Bringing Something New : A Center for Biography and Social Art

By: Leah Walker July 30, 2011 from Anthroposophy in America e-news A new initiative has a lengthy background and a central place in anthroposophical work As many descriptions as possible of how human beings really develop—what I would call the positive natural history of human development—must be disseminated in an understanding way.  Wherever we can, [...]

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Karmic Resonances workshop

by Aleksandra Becnel From Friday evening April 8 to Sunday afternoon April 10, a group of 15 gathered with Rinke Visser and Josien de Vries in a workshop sponsored by Center for Biography and Social Art.  I was fortunate to be among the participants and will share something of my experience.  This is no easy [...]

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Human Becoming: A Conversation with Signe Schaefer

by John Scott Legg from Chanticleer Newsletter for the Berkshire-Taconic Branch of the Anthroposophical Society Volume 21, Issue 8, April 2011 Human Becoming  

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The Magic of the Triptychon with Rinke Visser and Josien de Vries

By Leah Walker and Sue and Brad Crozier March 31- April 3, 2011 Spring Valley, NY On a cold and rainy spring evening, Rinke Visser and Josien de Vries set the inner fires burning with a soulful, worldly public lecture.  Josien quickly and joyfully told the story of Rinke’s work of more than thirty years, [...]

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Listening to the Night

by Leah Walker Years ago, while struggling with sleeplessness and unwilling to resort to medications, I decided to learn to sleep well. I went looking for the secret to restful sleep and discovered the most profound of relationships between day waking experience and the night. I went looking for a good night’s sleep and found [...]

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Life Development and Inner Learning : A Path of Becoming

by Signe Schaefer from Lifeways What is it about inner work that seems so daunting? The very idea elicits feelings of inadequacy, of discouragement, of longing. Caught up as we so often are – especially as parents of young children – in the requirements and the rush of everyday life, we can imagine inner development as [...]

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Biography and Social Art : What is this Work?

by Kathleen Bowen from Lilipoh blog, January 2010 On my 50th birthday I looked for a training in life that would make me stretch. I had a sense there was a new challenge coming for me to take up. Having sent my children to Waldorf School for their early years, I decided to gift myself that [...]

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Arab – Jewish Biography Workshop in Israel

by Karen Gierlach In March of this year, I had the pleasure of facilitating a biography workshop in the small Arab village of Hilf, near Haifa in Israel. It was hosted by the Ein Bustan Waldorf kindergarten, a warm and welcoming young school that educates Arab and Jewish children together in the same classroom. This [...]

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Working with Biography : Sharing Stories of Becoming

by Signe Schaefer Printed in Lilipoh, Summer 2004 If it were possible, would you want to erase painful memories from your life story? Or could remembering life experiences contribute to an understanding of destiny? Within the broad field of human development there is increasing interest in individual biography as the story of a human being [...]

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