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Taruna College New Zealand is a centre for Adult Education offering an exciting range of formal and informal holistic courses and subjects inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner PhD. such as: Waldorf Teacher Education, Biodynamic Organic Agriculture, Anthroposophical Nursing, Art of Health and Coaching and Biography Workshops.

 

Programme Outline

• The Spiritual and Soul Influences on Health and Illness: lectures by doctors, nurses and therapists to bring imaginative thinking to the varied phenomenon of illness in our time

• Self Reflection: practise of exercises that explore self-reflection. This supports learning through our individual capacities. Recording our questions and learning will be practised throughout the programme.

• Human Development: using knowledge of the 7-year phases and other interconnecting rhythms we move from pre-birth through life to ageing. Case work of stages in development help bring insight into the infant, childhood, youth culture, the crisis of soul development of adulthood into the challenges of spiritual development.

• Introduction to Colour, Movement and Form:  through painting, drawing, pastel and sculptural forming.  The inherent qualities of colour and form will be explored.  Goethe’s colour theory will be introduced. 

• Wet on Wet Painting:  This media with its unique qualities of movement and transition of colour from dark to light will be taught and practised.  It is a common medium used in Anthroposophical Art practise.

• Developing our Sense Perceptions: an understanding and working with the 12 senses in relation to body, soul and spirit, will help us clarify the boundaries of objectivity and subjectivity.

• Dynamic Line Drawing:  Dynamic line drawing is a means of experiencing the 4 elements (earth, water, air and fire) as a basis of all form. 

• Modelling:  Clay modelling will be taught as an experience of transition and metamorphosis and the dynamic of form in 3-dimensional space.

• Biography: where you are in your life’s journey. Active retrieval of points and phases in your life are traced and given perspective. Small group workshops and continuing individual recording is maintained.

• Anthroposophical Concepts of 4 fold and 3 fold human constitution: are studied in relation to the elements, and activities in the body, and pathology.

• Drawing:  Various  media.  A variety of approaches will be used including observation of nature, dynamic of form and light and darkness.

• Transition - Metamorphosis:  Aspects will be explored artistically through transition in colour and movement, myth, poetry and metaphor.  Working with crisis and transformation.

• Cosmic and Earthly connections: Exploring human soul types and their origins.

• Crisis and Transformation: through lectures, workshops and artistic activities, the basis and phenomena of transition and metamorphosis will be explored.

• Journal Keeping:  Observation and self-reflection will be encouraged by the daily use of a journal

Putting heart and soul into adult education