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.

Working with Steiner’s Training Sketches for the Artists
2025-09-06 15:00 - 2025-11-29 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Introducing Steiner’s anthroposophic training path for painters
with Painted Space Studio

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

Steiner

The Nine Nature Moods or Training Sketches are the definitive foundation and starting point of Steiner’s impulse for the Arts. Given as ‘picture seeds’ to lead us into the future, they open the door to the new anthroposophic approach to painting.

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 but wet-on-wet or pastels are also possible if you prefer.

What will we do?

Starting with the sunrise, these sketches take us on an imaginative journey following the sun, moon and seasons as expressions of the spiritual laws in play between earth and cosmos. We work with each sketch creatively yet with careful attention to the forces they embody, first in pastel, then in watercolour to create a wonderful series of heavenly and earthly imaginations.

Who is it for?

For anyone interested learning about the core anthroposophic approach to art, colour and painting.

For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to develop their artistic practice.

This course is a core course of the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. Beginners are welcome, but some watercolour painting experience is desirable. If preferred, you may choose to work with soft pastels only.

What is the importance of the Training Sketches?

Sunrise I, from the Nine Nature Moods series

You can see some interpretations of these sketches here.
These nine nature mood sketches are the starting place for anyone seeking to understand Steiner’s new impulse for the visual arts. 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.
The nine sketches are part of a comprehensive 28 motif portfolio known as the Training Sketches for the Artists. Along with Steiner’s watercolours, The Seven School or Friedwart Sketches and many others (the Goetheanum epochs motifs are supplementary to the portfolio), they form the foundation of an anthroposophic art training in painting and drawing. Steiner first gave them to artist Henni Geck in 1922 for the new of painting, just as he earlier developed eurythmy as a new art of movement.

When is it?
3pm-5pm Saturdays AEST, 6 September – 29 November 2025
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 to get the most out of the course, including individual feedback, unless your time zone makes this impossible.

Cost

$290 AUD/$190 USD
$300 AUD for PD certificate, conditions apply*
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here!

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

For more information

Contact

* PD (Pr0fessional development certificates) require 75% attendance and exercises on Padlet
Feature image: Moonrise (2022) © Fiona Campbell
Feature quote: from Artistic and Moral Experience, in Colour, Part III

A Conversation With Your Garden: Goethean Observation and Drawing
2025-09-10 17:00 - 2025-11-19 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Learn to see your garden with new eyes and learn new drawing techniques!

These six online workshops uses the core stages of the phenomenological process of Goethean phenomenology using charcoal, pastels, shaded and dynamic drawing.
Spring and Autumn are ideal times of year to turn our eyes to Nature to learn her secrets. The cycle of the plant is particularly on display to us, as seed becomes leaf, leaf becomes bud, then flower turns to fruit and finally, seeds return to the earth. (Of course, any time of year in the garden is good, but Spring and Autumn have particular qualities of change and transformation, which are especially suited to observation and drawing.)
What will we do?
Each workshop leads us through a process of becoming ‘at home’ with Nature, using quiet contemplation, careful observation, mood immersion, sketching and colour painting.
Participants keep a visual diary to document their discoveries and observations.
By getting up close with our garden in this way, we learn to step more deeply into the cycles of life.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops fresh, 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 both Nature and ourselves and helps us develop new organs of perception.

Phenomenology is the way of the future!

Who is it for?

For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.
For nature lovers who would like to learn a non-confrontational way of drawing plants.
For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature

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?
5.00pm-6.30pm AEST, Fortnightly Wednesdays 10 September – 19 November, 2025
Cost
$225 AUD/ $145 USD
$230 PD certificate, conditions apply
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Book here

Find out more!
Contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space Studio

Feature image: The Plant between the Sun and Earth by G.Adams and O. Whicher plate VIII

Passport to Everywhere: Eurythmy Performance
2025-09-11 - 2025-09-16 | NSW
Pacifica College Eurythmy Tour 2025

Bookings

The Michaelic Mystery: An Artistic Journey Exploring
2025-09-12 14:00 - 2025-11-21 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
This masterclass in painting explores the nature and mission of Michael, the Archangel of our age, in connection with the human life and the seeds we plant for the future. .
Our path of inquiry draws on Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on this theme, starting with The Cycle Of The Year As A Breathing Process, Lecture V and lectures from The Michael Mystery.
Who is the course for?

For students of Anthroposophy who want to experience spiritual science through the arts, knowing through doing.

Painting skills and understanding of fundamental anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Cost
$280 AUD/$190 USD
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
Bookings
Who is Michael ?
Michael (pronounced Micha-el) is a higher being whose name means ‘who is like God’. He an archangel of Christian, Judaic and Islamic religions and is often portrayed in art as slaying a dragon or Satan or with scales for weighing souls on the Day of Judgement.
He is said to inspire a cosmopolitan or world consciousness in us, at a time when human beings are becoming more and more individualised and egocentric, and our world more and more chaotic. His silent words provide a sure, steady, conscious pathway to bring our own spirit into harmony with World Spirit.
Thinking as a Michaelic person has always to do with endeavouring to implant something of the spiritual into the wider cultural-scientific and social economic life of our time.
For more information
Contact Painted Space Studio

Feature image: Michael and the Dragon, © Fiona Campbell 1999

The Michael age has dawned. Hearts begin to have thoughts. Enthusiasm no longer flows from mystical obscurity, but from the inner clarity that thought conveys. To grasp this is to receive Michael into one’s soul. Thoughts that today seek to grasp the spirit must spring from hearts that beat for Michael as the fiery cosmic prince of thought.’ Rudolf Steiner

Working with Composition: Bringing Ego Organisation into Painting
2025-09-13 15:00 - 2025-11-22 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
An exploration of the role of composition in painting in relation to the ego or “I”as the organiser of our soul life, through painting, drawing and art history observation. The health-giving effects of working consciously with the principles of the fourfold human being underpins this studio course.
What is composition?
Historically, artists have always drawn on the laws of perception to arrange the elements within a work of art, to create balance, focus, unity or harmony in the work. This need for the visual ordering of colour, line, form and space is essential to our feelings of connection to or our aesthetic enjoyment of a work of art. But why is this so?

Why do we experience harmonious peace in a Raphael Madonna yet also harmonious dynamism in a Turner stormy sea?

Do the elements of a work need to be arranged in a balanced compositional way to be aesthetically pleasing to the eye? Or can we also find satisfaction in chaos and unstructured movement? and what is happening within us when we experience this sense of enjoyment with a painting?
Simply, what is the role of our “I” when creating or contemplating an art work? How do bring presence to our paintings?
What will we do?
In this online course, we explore the principles of composition and learn how to leverage these principles to bring the multiple elements of our painting together into unified wholeness. We learn how perception influences our ego organisation and our experience of harmony and balance when viewing both the great masters and our own work.
First, we explore some classic laws of visual organisation, such as the rule of thirds and the golden ratio, by observing how these laws are inherent in famous artworks.
We then learn how these principles relate to the role of our ego as organiser of our soul forces; then how to apply such principles to our own work. Thus, the art work becomes a reflection of the activity of the ego on the fourfold human being, according to the anthroposophic approach to painting.
There is particular focus on the salutogenic effects of consciously working with ego organisation in painting.
Who is it for?
This is a Schooling course but you are welcome to join us!

For artists, art therapists and art students looking to find a path of soul/spiritual development through the arts.
For anyone interested in an artistic understanding of the role of our higher self or I in visual composition.

To get the most out of this course, it is anticipated participants will work on their own between the fortnightly sessions.
Required: some familiarity with the anthroposophic approach to art and basic painting technique. Watercolour veiling/wet-on-dry skills are preferred.
Please note: this is not a step-by-step instructional class so not advised for beginners in painting unless you are adventurous and self-motivated!
What dates are the classes?
3pm-5pm AEST Saturdays
13 September-6 December 2025
The workshops are recorded but live participation is preferred, unless your time zone makes this impossible.
How much does it cost?
$300 for PD or for new participants.
$280 for ongoing participants
Recordings available post-course for private study.
How do I book?
Book here
After registration, participants will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested readings and materials.
The Zoom workshop link is sent one (1) day before the class.
For more information
Please contact Fiona Campbell at Painted Space Studio

About the presenter
Fiona Campbell is the director of Painted Space Studio. She 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 has been 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.

Feature image: Indigo and Umber Study I © Fiona Campbell 2000

World Goetheanum Forum 2025 in Sekem, Egypt
2025-09-24 - 2025-09-28 | Sekem, 3 Cairo-Belbes Road, Heliopolis,, Cairo, 11361, Egypt
World Goetheanum Forum 2025
24th -28th September 2025

For the first time, the World Goetheanum Forum is going to Sekem, the place of lived sustainable development and United Nations Champion of the Earth 2024! As a ‘Sustainable Native’, Sekem has almost 50 years of experience in ecological, social, economic and cultural sustainable development.
Celebrating diversity!
We encounter diversity in new partnerships, from seed companies to an upcoming children’s festival. Diversity is evident in all encounters between partners at events such as regional meetings and the World Goetheanum Association’s partner meeting. At the same time, ‘diversity’ poses a challenge to us because, socially, we are only at the beginning, and, if we do not develop further, we will reach the end ecologically. That is why diversity is one of the goals of sustainable development. We want to feel, think and explore this idea together in Sekem from 24 to 28 September. This is what our contribution in terms of content attunes us for.
We invite you to actively engage with partners and practitioners worldwide in forum work on sustainable development.
Looking forward to welcoming you in SEKEM, on behalf of the preparation group,
Download the program
Associated events
Pre-forum: ‘Sustainable Development for Global Impact: Scientific Conference’ at Heliopolis University on Wednesday, 24th September from 10 am to 4 pm
Post-forum: ‘Celebrating Farming: Climate Heroes of Egypt’, at Sekem, Sunday, 28th September from 10 am to 2 pm.

Preparation group

SEKEM
Helmy Abouleish

Goetheanum – Section for Agriculture
Johannes Kronenberg

World Goetheanum Association
Andrea Valdinoci and Katharina Hofmann

Find out more …
Contact the World Goetheanum Association
Web registration

Feature image: courtesy of the World Goetheanum Association
Photo: courtesy of Sekem

Michael and the Wedding Feast
2025-10-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 2 Union St, Kew, 2 Union St, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria
The Victorian Branch
presents

Spiritual Science Research Conference with Alfred Agustin
2025-10-11 - 2025-10-14 | Kew Library, Corner Cotham Road and Civic Drive, Kew, VIC, 3101, Australia
The Victorian Branch presents

How to Connect to our Higher Self

11th – 14th October 2025

In October, the Victorian Branch of the Anthroposophical Society is hosting an extended workshop with Alfred Augustin.

Experiencing our times can awaken fears. We can turn this fear into courage and see that we are called spiritually to ‘awake’ in this life.
Our body is in need of nourishment but soul and spirit are in need as well to develop healthy spiritual organs.
Learn to transform hindrances into strength, find the inner balance and inner quiet. This workshop will help making the right steps.
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Venue
Kew Library, Corner Cothan Rd, Civic Drive, Kew.
Dates
11th-14th October 2025
Cost
$300 for three days
Opitonal exceursion on Day Four to Daylesford
Payments to BSB 633000, Acc no. 207414764
Bookings
Call Birgith Lugosi c0448844453

Feature image: excerpt from painting by Birgith Lugosi

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

With support from the Anthroposophical Society in Australia.

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

The Life Of Gesture Part 2
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2025-11-09 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520

When Life Gives You Lemons
2025-11-13 - 2025-11-16 | Noosa Pengari School, 86 Nyell Road, Doonan, Qld, 4562
A medical initiative to develop a therapeutic care response to crisis

Feature image: courtesy of Pickpic

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

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

Conversation Circle

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

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

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

Please join us to experience the wonder of slow Christmas.

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

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

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

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

Feature image: courtesy of Birgith Lugosi

Beach Vigil for Marine Life
2025-12-04 20:00 - 21:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Star Of Greece Restaurant, 1 Esplanade,, Port Willunga, SA, 5173, Australia
Feature image: courtesy of Getty Images

Angels Watch Over Us: A Contemplation For Advent
2025-12-14 17:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio

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

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

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

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

Feature image: Angel s Watch Over Us ⓒ Fiona Campbell

Summer Solstice Festival
2025-12-21 14:00 - 16:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Rudolf Steiner Book Centre, 307 Sussex ST, Sydney, NSW, 2001, Australia

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

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

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

From Cosmos to Earth: the spiritual origins of our existence through art
2026-02-13 14:00 - 2026-05-08 16:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
In the ethereal ocean’s colour-glorying
The weaving essence of the Light brings forth
The Spirit-texture of the Human Soul,
And ripening with seed of Spirit-life
The Soul athirst for Light looks out
Into the darkling colour-depths of Space.

Rudolf Steiner

The first of three courses in the Masterclass series on exploring the origins of our spiritual and earthly existence.
Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on the planetary cycles and his Training Sketches for the Artist. This course will start with the planetary cycles beginning with Old Saturn and end with Lemuria.
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 that shaped the Earth and our earliest spiritual origins.

Painting skills and understanding of fundamental anthroposophic principles recommended to get the most out of this course.
Selected readings by Rudolf Steiner complement the practical work.
When
2pm-4pm AEDT Fridays, 13 February – 8 May 2026
Cost
$300 AUD for ongoing participants
$310 for PD certificate or for new participants enrolling only in this course.
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.

Book here

Feature image: Moon Planetary Seal © Fiona Campbell 1996

Staying Connected Study Group
2026-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 (Australia/Sydney) | NSW
This fortnightly study group is based on Steiner’s collection of lectures in Staying Connected. In between, through a WhatsApp group, there will be support and encouragement to post poems, interesting relevant articles – or just to reach out and communicate and find support.

Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul
2026-02-21 - 2027-12-04 | Online
Painted Space Studio
presents

An online training in art as a spiritual practice
for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
2026 Enquiries open now!

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

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

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

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

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

Who is the schooling course for?

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

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

THIS SCHOOLING COURSE IS AN INITIATIVE OF THE VISUAL ARTS SECTION

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

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

Feature image: Black Study I, courtesy of Fiona Campbell

Working with colour, out of colour: a one-day painting intensive
2026-02-21 15:30 - 20:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
A Painted Space Studio workshop

“A whole world opened and showed me colour as a living being.”
Goethe

This intensive workshop is a must for anyone who wishes to understand the role of colour in Steiner’ education and in Anthroposophy in general.
It introduces you to colour as an experience! We use the immersive wet-on-wet painting technique to help us transpose ourselves into the colour, so that we can say: “I am blue’ or ‘I am at one with golden yellow’. This is an important process for understanding how to work with colour, out of colour, selflessly.
The workshop provides you with basic watercolour painting skills and a grounding in Goethe’s Theory of Colour (which underlies the Steiner/Waldorf school curriculum for the visual arts).
Painting ‘out of colour’
But how do we paint ‘out of colour’ and not form? And how does this relate to the colours in nature, in the sky, the colours of the rainbow? To answer these questions, we start with Goethe’s colour circle as our guide. By immersing ourselves into the colour circle as it moves from warm to cool, light to dark, heaven to earth and back, we experience the full spectrum of colour – and of ourselves.

Why Goethe’s colour circle ?
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 each colour, one by one, we come to a deep, intuitive relationship with them. This, in turn, connects us more strongly to colour in the world around us.
Who is it for?

For Steiner (Waldorf) teachers who want to learn about colour to support their teaching practice (PD certificates available).

For anyone interested in learning to paint in the anthroposophic (Steiner) approach.

This short intensive also provides an introduction to the Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul training. The Essence of Anthroposophic Art: Veiling the Colours follows on from this course, a further exploration of Goethe’s Theory of Colour but introducing the wet-on-dry watercolour painting technique.
When is it?
3.30pm-8pm AEDT, Saturday 21 February 2026
Cost
$150 AUD
$160 AUD for PD certificate
Video recordings and readings included in the fee, available for private study.
You will be sent the payment details and a list of suggested materials after booking. The Zoom link is sent one (1) day before the workshop begins.
Bookings
Book here!

For more information
Contact Fiona Campbell

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

Celebrating the life of Ita Wegman: A community offering
2026-02-22 10:30 - 12:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Samford Valley Steiner School, 5 Narrawa Drive, Wights Mountain, Qld, 4520
Feature image: Ita Wegman aged 52 in Breslau, 1928, courtesy of WALA Heilmittel GmbH’s historical company archive.

A Conversation With Your Garden (Autumn): Goethean Observation and Drawing
2026-02-25 17:30 - 2026-05-06 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online
Painted Space Studio presents

Oh, I who wish to grow, I look out, and inside me the tree grows.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1914

Immersing ourselves in Nature as She turns inward …
Autumn is the wonderful time of year to turn our eyes to the changes Nature brings to the garden: the reds and golds of European trees, the bounty of fruits and late vegetables, all mixed in with the evergreens and native plants following their own local seasonal changes.
Whether you have your own garden or like to walk in a local park, a nature reserve or even just tend a few pot plants on your balcony, being with plants in their endless cycles of becoming and dying away is both energising and de-stressing for us. A health-giving counterblance to computer work!
Using Goethean phenomenology to guide us, these six online workshops will help you to become more ‘at home’ with nature.
The six workshops use mixed media and different drawing 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.
What is Goethean phenomenology?
Goethean phenomenology (also known as Goethean observation) helps us develops fresh, new eyes for seeing and engaging with the world around us. It brings us into a more participatory connection with both nature and ourselves.
Who is it for?

For anyone interested in knowing more about Goethean phenomenology and how to practice it.
For nature lovers who would like to learn a non-confrontational way of drawing plants.
For Steiner teachers, artists, art therapists and art students seeking to understand how the formative forces work in Nature

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?
5.30-7.00pm AEDT, 25 February-6 May 2026
Cost
$230 AUD
$240 AUD PD certificate (75% participation required).
Video recordings included in the fee, available for three months.
Bookings

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.
Contact

Feature image: Autumn Pastel © Fiona Campbell 1998

The Essence of Anthroposophic Art: Veiling the Colours
2026-02-28 15:00 - 2026-04-25 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Zoom online events, Australia
A Painted Space Studio workshop

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 veil painting technique so closely identified with Rudolf Steiner’s artistic approach.
We delve into the language of colour using transparent surfaces of liquid colour in free compositions inspired by Beppe Assenza’s playful but meditative approach to painting.
This is the preferred technique of any anthroposophic painting training. It is not an easy skill to develop but very satisfying to master.
Rudolf Steiner developed this technique as a way of of interfacing with the spirit through painting.
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 veiling (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, 28 February-25 April 2026
Five fortnightly sessions plus video recording
Cost
$240 AUD
$250 for PD certificate (75% attendance and participation required)
Video recordings included in the fee, available for private study.
The payment options, Zoom link, and a list of materials will be sent to you after booking.

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For more information
This course is a core component of Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul. It is preceded by 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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Feature image: New Life Emerges © Fiona Campbell 2010
