“The task of education conceived in the spiritual sense is to bring the Soul-Spiritual into harmony with the Life-Bodily.”

– Rudolf Steiner, Study of Man

Our educational tasks draw us into a new paradigm that reaches across the threshold — beyond the intellectual and emotional to the moral and spiritual. Today, more than ever, we must come to understand the spiritual foundations of pedagogy and appreciate the many challenges in the life of the teacher
and the children who draw near us. As teachers we need to respect the sanctity

of the child’s individuality by developing moral techniques based in imagination, inspiration, and intuition.

In this advanced seminar for Waldorf educators, we will seek new insights into ourselves as well as the children we teach, mindful that education works as a healing process based on the study of the human being, as well as the study of the children before us.

In the morning sessions, we will take up case studies to help shed light on numerous questions that children bring to us. We will strive to find practical solutions that help these children find their rightful place within the whole classroom.

In the afternoon sessions, we will work with general topics, inspired by practical anthroposophy that have been brought to our attention through the morning child studies.

This course, intended for experienced class teachers, is also open to those who wish to learn more about the art of child observation.

Watercolor Painting and Drawing from Nature with Elizabeth Auer. Eurythmy with Cezary Ciaglo.

Materials fee: $20

CHRISTOF WIECHERT, a popular lecturer and seminar leader the world over, spent 30 years teaching at the Waldorf School in The Hague, where he was himself a pupil. During this time he was the co-founder of the Dutch Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar. For many years, Christof was a council member in the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. Together with Ate Koopmans, he developed the “Art of Child Study” course. In 1999 he began to work for the Pedagogical Section of the Society and from 2001 until last year served as Leader of the Pedagogical Section of the School for Spiritual Science in the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. He is married with five children.