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From Switzerland to Detroit: A Summer of Inspiration & Service
September 26, 2022
This past July, I had the privilege and opportunity to travel both to the Goetheanum in Switzerland and the Brightmoor Makerspace in Detroit, USA. In this Part 1, I’ll write about the Goetheanum experience, and in Part 2, I’ll share more about my time in Detroit. Both experiences continue to inform my hopes as a high school teacher and mentor for young people. The Goetheanum in Switzerland is the center of the Global Anthroposophical Society. I’d wanted to visit it ever since I was 18 years old and first started reading Rudolf Steiner. The Waldorf school movement originated from the broader impulse called anthroposophy at the turn of 1900. Rudolf Steiner, at age 40, began to respond to people's spiritual and life questions out of clairvoyance for what is vital for humanity to become wiser, more creative, and more loving. More »
Singing as a Practice for Building the New Michael Culture of the Future
September 19, 2022
It’s cricket song season here in New York state and even as I write this article, I can hear them playing their violins outside my window connecting to the archetypal cosmic universal sound or you could say “The Music of the Spheres”. All sounds made in nature connect to this sounding naturally. We humans often struggle to connect to this cosmic sound because we are living such busy overscheduled lives just trying to survive and keep up with what is pulling on us from the outside, often feeling stressed out and overwhelmed by everything on our task lists. We may from time to time slow down, take a walk, meditate or do something to nurture our insides but the minute we go back into activity we often lose all the peacefulness we were trying to cultivate in nurturing our insides. More »
Why do we have Circle Time throughout the Grades?
July 18, 2022
Whenever I am asked this question, I enjoy taking the opportunity to relate the elements of an effective circle and to shed light on the reasons for preparing the most thorough and enlivening series of exercises, speech, song and dance that one can possibly create for their students. The elements of an effective circle hold true for all age groups and the differences lie in the graduated degree of challenge and age appropriate material that one incorporates. I have come to these particulars through decades of teaching. Many of the teachers that I have observed and evaluated through the years have chosen to do movement at their student’s desks. Those teachers felt that the location of the movements and activities did not detract from their effectiveness and caused less disruption to the day. Let’s look at a circle; first of all, throughout history and in almost every culture in the world, the circle is considered to be a sacred form. When a child, or anyone for that matter, becomes part of a circle there is instant equality. There is no one ahead of you or behind you. Most importantly there is no one’s back facing you. More »
Waldorf Education: A Family Guide, Completely Revised, Second Edition
June 7, 2022
Waldorf Education: A Family Guide is an illustrated collection of essays drawing on the wisdom and enthusiasm over 65 Waldorf teachers, administrators, and parents from around the world. What began over 30 years ago as a version of a parent handbook for the Marin Waldorf School has metamorphosed into a treasure for parents and teachers. Each of the articles could be a book in itself, but the authors restrained themselves to only two to four pages each. This has the effect of condensing and distilling the subject matter, making it all the more potent and exciting. Parents new to Waldorf education will find the topics relevant and the style accessible. More »
The Importance of Listening
May 23, 2022
In today’s times there are so many things coming towards us fighting to draw our attention. You can’t seem to go anywhere anymore without a screen staring you in the face. Even at the gas pump there is a screen showing some advertising. With all that there is to distract us today, attentive listening has fallen by the wayside. And of course, trying to keep up with everything coming towards us is exhausting and it clouds our thinking. If we consider all the conflict in the world today, one could say that part of the conflict comes from the fact that we are no longer listening attentively because we are so distracted with the electronic fast pace of modern life. All this information rubbing up against us trying to get our attention in an over saturated world is numbing us. Learning to pay attention, or to attend to the important things in life, also known as executive function, is a skill that one must work on to stay healthy and balanced and as a way to build healthy connections with others. More »
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