An Educational Model for the Future? Thoreau College and the Microcollege Movement Jacob Hundt When the history of American higher education in the twenty-first century comes to be written, 2024 will stand out as a watershed year when many dire predictions finally came true. Less than halfway through the year, at least a dozen colleges with long histories ... Read More ►
Together in Wellness: The Promise of Community Acupuncture Zachary Krebs The question “What is health, and how do we create and sustain it?” has interested me for over a decade. After graduating from a community health undergraduate program and later an acupuncture school, becoming a licensed acupuncturist, and speaking with numerous experts, I have settled on the idea that ... Read More ►
Rudolf Steiner on Building Healthy Organizations: Understanding the Fundamentals of Working Together—from the School to the Factory Seth Jordan It was once normal for people to work their whole lives at the same job. Today, that’s obviously not the case, and not just because technology transforms industries so quickly; our whole way of thinking about work has changed. If ... Read More ►
Imagine entering a pristine old-growth forest replete with the organic luster of life. Your senses jump at the aliveness of this new world around you. You close your eyes and feel it in you. You hear the breeze, the birds, and the insects. You smell the richness of the soil and feel the pureness, soaking in everything around you and ... Read More ►
One of the benefits of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is its ease at unveiling hidden associations between current difficulties and life events from our past. Here, I want to share an inside glimpse of an EMDR session to elucidate how intertwined our day-to-day reactions are with past life events. The session occurred near the beginning of the ... Read More ►
Just in time for this year of focus on Rudolf Steiner’s Foundation Stone Meditation, Signe Eklund Schaefer has written a most unusual book with at least one unique contribution in regard to that enigmatic and comprehensive meditation. To foreground, or perhaps background, this contribution, Schaefer includes a full reprinting of the Foundation Stone as an appendix. But more on that ... Read More ►
I wrote You Are Your Child’s First Teacher in the late 1980s in response to a task I had been given to make a bridge between Steiner’s insights and the ideas of parents of young children who might have been called cultural creatives for their interest in more natural alternatives in birth, parenting, and education. At the time, everyone I encountered in ... Read More ►
Bringing the World to Your Learner: The Gift of a Diverse Library in Waldorf Education Mohsina (Mosi) Mandil Waldorf schools and homeschooling communities are made up of families and individuals like you, reader, who have chosen a form of alternative schooling for reasons often related to diverse student needs that aren’t being met in traditional public and state schools. ... Read More ►
The Healing Art of Puppetry: Supporting the Child’s Path Toward Wholeness Nancy Blanning With an introduction by Janene Ping In the summer of 2023, a group of puppet enthusiasts, educators, and artists working within the Waldorf cultural stream gathered in Niwot, Colorado, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. The essential focus of this gathering was to share the ... Read More ►
How Can I Help?: Offering Warmth in a Cold World Christine Huston These may be the first words spoken when a client enters a counselor’s room. It’s a variation of the words spoken to the king in the Parzival legend: “What ails thee?” We all hope to hear these words when we are in distress or confused or in ... Read More ►
