The Care and Development of the Senses - a talk by Meaghan Witri

The foundations of sensory development are laid down in the first seven years of life and have a direct influence on the growing child’s ability to develop attention, attachment, and self- regulation: capacities essential for formal education.

This is a practical workshop for educators who are introducing wellbeing, health and hygiene curriculums, parents and soon to be parents, grandparents and caregivers educating and caring for children to 9 years of age

with Lynette Clifton and Louise Schnitzhofer

A 90 minute online workshop - $20 (AUD)

Sydney - Sunday, May 30 at 9am
Perth - Sunday, May 30 at 7am
New York - Saturday, May 29 at 7pm

Preventive health care for the young child is fundamentally based on providing a health-giving environment because they rely upon others for nourishment and are yet to develop boundaries from their surroundings. Illness can arise when the child does not have the strength to deal with what enters them.

Artificial intelligence has become a part of every environment within which the young child is united. However children lack discernment of the Sense of Self and Other. By applying rhythmical and natural health-giving applications to the senses and through the skin we can balance the effects of technology and support each child towards wholistic wellbeing.

This hands-on workshop introduces anthroposophic preventative health care applications to the skin that can be carried into the daily rhythms of the classroom and home life. These practises can be adapted and extended to suit the individual, classroom and family needs. They build healthy practises of self-care for life that help to maintain wellbeing while also developing a healthy sense of Self and care for the other.

Each participant will be required to bring some basic equipment such as towels, hot water bottle and lemon to partake in the workshop. The experience can be assistive for participants heading into sleep as well as for those re-aligning with oneself for the day.

This workshop is within the Developing the Self the Developing the World Health and Wellbeing Program: Healing the Impacts of Technology - Care and Development of the Senses which begins in early childhood. Children and adults are supported towards capacities for community-orientated participation in the world. Contact us for additional workshops that support older children and adults.

Anthroposophy, as a science, embraces spiritual, social, emotional, cognitive and physical aspects of the human being.

Following the January course The Ground for Healthy Relationships: Addressing the New World of How We Relate, Melanie Deefholts will be speaking with the school faculty at Orana Steiner School on in regards to supporting the development of the child in today's world.

Melanie Deefholts is meeting with the high school faculty at Shearwater to discuss the health and wellbeing of the high school students post meeting with students and parents/caregivers in February.

with Meaghan Witri and Sarah Hearn

We will explore hyper and hypo tendencies in the child’s twelvefold sensory system to help us understand the individual child, the effects of daily life upon them, and how best to support them. We will work with examples of identifying, understanding, and how to balance hyper and hypo tendencies to help bring harmony to each of the 12 senses in an individualized way.

Cost: $50 (with sliding scale available upon request)

Register Here.

with Lisa Romero

Our patterns of thinking, our feelings and our will impulses are directly influenced by the community in which we grow. The foundations of both inner freedom and unfreedom are laid down through the course of childhood. With the rise of technology permeating extensively our outer lives, we are now being faced with its effects on our inner lives and its artificial influence over the development of thinking, feeling and will impulses. Technology is forming our community’s future and in doing so extending its persuasive influence into the inner capacities of its members.

We can choose to be ready as individuals, as parents, and as a collective community, with capacities—with the necessary inner strengths—to freely choose the way of life we determine to be supportive of the progression of humanity. We need to establish communities that are dedicated to human freedom; communities in which community health, child development and education, and social life are imbued with impulses supportive of the cultivation of individual freedom.

A community talk by Lisa Romero at Threefold Auditorium.

In this talk, Lisa Romero will speak about the impact that both process and substance addiction has on the development of the individual. She will approach the effects that technology has on the sensory development of children and adults and the effects of consciousness-altering substance on inner development. Through several of her books Lisa has been working on how we meet the growing impact of these influences on our health as individuals and as a community and she will be sharing some of her latest work with us.

A community lecture with Lisa Romero - more information TBA

A talk by Lisa Romero to the Anthroposophic Medicine Club at the National University of Naturopathic Medicine (private event).

A lecture by Lisa Romero

With our outer lives increasingly permeated by technology, we now face the effects that technology brings to our inner lives, as well as its artificial influence on the development of our thinking, feeling, and willing. Technology is forming the future of our communities and extending its pervasive influence into our inner capacities as community members.  Discovering how unfree we actually are has always been one of the necessary steps in awakening the inner development path. The foundations of our inner freedom, as well as our inner unfreedom, are greatly influenced during the years of child development. Our patterns of thinking, feeling, and willing are all influenced directly by the community in which we grow up.

“We must be prepared, as a collective humanity, with capacities and inner strengths enabling us to freely choose the form of community life that we determine to be needed for the future of humanity. We need to establish communities that are dedicated to human freedom―communities in which the health of the community, the education of the child, and social life are imbued with impulses supportive of the cultivation of human freedom.” ―Lisa Romero

 Lisa will introduce spiritually healthy guidelines for lessoning the negative influence of technology on the inner life. Through providing an understanding of the foundations of inner health laid in childhood as well as the path of inner development that can be consciously engaged with as adults, a way can be shown for how new community life can lead us into a future that maintains and supports the evolving human spirit.

Portland Waldorf School Music Room
2300 SE Harrison St
Milwaukie, OR 97222
($15.00 suggested donation)

with Lisa Romero.

Professional development and work with students.

with Melanie Deefholts

An introductory talk for parents, teachers and the wider community to support the understanding of the relevance in life of the 12 senses introduced by Rudolf Steiner, and the impacts on learning and behaviour that occur according to how we use each of the senses.

With Melanie Deefholts

Through the healthy development of the senses we learn about the world and develop the foundations for healthy social connections as well as the ability to hold our attention and self-regulate. These are essential for learning how to learn. Join us to explore how and why the care of the development of the senses are more important than ever.

With Louise Schnitzhofer

A free event offered by Developing the Self Developing the World in support of Waldorf 100.

All welcome

For enquires please contact the school

Our patterns of thinking, our feelings and our will impulses are directly influenced by the community in which we grow. The foundations of both inner freedom and unfreedom are laid down through the course of childhood. With the rise of technology permeating extensively our outer lives, we are now being faced with its effects on our inner lives and its artificial influence over the development of thinking, feeling and will impulses. Technology is forming our community’s future and in doing so extending its persuasive influence into the inner capacities of its members.

We can choose to be ready as individuals, as parents, and as a collective community, with capacities—with the necessary inner strengths—to freely choose the way of life we determine to be supportive of the progression of humanity. We need to establish communities that are dedicated to human freedom; communities in which community health, child development and education, and social life are imbued with impulses supportive of the cultivation of individual freedom.

More details to follow