initiative! IN THIS SECTION: Drawing on several years of face-to-face and online learning and gatherings, Director of Programs Laura Scappaticci has gathered a team for a year-long learning initiative. Dennis Dietzel gently probes the face-to-face and online difference, finding a difference of senses. September at the Goetheanum: Anthroposophic Medicine celebrated and renewed.
Emerge with us! The ASA carries its online experience into a year-long course...
Applied Anthroposophy is an online course meeting weekly from September 2020 through May 2021. Experience transformative content with keynote speakers, and the alchemy of deep group and inner work. Join this pioneering course to explore the urgent issues of our time through the lens of a spiritual philosophy that awakens meaning, inner reflection, and outer action. All details are online at appliedanthroposophy.org Applied Anthroposophy proceeds through four themes: Freedom in Thinking, The Power of Love, Individual Initiative, and Service to Humanity. The course is for beginners as well as those already connected to anthroposophy who feel called to experience it in a new way. Be a part of this diverse community of learners, as we work with our life stories, the deeper meaning in life and current events.
Course Elements
The butterfly you see is created out
of light, but light had to first take up The course will unfold through a series of four themes: matter, form a case and be turned Thinking in Freedom, the Power of Love, Individual Initiative, into threads inside the Chrysalis….” and Service to Humanity. Each week will alternate between key — Rudolf Steiner, Oct 8 1923 note speakers sharing Leading Thoughts, and small discussion meetings called Chrysalis Groups. Each theme concludes with a Full Cohort Meeting where all enrolled participants gather together on one call. Complementary offerings include a two-part Introductory Session prior to the first presentation, and an ongoing meditation practice group on the Six Basic Exercises through Zoom (15 min daily).
Leading Thoughts Presentations Presentations will take place throughout the course on Thursdays at 4:30 PT / 7:30ET. Leading Thoughts presenters will include Rev. Patrick Kennedy, Lisa Romero, Lakshmi Prasanna, MD, Chris Burke, Ph.D, Anne de Wild, and Linda Bergh.
Chrysalis Groups
“The caterpillar completely surren ders to the light, it dies in the light… it spins its own body into these threads and so forms the cocoon…” — Rudolf Steiner Oct 8, 1923
A Chrysalis Group is a small cohort of the same 12-16 course participants who will meet on the alternate weeks from Leading Thoughts presentations. Each Chrysalis Group will have its own dedicated facilitator and share in conversation, journaling, and artistic practices. The goal is to establish a small learning community that allows you to integrate content from the presentations, expand your understanding of yourself, and work through the bigger questions in life. There will three ninetyminute time slots to choose from based upon timezone and personal schedule. Once each theme (four times for the year), all course participants will come together.
Basic Concepts of Anthroposophy in Seven Steps: A Crash Course for Beginners is included with full course registration—or may be purchased separately as a stand alone course. Elements covered in the Introductory Sessions: 1. Body, Soul and Spirit 2. The Soul between Body and Spirit, and the Mystery of the Human ‘I’ 3. Compare Mineral, Plant, Animals and Human (Four-Fold Human Being) 4. Sleep, Death, Life After Death, and Reincarnation 5. Evolution (Origins and Goals) 6. Evolution of Human Consciousness 7. Representative of Humanity and a new paradigm of Good and Evil 16 • being human