Glenaeon Parent Education · 2019. 3. 7. · 2 Glenaeon Parent Education – 2019 Term 1 Program This booklet contains the schedule of Parent Education talks for Term 1 of the 2019

Glenaeon Parent Education

2019 Term 1 Program

Glenaeon Parent Education – 2019 Term 1 Program2

This booklet contains the schedule of Parent Education talks for Term 1 of the 2019 school year. There are a number of different events — some will help deepen your understanding of Steiner education, some will support you in working with your child at home, and some may even teach you a new skill. Our aim is to provide a program that caters to the needs and interests of parents at each stage of their Glenaeon journey, from early childhood right through to parenting teenagers.

The program is set out chronologically so that you can mark your calendar now for those events that you don’t want to miss. The program contains a mix of weekday morning talks, evening lectures and weekend workshops, and they are held at either the Castlecrag or Middle Cove campuses. Please check the weekly Newsletter and/or campus noticeboards for confirmation of dates, times and venues, as well as new events that may be added to the program through the term.

Events are free of charge and are open to people outside the school community. All bookings and enquiries to Castlecrag office P: 9958 0774 or E: [email protected]

We welcome your input for future programs and are always looking for suggestions and initiatives. Please email [email protected] with your comments and feedback.

It is said that it takes a whole village to educate a child. We could stretch the meaning to say it takes a whole school to educate a family. Just as our teachers work to make each class a “learning community”, so we strive to make Glenaeon a learning community for parents and friends of the school as well.

Welcome to Parent Education

ACKNOWLEDGMENT. We are grateful to the Glenaeon Parents Association for generously funding this program for the benefit of the Glenaeon community.

Schedule: Term 1• WEDNESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 7:30PM

Spirit Led Community for the Cultivation of Human Freedom, with Lisa Romero

• FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 9:15AM

An Invitation: Join Us in the Artistic Steiner ‘Classroom’, with Meaghan Witri and Séamus Maynard

• WEDNESDAY 13 MARCH 7:30PM AND

FRIDAY 15 MARCH 9:15AM

Supporting respectful relationships through a better understanding of child development, with Susan Laing

• SATURDAY 23 MARCH 2:00–5:00PM

The Four Pillars of Simplicity Parenting, with Mary Heard

• TUESDAY 12 FEBRUARY 9:15–10.45AM

Raphael’s Rooms workshops Supporting children’s transition into Class 1 and 2, with Lyn Clifton

• TUESDAY 5 MARCH 9:15–10.45AM

Supporting children’s transition into school life – Kindergarten/early childhood parents, with Lyn Clifton

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Our patterns of thinking, our feelings and our will impulses are directly influenced by the community in which we grow. The foundations of both inner freedom and unfreedom are laid down through the course of childhood. With the rise of technology permeating extensively our outer lives, we are now being faced with its effects on our inner lives and its artificial influence over the development of thinking, feeling and will impulses. Technology is forming our community’s future and in doing so extending its persuasive influence into the inner capacities of its members.

We can choose to be ready as individuals, and as a collective community, with capacities—with the necessary inner strengths—to freely choose the way of life we determine to be supportive of the progression of humanity. We need to establish communities that are dedicated to human freedom; communities in which community health, child education, and social life are imbued with impulses supportive of the cultivation of individual freedom.

www.developingtheself.org

Lisa Romero is a respected speaker on gender issues, meditation and spiritual development in Steiner schools around Australia. She is well known for her compelling, exceptionally informative and entertaining lectures. Lisa works as a homeopathic healthcare provider, teacher and lecturer working out of Anthroposophy. She provides a very thorough and accessible Anthroposophical understanding of parenting.

Spirit Led Community for the Cultivation of Human FreedomWith Lisa Romero

• DATE AND TIME

Wednesday 6 February, 7:30pm

• VENUE

Marion Mahony Griffin Hall Castlecrag campus, 121 Edinburgh Road

• BOOKINGS AND ENQUIRIES

Castlecrag office: 9958 0774 [email protected]


(Meaghan and Séamus are artists, teachers and alumni Steiner students from the USA).

The Arts have formed the creative backbone of the Steiner Education curriculum from its inception 100 years ago this year. How does artistic education promote healthy holistic development, and human-centred, age-appropriate learning during the school years in our contemporary world?

Welcome to this opportunity to engage with creative imagination and inspiration though participating in this ‘class’ of enlivened speech, drama, story, music, song with artists and teachers, Meaghan and Séamus, as they bring learning to life in spirited, soulful, practical ways. Imagine your children here…

• DATE AND TIME

Friday 15 February 9:15am

• VENUE




An Invitation: Join Us in the Artistic Steiner ‘Classroom’ with Meaghan Witri and Séamus Maynard

Meaghan Witri is a New York based singer, actor and teaching artist with a degree in theatre, performance and English studies. She is also a Steiner School graduate. Meaghan’s work explores how music and story support inner and outer striving in the human being. Meaghan has led singing, drama, and acting workshops in various contexts for children, teenagers and adults. Recently, Meaghan directed The Passing of Arthur from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and Holiday Memory by Dylan Thomas. She is currently working with the Y Project in America on a production of Shakespeare’s Henry V. In addition to professional work in plays and film, Meaghan tours internationally as a soprano soloist performing in cathedrals and sacred spaces. She is also the co-founder of the Living Roots, an acoustic folk music group.

Séamus Maynard completed his degree in acting at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. While there, he studied speech, classical acting and Shakespeare. Prior to that he trained intensively in the Michael Chekhov Technique for several years. Seamus graduated from a Steiner school in NY. Before beginning his acting training at The Guildhall School he also attended the Artemis School of Speech and Drama in West Sussex England where he studied speech formation. He has taught acting, speech and movement at California State University’s Summer Arts program, The New School in NYC, and at The Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, NY.

He has taught speech with the Inner Path Work and at Saint John’s College in Istanbul, Turkey. As a professional stage actor and musician he has worked with Improbable Theatre, The Belgian National Theater, Triple Shadow, Heads Theater Company and The Actors Ensemble. Séamus is a co-founding member of Third Wheel Collective – a collaboration based theater company. As a musician, Séamus studied classical guitar and composition with classical guitarist and composer Ed Flower. Séamus composes for and co-founded Quiet In The Head, a music group that composes original, instrumental music for violin and classical guitar. He also writes and performs with Living Roots, an acoustic folk group.


When you meet your children with insight and compassion, when you accept that their troubled behaviours are ‘cries for help’ which need attending to, when you truly meet their individual and developmental needs, you are creating the foundation for mutually respectful relationships. This is a complex task because children’s needs are constantly changing according to their age and circumstances— for example, what environment most nurtures healthy growth, what approaches to parental authority are appropriate, and what responses to challenging behaviours are most helpful as they grow older. There is no one rule that fits all. This talk looks at some helpful approaches based on research into child development and behaviours at different stages of childhood.

• DATE AND TIME (Two sessions)Wednesday 13 March 7:30pm Friday 15 March 9:15am

• VENUE




Supporting respectful relationships through a better understanding of child developmentSusan Laing

Susan Laing is a parent educator and a mother of four children. She was a founding friend of the Mt Barker Waldorf School. She has 30 years’ experience as an educational consultant working in Steiner schools around Australia to support conscious, creative and courageous living with children. Her work researching and integrating the archetypal patterns of development in childhood, including Rudolf Steiner’s insights and the work of the Gesell Institute of Child Development, are available in her child development profiles on her website. (www.creativelivingwithchildren.com)

She collaborated with her partner Dr Alduino Mazzone on his book A Passionate Schooling. Key ideas behind Steiner Waldorf education.


“ With too much stuff, too many choices and too little time children can become anxious, have trouble with friends and school, or even diagnosed with behavioural problems”

Kim John Payne, author of “Simplicity Parenting”

In this three-hour workshop we will look at how to declutter our family lives. You choose what you want to keep and what you want to get rid of and this way we will create our homes as places of rest and rejuvenation, ‘sanctuaries’ from a fast paced world that is overwhelming adults and robbing children of their childhood. We become the architects of our family life as we realign with our own values and choose what is workable for our families and so create an ideal environment for the slow emergence of our children’s identities, resilience and wellbeing.

Mary Heard trained as a Simplicity Parenting coach in 2015 and has been helping families simplify their lives and create time for connection since that time through workshops, talks and her weekly column in the school newsletter

For more information, go to: maryheard.com.au simplicityparenting.com

We will explore the four pillars of Simplicity:

• ENVIRONMENT Creating a calm environment that fosters deep and creative play.

• RHYTHM Creating predictability and security in our children’s lives

• SCHEDULING Including open ended periods of downtime in our children’s weeks

• FILTERING OUT THE ADULT WORLD Saying ‘no’ to the pressures and anxieties of adult life that are pouring into our children’s awareness before they are ready.

These four pillars will serve as a road map for you to navigate your own way to what is sustainable for your own family.

• DATE AND TIME

Saturday 23 March, 2:00–5:00pm

• VENUE




The Four Pillars of Simplicity Parentingwith Mary Heard


Grassroots Eco Store provides products that support Rudolf Steiner’s educational impulse and ethical and organic/biodynamic buying choices. Here you’ll find quality art and craft materials, enchanting wooden toys, school necessities including sustainable lunch boxes, Anthroposophical and Homeopathic remedies from Southern Swan and Weleda, refillable Sonett cleaning products, beeswax candles and a selection of children’s and adult education books.

A percentage of all sales in the store go to support Glenaeon.

OPEN ON THE CASTLECRAG CAMPUS,

DURING SCHOOL TERMS

• Monday: open by request• Tuesday: 8:45am–11:30am• Wednesday: 8:45am–3:15pm• Thursday: 8:30am–10:30am• Friday: 2:30pm–4:00pm

Open on request outside these hours on weekends or during the school holidays, simply call Felicity on 0416 035 173. Alternately you can shop online anytime at www.grassrootsecostore.com.au.

Grassroots Eco Store


Steiner Education• “Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents

of Young Children”, Oppenheimer• “Steiner Education: Theory and Practice”

Gilbert Childs• “An Introduction to Waldorf Education”

Henry Barnes• “Understanding Waldorf Education:

Teaching from the Inside Out” Jack Petrash• “You are your Child’s First Teacher”

Rahima Baldwin

Steiner Education and Handcrafts• “Will-Developed Intelligence: Handwork

& Practical Arts in the Waldorf School, Elementary through High School” by David Mitchell and Patricia LivingstonAn overview of the role of the practical arts in Waldorf education. Explores how working with the hands opens up neurological passageways that establish the foundation of thinking and shows how the conscious development and training of the hands in the Steiner curriculum, from kindergarten through high school, begins with the heart forces to lead the student to enhanced cognition.

• “Zen and the Art of Knitting” Bernadette MurphyThis book explores the value to human beings, young and old, of working with our hands. Contains examples of knitting classes in a Steiner school. A heartfelt consideration of the core essence of what knitting evokes in the inner life.

Health and Nutrition• “An Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine –

Extending the Art of Healing” Victor BottOffers a comprehensive overview of Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophical medicine, founded in the early part of the twentieth century. An holistic system that encompasses a picture of the human being as an entity of body, soul, and spirit.

• “Guide to Child Health” Michaela Glöckler and Wolfgang GoebelA must-have medical and general health guide that touches on numerous childhood illnesses and treatments, vaccination, care of newborns, nutrition, foundations for healthy development, education and parenting therapy.

• “When a Child is Born” Wilhelm zur Linden M.D.The classic guide to physical, mental, and spiritual health for mother and baby during pregnancy and childrearing. The book takes one step-by-step through the birth and nursing processes and provides advice for treating common childhood ailments and for instilling good habits in toddlers. Based on Rudolf Steiner’s work.

“Education as Preventative Medicine: A Salutogenic Approach” Michaela Glöckler, MD

• “Foodwise: Understanding What We Eat and How It Affects Us: The Story of Human Nutrition” by Wendy E. CookA wonderful collection of challenging ideas, advice and commentary informed by Rudolf Steiner’s insights on nutrition. This book is not a recipe book, but a look at the history of food and human evolution, and a look at what food is, and the importance of quality food. A wonderful read.

Recommended Reading


• “Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats” by Sally FallonThis book also looks at the history of food from a biological perspective, gives idea about how to process food to make it easiest to assimilate, and gives a host of healthy recipes.

Festivals & Craft• “Festivals, Family and Food” by Diana Carey

and Judy LargeDescriptions of festivals through the seasons of the year, with stories, poems, songs, crafts and recipes to make each celebration special.

• “All Year Round” by Ann Druitt, Christine Fynes-Clinton, Marije RowlingAlso a wonderful festival book, with descriptions of festivals through the seasons, including seasonal table ideas, stories, poems, songs, crafts and recipes.

• “The Nature Corner – Celebrating the year’s cycle with a seasonal tableau” M V Leeuwen and MoeskopsA little book full of craft ideas, mostly for adults or older children to make, for creating a seasonal table and festival decorations. Includes knitting, crochet, felting, working with felt, making dolls of different sizes and materials, and much more.

• “The Harvest Book” by Thomas BergerCraft ideas for Autumn and the Harvest season, covering decoration, plaits and figures made of straw, corn husks, leaves and things found in woods and fields.

Movement and Brain Development• “The Well-Balanced Child – Movement and

Early Learning” by Sally Goddard BlytheSally Goddard Blythe thoroughly explains why movement is so important for the healthy development of babies and young children. She describes movement, balance, reflexes, learning, and behaviour in early education and how music affects brain development. The book includes songs, games and, activities that encourage learning at key stages of development.

• “Foundations of the Extra Lesson”, Joep EikenboomLinks Audrey McAllen’s “Extra Lesson” work to an understanding of Rudolf Steiner’s observations and insights and the links to modern day neurology, psychology and physiology. Includes practical exercises and describes how they address different human conditions.

• “Take Time” Mary Nash-Wortham and Jean HuntMovement exercises for parents, teachers and therapists of children with difficulties in speaking, reading, writing and spelling.

Children and the Impact of Media and Internet• “Endangered Minds” Jane Healy• “Remotely Controlled” Dr Eric Sigman• “The Plug-in Drug” Marie Winn

A compelling look at television’s impact on children and the family that address the new media landscape, including: computers, video games, and other control devices, TV for babies, television and physical health.

• “Alternatives to TV Handbook” Marie McClendonA delightful handbook for 21st Century parents, grandparents, libraries, waiting rooms, or any caregivers/nannies that contains engaging activities for children ages 1-12.

• “The Real Wired Child” Michael Carr-GreggAbout internet safety and minimising risks without limiting freedom to explore. It contains an example of a family internet contract.

Where to find• Glenaeon PA Parent Library, Castlecrag Campus• Rudolf Steiner Bookshop, 307 Sussex St Sydney,

Ph 9264 5169

Useful websites• Rudolf Steiner Archive: www.rsarchive.org

An extraordinary site giving access to books, lectures and articles by Rudolf Steiner and others.

• Bob & Nancy’s Bookshop: www.waldorfbooks.comA useful on-line book shop for Steiner/Waldorf resources.

• Anthroposophical Society, Sydney: www.anthroposophy.org.auLists events such as lectures, study groups, workshops and festivals relating to anthroposophy.

• Australian Council on Media and Children: www.youngmedia.org.auAn excellent source of up-to-date information about media and children, for parents and caregivers, professionals, students and researchers.

• www.thinkuknow.org.auAn Internet safety program delivering interactive training to parents, carers and teachers through primary and secondary schools across Australia.

• www.whitedot.org• www.turnoffyourtv.com


WORKSHOPS

How can we support our children, families, community and self through anthroposophic home care as we journey through the changes of the seasons, the spiritual year, developmental and pedagogical stages of growth and biographical and life transitions?

Together, we work with practical, everyday life and applications, rhythm that arises from and in our daily life which care for and support the development of the senses and our learning.

Through anthroposophic home care and the care mantles of face cloths, footbaths, sphagnum, oil cloths and compresses, Lyn Clifton guides the supporting of children and parents in their health, learning and development. Nourishment through herbal teas, food, rhythm in daily life, warmth, and care for the senses, enable reflection and community strengthening.

Supporting children’s transitionsWith Lyn Clifton

Supporting children’s transition into Class 1 and 2As children pass over the rainbow bridge from Kindergarten to Class 1 and 2, a new door is opened, and sometimes as parents we can be quite surprised with the new child with whom we find ourselves living. Why is it that my once confident and active Kindergarten child seems to lose their confidence, becoming clingy, start complaining of loud noises, and tummy aches, asking to have days at home? During this session we will build pictures of the Class 1 and 2 child, look at ways to support them in this transition and take home some practical supports.

• DATE AND TIME

Tuesday 12 February 9:15–10:45am

• VENUE

Marion Mahony Griffin Hall Castlecrag campus 121 Edinburgh Road


Supporting children’s transition into school life – Kindergarten/early childhood parents• DATE AND TIME

Tuesday 5 March 9:15–10:45am

• VENUE

Marion Mahony Griffin Hall Castlecrag campus 121 Edinburgh Road

Consultations

Lyn Clifton is available at her home studio in Castlecrag for consultations. Please call Lyn on 0419 424 935 to make a booking

EduCareDo study groupFebruary 26 will be the discussion, researching of and experimenting with the content of Lesson 8.

• DATE AND TIME

Term 1: Meeting last Tuesday of the month, 26 February 9:30–11:30am and 26 March 9:30–11:30am

FEBRUARY 2019

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat

27 28 29 30 31 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 1 2

JANUARY 2019


30 31 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31 1 2

MARCH 2019


31 25 26 27 28 1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

APRIL 2019


31 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

14 15 16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 30 1 2 3 4

TERM DATES: START END TERM 1: 30JAN–10APR TERM 2: 1MAY–3JUL

Parent Education 6, 12, 15 February, 5, 13, 15, 23 March

Harvest Festival 20 March

Documents

Glenaeon Parent Education · 2019. 3. 7. · 2 Glenaeon Parent Education – 2019 Term 1 Program This booklet contains the schedule of Parent Education talks for Term 1 of the 2019