Anthroposophical Society in Australia

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.
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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.
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What is it about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

BOOK HERE

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

For more information

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

Contact

Feature image: Green Mood, © Fiona Campbell

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

Bookings

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

presents

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

Johannes Schuster

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

Register for remaining Lectures

Find out more
Watch an introduction to the the theme

Visit the website or contact for more information.

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

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

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

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

Feature Image: courtesy of Iris Curteis

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

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

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

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

Bookings
Book here!
For more information

Mercedes Logan

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

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

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

Taikura Rudolf Steiner School, Hastings, New Zealand

Fee

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

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

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

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Bookings

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

Images: Nina Sombart

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

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

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

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

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

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

Timezones

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

The meet-ups start on Tuesday 06 May 2025. You can join at any time.
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Hoping to see you soon, online or otherwise,
Horst

Humor and Rudolf Steiner: A Presentation by Van James
2025-05-11 13:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Save the date!
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Inaugural Conference of the Agriculture Section Branch in Australia
2025-06-06 - 2025-06-09 | Tombarra by the River, 579 Northangera Rd, Budawang, NSW, 2622, Australia
‘Researching the Essence of Biodynamics
– Its Role in the Future of Agriculture’
6th-9th June, 2025

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

Tombarra Centre, 579 Northangera Rd, Mongarlowe NSW 2622
Bookings
Book here

Find out more
For more information, email us or contact Mark Patton 0488 318 467.

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

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

Rudolf Steiner, in The Aesthetics of Goethe’s Worldview

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

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

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

BOOK HERE

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

Contact

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

Working with Counter Images & Contradictions in the Soul
2025-06-14 15:00 - 2025-08-23 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The first step (in developing spiritual senses and organs of activity) is to direct the soul’s attention toward certain processes in the world around us.
These processes are life.

Rudolf Steiner, in How To Know Higher Worlds

Imaginative exercises based on the preparatory exercises given by Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds, using painting, drawing and meditation exercises.
This online course provides an artistic entry into his preparatory exercises for the development of spiritual faculties.working with polarities and the counter images of sunrise and moonrise, growing plant and dying plant. This is a path for the schooling of the soul for higher development and it uses two motifs from Steiner’s Nine Training Sketches for the Artist to guide us on this path.
Through exploration of counter-images and seeming contradictions of polarities, we can strengthen both our imaginative faculties and our life forces.
You don’t have to be an experienced artist to find this course enriching but you do need some knowledge of Steiner’s meditative path and be open to new ways of seeing the world.

Background information
With the increasing, encroaching of AI-generated images filling our screens, through film, tv and internet, the essential creativity that lives deep in the soul of every human being is under threat. AI-generated art is not creative. It does not arise out of human creativity but out of machines. Further, it undermines the very essence of what it means to be human.
In the face of this attack on our human-ness, we need to bring a counter-impulse by strengthening our capacity to work with imaginations that arise out of human spirituality and the spiritual in nature.
By working artistically and contemplatively with colour and the formative forces of life, we can nurture our uniquely human capacities to create, to think and to think creatively, We can counter this dehumanising force,
We need to enliven our imaginative faculties to counter the life-destroying forces bombarding us.
Who is it for?

For artists, art therapists and Waldorf teachers looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone seeking a non-intellectual pathway into Steiner’s meditative path.
For participants in the 2nd year of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Recommended: familiarity with basic watercolour wet on wet, wet-on-dry or veiling skills (you can use pastel if preferred, but watercolour painting is recommended).
Background reading: Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation
When is it?
3PM-5PM AEST Saturdays, 14th June-23rd August 2025
Seven fortnightly classes plus recording
Cost
300 AUD/190 USD
$310 AUD for PD certificate (requires 70% attendance and all exercises submitted to Padlet).
Video recording available for three months included in the fee.

Book here!

How to join the workshop
The payment options, Zoom link, and list of materials will be sent after booking.
For more information
This course is a Painted Space Studio course. It is also a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul.
Contact

Feature image: Counter Colours, Counter Forces exercise by Fiona Campbell

Upcoming Sydney Branch events for Winter
2025-06-25 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
21 June 2025: 12 noon Summer Solstice celebration (Jill Hayes: 0458 571 612)
21 June 2025: 11am-1pm BD summer solstice (Diane Watkin 02 9550 1682)
24 June 2025: 7pm Chris Miliotis: Gift Money (Tuesday night talk and ZOOM)
30 June 2025: 4pm Study on Leading Thoughts (Wolfgang Devine 0431 090 201)
30 June 2025: 6pm Study on Archangel Michael (Brigitta Gallaher 0405 726 291)
1 July 2025: 7pm Anthroposophy, new start or remembering? (Tuesday night talk)
5 July 2025: 1-3pm Members’ meeting
11-13 July 2025: Ian Trousdell: Knowing Reality (($220 for weekend seminar). Contact Berna Poljak for more information or download the flyer.
14-15 July 2025: Module1 Emergency Pedagogic with Bernd Ruf ($100). Download the flyer for more details.
16/17 July 2025: Module 11 Emergency Pedagogic with Bernd Ruf ($100) both include 18/07 “Australia”. Please contact: Lisa Devine for more information.

Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy
2025-07-30 - 2025-08-02 | Parahyangan Catholic University, Jaian Ciumbuleuit no. 94, Bandung,, West Java, Indonesia
30th July – 2nd August 2025

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Warm greetings from Indonesia.
We are pleased to extend an invitation to participate in the International Anthroposophy Conference, which will be held in Indonesia from 30 July to 2 August 2025. This significant event will bring together individuals and organisations from around the world who are committed to the values and practices inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.
The conference will offer a rich program of keynote lectures, workshops, artistic activities and collaborative dialogues, all aimed at deepening our shared understanding of anthroposophy and its application in various fields of life, including education, agriculture, medicine, economy business and community development.
In the spirit of international collaboration, we kindly ask for your support in sharing the attached flyer with your members, colleagues, and wider network. Your assistance in spreading this information would be greatly appreciated and will contribute to the diversity and depth of the conversations we hope to cultivate during the conference.
Find out more
You can see completely information on our website, download the full flyer or follow us on instagram with the address anthroposophy.indonesia
Should you require any additional information or materials, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We sincerely hope that members of the Steiner Education Australia association and other interested individuals will be able to join us for this meaningful gathering.

Sincerely,
Kenny Dewi
Chief Coordinator

Breathing Through The Cycle Of The Year: A Therapeutic Intensive
2025-08-04 17:00 - 2025-08-07 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
The soul of the Earth
Lives through the seasons’ changing –
Summer and Winter.

This therapeutic painting intensive evokes the breathing cycle of the year’s seasonal changes through colour, gesture and meditative verse.
Based on a classic Hauschka therapy exercise Painting as an Exercise for Breathing, this online workshop is an immersive, deeply healing experience of the power of the health-giving forces of the earth’s harmonious breath. Rudolf Steiner tells us that the cycle of the earth is a kind of mighty breathing process of earth in relation to the surrounding cosmos (Lecture I, The Cycle of the Year). This lecture is optional background reading for the intensive.
Flowing, breathing colours are highly beneficial for revitalising the burnt-out soul. Find renewal in this special guided intensive over four late afternoons. From Summer’s light, we dive down into the warmth and sleep of Autumn and Winter, before emerging into the life and light of Spring.
Who is it for?
For anyone in need of soul nourishment and renewal. Particularly suited for conditions of insomnia, depression, burnout and long covid.
You do not need to be an experienced artist to participate in this workshop. Participants are guided through the experience with demonstrations.
Online guided exercises and contemplation interspersed with working quietly in the comfort of your home with the company of an Australia-wide community.
Benefits of live participation
When you paint alone, you are doing it for yourself. But when you paint with others, at the same time as them, even though it is in a virtual environment, you are creating etheric substance for everyone. Think of it as like visual prayer, a group of people coming together with the specific intention 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.
When
5.00pm to 6.15 pm AEST, Monday 4th August to Thursday 7th August.

Cost
$210 AUD/$140 USD
Video recordings available after the intensive

Bookings
Book here
Please complete this form to book for this short intensive workshop. You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials and a reading after booking.
The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the first workshop. Use the same link for each session.
Find out more
Please contact Painted Space Studio

Feature image: Blossoming Fruiting Trees © Fiona Campbell

The Life Of Gesture Part 1
2025-08-15 18:00 - 2025-08-17 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Heart Fire Centre For Speech And Drama
presents

Bookings

Feature image: courtesy of Heart Fire Centre

Annual Erwin Berney Oration Fundraiser
2025-08-23 15:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
‘Beyond 100 years, what is being asked of us now?’
with General Secretary Jane Bradshaw
Saturday August 23, 2025
3.00 pm – 5.30 pm AEST

All the gifts of Spiritual Science brought by Rudolf Steiner have lit our pathways of consciousness and enlivened our initiatives. Our biographies are shaped by this.
As members of the Anthroposophical Society, are we awake to the call of the time?

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When
3.00. – 4.00 pm AEST: Presentation by Jane Bradshaw
4.00 pm AEST: Q&A
4.30pm – 5.30 pm AEST:.Refreshments

Where
Rudolf Steiner House
307 Sussex St
Sydney 2000 NSW
This annual fundraiser event will also be accessible via Zoom at Rudolf Steiner House.
Suggested donation $40 (other financial options also available on the webpage). Donations possible for those who cannot attend via the Eventbrite link below or contact us to make a direct payment.

Bookings
For more information
Please contact Jude Samson

Feature image: painting about Michael and the dragon by Liane Collot d’Herbois

Further Reflections on Recognising the Holy Spirit’s working through the 3rd Hierarchy in our lives
2025-09-06 14:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 319 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, VIC., 319 Auburn Road,, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia
A Uriel talk by Rob Gordon

This theme is a further development of the talk Rob gave last year about his experiences of working with communities in trauma and difficulty and his sense of the influence of the Holy Spirit observed phenomenologically.
He spoke in a highly relatable way using many anecdotes which exemplified his approach of telling stories rather than delivering concepts, bringing his theme through living pictures.

Cost
$20 or $15 concession, or by donation.
When

2pm – 5pm (including afternoon-tea) Saturday 6th September 2025
Where
319 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, VIC.

Uriel Events are sponsored by the Ligsma Kirpe Bequest and The Anthroposophical Society in Victoria.
