'A Radical Re-Visioning of Waldorf Education'
“To meet the future, we must turn the ship of Waldorf education one hundred and eighty degrees towards the arts, aesthetics, and the practical life.” – Rudolf Steiner
“...right education requires a co-working of teachers, doctors and biodynamic practitioners” —Eugen Kolisko.
In
this conference we will work with the Kolisko imagination of the
cross-disciplinary hub of pedagogy, health, and biodynamics. A Waldorf
curriculum that is braided with biodynamics offers an opportunity for a
new consciousness of the human being and the earth and a re-imagining of
practical learning and aesthetics.
Materials
from the earth, whether they are gold, beeswax, wool or wood, can be
lifted through the genius of the hand towards service. Through the
production of rose-gold balm, honey, felt slippers or a wooden stool an
aesthetic emerges that inspires and reanimates practical learning and
teaching. These deeds of transformation require sensory engagement and
lawful movement— a right relationship to the three planes of space. We
can observe the movements of how the practitioner performs
will-intentions and movement-intentions that facilitate not only
wellbeing, but also social health.
This
educator’s conference should be seen as a coherent event in which the
participant is guided to an understanding of the role of practical
education and movement as a powerful aide towards incarnation. In the
practical arts workshops the participant will enter directly into
experiencing how will-developed intelligence engages the power of
imagination and can deliver an inner sense of wellbeing. Ruskin Mill
Educational Trust has actualized these insights and has implemented a
practical arts curriculum over the last 30 years.
