Birth and Spirit, Waldorf worldwide

A hospital turned Waldorf school. The Markgräflerland project in Portugal
It was a very special step for our “Olive Tree School” in Figueira on the Algarve: after careful consideration and planning, we decided to expand our school from classes 1 to 6 to classes 1 to 8. [more]
Waldorf worldwide, Interculturality

A Waldorf school for all. The Community School for Creative Education in Oakland / USA
Few subjects have put their imprint on our time like the growth of diversity: local, regional, national and global. In the United States alone, more than half of all newborns are people of colour. By 2030 the majority of young employees will be non-white and in 2044 the majority of the population will consist of non-whites. [more]
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Treating trauma. Interview with Barbara Schiller, managing director of stART international
After the initial experience of working with emergency education in Lebanon in 2006 and 2007, a group of Waldorf teachers and anthroposophical therapists, including Barbara Schiller, founded the “stART international – emergency aid for children” association. Since then it has been in over 150 war zones and disaster areas to help traumatised children. Its deployment has meanwhile expanded to include emergency and disaster relief, integration and peace work. [more]
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School stress: everyone has it, no one wants it. How do we exit from it?
Exiting from school stress requires courage and commitment – that was the conclusion of many participants at the specialist conference on the subject of “Stress and school” at the Havelhöhe Family Forum in Berlin. [more]
Waldorf worldwide, Waldorf sustainability

Doing change – the story of Sonomotors
Former Waldorf pupils develop an innovative electric car, set up a startup company and seek a new way of community funding. [more]
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Seeing black misses the point. The crisis in English Waldorf schools
It is meanwhile clear to everyone involved that the precarious situation of the Waldorf schools in England – things are different in Scotland and Wales – cannot be laid at the door of a brutal and authoritarian state system alone. The control addiction of the authorities runs through the whole of British society in hospitals, kindergartens and local authorities, but it is not the sole reason for the fragility of the Waldorf impulse. [more]
Waldorf worldwide, Transhumanism

Waldorf education in Kiev
On 25 and 26 November 2019, a two-day international conference took place in Kiev on occasion of the hundredth anniversary celebrations of Waldorf education; the first day on the premises of the Ukrainian National Academy of Educational Sciences (NAES) and the second at the Sofia Waldorf School in Kiev. [more]
Waldorf worldwide, From image to concept

The Waldorf school requires a new spiritual impulse
The Waldorf school is 100 years old! We can look back in pride. But we also have to look forward with concern. Pride because we have become a true world movement and because we foster a high-quality education; concern because of the great challenges which lie ahead of us. [more]