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Program Topics

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

Self Reflection and Journal Keeping:  Observation and self-reflection will be encouraged by the daily use of a journal, and practice of exercises that support learning through our individual capacities. Recording our questions and learning is 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 brings insight into the infant, childhood, youth culture, the crisis of soul development of adulthood and 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 and Goethe’s colour theory will be introduced.

Wet on Wet Painting:  commonly used in Anthroposophical Art practice, this medium with its unique qualities of movement and transition of colour from dark to light will be taught and practised.

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

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

Modelling:  using clay, modelling will be taught as an experience of transition and metamorphosis including 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, activities in the body, and pathology.

Drawing:  using a variety of approaches including observation of nature, dynamic of form, and light and darkness, in different media.

Transition – Metamorphosis:  Aspects will be explored artistically through transition in colour and movement, myth, poetry and metaphor. Also through lectures, workshops and artistic activities, the basis and phenomena of transition and metamorphosis will be explored.

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