Biography Work - Tania HungerfordBiography work has the potential to enhance our deep understanding of not only the child’s but also the adult’s development. It can give insight into our own individual life experience as well as that of our children, colleagues and partners. This insight can guide us to take our own future in hand; can influence our parenting, teaching and all social interactions. This five day workshop series will focus on understanding and exploring the seven phases of human development. We will discuss each 7 year phase with its tasks, potentials and challenges. We will discover normal turning points, discuss the patterns of experience and behaviour we all are subject to and how biography work can help in freeing us from unhelpful ones. Each day after a presentation and discussion, an artistic observation exercise will follow. Participants will engage in some individual work, reflecting on their own biographies through the help of prepared questions and will share what they are willing to convey in small groups. Bothmer Gymnastics - Tom Hungerford
Within these workshops we will be studying Bothmer Gymnastic movements and exercises appropriate to a primary and secondary school child.It is extremely important that we live though the stages of development as vividly as possible. It is hygienic to do so. If one is unable to achieve this, there will be an imbalance in ones etheric and astral body, and therefore impairing ones spiritual development. Waldorf Curriculum in a multicultural society - Aban BanaAban will take the participants through the stages of the Waldorf Curriculum in the Lower and Middle School, with examples. That would include activities like singing, recitation and rhythmical exercises. Eurythmy in the light of the twelve senses - Dilnawaz BanaDilnawaz will take the participants on a journey through the Seasons of the Year, connected to the Twelve Senses, in relation with Eurythmy. |
Speech & Drama - Alan Drysdale
This workshop will explore a brief excursion of speech through Classes 1 to 7, including : the basis of Steiner's approach to speech, the development of speech from musicality to form using movement , a range of Steiner's speech exercises,the use of the the 5 Greek gymnastics [running, jumping, wrestling, discus and javelin] in speech development, the basis of epic, lyric and dramatic poetry and how these can be used in the classroom, performing practical recitation, declamation and dramatic conversation drawn from world renowned poets e.g Pablo Neruda, Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Alfred Lord Tennyson etc.
Games - Tom HungerfordThe playing of games can be a great tool in balancing of a child’s will forces with the various aspects of their physical, etheric and astral bodies. All games have an underlying principle around which they are formed. Some games rely on the use of the breath, strengthening the rhythmic system and bringing it into harmony with the physical body. Other games emphasize the fluid aspect, and so on. Within these workshops we will play as many games as possible, and discern to which stage of development they are most appropriate. |
The Waldorf Kindergarten - Miriam Haenen
The central theme would be around the curriculum and the privilege and challenge of being and becoming a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher. How can this curriculum serve the development of the young child and specifically serve gifts and needs of the Indian one. Another theme would be - How can the ideals we have for oneself and education, the world, come alive and become practical in daily life of a Waldorf Kindergarten?.