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Programme Topics

Overview of the themes covered during the programme:

Anthroposophic Perspective – Health and Illness

• Illness as destiny and karma
• Thresholds of birth and death
• Fundamental physiology
• The four bodies of the human being
• The 4 elements/temperaments
• Pathology of the four fold
• The three fold processes of the human beings
• Soul activity – thinking/feeling/willing
• Pathology of the three fold in polarity
• The 7 life processes
• Soul types
• Organs as archetypes
• Pathology of organs
• The 12 senses
• Embryology and human development
• Evolution of consciousness
• Seven year phases
• 0 – 21 years – physical development
• 21 – 42 years – soul development
• 42 – old age – spiritual development

Anthroposophic Nursing Context

• Life journey – past, present and the future
• Awakening to ‘Self’
• Healing streams
• Approaches to health and illness
• Healing through rhythm
• The inner path and the Nurses’ Meditation
• Encounter / conscious meeting
• The gesture and quality of the therapeutic relationship
• Nursing archetype
• ‘Self’ as therapeutic tool

All tuition blocks at Taruna include daily artistic activities such as singing, painting, speech, eurythmy/movement and active self-reflective processes.

Record of Studies

At the end of the programme you will be issued with an Academic Record listing the seminars and your personal performance.

The Programme Director will keep attendance records and along with the Faculty Carrying Group will give verbal feedback and make written reports.  You are also expected to give evaluative feedback at the end of each seminar, as well as at the end of each programme.  Credits for the Academic Record require 100% attendance at seminars, active personal participation and satisfactory completion of assignments.