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Events including Training & Courses of Anthroposophic Health and Social Care

Upcoming events are listed here. The main courses and training for professionals in the UK can be found in Training. List of regular open-to-all workshops, courses and public events can be found in Public Events. Please get in touch with the contact person or organisation listed in each event if more info or help is needed. Anthroposophic Medicine UK may assist in enrolling individuals to some events but does not organise nor is responsible for events, thank you.

There are also venues that regularly host AnthroHealth related events such as Emerson College, Field Centre of Ruskin Mill Trust , Rudolf Steiner House, St Luke’s, Tobias Arts and Weleda, etc. To find out wider events and resources in the UK, please visit  Anthroposophy in the Great Britain and Biodynamic UK Association.

To connect globally, please visit International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Association and IVAA's partners. 

If you run a training course which is not yet represented here, please contact us or submit event listing form to provide information to add to the website, thank you.

COMING EVENTS

Upcoming events

  • Eurythmy Therapy Training

    • Monday, March 21, 2022
    • Friday, April 26, 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX


    From the Eurythmy Therapy Training in Great Britain

    '... prepares eurythmists to work in all fields of eurythmy therapy with an international diploma from the Medical Section of the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. This Diploma and MA qualify the eurythmy therapist to join professional organisations in their own country and to work in the profession in a range of healthcare settings. The definition of eurythmy therapy and the guidelines and professional profile can be viewed for more details.

    We aim to give students a foundation in professional skills and enable them to develop capacities of observation, reflection, imagination and therapeutic intuition. An emphasis is placed on experiential learning, linking theme-based lectures with practical sessions, and alternating blocks of taught modules with practice placements.

    As trainers we work in a collaborative spirit with each other and with the students, fostering a diversity of approach and encouraging personal development and mutual support.'

    Read more info of the Eurythmy Therapy Training.

    Dates for next therapy training

    • March 21-April 15, 2022
    • August 7-September 2, 2022
    • (An online week sometime in the autumn)
    • March 20-April 14, 2023
    • August 8-September 1, 2023
    • (An online week sometime in the autumn)
    • April 2-April 26, 2024

    To explore the opportunity of participating in the above programmes, please contact Eurythmy Therapy Training UK.

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  • English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine 2023

    • Saturday, January 28, 2023
    • Saturday, June 28, 2025
    • 9 sessions
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX

    Designed mainly for registered medical practitioners (a few places open to other health care professionals)

    3-year part-time starting 23rd Jan 2023

    9 one-week modules

    Combining experiential face-to-face & distance learning

    Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide

    International Anthroposophic Physician Certification


    STARTED 28th January 2023. Application still open for late comer, please do get in touch with the organiser.


    Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.

    Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.

    Course Overview

    It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.

    The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.

    The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.

    In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.

    Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.


    Module Details & Topics Covered

    Module 1 Face To Face – Essential JAN 2023

    @Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research. Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements Qualitative Anatomy – Four Organs – Living Morphology and Projective Geometry Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.

    Module 2 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants APR 2023

    @Emerson College | Metamorphosis Observational Studies of Leaves and Human Skeleton as Introduction to Three Foldness in the Human Being; Medicinal Plant Studies. Child Development, Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability; Waldorf Educational Curriculum as Mirror of Phases in Child Development; Small Group Inner Path Work on “The Trials” and “Biographical Sharing from Phases in Childhood”

    Module 3 Face To Face – Highly Desirable JUL 2023

    @Emerson College | Medicinal Plant Study. Tria Principia & 8 Metals & Plants with Albert Schmidli. Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’. Biography Work. 

    Module 4 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants OCT 2023

    @Emerson College| Mistletoe Plant Study. Fever, Cancer & Viscum treatment with Dr Marion Debus & Dr Simon van Lieshout Pain management & Palliative Care with Dr Matthias Girke.

    Module 5 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  JAN 2024

    @Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia Clay Modelling Therapy , Anthroposophic remedies and their indications. Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy.

    Module 6 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  MAY 2024

    @Emerson College | Plant Study. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives with Dr Carmen Eppel. Anthroposophic Peadiatrics with Dr Karen Michael. Eurythmy Therapy

    Module 7 Face To Face – Essential OCT 2024

    @Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin |  Cancer II and Palliative care with Dr. Matthias Girke, Viscum and Fever Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension with Dr.Matthias Girke From the general practitioner’s practice Pneumology: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma. Gastroenterology External Treatments, Meeting Patients.

    Module 8 Face To Face – Essential MAR 2025

    @ Klinik Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, with Michael and Raphael Schools, Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute Rheumatology, Diabetology with Matthias Girke. Meeting Patients at Arlesheim Clinic with Dr. Marion Debus.

    Module 9 Face To Face – Essential JUN 2025

    @ Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study, Endocrinology with Prof David Martin Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine, Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle and Cromlechs on Anglesey; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles.

    International participants are encouraged to speak to the course leader in advance to identify how best to participate to ensure a rich learning experience.


    Book for a taster Session Contact the Course Leaders


    Flyer  More Information  Apply Now

    Anthroposophic Medicine Training |  Great Britain English Training
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  • Biographical Counselling Skills 2023

    • Wednesday, September 20, 2023
    • Sunday, June 23, 2024
    • 10 sessions
    • St Luke's Therapy Centre GL5 4EX (except one-day sessions online)


    A one year part-time course in Biographical Counselling Skills for Professionals starting September 2023

    Biographical Counselling is a holistic, integrative counselling approach that takes into account the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of human experience. It offers a way of working that encourages people to find their own agency and creative freedom with their ideals, tasks and responsibilities. It aims to address issues on the level of healing and self development where crises and challenges become opportunities for growth and renewal.

    This one-year, interactive course offers participants an in-depth experience of working with their own biography to explore their life events objectively and from within the framework of cosmic lawfulness. More info can be found on the website and also in the brochure of Biographical Counselling Skills Course 2023_24.pdf 


    Taster sessions 



    Book a place on the taster by emailing  training@biographicalcounsellors.org.uk

    NOTE If you are interested in the  Professional Biographical Counselling Training, normally a 3-year part-time training, please ask the course leader for further information.

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  • Self-Care Webinar Series

    • Thursday, January 11, 2024
    • Thursday, May 09, 2024
    • 5 sessions
    • online


    The Self-Care webinar Series will focus on self-care for the practitioner and self-care for patients to practice at home. This is a great opportunity to learn about how different Anthroposophic therapies can weave together to bring a more holistic approach to self-care and learn practical tools to take into everyday life. These webinars are organised by Anthroposophic Health Association in the USA.

    Note: challenging with time zone issue. Read more INFO.

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  • Postgraduate Course in Psychotherapy, Psychopathology & Psychosomatics

    • Wednesday, February 07, 2024
    • Sunday, September 29, 2024
    • 3 sessions
    • Emerson College

    A three-year, part-time, post-graduate course in psychotherapy, psychopathology & psychosomatics

    This course is based on the principle that the human being today has great potential based on the power of our eternal spirit.  Our spiritual self can withstand the most difficult life circumstances but that all manner of problems can prevent its healthy unfolding.

    It provides an integrative, holistic training that addresses psychological and complex psychosomatic problems from an anthroposophic perspective.

    This training is for practising and qualified psychological therapists and so applicants will already have embarked on the journey of unfolding both their own and their clients’ potential.

    ‘I have been fascinated to learn more about psychosomatic disorders, the relationship between them and one’s spirit. This insight will enable me to treat the whole person.’
    ‘A very serious commitment; it takes time and effort, but your life will be changed’
    ‘This course has come at a most potent time in my life and has had a profound impact not only on the way I work with clients, but also life in general’
    ‘This course was very relevant and timely for my needs and future aspirations’
    ‘Such a varied, talented, deeply professional research-based ways and attitude in teaching styles’

    ‘The course supports individual styles and provides places for growth – both in an individual and in a group context

    The course is structured as a three-year course with an optional fourth year. The certificates will be awarded to graduates who have one of the following UK registrations or accreditations: registration with the UKCP as a psychotherapist, the HCPC as a clinical psychologist or counselling psychologist, the BMC as a doctor or accredited with the BACP as a counsellor/psychotherapist. The award is made by the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum and will reflect the national registration or accreditation of the course participant.

    Course participants who complete four years will be able to apply for UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) psychotherapy registration since the course meets the training requirements of UKCP registration. The course will include written work at university postgraduate level for approval by a university organisational member of the UKCP. This will involve an optional extra add-on fourth year course over a period of twelve months. As well as meeting the training requirements the course will also assist students to prepare a portfolio of evidence to meet the UKCP humanistic and integrative section criteria involving a compilation of client hours, supervision, and personal therapy.

    The three-year certificate will state that the course participant has trained on a post graduate course in anthroposophic based psychotherapy, psychopathology and psychosomatics based on the anthroposophic understanding of the human being and is knowledgeable in anthroposophic psychotherapy.

    The four-year certificate will state that the course participant has trained on a post graduate course in anthroposophic based psychotherapy, psychopathology and psychosomatics based on the anthroposophic understanding of the human being and is qualified in anthroposophic psychotherapy.

    Graduates will also become members of the UK psychotherapy association (Mercury, the association of counsellors and psychotherapists working out of Anthroposophy). Mercury is a member of the International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Associations (IFAPA) and so graduates will also be able to join the international community of anthroposophic psychotherapists and attend all IFAPA events.

    • 7-11 February 2024 (if you are joining the course after this date it will be possible to cover this module content at a later date)
    • 29 May – 2 June 2024
    • 25-29 September 2024

    MORE INFO 

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  • Clinical Case Course

    • Sunday, March 03, 2024
    • Sunday, November 24, 2024
    • 8 sessions
    • live online session


    Tools for anthroposophical casework

    Based on systematic case discussions of real patients, the Clinical Case Course offers short teaching units and video lessons on history-taking, clinical examination, holistic diagnosis and the resulting integrative and interprofessional therapeutic concept.

    Learn about the fourfold diagnosis and interprofessional case discussion

    Do you work in medicine, nursing or therapy and want to deepen and apply your knowledge of anthroposophic medicine? Our online course offers you the unique opportunity to familiarize yourself with the practical basics of this holistic medical practice.

    Discover the interprofessionality of anthroposophic medicine in the Clinical Case Course

    For doctors, therapists, nurses and other medical professionals with basic knowledge and/or practical experience in anthroposophic medicine.

    What can you expect?

    - Understanding the fourfold diagnosis: Learn to perform a comprehensive fourfold diagnosis to better understand your patients' therapy needs.

    - Develop an integrative medical therapy concept: Develop the skills to create an integrative therapy concept that takes into account both conventional medical and anthroposophical approaches.

    - Establish a common language: Create a foundation for effective interprofessional collaboration by practicing a common language for case discussion.

    How is the course structured?

    The Clinical Case Course consists of 8 interactive live sessions that take place online in English. These live sessions offer you the opportunity to interact directly with our experienced lecturers and other participants.For the time in between live sessions, extensive materials are available for your self-study, including texts, instructional videos and practical exercises.

    Step by step to the fourfold diagnosis and healing needs

    In the live sessions, real patient cases are used to teach a structured fourfold diagnosis; a detailed assessment of healing needs is taught and discussed interactively. This practice-oriented approach enables you to apply the acquired knowledge directly in your daily work. In the course you will develop helpful concepts and be encouraged to explore individual approaches in therapeutic practice.

    Why this course?

    - Expert-led training: Our experienced lecturers are specialists in anthroposophic medicine and will provide you practical concepts and insights.

    - Structured knowledge transfer: methodically comprehensible and didactically proven concept with direct exchange and exercises.

    - Flexible learning: The online course materials allow you to learn at your own pace and exchange ideas with colleagues from different countries in the live sessions.

    - Certificate for professional development: Successfully complete the course and receive an internationally recognized certificate for your professional development. A total of 70 teaching units (45 minutes each) are determined throughout the course. These can be broken down as follows:

    16 - Live Sessions

    14 - Video presentations for self-study (1-2 per module)

    10 - Case work

    30 - Independent work/self-study

    Further info

    Register

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  • Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training

    • Wednesday, April 03, 2024
    • Friday, October 16, 2026
    • 10 sessions
    • Emerson College RH185JX


    TRAINING INFO

    Training as a Rhythmical Massage Therapist involves not only mastering the techniques of the massage itself, but also developing an understanding of the human being in health and illness, both from a conventional and anthroposophical perspective. You will learn a subtle rhythmical quality of touch which works with levity rather than gravity to strengthen and enliven the life-supporting processes in the human body.

    Teaching and learning take place through a combination of lectures and hands-on practice, mixed artistic media exercises, discussion groups, tutorials, regular between-module medical assignments, year-long independent projects, case studies and special seminars. Through these methods, students can develop a thorough, in-depth, and holistic approach to the theory and practice of Rhythmical Massage Therapy.

    The first year’s theme is the healthy human being both from a conventional and an anthroposophical point of view. After that, the focus will be on the dynamics of health and illness in its varying manifestations. During the two years, you will learn the basic forms of Rhythmical Massage Therapy and then deepen these massage movement skills qualitatively by learning how to transform the archetypal forms to suit specific illnesses.

    FREE ZOOM TASTER SESSIONS

    If you are interested in the Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training UK and would like the opportunity to meet our Course Leaders, find out more about the course, ask questions and meet other potential participants, we will be holding the following FREE ZOOM TASTER sessions:

    January 29th Monday at 16.30

    February 15th Thursday at 15.00

    Please email registrar@emerson.org.uk if you wish to attend one of these sessions.

    SUPPORT WITH FUNDING

    Bursaries and interest free loans with small monthly repayments are available. For further information, please contact registrar@emerson.org.uk

    1st MODULE: APRIL 2024 which will be rerun in 2024 August, see info.

    Venue: Emerson College

    Please see proposed dated as TBC

    INFO
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  • Biodynamics, Spagyrics and Alchemy

    • Saturday, April 27, 2024
    • Sunday, April 28, 2024
    • The Rachel Carson Centre RH185JX

    Horticulture has also been developed around the world using Biodynamic principles, contributing to approaches to food production that give due attention to the planet, to people as well as to the planetary ecosystem in which we participate.

    Herb growing can also be addressed through a Biodynamic lens, and various different practices and approaches to working with herbs have been employed by different growers in different gardens around the globe. This day introduces core principles of Biodynamics and takes a particular focus on growing and processing herbs with a Biodynamic approach.

    Dr Jonathan Code, MEd. Jonathan is a lecturer in the Faculty for Environment and Transdisciplinary Studies of the Crossfields Institute. He is currently co-leading on a distance learning, situated research degree ‘Researching Holistic Approaches to Agroecology’. Jonathan has studied holistic approaches to agroecology (organics, permaculture, biodynamics) for over twenty years and he contributes to land-based and transformative education for learners of all ages in the UK and abroad.

    Day One: Biodynamics, Herbs and the Healing Plant

    9:30-16:30

    In 1924 the Austrian philosopher, social reformer and founder of anthroposophy gave a series of 8 lectures on agriculture which instigated what is now a worldwide philosophy and practice of agriculture known as Biodynamics. Biodynamics is often considered in the context of farming, and the notion of the ‘farm organism’ or ‘farm individuality’ is central to the Biodynamic impulse.

    Day Two: SPAGYRICS and ALCHEMY: To Separate and Reunite

    9:30-16:30

    An Introduction to making herbal elixirs based on the principles and practices of Plant Alchemy.

    This is an introduction to the principles and practices that sit at the heart of Spagyric remedy making. The day will include lecture content, practical demonstrations, discussion and many opportunities to consider the place that Spagyric medicines held – and can hold – in a contemporary herbal study and practice.

    INFO

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  • Taster Sessions of Postgraduate Course in Psychotherapy, Psychopathology & Psychosomatics

    • Saturday, April 27, 2024
    • 09:30
    • online

    Online Taster sessions

    Therapists interested in applying for the course may wish to join one of our free online taster sessions.

    Course Info
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  • The Heart Wakes Up

    • Saturday, April 27, 2024
    • Saturday, May 25, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • online

    From and for the Anthroposophic Arts Therapies in the fields of painting & sculpting, music & singing, language & drama


    Dear colleagues


    Two online meetings of anthroposophic arts therapies to explore, deepen, research and exchange.  

    In today's world of acceleration and mechanisation/technology, how can we nurture the powers of the heart in our children and young people? 

    The programme and registration are now online. We are looking forward to many participants!
    We look forward to working together!
     

    With best regards
    For the ICAAT Preparatory Committee and the Medical Section 

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  • 28th Annual Conference of the International Training Circle

    • Tuesday, April 30, 2024
    • Saturday, May 04, 2024
    • Argentina


    Dear Colleagues in the International Training Circle,

    Registration is now open for the next annual conference of the International Training Circle. For the first time, this important event will take place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With this, we are entering a new rhythm of our work.

    Over the coming years, will be meeting in Europe and in other regions of our movement in alternating years. This will allow us to get to know each other’s work and contexts more deeply, and to strengthen regional networks by including more colleagues from host regions in an international network experience than we have so far been able to do.

    You can find more details in the invitation letter, which is available for download on the event page.

    Please submit your registration as soon as possible, preferably by December 31, 2023, via the registration link on our website.

    Registrations and requests for financial assistance received by December 31, 2023, will be reviewed and confirmed in early January. After that, registrations and request will be processed on a rolling basis, subject to remaining availability of space and funds.

    We are looking forward to working together in Buenos Aires!

    Warm greetings,


    Jan Göschel and Elizabeth Sanders

    For the Training Council

    Marcela Almeyda, Dennis Löffler, Leticia Santagata and Doris Unger

    For the Organizing Group in Argentina

    Information & Registration


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  • Oasis Hereford: Recollection Reflection Renewal

    • Friday, May 03, 2024
    • Saturday, May 18, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • Elysia Therapy Centre, DY8 3RZ

    Oasis Herefordshire warmly invites your interest in a series of 3 Friday evening/Saturday workshops looking at deepening our understanding of our own biographical stories by building our birth chart as a work of art.

    This is not an astrological horoscope but an opportunity to reflect on Outer events in life's 7-year periods and deepen our understanding of our Inner soul responses, picking up patterns and threads that have brought us to where we are now.

    We will weave in the moods of the 7 planets - Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and how each of their qualities can inspire and challenge us. Creative exercises will enhance our whole group sharing alongside small group work as we work to build a picture of our life journey through the present, the past and the future.

    Venue:

    Elysia Therapy Centre, Stourbridge,

    Dates:

    Friday 19th April 2024 6-8pm AND Saturday 20th April 9.30-4pm

    Friday 3rd May 6-8pm AND Saturday 4th May 9.30-4pm

    Friday 17th May 6-8pm AND Saturday 18th May 9.30-4pm

    Our fees:

    £35-£45 per block. £90-£120 full course advance payment.

    If you would like to join us, please contact

    Lindsey 07800 535063 lgarner_@hotmail.com

    Carol Kirk 07922 162633


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  • The Creative Power of Colours

    • Thursday, May 09, 2024
    • Sunday, May 12, 2024
    • The Hague (NL)


    Between light and darkness, spirit and matter

    Colour is the soul of nature and of the whole

    cosmos and we partake of this soul

    as we experience colour.

    Rudolf Steiner

    Colour is a vital aspect of nature, culture and the arts and gives all these areas expression and character. As such, colour is an element that speaks directly to us and can trigger a wide range of sensitivities. In nature, colours appear between light and darkness as a primal phenomenon in its purest form. In culture, in the arts and in therapy, we can apply them to achieve certain effects. They are used in advertising, can express inner experiences, stimulate healing processes or spiritual experiences.

    According to Rudolf Steiner, colour is the soul of nature and the entire cosmos. How can we experience colours in such a way that we share this «soul»? How can light, darkness and colour be recognised in their relationship to the threefold human being and used in a powerful way to create art, design spaces, support healing processes and enrich our inner life? We will raise and deepen these questions by means of phenomenological perceptions, artistic exercises and introductions from a wide range of expert fields. In the process, we will draw a line between light, darkness and colour in nature, in the arts, in therapy and in spiritual life.

    The conference is addressing artists, therapists and anyone with a professional or private interest in colour. The contributions and workshops will be in English or German. There will be simultaneous translation for the lectures.

    The conference will be accompanied by various exhibitions with works by Hans-Dieter Appenrodt, Jan de Boon, Liane Collot d’Herbois, Eugène Hennekens, Irene van der Laag, Frederiek Nelissen, Joost Poel, Peter Vormer.

    Christiane Haid, Joost Poel,Aafke Schreuder, Will Uitgeest,Irene van der Laag, Pieter van der Ree

    https://goetheanum.ch/en/events/findet-in-den-niederlaende-statt-sbk-himmelfahrtsta

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  • Tobias School of Art & Therapy: Open Day

    • Wednesday, May 15, 2024
    • Tobias School of Art and Therapy RH19 4LZ


    Have you been considering a career working as a Transpersonal Arts Counsellor, transforming lives through Art and the Human Encounter?

    If you’re interested in finding out for yourself what makes Tobias School of Art and Therapy distinctive and right for you, please let us know by calling 01342 313655 or emailing info@tobiasart.org.

    A three year post-graduate training.

    Year 1:

    ARTS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

    CITY AND GUILDS LEVEL 5 ACGI AWARD

    Tobias Transpersonal Health and Wellbeing Training is a academically accredited by the City & Guilds at Level 5, Affiliateship Level, ACGI. – Comparable to Diplomas of Higher Education, Foundation degrees and HNDs.

    Years 2 & 3:

    TRANSPERSONAL ARTS IN THERAPY TRAINING

    CITY AND GUILDS LEVEL 7 MCGI AWARD (MASTERS EQUIV.)

    Tobias Transpersonal Arts in Therapy Training is a professional training, academically accredited by the City & Guilds at Level 7, Membership Level, MCGI (Masters equivalent).


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  • Weleda Animal Journey & Spirit

    • Friday, May 17, 2024
    • 18:30 - 21:00
    • Weleda Garden DE75 7JB

    In many cultures people live their lives in communication with other-than-human companions. Some believe that each of us have at least one primary Animal ally, and perhaps others at various times, as well as visits from any number who wish to share their wisdom with us as we reach and overcome obstacles, decisions etc.

    It is not uncommon to find your Animal companion has been speaking to you in your dreams, sometimes stretching back to childhood.

    When we Journey to meet our Animal Guide we choose to seek out this support. Even if it is the first time we have embarked on a quest of this sort, we agree to lay our doubt aside, and trust our imagination. Doing this in a Circle, holding intention together, is very helpful. As facilitator, I will guide you through with a meditation, and use my drum to help to hold focus.

    After the Journey we will have a space to share our encounters and help each other to assimilate and begin a relationship with our new friend. For many people this experience is a catalyst for a whole web of connection, all accessible through the Heart’ s wisdom and trusting our imagination.

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  • Goethean Medicinal Plant Study Weekend

    • Saturday, May 18, 2024
    • Sunday, May 19, 2024
    • The Field Centre GL6 0QE

    An rare opportunity to make a Goethean Medicinal Plant Study with Anthroposophic Doctor, Dr Michael Evans.


    Cost £100 including refreshments and lunch on both days

    To book a place, please see info.

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  • Why do Children Get Ill?

    • Saturday, May 18, 2024
    • Field House, London NW1


    Join the Society of Homeopaths in London this spring for their annual conference

    Limited tickets! 

    Open to partnership organisations 

    Why do children get ill? - a homeopathic and anthroposophical view of childhood diseases How to nurture health and human potential with Dr Michaela Glöckler Anthroposophic paediatric medicine and homeopathic management with Dr Yubraj Sharma. 

    Friends House 173 - 177 Euston Road, London NW1

    Register here

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  • Weleda Plant Dreaming Workshop

    • Saturday, May 18, 2024
    • 10:00 - 13:00
    • Weleda Garden DE75 7JB


    There is no need for you to be botanically knowledgeable, only to trust your imagination and willingness to explore. Together we seek to discover our own authentic dialogue with Nature.

    Lucy opens the workshop with suggestions and guidance to tap into your senses and imagination in order to meet the chosen plant or tree.

    To prepare ourselves we make space to quieten the mind and let go of busy-ness and anxiety.

    Silently we explore the plant where it is growing before sharing our impressions, and what is evoked.

    Part of our being together is also to notice the seasons, weather and Nature in all her guises (our inner landscape and moods included)

    There’s extended time to revisit the plant, our perception enhanced by shared insight. Some people like to sketch while others may prefer to connect with the plant in other ways which Lucy can help you explore.

    Where practical there will be an opportunity to examine the roots and finer details, for those who wish.

    Where appropriate, we share tea made with an infusion of the plant.

    We finish with a guided Journey to seek the Spirit of the plant, to help us discover the particular vibration or Medicine, and to honour and endorse our individual relationship with it.

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  • Weleda Goethean Plant Study Day and Insight Day - Exploring the power of Arnica

    • Thursday, May 23, 2024
    • Friday, May 24, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • Poyntzfield Herb Nursery Dingwall IV7 8LX

    23rd May

    Following the ideas of Goethe and working as a group, we’ll be observing Arnica’s ‘personality’ and seeing how a plant’s therapeutic uses can be revealed by the way it grows.

    We’ll discover lots of aspects about this amazing plant that we didn’t know before, as well as forging new connections to the wider plant world.

    Lunch & Refreshments are included in the price.


    INFO

    24th May

    Weleda Insight Day - Exploring the power of Arnica

    Join our experts as we journey further into the natural world's healing wonders and meet Arnica in its native habitat. This is a unique opportunity to experience Arnica's therapeutic qualities firsthand. It's not just about using Arnica as a remedy; it's about understanding how ultra-dilute arnica preparations are created, understanding arnica’s healing pathways and forging a bond with nature, tapping into its wisdom for holistic wellbeing.

    Outline of the day:

    Introduction to Arnica, our long-term partnership and biodynamic growing

    Arnica efficacy explained

    Arnica as a useful remedy on it's own and as a useful combination

    Understanding the anthroposophic and homeopathic rationale (including potenticing)

    Inside out and outside in - how to defy most aches and pains

    How to get more from your remedy of choice

    Enjoy a foot bath with Arnica Muscle Soak

    A tour of Poyntzfield Nursery

    *Lunch and refreshments are provided


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  • Rudolf Steiner in 1924

    • Saturday, May 25, 2024
    • 19:00 - 21:00
    • Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT


    The year we are living in now marks the 100th anniversary of an astonishingly productive and fruitful year in the life of Rudolf Steiner. It began with the Christmas Conference, during which the Anthroposophical Society was reborn and the Foundation Stone Meditation given. There followed a whole array of new initiatives, including the beginning of the School for Spiritual Science and initiatives in the realm of the arts, medicine and agriculture. That year witnessed Rudolf Steiner’s vital contribution to the bringing of a new understanding of karma to humanity with his Karmic Relationships lectures, as well as the serialised Leading Thoughts, which summarise Anthroposophy in a series of aphoristic guidelines for meditation, supplemented by essays on the Michaelic nature of Anthroposophy.

    Peter Selg was born in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as the head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. He is currently part of the leadership group at the world headquarters of the Anthroposophical Society at the Geotheanum in Switzerland, co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section and director of the Ita Wegman Institute. He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books. His comprehensive biography of Rudolf Steiner is published in 7 volumes. Volume 7 covers 1924 – 1925 and includes a lecture by Rudolf Steiner on June 4, 1924, ‘The Festival of Pentecost’.

    All welcome, no booking required, donation towards expenses at the door gratefully received.

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  • The Dignity of the Child

    • Wednesday, May 29, 2024
    • Saturday, June 01, 2024
    • Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland


    International Congress for Pregnancy, Birth and Early Childhood

    Finding forces that bring life in a world of exhaustion

    How do we do this? Which remedies, applications and tools in therapy and education support our life forces?

    The theme for our conference arose out the perception of growing distress and of widespread exhaustion among pregnant women, whole families, professionals and increasingly even among young children. Planning for this 2024 international, professional congress at the Goetheanum has been carried by the interdisciplinary CARE I working group for Pregnancy, Birth and Early Childhood.

    This congress will continue the series of CARE 1 congresses, hosted jointly by the Medical and Pedagogical Sections, as a way to facilitate even more international collaboration between the various professional groups around this stage of life.

    In the face of the progressive “virtualization” of our life circumstances, it has become a pressing need to support the ways children and adults can connect well with their bodies. Also, to better understand how they can encounter the world through their sense in a healthy way, so that they find real sources of strength through encountering the world. At this congress we want to not only understand, but also try to experience how a child gains and maintains life forces by immersing itself in its body and its senses. Concrete ways will be shown for how we can promote this in childhood, as well as how we can strengthen it in ourselves.

    Through shared content, discussions, artistic work and self-reflection we will approach the theme of life forces in order to make them effective for our therapeutic and pedagogical work, and at the same time explore ways to care for and preserve of our own forces.

    For the interdisciplinary working group CARE I and the Medical Section

    Ina von Mackensen, Claudia Grah-Wittich, Karin Michael

    Warmly inviting Midwives, gynecologists, pediatricians, GPs (the topic is relevant from neonatology to school and kindergarten medicine or child and adolescent psychiatry!), nurses, (infant) pedagogues, motologists, ergo-, logo- and physio-therapists and all other specialists and interested people in the fields of early childhood education and interventions to join us!

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  • Facing the Challenges of 21st Century Medicine Towards the Renewal of Mystery Medicine and Community Building

    • Friday, May 31, 2024
    • Sunday, June 02, 2024
    • Hereford Steiner School HR2 8DL


    ANNUAL MEDICAL SECTION CONFERENCE

    We are delighted to welcome Dr Marion Debus, joint Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, to this year’s conference. She will contribute to a theme close to her heart: the role and cultivation of therapeutic intuition and the courage to heal against the background of the increasing materialism in “post”-modern medicine, which now aims to invade the etheric sphere. Her talks will take into account some important aspects of Rudolf Steiner's Course for Young Doctors. Mindful of the 100- year anniversary of the Pastoral Medical Course, she will also address the esoteric background and deeper meaning of this course, and how it could be seen as an archetype of the different healing professions working together esoterically. This is integral to the question of the renewal of 'mystery medicine’.

    Dr Marion Debus specialised in internal medicine, hematology and oncology. After working at the Havelhöhe Clinic in Berlin for 12 years, she became Head of the Oncology Department at the Arlesheim Clinic (formerly Ita Wegman Clinic) in Switzerland where she still works one day a week. Last September she was appointed joint Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.

    On Saturday afternoon there will be a sharing of thoughts on ‘Talander’ – officially the ‘Anthroposophical Medical Trust (AMT)’ – a registered charity founded in the early 1980s in support of anthroposophical medicine (patients, education and research). The trustees hosted a weekend retreat last November looking at possible ways forward, bearing in mind the Trust’s original intention to work associatively in partnership with its beneficiaries – a creative challenge with a lot of potential for community building!

    On Saturday evening there will be a Whitsun Festival, to which we welcome contributions from participants.

    As usual, conversation groups will help us deepen and digest the content, while workshops will provide participatory experiences through colleagues’ fields of work and research.

    Very much looking forward to welcoming you at the Conference!

    Sibylle Eichstaedt and Carol Kirk

    Conference planning team, with input from Marion Debus and Michael Evans

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  • Life Forces online webinar

    • Saturday, June 01, 2024
    • 16:00
    • online


    Access to the Main Conference Presentations, then a Closing World Conversation with Karin Michael and Adam Blanning.


    Dear Colleagues, dear Friends,

    The "Life Forces" conference taking place at the Goetheanum this summer raises important questions about the health of children and the adults who care for them. In a world of exhaustion, how do we find the forces that bring life? As this topic concerns us all - in communities and countries around the world - we would like to open access to the keynote lectures to colleagues from all over the world.

    What we can offer is that the five keynote speeches of the conference will be recorded (in a simple way, with English translation) and made available afterwards. We encourage you to watch the presentations each day on your own schedule.

    On the final day of the conference, Saturday 1 June, we will come together for a two-hour online 'world conversation' to reflect on the conference, hear from each other and consider how this important work can be taken further into the world.

    We look forward to working together!

    Best regards from Dornach and the USA

    Adam Blanning and Karin Michael

    Medical Section at the Goetheanum


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  • The Weleda Accredited Holistic Esthetician Facial Course

    • Monday, June 03, 2024
    • Wednesday, June 05, 2024
    • online + Ilkeston DE7 8DR


    Life of touch: restoring rhythm with rhythm

    Wellbeing treatments - particularly massage and the recognition of the life of touch - are very much part of Weleda’s DNA. Dr Ita Wegman, Weleda's co-founder, studied massage before she became a medical doctor. She developed a very individual rhythmical massage technique, echoing nature’s rhythms and patterns. 

    The course is fully accredited, Ofqual regulated, CFI Level 4 Award for Holistic Estheticians. It is made up of four modules or units - two of these units will require in-person attendance at Weleda Head Office:

    • Unit 1 - Meeting the Boundary six-hour online foundation module completed from home, in your own time, prior to attending Unit 2.
    • Unit 2 - Three days of onsite training at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
    • Unit 3 - Home study period: case-study work, two online sessions, and completing treatments.
    • Unit 4 - Three further days of onsite training with Weleda and practical assessment at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

    Course completion - Portfolio of evidence completed and submitted two weeks following Unit 4 for final assessment.

    Summer 2024

    Unit 2: 3rd - 5th June

    Unit 4: 1st - 3rd July

    To read more, please find full text in Weleda UK website.

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  • The New Etheric Heart

    • Wednesday, June 05, 2024
    • 19:00
    • Online


    The New Etheric Heart with Dr Karin Michael

    Karin will speak for about one hour leaving time for Q&A afterwards 

    Dr Karin Michael (born 1970 in Germany) completed a specialist course in geriatric nursing before studying medicine and anthroposophic medicine at Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. During her further training in paediatric and adolescent medicine, she worked at the anthroposophical Herdecke Hospital, Germany, the DRK (German Red Cross) Children's Hospital in Siegen, and the University Children's Hospital in Cologne. From 2008 to 2023 she worked as a senior physician in the paediatric outpatient clinic at the Herdecke Hospital, from 2014–2021 also as a school doctor at the Rudolf Steiner School in Bochum. In 2021, she founded the "Von Tessin Centre for Health and Education" with Prof Dr Zdrazil at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart – Seminar for Waldorf Pedagogy. Karin Michael is married and mother of two daughters. She has been joint Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, since September 2023. 

    How to register for the Zoom Talks 

    To sign up for the Zoom talks, please follow the steps in the attached document.

    For details please contact Cathie Green, joint Medical Section Coordinator in GB E: cathiegreen@outlook.com

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  • Advanced Anthroposophical Medical Training Week

    • Saturday, June 22, 2024
    • 18:15
    • Friday, June 28, 2024
    • 19:30
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX

    Join the Anthroposophic Medicine Faculty for a week long advanced anthroposophical medical training week hosted at Emerson College. 

    Open for all doctors, nurses, eurythmists, and other anthroposophic therapists. We would also like to welcome non-anthroposophic therapists with a background knowledge of anthroposophy such as osteopaths.

    Advanced Anthroposophical Medical Training Week

    We will explore the Experiences of the Mineral Kingdom with Professor David Martin in an experiential journey through the Mineral Kingdom starting from physics, chemistry, molecular biology and expanding into spiritual dimensions of the minerals from an Anthroposophical perspective.


    Dr Karin Michaels will explore the topic of Allergies and Hypersensitivities from an Anthroposophical medical perspective, delving into physiopathology and Anthroposophic therapeutics.

    We will also be accompanied by Anna Hubbard in integrating our learning through Art Therapy, and with Dr Michael Evans for Goethean Plant Observation and Inner Path exploring the nature of the I.

    For further information and to register contact domnita_neagu@yahoo.co.uk

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  • Intercultural Eurythmy Festival

    • Friday, July 05, 2024
    • Saturday, July 06, 2024
    • Rudolf Steiner House NW1 6XT


    Dear Friends and Colleagues,

    ......it has been a long-held intention of mine that we should host an Outreach Event in London, and we are now at the point where this will be possible. Adrian Locher with support from the As in GB and the Marylebone Theatre is coordinating and collaborating, along with the UK Eurythmy training and Eurythmy India, and we very much hope you will be able to join us for some of the events.

    An Intercultural Eurythmy Festival including eurythmy/theatre performances of scenes from Shakespeare, with a eurythmy fairy tale, talks, demonstrations, live music and eurythmy workshops by an international group of performers from UK, Germany, Bulgaria, USA, Hong Kong, China, Nepal, Malaysia, Taiwan, India and Sri Lanka.

    Eurythmy West Midlands – Shakespeare’s Fools (working title)

    Peredur Eurythmy – Fairytales for children and adults

    Eurythmy India – ‘Love, and be Silent’ – Scenes from King Lear

    Workshops:

    Beginner’s Eurythmy: ‘The Singing Tree of Life’ –

    Indian Dance and Eurythmy

    Eurythmy with Tabla and Sitar

    Eurythmy and Theatre

    Eurythmy with Sanskrit and Hindi

    and others

    A full programme and booking information will be available in April.

    Warmest and best wishes for Easter,

    Chrystal Hayn

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  • Tobias Summer Course 2024

    • Monday, July 15, 2024
    • Sunday, July 28, 2024
    • 4 sessions
    • Tobias


    THE INNER CHILD – SOULCOLLAGE ®

    Mon 15th – Thurs 18th July 2024 | 10am-4pm

    WORKING WITH EATING DISORDERS WORKSHOP  –  CPD

    Sat 20th – Sun 21st July 2024 | 10am-4pm

    FROM IMAGINATION TO IMAGE

    Veil Painting – with Gillian David

    Mon 21st – Wed 24th July 2024 | 9:30am – 3:30pm

    ‘ART FOR EVERYONE’

    Sat 27th – Sun 28th July 2024 | 10am-4pm


    TO BOOK ONE OF OUR SUMMER COURSES

    Email: info@tobiasart.org or telephone 01342 313655 during office hours.

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  • What ground needs to be prepared and what seeds grown in order to meet and benefit the medical world in 10 years' time?

    • Saturday, July 20, 2024
    • 10:00
    • Online


    What ground needs to be prepared and what seeds grown in order to meet and benefit the medical world in 10 years' time?

    It does not take much imagination by those of us working near or in the NHS to have a good guess as to what the NHS will need and allow in the next decade. And whom we will need to train up and what we need to address within and outside our declining movement, to ensure a revival then. Mainstream medicine will need anthroposophical medicine badly by then, but we will have much to change of ourselves if we are to be in evidence and an obvious choice. 

    Dr David McGavin is a long-standing GP with an interest in pain management and rehabilitation running an NHS clinic in SE London with three anthroposophic therapists. 


    How to register for the Zoom Talks 

    To sign up for the Zoom talks, please follow the steps in the attached document.

    For details please contact Cathie Green, joint Medical Section Coordinator in GB E: cathiegreen@outlook.com

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  • Lifeway 2024

    • Sunday, July 21, 2024
    • Saturday, July 27, 2024
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX

    Lifeways is an annual community camp, a week long experience of workshops, activities and music, suitable for the whole family. Peoples of all ages explore, create, and dream in a variety of sessions throughout the week (see full programme for details). Children engage in a variety of experiences including clay work, food preparation, painting, and cooperative games with their groups. Residential and non-residential options available.


    Shaped by the past, forging the future

    The path to today was long, sometimes winding over soft meadows, passing shallow streams and cool woods, other times it led us over rocky terrain, where we pushed on against head winds and were pelted by sleet.

    Our life journey started with an impulse, one that drives every step forward and shapes the path. At Lifeways this year our theme will encourage us to take a breath, to review and look forward to the road ahead. Perhaps we only see the future darkly and wonder where it might lead – maybe through brambles, across rivers or up steep hills?

    Together we will consider what shaped our past, help one another to hear the whispers that guide the future and take them onboard to forge ahead, carefully listening for directions as they come.

    We will explore the theme “Shaped by the past, Forging the future’” through lectures, conversations, craft and musical activities. Adults and children all contribute to creating and renewing the rich tapestry of knowledge and friendship that makes the ‘Lifeways week’ a really special one for us all.

    Please click to download the 2024 Programme, which includes full details of the week.

    For Adults:

    Morning workshop:

    Basket weaving, Golden Ratio: Shaping Past, Forging Future, Self-Reliance in Times of Crisis, Acting forging the shape, Transcending Time by way of Spontaneous Storytelling, and, AM – ALWAYS IN THE NOW.

    Afternoon Groups:

    Exploring Past, Present and Future: Writing Memoirs, Working with the Foundation Stone Meditation, Nature Walks, Painting: ‘Shaped by the Past and Forged by the Future‘, Seeding the Future, and Sing for Joy.

    For Children:

    Parent and Toddler, PlayCamp for 4-6yrs, DayCamp for 7-8yrs, Children's Camp for 9-14yrs from 8.50am – 12.15pm. In the afternoon, Energetic Outdoor Games for 11-14 yrs, Basketry for young beginners 12-14,  Candle Dipping & Decorating for 8-14 yrs, Wet Felting for 9 – 12 yrs, Clay Digging & Modelling for 6 – 10 yrs, and Woodland Crafts for 6 – 9 yrs.

    Children's Camp 9 - 14 yrs. Please make your child aware that at Lifeways they will have a (welcomed) break from mobile phones, tablets, mp3 players,  computer games, laser pens or any other electrical devices.

    For Children accompanied with an adult

    Music Games and Singing for 4 - 7 yrs

    Butterflies, Birds, Bees and Bunnies for 3 - 6 yrs

    Stay and Play for 0 - 3 yrs


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  • International Bothmer 2024 Summer Intensive

    • Monday, July 29, 2024
    • Sunday, August 04, 2024
    • Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary

    International Bothmer Summer Intensive Week 2024

    SAVE THE DATE !

    We would like to warmly invite you to Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary, for the 2024 Bothmer® International Summer Intensive!

    Highlight of last year's summer intensive.

    More info to come.


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  • Rhythmical Massage Therapy Module 1B

    • Saturday, August 24, 2024
    • Saturday, August 31, 2024
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX


    “A new world is opening. My hands are learning to feel into, to listen and to move in new ways. Inwardly I feel moved by the mystery of meeting another human being, relating intimately, without much talking. I feel warmed, enthused and my hands are warm! They are coming to life as it were.”. 

    Words from one of the students on the part-time Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training which launched at Emerson College earlier this month.

    Under the expert guidance of instructors Aoine Landweer-Cooke and Shashi Seedheeyan, this training not only focuses on mastering massage techniques but also delves into understanding the human being in health and illness. The curriculum encompasses both conventional natural scientific perspectives and an Anthroposophic spiritual-scientific approach.

    For those who missed the first enrolment, we are pleased to announce that applications are open for the opportunity to join the course in August when we will repeat the first module for new students.

    The course is intended for practitioners with a bodywork qualification such as massage therapists, physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors, doctors, acupuncturists, reflexologists (Itech) and nurses. If you are not currently qualified, please do get in touch to discuss your interest in applying.

    Info to the Rhythmical Massage Therapy Training.

    Info to the 2024 training can be found in www.emerson.org.uk/rmtt

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  • Becoming a True Human Being by Spanning the Threshold

    • Saturday, September 07, 2024
    • Tuesday, September 10, 2024
    • Goetheanum, Rüttiweg 45 4143 Dornach Switzerland


    In these times of fragmentation, strife, and war, it is difficult to maintain our integrity as world human beings. How can we uphold our essential humanity in the onslaught of world events? Our struggles can result in outer discord and personal illness, including all sorts of mental health difficulties associated with an unconscious crossing of the threshold. How does our conscious work to cross the threshold to the spiritual world contribute to our essential humanity?

    To receive further emails about this conference, and to register, please email the initiative group with your contact information at FCPsych@GoogleGroups.com.

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    A Conference of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science

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  • Annual Conference 2024 of the Medical Section

    • Tuesday, September 10, 2024
    • Sunday, September 15, 2024
    • the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland


    Save the date !

    International Annual Conference

    Therapeutic Intuition – Perception and reality in diagnosis and therapy

    Dear colleagues and interested persons,

    what does it feel like to reunite with someone you haven’t seen for some time? How was it to finally meet in person, after a long period of separation (or strictly “virtual” communication), as corona restrictions eased? For many, the experience of coming together brought joy, warmth, richness, life and vibrancy. Sometimes we did not completely know what we were missing until it could be experienced once again.

    Yet, the challenge of limited connection and perception are not gone. They are actually increasing and accelerating, part of a process that has been growing with a one-sided reliance on a materialistic form of medicine.

    The movement towards a strong reliance on “representations” of our humanity is also growing dramatically – whether through lab testing, imaging studies, genetic screens, electronic records, telehealth consulting or artificial intelligence. The speed and complexity of these developments, which almost stretch beyond human comprehension, frequently lead to the elimination of human encounter as a central part of the healing process.

    The insights of anthroposophic medicine bring vital insights to the process of encounter, to the building of our capacities for therapeutic intuition. This includes recognition of the ways karma leads us into relationship with each other, and the potent space for physical and spiritual development that unfolds in that unique place. This weaving is part of all of our encounters, whether with patients, with colleagues and community, with the natural and spiritual worlds.

    The 2024 international conference of the medical section will focus on central questions: “How can we perceive what is true?” and “What does spiritual science specifically bring to the art of healing in today’s world?” These questions will be approached by many voices and perspectives during the conference, through specialist meetings, spiritual deepening, multi-professional working groups, lectures, case presentations and workshop discussions.

    We will also celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Medical Section, alongside special contributions to mark the anniversaries of the Course for Young Doctors, the Curative Education Course and – as Rudolf Steiner's last and most forward-looking act for the medical movement – the Pastoral Medicine Course.

    We hope, in community, to perceive how anthroposophic medicine brings crucial contributions to the comprehensive challenges of our time, as well as inspiring power for the future.

    Warm greetings, on behalf of the preparation group,

    Marion Debus, Karin Michael and Adam Blanning

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  • Transpersonal Arts in Therapy Training

    • Wednesday, September 25, 2024
    • Tobias School of Art & Therapy, RH19 4LZ


    Full-time 3 years or Part-time 4 years

    Transpersonal Art Counsellor, City and Guilds: Level 7 (MCGI)

    The Tobias Transpersonal Arts in Therapy training responds to a growing need for a holistic approach to the concepts and practices of arts in therapy. The course is grounded in Transpersonal Arts practice, that is rooted in image and metaphor that provides a sound and coherent foundation for therapeutic practice. The programme focuses on deepening the student’s proficiency in engaging through art and the human encounter for wellbeing, personal growth, and social change. Counselling is developed as an art, the conscious art of transformative meeting.

    Our training offers distinctive curricula that unites a broad range of artistic, theoretical and experiential approaches into a whole journey. We believe art works through the human being’s senses to free and harmonise the dynamics of body, soul and spirit.

    The shared orientation of the programme at Tobias is the developmental philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, known as Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy is a modern spiritual path that respects the freedom of each individual, through a holistic understanding of body, soul and spirit.

    Students are invited to explore this approach in order to come to their own judgements about its validity and relevance. This is taught within a critical context including Psychodynamic and Humanistic theory and practice.

    The student will be taught how to build and maintain relationships and how to contact and communicate with people within professional boundaries. The students will be able to initiate, maintain and conclude a working relationship. the student is taught compliance with current government legislation and professional association regulations.

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  • Biographical Counselling Skills 2024

    • Wednesday, September 25, 2024
    • Sunday, September 29, 2024
    • St Luke's Therapy Centre GL5 4EX (except one-day sessions online)


    A one year part-time course in Biographical Counselling Skills for Professionals starting September 2024

    Biographical Counselling is a holistic, integrative counselling approach that takes into account the psychological, social and spiritual dimensions of human experience. It offers a way of working that encourages people to find their own agency and creative freedom with their ideals, tasks and responsibilities. It aims to address issues on the level of healing and self development where crises and challenges become opportunities for growth and renewal.

    This one-year, interactive course offers participants an in-depth experience of working with their own biography to explore their life events objectively and from within the framework of cosmic lawfulness. More info can be found on the website and also in the brochure of Biographical Counselling Skills Course 2023_24.pdf 


    Taster sessions 



    Book a place on the taster by emailing  training@biographicalcounsellors.org.uk

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    NOTE If you are interested in the  Professional Biographical Counselling Training, normally a 3-year part-time training, please ask the course leader for further information.

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  • The Weleda Accredited Holistic Esthetician Facial Course

    • Wednesday, October 02, 2024
    • Friday, October 04, 2024
    • online + Ilkeston DE7 8DR


    Life of touch: restoring rhythm with rhythm

    Wellbeing treatments - particularly massage and the recognition of the life of touch - are very much part of Weleda’s DNA. Dr Ita Wegman, Weleda's co-founder, studied massage before she became a medical doctor. She developed a very individual rhythmical massage technique, echoing nature’s rhythms and patterns. 

    The course is fully accredited, Ofqual regulated, CFI Level 4 Award for Holistic Estheticians. It is made up of four modules or units - two of these units will require in-person attendance at Weleda Head Office:

    • Unit 1 - Meeting the Boundary six-hour online foundation module completed from home, in your own time, prior to attending Unit 2.
    • Unit 2 - Three days of onsite training at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
    • Unit 3 - Home study period: case-study work, two online sessions, and completing treatments.
    • Unit 4 - Three further days of onsite training with Weleda and practical assessment at Weleda Head Office, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

    Course completion - Portfolio of evidence completed and submitted two weeks following Unit 4 for final assessment.


    Winter 2024

    Unit 2: 2nd-4th October

    Unit 4: 30th Oct - 1st Nov

    To read more, please find full text in Weleda UK website.

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  • A pathway inward through the senses for calming and self-soothing in a busy world

    • Saturday, October 05, 2024
    • 17:00
    • Online


    A Pathway inward through the senses for calming and self-soothing in a busy world with Adam Blanning MD

    Adam Blanning MD practises anthroposophic family medicine in Denver, Colorado, USA, and is joint Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. He received an English literature degree (1995), Doctor of Medicine (1999) and completed a family medicine residency (2002), all at the University of Colorado. He taught family medicine at both New York Medical College and the University of Colorado School of Medicine before starting his anthroposophic medical practice. While he sees patients of all ages and for a wide variety of conditions, healthy development and the special needs of children have always been a core interest. For more than 20 years he has worked collaboratively with Waldorf Schools, particularly around methods for observing and better understanding children’s behaviours and needs. He teaches nationally and internationally, co-directs the physician training programmes for Anthroposophic Medicine in the U.S. and Canada, and is a past president of the Anthroposophic Health Association (AHA). He is the author of Understanding Deeper Developmental Needs: Holistic Approaches for Challenging Behaviours in Children and Raising Sound Sleepers: Helping Children Use their Senses to Rest and Self-Soothe. He lives with his wife and two children in Colorado.  

    How to register for the Zoom Talks 

    To sign up for the Zoom talks, please follow the steps in the attached document.

    For details please contact Cathie Green, joint Medical Section Coordinator in GB E: cathiegreen@outlook.com

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  • English Training in Anthroposophic Medicine 2025

    • Saturday, October 04, 2025
    • Sunday, October 12, 2025
    • Emerson College RH18 5JX

    Designed mainly for registered medical practitioners (a few places open to other health care professionals)

    3-year part-time starting 23rd Jan 2023

    9 one-week modules

    Combining experiential face-to-face & distance learning

    Based in the UK, Open to Doctors Worldwide

    International Anthroposophic Physician Certification

    Dates for the first module are below. Applications will open early 2024. Module 1  is planning to be 4 to 12 October 2025

    The Information below refers to the current cohort of the course and may be subject to change.

    Many patients as well as physicians are in search of an integrative approach to medicine that embraces the whole person, in their mental and spiritual being as well as in bodily aspects. To this end, anthroposophic medicine was founded in 1920 by Dr. Rudolf Steiner and Dr. med. Ita Wegman.

    Today this School of Medicine is alive in practices, therapeutic centres and anthroposophic hospitals throughout the world. It is taught in international training courses and is researched* in university departments with associated professorial chairs.

    Course Overview

    It explores new ways of understanding a patient’s condition that go beyond current purely physically based medicine, emphasising the patient’s spiritual, psychological and bodily capacities for resilience.

    The training offers a deeper understanding of common medical conditions, offering participants experience-based learning processes that lead to an extended understanding of the human being, both in health and illness, and in their relationship to nature.

    The treatments introduced include anthroposophic medicines and their pharmaceutical production. The course also provides a foundation for prescribing natural medicines and a range of non-medicinal therapies that have been shown in general practice to radically reduce the prescribing of antibiotics and other groups of conventional medicines, while improving patient satisfaction.

    In addition, participants are also introduced to art therapy, eurythmy therapy, body therapies and nursing procedures through direct experience. These non medicial treatments can intensify therapeutic responses to illness. Biographical aspects and insights from psychotherapy and counselling are also considered in developing an understanding of disease processes.

    Equally important is the ethical and spiritual development of the physician. Fundamental spiritual exercises and meditative practices that can aid such development, are introduced throughout the training.


    Module Details & Topics Covered

    Module 1 Face To Face – Essential OCT 2025

    @Emerson College | The Four Elements, Four Kingdoms of Nature, Fundamental Aims of Anthroposophic Medicine & Research. Patient History Taking and examination with the aid of the Four Elements Qualitative Anatomy – Four Organs – Living Morphology and Projective Geometry Spiritual Biography & Conditions for Spiritual Development.

    Module 2 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants TBC

    @Emerson College | Metamorphosis Observational Studies of Leaves and Human Skeleton as Introduction to Three Foldness in the Human Being. Medicinal Plant Studies. Child Development, Keys to Resilience or Vulnerability. Waldorf Educational Curriculum as Mirror of Phases in Child Development. Small Group Inner Path Work on “The Trials” and “Biographical Sharing from Phases in Childhood”.

    Module 3 Face To Face – Highly Desirable TBC

    @Emerson College | Medicinal Plant Study. Tria Principia & 8 Metals & Plants with Albert Schmidli. Medical Meditation from “Course to Young Doctors’. Biography Work. 

    Module 4 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants TBC

    @Emerson College| Mistletoe Plant Study. Fever, Cancer & Viscum treatment with Dr Marion Debus & Dr Simon van Lieshout Pain management & Palliative Care with Dr Matthias Girke.

    Module 5 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  TBC

    @Emerson College | Common Psychiatric Conditions Anxiety, Depression OCD Bipolar Schizophrenia Clay Modelling Therapy , Anthroposophic remedies and their indications. Art Therapy, Eurythmy Therapy.

    Module 6 Face To Face – Desirable but Optional for distant international participants  TBC

    @Emerson College | Plant Study. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Anthroposophic perspectives with Dr Carmen Eppel. Anthroposophic Peadiatrics with Dr Karen Michael. Eurythmy Therapy

    Module 7 Face To Face – Essential TBC

    @Havelhöhe Hospital – Berlin |  Cancer II and Palliative care with Dr. Matthias Girke, Viscum and Fever Cardiology: Heart failure, Coronary heart disease, Hypertension with Dr.Matthias Girke From the general practitioner’s practice Pneumology: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma. Gastroenterology External Treatments, Meeting Patients.

    Module 8 Face To Face – Essential TBC

    @ Klinik Arlesheim and Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland | The School for Spiritual Science and the Medical Section, with Michael and Raphael Schools, Visit to the Group Statue, Visit Ita Wegman Institute Rheumatology, Diabetology with Matthias Girke. Meeting Patients at Arlesheim Clinic with Dr. Marion Debus.

    Module 9 Face To Face – Essential TBC

    @ Trigonos, Snowdonia UK | Medicinal Plant Study, Endocrinology with Prof David Martin Celtic Spirituality and Future Spirituality and Medicine, Visit Penmaenmawr Druid Circle and Cromlechs on Anglesey; Ita Wegman & Rudolf Steiner in the British Isles.

    International participants are encouraged to speak to the course leader in advance to identify how best to participate to ensure a rich learning experience.


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