2012 Western Waldorf Educators Conference

February 19–22, 2012 Fair Oaks, California

Presenters: Aonghus Gordon, Ruskin Mills Educational Trust, England, Maureen Curran, Movement as a Path of Transformation (MAPT), Isis Brook, PhD, Writtle College, Essex, England, Jonathan Code, Ruskin Mills Educational Trust, England

• Online Registration
• Registration Forms (downloadable)
• Conference Brochure
• A New Inspiration for Education
• Housing Request Form

Cost: $185 (before January 23). $215 (after January 23)

'A Radical Re-Visioning of Waldorf Education'

“To meet the future, we must turn the ship of Waldorf education one hundred and eighty degrees towards the arts, aesthetics, and the practical life.” – Rudolf Steiner

“...right education requires a co-working of teachers, doctors and biodynamic practitioners” —Eugen Kolisko.

In this conference we will work with the Kolisko imagination of the cross-disciplinary hub of pedagogy, health, and biodynamics. A Waldorf curriculum that is braided with biodynamics offers an opportunity for a new consciousness of the human being and the earth and a re-imagining of practical learning and aesthetics.

Materials from the earth, whether they are gold, beeswax, wool or wood, can be lifted through the genius of the hand towards service. Through the production of rose-gold balm, honey, felt slippers or a wooden stool an aesthetic emerges that inspires and reanimates practical learning and teaching. These deeds of transformation require sensory engagement and lawful movement— a right relationship to the three planes of space. We can observe the movements of how the practitioner performs will-intentions and movement-intentions that facilitate not only wellbeing, but also social health.

This educator’s conference should be seen as a coherent event in which the participant is guided to an understanding of the role of practical education and movement as a powerful aide towards incarnation. In the practical arts workshops the participant will enter directly into experiencing how will-developed intelligence engages the power of imagination and can deliver an inner sense of wellbeing. Ruskin Mill Educational Trust has actualized these insights and has implemented a practical arts curriculum over the last 30 years.