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Emergency Pedagogy without Borders

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 LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA FIRES FUNDRAISER

Emergency Pedagogy Without Borders is an international organization of Teachers trained in Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy.  Our team is currently working to raise funds for the devastating Eaton / Pacific Palisades Fires. 

Our Goal to Fulfill this Intervention: $25,000 by February 1, 2025. Please give now and help us reach our goal.

https://secure.anthroposophy.org/forms/e-p-fires-intervention

Anthroposophic Meditation Workshop February 15-17 in the East Bay

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Join us in El Sobrante, CA | February 15-17, 2025 | 9AM to 5:30PM Daily

Immerse yourself in three full days of meditation, practical methods, and group exercises designed to strengthen your inner peace, empathy, sense for truth, and ability to work co-creatively with others. 

Whether you’re familiar with anthroposophy or exploring new spiritual practices, this course offers tools to help you free your mind from clutter, navigate relationships with clarity, and connect to your higher self.

The meditative methods taught are based on indications in Rudolf Steiner’s Knowledge of Higher Worlds and his other texts.  Processes are broken down step by step, following spiritual laws, resulting in meditative methods that are powerful and effective.  Spur your movement forward on your spiritual path through these amazing methods.

What to Expect:

If you’re ready to step into a more grounded, peaceful, and empowered version of yourself, this workshop will give you tools and practices to:

  • Let go of mind-clutter and emotional drama.
  • Navigate relationships with greater clarity and equanimity.
  • Discover tools to help you connect with your higher spiritual purpose.
  • Harmonize thinking, feeling, and willing.

What You’ll Discover in this Transformative Workshop:

Through a combination of individual meditations and group work, you’ll:

  • Develop your capacity for empathy and perspective-switching.
  • Strengthen your sense for truth and inner peace.
  • Learn to process feelings and beliefs while transforming inner hindrances.
  • Connect to spiritual beings and to your higher self.
  • Navigate challenges with clarity and balance.

This workshop isn’t just about intellectual ideas—it’s about practicing and applying methods that support your inner growth.

You’ll engage in hands-on exercises, share your experiences with others in an intimate and immersive setting, and leave with tools you can apply immediately to your personal and spiritual growth.

  • Planetary Parliament
  • Logic of the Heart
  • Image Dialogue
  • Laws of Feeling
  • Sympathy & Antipathy
  • Empathy & Inner Peace
  • Planetary Parliament
  • Logic of the Heart
  • Perspective Switch
  • Finding One’s Task
  • Logic of the Will
  • Laws of Willing
  • Planetary Parliament
  • Logic of the Heart
  • Finding the True Name
  • Zodiac Meditation
  • Review/Preview

Workshop Facilitators:

  • Susan Overhauser, PhD: International lecturer with 30+ years of experience in meditation and anthroposophic psychology.
  • Arianna Golden, MS: Biomedical engineer and meditation guide, using these methods daily to overcome sensory overwhelm and connect deeply with others.

Join us in El Sobrante, CA | February 15-17, 2025 | 9AM to 5:30PM Daily

$300 Fee Includes: 3-Day In Person Course, Lunch (vegetarian & gluten free options), snacks, handouts, and online resources

Register Here by February 14th

Exact address available after registration.

Eurythmy Performances in San Francisco

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Saturday February 15 and Sunday 16, 2025

“A Shovel of Stars Overhead: Where to? What next?” embodies the longing, questioning, and bewilderment that belong to this moment in America, while asking where, from whom, and how something greater can come to be. The program is inspired by the words and compositions of a diversity of artists who poignantly reflect the tensions of their own time. These include the beloved and influential Langston Hughes, statesman Archibald MacLeish, the modern lyric Denise Levertov, and great American bard Walt Whitman.

The Eurythmy Association in North America EANA is facilitating this San Francisco performance of the Eurythmy Spring Valley Ensemble with their current touring program.

*Please note that due to the different venue, tickets available at the door are extremely limited and we recommend ordering ahead through http://ticketsource.us/eana so you will have a seat.

Storytelling as a Healing Art – With Nancy Mellon

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Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 9am-3pm

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, 3800 Clark Road, El Sobrante, CA 94803

Explore pathways to story making and storytelling that strengthen heart wisdom and inspire vital creative confidence. Teachers and parents today need to nourish their own inner life to fully embody the comforting warmth, stability, and honest goodness that children seek. This requires courage and belief in the value of our own authentic feelings and voice.

Nancy teaches refreshing approaches to inspired story making and storytelling that evolve more conscious expression, heartfelt resilience, and wellbeing for both adults and children! All are welcome. 

Nancy Mellon is a counselor and mentor who has nurtured storytelling of a healing art internationally since the 1990s. A former Waldorf teacher, her courses and workshops brim with creativity, inspiring deep listening and vital new perspectives. She is the author of several books, including Storytelling with Children. Healing Storytelling, the new third edition of Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, is published by Hawthorn Press UK. healingstory.com 

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Ideas Worth Saving

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Conference and evening talks with Owen A. Barfield and Crystal and David Downing

Jan 31 & Feb 1, 2025

Internet archive

300 Funston Ave

San Francisco

This is not an Anthroposophical event per-se, but may be of interest for those who have encountered Owen’s grandad in person, through his writings or both. Registration is required.

https://ideasworthsaving.org/evening-extravaganzas

Faust Branch 2024-25 Holy Nights

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This year we will study Rudolf Steiner‘s lecture cycle THE GOSPEL OF ST. LUKE, new title ACCORDING TO LUKE (10 lectures given in Basel, September 15th-26th, 1909) – GA114
https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA114/English/RSP1964/GosLuk_index.html

Steiner addresses the genealogy and childhood of Jesus in the Matthew and Luke Gospels, unveiling for the first time the mystery of the two Jesus children. He also describes the workings of Zarathustra, and the relation between the Jesus child and Buddha.

All Evenings begin at 7 pm – In Person, (either at The Christian Community, 
10030 Fair Oaks Blvd., or in Homes, addresses below), or on Zoom.
There will be 2 special presentations – on New Year’s Eve, and on January 6.
All events are open to members and friends.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87310551077?pwd=5PvQ54nLbU82rvdTgDxkdHvBeKfgmN.1

Meeting ID: 873 1055 1077
Passcode: X.+xsUV0

One tap mobile
+12532158782,,87310551077# US (Tacoma)

The full schedule is attached below:

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The Shepherds Play from Oberufer

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Friday December 20, 2024 – 5 pm @ SFWS Grade School Dakin Hall

Come join us for this holiday tradition as members of the faculty of SFWS will perform. A light reception will follow the performance. We look forward to seeing old and new friends. Ut Hoy!