"The task of our age is to find living ideas, to develop living concepts,
perceptions and feelings and not to invoke dead theories." – Rudolf Steiner  

Dear Friends,

Living thoughts, filled with spirit substance, can enter the human heart.This cry of longing for the spirit lives in every one of us, either consciously or unconsciously. Renewing that source within us, will affect our growth, our usefulness to others, and our sense of joy in life.

 

This year we are offering an abundance of new renewal opportunities: Aonghus Gordon and his team of craftsmen will be joining us from Ruskin Mills in England. His proven work with youths at risk has enormous importance for parents and teachers of all ages. Christof Wiechert is with us from Dornach in Switzerland. His master classes on Child Study and Classroom Management serve a crucial need as we seek to better know our students.

 

Dennis Klocek, is giving his first Renewal course ever: he will both teach his innovative work with the atmosphere and climate and also help us work with the meditative life/ creative listening and speaking. Iris Sullivan, an artist and art therapist from California will offer veilpainting with pastels work- ing with the theme of awakening to a living color experience.

 

Leonore Russell is teaching a popular course for experienced eurythmists, and Darcy Drayton will be teaching a Science course for fifth and sixth grade that will inspire courage, creativity, and many new skills. Rudiger Janish, a leader in the Camphill movement, will be preparing us for next year’s event: the 150th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s birth. Rudiger will work with Rudolf Stein- er’s biography, the First Goetheanum, and the Foundation Stone Meditation.

 

Rena Osmer, a leader in the Waldorf Early Childhood movement, will bring us a rich course on Contemporary Issues in the Kindergarten, while also offering work with marionettes. Finally we have our well-known and beloved returning faculty who lend stability to our campus: Christopher Bamford, Georg Locher, Juliane Weeks, Monica Amstutz, Torin Finser, Glen Williamson, Cezary Ciaglo, Regine Kurek, Linda Larson, Jamie York, Connie Helms, Rachel Ross, Eliza- beth Auer, Lorey Johnson, Kati Manning, and Douglas Gerwin. Once again, we are hosting the AWSNA Mentoring training and we are also delighted to include Kim John Payne from Antioch’s Waldorf Collaborative Counselling/The Center for Social Sustainability and his students on our campus.

 

As always, we are looking forward to your visit when we become living community for one another! We will prepare evenings of both profundity and fun. We will feed you with the best vegetarian and non-vegetarian organic food, and we will all enjoy and benefit from the beautiful campus that nurtures us all.

 

Until then, Warm Greetings,

Karine Munk Finser
Coordinator for Renewal Courses