Recently, when watching an old film, I have occasionally got the feeling: “Hey, don’t you realise you’re much too close to each other and standing in too large groups? Why aren’t you paying…
Wood, metal and stone not only require different tools but also quite different skills and states of mind. Humans and trees are connected through the breathing – their breathing corresponds with…
The art in practical work. Handwork lessons in Waldorf school
For those unfamiliar with Waldorf education, it possesses some strange features and handwork lessons are considered by some to be among them. Even the name alone! Where similar lessons exist in…
Art education – a workshop report from upper school
Generally speaking, art is not compatible with industrial reproduction in the art lessons of the Waldorf school. The question is whether technically reproduced media – such as for example photography…
High-flyers also need flying lessons. The potential and problems of highly gifted children
High-flyers, nerds, misfits ... the list of names which highly gifted children are called is a long one. In early childhood they can easily be identified as high-flyers. But often they are thwarted…
Highly sensitive adolescents in psychotherapeutic practice
Julia Lichte is a body therapist using depth psychology (HAKOMI®) and trauma therapist in Lübeck. She has many years of experience accompanying highly sensitive people.
As the Waldorf schools have taken the hurdle of the first hundred years, the time has maybe come to think about some things that could change. The idea, for example, that being a teacher is…
That the job of teacher belongs to those professions in which people are subject to great stress for relatively long periods of time is well known. Just think of the many teachers who want to take…
I write from the perspective of an English teacher who retired a few years ago and is aware of the danger of glossing over her experiences with hindsight. On the other hand, I did sit in on a lesson…
On the southern wall of our living room a surprise lurks in the plaster. Sized about 40 x 27 centimetres, a half-relief is rises above the grainy substrate showing a winged horse.