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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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• 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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• 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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• GP and Mistletoe Therapy Clinic Dates

  • Start
    Saturday, August 30, 2025
  • End
    Saturday, September 27, 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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• Freedom and Destiny: Exploring them through Clinical Cases and Biographical Questions

  • Start
    Friday, September 05, 2025
  • End
    Monday, September 08, 2025
  • Location
    TBC

  
  

  Teach the Teachers (TTT) Conference

  The Teach the Teachers conference offers a space to meet and exchange about how we can creatively teach today's new learners. This year’s meeting continues a three-year focus on essential spiritual topics. All colleagues who teach about anthroposophic therapies, nursing and medicine, in big or little ways, are invited to participate.

  What happens at a TTT conference? The meeting focuses on lively exchange with each other and on learning new perspectives. You are warmly invited, whether you are an experienced trainer or have just started teaching. A major emphasis is on small group work and other activities that help engage adult learners.

  Over the past two years we explored ways to teach about reincarnation, then karma. This year we will look together at questions of Freedom and Destiny. We have learned that researching these topics, it is not only a support for our teaching but also a support for our own personal development and our sense of community.

  What will happen this year? We will share preparatory readings on freedom, destiny and biography ahead of the conference. You can join us to read them in a group (on Friday evening, the 5. September) or you can study them on your own. Then, when we all come together for our three-day meeting (starting on Saturday) we will go quickly into group work and exchange. We will explore Dynamic Judgment Formation as a learning and therapeutic tool, hear about how Steiner approached Freedom and Destiny, and practice teaching through clinical cases and biographical questions.

  The main presentations will be in English, with Spanish translation (El idioma principal será el inglés, con traducción al español). Small group work can be done in English, Spanish or German (or other languages, as well, if you bring enough colleagues with you). The group is limited to 70 participants.

  We hope this conference will continue to inspire participants to bring home new insights and share them with their own countries and communities.

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• Across 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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• Art for Wellbeing

  • Start
    Saturday, September 06, 2025
  • End
    Friday, February 20, 2026
  • 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.

  drop in anytime between 9am - 2pm

  https://rsh.anth.org.uk/event/art-for-wellbeing-3/
  

  https://rsh.anth.org.uk/event/art-for-wellbeing-7/

  If info web page changes, please search here.

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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

  

  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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• Bothmer One Year Foundation Course London 2025

  • When
    Friday, September 12, 2025
  • Location
    The St Michael Steiner School TW13 6PN

  

  Aims of the Course

  • Support your own personal growth through the medium of movement.
  • Grow your awareness and appreciation of others through social interactions, games, movement activities, sports and play.
  • Develop your imagination skills, be able to form and hold pictures and understand the link between imagination and movement.
  • To know and understand games and movement activities, their purpose in the Steiner Waldorf curriculum and how to teach them.
  • To know and understand a selection of Bothmer Movement exercises.
  • Improve your own posture, alignment and movement habits.
  • Increase your sense of movement, spatial awareness, balance and bodily well being.
  • Start to develop a sense of the energy of space around us.
  • Gain an understanding of the underlying philosophy of Bothmer Movement.
  • Gain an understanding of the stages of child development.
  • Gain an embodied understanding of Anthroposophy.

  The Curriculum

  The course is largely practical and we will spend much of the time moving and playing. You will learn a series of Bothmer exercises and accompanying ‘conditioning exercises’ that help us enhance our quality of movement. You will be able to incorporate many of the conditioning exercises into daily life so you can start to become more conscious of your own movements and build better habits.

  • Movement and Games : For teachers, each weekend we will teach you a selection of games and movement activities that you can immediately apply in a class setting. We will show you how to bring them to a class and why they are relevant. For parents and everyone else, these games are good fun, can also be used and adapted to family and work environments, and can provide an insight into your own character! When working with the Bothmer exercises some of the weekends may follow a theme. Here are some example themes that we will meet in our movement sessions:
  • Point and periphery: How can we remain centered and not lose ourselves in the outer world?
  • Falling: Many of the exercises reveal to us the inner experience of ‘falling’. When we have hard times in our lives or we experience a ‘collapse’ how do we navigate ourselves out of it? “Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up” – old Chinese proverb.
  • Moving with imagination: Imagination is one of the fundamental aspects of human development, linked to creativity and innovation, to empathy and compassion, and to individual well being. As the great American inventor Henry Ford said, “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right”.
  • The present moment: How can we become more fully present with ourselves? We look at the space behind us as the past and the space in front of us as the future and ask if we are balanced between the two. Can we create more space here to live more fully in the present moment?

  Who is the course designed for?

  • Steiner Waldorf physical education teachers.
  • Steiner Waldorf class teachers and high school teachers who wish to develop their own movement practice and use of movement in the classroom.
  • Mainstream physical education teachers who wish to deepen their understanding of child development and broaden their curriculum.
  • Adults who want to learn more about Anthroposophy through movement.
  • Parents of children in Steiner Waldorf Schools who wish to learn more about the education.

  The weekends will start on Friday evening and run all day Saturday

  • 12th/13th September 2025
  • 10th/11th October
  • 7th/8th November
  • 12th/13th December
  • 9th/10th January 2026
  • 13th/14th February
  • 13th/14th March
  • 17th/18th April
  • 8th/9th May
  • 26th/27th June - Class 5 Olympic Games at Michael Hall School, Forest Row, Sussex
  • July: Bothmer Movement International Summer Camp dates TBC Additional costs required.

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• Home Treatments - a seminar on Anthroposophic Medicine

  • When
    Saturday, September 13, 2025
  • Location
    Solas Bhride, Kildare, R51 Y281

  

  Dear friends,
  
  I am delighted to announce that Friends of Anthroposophic Medicine (FoAM) have organised a seminar in Anthroposophic medicine on 'Home Treatments' that will take place on Saturday 13th September from 10am to 4pm, in Solas Bhride, Kildare Town, Ireland.

  The programme will include talks from Anthrosophic doctors Maria van den Berg and Marek Lorenc and the Anthroposophic nurse Nora O'Shiel who will demonstrate some of the practical applications, assisted by members of our team. There is lots to learn whether you are an adult or have children and would like guidance in home treating common ailments.
  
  Book now: https://bit.ly/4dRgODL

  The day will include a light lunch in the beautiful setting of Solas Bhride
  ( https://solasbhride.ie/ )

  Warm regards,
  Mark Reid
  Chairperson, FoAM

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• An introduction to Eurythmy training

  • When
    Monday, September 15, 2025
  • Location
    Peredur Centre for the Arts RH19 4NF

  Eurythmy Training

  When starting Eurythmy training, you will gradually learn a different way of moving. How to create flow, contour, beginnings and endings, move together with others, create counter movements and how to sculpt the space.

  You will learn to penetrate each movement with consciousness and intention. The directions of space, straight lines and curves – will become experiences, rather than concepts. The capacity to create and hold pictures in the imagination and inform what you do and how you do it will be honed and refined over time.

  

  Course overview

  The four-year Vocational Training in Eurythmy is taught primarily as a performing art and lays the foundations for a career in Eurythmy.

  The core timetable consists of group lessons in ‘Speech Eurythmy’ and ‘Tone/music Eurythmy’ taught by our experienced tutors and accompanied by timetabled group practice sessions.

  Students are expected to take detailed notes of their learning journey and to consolidate and deepen their experiences by practicing on their own on a daily basis in order to develop the necessary abilities. At the end of each term students present their movement work to an audience in a performance setting.

  In addition, assignments, class-room observations and teaching practice from integrated pedagogical components provide students with the basic, practical knowledge and skills required for teaching Eurythmy to both children and adults as well as artistic work, and a written dissertation and demonstration project based on personal interests and ambitions in Eurythmy will form part of the later stages of training and development.

  The timetable runs from Monday to Friday during term time and core subjects are supported by:

  • Creative speech & drama
  • Music appreciation & choir
  • Poetics & literature & essay writing
  • Anthroposophical studies
  • Eurythmy education and human development
  • Painting & clay modelling
  • Form drawing & geometry
  • History of dance & Eurythmy
  • Costume making, lighting, make up and stage safety

  The four years culminate in a graduation programme, a tour and a final graduation performance.

  Find out about the curriculum and further info, please visit

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• The Genius Loci as an Introduction to Geographic Medicine

  • When
    Saturday, September 20, 2025
  • Location
    Online

  
  

  Dear friends of the Medical Section, please be aware of our upcoming zoom talk.

  Please share this in your networks too. Many thanks 

  Aonghus Gordon: The genius loci as an introduction to geographic medicine

  Saturday 20^th September   10:00 AM BST (London) On Zoom

  Donation: We ask participants to donate at least £7.50

  Register: HERE (tinyurl.com/agordontalk)

  The genius loci as an introduction to geographic medicine

  Central to its vision and application of therapeutic education, Ruskin Mill uses a genius loci method to understand and collaborate with place. Based on a fourfold approach drawn from Goethe's nature studies and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, the method explores and deepens connection with the physical, etheric, soul/astral, and ego qualities of a place.

  Building on Rudolf Steiner and Its Wegman's Fundamentals of Therapy, which proposes illness stems from misalignment of constitutional and spiritual bodies, the Trust aligns these qualities with the environment to create therapeutic opportunities supported by the spirit of place. The genius loci method extends to the biodynamic farm organism, where conscious cultivation of the farm organism creates a therapeutic curriculum accessing the seven life processes as regenerative experiences for children and young people. This approach informs the Trust's Practical Skills Therapeutic Education method and Seven Fields of Practice, both recognized by Ofsted and international educators.

  The talk will explore these foundational concepts and insights from Place, Craft and Neurodiversity.

  Aonghus Gordon OBE, Hon DUniv, MEd, founded Ruskin Mill Trust in 1983, which has grown to 17 provisions for additional needs across England, Scotland, and Wales. He developed the Trust's unique Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) method, drawing inspiration from Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin, and William Morris's insights on social renewal, human development, and the value of arts, crafts, and land work. Through relentless training and research, Ruskin Mill Trust has gained both national and international acclaim and through the recently co-authored book Place, Craft and Neurodiversity which contributes to the trust’s vision of both of students and staff in reimaging their potential through Education at Ruskin Mill.

  Register: HERE (tinyurl.com/agordontalk)

  Many thanks

  Matthew

  Medical Section GB Coordination Group

  E: medicalsectionGB@gmail.com

  
  

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• Born To Move

  • When
    Monday, September 22, 2025
  • Location
    Peredur Centre RH19 4NF

  

  A 6-9 month course for young people on their way to finding their vocation.

  The gap-year format of this course offers participants the chance to explore how human expression – the basis and essence of all art – informs and shapes our practice – taking inspiration from elements of language and music.

  It provides an immersive introduction to the art of eurythmy as a stand-alone experience – consolidating our feeling of self and supporting us in our individual aims. It also serves as a solid foundation for further studies in the art of eurythmy.

  The timetable will include explorations into speech & drama, music, painting, clay-work and form drawing, preparing for performances and outings to special places of cultural and artistic interest.

  An ‘English as a Foreign Language’ option for those wishing to improve their skills will be provided with a view to taking the B1 English language exam.

  Course dates and costs for 6 months course:

  22nd Sept 2025 – (introductory week 15th Sept) until 20th March 2026 (wrap-up week 23rd March) Holidays: Nov Half Term / Feb Half Term, Winter holiday 12th Dec-12th Jan

  Cost: £3,000

  Course dates and costs for 9 months course:

  Same dates as for the 6 months course (see above) and an additional term from 20 April 2026 until 26 June 2026 (Half term week: May TBC)

  Cost: £4,500

  Available needs based funding and further funding opportunities: TBC

  Foreign nationals please inquire which course length is open to you.

  For further information please contact Sigune Brinch at sigune.brinch@eurythmyuk.org

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• An Introduction to Gardening the Biodynamic Way

  • When
    Sunday, September 28, 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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• 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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• International Conference on Therapeutic Speech and Drama Therapy

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

  
  

  Dornach, May 2025

  Dear Colleagues

  A hundred years after Rudolf Steiner's death, we live in a world in which the life forces of the human being and the earth are becoming increasingly weaker. States of exhaustion and fatigue occur just as frequently as depression and anxiety disorders. How can we use the tools of therapeutic speech and drama therapy to strengthen the life forces? How can we stabilise our inner alignment to counteract debilitation and fear in the midst of polarising, aggressive tendencies and develop new perspectives?

  In order to pursue these questions, it is helpful to train our perception of the etheric and the guidance competence of our I. In this way, we can learn to become shapers of the etheric ourselves.

  Our focus this year is on joint practise and perception in order to gain insights into the etheric.

  As a prelude to the conference, there will be the opportunity to gain concrete experiences of the warmth and life ether using the research results and equipment of strader:tech relating to moral technology and to perceive, differentiate and conduct these in our own bodies.

  After the start of the conference, we will immediately embark on perception exercises on the etheric in the plenum. We hope that the medical and therapeutic contributions during the course of the conference will motivate everyone to continue to experience and apply the effects of the etheric and to engage in research.

  After the official end of the conference on Saturday, the struggle of the human being for the divine-spiritual core of their being can be experienced in the performance of Faust by the Goetheanum Stage. As theatre tickets are limited, we ask you to book as soon as possible.

  The plenary contributions will be in German, with Spanish and English translation. 

  For contributions to the Interactive Evening – Language & Play, please contact Marjo van der Himst: marjo.vanderhimst@hetnet.nl

  The conference is intended for colleagues from the fields of therapy, medicine and (supportive) education. We look forward to seeing you and the days working together!

  The preparatory group

  Esther Böttcher, Marjo van der Himst, Susann Kegel, Oliver Ifill, Jessica Westerkamp and Mikko Jairi

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• International Conference for School and Kindergarten 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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• Plant Alchemy and Spagyrics

  • When
    Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • Location
    Arc Hall RH19 4SJ

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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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• The Grace & the Conflict, the Peace & the Turmoil of Aging

  • When
    Saturday, November 08, 2025
  • Location
    Elysia Therapy Centre DY8 3RZ

  
  

  In answer to repeated requests to hold another workshop on the them of Aging.

  

  A two course lunch is provided plus all refreshments

  Cost: £50 (PAFAM members £35)

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• 26 International Study Days for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies

  • Start
    Thursday, January 08, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, January 11, 2026
  • Location
    the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  "Harmonies of the heart" -

  Courage for the ego-self

  Dear colleagues,

  We cordially invite you to the 26th International Conference for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies. We want to focus on the importance of the harmonies of the heart in the phase of life between the ages of 42 and 63 and place the medical emphasis on cardiology, oncology and the diagnosis of burnout.

  In lectures, working groups and discussions, we will develop more understanding together, acquire expert knowledge and, above all, come to a growing awareness of what moves people in this phase of life and how we can accompany them through the changing landscape of their earthly journey in our art therapies.

  Read more on our website – We look forward to seeing you again!

  With best regards

  Laura Piffaretti, Esther Böttcher, Katja Schultz, Katrin Sauerland, Linda Teipen, Marieke Schagen-van Houts

  and the leadership of the Medical Section: Dr Marion Debus, Dr Karin Michael, Dr Adam Blanning

  We're currently finalizing the detailed program and registration process. You can pre-register here, and we'll let you know as soon as registration is available:

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• 26th International Study Days for Anthroposophic Arts Therapies

  • Start
    Thursday, January 08, 2026
  • End
    Sunday, January 11, 2026
  • Location
    TBC

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• Transpersonal Arts for Health & Wellbeing

  • When
    Monday, February 01, 2027
  • Location
    Tobias Art RH19 4LZ

  
  

  Level 7: Transpersonal Arts for Health & Wellbeing

  Starting 2027 Spring  and finishing 2030. Please contact Tobias for the dates.

  Offering a holistic approach to arts counselling, our students discover the transformative power of transpersonal arts therapy in promoting mental and emotional well-being. Our approach integrates creativity, psychology, and spiritual dimensions.

  Interested in learning more?

  Have you been considering a career working as a Transpersonal Arts Counsellor, transforming lives through Art and the Human Encounter? Find out more about our Admissions process here.

  If you’re interested in finding out for yourself what makes Tobias School of Art and Therapy distinctive and right for you, please let us know by calling 01342 313655 or emailing info@tobiasart.org.

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