This course offers a nurturing space to develop as an educator and / or parent through a range of experiential learning techniques, groupwork, discussions, facilitated processes, lectures and reflections. It also serves as professional development for experienced educators to renew and recharge their forces.

You are provided with opportunities to develop skills in a variety of crafts such as dollmaking, puppetry, felting, silk dyeing and papercrafts (moving pictures and shadow theatre), and create and tell stories, do presentations and get constructive peer feedback. We regularly practise movement, singing, painting, drawing and claywork.

This course is for those who wish to be authentic artistic educators and parents, joyfully engaged with children’s development and learning, supported by Rudolf Steiner’s wealth of insights into human development. The course provides a foundation for educators at all levels (Early Childhood, Primary and High School) and is particularly helpful for those who work in a Steiner setting without previous training in this approach to education. It provides very practical and imaginative essences of anthroposophy that empower educators, and facilitates the development of creative storytelling skills over four major projects. This course is also for parents wanting to understand how to support each child’s unique development process and to be confident and creative in their parenting skills.