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Every term, in collaboration with the Steiner Parent Education Initiative, we run a Parent Education Program offering a wide range of talks and workshops on a variety of topics throughout the year. Some of the subjects covered include child development, Steiner pedagogy, holistic living, Steiner in the 21st century, media and anthroposophy. These workshops and talks are usually offered free to our parent community (occasionally there may be a small fee to cover costs).
Click on the booking links below to register your interest. If you cannot make it at the time of the live talk, you will receive a recording as long as you have registered before the event starts. All talks are online, via Zoom and begin at 7:30pm.
An Illustrated Exploration of the Child’s Developing Threefold Soul
Thursday 7 November 2024
Thinking, Feeling and Willing, and the Interweaving of our Four Cosmic Bodies Physical, Etheric, Astral and Spiritual with Sophia Montefiore
Using the fourfold Advent verse as a thread, Sophia Montefiore will bring perspectives on how children develop in healthy ways. Sophia Montefiore is currently a teacher and Senior School Coordinator at the Newcastle Waldorf School in Australia. She has taught and mentored across a range of subjects including English, History, Mathematics, Projective Geometry, Art, and Philosophy.
Steiner Education as a Healing Education with Bernadette White
Thursday 14 November 2024
Nurturing the developing child for healthy Self-development and world development
In this session we will explore the healing impulses at the heart of Steiner education. We will look at how we can support children to develop healthy self-experience and orientate themselves within the meaningful context of the human story, so unlocking healing potential for themselves and the world.
The Spirit of Christmas: Preparing your child for a non-commercial Christmas
On-demand pre-recorded talk (Cost $20)
This workshop explores with parents the various images of Christmas, such as the nativity, Santa Claus, Christmas Eve, their deeper meaning and how this Enables us to bring our children into the heart of Christmas. Ebba will lovingly explore:
- Preparing your children for Christmas through Advent time
- How to include the gift of summer into our Christmas celebrations
- Ideas for activities, stories and gift-making, which may free parents and children from the commercial pressure of this season (which gifts fulfil at this time of giving)
- Rituals for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day appropriate for young children. Please register for recording by FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 2024.
Participants will be shown how to create a simple Christmas Angel, inspired to share with their family the simple joys of this special time of year.
Ebba Bodame has decades of experience in Rudolf Steiner early childhood education. Her talks, workshops, Playgroups and training sessions have inspired a generation of parents towards healthy and creative child-raising practices that are positive for children and deeply fulfilling for adults. This is an opportunity for you to purchase a pre-recorded session of Ebba’s rich and wonderful Christmas talk.