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The Free Columbia Residency Program is an opportunity for young people to develop artistically in community. Artists and musicians come together to live and work on their independant projects in the context of vibrant community events and work. The fall cohort is a beautiful time to take in hand those inspirations that have been simmering. Working from September into December has great potential from the beauty of fall leaves to the beggining of winter.

There is more information and the application is on the Free Columbias website, https://www.freecolumbia.org/residency-program

We are asking for applications before June 5th. Please reach out with any questions: soren@freecolumbia.org

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https://threefold.org/raphael/

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https://threefold.org/trial/

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Not in the eastern region, but still ...

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Not in the eastern region, but still ...

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Chekhovek is a staging of 9 short stories by Anton Chekhovek

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Chekhovek is a staging of 9 short stories by Anton Chekhovek

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Filled with the compassion and humor of an observer who is both doctor and journalist, critic and poet, Chekhov's stories bear witness to the spectacle of ordinary people in conflict with their fantasies and failures: we are beautiful and ridiculous, delusional and ever hopeful

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If you have a Michaelic initiative or want to find ones to support please consider exploring with us in the sunny South.

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Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Gathering November 23, 2024 at Mettabee Farm, Harlemville NY

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Annual Mid-Atlantic Regional Gathering November 23, 2024 at Mettabee Farm, Harlemville NY

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Discovering the Zodiacal Moods of Soul Thru Form Drawing & Creative Speech with Laura Embrey-Stine & Debbie Spitulnik

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Discovering the Zodiacal Moods of Soul Thru Form Drawing & Creative Speech with Laura Embrey-Stine & Debbie Spitulnik

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VIRGO

Behold worlds, O soul!
May the soul fathom worlds,
May the spirit penetrate being,
Work with powers of life,
Build upon experiences undergone,
Trust in blossoming worlds to come.
O soul, know thou beings!

Debbie Spitulnik and Laura Embrey-Stine join forces once again, this time to bring us a fresh experience of the moods of soul associated with the zodiac constellations. Debbie will guide us deeply into and through the beautiful verses offered by Rudolf Steiner for each constellation via Creative Speech Formation, and Laura will show us the architecture of the influences of the constellations through Form Drawing. Both art forms not only help the human being fill the soul with energy and enthusiasm, they develop one's ability to communicate this light and life to fellow beings on our common journey. Creative Speech work and Form Drawing combine powerfully in this course to strengthen the participant's own forces for transforming, transmuting, and healing the spirit, soul, and bodily natures. Join us and forge a path of communication with beings of the hierarchies through the Source of all being, expanding our consciousness to the zodiac and bringing back a deepened understanding of the wisdom that lives there. Learn to breathe with the cosmos and experience the alternation of tension and relaxation through the conscious practice of speech and movement of the line.

12 Monthly Meetings on 3rd Wednesday of the month 3 - 4:30 pm ET via zoom
September 18th, 2024 - August 20th, 2025
Recordings available after each class

$55/session - Sign up for 3 mos. blocks $135/block (sliding scale $120-210):
Fall - September, October, November
Winter - December, January, February
Spring - March, April, May
Summer - June, July, August

To register, contact Diane McGary contentedfarm@gmail.com
Payments accepted from Venmo, Paypal, Zelle, wise.com or check

Debbie Spitulnik

Adjunct professor of Creative Speech at Antioch University New England, and faculty member for the Center for Anthroposophy.  As the founding member of The Art of Speech Collective ™ she leads courses and trainings in Pedagogical Creative Speech and Drama. Debbie has led the development of pedagogical speech and believes that Creative Speech brings healing and nourishment to the soul and empowers the voice. She infuses all her classes with three decades of her unique experiences as a class teacher, subject teacher, and speech teacher. She teaches speech, drama, storytelling, and curriculum to teachers nationwide.
Goetheanum Diploma in the arts of Speech and Drama, PerformInternational; M.Ed., Waldorf Education, Antioch University New England; B.S. Elementary and Special Education, Syracuse University.
Debbie's website is https://www.theartofspeech.org/

Laura Embrey-Stine

Laura Embrey-Stine has been deeply interested in form drawing since the beginning of her career as a Waldorf teacher. Laura's fascination with the beauty, power and efficacy of the forms has only increased over time. She has been a teacher for forty years, in both public and private Waldorf schools. She has recently retired from her position as Pedagogical Chair at Camellia Waldorf School in Sacramento, California, partly in order to bring her new discoveries regarding the meaning of and ways of working with the forms to others.
Laura has her B.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley, her M.A. in Education from the University of California at Berkeley, her California Teaching Credential through the Bay Area Writing Project at U.C.Berkeley, and her Waldorf Teacher Certification from Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento, California. She brings over 40 years of teaching experience to her work, as well as over 30 years of consistent study of Anthroposophy and ten years of spiritual investigation.
Laura's website is https://lauraembrey.com/

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INNER FIRE-Bread Baking Workshop May 3 & 4

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Registration now open!  The School of Spiritual Science In North America ~ August 2024 Gathering!!

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Registration now open!  The School of Spiritual Science In North America ~ August 2024 Gathering!!

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SAVE THE DATE! AUGUST 4-10, 2024

The Path of the New Mysteries

Engaging with the 19 Class Lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science

Embracing Joyful Earnestness, Humility, Enthusiasm, and Hospitality, while Embracing the Arts and Social Artistry.

At the Threefold Community Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977

For members of the School of Spiritual Science, Blue Card Required.

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The Practice of Meditation and its Relation to Artistic Expression
With Laura Summer
In this workshop we will use drawing exercises to help us "see" and "capture" what is happening inwardly when we work with the mantras of the 19 lessons of the first class. For the past 5 years Laura Summer has been working with groups of people using these drawing exercises and people report that this practice has opened a new way of experiencing the mantras.

Working with the Blackboard Drawings to the Lessons of the First Class
With Rudiger Janisch and Angela Foster
During many of the class lessons, Rudolf Steiner illustrated his thoughts by drawing on the blackboard. How can one deepen the experience of the Mantras by reproducing these drawings, both in our imagination and on paper? Can the drawings help unlock new ways into the Mantra?

Painting
We will paint using the medium of watercolor and wax resist taking up the challenge of translating the spiritual content of the Lesson into the language of color and form.

Clay Sculpture Workshop: Metamorphosis in Form, Soul and Self
With Sarah Dunbar
Working with the polarities and metamorphosis of form and function in the human skeleton through sculpture in clay, we will artistically explore aspects of the transformation of soul and self along the path described by the 19 Lessons.

Enriching one's experience of the Mantra through Eurythmy
Dorothea Mier
Working with elements in and from eurythmy can be of enormous help for cultivating a living relationship with the class Mantra. Join with Dorothea as she guides an exploration in movement into this living relationship.

Iambic, Trochaic and Spondaic Metres - an Exploration
Veronika Roemer
Musical experiences can help us to deepen our inner understanding of the quality of each meter, and strengthen our awareness of how the meters help us enter into the mantras.

Working with the Spoken Word
Barbara Renold
The mantras are given to us in language. Language that through sounds forms words which mirror meaning. Through deepening our experience of language, we may deepen our relationship to the mantra. "And we are dealing with realities when the sounds of speech in their mysterious runing become for us Gods-Gods who form within us our speaking." (Rudolf Steiner, Speech and Drama Course, Lecture 18, Sept. 22, 1924)

Speech Eurythmy

The workshop will begin to help us develop the moods of the five post-Atlantean cultural epochs. Simple basic elements of eurythmy will lead us to find through movement the unique challenges and needs of anthroposophical Spiritual Science.
More workshops coming soon! Led by John Bloom and Leah Walker
Each morning after the work with the Lessons and a break, there will be time to deepen the experience of the morning in a social mood of humility, self-knowledge, and hospitality. Just as there is an arc of the Lessons, there will be an arc of social experience through biography and reflection on what we receive from others and the world. We will work toward grounding social experience in spiritual practice that invites the wisdom of the hierarchies and an awareness of harmonizing karma through our relationships, communities, and service-no small task, but that is the work for the future.

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The School of Spiritual Science in North America The Path of the New Mysteries August 4-10, 2024 Engaging with the 19 Lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science A conference for members of the School, Blue Card required

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reading this together on our regional zoom call Feb 13 2024

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reading this together on our regional zoom call Feb 13 2024

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Blue Hill, Maine July 2024: International conference on water:  "Sensitive Fluidity: Steps Towards Revealing the Intrinsic Nature of Water”

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Blue Hill, Maine July 2024: International conference on water:  "Sensitive Fluidity: Steps Towards Revealing the Intrinsic Nature of Water”

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international conference on water, titled:  "Sensitive Fluidity: Steps Towards Revealing the Intrinsic Nature of Water” to be held in Blue Hill, Maine at the Water Research Institute from Friday, July 5th through Saturday the 14th. Simon Charter, of Ebb and Flow in England will be with us.  Simon leads a consortium of international water flow researchers and brings deep knowledge of water’s many faceted faces.  He has been a leader of the work started by John Wilkes and his colleagues in developing the innovative work of “flowforms”, artistic features which highlight water’s rhythmical and life-giving nature. For more information contact Jennifer Greene at cell number: 207-266-8595 or by email:<jennifer.greene.wri@gmail.com>.

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Green Mountain Branch Annual Meeting

Please join us for the 2024 Green Mountain Branch Annual Meeting!

Following a brief business meeting, we will enjoy a social hour together in the format of an "Anthro Cafe", where everyone is welcome to share their artistic talents. Will you join us?

Sunday, February 18, 2:00 - 4:00  pm
The Old Meeting House 1620 Center Rd East Montpelier VT

Agenda:

Welcome and Verse for America
Biography Exercise
Movement Activity
Business meeting: President’s Report, Treasurer’s Report, Election of Officers, Other Business
Refreshments and Anthro Cafe
Closing and Verse

You are warmly invited to share your talent at our first ever Anthro Cafe!

You could offer a song, or invite those present to sing; read your poetry, or play an instrument; lead us in movement or show us your dance steps.  Or simply come and enjoy the refreshments and camaraderie.

Please RSVP at greenmountainbranch@gmail.com, if you can, to sign up for a 5 or 10 minute slot (more if needed). We would love to include YOUR offering at the Cafe!  Spontaneous offerings are also welcome!

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Impossible Positivity - Michael Lipson, PhD. 

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Friday/Saturday March 15-16

Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society

2 Duane Court, Middlebury

Friday Lecture 7 - 9pm

In our time, it can seem naïve to speak of positivity, hope, or joy. World events all seem to justify perpetual alarm or even perpetual despair. This lecture will examine cases in history, in spiritual literature, and in my clinical practice, where people thrive in seemingly impossible circumstances and even offer help to others.

Saturday Workshop 9am - 4pm

This workshop will include meditative and spiritual practices oriented toward joy and effective participation in life, without ignoring the disasters within us, around us, and ahead of us. Attention, risk-acceptance, and an orientation toward varieties of relationship are some of the ingredients that go into an integrative and creative stance.

Please come prepared for a day of intense communal practice in all these areas. We will base some of our meditative work in Buddhist texts, some in Christian and Jewish scripture, some in Sufi poetry. The key text, however, is what the natural world around us recites, and what is written in our hearts.

Michael Lipson, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist who leads meditation workshops internationally and maintains a private practice in Western Massachusetts.

For more information, and to register, see the Eventbrite page

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Encountering Nature with The Nature Institute

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Encountering Nature with The Nature Institute

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Foundation Course in Goethean Science

New Foundation Course Begins March 2024 — Now accepting applications

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Two-week residential intensives with guided study and practice before and between these residencies.

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Next Regional meeting: Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 pm - via zoom, join us!

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Greetings Eastern Regioners,

Our next e-newsletter takes a turn, by offering an opportunity for art and conversation! We extend a warm invitation to you all to join us for our next eastern regional Zoom meeting on Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30 pm.

Join on Zoom

We are excited that Laura Embrey will open our session by leading us through a form drawing activity. This is a fun & enlivening treat! Find out more about her work HERE.

Scroll to the end of the article to read her biography

and review a list of the supplies you'll need!

After drawing, we will dive into one of Rudolf Steiner’s Letters to the Members. As you may know, this year marks the 100th anniversary of these Letters to the Members, which are potent essays that he wrote weekly for members after the Christmas Conference.   We invite you to share your insights and thoughts about Letter 6, The Quest for Knowledge and the Will for Self-Discipline ( February 24, 1924). If you have a chance, please read it ahead of time and give it some thought. We will also read it together on the call. It's only 8 paragraphs, so we will have time for discussion afterwards. HERE is a link to the digital copy if you do not have the book.

All 18 Letters are part of our recorded “community readings” .

Go to anthroposophy.org/LTM to register for this free ASA program.

We look forward to artistic work and warm conversation, and hope you will join us live on the call. It will be recorded for those who cannot attend on February 13th. If you cannot attend and have a regional announcement to share, please send in advance to Angela at angela@anthropsophy.org or post on our Padlet, a digital bulletin board HERE.

Warmly,
Your Eastern Region Holding Group,
Gino Ver Eecke, Eastern Region Representative to the General Council (NY)
Cathy Green (TN), Diane McGary (MA), Angela Foster (GA)

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Art in Atlanta on Feb 5 2024 (free in-person event)

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Art in Atlanta on Feb 5 2024 (free in-person event)

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Transformation through the Planetary Soul Styles - 8 sessions 

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Transformation through the Planetary Soul Styles - 8 sessions 

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Searching for American Spirit webinar with Luigi Morelli

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Searching for American Spirit webinar with Luigi Morelli

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BUZZing about Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary

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at the House of Peace, Ipswich MA Dec 2023- Jan 2024

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at the House of Peace, Ipswich MA Dec 2023- Jan 2024

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Please join us for the February 9 -11 weekend at the beautiful DaySpring Episcopal Conference Center tucked in a forest on the Manatee River outside rural Parrish, Florida.

Jonah Evans, Christian Community Priest and Director of the Priests' Training Seminary in North America will be our conference presenter for the theme:
“Christ, The True Self and The Double in Light of Anthroposophy”

Explore the nature of the higher self—the one in us that is strong enough to become aware of our double or shadow being, bear its presence in our lives, and start to transform it.  Experience how our highest nature is carried in the heart of Christ.

The conference will include biography work with Susan Kurz, singing and eurythmy, time for visiting with one another, and good meals.  It begins Friday evening and continues through lunch on Sunday.

If you want to get a good sense of how Jonah engages with soul-spiritual ideas from an Anthroposophical viewpoint, check out his podcast, which he co-hosts with Patrick Kennedy. The two record their conversations with each other on many Biblical topics---but also on the subjects we meet in our daily lives. They also interview a lot of people who have committed their work to serving others in the light of Anthroposophy.

For more information, to see the conference schedule, or to register, please click the following link: REGISTER.

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REGISTER NOW - 2024 Florida Anthroposophy/Waldorf Ed. Conference. February 9 - 11

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Greetings, Dear Friends, Our Annual Anthroposophical Conference is coming soon! Please join us for the February 9 -11 weekend at the beautiful DaySpring Episcopal Conference Center tucked in a forest on the Manatee River outside rural Parrish, Florida.

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Anthroposophy in Alexandria Reading Group *Online - All welcome

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Anthroposophy in Alexandria Reading Group *Online - All welcome

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Anthroposophy in Alexandria Reading Group *Online - All welcome

The first and third Tuesday of each month from 6pm-7:30pm via ZOOM.

Current study: The Christ Impulse and the Development of Ego Consciousness. Contact: Barbaracousensvg@gmail.com

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Here is a link to an ASA bulletin board is a place to post anything you or your community is doing to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Christmas Conference

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Here is a link to an ASA bulletin board is a place to post anything you or your community is doing to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the Christmas Conference

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Advent course from Free Columbia, via zoom

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Advent course from Free Columbia, via zoom

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Invitation to Middle Tennessee Anthroposophic Branch's Celebration of the Anthroposophical Society 100 Year Anniversary of the Christmas Conference -Sunday Dec. 10th 2:00-4:00 pm

"This Christmas Conference marked a significant moment in world history. During the conference, Rudolf Steiner inaugurated a unique and specific social form in the way he re-founded the Anthroposophical Society, with the School for Spiritual Science as its core. Simultaneously, the foundation for this Society was laid not into the earth, as it had been for the building of the First Goetheanum, but into human hearts, through the Foundation Stone Meditation. This means that a spiritual community can and will be achieved wherever human beings gather with one another in conscious awareness of it. " Anthroposophical Society of America

Please join us for our tribute to this monumental occasion with music, activities, and a presentation on the history of The Christmas Conference and the Foundation Stone Meditation.

Musical Selection
The Bird of Dawning by Roland E Martin Laura Duke Voice
Isabel Bartles Violin

Presentation
The Christmas Conference and the Foundation Stone Meditation Faith Moore

Group Activity
Dodecahedron Construction Barbara Bittles
Werbeck Singing Laura Duke

Musical Selection
Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn Williams Isabel Bartles Violin
Laura Duke Piano

This event will be followed by finger foods potluck. Bring your favorite!
Coffee Tea and Water Provided

Linden Waldorf School Trinity Presbyterian Church 3201 Hillsboro Rd 37215

For More Information contact Cathy Green cgreen@grasslandaquatics.com
Barbara Bittles blbittles@comcasat.net

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Invitation to Middle Tennessee Anthroposophic Branch's Celebration of the Anthroposophical Society 100 Year Anniversary of the Christmas Conference -Sunday Dec. 10th 2:00-4:00 pm

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"This Christmas Conference marked a significant moment in world history. During the conference, Rudolf Steiner inaugurated a unique and specific social form in the way he re-founded the Anthroposophical Society, with the School for Spiritual Science as its core. Simultaneously, the foundation for this Society was laid not into the earth, as it had been...

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The Association for Anthroposophic Psychology is pleased to host this

FREE event...

WALKING THE DOG THEATER presents

Charles Dickens’

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Performed by David Anderson

Directed by Ted Pugh

Christmas Eve / Christmas Day

AAP Psychology is inviting you to a holiday Zoom presentation: a gift to you!

Topic: A Christmas Carol presented by David Anderson

Time: Dec 24, 2023 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Dec 25, 2023 09:00 AM Beijing/Taipei Time

Walking the dog Theater’s A Christmas Carol is a tradition now over 14 years running.

Charles Dickens’ story never fails to enkindle the spirit of this time. The script is from Dickens’ own performance version of the story and it runs about 50 minutes. Directed by Ted Pugh and performed by David Anderson.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85885637804?pwd=K1g2eWV6dEh2V1lLU3dkSDRyNUVJdz09

Meeting ID: 858 8563 7804

Passcode: 814823

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Recording of our meeting (video newsletter) Nov 2023

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Recording of our meeting (video newsletter) Nov 2023

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, confer…

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Threefold Educational Foundation | Chestnut Ridge NY

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The Present Moment and the Way Forward Renewing the Call of the Christmas Foundation Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society We invite you to join us in a process of discovery as we strive to enter deeply into the significance of the deed of

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Jordan Walker hosting an All Soul's event 2023, via zoom

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Jordan Walker hosting an All Soul's event 2023, via zoom

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Wisdom Working with Orland Bishop and Logos.pdf

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Wisdom Working with Orland Bishop and Logos

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Nov 3-5, 2023 ASA Annual Gathering! in Spring Valley, NY

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Nov 3-5, 2023 ASA Annual Gathering! in Spring Valley, NY

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A Conference to Honor the Centenary of the Anthroposophical Society
Co-Hosted by the ASA and Threefold Branch and Sponsored by the Threefold Educational Foundation

"Association means the possibility for a higher being to express itself through the members when they are united. Human associations are the secret places where higher spiritual beings descend in order to work through the single individuals, just as the soul works through the members of the body". - Rudolf Steiner

We find ourselves at a propitious moment in the history of the Anthroposophical movement, 100 years after the foundational Christmas Conference in Dornach, Switzerland, 1923/24. Anthroposophy was not new to the world at that moment, but this Christmas Conference marked a significant moment in world history. During the conference, Rudolf Steiner inaugurated a unique and specific social form in the way he re-founded the Anthroposophical Society, with the School for Spiritual Science as its core. Simultaneously, the foundation for this Society was laid not into the earth, as it had been for the building of the First Goetheanum, but into human hearts, through the Foundation Stone Meditation. This means that a spiritual community can and will be achieved wherever human beings gather with one another in conscious awareness of it.

This November 3-5, 2023, we will gather in Spring Valley, New York, in anticipation of this culminating 100-year rhythm, to explore the ways that the Foundation Stone Meditation, when contemplated individually, and experienced through eurythmy, brings a necessary strengthening not only to the inner life of the individual, but also, to our relationships in the social realm.

The weekend will include keynote presentations by Mary Stewart Adams, the incoming General Secretary of the ASA, and Rudiger Janisch, as well as the Foundation Stone Meditation performed by Eurythmy Spring Valley, speech work with Jennifer Kleinbach and more. The Anthroposophical Society in America is pleased to join the on-going intensive work with the Foundation Stone Meditation that has occured in Spring Valley.

Also note that the first weekend of November marks the turning point in the season, known traditionally as the autumn cross quarter, during which time we honor and celebrate loved ones who have died. The weekend includes the opportunity to join in the community's sacred celebration of All Soul's. Please join us in-person for this weekend event, through which we intend to reinvigorate our awareness of what it means to be together in the good work of anthroposophy.

This year, the Annual General Business Meeting (AGM) will not take place at the in-personal annual gathering. The AGM will be held online on October 9 at 7 pm ET/ 4 pm PT. Click HERE to register and join for free!

To learn more about all centenary events, visit anthroposophy.org/100

Friday, November 3 - Sunday November 5, 2023

Scroll down for a full event schedule!

This conference is co-Hosted by the ASA and Threefold Branch and Sponsored by the Threefold Educational Foundation and will take place at the anthroposophical
Threefold Community near Spring Valley, NY. To learn more about our hosts, visit their website at threefold.org.

The venue is just 30 miles from New York City and can be accessed via JFK, LaGuardia or Newark, though Newark is the closest. More information regarding travel to and from the event will be available upon registration. You can also click here for information about travel and click here for near by accomodations.

The ticket price includes access to all conference activities, coffee/tea and snacks, as well as two dinners and two lunches at the Threefold Cafe. Breakfast is on your own. A la carte options are available for purchase at the Threefold Cafe between 8-9am on Saturday and Sunday. Gluten free, dairy free and vegetarian options will be avilable at each meal.

If you do not select meals ahead of time there will only be a limited number of meal plans available to add-on during on-site registration. Please plan ahead! Thank you. Registration Fee Options:
- ASA Members: $185
- Regular: $195
- Supporter: $250
- Youth & Equity: $120
- Conference Only (No Meals): $85

The "Youth and Equity" Registration Level is available if you are either under the age of 35 or are experiencing economic hardship that would otherwise limit your ability to attend.
No refunds after October 27, 2023.

Click here to register today!

2:00 Registration Table Open until 4pm
3:00 Class Lesson
Optional and For Members of the First Class (Bring your Blue Cards!)
4:30 Opening and Welcome
6:00 Dinner at Threefold Cafe
8:00 Keynote Presentation with Mary Stewart Adams
9:00 Foundation Stone in Eurythmy with Eurythmy Spring Valley

8:00 Breakfast - On your own (a la carte at Threefold Cafe) 9:00 *
Speech work with Jennifer Kleinbach This event is open to the public
9:30 Questions Arising from the Heart: Introduction to the Conversation
with Karl Fredrickson
10:00 Living Questions: Small Conversation Groups
11:00 Snack & Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 Eurythmy with Sea-Anna Vasilas
12:15 Living Questions in Community: Whole Group Conversation
1:00 Lunch at Threefold Cafe
3:00 Workshops: To Be Announced Soon!
4:15 Snack and Coffee/Tea Break
4:45 Speaking to the Future: All Group Activity
6:00 Dinner at Threefold Cafe
8:00 Thoughts in Connection, an All Souls Festival*
with Eurythmy Spring Valley, Dorothea Mier

8:00 Breakfast- On your own (a la carte at Threefold Cafe) 9:00 Speech work
with Rudiger Janisch
10:30 Snack and Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 Living Questions: Small Conversation Groups
11:45 Living Questions in Community: Whole Group Conversation
12:00 The Foundation Stone Meditation in Eurythmy & Conference close
1:00 Lunch and Goodbyes with Jennifer Kleinbach
9:30 When a Seed Sprouts: The Foundation Stone Meditation

"The soil in which the Stone was laid could be no other than the hearts and souls of those united in the Society. And the Foundation Stone itself must be the attitude of mind which grows when anthroposophy gives shape to life. This attitude in life, as it is required by the signs of the present time, lies in the will to find - by deepening the human soul - the path to an awakened vision of the Spirit and to a life proceeding from the Spirit." ​​​​​
~Rudolf Steiner, CW 26, 13 January, 1924

is a Star Lore Historian and the host of the weekly public radio podcast MEET YOUR PRESENTERS:
Mary Stewart Adams The Storyteller's Night Sky. In 2011, she established one of the world's first International Dark Sky Parks, and in 2021 published the book The Star Tales of Mother Goose. Mary met the work of Rudolf Steiner simultaneous to encountering ancient star wisdom in the 1980s, which was galvanized into a life path through encounter with astrosopher Hazel Straker in 1995. Mary serves as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America as of October 2023.

Karl Fredrickson taught history in the Green Meadow Waldorf High School for 35 years. Since then he has taught main lesson blocks and advised teachers in a number of a schools, as well as giving talks on historical and anthroposophical themes. He lives now in Radburn, New Jersey, and spends his time writing, hiking and being a grandparent.

Rüdiger Janisch has been working in Curative Education and teaching in professional training programs in Germany and the United States for over 40 years. A long-time student of anthroposophy, he serves on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America. His contributions to adult education methods were recognized in the context of an international research project sponsored by the European Union. He has been a member of the core faculty of a joint 'Training for Trainers' program supporting Curative Education and Social Therapy in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also taught as an adjunct faculty member of the M.S. Ed program in Waldorf Remedial Education at Antioch University N.H. Having taught many different aspects of anthroposophy and Curative Education, he currently is focused on action research and the development of artistic and experiential approaches to the spiritual scientific study of the human being.

Jennifer Kleinbach has been performing and teaching speech arts and eurythmy in a variety of settings over the past 17 years. In 2000, she completed eurythmy training in Spring Valley, followed by touring with the stage ensemble (2000-2005), teaching eurythmy at Spring Valley (200-2007), and completing her speech training in 2005. Since 2004, she has performed in a variety of theatre productions (including the Mystery Dramas), festivals, and eurythmy performances. Jennifer currently leads a community speech chorus, teaches speech arts at Eurythmy Spring Valley, the Christian Community Seminary, and Steiner School of Speech Arts. She holds a BA in Classical Languages, an MA in Medieval Studies, completed the Foundation Year and Goethean Studies course at Rudolf Steiner College, and is an alumna of Sacramento Waldorf School.

Dorothea Mier was educated at the Elmfield and Michael Hall Waldorf schools and the Birmingham School of Music in her native England, where she studied piano and graduated ARCM, ABSM. She studied eurythmy at the Lea van der Pals School in Dornach, Switzerland, going on to teach there for seventeen years. During that time, she was a member of the Goetheanum Stage Group under Marie Savitch, preeminent eurythmist and director. In 1980, Dorothea became the Artistic Director of Eurythmy Spring Valley, carrying the work there for 25 years until 2005, when she retired and became free for giving workshops worldwide. Dorothea continues to teach classes and give workshops at ESV.

is a vibrant center for learning and performance, serving all levels of interest in eurythmy. Located 30 miles from New York City, ESV is part of the Eurythmy Spring Valley (ESV) Threefold community of initiatives guided by the work of Rudolf Steiner. Founded in 1972 as a pioneering American eurythmy training, our School of Eurythmy supports the continued growth and development of the art of eurythmy with two full-time trainings, a low-residence part-time training, and one-day and weekend workshops for audiences ranging from the interested public to eurythmy professionals.The Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble, in residence at Eurythmy Spring Valley since 1986, is one of the world's most active eurythmy touring groups, bringing full evening programs, children's programs, and special performance projects to schools, communities, and conferences all over North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more about all centenary events, visit anthroposophy.org/100
Are you a member? Join us for our Annual General Business Meeting on October 9, and a special Michaelmas gathering for members!
Click HERE for more information

Poster artwork by Hermann Linde

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Speaking to the Future: The Foundation Stone of Love

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A Conference to Honor the Centenary of the Anthroposophical Society Co-Hosted by the ASA and Threefold Branch and Sponsored by the Threefold Educational Foundation "Association means the possibility for a higher being to express itself through the members when they are united.

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The Rudolf Steiner Archive Needs Our Support

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The Rudolf Steiner Archive Needs Our Support

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Steiner Online Library (SOL)  is seeking financial support to continue to serve its over 100,000 unique visitors each month and grow the site to reach a new generation.

From the small town of Interlochen, Michigan, USA, Dr. Christopher Wietrzykowski and his wife Karin run the Rudolf Steiner Archive (RSA)—the largest collection of works of Rudolf Steiner available online in English. In late 2021, they formed the not-for-profit Steiner Online Library (SOL) and acquired the assets of RSA from the e.Lib, Inc. Today, they are in the midst of applying Chris’ in-depth knowledge of computing and Karin’s abilities as an accomplished technology lawyer to RSA.

Created in 1978 at the dawn of the digital age, RSA was in dire need of technical and functional upgrades to ensure its viability. All while keeping the website up and running, SOL gutted the back-end technology and rebuilt the website to be faster and more reliable than ever. It also has a fresh, new look. Currently, they are developing new research capabilities, making their own exclusive English translations, and adding missing documents. Try out their new Calendar of the Soul tool as well!

We have agreed to help promote this valuable resource through this request to our members for financial support.  The Rudolf Steiner Archive is an independent nonprofit and is not funded by the Anthroposophical Society or Dornach. If you value their service and would like to see it continue, please give generously through their website, RSArchive.org. Use their donation button (also found below) or find more ways to give on their Help Out page, including ways to avoid domestic and international transaction fees.  Study groups that use their materials may wish to contribute together as well.

Together with your gifts, we can ensure the words of Rudolf Steiner will continue to reach a world-wide audience through their service.

Donate!

NOTE: For those who have been giving for years, please ensure your payments go to Steiner Online Library. Donations to The e.Lib, Inc. do not support the Rudolf Steiner Archive and haven’t since 2021.

Read a heart-warming story about the history of RSA and its new caretakers, as originally published in the UK-based New View magazine, here.

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Free information webinar on eurythmy courses to relieve stress! Saturday, September 16th at 8pm :) Scroll down to ABSR eurythmy for teachers!

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Subscribe here to our free info webinar on
ABSR for Stress Release and
ABSR for Cancer-related Fatigue
Saturday, September 2
1pm London, 2pm Berlin
8pm Shanghai, 10pm Melbourne
Check your time zone here

Registration for the Webinar
At this meeting Theodor Hundhammer, will discuss with Callie Tai and Samantha Sam from the Kongsi Academy, Malaysia about the research results of the University of Bern and the free follow up project this autumn. The Meeting will be held in English and simultaneously translated into Chinese.
Even if you can't attend, sign up and we will send you the link to the recordings. More free English ABSR Info Webinars can be found here

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Cancer is a physical, mental and spiritual challenge.

Cancer has a profound impact on your entire being, causing pain and upheaval in your life. However, we can learn to overcome our hesitations and openly confront cancer. Forces of destruction and death can find their balance through imagination, creativity and enthusiasm.

The course is part of a research project. We will send an anonymous questionnaire at the beginning, in the middle, at the end and eight weeks after the course to ask about your level of stress and exhaustion. The questions are simple and do not take long to complete. With your participation, you contribute to the further research of the effects of these exercises and making them known to the public.

By registering, you confirm that you are currently undergoing cancer treatment or have been diagnosed with cancer within the last five years. You are ready to participate in 9 live sessions, do 15 minutes of exercises daily and complete four questionnaires during and after the course.

Free attendance: Since cancer and cancer-related exhaustion are a great burden in themselves, we do not want to charge a participation fee for this course. Those who would like to support the research project and donate are welcome to do so.

Yes, I sign-up for the course
Participation is free of charge
Please only register
if you have had a cancer diagnosis in the last five years,
and if you are willing to fill out a questionnaire four times.

How does the course against cancer-related exhaustion work?

We meet from 30 September to 25 November 2023 on Saturdays from 11 am to 12 am BST. You will receive the link to the meetings by email. Just click on it and you are in the meeting. The day before the course starts, we do a trial run, then you are sure that everything works. If you miss a meeting, you get the recording like everyone else. You can watch everything again afterwards and stay connected.

The eurythmy exercises are easy and don't take long. If you get tired, you can continue sitting. They get their special power to relieve cancer-related exhaustion through s mall additional exercises that we incorporate into everyday life. For example, We hide something from ourselves, change our handwriting, think things the other way round, humorously change a few habits, etc. Every week it's a different little something.

In the meetings we take time to talk to each other and share our experiences. During the week you practise maybe 10 to 15 minutes a day, but only as much as your strength allows. You will be amazed at the effect such small things can have on regaining your inner elasticity and strength.
It feels good to be on the road together.

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Subscribe here to our free info webinar on ABSR for Stress Release and ABSR for Cancer-related Fatigue Saturday, September 2 1pm London, 2pm Berlin8pm Shanghai, 10pm Melbourne Check your time zone here Registration for the Webinar At this meeting Theodor Hundhammer, will discuss with Callie Tai and Samantha Sam from the Kongsi Academy, Malaysia about the research results of the University of Bern and the free follow up project this autumn.

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Support the Youth! Meeting in NY this summer: July 2-7

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Support the Youth! Meeting in NY this summer: July 2-7

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I know Wisconsin is not in the eastern region, but maybe you want to travel this summer?! :)

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I know Wisconsin is not in the eastern region, but maybe you want to travel this summer?! :)

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Zoom Study Group 4th Wednesday of the month at 7:30 am Eastern Time, starting on Wednesday, May 24th   -

Thoughts during the Time of War:
For Germans and those who do not believe they must hate them.
By Dr. Rudolf Steiner

HTTPS://RSARCHIVE.ORG/BOOKS/GA019/ENGLISH/UNK2005/GA019_INDEX.HTML

https://rsarchive.org/Books/GA019/English/UNK2005/GA019_p01.html

contact Diane McGary dimilihome@gmail.com

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If you have events you'd like to share that have a link to the 100 year anniversary of the Christmas Conference, you can post them here:

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September 15, 16, 17, Copake, NY

September 20, Kimberton, PA

September 22 and 23, Spring Valley, NY

September 24, Copake, NY

Click here for more information

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CAST

Rudolf Steiner – Peter Josephson

Marie Steiner – Laurie Portocarrero

Ita Wegman – Karen Holmes

Fräulein Samwaller, “Sam” – Sea-Anna Vasilas

Edith Maryon – Faith DiVecchio

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer – Liam McGilligan

Albert Steffen – Michael Morley

Günther Wachsmuth – Christian Peterson

Elisabeth Vreede – Cate Decker

Grand Master – Marke Levene

Secret Brother – Vincent Roppolo

Archangel Micha-el – Zachary Dolphin

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Glen Williamson - Performance March 20, East Montpelier, Vermont

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Glen Williamson - Performance March 20, East Montpelier, Vermont

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The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia

Keynote speakers: Ursula Flatters, MD, James Dyson, MD, and Marion Debus, MD

July 19-22, 2023 in Kimberton, PA

In the summer of 1923 in Penmaenmawr, Wales, Ita Wegman asked

if there could be a path for the mysteries to come into medicine again in our age.

In the summer of 2023 in Kimberton, Pennsylvania, the AHA will hold a conference

in recognition of all that came to benefit medicine from this question.

The "Mysteries of Healing" theme was created upon reflection of the questions, "What do we need to heal in order to best therapeutically accompany others?" and "How can we better serve the good in each human-to-human encounter?"

Our three keynote speakers will be collaborating through the "Mysteries of Healing" evening lectures, practical teaching lectures and interdisciplinary case presentations. Each presenter will bring a case for the interdisciplinary case groups for open discussion and sharing of insights. The case discussions will be followed by mid-day talks to develop practical therapeutic imaginations. We will illuminate these topics through singing, therapeutic artistic activities, and an interactive workshop titled "AnthropoSophia: Connecting Social and Individual Health", led by Raphael Knauf MD and Jan Goeschel, PhD. The goal of this workshop is to strengthen our ideal intentions of working with solidarity, freedom and equality in medicine and therapies.

The conference is open for members of the AHA, as well as non-members who are familiar with Anthroposophy.

Join us in collaborating together for this most special AHA biennial conference in celebration of AnthropoSophia!

Please register for the Pre-Conference and the Main Conference separately.

Register for the Pre-Conference here: https://anthroposophichealth.org/event-5059903

Register for the Main Conference here: https://anthroposophichealth.org/event-5059883

Ursula Flatters, MD will bring the first morning keynote lecture, "Healer Know Thyself". Ursula co-founded the Vidarkliniken Anthroposophic Hospital in Sweden. She has extensive experience practicing and teaching in- and out-patient medicine. She is currently the Board Chair of the Swedish Association for Anthroposophical Medical Activities (SAMT).
She is a trained eurythmist and for 20 years worked with Waldorf Schools as a school doctor.

James was a co-founder James Dyson, MD, in the second morning keynote presentation, will speak on "The 'I to I' Encounter".
of Park Attwood in the UK and has practiced as a doctor in Steiner Waldorf Schools and in centers for social therapy. His areas
of special interest are developmental psychology and adult mental health. He is a regular contributor to Anthroposophic therapeutic trainings, internationally.

senior physician at Havelhohe hospital in Berlin. Marion Debus, MD will give the final morning keynote lecture titled, "Therapeutic Accompaniment on One's Healing Journey". Marion works as Head of the Department of Oncology, Hematology and Internal Medicine at Klinik Arlesheim in Switzerland. Previously she was a
She has taught Anthroposophic oncology throughout her career.

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Anthroposophic Health Association - AHA Biennial Conference 2023/ The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia

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The Mysteries of Healing: Realizing AnthropoSophia Keynote speakers: Ursula Flatters, MD, James Dyson, MD, and Marion Debus, MD July 19-22, 2023 in Kimberton, PA In the summer of 1923 in Penmaenmawr, Wales, Ita Wegman asked if there could be a path for the mysteries to come into medicine again in our age.

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Feb 22, 2023 begins at 11amPT/2pm ET via zoom (the flyer says 10am but Dottie later corrected it to 11amPT/2pmET)

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Feb 22, 2023 begins at 11amPT/2pm ET via zoom (the flyer says 10am but Dottie later corrected it to 11amPT/2pmET)

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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-full-circle-steinerbooks-spiritual-research-seminar-2023-tickets-499712211677

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Patrick Kennedy visits Atlanta, Feb 10-12, 2023

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Patrick Kennedy visits Atlanta, Feb 10-12, 2023

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Our Own Deeds Inscribed into the Cosmic Spaces

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Our Own Deeds Inscribed into the Cosmic Spaces

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Our Own Deeds Inscribed into the Cosmic Spaces V2

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Foundation Studies - in person- in Atlanta forming now!

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Foundation Studies - in person- in Atlanta forming now!

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2023 Florida Anthroposophical Society annual retreat at the Dayspring Episcopal Conference Center in Parrish, Florida over the March 3-5 weekend.

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2023 Florida Anthroposophical Society annual retreat at the Dayspring Episcopal Conference Center in Parrish, Florida over the March 3-5 weekend.

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Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce the upcoming 2023 Florida Anthroposophical Society annual retreat at the Dayspring Episcopal Conference Center in Parrish, Florida over the March 3-5 weekend.

Patrick Kennedy, Christian Community Priest and Co-Director of the Priests' Training Seminary in North America will be our conference presenter for the theme:

"The Seven Heavens:  Our Journey Through Them After Death and Our Life on Earth LIved in Their Light."

He will speak about the journey of the soul after death and how and why knowing this now, while we are on earth, is so important.

The conference will include singing and eurythmy, time for visiting with one another, and good meals.  It begins Friday evening and continues through lunch on Sunday.

If you want to get a good sense of how Patrick engages with soul-spiritual ideas from an Anthroposophical viewpoint, check out his podcast which he co-hosts with Jonah Evans. The two record their conversations with each other on many Biblical topics---but also on the subjects we meet in our daily lives. They also interview a lot of people who have committed their work to serving others in the light of Anthroposophy.

For more information, to see the conference schedule, or to register please click the following link: REGISTER .

If you are interested in coming, please register as soon as possible, because space at the Dayspring Conference Center is limited, and rooms did sell out last year.

Please feel free to contact me with any of your questions.

Warm wishes,
Sabrina Dalla Valle

Coordinator for the Florida Anthroposophical Conference

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A Call to Work with
the Foundation Stone Verse

February 17-19, 2023
The Threefold Community
Spring Valley, NY As we enter into the one hundredth year since the Foundation Stone of Love was placed at the center of our work, we may ask ourselves: How shall we bring this impulse into the next century? Through speech, eurythmy and small group conversations we will seek to deepen our experience of these verses, focusing especially on the first thirteen lines of each of the first three panels. As Rudolf Steiner made clear on that Christmas morning in 1923, the Foundation Stone asks us not only to bring it into our own meditative life, but also to place it at the core of our work together in groups.

“The soil in which the Stone was laid could be no other than the hearts and souls of those united in the Society. And the Foundation Stone itself must be the attitude of mind which grows when Anthroposophy gives shape to life. This attitude in life, as it is required by the signs of the present time, lies in the will to find — by deepening the human soul — the path to an awakened vision of the Spirit and to a life proceeding from the Spirit.” CW 26 13 January 1924

Our intention will be to approach the inner nature of the Foundation Stone of Love. As Ernst Katz has reminded us, this requires us to bring to these verses not only a mood of reverence and wonder, but also an ability to ask questions that spring from the heart. Only then can it come alive and grow, awakening life-sustaining forces.

P.S.: A follow-up intensive is being planned for November 2023Friday, February 17
7:30: Foundation Stone recited by speech chorus
"The Foundation Stone and the Spirit of the Goetheanum", talk by Karl Fredrickson
Foundation Stone recited by speech chorusSaturday, February 18
9:00: Speech work with Jennifer Kleinbach
9:30:Introductory thoughts offered by Judith Aventuro
10:00: Small conversation groups
11-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:15: Eurythmy with Dorothea Mier
12:15 – 1:00: Conversation with entire conference group

1-3:00: Lunch and rest

3:00-3:30: Whole group Speech with Jennifer Kleinbach
3:30-4:00: Introductory thoughts offered by Gino Ver Eecke
4:00-5:00: Small groups conversation
5:00-6:00: Eurythmy

6-8: Supper and break

8:00: Festival for the Unborn. Festival Address, Eurythmy, Poetry and Music to Celebrate Human Pre-existence and the Journey Toward BirthSunday, February 19
9-10:00: Thoughts on the Foundation Stone in relationship to the Class Mantras - Rudiger Janisch (Blue Card Required)
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:00: Introductory thoughts offered by Karl Fredrickson
11:00-11:45: Small groups conversation
11:45-12:00: Whole group conversation
12:30: Foundation Stone recited by speech chorus Program subject to change.

Event Poster

Unborn Festival Poster

Registration, Meals, and Housing

The conference fee is on a sliding scale ($25 - $150) and will help cover administrative and facility expenses.

A meal plan for Saturday lunch and supper at Threefold Café is being offered for $60.00. We hope everyone will be able to eat together at the Café!

To register and for further information follow this link:
https://threefold.org/event/the-foundation-stone-of-love/
A link will be provided there for Holder House housing.

A full refund will be given to anyone who needs to cancel their registration at any time.

Sponsored by the Threefold Educational Foundation and the Threefold Branch of the Anthroposophical Society in America

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Soul Influences - Form Drawing & 7 Soul Types workshop series on line - starts Tues., Jan 17th

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Soul Influences - Form Drawing & 7 Soul Types workshop series on line - starts Tues., Jan 17th

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Patrick Kennedy shares about the Sistine Madonna on Dec 21

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Patrick Kennedy shares about the Sistine Madonna on Dec 21

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The Seminary of The Christian Community of North America

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Contemplating Rafael's Sistine Madonna

With Rev. Patrick Kennedy, Director at the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America

Live Zoom Event ~ Use this LINK to join us!

Meeting ID: 875 9246 5344
Passcode: Rafael

DONATE HERE TO FUND PRIESTS TRAINING

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Coming in the Clouds - The Seminary of The Christian Community of North America

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Contemplating Rafael's Sistine Madonna With Rev. Patrick Kennedy, Director at the Seminary of the Christian Community in North America Live Zoom Event ~ Use this LINK to join us! Meeting ID: 875 9246 5344 Passcode: Rafael DONATE HERE TO FUND PRIESTS TRAINING

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Form Drawing Series: Personal & Relational Transformation through the Seven Soul Types

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Form Drawing Series: Personal & Relational Transformation through the Seven Soul Types

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A Seven Soul Types/Form Drawing workshop series. This series couples Laura Embrey's Form Drawing with Jennifer Goodman's Seven Soul Types work. It commences on January 17 th, ending on May 23rd. (Tuesdays, January 17 th, February 7 th, February 28 th, March 21 st, April 11 th, May 2 nd, May 23 rd) Classes will be from 7 - 9 pm Eastern time via zoom. They will NOT be recorded.

Cost is $350.

For more information, contact Diane McGary at contentedfarm@gmail.com

Two payment options (all proceeds go to the presenters):

A) one-time fee $350 (or $280- 420, depending upon your financial situation) OR

B) three payments:  1st fee due January 14th for Session 1 - $50 (or $40 - 60, depending upon your financial situation);

2nd fee due February 4th for sessions 2 - 4 - $150 (or $120-180, depending upon your financial situation);

3rd fee due by April 7th for sessions 5 - 7 - $150 (or $120-180, depending upon your financial situation).

Pay by venmo (@Tom-McGary) or checks payable to Tom McGary, 55 Emerald Drive, Dracut, MA  01826

Supplies needed are: white printer paper or art sketch pad, graphite pencil, eraser, set of assorted colored pencils, table or desk to draw on.

Laura Embrey is currently on the Board of Trustees of Camellia Waldorf School in Sacramento, CA and has previously worked at the Sacramento Waldorf School in both the lower and high schools, and as an English teacher at George Washington Carver High School in Rancho Cordova. She has both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She has published seven form drawing books and one novel. She lives with her partner, David Wiant, and her two cats in Fair Oaks, CA.

Jennifer Goodman, M.Ed. is an anthroposophically trained counselor, weaving together traditional and holistic therapeutic approaches in her counseling and coaching sessions and classes. She helps people align with their own purpose and meaning and then bring the guidance of their higher self into their soul life, working with held beliefs, emotions, schematic thought structures, traumas and other imprints, in a way that develops more freedom and creates space for relational wellbeing. She brings a connection with Rudolf Steiner’s work and the Waldorf world, a lifelong background in meditation and Eastern philosophy, study of the Steiner’s planetary soul influences for personality transformation, Waldorf-based parent coaching and child counseling, mediation and relatedness skills, Social Inclusion work with schools and children, therapeutic arts, and Biographical Counseling. She has an M.Ed. in anthroposophical counseling, is a certified Waldorf Collaborative Counselor, a Magic Makers Coach, a Simplicity Parenting Coach, and a Social Inclusion Coach.

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“From Gondishapur to Covid-19 and the 4th Industrial Revolution” 

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“From Gondishapur to Covid-19 and the 4th Industrial Revolution” 

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with Richard Ramsbotham

Sun, Sep 25 at 3:00pm EST

How are our modern day approaches to pandemics, technology advancements and governments influenced by thinking impulses originating in The Academy of Gondishapur?

Register here:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7zwVmfGCRZ-5Nc0imZRI8w

Richard Ramsbotham was born in Northumberland in 1962. After attending Cambridge University and Emerson College he taught literature at Warsaw University (1989-1993) and then trained at the Artemis School of Speech and Drama. Since then he has worked as a teacher, lecturer, writer and theatre director. He is the author of ‘Who Wrote Bacon? Shakespeare, Bacon and James 1’; ‘An Exact Mystery – the Poetic Life of Vernon Watkins’; several plays and many articles on cultural, historical and current themes (e.g. 9/11 and Covid-19). He has also translated and directed Rudolf Steiner’s 4 Mystery Dramas. He is the co-founder of Fourfold Living Arts, an initiative bringing together the performing arts with the exploration of important cultural and current themes.

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Shining a Light into the Darkness

Path of Knowledge inner development is itself a process of shining light into the darkness.

As social challenges are intensifying, we are called upon more urgently to develop new capacities in understanding the human being, nature and medicine in wholeness. This series will focus on historical thinking influences which still darkly affect the soul of every modern human being.

Because we see everywhere today that the “light shines into the darkness and the darkness comprehends it not”, what is our response to the recognition of darkness which lives within the thinking of each of us?

This series is open to all who study anthroposophy.

Proceeds will benefit anthroposophic organizations worldwide.

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Rudolf Steiner Bible Study - Every Thursday 6:30-8pm(Central) via ZOOM

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Rudolf Steiner Bible Study - Every Thursday 6:30-8pm(Central) via ZOOM

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Hello,

I am trying to connect with fellow anthroposophists, and get the word out about our hybrid online/in person meeting on Thursdays 6:30-8PM Central Time (Austin).

The fallout from Covid brought to the light the need bring light and warmth to any fear in our humble community, and it is only fear that separates the spiritual / religious side and the scientific side of Spiritual Science. Aiming for unity, in a divided world.

https://www.meetup.com/rudolf_steiner_bible_study/

Anthroposophists, Christian Community members, newbies, religious, agnostic, and spiritual seekers all welcome.

I just wanted to inform you of this and make a connection with others around the country of like mind.  I hope this is OK.

I hope this message finds you well.

Daniel

(Paris, France branch adherent now residing in my natal home of Texas)
Daniel <DanielParis@protonmail.com>

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Waldorf School of Atlanta is forming a Foundation Studies year beginning Aug 2022

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Waldorf School of Atlanta is forming a Foundation Studies year beginning Aug 2022

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ENKINDLING CONNECTIONS And The Heart Rose (3)

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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN*!

https://renewing-the-mysteries.eventbrite.com

Renewing the Mysteries:
The Founding of The Christian Community
& the Burning of the First Goetheanum

Spring Valley, August 8-13, 2022

Many anthroposophists have understood the 1923/24 Christmas Foundation Conference as constituting a renewal of the Mysteries. Nine months after the Christmas Conference, speaking to the priests of the Christian Community, Rudolf Steiner pointed to a sequence from the founding of the Christian Community in September 1922 to the burning of the Goetheanum at the end of that year to the Christmas Conference.

In this 100th anniversary year of both the founding of the Christian Community and the burning of the Goetheanum, can an exploration of these events help us to understand the nature of the New Mysteries?

The keynote speaker is Daniel Hafner, priest of the Christian Community. He will address this theme with a particular focus on the colored windows of the First Goetheanum.

The Act of Consecration of Man will be celebrated during the week and there will also be a Class Lesson for members of the School of Spiritual Science.

Venue: Threefold Community and The Christian Community (Spring Valley Area)

*REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT: A conference on the scale currently planned requires that a minimum number of participants register by July 20th.

https://renewing-the-mysteries.eventbrite.com

Please contact Rev. Paul Newton with any queries: paulknewton@msn.com, (845) 517-4101

Sponsored by The Christian Community Spring Valley Area and the Threefold Branch of the Anthroposophical Society

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A Whitsun Festival of United Soul Endeavor & Spirit Community with the Eastern, Central and Western Regional Councils of the Anthroposophical Society in  America Sunday 29 May 2022

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A Whitsun Festival of United Soul Endeavor & Spirit Community with the Eastern, Central and Western Regional Councils of the Anthroposophical Society in  America Sunday 29 May 2022

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3 – 4:30 pm PT, 4-5:30 MT, 5-6:30 pm CT, 6-7:30 pm ET

We will be working with Rudolf Steiner’s THE FIFTH GOSPEL

GA 148, Lecture II, 2 October 1913, Oslo
For more info. contact Hazel@ReverseRitual.com

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder – Celebrating the Festival of Ascension with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

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Climbing Jacob's Ladder – Celebrating the Festival of Ascension with Hazel Archer-Ginsberg

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Thursday, May 26th   7 – 8:30 pm Eastern time.

“In heavy clouds let Him ascend

And so also let Him downward tread.

In cooling streams let Him be sent,

In flames of fire blaze His descent,

In air & essence, sound & dew

To permeate our whole earth thru” ~Novalis

Ascension is a Festival of the Elements, & of the Hierarchies, it relates to the Transfiguration & the fulfillment of the promise of the ‘Second Coming’. Together we will explore the mystery of ‘As Above so Below’.

Hazel Archer-Ginsberg is a trans-denominational minister, essayist, lecturer, performer, and poet. She writes and curates ‘Reverse Ritual, Understanding Anthroposophy Through the Rhythms of the Year’ and the ‘I Think Speech' podcast. Hazel’s been the Cultural Events and Festivals Coordinator for the Rudolf Steiner Branch in Chicago for over 10 years. She is a member of the Central Regional Council, the School for Spiritual Science, the Esoteric Youth Circle, and the General Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America.

Register by emailing mcgary.family@comcast.net by Sunday, May 22nd.

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A Prayer initiative is starting up  with the New Moon on Monday, May 2nd. It will be 15 minutes  Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 12:30 Mountain time. (2:30 pm Eastern time). We will to ask for blessings and offer thankfulness.

Come when you can in person or in spirit.

Send requests for blessings or offerings of thanksgiving when you have the need whether or not you can attend in person.

If interested, please email Diane at mcgary.family@comcast.net  for zoom link.

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Signe Schaefer has been a long time adult educator and was for many years the Director of Foundation Studies at Sunbridge College. She was the founding Director of the training in biography and social art, and active in creating the Center for Biography and Social Art. Since retiring she has published two books: Why on Earth? Biography and the Practice of Human Becoming and I Give You My Word: Women's Letters as Life Support. She also co-authored Ariadne's Awakening: Taking up the Threads of Consciousness and co-edited More Lifeways. A mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, she now lives in Great Barrington, MA with her husband Christopher.

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The New Isis/Sophia Myth & the Challenge of Lifting the Veil

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Signe Schaefer has been a long time adult educator and was for many years the Director of Foundation Studies at Sunbridge College. She was the founding Director of the training in biography and social art, and active in creating the Center for Biography and Social Art.

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Join Us! April's Workshop: Finding Strength and Courage

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Sunday, April 10th - Finding Sources of Strength and Courage with Jennifer Brooks Quinn"An exploration of courage in our own life stories. What can we draw from those experiences in these uneasy times?" All workshops are from 2:00-4:00pm ET Time converter The cost for each workshop is at a sliding scale of $25-$75.

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Monthly Zoom Studygroups                                                  

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The Book of Revelation meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month at 7:30 am Eastern time. In March, we read Lecture Five.

Karmic Relationships meets the 4th Saturday of the month at 8 am Mountain Time

We are reading it in chronological order, not volume by volume.

On March 26, we read April 23 Dornach  Vol II  - 3

Let me know if you’re interested in joining

Diane McGary – mcgary.family@comcast.net

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