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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality
Nov
27
to Nov 29

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality

  • Birali Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Birali Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others
Aug
5
to Aug 9

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others

Student Program for Class 5 to 12

The program highlights with each class the growth and changes that they are going through. This includes puberty and the physical and emotional changes that go hand in hand over this time. The content is age appropriate for each class. It aims to deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourages greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community.

Information Evening for Parents, Caregivers and Staff

The content is help to recognise the relevant depth and progression anthroposophy brings to this important aspect of life and the responsibility of community in raising children and working together to promote individual wellbeing.

We look at how and when we work with children and adolescents to bring the understanding of sexuality and gender in relation to where they are in their consciousness. This brings harmony between the evolving body and inner experiences that sets the ground for healthy adult experience.

The talk will cover the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child health and wellbeing in current times, with examples of how we can counter the unbalancing effects. We also address how to understand gender differences and similarities that both limit or free us and the contribution and struggles of the changing social structures around gender and sexuality affecting us all.

Please contact the school for times and further details about these sessions

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Spirit-led Community - 4-session Study Groups - Online and in Stephentown, NY
Jun
26
to Jul 20

Spirit-led Community - 4-session Study Groups - Online and in Stephentown, NY

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Upcoming 4-session Study Group
In-Person and Online

We will meet for four consecutive weeks to study the first chapter of Spirit-led Community - Healing the Impacts of Technology by Lisa Romero. The Guide to the Care and Development of the Senses, parts of which are included in this chapter are available for free download on our website.
Online, 6:30-8pm:
Wednesdays, June 26, July 3, 10 and 17
In-Person in Stephentown, NY, NOTE:
NEW DAY AND TIME! 9:30-11am:

Saturdays, June 29, July 6, 13, and 20
To register and for more info contact@developingtheself.org or call/text 908-227-0004.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Apr
13
to Apr 19

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Mansfield Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Mansfield Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

We look forward to returning to Mansfield and visiting class groups to help deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourage greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community. Age appropriate content is brought, spanning topics of attraction, relationships, sex, social conditioning and the inner changes that go hand-in-hand with these aspects of growth and development.

The parent education speaks to the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child health and wellbeing in current times, with examples of how we can counter the unbalancing effects. We also address how to understand gender differences and similarities that both limit or free us and the contribution and struggles of the changing social structures around gender and sexuality affecting us all.

We look at how and when we work with children and adolescents to bring the understanding of sexuality and gender in relation to where they are in their consciousness. This brings harmony between the evolving body and inner experiences that sets the ground for healthy adult experience.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.

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Kinder - Class 2 Developmental Milestone
Apr
9
6:30 PM18:30

Kinder - Class 2 Developmental Milestone

  • Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Parents and caregivers are invited to explore the unfolding developmental changes and feeling-life of the primary school age child as it awakens and becomes independent of the parents and caregivers. The feelings, thoughts and deeds of the community shape a foundation for emotional capacities as adults. What lives in our feeling life in these times? What is the soul-food that can nourish our children’s unfolding development?

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Apr
2
to Apr 5

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Alice Springs Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Alice Springs Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Mar
19
to Mar 22

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Sophia Mundi Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Sophia Mundi Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Nov
20
to Nov 22

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Cairns Hinterland Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Cairns Hinterland Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Nov
16
8:00 AM08:00

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Rainbow Ridge Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Rainbow Ridge Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Oct
29
to Oct 30

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Berkeley Rose Waldorf School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Berkeley Rose Waldorf School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Meaghan Witri to students in 4th - 8th grades. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Oct
17
to Oct 18

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Birali Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Birali Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Oct
3
to Oct 6

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Freshwater Creek Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Freshwater Creek Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 to 6. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information. (03) 5264 5077

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Parent Education - Child Development
May
3
to Jun 14

Parent Education - Child Development

  • Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Melanie Deefholts will partake in the Primary School Parents-teacher meetings for Term 2 and will also work with the staff. Building Resilience to Meet the World - Understanding the Complexities of Child Development in Today's World.

Professional Development - Primary Faculty
May 3rd & June 14 3:30-5pm

Class meetings
Kindy May 2, 6-7:30pm
Class 1/2 May 16, 5:30-7:30pm
Class 3/4 May 15, 5:30-7:30pm
Class 5/6 June 8, 5:30-7:30pm

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Child Development; Foundations for Healthy Adult Experience
Feb
23
7:00 PM19:00

Child Development; Foundations for Healthy Adult Experience

PARENT EDUCATION

The various stages of child development from birth to twenty-one, and how they become a foundation for adult experience, can be observed from many points of view to cultivate a comprehensive picture of human experience. This evening for parents and caregivers will explore the changing consciousness of the developing human being in childhood and how this development provides a foundation for adult faculties that will serve them for life. The exploration of the formative years of childhood can grow our deeds as adults working with and supporting young people as they grow in various ways. 

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Social Understanding and Healthy Relationships with Self and Others
Sep
8
to Sep 12

Social Understanding and Healthy Relationships with Self and Others

  • Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School, (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Class 8 to 11

September 8 & 9

The program highlights with each class the growth and changes that they are going through. This includes puberty and the physical and emotional changes that go hand in hand over this time. The content is age appropriate for each class. It aims to deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourages greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community.

Parents & Caregivers

Mon 12/9 Class 8-11

Each session discusses the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child health and wellbeing in current times, with examples of how we can counter the unbalancing effects. We also address how to understand gender differences and similarities that both limit or free us and the contribution and struggles of the changing social structures around gender and sexuality affecting us all.

We look at how and when we work with children and adolescents to bring the understanding of sexuality and gender in relation to where they are in their consciousness. This brings harmony between the evolving body and inner experiences that sets the ground for healthy adult experience.

The content helps to recognise the relevant depth and progression anthroposophy brings to this important aspect of life and the responsibility of community in raising children and working together to promote individual wellbeing.

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Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)
Aug
8
to Aug 9

Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality (School Program)

  • Freshwater Creek Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Freshwater Creek Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.

The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 to 6. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information. (03) 5264 5077

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Social Understanding and Healthy Relationships with Self and Others
Jun
9
to Jun 10

Social Understanding and Healthy Relationships with Self and Others

  • Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School, (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This program highlights the growth and changes that occur during the years of classes 5 to 7. This includes puberty and the physical and emotional changes that go hand-in-hand over this time. The content is age appropriate for each class. It aims to deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourages greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community. Parents of Classes 5 to 7 can contact the school for more information.

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Spirit-led Education, Spirit-led Life
Feb
25
to Feb 27

Spirit-led Education, Spirit-led Life

Sydney Australia: February 26 & 27 from 8am with keynote and workshops, then closing with a 6am keynote on Monday February 28.
New York USA: February 25 & 26 from 4pm with keynote and workshops, then closing with a 2pm keynote on Sunday February 27.

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Along with 3 keynotes by Lisa Romero, our team of educators, artists, and health professionals from Australia and the USA will be providing various workshops that will focus on Early Childhood, Primary School, and High School. This conference welcomes educators, parents, homeschool parents, and caregivers.

As the forms of education undergo the shifts and changes of our current world situation there is a call that can be heard by many. It is a call for a spirit-led education through which the truth of the human being can be given what is essential for their path.

There are certain forces bestowed in the growing child that prepare them to engage in life that are connected to their inner life and the spiritual world, and not only to the material, sensory life. It is these forces that allow us to recognise the reality stated by Rudolf Steiner that “nothing but the will to live life in a spiritual way, the will to allow spiritual decisions and spiritual motivations, to play a part in what we do in the physical world, can make humanity truly healthy again”. As material life intensifies, these forces will be more rapidly extinguished unless they are consciously held and renewed by the adults surrounding the growing child. 


FEES
Whole Course (Keynotes and Workshops) : $75 AUD (~$54USD)

3 Keynotes only (no Workshops): $40 AUD (~$29 USD)

RECORDINGS
All sessions will be recorded and accessible to participants for a period after the conference.

This conference has finished and the recordings are available to purchase at the link below (until mid February 2022)

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Chrysalis School - Kindergarten & Class 1 Parents
Nov
9
to Nov 12

Chrysalis School - Kindergarten & Class 1 Parents

  • Chrysalis Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Exploring child development and how these foundational years reflect into adult life. As the adult that guards and guides them, we can strive to adjust our inner life and offer meaningful support.

with Melanie Deefholts

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Chrysalis School - Health and Wellbeing
Jun
7
to Jun 9

Chrysalis School - Health and Wellbeing

  • Chrysalis Steiner School (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Melanie Deefholts visits the students, parents and staff to work with Health and Wellbeing - Building Resilience to Meet the World; Understanding the Complexities of Child Development in Today's World. Please refer to the school for the schedule.

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Preventative Health Care from an Anthroposophic Perspective (for children to 9 years old)
May
30
9:00 AM09:00

Preventative Health Care from an Anthroposophic Perspective (for children to 9 years old)

This is a practical workshop for educators who are introducing wellbeing, health and hygiene curriculums, parents and soon to be parents, grandparents and caregivers educating and caring for children to 9 years of age

with Lynette Clifton and Louise Schnitzhofer

A 90 minute online workshop - $20 (AUD)

Sydney - Sunday, May 30 at 9am
Perth - Sunday, May 30 at 7am
New York - Saturday, May 29 at 7pm

Preventive health care for the young child is fundamentally based on providing a health-giving environment because they rely upon others for nourishment and are yet to develop boundaries from their surroundings. Illness can arise when the child does not have the strength to deal with what enters them.

Artificial intelligence has become a part of every environment within which the young child is united. However children lack discernment of the Sense of Self and Other. By applying rhythmical and natural health-giving applications to the senses and through the skin we can balance the effects of technology and support each child towards wholistic wellbeing.

This hands-on workshop introduces anthroposophic preventative health care applications to the skin that can be carried into the daily rhythms of the classroom and home life. These practises can be adapted and extended to suit the individual, classroom and family needs. They build healthy practises of self-care for life that help to maintain wellbeing while also developing a healthy sense of Self and care for the other.

Each participant will be required to bring some basic equipment such as towels, hot water bottle and lemon to partake in the workshop. The experience can be assistive for participants heading into sleep as well as for those re-aligning with oneself for the day.

This workshop is within the Developing the Self the Developing the World Health and Wellbeing Program: Healing the Impacts of Technology - Care and Development of the Senses which begins in early childhood. Children and adults are supported towards capacities for community-orientated participation in the world. Contact us for additional workshops that support older children and adults.

Anthroposophy, as a science, embraces spiritual, social, emotional, cognitive and physical aspects of the human being.



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Parent Education  - Child Development
May
3
to May 27

Parent Education - Child Development

Melanie Deefholts will meet with parents and educators in the primary school to deepen the understanding of child development and support the children.

May 3 - Class 4
May 10 - Class 2
May 25 - Class 5
May 27 - Class 3

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