The Art of Healing
How are the gifts of our mystery medicine manifesting today?
We have been left so many wonderful and wisdom-filled gifts in anthroposophic medicine, be it mistletoe and its use in cancer, the many therapies that transform the world of the arts into a healing for the human constitution, or the social therapeutic work of places like Camphill and Ruskin Mill. At our annual conference next year, we intend to explore these many gifts, how they work on the human being through our senses and life processes, and how they are currently being practiced and brought to patients in the UK. How does painting red affect my astral body? How does the vowel ‘A’, expressed in my movement, influence my etheric body?
We also want to explore how this relates to our call to renew the mysteries and find colleagueship under Raphael, who asks us to work together esoterically, but to also direct this outwards to permeate out practical therapeutic work. And finally, to look a little at real life, we want to hear from projects in our community both new and old that are working with this content and offering these gifts to the world despite the many challenges we all know so well.
In a sense, we are hoping for something of a self-reflecting moment for our movement: how is our community? What are our gifts, and where are we really working with these?
To share on the more medical and mystical themes, Martin-Günther Sterner will (hopefully!)
join us from Germany as a keynote speaker as an experienced anthroposophic doctor in internal medicine who has especially occupied himself with the senses and the life processes, as well as the esoteric background to the Medical Section. He will also be joined in part by Michael Evans and James Dyson, well-known names in our region! Hannah Spreadborough, a nurse in Scotland, will speak about the wonderful gifts of anthroposophic nursing, a theme close to Ita Wegman’s heart, and a fundamental aspect of true anthroposophic medicine. We also want to explore how we bring these gifts together practically, hearing from Aonghus Gordon and his work with Ruskin Mill, bridging between the pedagogical and the therapeutic, and now involved with Emerson College where so many of our trainings take place. And of course the therapies themselves will find a place in Workshops, where we are hoping to allow some of the less often represented modalities to be experienced, such as Speech, Music, and Clay. Perhaps especially worth mentioning is the metal colour light windows which will be set up for people to encounter – this is one of the most recently developed therapeutic approaches in our movement.
As on previous occasions, we will be hosted by the Steiner Academy in Hereford, with wonderful meeting spaces and catering. Aspects of our programme are still in flux, but we hope that this can give a flavour of the direction we want to take, and we are hoping people feel interested and invited. A clearer and more firmed-up programme will be released as and when it is ready! Meanwhile please save the date!
Please contact medicalsectiongb@gmail for any questions, or to be added to our mailing list for future updates on this and other events.
Matthew Mirkin,
on behalf of the Medical Section Coordinating Group (with Carol kirk, Hannah Spreadborough, and Cathie Green)
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