A New Impulse – Second Conference: Finding Balance
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A New Impulse – Second Conference: Finding Balance
WITH CHRISTOF WIECHERT, FEBRUARY 2011
Christof Wiechert was a pupil at the Waldorf school in the Hague, Netherlands, and after studying education and geography, he was a teacher for 30 years at his old school. Christof co-founded the Dutch State Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar. In September 1999, he began his work for the Peda¬gogical Section, and from 2001 to 2010 he was the head of the Educational Department of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland. He is married with five children.
A 3-day conference for Waldorf professionals
(and those with Waldorf teacher training)
February 24-26, 2011 in Tiburon, CA
The conference will take place in the multi-purpose room of the Bel Aire Elementary School, 277 Karen Way, Tiburon, CA 94920
Registration fee: $35
“True humanity depends on balance as activity, as striving. Balance is a crucial condition for health in all aspects of Waldorf life. Rudolf Steiner’s sculpture, ‘The Representative of Man’ clearly depicts that balance. This is the theme and the challenge our conference will address.”
Christof Wiechert
If the teacher is egoistic and only tries to make the child an imitation of himself, then the teaching is purely luciferic. Education becomes luciferic when we try as far as possible to turn the pupil into a copy of our own opinions and feelings, and are happy only if we tell the pupil something today and he repeats it word for word tomorrow. On the other hand an ahrimanic education comes about if the pupil is as naughty as possible in our lessons and learns from us as little as he possibly can. However, there is a state of balance between these two extremes…
Rudolf Steiner: “Art as Seen in the Light of Mystery Wisdom” Lecture 6, Dornach, January 2, 1915
We are pleased and grateful that Christof Wiechert address the topic of balance in ourselves, in our teaching, and in the school community as the focal point for this second New Impulse conference.
This 3-day conference will be concentrated. The days will be relatively short – 9:30am to 3:30pm on Thursday and Friday; 9:30 to 12:30 on Saturday — so that participants can commute more easily, need not be away from home all day, and still have something of a weekend.
In order to make this conference affordable, we will have a minimal registration fee of $35. Lunches will be available, provided by the Marin Waldorf School 7th graders, as a fund-raiser for their class activities. Local restaurants are, of course, also available. We ask you to organize any required lodging – several local motels can be found here or by searching “Tiburon motels” on the internet. Refreshment during coffee breaks will be provided.
Please register early – this conference was sold out last year and will fill up quickly.
The conference schedule will be:
Thursday, February 24:
9:30: Warm-up and Lecture I: Finding Balance in Ourselves by Christof Wiechert
11:00: Coffee Break
11:30: Conversation Groups on the Lecture Topics
12:30: Lunch
2:00: Plenum discussion and further presentation by Christof Wiechert
3:30: Closing
Friday, February 25:
9:30: Warm-up and Lecture II: Finding Balance in Our Teaching by Christof Wiechert
11:00: Coffee Break
11:30: Conversation Groups on the Lecture Topics
12:30: Lunch
2:00: Plenum discussion and further presentation by Christof Wiechert
3:30: Closing
Saturday, February 26:
9:30: Warm-up and Lecture III: Finding Balance in the School Community by Christof Wiechert
11:00: Coffee Break
11:30: Concluding presentation
12:30: Close
This conference would be an excellent preparation for the Waldorf Seminar of the Summer Arts Festival of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training with Christof Wiechert on lectures 8-14 of Study of Man to be held in July of 2011.
