Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training

Renewing Our Commitment to the Health and Well-Being of the Growing Child in the 2020s
2025-02-16 09:00 - 2025-02-18 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 2983 Washington Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
Northern California Waldorf Teachers Conference with keynote speaker, Dr. Michaela Glöckler.

Waldorf education must continue to renew and redefine its orientation and priorities in a rapidly changing social and technological setting. Contemporary culture increasingly has the potential to undermine the healthy unfolding of childhood with repercussions for the whole of life In the forward to her recent book, Education for the Future: How to Nurture Health and Human Potential, Dr. Michaela Glöckler writes:

“[Our] goal is to release mature, self-confidant, creative and courageous people into life. What are the conditions for the development of such character traits? Even more: what are the conditions for healthy physical, soul/emotional and spiritual development in childhood and adolescence? How can day-care centers, kindergartens and schools become places for healthy development?”

In an educational environment where stress, burnout, postural damage, and mental health issues are becoming commonplace among students and teachers, can Waldorf schools be a bastion of health? Dr. Michaela Glöckler will bring her many years of experience as a pediatrician and Waldorf school doctor as well as her concerns for child health in contemporary society. She will offer guiding thoughts for Waldorf teachers as we navigate our way into the second half of the decade.

Please note, this year’s conference is in-person only.

BACWTT Office Closed
2025-02-15 00:00 - 2025-02-23 23:59

Visiting Day - In-Person
2025-01-25 10:00 - 13:00 | 3800 Clark Road, El Sobrante, CA 94803
What are the goals of education in the 2020s?

What strengths and capacities are needed in today’s teachers?

As the world shifts and changes around us and we rethink our priorities, how do we pre-pare teachers who can meet and guide the next generation?

If you have the sense that education needs to change, that we need creative, innovative, and empathic thinkers, and that we need to find ways to balance knowledge with wisdom, freedom with integrity, individuality with community, and access to technology with a love for nature, please join us to experience our approach to Waldorf teacher preparation.

Visiting Day - Online
2025-01-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Online

Winter Break
2024-12-15 00:00 - 2025-01-09 23:59

Christmas Assembly
2024-12-14 00:00 - 23:59

Introduction to Parent and Child Work - Birth to Three Online Course
2024-12-09 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-12-02 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-11-25 16:30 - 18:00
Join us for this online introduction to creating and shaping a Waldorf child and caregiver program. Being a Birth-to-Three teacher requires creativity and flexibility in order to balance the needs of children and adults. We will explore and deepen our understanding of working with this dynamic and how to best support families, and also focus on practical skills such as storytelling and circle activities.

Board Meeting
2024-12-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-11-05 19:00 - 20:00, 2024-10-01 19:00 - 20:00

Thanksgiving Break
2024-11-24 00:00 - 2024-11-30 23:59

A Spiritual Perspective of the First Years - Online Taster
2024-11-18 16:30 - 18:00
The very young child has a natural connection to the spiritual world. As parents and caregivers, we can recognize this as a source of strength and support for the child. In this introductory talk, we will explore ways that we may help children maintain this connection through practical, everyday activities.

This is the beginning discussion in the larger conversation of a course designed to develop your understanding of the profound, developmental groundwork being established during the first three years of a child’s life.

Northern CA & NV Regional Conference for Waldorf Early Childhood Teachers
2024-11-08 17:00 - 2024-11-09 16:00
With Keynote Speaker Laurie Clark

Friday: Becoming Revolutionaries of TendernessBringing nurturing and healing gestures to children who are experiencing stress and anxiety be-gins by working on the restorative transformation of our own lives. Cultivating inner tenderness in ourselves births and imbues empathetic understanding of others. This will lead us into the exploration of the modalities that deepen, support, soothe, and comfort the children in our care.

Saturday: If These Walls Could Talk: Exploring the World of Children’s DrawingsThe wonder of each child’s unfolding individuality reveals itself when we learn to “read” what the child is trying to tell us through their drawings. The power of the images that children draw are unspoken parts of the self, and reflect development, emotions, relationships, and other aspects. Drawing provides a window for the child to express themselves and bring what is occurring from their inner life into visual images. This modality can give the gift of offering a sheltering, safe place to bring what is living in the depths of the child—including trauma, crisis, and emotion-al upheaval—into an outer picture of their situation. The child is given a way to communicate without having to use words alone, with a language that allows for symbolic expression.The conference is open to teachers working in Early Childhood at school and home-based programs.The conference will be available in-person only.

The Work of Becoming a Waldorf Early Childhood Assistant
2024-10-26 09:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-12 09:00 - 16:00
Join our course this fall to develop your understanding of the artistry and sensitivity needed to build a warm, safe, and enlivening space for the young children in your care.Early Childhood assistants must develop the skills to work collegially with their lead teacher to impart beauty and order, provide wholesome rhythms, delight the child with rich storytelling, and create a lively classroom ﬁlled with the mood of work and play. The assistant plays a very important role working with the lead teacher to guide the young child on a path of rightful development.

Healing Power of Art Program Begins
2024-10-05 10:00 - 12:30
Discover the healing potential of art through painting, light and darkness drawing, sculpture, and form drawing. Develop your artistic abilities, build observation skills, and increase your sensitivity as a foundation for therapeutic artistic practice. The Healing Power of Art program is also a preparation for our 3-year Healing Through Art program.
