You and I are we - questions of community
2023-09-01 18:00 - 2023-09-03 22:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Newcastle Waldorf School, 30 Reservoir Rd, Glendale, NSW, 2285, Australia
Hosted by the Oceanic Youth Circle

It is with pleasure that the Oceanic Youth Circle announces its very first conference. Our youth initiative began about a year ago, meeting fortnightly over Zoom, and studying anthroposophy together.
Who is it for?
Consider this a call to anyone who is young (18-35), working in Anthroposophy, or just interested in Anthroposophy to come together for a weekend of learning and connection.

We have three amazing guest speakers, Dr Richard Drexel, Dr Helen Proctor, and Nathaniel Williams PhD. Dr Richard and Dr Helen are both anthroposophic doctors, visiting from New Zealand. Nathaniel Williams is the head of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland.
Our theme You and I are we – questions of community arose from an impulse we collectively share. Spiritually navigating the last three years has been no easy task for anyone, however, the challenges those times brought have given birth to new impulses of change. It is this theme that we would like to explore together.
Venue
Newcastle Waldorf School
30 Reservoir Rd, Glendale NSW 2285, Australia
Date
Fri 1st Sep 2023, 6:00 pm – Sun 3rd Sep 2023, 10:00 pm AEST
Cost
$140 for the weekend, which includes lunch and dinner. There is also accommodation available, just reach out and we can organise something. If you are experiencing finical difficulty, please reach out as we can help with the cost. We don’t want finances to be a barrier for anyone.
Registration
For tickets
Program
Draft Program
Spread the word!
Please feel free to share this announcement with your friends, colleagues, and anyone who might be interested in joining this unique gathering of young anthroposophists. Together, we can create a vibrant and supportive community, empowering each other to explore anthroposophy’s wisdom and apply it in our lives.
We hope to see you at the conference, so that we can embark on this journey together during these challenging times of change. If you have any questions at all, send us an email at youthsectionoceania@gmail.com
Warm regards,
The Oceanic Youth Circle

A Festival of Change - Social Threefolding
2023-09-20 - 2023-09-24 | Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong, NSW, 2575
Five Creative Days on Sustainable Social and Organisational Change
Social Threefolding is the recognition that three distinct social spheres operate in all human social organisations. Based on this understanding the coordination of the social life processes are not unitarian or centralised by state or leading elite. Instead, these three self-directed, relatively autonomous spheres vertically and horizontally balance and enhance each other:

cultural-spiritual life empowers and upholds unassailable freedom, individuality and creativity;
social life supports, sustains, and promotes equal justice as its highest aspiration, out of an understanding that we are all equal by virtue of our humanity;
economic life, is balanced by reciprocal interactions between people and people, and people and environment, governed by solidarity with the endeavour to meet human needs and enable individuals to work out of their pre-birth intentions. With social threefolding/social sculpture we can build systems that reflect what it is to be truly human.

We use engaging presentations, deep conversations, and some unusual tools: Storytelling, creative engagement, and board games.
Watch a video about social threefolding
Dates
20-24 September 2023
Venue
Harmony Centre, Mittagong, NSW
Costs
Download the flyer for more information about the fees for this event or contact Iris Curteis
Bookings
Book here
Please remember to book your accommodation separately.
Presenters
Irmhild Kleinhenz – Functional Threefoldness within the Human Body
Hamish Mackay – Economy Life
Gillian Rogers – Social Rights Life
Iris Curteis – Spiritual Cultural Life

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin,
the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

Reshaping a World Movement
2023-09-27 - 2023-10-01 | Goetheanum, Rüttiweg 45 4143, Dornach, Switzerland
Save the Date ➝ September 27 – October 1, 2023
Goetheanum World Conference

A transdisciplinary working conference at which common challenges and questions of our time will be worked through, and artistic interventions, impulses for the future and encounters will be given space.
How can the work of Anthroposophy be renewed and strengthened in a rapidly changing world? After more than 100 years, what are the next steps? Together we want to reshape the world movement that emerged from Anthroposophy!
Find out more here!

What is a lived experience? A deep dive into phenomenology
2023-09-27 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Research Studio presents
A webinar on the activity of experiencing
as central to phenomenological practice

What does it really mean ‘to experience’ something? To ‘have an experience’? And is it different from a ‘lived experience’? We hear this phrase often these days, but is ‘an experience’ different to ‘a lived one’? How important is it to a fulfilled life to be able to live deeply into our experiences, as we are living them?
Let’s clarify!
Phenomenology has been described as the study of the lived experience, as it is lived. In this webinar, we will take a deep dive into the nature of experiencing in the context of phenomenological practice. We will share different ways for learning to ‘capture ourselves in the act’ of experiencing and for recollecting such experiences afterwards so that they both enrich our quality of life and our professional practice.Our study theme will be the work of Arthur Zajonc on meditation and phenomenology.
This webinar is the fifth in our series, What is phenomenology?
Join us again! or join us for the first time. All welcome!
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support us.
A reading from Arthur Zajonc’s work will be sent after booking.
Bookings
Book here!
How to join the webinar
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

About the Stream of Life Research Studio
The focus of the studio is the study and understanding of the dynamic activity of the etheric or life forces in cosmos, nature and human being. We see phenomenology as central to this study.
Different members have different areas of expertise – spirituality, creativity, cognition, medical/therapeutic – but all are working out of Anthroposophy and use phenomenology as their primary research methodology, in an approach that stretches beyond the world of natural science into the arts, humanities and human sciences.
Founding Members

Dr Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an ongoing project called Where Do New Ideas Come From? which investigates and promotes dynamic, enlivened thinking practices, offers arts-based seminars and workshops and lectures on consciousness studies. You can read more about her work here.

Dr Jude Samson, whose life quest is knowing how the world works, explores how the spiritual and physical work in union with each other, and provides opportunities for people to share in his knowledge and guidance. You can read more about Jude here.

Practical and spiritual aspects of dying and death care - a holistic palliative care workshop
2023-09-30 09:00 - 2023-10-01 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Harmony Centre, 11 Beresford St, Mittagong, NSW, 2575
The Anthroposophical Palliative Care Circle presents

A weekend practice-based workshop considering death from a deeper aspect than is the norm today.
The inner life of soul and spirit are explained in their role in this transition and in addition, the nursing care of the physical body is considered prior to and after death. We look also in a healthy way, at the possibility of accompanying the human being during this process while full consciousness is carried around the sacredness of this mysterious threshold.
Aim of the workshop: to empower families and communities to take death care back into their own hands, highlighting the three-day, post death, care vigil in the home.
Morning and afternoon tea will be provided and lunches will be self catered.
Date

30th September-1st October 2023
Saturday 9am-5pm & Sunday 9am-3pm

Venue
Harmony Centre, Mittagong NSW
Cost
We are pleased to offer flexible pricing for this enriching event. Please choose from the options at the checkout on the booking site.
Bookings
Book here
For more information
Please download the flyer for program and presenter details
Enquiries: email Rosi for details.
Join our mailing list!
For future news and events

About the presenters
The Palliative Care Circle is an emerging initiative to establish holistic palliative care services and education in Australia.
Members of the Palliative Care Circle have their spiritual home in Anthroposophy and work in various professional modalities at the threshold of death. This circle forms a source from which they draw, and to which they contribute, through regular meetings for study and sharing. Their collective work supports each individual’s work, deepening and refining understanding of care at the threshold of death. This understanding informs their practice.
Members of the Circle, which includes nurses, doctors, priests, counsellors, naturopaths, death doulas, art and massage therapists, can provide a range of death care services in the home., working as individuals and in teams, professionally and voluntarily.

Image credit: The Swan, The SUW Series, Group IX, No.12, Hilma af Klint, courtesy of Fine Art America

What is veil painting? Exploring the four elements through gesture
2023-09-30 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
With artist Fiona Campbell
This online workshop uses the four elements – warmth, air, water, earth – to build on the foundations of the wet-on-dry watercolour technique, introduced last April in What is veil painting? And why do we do it?
The workshop teaches classic veiling; participants will create an artwork with a nature theme with guidance from the presenter. The workshop will be recorded and available for three months.
Why we use this technique?
The workshop demonstrates the classic veiling technique, as used in therapy and meditative practices. We use the theme of the four elements to explore how different brush strokes embody different activities and moods, and the effects this has on both painting and painting.
Each element has a different gesture that characterises the phenomenal world of Nature. These gestures provide variations in veiling approaches that go beyond being mere ‘outer’ techniques and point to how we must learn to paint out of our inner soul life rather than out of ‘special effects’.
The workshop also explores the fundamentals of the anthroposophic approach to painting.
Who is it for?
For anyone interested in learning more about this unique watercolour approach to enlivening colour.
For anyone interested in the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.
When
Saturday 30 September, 2023 at 2.00pm AEST
Cost
$65 includes video recording
How to register
Book here
How to join the workshop
The Zoom link and a list of materials will be sent to you after you register.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She does interdisciplinary research on phenomenology, creativity and cognition and has been a professional artist and arts educator for more than 30 years.
Fiona provides a wealth of professional and teaching practice with this specialist watercolour approach, including 35 years as a professional artist, 10 years art therapy practice and 12 years as a lazure/mural artist.
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. She draws on Rudolf Steiner’s Colour lectures, his ‘portfolio’ of training sketches for artists and his numerous references to the role of art and the task of the modern artist.
You can find out more about Fiona here or listen to an 2021 ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

“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

Photo credit: Trees in Sunny Air, © Fiona Campbell

Michaelmas Festival 2023 in Melbourne
2023-10-08 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
The Victorian Branch of the ASinA
would like to invite you to their
Michaelmas Festival 2023

Program

World Conference at the Goetheanum Report by Birgith Lugosi
“Is there a Difference Between Christian and Pre Christian Love?” A lecture by Johannes Schuster
Eurythmy Performance by Aurora Australis Performance Group

Download the program

When and where

Sunday 8th October, 3pm-5pm
Aurora Australis, Anthroposophical College of the Arts 2 Union St, Kew

Cost
$30, Members/Concession $20
Please RSVP your attendance to Jenny Meltzer Ph: 0411273729

We people of today

Need a true ear

For the spirit’s awakening call,

The awakening call of Micha-el.

Knowledge of the spirit seeks

To open the soul

To a true hearing of this awakening call.

(Rudolf Steiner)

Feature image: Byzantine Museum, Athens, St. Michael: 14th century. Photo by Giovanni Dall’Orto, Nov 12 2009

Finding new eyes for the world, seeking new ways of knowing
2023-10-25 18:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Research Studio presents
A 2nd webinar on the activity of experiencing
as central to phenomenological practice

How do I see with ‘new eyes’? How do I overcome my existing preconceptions and put aside my existing knowledge when encountering the world? “Every way of knowing becomes a way of living” says Parker Palmer. Every new perception or new insight becomes part of our way of engaging with the world. Thus is a process of transformation enacted through learning to see with new eyes, hear with new ears.
This practice-based webinar is the 6th in our ongoing study of the nature and practice of phenomenology. Following on from the last webinar, we continue to closely examine the act of experiencing itself. We will also work with the afterimage of an experience and how this strengthens our capacity for seeing with new eyes.
There will also be a short case study from a guest speaker, tba

Interested to find out more? Join us and share in the conversation.
This webinar is the 6th in our series, What is phenomenology?
Join us again! or join us for the first time. All welcome!

Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support us.

Bookings
Book here!
How to join the webinar
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 download the flyer

About the Stream of Life Research Studio
The focus of the studio is the study and understanding of the dynamic activity of the etheric or life forces in cosmos, nature and human being. We see phenomenology as central to this study.
Different members have different areas of expertise – spirituality, creativity, cognition, medical/therapeutic – but all are working out of Anthroposophy and use phenomenology as their primary research methodology, in an approach that stretches beyond the world of natural science into the arts, humanities and human sciences.
Founding Members

Dr Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an ongoing project called Where Do New Ideas Come From? which investigates and promotes dynamic, enlivened thinking practices, offers arts-based seminars and workshops and lectures on consciousness studies. You can read more about her work here.

Dr Jude Samson, whose life quest is knowing how the world works, explores how the spiritual and physical work in union with each other, and provides opportunities for people to share in his knowledge and guidance. You can read more about Jude here.

Now the ears of my ears awake
And now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
excerpt from thank you god for most this amazing by e.e. cummings

Practical and spiritual aspects of dying and death care – a holistic palliative care workshop
2023-10-28 - 2023-10-29 | Casuarina School for Rudolf Steiner Education, 4 Gentle St,, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia
The Anthroposophical Palliative Care Circle presents

Two weekend practice-based workshops considering death from a deeper aspect than is the norm today.
The inner life of soul and spirit are explained in their role in this transition and in addition, the nursing care of the physical body is considered prior to and after death. We look also in a healthy way, at the possibility of accompanying the human being during this process while full consciousness is carried around the sacredness of this mysterious threshold.
Aim of the workshop: to empower families and communities to take death care back into their own hands, highlighting the three-day, post death, care vigil in the home.
Morning and afternoon tea will be provided and lunches will be self catered.
Dates

Coffs Harbour: Saturday 9am to Sunday 3pm – Oct ober 28th/29th, 2023
Hobart: Saturday 9am to Sunday 3pm – November 18th/19th, 2023

Venues

Coffs Harbour: Casuarina School for Rudolf Steiner Education, 4 Gentle St, Coffs Harbour NSW
Hobart: SOHO ARTS, 14 Weld St, South Hobart TAS 7004

Cost

$275-$375 Flexible Full Price

Bookings

For Coffs Harbour workshop
For Hobart Workshop

Book here
Book here

For more information
Please download the flyer for program and presenter details
Enquiries: email Rosi for details or call Rosi on 0431135769
Join our mailing list!
For future news and events

About the presenters
The Palliative Care Circle is an emerging initiative of anthroposopohic doctors, nurses and other health practitioners to establish holistic palliative care services and education in Australia.
Members of the Palliative Care Circle have their spiritual home in Anthroposophy and work in various professional modalities at the threshold of death. This circle forms a source from which they draw, and to which they contribute, through regular meetings for study and sharing. Their collective work supports each individual’s work, deepening and refining understanding of care at the threshold of death. This understanding informs their practice.
Members of the Circle can provide a range of death care services in the home., working as individuals and in teams, professionally and voluntarily.

Feature Image: Hilma Af Klint – The Swan, No. 12, Group IX SUW, 1915

Art in the light of the Christmas Conference
2023-10-31 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
A fundraising lecture by Dr Christiane Haid
Dr Christiane Haid is the head of the Section for Beautiful Sciences (Literary Arts & Humanities) and the Section for the Visual Arts at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. She will be live-streaming her lecture from Dornach.

All funds raised on the night will be donated to the Section for Beautiful Sciences and the Visual Arts Section in Dornach.

When
Tue, 31 Oct 2023 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM AEDT

Where
307 Sussex St, Sydney NSW 2001
via Zoom (please register below)

How to register
Register and pay here

For more information
Please contact John Pater

One will strive to make beauty the mediator of truth and through truth to give beauty a permanent foundation and a higher dignity

Friedrich Schiller

Photo credits: courtesy of Sektion für Bildende Künste

Where Dreams are Born...
2023-11-04 17:00 - 21:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Mount Barker Town Hall, 34 Gawler St,, Mount Barker, SA, 5251, Australia
Ink Pot Arts
presents their
2023 annual showcase & fundraiser

This event will bring to you a wonderful array of music, singing, dancing, acting & improv by performers of all ages! Learn about where dreams are born, and how at Ink Pot we support the birthing of new possibilities. Peppered between acts will be interactive games & random prizes, delicious food & drink, plus you can enter into our raffle or silent auction. Check out the amazing silent auction offers via our Facebook page www.facebook.com/inkpotarts. And join the Musical Chairs competition (with a difference) or let your talents shine in our Busking Competition!
Program

SESSION ONE 5.00pm – 7.00pm
The Peter Pan Musical theme song Neverland by the cast, conducted by Lauren Holdstock
Folk music by Maren Yakas & Peter Pan cast members
“Stone Soup” dramatised storytelling by the Performance Deep Dive group with Sonja Zodrow
A surprise performance by some of our Peter Pan cast
Musical Chairs competition with the Singing for Fun group, led by Lynn Bonython
Footloose all-in workshops & performance – singing, dancing and ukulele – with Lynn Bonython, Nat MacArthur & Max Tulysewski

Supper available 6.40pm onwards

SESSION TWO 7.20pm -9.30pm
Song by Kate West & Friends
Improv & Create4Adelaide exciting offer!
Peter Pan Pirates “Hooks Waltz”, choreographed by Nat MacArthur
Busking Competition – 6 performers only!
AHUG & The Leroys ukulele group led by Max Tulysewski
Winners of Busking Competition, raffle baskets & silent auction announced

Date and time
5:00 pm – 9:30 pm ACDT Saturday 4th Nov 2023
Location
34 Gawler St 34 Gawler St, Mount Barker SA 5251, Australia
Bookings
Book here

About Ink Pot Arts
Ink Pot Arts is an award-winning NFP organisation based in Mount Barker. We offer supportive, fun, high-quality opportunities to explore the performing arts through workshops and events. Our workshops are led by creative professionals & provide not only the chance to develop new skills, but great companionship across different generations, cultures & life experiences. Regular programs include drama, improv, creative dance, ukulele, and singing. Specialty workshops are available on request. We are a socially-inclusive organisation who embrace pro-amateur models of engagement.

Supportive therapies
2023-11-11 - 2023-11-13 | Taruna College, 33 Te Mata Peak Road, Havelock North, New Zealand
Taruna College 11-13 November 2023

As a nurse, therapist or caregiver, we invite you to register for this three day workshop focussed on practical, effective care and intervention strategies.  Come and be a part of widening the circle of those offering supportive  therapies in the community. Through our learning process, healing plants  and external treatments will become familiar to you, preparing you to assess  and safely work with the therapies based on a sound rationale.  In addition we introduce

biography work
the inner path of the nurse or therapist, and
casework to help with individualised care across various situations and   settings.

Download the flyer

Cost
$550 all materials, refreshments and lunch included Tutors: Deborah Bednarek RN MN ANS and Michelle Vette RN MN ANS

Registration
Registration via the Taruna website or ring 068777174

Practical and spiritual aspects of dying and death care – a holistic palliative care workshop
2023-11-18 09:00 - 2023-11-19 15:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Soho Arts, 14 WELD STREET, Sth Hobart, TAS, Australia
The Palliative Care Circle presents

Two weekend practice-based workshop considering death from a deeper aspect than is the norm today.
The inner life of soul and spirit are explained in their role in this transition and in addition, the nursing care of the physical body is considered prior to and after death. We look also in a healthy way, at the possibility of accompanying the human being during this process while full consciousness is carried around the sacredness of this mysterious threshold.
Aim of the workshop: to empower families and communities to take death care back into their own hands, highlighting the three-day, post death, care vigil in the home.
Morning and afternoon tea will be provided and lunches will be self catered.
Date

Hobart: Saturday 9am to Sunday 3pm – November 18th/19th, 2023

Venues

Hobart: SOHO ARTS, 14 Weld St, South Hobart TAS 7004

Cost

$275-$375 Flexible Full Price

Bookings
book here

For more information
Please download the flyer for program and presenter details
Enquiries: email Rosi for details or call Rosi on 0431135769
Join our mailing list!
For future news and events

About the presenters
The Palliative Care Circle is an emerging initiative of anthroposopohic doctors, nurses and other health practitioners to establish holistic palliative care services and education in Australia.
Members of the Palliative Care Circle have their spiritual home in Anthroposophy and work in various professional modalities at the threshold of death. This circle forms a source from which they draw, and to which they contribute, through regular meetings for study and sharing. Their collective work supports each individual’s work, deepening and refining understanding of care at the threshold of death. This understanding informs their practice.
Members of the Circle can provide a range of death care services in the home., working as individuals and in teams, professionally and voluntarily.

Feature Image: Hilma Af Klint – The Swan, No. 12, Group IX SUW, 1915

After the afterimage: what comes next?
2023-11-22 18:30 - 20:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Stream of Life Research Studio presents
A 3rd webinar on the activity of experiencing
Working further with Zajonc’s cognitive breathing exercise.

Our exploration of the lived experience has been a process of learning how to immerse ourselves more deeply in our experiencing. Now we are working with the afterimage of the experience – but what happens when we let go of afterimage? Does this lead us closer to becoming the Other or is it a distraction?
Our 7th and final webinar for the year continues working with Zajonc’s cognitive breathing exercise and where that takes us with the phenomenological process. We will then recap what we have learned from this process with contributions from our regular participants.
Preparatory reading: Creatures that don’t conform

Interested to find out more? Join us and share in the conversation.
This webinar is the 7th in our series, What is phenomenology?
Join us again! or join us for the first time. All welcome!

Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford to support our administration and recording costs.

Bookings
Book here!
How to join the webinar
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

About the Stream of Life Research Studio
The focus of the studio is the study and understanding of the dynamic activity of the etheric or life forces in cosmos, nature and human being. We see phenomenology as central to this study.
Different members have different areas of expertise – spirituality, creativity, cognition, medical/therapeutic – but all are working out of Anthroposophy and use phenomenology as their primary research methodology, in an approach that stretches beyond the world of natural science into the arts, humanities and human sciences.
Founding Members

Dr Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an ongoing project called Where Do New Ideas Come From? which investigates and promotes dynamic, enlivened thinking practices, offers arts-based seminars and workshops and lectures on consciousness studies. You can read more about her work here.

Dr Jude Samson, whose life quest is knowing how the world works, explores how the spiritual and physical work in union with each other, and provides opportunities for people to share in his knowledge and guidance. You can read more about Jude here.

Now the ears of my ears awake
And now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
excerpt from thank you god for most this amazing by e.e. cummings

Livestream lectures from the Goetheanum
2023-11-22 20:00 - 21:30 (Europe/Zurich) | Goetheanum online
Coming up

November 22, 20:00 | Constanza Kaliks: Emmanuel Levinas
November 30, 20:00 | Peter Selg: Paul Celan
December 21, 20:00 | Peter Selg: Rudolf Steiner’s preparation of the Christmas Conference

All times are Central European Time (CET) – Livestreams will appear below at the indicated time / date.
Otherwise, recordings of previous lectures will be displayed.

Find out more
Previous lectures

AnthroArt Training to start in Taiwan
2023-11-25 - 2023-12-01 | Shan Mei Zhen AnthrArt Center, Taiwan
Shan Mei Zhen AnthroArt Centre presents
a new anthroposophic training in Taiwan

The first session of a anthroposophic art training will begin in Taiwan in November 2023 with the theme The Art and Individuality of Color: An Overview of the Painting Indications and Color Theory of Rudolf Steiner. Given in both English and Chinese the three- to four-year course will meet both in-person and online with home projects as part of the program.
Where
Shan Mei Zhen AnthroArt Center in Taichung, Taiwan
When
Saturday, November 25 through Friday, December 1, 2023.
Find out more
Download the flyer or for further information, schedule and timetable contact: albertruby.tai@gmail.com or to register use the QR code (for Chinese speakers only):

Artistic Director
Van James is an artist, author, Steiner-Waldorf educator and international advocate for the arts. A longtime teaching-artist in Hawai’i, he is a council member of the Visual Art Section, School of Spiritual Science, in North America, and an award-winning author of numerous books on culture and the arts including Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart: A Natural Approach to the Art of Drawing (SteinerBooks, 2012), Painting with Hand, Head and Heart: A Natural Approach to the Art of Painting (Waldorf Publications, 2023) and Teaching Art History: Engaging the Adolescent in Art Appreciation, Cultural History and the Evolution of Consciousness (Waldorf Publications, 2022).

Breathing through the Night
2023-11-25 10:00 - 2023-11-26 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Armidale, 2350
A Soul-building Art Intensive
With artist Fiona Campbell
This therapeutic painting intensive brings the health-giving forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies through painting through the cycle of the night.
We breathe in colour and then breathe out its complementary in a transforming process that enlivens both our life body and our soul. In this way, we bring our innermost being into connection with the world and nature, moving gently between the two in harmonious rhythm.
What will we do?
Based on a classic exercise called Painting as an Exercise for Breathing from the Hauschka therapy school, we will paint the cycle of light and darkness from sunset to sunrise using colour, accompanied by poetry. On Saturday, we use wet-on-wet painting, then prepare a stretched board for veiling the final stage, the sunrise, on Sunday morning.
This workshop is an immersive experience designed to work deeply into our fourfold being.
Who is it for?
Anyone in need of soul nourishment as we approach the end of another (for many) difficult year. The exercise supports our mental health and physical well-being by harmonising the breath, easing our tensions and bringing our polarities into balance. You do not need to be an experienced painter to benefit from this workshop.
When
10.00am – 12.30 pm, then 1.30-4.00 pm, 25 November, 2023
10.00 am – 12 pm, 26 November 2023
Where: Armidale NSW
Please register as early as you can for this and we will advise you on the venue, which will be determined by the number of participants…..one side of Armidale or the other, depending!
Cost
Full workshop: $225
Saturday only: $165
Concession: $180
What to bring
We will supply paints, paper, boards, water jars and brushes. If you have any brushes please bring them, otherwise everything should be there for you.
How to register
Heather or phone/text 0408 020508
Chris or phone/text 0431 459 109
Payment details, and any further information will be sent on registration.
Please register by FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER, so we can book the appropriate venue and order your art supplies.

About the Presenter
Fiona Campbell PhD is a visual artist, muralist, researcher, lecturer and arts educator. She trained in the anthroposophic approach to the arts at Tobias School of Art and Transpersonal Therapy, first as an artist, then as a therapist.
As Painted Space, Fiona has been a professional artist at for more than 30 years and regularly offers masterclasses in wet-on-dry painting, pastel drawing, therapeutic painting and art contemplations for festivals. She is a member of the Stream of Life Research Studio where her focus is phenomenology, and she is creative consultant for the multimedia Parsifal Project. Since 1994, she has regularly lectured on evolving consciousness and art at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College. She also has a Diploma in Waldorf Education (Emerson College)
Fiona has been involved in 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.

‘Colours are the breath of the living soul’
Dr Margarethe Hauschka

Photo credits: courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Vic Branch presents: The Twelve Holy Nights
2023-12-02 10:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Aurora Australis, 2 Union Street, Kew, Vic, 3101, Australia
The Victorian Branch would like to invite you to
How Can We Prepare to Meet the Masters, Teachers of Mankind
and to receive their blessings

Discover the significance and the magic of the Twelve Holy Nights which run from 24th December to Epiphany on 6th January.
Through this dynamic workshop, prepare for the coming year and plant seeds for each month of the calendar. The seed holds the past, present and future. At the event of Christmas and Holy Nights a seed will be planted for all twelve months of the new year.
Let us explore the twelve signs and symbols and plant the seed in our souls through movement, Self Healing Meditation, Eurythmy Meditation, and more. Through these practises we can influence the coming year by working spiritually in a positive and fruitful
way.

Date and Time
10.00 am – 12.00pm, Saturday 2nd December 2023
Cost
$50

Saturday 2nd December, 10am-2pm
Location
Aurora Australis – Anthroposophical College of the Arts 2 Union St, Kew
For more information
Birgith Lugosi 0448 844 453

TAS Branch: Celebrating the Christmas Conference of 1923/24
2023-12-10 14:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
On the Right Entry into the Spiritual Realm
The Responsibility Incumbent on Us
Tasmanian Members and Friends are invited to join the Tasmanian Branch for an afternoon of conversation and discussion. The theme is the farewell from the last evening of the 1923 Christmans Conference.
Download the lecture

Please bring a contribution to share for afternoon tea

When
Sunday, December 10th, 2023
From: 2:00 to 5:00 pm
Where
Block A Room A
Kingston Linc,
8 Hutchins Street,
Kingston TAS

For more information
Please contact Jane Bradshaw for more information
Rsvp: Connie Nanscawen

Photo Credit: © David Newbatt 2023

Canberra Branch Christmas Festival
2023-12-10 15:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | St. Columba Church, Cnr Fawkner & Farrer street,, Braddon, ACT, 2612, Australia
Dear members and friends of the Canberra Branch of the Anthroposophical Society,

You are warmly invited to share in our annual Christmas festival, to be held at Lewis Hall in Braddon from 3pm to 4.30pm on Sunday 10th December. See attached flyer for details.

Please RVSP to Tim Bourke to confirm your attendance to help us plan the event.

The Two Jesus Children
2023-12-17 17:00 - 18:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A pictorial contemplation of the young Jesus,
as differently described in the Gospels
for the 3rd Sunday in Advent

Presenter: Fiona Campbell

This Advent webinar ponders the mystery of the two different portrayals of Jesus in his youth, as described by St Matthew and St Luke. Illustrating the talk with artworks from the great masters, Fiona Campbell explores the polarity of the old and young souls of the two Jesuses, with indications from Rudolf Steiner.
Cost
$20 donation or whatever you can afford, A video recording will be available after the event.
Time and date
5.00pm – 6.15pm AEDT, 17th December 2023
Bookings
Book here!
How to join the webinar
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

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell is a researcher, lecturer, visual artist and arts educator. She has an interdisciplinary PhD on creativity and cognition and also trained as an art therapist.
She has special expertise in the anthroposophic approach to painting and and teaching painting for 25 years.
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 or listen to a ABC Soul Search interview with her about the anthroposophical approach to art.

Image: Trabzon, Hagia Sophia Ἁγία Σοφία © Creative Commons

Twelve Days of Christmas – Holy Nights Contemplations
2023-12-25 19:00 - 2024-01-05 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The Creation of the Etheric Heart and the Future of Humanity
and
The Cosmic Communion of the Human Being

Daily Contemplation and Conversational Deepening Online with Jude (Martin) Neeme-Samson and Craig Logan

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.

When

25 December 2023 – 5 January 2024
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm Sydney time

Bookings
Book here

Once you are registered the Zoom link will be sent two days (23/12/23) 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.
For more information
Download the flyer or contact Jude Samson-Neeme

Feature image: The Sistine Madonna, Raphael circa 1512 and circa 151

Save the date! A conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Conference
2023-12-27 08:00 - 2023-12-31 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
Recognising and Affirming the Mystery Deed of the Christmas Conference as We continue to Cultivate the Life of the Spirit in our Time

We welcome your participation in this important event to commemorate and celebrate the Christmas Conference, which was held 100 years ago in Dornach, Switzerland.
On this, the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Conference, it is our deepest wish to gather together a group of like-minded, like-striving souls to raise our consciousness to understand what was placed before humankind 100 years ago so that through this our hearts may be warmed and our thinking enlivened so that we may strive towards the future with Michael strength and Christened heart for the good of humanity.
When

Wednesday 27th to Sunday 31st December
Where
The Michael Centre Wellington Park Dr, Warranwood, Victoria
Program
Download the program here
Register here
For more information
Please contact Helen Vogel

At the Goetheanum
That Good May Become… 100 Years Christmas Conference at the Goetheanum, 26-31 December 2023
The commemoration conference of the General Anthroposophical Society and the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland has an extensive program of workshops, lectures and performances for those who can visit Switzerland at this time.
FInd out more here
Download the program

O Light Divine,
O Sun of Christ!
Warm Thou
Our Hearts,
Enlighten Thou
Our Heads,
That good may become
What from our Hearts we would found
And from our Heads direct
With single purpose.

Excerpt from the Foundation Stone Meditation

Photo credits: courtesy of Birgith Lugosi

How do I find the Good? A course for young doctors
2024-01-03 - 2024-01-07 | Goetheanum, Rüttiweg 45 4143, Dornach, Switzerland
YIAM Conference 2024
100 years course for young doctors
Goetheanum, Switzerland

How do I find the Good? How can we help our patients in their healing process? Our conference honouring the 100 year anniversary of the ‘Course for Young Doctors’ is inspired by these questions as guiding stars. In the lectures of the course there are exercises and meditations as a guide towards spiritual independence, to learn how to see with the heart and perceive the wisdom of Nature and the Cosmos. We are called to unite the human being once again with this wisdom, through an unshakeable Will to heal and the realisation of Karma. The content of our conference seeks to explore and develop these and other themes from this course.
We, as an international group of young people in diverse fields of the anthroposophic healing arts, have been preparing this conference for three years now, and invite anyone who feels connected to or inspired by the impulse to join! In these Holy Nights between Christmas and Epiphany, we hope to create space for experience, encounter, and inspiration, so that we can find new strength and courage as we carry Anthroposophic medicine into the future.
Along with the rich in-person programme of lectures, workshops, and artistic performances, there will also be an online conference to accompany our conference for those who cannot travel to the Goetheanum. The online conference has come into being as the in-person lectures will not be live-streamed or recorded. Please note that the online conference will be taking place in the middle of the European night, so that those around the world who can not be present in person, can attend during their day time. To stay informed about the online conference, please sign up to our mailing list with the Medical Section here. We want to do our best to make attendance possible for everyone so please get in touch if financial barriers are in the way. Childcare is also something we are working on providing for the duration of the conference.
This is a hybrid event, so Zoom participation is possible for those unable to visit Switzerland.

Program
Download the full program
For more information
Find out more about this exciting conference and how to register.
To stay informed about the online conference, please sign up to our mailing list with the Medical Section here.

The Four Large Watercolors: Seasonal Painting with Van James
2024-01-07 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Seasonal Painting themes based on
Rudolf Steiner’s originals of 100 years ago

New Life, Three Crosses, Archetypal Plant and Archetypal Man/Animal will be explored in connection with the festival times of year: Christmas/Winter, Easter/Spring, Saint John’s/Summer, and Michaelmas/Autumn. These were the last four watercolour paintings created by Rudolf Steiner in connection with a deepening of his work in Spiritual Science and the significance of the cycle of the year.
Find out more
Contact Nurturers Studio for more information

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

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

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

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

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

Bookings
Contact: Renate 0408806468
Download the flyers

Mittagong Performance and Workshop
Sydney Performance and Workshop

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

Read a review of their work

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

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

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

Program

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

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

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

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

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

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

For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell for more information.

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

Feature image: OIA, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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