Caring for Health
Health Practitioners Supporting Schools, Communities and Families
A variety of ongoing, age-appropriate offerings, provide for both children and adults to care for body, soul and spirit. The focus is on renewing fundamental health understandings and practices that enliven and contribute to dynamic participation with life.
Care and Renewal - Supported Rest for Adults
(In Australia)
Two or more practitioners come together to provide 2-3 hours of nourishing care practices. They are offered with the view to support bodily health and the evolving stages of inner growth. The intention is to support adults in rebuilding healing forces and enable the continued giving and healthy participation in life. The gatherings are composed in conversation with the group organiser and in relationship to the transition points in the earth’s rhythm.
Community groups and friends are invited to host a care and renewal gathering. We visit school parent groups, social and mature-age educational groups and privately arranged gatherings of friends.
In the Workplace - We offer care and renewal as part of professional development and faculty afternoons. Management are invited to start a conversation.
For the third year, we’ll be at the Steiner Teacher Intensives at Newcastle in January 2025. We offer short, potent care sessions before the morning lecture, lunchtime and at the end of the day. Be in touch to book a session.
Workshops
(In Australia & USA)
Workshops have an experiential component alongside an educational component to explore and deepen ways to care for health.
Mantles of Care in the Classroom and Home
(In Australia & visiting the USA)
For over a decade, Mantles of Care have been offered to class groups by Developing the Self Developing the World health practitioners. In 2025 we are introducing workshops, child studies and supervision for school staff to become increasingly confident and able to understand and apply mantles of care alongside their tasks with children.
Mantles of Care revisit daily health and hygiene practices with the use of plants, natural materials and elements such as colour, texture, sound, tone, touch, rhythm, temperature. They are offered with wonder, reverence and uprightness of the adults providing care, to support the children’s etheric bodies to be nourished and their forces of growth and learning more able to receive and partake in a day.
Child Studies
Study and conversation for educators, classroom staff and health practitioners around the world with a focus on observing children through the lens of the foundations to pillars that will support a spirit-led life: Wonder, Positive Social Connections and Virtues. The background reading is a lesson from Spirit-led Education for a Spirit-led Life by Lisa Romero.
The studies are facilitated by health practitioners engaged full-time in their tasks as homeopaths prescribing anthroposophic remedies and community health social workers specialising in Mantles of Care. The studies are contributed to by a therapeutic eurythmist, art therapists, Waldorf educators and adult educators who have written modules for Spirit-led Education for a Spirit-led Life.
Dates are proposed for April, July and November 2025. Each time as a set of 3 online conversations over 3 weeks. Saturday mornings (southern hemisphere), Friday afternoons (northern hemisphere).
