Class 4 to 8 (September 2nd and 3rd)

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.

Caregivers/Parents (September 1st 6:30 - 8pm)

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.

A three part workshop offered as part of the Vital Years Conference: Sensing into the stream of life; nurturing the sense through childhood, tending the bridge between the spiritual and the physical.

We’ll sketch a plan that can become a reference for providing health-giving care that enables a child towards their Self through the senses. We may find the need to differentiate between constitutions and hypo/ hyper sensitivity, and introduce adjustments to our self and the environment, as well as offer applications via the skin (compresses, footbaths etc) to harmonise the senses. The workshop brings the foundations of healthcare from an anthroposophic perspective so as to support choices that complement the Waldorf curriculum. It is offered by Louise on behalf of Developing the Self Developing the World for the school program Healing the Impact of Technology which brings content to students and educators on the care and development of the senses, and is complemented with workshops and resources for home life.