 4pm and 8pm Saturday 4 March and 11am Sunday 5 March. Admission is ticketed: $40 full, $30 concession, available online from mid-February.

Background Notes
Judith (Judy) Clingan is a composer, writer, artist, educator and multi arts director/creator. Since early 2021 she has been interviewing many women aged 70 and older, and asking them to write thoughts on a range of issues related to the ageing process, as well as our varying attitudes to the end of life. Their answers have helped her greatly in writing a script, entitled The Threshold. She has also composed fourteen short pieces of music (for choir, strings, wind and piano, as well as bells and singing bowls). She is now (in December) painting a series of visual images to amplify the shifting moods. The ambience Judy is aiming for is a subtle mix of humour, grief and transcendence.
Three performances are planned for March 2023 in the Chapel of the ACC&C – creating an intimate café atmosphere, with the audience invited to take a cup of tea to one of multiple small tables, while the three actors (all ageing women) will speak from small stages interspersed among the tables. Musicians will sing and play from a corner; individual musicians will occasionally interact with the actresses. The main wall of the chapel will be used from time to time for projections of words, especially when they are perhaps difficult to hear well in choral rendition, as well as the painted images. The text will vary between intimate dialogue and the delivery of poems, both whimsical and heart- wrenching. The dialogue and some of the poetry is Judy’s; some is from the classical canon of great English writers; some she has invited from women poets both in Australia and elsewhere. While of course it is impossible to write a piece which will speak equally meaningful to every member of the audience, she is trying to touch on a wide range of experiences, practices and beliefs. Judy has so far held seven script-reading sessions with older women in and beyond Canberra, which have sometimes led to emendations.
Judy says: “I have been very interested to discover, across the twenty months I have so far spent on this project, that while some women are unwilling to explore their thoughts on the topic of ageing and death, others are delighted to be given the opportunity. Maybe death is our last great taboo. At least, those of us living an affluent, western lifestyle very rarely experience the raw reality of death, and very rarely live day by day alongside a person dying slowly. I expect that in those societies where multi-generational families exist together in the one home, the realities of ageing and thoughts about the end are experienced daily. In our society older people are usually sequestered away, out of sight even of their families for most of the time. Certainly it isn’t often that our artists dare to think about the void – or perhaps the unknown something – which awaits us all. I hope that The Threshold might be a step towards a more vigorous exploration of this topic.”

When?
Saturday 4 March2023 at 4:00 pm and 8pm
Sunday 5 March at 11am
Where?
Chapel at the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture, Charles Sturt University
15 Blackall Street, Barton, ACT 2600
Bookings
Book here
For more information
Please contact Judith Clingan

Anthroposophic Naturopathic Intensive Training
2023-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | ACT
This is an online advanced training for naturopaths and integrative health professionals who wish to prescribe anthroposophic remedies.
Part One 2023: Pharmacodynamics and remedies – metal, mineral, plant, animal and organ remedies.
Part Two 2024: Nutrition as a healing modality for different illnesses.
Part Three 2025: Anamnesis, diagnosis and the karma of Iilnesses
Cost
Payable as you go or as a full amount in advance
$70 for qualified practitioners per webinar
$50 for students per webinar
$600 (discounted) and $400 (discounted) for all 9 webinars
Payment details will be given upon acceptance into the Training.
Date
The 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7pm to 8.30pm, starting 15 March 2023
For more information
Please call Irmhild Kleinhenz or phone 0444 551 381
Endorsed by the ANG (Anthroposophic Naturopaths Guild) and ISAN (International Society of Anthroposophic Naturopaths)

Meeting Christ in the Etheric in Response to the Challenges of our Times
2023-03-27 07:00 - 08:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Webinar with James Dyson, MD
Part of the “Shining a Light into the Darkness” series.
What is it about?
Human consciousness has slowly come from the cosmos to the earth via the ethers & the elements which have mediated the Logos into the earth to create the human being as an image of the Divine. That creative process, working from Logos into the human body, came to its culmination around the time of the Mystery of Golgotha. Before that, human initiation had to be a journey backward to reconnect to the elements and their etheric connections that bridged to the Spirit. All earlier initiation was to bring the earthly ego from the 4fold nature of the elements, and awakening the ego into the etheric world and the spirits beyond.
This process became ever more difficult as time proceeded. This separation (as expressed in “The stars once spoke to man…”) through the ethers and elements, by the time of Golgotha had grown silent and led to the widespread desecration of soul which Jesus of Nazareth had to encounter.
Humanity, as it has crossed into 21st century, is now walking the path that Jesus of Nazareth walked in his 20s when he was meeting the deserted altars. We are meeting the destitution of the soul, the denial of the Logos, meaninglessness: the power of the Logos no longer reflected in the environment around us.
How do human beings find their way to speaking the Logos back to the stars? Christ’s penetration of the body of the earth, bringing His being now closer to humans in the etheric realm, can manifest in many ways but, archetypally, in the meeting of one human being with another. We meet the etheric world through the human encounter – where ‘conversation is more precious than the light, and the light is more precious than gold.’ Through human encounter, human communication, we can meet Christ’s etheric body. Through human connection we regain connection to the Logos.
When
Monday, 27 March 2023 at 7.00am AEDT
Registration
Register here

About James Dyson
James Dyson, M.D. was a co-founder of one of the few English speaking anthroposophical medical clinics, Park Attwood, in the UK where he worked from 1979 to 2003. He has practiced as a doctor in Steiner Waldorf Schools and in centers for social therapy. His areas of special interest are developmental psychology and adult mental health, and he is a regular contributor to anthroposophic therapeutic trainings in the UK and internationally. James has added Psychosynthesis to his training and is a prolific lecturer of Rudolf Steiner’s body of work in the healing fields.
