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• English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine 2023

  • Start
    Saturday, January 28, 2023
  • End
    Saturday, June 28, 2025
  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  Designed mainly for registered medical practitioners (a few places open to other health care professionals)

  3-year part-time starting 23rd Jan 2023

  9 one-week modules

  Combining experiential face-to-face & distance learning

  Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide
  

  International Anthroposophic Physician Certification

  
  

  STARTED 28th January 2023. Application still open for late comer, please do get in touch with the organiser.

  
  

  Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.

  Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.

  Course Overview

  It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.

  The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.

  The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.

  In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.

  Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.

  
  

  Module Details & Topics Covered

  Module 1 Face To Face – Essential JAN 2023

  @Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research. Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements Qualitative Anatomy – Four Organs – Living Morphology and Projective Geometry Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.

  Module 2 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants APR 2023

  @Emerson College | Metamorphosis Observational Studies of Leaves and Human Skeleton as Introduction to Three Foldness in the Human Being; Medicinal Plant Studies. Child Development, Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability; Waldorf Educational Curriculum as Mirror of Phases in Child Development; Small Group Inner Path Work on “The Trials” and “Biographical Sharing from Phases in Childhood”

  Module 3 Face To Face – Highly Desirable JUL 2023

  @Emerson College | Medicinal Plant Study. Tria Principia & 8 Metals & Plants with Albert Schmidli. Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’. Biography Work. 

  Module 4 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants OCT 2023

  @Emerson College| Mistletoe Plant Study. Fever, Cancer & Viscum treatment with Dr Marion Debus & Dr Simon van Lieshout Pain management & Palliative Care with Dr Matthias Girke.

  Module 5 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  JAN 2024

  @Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia Clay Modelling Therapy , Anthroposophic remedies and their indications. Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy.

  Module 6 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  MAY 2024

  @Emerson College | Plant Study. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives with Dr Carmen Eppel. Anthroposophic Peadiatrics with Dr Karen Michael. Eurythmy Therapy

  Module 7 Face To Face – Essential OCT 2024

  @Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin |  Cancer II and Palliative care with Dr. Matthias Girke, Viscum and Fever Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension with Dr.Matthias Girke From the general practitioner’s practice Pneumology: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma. Gastroenterology External Treatments, Meeting Patients.

  Module 8 Face To Face – Essential MAR 2025

  @ Klinik Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, with Michael and Raphael Schools, Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute Rheumatology, Diabetology with Matthias Girke. Meeting Patients at Arlesheim Clinic with Dr. Marion Debus.

  Module 9 Face To Face – Essential JUN 2025

  @ Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study, Endocrinology with Prof David Martin Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine, Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle and Cromlechs on Anglesey; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles.

  International participants are encouraged to speak to the course leader in advance to identify how best to participate to ensure a rich learning experience.

  
  

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• Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training

  • Start
    Wednesday, April 03, 2024
  • End
    Friday, October 16, 2026
  • Schedule
    10 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH185JX

  
  

  TRAINING INFO

  Training as a Rhythmical Massage Therapist involves not only mastering the techniques of the massage itself, but also developing an understanding of the human being in health and illness, both from a conventional and anthroposophical perspective. You will learn a subtle rhythmical quality of touch which works with levity rather than gravity to strengthen and enliven the life-supporting processes in the human body.

  Teaching and learning take place through a combination of lectures and hands-on practice, mixed artistic media exercises, discussion groups, tutorials, regular between-module medical assignments, year-long independent projects, case studies and special seminars. Through these methods, students can develop a thorough, in-depth, and holistic approach to the theory and practice of Rhythmical Massage Therapy.

  The first year’s theme is the healthy human being both from a conventional and an anthroposophical point of view. After that, the focus will be on the dynamics of health and illness in its varying manifestations. During the two years, you will learn the basic forms of Rhythmical Massage Therapy and then deepen these massage movement skills qualitatively by learning how to transform the archetypal forms to suit specific illnesses.

  FREE ZOOM TASTER SESSIONS

  If you are interested in the Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training UK and would like the opportunity to meet our Course Leaders, find out more about the course, ask questions and meet other potential participants, we will be holding the following FREE ZOOM TASTER sessions:

  January 29th Monday at 16.30

  February 15th Thursday at 15.00

  Please email registrar@emerson.org.uk if you wish to attend one of these sessions.

  SUPPORT WITH FUNDING

  Bursaries and interest free loans with small monthly repayments are available. For further information, please contact registrar@emerson.org.uk

  1st MODULE: APRIL 2024 which will be rerun in 2024 August, see info.

  Venue: Emerson College

  Please see proposed dated as TBC

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• Rhythmical Einreibung Foundation Course

  • Start
    Sunday, February 09, 2025
  • End
    Thursday, June 19, 2025
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  Crossfields Institute Quality Mark Course
  

  Are you a nurse, midwife, carer, support worker, other health care professional, therapist or someone who wants to use gentle touch?

  Rhythmical Einreibung is a gentle form of therapeutic touch or massage, it works by supporting the body’s own forces to help strengthen, regulate and heal.

  In this time post-pandemic we are all deprived of healthy touch and many people in their lives have experienced unhealthy or invasive touch, RE has a universal relevance for us all through its gentle, rhythmical qualities. Because of its gentle, calming nature it can be very beneficial for patients who are too frail or sensitive for other hands-on therapies.

  For entry to the Foundation Course, no previous experience is necessary; progression to more advanced levels is reserved for Registered Nurses and Health Care Professionals.

  Visit the Emerson College Website for more information and booking.

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• GP and Mistletoe Therapy Clinic Dates

  • Start
    Saturday, March 01, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, March 29, 2025
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Elysia Therapy Centre DY8 3RZ

  
  

  Dr Cludia Kempfen is a GP and Anthroposophic medical practitioner, and her focus is on supporting clients in realising their own healing potential on their unique individual path in life. Her particular interests are in cancer care, including mistletoe support; burnout; mental health; functional imbalances; cardiovascular disease, the menopause and health of young people.

  For an appointment, please contact Dr Kempfen directly, thank you.

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• Weleda Wellness Retreat

  • Start
    Friday, March 07, 2025
  • End
    Monday, October 13, 2025
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Lapwing Barn Buxton SK17 0QS

  
  

  Activate your wellbeing from within

  Join us on one of our seasonal three-day retreats designed specifically to help you achieve holistic wellbeing. Taking place in the beautiful Peak District, the retreats are timed to mark the Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice.

  From delicious organic food to blissful morning yoga sessions that will rebalance your body, mind and soul, this is an opportunity to completely reset and replenish, to reconnect with nature, your breath and your body, and learn much more about how to support your own health and self, every day.

  What could you be enjoying at a Weleda Wellness Retreat?

  • An Awakening Skin Workshop led by a senior esthetician and Weleda skincare expert, with the option to add on a 90-minute Weleda Signature Skin Treatment
  • Immersive, guided experiences in nature
  • Revitalising morning yoga sessions including the opportunity for dedicated one-to-one wellbeing coaching
  • A key session with a Weleda complementary health expert to learn more about your unique body and personality type, so you can activate your wellness from within
  • Delicious seasonal meals made with locally sourced ingredients
  • A Weleda goody bag including a selection of natural and organic products to help you continue your wellness journey at home
  • A chance to rest and unwind in one of our stunning venues amidst the rolling hills of the Peak District

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• Mental Health Seminars 2025

  • Start
    Wednesday, March 26, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, November 09, 2025
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  An in-depth Anthroposophic Training incorporating Personal and Professional Development with twelve modules spanning three years

  Crises in mental health are of increasing contemporary relevance for society in general, manifesting in all areas of life and work.

  This well established training is designed to address this complex theme in the context of the demands of modern life and changes in human consciousness. In addition to providing a broadly based content, it offers participants opportunities to deepen an experience-based and empathic understanding for individuals struggling with their mental health including addressing challenges of those closely involved in their support.

  Confidential interpersonal sharing confers on the Seminar some characteristics of a retreat.

  

  The programme offers participants opportunities to explore these challenging themes in ways that are based on lived experience rather than only on abstract diagnosis. It also aims to enhance capacities to respond meaningfully to psychological challenges:

  Understand Mental Health and illness.

  Learn to pursue self-reflective practice

  Develop appropriate personal and social competencies in the field of Mental Health

  
  

  Skills in inter-disciplinary group work, self-refl ective practice and intervision are developed for peer and professional co-working. All presenters aim to model and encourage creative dialogue between anthroposophic and current psychotherapeutic paradigms and practice.

  
  

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  SUPPORT WITH FUNDING

  Bursaries are available. For further information, please contact Chiara Carones at registrar@emerson.org.uk

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• Foot Health Workshop

  • When
    Saturday, March 29, 2025
  • Location
    Elysia Therapy Centre

  
  

  A morning workshop on caring for your feet.

  Topics covered: Managing foot pain, with information on the anatomy of the foot, common causes of foot pain, exercises that can help manage foot pain, some background into why we treat feet from an Anthroposophic perspective, a little bit on four-fold and polarities, experience of a foot bath with arnica bath-soak and applying foot balm. Participants need to bring their own towel for the footbath.

  We will also give each participant a voucher for 10% off when they book a therapy session with Lynn or Fiona

  To register your place

  Please email Fiona Sim - fiona.sim@live.co.uk

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• Irritable Bowel Syndrome an Anthroposophical Approach

  • When
    Sunday, April 06, 2025
  •  
    10:00 - 14:00
  • Location
    online

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  An event of Anthroposophic Medical Association UK

  3h Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

  Open to all doctors who have trained or are training in Anthroposophic Medicine

  with Dr Philipp Busche

  Chief Physician Internal Medicine,

  Specialist in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Clinic Arlesheim

  
  

  NEW DATE: NOW ON 6TH OF APRIL 2025

  On Zoom from 10:00-12:00

  We intend to make a recording of the presentation and to make this available after the course to participants who have registered for the course.

  Contact the Anthroposophic Medical Association if you require more information, or if you wish to attend but cannot afford the full fee.

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• Rudolf Steiner's Relationship with Medicine

  • When
    Monday, April 28, 2025
  •  
    19:30
  • Location
    online

  

  Rudolf Steiner's Relationship with Medicine: The development of Anthroposophic Medicine is one of the central gifts of Steiner’s legacy. From the beginning of his life, with a disabled sibling, Steiner was oriented towards an understanding of the human constitution that could help to understand illness and therapy. This would follow him to his death bed, from where he wrote and dictated The Fundamentals of Therapy with his close colleague Dr Ita Wegman.

  Peter Selg was for many years a child and adolescent psychiatrist, involved also in medical education at Witten-Herdecke University. Now he is a co-leader of the General Section of the School for Spiritual in Dornach as well as leader of the Ita Wegman institute in Arlesheim, from where he engages in research and writing about the human and spiritual content of the Anthroposophic Movement. 

  Payment 

  It is a huge amount of admin work for us to chase missing payments, so please make the payment before you register. 

  Reference. ‘SelgTalk + Your Surname’ 
  Bank: Unity Trust Bank 
  Account name: Medical Section 
  Sort Code: 60 83 01 
  Account no: 20211853

  IBAN: GB93NWBK60023571418024 
  BIC: NWBKGB2L 
  

  Amount: recommended donation is £7.50 per person. Please be in touch if finances are a challenge.

  (There is also an option to transfer using PayPal if this works better for you, for example, to save international transfer fees)

  REGISTER HERE

  Many thanks, 

  Matthew Mirkin

  Medical Section GB Coordination Group

  E: medicalsectionGB@gmail.com

  
  

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• What the Case Histories Can Teach Us

  • Start
    Saturday, May 03, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, October 25, 2025
  • Schedule
    3 sessions
  • Location
    online

  
  

  Three online teaching presentations, held by Adam Blanning MD, will be paired with interdisciplinary small group discussions about the cases. Anyone who is working with patients is welcome to take part!

  What is it about?

  In collaboration with Ita Wegman, Rudolf Steiner finishing the book "Fundamentals of Therapy" ("Grundlegendes füreine Erweiterung der Heilkunst") as one of his final tasks before his death in 1925. The book is an open secret — difficult to read if you approach it like a usual book of factual content, but profound when understood as a guide to process, constitution and states of being. That doorway opens wider when we work with it in group study. Through case discussions, we wish to offer an international celebration of this landmark guide for extending the art of healing.

  Each lesson will be offered twice:

  You choose which timing works best for you. Both sessions will use the same zoom link:

  • once for Europe (Saturday afternoon), Americas (Saturday morning), and Western Asia (Sunday morning)

  • once for Eastern Asia (Sunday morning), Australia/NZ (Sunday morning), Americas (Saturday evening)

  Lesson 1: Case #1 90 minutes

  • Anxiety, Palpitations and Pain: the Astral body in a state of excessive activity
  • Session A: Europe, Americas, Western Asia: 1500 GMT (London) — 3 May (Sat)
  • Session B: Asia, Australia / NZ, Americas 0000 GMT (London) — 4 May (Sun)

  Lesson 2: Case #2 90 minutes

  • Depression, Fatigue and Apathy: the Astral body with insufficient affinity to the etheric and physical bodies
  • Session A: Europe, Americas, Western Asia: 1500 GMT (London) — 28 June (Sat)
  • Session B: Asia, Australia / NZ, Americas: 0000 GMT (London) — 29 June (Sun)

  Lesson 3: Cases #5 and #6 90minutes

  • Allergies and a Tendency towards Cramps: Hypersensitive astral body and I-organization
  • Session A: Europe, Americas, Western Asia:  1500 GMT (London) — 25 Oct (Sat)
  • Session B: Asia, Australia / NZ, Americas:  0000 GMT (London) — 26 Oct (Sun)

  Learning Goals:

  • Gain deeper understanding of the fourfold constitutional pictures that stand behind important illnesses

  • Share ways to enliven our work with patients

  • Connect as a worldwide community in a celebration of Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman’s generous gift

  Tuition (which covers all three sessions):

  • Solidary 100 CHF (supports the participation of others)
  • Regular 60 CHF
  • Discounted 45 CHF
  • Hardship 30 CHF

  Recordings, including translation, will be sent out for all lessons, but because this activity centers around small group work and learning, we encourage everyone to take part in the live sessions as much as possible. Small group discussion time (30+ minutes) will not be included in the recordings.

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• Listening to the Heart

  • When
    Saturday, May 17, 2025
  • Location
    online

  

  Online Conference 2025  Painting & Sculpture

  From and for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies in the field of painting and sculpture

  Dornach, January 2025

  Dear visual art therapy colleagues,

  Following our joint online conference this year, which was aimed at all three departments, Speech, Music and Visual Arts, we asked you what you needed most, what your requirements were for future online conferences.

  Based on the results of this survey, we have now decided to organize a conference on painting and sculpting, to which we would now like to invite you!

  The online conference will take place on 17 May 2025, 15:00-21:30 CET.

  We would like to invite you to listen to the two keynote lectures as well as short testimonials from participants, recorded at the 25th International Study Days for Art Therapies at the Goetheanum from January 9-12, 2025. This will be followed by a self-directed offline part, in which we encourage you to work with exercises given in workshops at the Dornach conference. Afterwards, there will be an online opportunity for sharing and exchanging ideas. This will happen first in small online groups. Results in form of short contributions will be then shared with all participants in the online plenum with all participants.

  The title of the Online-conference will be: ‘Listening to the Heart’ - Perceiving Etheric Heart Forces in your own Biography. Same as the January conference in Dornach.

  To get you into the right spirit for the online conference: We are dedicating this conference to the etheric forces of the heart, as they unfold during the three seven-year periods, from 21 to 42. Our task is to perceive more finely and listen to the heart!

  Within this call lies the task of listening to our own finely pulsating heart and developing our powers of intuition. This is also the key to empowering our patients to listen to their own heart and thus shape their own life's path.

  Obstacles and crises appear in these years of life as both inner and outer abysses. At the same time, they can also develop into key moments for taking hold of one's biography and life in an“I”-like manner. They are often accompanied by deep spiritual experiences.

  If we look at social change, the physical, mental and spiritual phenomena of younger generations, and the questions they bring, we recognise the need for creating new paths and answers. The relationship of the earthly and the spiritual—reflected in the form of the human physical body and in the form of a living spirituality in the being of love, the Christ—becomes more urgent.

  This is where we, as therapists, are called upon to create warm relationship-spaces and raise our therapeutic attitude and ability to a new level. How can we support and enable such listening to the heart’s forces in order to give meaning, courage and hope?

  These topics are suitable for all phases of life and for clients of all ages, as they help us develop a deeper understanding of biography, in the sense of the biographical U.

  In practical terms, please have all the usual materials to hand that we normally work with in painting and sculpting therapy. I In other words, clay and the respective tools, watercolors, pastels, pencils and the appropriate paper and equipment.

  We look forward to sharing the January study days with you in this particular way and thus making them accessible to our network and all of you colleagues worldwide. Registration will be open from mid-January.

  Best wishes from the preparatory team

  Heliana Cardona, Gabriela Osman, Linda Teipen 

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• The Role of Warmth and Thermoregulation for Somatic and Mental Healthcare

  • When
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  Anthroposophic Medical Grand Rounds Research Updates for Core Therapeutic Topics: English-language, online, worldwide

  21 May: Highlights from AM Research Council Conference

  “The Role of Warmth and Thermoregulation for Somatic and Mental Healthcare” 

  Save the date! More info to come near the time.

  
  

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• The Weleda Accredited Holistic Esthetician Facial Course

  • When
    Friday, May 23, 2025
  • Location
    online + Ilkeston DE7 8DR

  
  

  Life of touch: restoring rhythm with rhythm

  Wellbeing treatments - particularly massage and the recognition of the life of touch - are very much part of Weleda’s DNA. Dr Ita Wegman, Weleda's co-founder, studied massage before she became a medical doctor. She developed a very individual rhythmical massage technique, echoing nature’s rhythms and patterns. 

  The course is fully accredited, Ofqual regulated, CFI Level 4 Award for Holistic Estheticians. It is made up of four modules or units - two of these units will require in-person attendance at Weleda Head Office:

  • Unit 1 - Meeting the Boundary six-hour online foundation module completed from home, in your own time, prior to attending Unit 2.
  • Unit 2 - Three days of onsite training at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
  • Unit 3 - Home study period: case-study work, two online sessions, and completing treatments.
  • Unit 4 - Three further days of onsite training with Weleda and practical assessment at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

  Course completion - Portfolio of evidence completed and submitted two weeks following Unit 4 for final assessment.

  Summer 2025

  Unit 1: Live Online Workshop 23rd May

  Unit 2: Onsite Training 2nd June – 4th June

  Unit 4: Onsite Training 30th June – 2 July

  To read more, please find full text in Weleda UK website.

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• Anthroposophic Medical Section Conference - The Art of Healing

  • Start
    Friday, May 30, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, June 01, 2025
  • Location
    Steiner Academy Hereford HR2 8DL

  Dear Colleagues,

  We have been left so many wonderful and wisdom-filled gifts in  anthroposophic medicine, especially in the many different therapeutic approaches to the human constitution. At our conference this year, we intend to explore how these approaches work on the human being through our 12 senses and engage with our 7 healing life processes. Two central gifts, Anthroposophic Nursing and Mistletoe Therapy, will also be looked at. We will see how these different approaches unite us in our renewed Mystery Medicine under Raphael.

  The conference will take place at the wonderful Hereford Steiner Academy, who have hosted us many times in the past.

  Alongside the lectures and workshops, we are also privileged to have some Metal Colour Light windows on display (courtesy of Ruskin Mill) with a contribution to explain these.

  The conference is open to all health professionals whose work is inspired by anthroposophy. We are open to others on request.

  Keynote Speaker Dr Martin-Günter Sterner has had a long career in hospital medicine in Germany and Switzerland working in General Internal Medicine with a focus on gastroenterology. He has established a strong relationship with the international integrative medical network and has taken on a role in the executive council of the German association for anthroposophic doctors (GAÄD). He is an international lecturer and author of several articles, with a focus on understanding the human constitution and the 7 life processes.

  Simon van Lieshout is a GP based near Aberdeen where he works for Camphill Wellbeing Trust alongside his NHS work. The Wellbeing Trust has a particular focus on mistletoe therapy for cancer patients.

  Hannah Spreadborough is a paediatric nurse working within the NHS in Scotland. She is trained in Anthroposophic Nursing which she practises at Waldorf Schools in Scotland. She represents the UK to the International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing (IFAN) and is a member of the Medical Section Coordinating Group.

  Michael Evans is a retired GP who was a founding doctor of Park Attwood Clinic and later took over St Luke’s in Stroud from Norbert Glas. He is now involved in Doctors and Mental Health trainings in the UK.

  James Dyson is a retired GP and also a founding doctor of Park Attwood, where he worked for many years, as well as having practised as a school doctor. He has had a special interest in psychotherapy and has a master’s in psychosynthesis.

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Hilma af Klint 1862 – 1944

  • Start
    Friday, May 30, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, June 01, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  
  

  A painting and research weekend workshop once again celebrating the work of the visionary artist Hilma af Klint.

  Emerson arts tutor Mary-Anne Paterson and Dr Anne Weise of the Rudolf Steiner Archive Dornach will for a second year introduce their Painting and lecture weekend exploring more of this unique artist‘s works.

  Anne Weise will give a public lecture on Friday evening sharing more of Hilma’s later wet-on-wet watercolours in the style she developed whilst living and painting as an anthroposophist at the Goetheanum. On Saturday morning her second lecture will look at the remarkable Swan Sequence with the workshop participants.

  Once again the weekend will be introduced by Andrew Wolpert of the Humanities Section of the Anthroposophical Society in the U.K.

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• Post-Graduate Anthroposophic Medical Training Week

  • Start
    Monday, June 02, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, June 07, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX
  • Spaces left
    13

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  open to all doctors and professionals trained or training in anthroposophical therapies

  

  

  Please express your interest by submitting the form below, most appreciated. 

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• Quietude Practitioner Training 2025

  • When
    Tuesday, June 03, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  Quietude® is designed to train and empower people to become true soul companions to those on the threshold of death. It is a path of development for people of all faiths and doubts, open to the idea of the continuity of life beyond the gateway we call death.

  Our new Blended Course format of ten days summer residential followed by ten 3 or 4-hour online sessions has been designed, by popular request, to meet the needs of international participants wanting to embark on the journey of Quietude, as well as those living in more distant parts of the UK.

  The course creates a safe space in which to open the language and conversation around death and dying in a conscious, compassionate way, and provides a deep level of skills, knowledge and understanding of what is possible. Through this training you can deepen your ability to offer spiritual and emotional support those with a life limiting illness or the elderly frail who are in need end-of-life care.

  *We understand that online learning is not for everyone. Anyone wishing to explore a retreat-only option is warmly invited to contact registrar@emerson.org.uk

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• The Independent School of the Sections – Rudolf Steiners Inspiration for the Future of Civilization

  • Start
    Friday, June 06, 2025
  • End
    Monday, June 09, 2025
  • Location
    the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  Dear colleagues and everyone who is interested in anthroposophy and the sections of the Independent School of Spiritual Science:

  A century after the founding of the Independent School for Spiritual Science a new step in its realization is called for. This latent call for a renewed spiritual deepening is evident in the widespread dynamics of polarization, disorientation, meaninglessness and social tensions that intensify to senseless war and violence.

  Today there are twelve sections, each active around the world and dedicated to a profession or discipline. They inspire research, projects and educational programs through innovative collaborations and exchange. Over Whitsun in 2025, which marks the 100th year since Rudolf Steiners death, we will take a fresh look at his inspirations for the sections and professional fields on the backdrop of contemporary challenges and dilemmas. How can we develop the work in the sections in alignment with Michael, the spirit of our age? How can our efforts prove fruitful in these challenging times and how are the accomplishments of the sections and professional fields working back into the very substance of anthroposophy? Can we penetrate the specific and individual methods of the various disciplines of our epistemic community and reach a higher understanding of reality? The image of the Whitsun community of disciples can serve as a proper symbol for our conference. Even though they spoke different languages, the common task that hovered before them led to a mutual understanding. One hundred years after the death of Rudolf Steiner we will seek for an analogous future oriented understanding of the independent school of the sections.

  The core questions we will work on together are:

  What are the central inspirations Rudolf Steiner articulated for each section?

  What method, knowledge practices and understanding does each section contribute to the school?

  What is the contribution that each section offers the future of civilization?

  This conference is intended for everyone who is interested in anthroposophy and the sections of the Independent School of Spiritual Science. The conference will include opportunities to participate in professional working groups dedicated to research and development questions of the various fields and disciplines.

  With excitement in anticipation of the encounters and exchanges to come,

  For the Goetheanum Leadership

  Marion Debus, Christiane Haid, Karin Michael, Matthias Rang, Nathaniel Williams

  
  

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• Eurythmy in Motion - Developments within Eurythmy Therapy

  • Start
    Friday, June 13, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, June 15, 2025
  • Location
    Peredur Centre RH19 4NF

  

  This training is intended for eurythmy therapists and doctors only.

  Following on from October 2024*, this course offers a general introduction to Eurythmy in Motion** on the Friday evening and will go on to work with the organs involved in digestion, their relevant sound sequences and rhythms. As a final step, we will then look at a possible eurythmy therapy treatment plan for Morbus Crohn and Colitis Ulcerosa, both during the exacerbation and during the remission phase of these diseases.

  The weekend courses provided internationally by Eurythmy in Motion are recognised CPD courses for eurythmy therapists and physicians. Eurythmy in Motion's training seminars are now attended by eurythmy therapists and doctors from 15 countries in Europe.

  For any further information or questions, please contact Evelyn Richbell: evelyn-joy@hotmail.com. Please see the invitation from Caroline Westlake and Evelyn Richbell

  
  

  *In October 2024, an introduction to Eurythmy in Motion was given in English, at Peredur, Sussex, with Wieger Veerman, eurythmy therapist and Liesbeth Kuhlemaijer, GP. It was very warmly received, see reviews,  and an enthusiasm generated for offering regular trainings in the UK.
  

  **Eurythmy in Motion is a new initiative growing mainly in Holland in the German language. It may be seen as a deepening and revitalising on the foundation of our existing Eurythmy Therapy as given by Rudolf Steiner. One of the aims of Eurythmy in Motion is to make eurythmy therapy widely applicable through a newly developed, focused and effective method of treatment. It offers deep and meaningful insight into how eurythmy therapy supports the human organism and a wonderful opportunity for individual refreshment and for doctors and eurythmy therapists to collaborate.

  Please see the article by Wieger Veerman, or visit their website.

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• Meet a Consultant Paediatrician with Anthroposophic Orientation

  • Start
    Saturday, June 21, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, July 12, 2025
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    London

  
  

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• International Summer Intensive - Bothmer

  • Start
    Monday, July 28, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, August 03, 2025
  • Location
    Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary

  
  

  28 July – 03 August International Summer Intensive

  Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary.

  The intensive week will have a similar schedule to the last years. We will have Bothmer movement in different groups in the morning. After lunch we will enjoy the afternoon courses and at the end of the afternoon we can join some sport activities. We will round the day off with a variety of organised evening activities with plenty of room for personal initiatives.

  There are three different categories of morning courses.

  Students of the Current Trainings will be assigned to a group of mixed nationalities and training years. This year we will work in four groups. These groups will be led by Martin Baker, Susan Kelly, Anna Fehér, Márton Szűcs, Lacó Baditz, Miruna Tomescu, Claudiu Pănculescu and Vlad Pănculescu. The groups will rotate during the week.

  The Postgraduate course will work with three teachers during the week. Each teacher will be with the group for two days. They offer the following themes:

  Jessie Delage: The transformation of dimensions. We will be tackling the theme of transformation: that of the vertical and that of the horizontal and the liberation that follows. We will be working on the Transformed Height and Transformed Width (Eagle and Lion) exercises, looking at them from the point of view of bone structure, too. There might be also a chance to set up teaching initiatives in the group or in small groups during the course with organized feedback.

  Adrian Constantinescu: In our Bothmer Exercises we often speak about being “in-between” and do not lose our “centre” … But what is the difference between “holding the Middle” … and building the Middle as a Space of freedom? – Focused on this Theme, we will mainly work on the exercises: Movement towards the Goal, Scales and the 3 Circles.

  László Varga-Szemes: Falling and Recovering - Heaviness and weight as a preparation for lightness and lifting. These fundamental human experiences not only enhance our movement and soul capacities but they enrich our lives and help us meet the challenges in our various life situations. We will work with the falling and recovering elements in different Bothmer exercises. I would like to encourage future participants to explore these fundamental gestures in any of the exercises they practice in the coming months. Then we will be able to share experiences during our work together. “Our movements either follow the tendency towards falling, succumbing to gravity or they counteract it. This involves the use of the limbs directed by the will.” (Graf Fritz v. Bothmer)

  For people who are currently not on a Bothmer Movement training we will be offering an Open Bothmer course. This course is suitable for beginners as well as for people with experience! The course will be taught by Geni Kriston.

  You can sign up for the afternoon courses on the registration form. The afternoon courses are held during the first session after lunch (3 - 4:30 pm). Please be aware, that some of the courses have limited places and we will be filling the places in the order of the arrival of the registrations. These activities are offered as a course running from Monday to Saturday (except Thursday). Please consider carefully which course you would like to sign up for, as this will be your course for the whole week.

  Please find programme in the Newsletter.

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• Medical Section Summer School 2025

  • Start
    Saturday, August 16, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, August 23, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  Following the enlivening Summer Schools at Penmaenmawr 2023 and Tintagel 2024 we are delighted to announce dates for the 2025 Medical Section Summer School, to be held at Emerson College, Forest Row with the aim of –

  Working on the question of – How can the life of the ancient mysteries be renewed in modern medicine and its various professions?

  Mutually exchanging and deepening the spiritual identities of the different health professions within the Medical Section.

  The summer school is for individuals wishing to co-carry responsibility for anthroposophic healing professional work and building its spiritual source of community and context.

  The programme is currently in development with the following topics for inclusion:

  • The nature of Ita Wegman‘s cooperation with Rudolf Steiner as exemplar;
  • Separate sessions for each profession with the question of their core identity;
  • Goethean Medicinal Plant Study with art work;
  • Small Group Work sharing Spiritual Biographies;
  • Outing to the coast and guided walk to Tablehurst BD Farm;
  • The Michael School as bridge to a Raphael School;
  • The biography of Daniel Dunlop.

  A detailed programme will be available nearer the time. If you are interested in attending and would like to be included on our mailing list to receive the full programme when available, please provide your details.

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• International Annual Conference Extending the Art of Healing – Etheric Forces as Forces for the Future

  • Start
    Tuesday, September 09, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, September 14, 2025
  • Location
    Goetheanum CH

  

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  International Annual Conference

  Extending the Art of Healing – Etheric Forces as Forces for the Future

  Dear colleagues, dear friends!

  Even up until the last days of his life, Rudolf Steiner worked with Ita Wegman to complete the book “Fundamentals of Therapy”. Therapeutic working groups around the world continue to study this book with great intensity. It brings truly ground-breaking new perspectives for medicine, especially through its descriptions of the human life organization, the etheric body. These contents provide us with a new foundation for extending the art of healing. The book provides a pathway towards a much-needed medicine that can also look forward, supporting healing forces in such a way that they can become future forces for people and their continually unfolding development. No other modern medical system describes etheric forces and their effects in our organism in such a differentiated way.

  Our next annual conference is dedicated to a deeper understanding and continued, richer development of this medical system.

  A selection of planned lectures:

  What does the renewal of the Mysteries mean from a nursing perspective? Where and how does the Christ work? | Tania Prince and Rolf Heine

  The essence of the dandelion – a gift for our life forces | Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak and Karin Michael

  Why We Need Strengthened Force of Thought for the Future | Adam Blanning

  Best greetings, on behalf of the preparation group

  Marion Debus, Karin Michael, Adam Blanning

  

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• English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine 2025

  • Start
    Saturday, October 04, 2025
  • End
    Friday, October 08, 2027
  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  

  
  

  9 one-week modules over three years

  Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide

  A part-time post-graduate training for physicians

  International Anthroposophic Physician Certification

  
  

  A new cohort of the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine will start in Autumn 2025. The first module is 4 to 12 October 2025.

  Please note that the following is content is being updated to reflect the 2025 course and may be subject to change.

  Is there a place for the whole person in contemporary Medicine?

  Can we move beyond reductionist science to embrace the soul and spirit as well as the physical body?

  Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.

  Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.

  Module Details & Topics Covered

  It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.

  The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.

  The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.

  In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.

  Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.

  Module Details & Topics Covered

  Module 1 OCT 4th - 12th 2025 at Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Four Organs, Qualitative Anatomy; Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research; Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements; Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.

  Module 2 FEB 7th -14th 2026 at Emerson College | Living Morphology and Projective Geometry; Tria Principia, Phenomenologic Study of Polarity in Human Skeleton; Child Development – Karin Michael and other presenters; Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability; Biographical Studies – Marah Evans; Inner Path Work on the Trials & Six Soul Exercises.

  Module 3 MAY 1st - 8th 2026 at Emerson College | 8 Metals Phenomenology (delete Plants); Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’; Medicinal Plant Study.

  Module 4 JUL 3rd - 10th 2026 at Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia; Clay Modelling Therapy, Anthroposophic remedies and their indications; Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy, Anthroposophic Text Study; Inner Path Work Subsidiary Exercises & Three Stage Karma Exercise.

  Module 5 OCT 2nd - 9th 2026 at Emerson College | Mistletoe Plant Study Fever; Cancer & Viscum treatment; Inner Path Work - Destiny Learning.

  Module 6 FEB 5th - 12th 2027 at Emerson College | Plant Study; Anthroposophic Paediatrics -with Dr Karen Michael; Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives; Anthroposophic Nursing; Inner Path Work – Eightfold Path.

  Module 7 MAY 8th - 15th 2027 at Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin | Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension, Nephrology, Rheumatology (Dr. Matthias Girke); Respiratory Medicine (Christian Grah); Hepatology & Covid (Harald Mattes); Obstetrics & Midwifery (Angela Maaser & Midwife).

  Module 8 JUL 9th - 16th 2027 at Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study; Endocrinology with Prof David Martin; Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles; Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle; Introduction to Biodynamis Agriculture; Practical Anthroposophic Pharmacy.

  Module 9 OCT 1st - 8th 2027 (TBC) at Clinic Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, – Michael and Raphael Schools – Marion Debus & Karin Michael; Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute; Neurology (Freidwart Elsas); Meeting Patients from Arlesheim Clinic with (Philipp Busche).

  
  

  Apply for the Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund

  The fund is open to any doctor from all over the world in financial need who has been offered a place to study in the English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine at Emerson College.

  The Dr Geoffrey Douch Scholarship Fund grants one award to the successful applicant towards tuition fees and accommodation (if needed) for the duration of their programme of study.

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