The Art of Acting Workshop
2024-07-26 18:00 - 2024-07-28 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama Presents

Drama workshop at Samford Valley Steiner School
Friday 26th July – Sunday 28th July 2024

About the workshop
Through the integration of Rudolf Steiner’s approach to speech and Michael Chekhov’s acting technique, we will explore the development of character, dramatic mood and interaction.

Find out more
Find out more about Heart Fire Centre
Download the details of the workshop
Where
Samford Valley Steiner School Hall
5 Narrawa Crt
Wights Mountain 4520 QLD
When
6pm-8pm 26 July 2024 9am – 4pm 27 July 2024 9am – 11am 28 July 2024
Cost
Cost for the 3 day workshop
$250 plus booking fee
$25 optional Saturday night dinner

Facilitators
Dawn Langman, Katrina Stowe and Nicole Ostini

For more information
Enquiries: Katrina Stowe
Bookings
Registration closes on Friday 12th July 2024

Book here!

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Feature image: courtesy of Raphaela Mazzone

Breathing Out The Winter: A Therapeutic Intensive
2024-07-27 14:00 - 2024-07-28 17:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents

An Art Intensive For Nourishing The Soul Forces

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
This intensive therapeutic painting workshop brings the health-giving forces of the harmonious breath into our souls and bodies as we breathe out the Winter and breathe in the renewed life coming towards us.

Late Winter can be a difficult time: Nature’s death shudder is still with us, but already signs of hope and new growth are appearing in the earth. By preparing our souls for the burgeoning forces of Spring, we nurture the new forces arising in our inmost being and bring them into harmonious rhythm with Nature’s rhythms.

Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive experience using wet-on-wet painting or pastels and is for anyone in need of soul nourishment.

Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.

Why join the live class? Benefits of live participation
When you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating community. Think of it as a group of people coming together with the specific intention to build substance, to create something together, to bring something into the world that benefits both ourselves yet also puts positive, creative forces into the world. And we create within a divine-spiritual community. Divine beings look over our shoulders; we create in their company and in the company of like-minded others.The gift is in the giving, in the doing, as much as in the product.
Who is it for?
Beginners welcome! You do not need to be an experienced artist to benefit from this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
When

2-5pm ACST, 27-28 July 2024
Cost
$190 AUD/$134 USD including recordings
Bookings
Book here

You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after payment.

The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space

Feature image: excerpt of painting of the cycle of the plant, Weleda Calendar 2000 © Alexander Winter

Working with Steiner's Nature Mood Sketches
2024-08-31 15:00 - 2024-11-23 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
The Seven School (Friedwart) Sketches series

This fortnightly online course introduces you to Rudolf Steiner’s approach to painting and his understanding of how the formative forces shape and move the world around us through his own pastel sketches. The course uses the wet-on-dry veiling technique or pastels, if preferred.
The Seven School (or Friedwart) Sketches were first given to Waldorf teachers as part of Steiner’s new impulse for understanding both Art and Nature, to help students explore invisible yet objective laws of Nature. The series leads us from the archetypal nature moods of sunrise and sunset through the four elements to the human world, culminating in a Madonna and Child motif.
What are the Training Sketches?
Theses sketches are part of a comprehensive portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. Along with The Nine Training Sketches (Nature Moods) and the Goetheanum epochs motifs, they form an important part of this portfolio.
But these sketches are not images of external natural events; they refer to acts that are effective in nature and human, says Christiane Haid, head of the Visual Arts Section at the Goetheanum. She believes that working with the creative forces in and around us can become the starting point for facing tasks in healing the world.
Who is this course for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature and Human.

For anyone interested in the foundations of the anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy this course.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training.
When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 31 August-23 November 2024
Seven two-hour fortnightly sessions. Participants are expected to do some homework between classes. Edited recordings of the sessions are available post-class but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
Cost
$300 AUD/$205 USD
$305 AUD for PD certificate
Video recording included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

How to join the workshops
The Zoom link, payment details, a list of materials and suggested readings will be sent to you after booking.

Other Painted Space Studio workshop courses

For more information

Contact

‘…and in the creations of the artist t here will appear to us
the traces of his soul experience in the cosmos‘

Steiner

Feature image: Sunlit Tree by a Waterfall No. 6 © Fiona Campbell

A Conversation With Your Garden: Plant Observation And Drawing
2024-09-11 17:00 - 2024-11-20 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents
A Series of Workshops on Goethean Observation and Nature Moods

Let’s prepare ourselves Spring!
Spring is the ideal time of year to turn our eyes to Nature and learn her secrets through Goethean observation, drawing and reflection. Spending time up close with Nature in the garden, a park, a local nature reserve or even just with a few pot plants on your balcony is both energising and healing.
(Of course, any time of the year in Nature is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation especially suited to drawing and observation.)
What will we do?
Through the six online workshops, learn to see anew the wonder of your own garden. Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, from quiet contemplation, careful observation, and mood immersion, to sketching, colour work and reflection.
Learn the core stages of a phenomenological process and practice the different drawing/sketching techniques to take us through this process. Techniques include charcoal, pencil, paint and pastel. Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, the world around us becomes more alive – living and becoming.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops new eyes for the world around us. It offers us another way of being in the world, one that brings us into a more participatory connection with Nature and ourselves. We learn to step into the world and feel at home with it.
Who is it for?

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature
For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.

Suitable for all levels. You do not need to be an experienced artist to enjoy these workshops.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
When is it on?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, 11 September to 20 November 2024
How do I book?

Book here
Please complete the online form to book for this series of workshops. You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
More information
Find out more about this course and others from Painted Space or contact Fiona Campbell.

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

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

The Oceania Youth Group Festival
2024-09-27 - 2024-10-30 | Willunga Waldorf School, 1 Jay Dr,, Willunga, South Australia, 5172, Australia
Oceania Youth Group
presents
The Youth Festival

We are excited to announce that this year our annual gathering ‘The Youth Festival’ will be held at Willunga Waldorf School from 27-30th September! There will be guest speakers, eurythmy, camping, bonfire, storytelling and biodynamic farming.

Costs
We want to make this event as accessible to everyone as possible, so price will be $120 for the entire festival including meals. Year 12 is free and under 24 is half price. Those unable to stay for the entire event are welcome to join in whenever they can at a reduced price.

Who is it for?
Age limit is 18-35 roughly. A bit over or under is ok!

We are really looking forward to this event and the adventure that it will take us on.
Hope to see you there!

For more information
Download the poster!

Email Rebecca Debski for enquiries.

This is an Anthroposophic initiative.

Working out of love in the Struggle towards the light. Who are you?
A journey through biodynamic farming and the arts for young adults.

Heart In The Radiance Of Stars: The Etheric Heart
2024-09-27 08:00 - 2024-09-29 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 35 Morgo St, Urunga NSW, 35 Morgo St,, Urunga, NSW, Australia
The Etheric Heart as an Organ of Spiritual Perception
27-29 September 2024

Presenters:
Gillian Rogers, Irmhild Kleinhenz, Iris Curteis
Many of us feel a genuine need to find innovative ways of being, cultivate courage and a deeper understanding of life. We feel an urgent need for change – but how do we create it? Is having courage enough?
Perceiving with the etheric heart could be described as directly evident spiritual discernment between true and false, an immediacy of knowing that expands beyond contradiction and supports us to hold multiple points of view, as we come into a relatedness to the world and to ourselves, and sense an interconnectedness of all life through the spiritual substance of warmth.
We work with interactive knowledge building through storytelling, creative and meditative exercises, movement and conversations.
Our aim
Making the transformative capacity of the heart as an instrument for spiritual perception and heightened social consciousness accessible. CWA Rooms 35 Morgo St, Urunga NSW
When
27 – 29 September 2024
Where
CWA Rooms 35 Morgo St, Urunga NSW
Cost
$180 Concession, General $250, Couples $375
Bookings
Book here
Close of Bookings: 15th September

For more information
Contact Iris Curteis or download the flyer

Pop-Up Eurythmy Week #2
2024-09-30 08:30 - 2024-10-04 14:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Pacifica College of Eurythmy
presents

Speaking Lyric Poetry Workshop
2024-10-04 18:00 - 2024-10-06 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre for Speech and Drama
presents

More about the workshop
Download the Introduction to Speaking Lyric Poetry
Download the event flyer.
Find out more about the Heart Fire Centre Approach to Speech and Drama

Biodynamics Sydney Spring Workshops 2024
2024-10-12 10:00 - 2024-11-30 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
Biodynamics Sydney presents
COSMOS – EARTH – HUMAN
Biodynamic Centenary Workshops 2024

Deepen your knowledge and hands-on skills – for gardeners and consumers.

12 October: Gladesville 10.00 am-4.00 pm

Preparation Making 2
Transforming degraded dirt into premium fertility on a farm, park, verge, backyard – as little as 1-2 sqm.

19 October: Warrah Farm, Dural 10.30 am-3.30 pm

Preparation Making 3
Deep ecology
Earth/planetary rhythms and breathing
The daily walk around the farm.
Re-imagining the Earth

23 November: Sydney 10.30 am-4.00 pm

Nutrition, food and wine
Milk from de-horned cows
Allergies
Soil testing by hand, Scientific tests
Harvesting and seed-saving
Eat a BD apple – help farmers to mitigate climate change!

30 November: Gladesville 10.30 am-4.00 pm
Eclipses, rainbows, tropical storms
Finding a way through all the new energies – how do they work?
Organic/permaculture/biodynamic?
Regenerate a degraded 1sqm plot – a great use for CO2
Cost
Book early for this popular course.
$395 by 1st October
$350 Biodynamics Sydney members ($50p.a., $20 p.a. under 40’s)
Preparations samples to take home
Find out more
For registrations and information, Diane Watkin ph: 9550 1682 or visit Biodynamics Sydney

Feature photo: Blackboard Drawing, Lecture Two, courtesy of Diane Watkin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feature image: courtesy of Christopher Houghton Budd

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

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

Feature image: New Life © Fiona Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

Feature image: Three Kings © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting skills and understanding of core anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Selected readings by Rudolf Steiner complement the practical work.
When is it?
14 February-9 May 2025, Fridays 2pm-4pm AEDT
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD for ongoing participants
$290 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here!
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and readings after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

Feature image: The Threefold Human Being © Rudolf Steiner Verlag

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

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

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

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

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

Book here!

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

Feature image: Steiner’s Colour circle

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

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

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

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

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

Working with Colour Moods
2025-03-08 15:00 - 2025-05-03 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
If I delve deeper into the characters of the different colours, they show me their dynamic qualities. Out my experience, I can then let the colours guide me.
Beppe Assenza

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

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

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

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

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

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

presents

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

Johannes Schuster

When
Starting 13th March, 7.00 pm – 8.30 pm AEDT
Cost
Join the Full Lecture Series: Early Bird Price: AUD$72 (Until February 20)
Regular price: AUD $97 | Couples: AUD $144 | Concession: AUD$72
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Inscribing Signs with a Finger Dipped in Light...
2025-03-14 - 2025-11-01 | NSW
Professional Education
Towards A Cultural-Spiritual Approach to Dying and Death
Our aim is to develop a sincere, earnest relationship with Death, an understanding of the individual path of dying, and the deep reverence and honouring of the actual, autonomous moment of death. Through Anthroposophy we can discover death is the most sacred moment in our life. Through this course, we develop with you Spiritual-Cultural approaches and creative processes that encourage you to contemplate dying and death in your own life, that enable you, as a Companion, to use this transformative knowledge and spiritual awareness autonomously and with integrity to support those journeying towards the threshold. We offer: a deep study of anthroposophy, visual art and sculpture, music, eurythmy and creative speech, poetry, creative writing, oral storytelling and folktale research. We all work out of our professional and personal insights and spiritual understanding and invite you to bring your own individual spirituality to the course content.
There is a further increasingly urgent concern we address: the way our fear of death and dying has separated us from life imbued with Spirit and pushed us deeper into materialism and consequently, onto a path of destruction we now know by the term of ‘omnicide’. Our course is shaped by our resolve to find new approaches to dying and death not only for our own sake, but for the sake of Earth’s healing and health, the sacred interconnectedness of life, and the evolution of humanity towards freedom and love.

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

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

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

Feature Image: courtesy of Iris Curteis

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

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

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

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

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Mercedes Logan

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

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

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

Taikura Rudolf Steiner School, Hastings, New Zealand

Fee

Early Bird of NZ $420.00 GST incl. Your registration must be received and paid for by February 9 2025.
Registrations received from February 10 are at the regular fee of NZ $460.00 GST incl.
Registrations close on Monday March 24, 2025.
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Email: kolisko2025@gmail.com
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Anthroposophical Medical Conference: Bringing healing-forces through anthroposophic medicine
2025-04-14 - 2025-04-18 | The Michael Centre, 37a Wellington Park Drive, Warranwood, Vic, Australia
14th -18th April 2025

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

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