The online newsletter of the Center for Anthroposophy
Center & Periphery
Original articles, reflections, and updates from the Center's programs and the wider Waldorf community.
Center & Periphery Newsletter —Spring 2026 SPRING 2026 From Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis/©1946): I remembered one dawn when I came across a butterfly’s cocoon in a pine tree, just at the very moment when the husk was breaking and the… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Winter 2025-2026 WINTER 2025-2026 [](https://centerforanthroposophy.org/message-from-the-executive-director-2/) Message from the Executive Director Ours is a challenging moment. No need to list the endlessly… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Fall 2025 FALL 2025 Message from the Executive Director Rudolf Steiner told us, “We dare not be simply educators; we must be people of culture in the highest sense of the word… Each of us must be completely… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter —Summer 2025 SUMMER 2025 Foreword by the Executive Director — Summer 2025 This is a profound time of year for teachers! The school year, itself an annual marathon, is winding down with its abundance (perhaps… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter —Spring 2025 SPRING 2025 Foreword by the Executive Director Anthroposophy and Waldorf education are global and our participation as teachers, administrators, therapists and artists working with impulses from… Open this edition → 
Center & Periphery Newsletter — Winter 2025 Forward by the Executive Director For many, these are scary times. An unstable and unpredictable political and economic situation, fires and floods, an unknown and unknowable future calling to us.… Open this edition → 
Center & Periphery Newsletter — Winter 2024 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Winter 2024 From the Editor’s Notepad February 2024 Dear Friends, Close to my home in Pioneer Valley of Central Massachusetts, a clustering of maple trees… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Autumn 2023 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Autumn 2023 From the Editor’s Notepad Dear Friends, With this issue we kick off what we hope will become a regular feature of our thrice-yearly… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Spring 2023 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Spring 2023 From the Editor’s Notepad Dear Friends, Journeying often serves as a metaphor both for mapping out a course of education as well as charting a… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Winter 2023 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Winter 2023 From the Editor’s Notepad Dear Friends, Close to my home in Central Massachusetts, a clustering of maple trees stands tall and naked against a… Open this edition → 
Center & Periphery Newsletter — Fall 2022 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Fall 2022 From the Editor’s Notepad Douglas Gerwin, Ph.D. Executive Director, CfA Dear Friends, In this issue, we entertain some inspiring solutions––both… Open this edition → Center & Periphery Newsletter — Spring 2022 CfA's Online Newsletter Center & Periphery Spring 2022 From the Editor’s Notepad Douglas Gerwin, Ph.D. Executive Director, CfA Dear Friends, After two years of being mostly online, Center for… Open this edition →