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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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• 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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• Art for Wellbeing

  • Start
    Saturday, April 12, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, June 14, 2025
  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT

  
  

  Saturdays - drop in anytime between 9am - 2pm

  Come and join us fortnightly on Saturday mornings to explore your creativity in colour for your wellbeing. We will use watercolours, pastels, and a range of art materials to enliven our sense of curiosity. We welcome you to a heart-warming start to your weekend.

  No prior art experience necessary. All materials provided.

  Meet the facilitators:

  Sue is a BACP accredited Therapeutic Arts Counsellor and Group Facilitator. She has a private practice, designs and runs tailor-made workshops, and is a visiting tutor and supervisor for trainee art counsellors at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

  Aya is a Transpersonal Art Counsellor MCGI MBACP and Certified HeartMath Coach, with over 20 years experience supporting all abilities and ages with their social, emotional, mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing at heart. Aya teaches Play Therapy & Sandplay Therapy at Tobias School of Art & Therapy.

  

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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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• ACESTA Intersectional Forum

  • Start
    Monday, May 19, 2025
  • End
    Friday, May 23, 2025
  • Location
    Emerson College RH18 5JX

  
  

  Social Therapy and Therapeutic Education as a Lens for the Future and the particular place of the British Isles within Europe and Globally

  An interactive participatory forum to celebrate and examine the work and experiences of Social Therapy and Therapeutic Education as tool for understanding the questions of our time and our place in it.

  This will be an opportunity in bringing together the various aspects and disciplines within the School of Spiritual Science to begin this collaborative work and to celebrate the founding of the 12th Section of the School of Spiritual Science, the Section for Inclusive Social Development and Therapeutic Education.

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• What is the Special Role of Warmth in Healthcare and Healing?

  • When
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025
  • Location
    Online

  
  

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

  Join colleagues from around the world. This is offered as a free continuing education activity by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.

  With special presentations from:

  • Marion Debus | Switzerland: Fascinating Recent Research Studies about Warmth — an Overview
  • Natalie Hurst | Germany: Innovative Approaches with Rhythmical Einreibung and ‘Warmth-Breathing’ — the Special Needs of the Low Birthweight Infant
  • Adam Blanning | United States: Why Do We Think Human Body Temperatures are Dropping?

  Live conversation, with introduction, then break-out groups — join in discussion with colleagues from around the world! See all details as well in the flyer.

  Join us for the live presentation 1500-1700 GMT (London)

  There is no cost to join this first session and everyone is welcome, but you must register in order to receive the zoom link!

  Can’t participate in the live session? Information for accessing the recording will be sent after the presentations to everyone who has registered (recording will be available for four weeks).

  Join us again next year, Wednesdays 15 October, 2025, 18 February and 13 May 2026.

  Kind regards

  Adam Blanning

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• Live Taster Day – for prospective students at Tobias

  • When
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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    10:00 - 13:00
  • Location
    Tobias School of Art and Therapy RH19 4LZ or online

  
  

  If you have read about our Transpersonal Arts in Therapy or Health and Wellbeing training and would like to know more or are considering joining one of our next cohorts, you are warmly invited to our taster session on Wednesday 21st May 2025.

  Our Taster Day gives you the opportunity to find out more about Tobias School of Art and Therapy. Come and visit our beautiful campus in the heart of West Sussex!

  On the day, you will tour the campus, be given an overview of the training (both formats) and participate and experience the work that we do whilst sampling our teaching methods. You will also have the opportunity to ask any questions you have about the training including, accommodation, funding etc. Graduate and current students will be also be available to answer questions about student life at Tobias.

  A taster day is a great way to learn more about our training programmes, our small cohorts, close mentoring and high number of contact hours. Find out why learning through theory, practice and research our programme reflects the deep relationship between creativity, community, health and spirit.

  Numbers are limited therefore booking is essential.

  Online (Zoom) Information Sessions

  If you are an international student or cannot attend the live Taster Day, don’t worry! It is possible to participate in one of our online zoom sessions to find out all the information you need to start the admission process.

  Please note that these will only be an hour long and will not include art sessions.

  
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• Mental Health Best Practices: The Untapped Potential of TCIH

  • When
    Wednesday, May 21, 2025
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    16:30 - 18:00
  • Location
    online

  
  

  SAVE THE DATE!

  Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Healthcare (TCIH) offers an array of solutions to help people regain their mental health. Evidence-based integrative practices, such as mind-body therapies, nutritional modifications, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and mindfulness-based interventions, have been shown to promote mental resilience, reduce stress, and complement standard psychiatric care. Overall TCIH methodologies help people overcome stressful episodes more effectively. By offering non-medical options for prevention and treatment, they can play an important role in supporting the implementation of the EU’s comprehensive approach to mental health and of the EU Youth Strategy.

  Across Europe, best practices in mental health care increasingly incorporate non-medicinal interventions alongside conventional treatments. Evidence-based practices such as nature exposure and mindfulness-based interventions, shown to be effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression (ref.5, ref.6) are being actively applied in clinical and community settings. Countries like Germany and Switzerland have developed integrative models that include mind-body medicine, naturopathy, and anthroposophic therapies within certain psychiatric clinics. In Sweden, preventive mental health services often incorporate mindfulness, yoga, and other holistic practices. Overall, Community-based initiatives across the EU have also successfully utilized TCIH approaches to promote psychological well-being.

  AIM of the Webinar

  ​This webinar aims to explore the role of TCIH in mental health, highlighting best practices, the emerging evidence, policy recommendations, and innovative models.

  By bringing together policymakers, health professionals, researchers, and patient advocates, the discussion will contribute to a more holistic, integrative vision for mental health in Europe, fostering collaboration between different disciplines to support evidence-based, person-centered care, aligned with the One Health principles.

  AGENDA, REGISTRATION FORM & MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW SHORTLY

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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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• Anthroposophic Medical Association Annual General Meeting

  • When
    Sunday, June 01, 2025
  •  
    13:30 - 14:30
  • Location
    Steiner Academy Hereford HR2 8DL

  Register

  Members of the Anthroposophic Medical Association and those eligible to and interested in becoming members are invited to join us for our Annual General Meeting.

  This will take place on Sunday the 1st of June from 1:30pm-2:30pm, at the end of the Anthroposophic Medical Section Conference to which all health professionals whose work is inspired by anthroposophy are invited.

  We will hold the meeting in the Steiner Academy Hereford and we also plan to make it possible to join us via video link.

  Please REGISTER/RSVP so that we know how many members will be joining us, and so that we can ensure that those wishing to join remotely will receive the video link for remote participation and can be informed of any last-minute changes.

  The agenda will be circulated to all AMA members nearer the time. We hope that many of you can join us either in person or via video link.

  
  

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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
    10

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

  Join the Emerson Anthroposophic Medicine faculty for a week long post-graduated Anthroposophical medical training week hosted at Emerson College.

  Join tutors Dr Michael Evans, Dr James Dyson, Prof David Martin, Dr Broder von Laue and Sibylle Eichstaedt

  as we explore a range of topics including:

  Phosphorus – sulphur polarity: Prof David Martin will take us through another experiential journey into the life of the elements, starting with physical, chemical and biological manifestations up to the ‘gesture of the Being’ of the element.

  Macro-elements: we will explore the macro-elements (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids) from the point of view of anthroposophic physiology. Starting from biology and chemistry and building up an image of their workings within the four-fold human constitution of man.

  

  Therapeutic speech: we will explore the elements of speech such as sound, rhythm, voice and breath and their therapeutic impact through speech/movement exercises and poetic texts.

  Inner work: we will continue fine tuning our therapeutic qualities as doctors and therapists through deepening our understanding of our inner journey.

  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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• Goethean Plant Study Days

  • Start
    Saturday, June 07, 2025
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  • End
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025
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  • Schedule
    2 sessions
  • Location
    Weleda DE7 8DR

  
  

  Get to know one of our medicinal plants in depth at the beautiful Weleda Gardens in Derbyshire

  

  There’s now a greater understanding of the importance and benefit for people to re-connect to nature. Goethean plant study can help us to develop a closer relationship to whatever it is in nature that we’re studying. Working as a group can also validate our individual experiences and show us that we are often more observant and perceptive than we give ourselves credit for.

  Following the ideas of Goethe, we will look at the plant in the living sequence of it's movement and transformation from a seed through rooting, leafing and flowering to when it bears seeds itself.

  Unlike the conventional scientific approach, Geothean science includes (and validates) our human intuitive and emotional responses to whatever it is we’re studying. Scientific rigour is still an important part of the process, but as the ‘instruments of perception’ we as humans can learn so much more about a plant than just relying on lab tests and chemical analyses.

  We will participate in detailed observation, sketching and 'sensing', and then use our memory to 're-grow' the plant in our imagination. In this way, together, we will try to relate to the plant's being and gesture (what the plant is telling us) and finally explore how that may relate to the human being.

  We will discover lots of aspects we didn't know before and forge new connections to the plant world!

  Please note, this event is for 18+, or over 16s if accompanied by an adult.

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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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• Do I Mean Anything?

  • When
    Saturday, June 28, 2025
  • Location
    Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT

  
  

  Seeking truth in a polarized world and building future communities

  with Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers and John Lees

  There will be an opportunity to deepen the theme in an optional workshop on Sunday 29 June, 10.30am - 1pm

  We often hear such words as misinformation, fake news and propaganda. There is an uncertainty about truth. Our present world is beset by intensified polarizations regarding a whole range of issues – Gaza, Covid vaccination, politics (such as Democrats and Republicans in the United States), global alliances (BRICS and the G7).

  How should we position ourselves in this polarized, split, dangerous, confusing and uncertain world? What is our place in these broader events? Do we mean anything or are we just cogs in a machine? What can we do?

  Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers and John Lees are anthroposophic psychotherapists, practising a holistic body, soul and spirit approach to psychotherapy. They will share a way of addressing these questions from the point of view of anthroposophic psychotherapy. Their aim is to show that today’s challenges present us with an opportunity to develop a future spiritual consciousness and new future communities. The conference will include talks, group discussions and practical exercises.

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• Music Eurythmy Festival

  • When
    Saturday, July 05, 2025
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    14:00 - 19:00
  • Location
    Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT

  
  

  This special Festival in the centenary year of Rudolf Steiner’s death explores and celebrates the dynamic relationship between Music and Eurythmy*.

  The evening performance includes works inspired by the Grail by composers Nigel Osborne, Howard Skempton and Jinny Shaw, as well as pieces by Shostakovich, Scriabin and Bach. Eurythmy is by Maren Stott and Eurythmy West Midlands.

  In the afternoon there are presentations and workshops on Eurythmy, talks by the composers and a music eurythmy demonstration.

  For more information, please visit the RSH website or call 020 7723 4400.

  *The art of Eurythmy, an expressive movement art, was originated by Rudolf  Steiner in the early 20th century. The word eurythmy stems from Greek roots meaning beautiful or harmonious rhythm. A eurythmist moves the music itself, the inner dynamic, the emotional expressiveness. In an ensemble, the interplay of the instruments, the piece itself, is present before your eyes.

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• Eurythmy Retreat Tour

  • When
    Tuesday, July 15, 2025
  • Location
    Casa Raphael, North Italy

  

  Here attached are Michele Hunter’s this year’s different retreat posters, the main one being Casa Raphael.

  "In Eurythmy we become the instrument through which clear thinking transforms into conscious expression."

  First Stop at Casa Raphael

  15th to 17th July in Roncegno, North Italy. This location has been carefully chosen to create an all round body, soul and spirit-nourishing retreat to integrate and harmonise both our inner and outer worlds. Retreat Fee - £265

  2 Eurythmy sessions per day: 10.30am to 12.00pm: Conscious Eurythmy session in the mornings; 4.30pm to 6.00pm: Art followed by Creative Eurythmy session in the afternoon.

  Accommodation €400 for 4 nights in shared double room, 3 organic / biodynamic meals per day. Also access to swimming pool and Kneipp treatment. 

  With extra cost, Dr. Hauschka and Weleda treatments available, also in House Treatment with Anthroposophical doctors.

  Second Stop at The Merlin Theatre

  1st to 3rd August in Sheffield, UK, Retreat Fee - £150

  2 Eurythmy sessions per day: 10.30am to 12.00pm: Conscious Eurythmy session in the mornings; 4.30pm to 6.00pm: Art followed by Creative Eurythmy session in the afternoon.

  For accommodation please see local options.

  Third Stop at the Espace Culturel AAM

  22nd to 24th August, in Arbaz, Switzerland, Retreat Fee - £190

  2 Eurythmy sessions per day (in French): 11.00am to 12.30pm: Conscious Eurythmy session in the mornings; 2.00pm to 3.30pm: Art followed by Creative Eurythmy session in the afternoon.

  For accommodation please see local options.

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• Tobias CPD Summer Courses 2025

  • Start
    Saturday, July 19, 2025
  • End
    Tuesday, July 29, 2025
  • Schedule
    4 sessions
  • Location
    Tobias School of Art and Therapy RH19 4LZ

  

  We have brought together four Summer Courses especially designed for Continued Personal Developement (CPD). The courses will run through July and are for Counsellors and Therapists.

  

  Transforming Transgenerational Trauma

  With Kate Smith

  Saturday 19th – Sunday 20th July 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm

  In this workshop we will explore the idea of inherited and relived aspects of family trauma, potentially experienced as pain, limiting beliefs or somatic imprints handed down through generations.

  

  Elements and Ethers as creative forces for the foundation of the world

  Veil Painting with Gillian David

  Monday 21st – Thursday 24th July 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm

  Veil painting involves applying thin layers of water colour paint over one another. The image builds up by a patient layering of colour in varying shapes. This mindful technique heightens our sensitivity to light, space and colour ......

  

  Working with Sexual Abuse: Professional/legal issues, child protection, capacity & sexual assault

  With Deborah Thorne

  Saturday 26th – Sunday 27th July 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm

  We will look at the key principles of trauma informed therapy, Gillick Competency, capacity and professionalism. We will also look at case studies and how safeguarding underpins our work. There will be space for participants to do some creative activities ......

  

  An Introduction to Clayfield Therapy

  With Jemma Hone

  Monday 28th – Tuesday 29th July 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm

  Clayfield Therapy is a form of sensorimotor art therapy, which allows the processing of trauma and painful experiences in an embodied and non-verbal way ......

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• An Introduction to Gardening the Biodynamic Way

  • When
    Sunday, July 27, 2025
  • Location
    Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT

  
  

  with Dr Sue Peat and Douglas Davidson

  Biodynamics is an organic method of cultivation arising out of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual research. It was his response to questions from farmers who were unhappy with ‘chemical’ agriculture. Biodynamics work with the rhythms of the movements of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars, to which the plants respond. The workshop will cover the background to the biodynamic planting calendar and using the biodynamic preparations.

  It’s coming up to summer, a time when the results of our endeavours begin to flower and fruit, and biodynamics come into their own. The workshop will include presentations of research that demonstrate the benefits that biodynamics brings to the environment, the soil, the plants and to improvements in food quality. For the last hour, we’ll stir the horn manure preparation (known as 500), so bring an empty screw top bottle if you would like to take some home. A 500ml bottle is enough for an average garden. The workshop is suitable for those new to biodynamics and for anyone who would like to give their garden, window boxes or house plants a summer treat!

  Sue and Douglas are enthusiastic gardeners with lots of practical experience of biodynamic gardening.

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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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• Accross the Threshold

  • Start
    Saturday, September 06, 2025
  • End
    Tuesday, September 09, 2025
  • Location
    Goetheanum CH

  
  

  A Class Conference for Professionals who work Psychotherapeutically

  We often hear it said that humanity as a whole is “across the threshold,” but mostly unconsciously. Much confusion arises in modern life as it becomes more and more difficult to tell truth from lies and reality from illusion. A certain level of excarnation occurs, but without consciousness, allowing hindering forces entrance for particularly strong influence. Without the foundation of the body (and the body social) to unite thinking, feeling, and willing in everyday consciousness, humanity lacks orientation for fruitful decisions regarding both personal and political life, resulting in the great personal and political unrest we see today.

  How can we recognize when we cross the threshold truly, with consciousness, and enter into a real spiritual world that has an objectivity beyond any personal ideology or inclinations? What is the proper attitude once we have achieved the first steps in this direction? In the First Class Lessons, we learn the importance of not forgetting our earthly tasks as we begin to explore spiritual realms. We are asked to turn and look back at the earthly from the perspective of the spiritual world. The work we can then do from out of our spiritual nature and experience can be brought back to fructify earth existence. How do we, as individuals who work psychotherapeutically, learn and master the needed capacities to help bring greater harmony to our earthly companions?

  Our First Class conference for psychotherapists will look at Class Lessons 8 and 9 and the Recapitulation Lesson 7 which augments Lesson 8. In these lessons, we are across the threshold; we experience the transformation of the soul forces of thinking, feeling, and willing in the spiritual world, and we are invited to look back at our earthly self from the perspective of the spiritual world. We also look at the four elements from this heavenly perspective and are asked to remember our nature as spiritual beings. How does this new perspective, grounded in the real spiritual world, impact us and our work with our fellow human beings?

  The conference is participatory, with small group work. The conference will include Class Lessons, conversations, and eurythmy.

  Interested First Class members from healing professions are welcome to attend, especially psychotherapists and all professionals who work in a psychotherapeutic way with clients. Please bring your School of Spiritual Science blue card for admittance. The conference will be offered in the English language, with additional reading of the mantras in German.

  To receive further emails about this conference, and to register, please email the initiative group with your contact information at FCPsych@GoogleGroups.com.

  Warmly,

  Giovanna Bettini, Wolfgang Drescher, Jacqueline Gerbrands, Boris Krause, Susan Overhauser,

  Tatiana Pavlova, and Ursula Schöbel.

  A Conference of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science.

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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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• The Weleda Accredited Holistic Esthetician Facial Course

  • When
    Friday, September 12, 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.

  Autumn 2025

  Unit 1: Live Online Workshop 12th September

  Unit 2: Onsite Training 29th September - 1st October

  Unit 4: Onsite Training 27th October - 29th October

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

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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.

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  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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• International Conference on Therapeutic Speech and Drama Therapy

  • When
    Wednesday, October 15, 2025
  • Location
    Goetheanum, Dornach / CH

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  15–18 October: International specialist conference on therapeutic speech and drama therapy at the Goetheanum, Dornach / CH. Further information

  available soon at https://medsektion-goetheanum.ch/en/events-conferences. 

  
  

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• International Conference for School and Kindergarden Doctors

  • Start
    Saturday, October 18, 2025
  • End
    Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  • Location
    Goetheanum CH

  
  

  Virtual worlds, embodiment and psyche.

  Origin and overcoming of mental illness in the first and second septennium

  Dear Colleagues,

  'In view of the multitude of threatening and potentially also destructive forces that surround and indeed encircle the being of the child from birth onwards, the question is justified as to what things educational and therapeutic approaches can actually draw on spiritually in the face of this real existing overwhelming power.'

  This is the first sentence in Peter Selg's book "Kindheit und Christuswesen - Von der therapeutischen Haltung im Angesicht der Bedrohung" ("Childhood and Christ Being – The Therapeutic Stance in the Face of Threat"), published in 2015.

  If anything, we are experiencing this question as an even more burning and topical issue today, because in addition to a large number of external hardships such as wars and hunger crises, there is meanwhile a threat to childhood in every seemingly whole play space. In the close environment of children, the harmful effects of screen media and their invisible radiation are already being felt prenatally. The world that is invading the developing sensory organisation and nascent souls of children through this technology is full of dark messages. Although the impairment of vitality by radiation that is hostile to life is meanwhile the subject of intensive research, far too little action is being taken on the findings.

  At the same time, 100 years after Rudolf Steiner's educational impulse, we are more grateful than ever – especially in the face of these threats – for the health-giving effect of Waldorf kindergartens that offer shelter and rhythm as well as an artistic and living Waldorf education.

  We just have to keep making our remedies stronger and intensifying them. And, as Rudolf Steiner said, 'We must indeed give children back their childhood!' (Konferenzen mit Lehrern der Freien Waldorfschule, GA 300C, Dornach 1975, p. 137).

  The aim of this conference is to learn, in addition to recognising the dangers, how to support healthy embodiment and thus mental health and how to strengthen vitality.

  We also look forward to discussing any questions you have brought with you about school medical care!

  Looking forward to meeting and working with you, the preparatory group sends its warmest regards,

  Michaela Glöckler, Johannes Kux, Ulrike Lorenz, Claudia McKeen, Karin Michael, Bettina Pump

  
  

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• Journey of the Human Being Guided by Polarities

  • Start
    Thursday, October 30, 2025
  • End
    Sunday, November 02, 2025
  • Location
    Glasshouse College, DY8 4HF,

  

  Glasshouse Study Meeting hosted by the UK Medical Section

  We want to continue on our shared journey to understand and experience how the dynamic relationship between polarities brings about life and our individual selves over time.

  Relevant polarities under consideration in our studies include those readily visible in nature (e.g. male, and female, sun and moon), those present in subnature made visible through their consequences (e.g. electricity, magnetism) and those of a more moral or supersensible quality (e.g. science and art, Ahriman and Lucifer, good and evil).

  How does the spirit engage with matter to bring about life, the human being, our individuality and freedom?

  In this centenary year of Rudolf Steiner’s crossing of the threshold we recognise that many aspects of his work remain to be fully understood and this work is offered to make some progress on our individual and shared journeys.

  We will continue to work with aphoristic notebook entries by Rudolf Steiner about a seminal esoteric lesson given 16th April 1922 in London, in close context of his lectures on the Hibernian mysteries (7-9th December 1923). Daniel Nicol Dunlop (1868-1935), an early leader of the British Anthroposophical Society, will also remain in our awareness, as someone whose work successfully combined esoteric and industrial leadership in his time.

  We warmly invite you to this study meeting which is open to all who wish to connect to it to deepen the substance and colleagueship of their own work. Whilst we are on a journey, we welcome new participants as many roads will need to be retraced as well as new ones built.

  Our work will be co-carried by Hans Broder von Laue, Susanne Koszyk, Rainer Klocke,

  Hazel Adams, Frank Mulder, Saskia Renkema, Peter Hanrath, Ursula Werner (Eurythmy).

  For questions, further information and to register, please contact:

  Susanne Koszyk (Therapeutic Arts Counsellor) at s.koszyk@hotmail.com ,

  or Rainer Klocke (Medical Doctor) at rklocke27@gmail.com

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