Registration is open at the workshops page!
We invite you to register for one or for all four of our upcoming February events in Santa Rosa. The focus of the first two events is teaching adolescents and will be particularly appropriate for upper grades and high school teachers. The Wednesday and Thursday gatherings are open to all interested teachers.
At a time when our students lives are being increasingly influenced by the virtual, the question of the nature of embodied consciousness takes on new significance in education. The importance of learning through full-bodied experience will be a thread weaving through each of the four workshops.
In the Saturday Math event with Marisha Plotnik, we will share lessons which require student intention and creativity. When does student action take the lead? Can we set the stage for this?
In the three day, Sunday-Tuesday, collaborative conference, Being on Earth, Wilfried Sommer will bring demonstrations from science lessons for different age students, as he did in the Phenomena to Insight series of conferences. Jon McAlice, Joan Caldarera, Ken Smith and other colleagues will lead interdisciplinary group explorations of fully embodied learning activities. Participants will have the opportunity to be a beginner, to experience learning something new such as basketweaving, outdoor trip skills, drama, embodied math, etc. Attendee questions gathered in a World Café, led by Lisa Babinet, will lay the foundation for our group work. Finally, there will be ample time for initiative groups to form and meet over lunch. Collaborating organizations: San Francisco Waldorf High School, Waldorf School of the Penninsula, Summerfield Waldorf School, BACWTT.
On Wednesday, Jon will lead a day of work on the inner life of the teacher focused on developing enlivened, imaginative thinking and its relation to the sense world.
Finally, in Thursday’s workshop, we invite you to join us in exploring the realities of today’s experienced life-world. How can we better meet the developmental needs of today’s children? How can we think Waldorf new?
Flyers for these events are available on the individual workshop pages. You are welcome to print them and share them with colleagues who might be interested. Please register soon so that we can plan!