News & Views
News & Views
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 → Kairos Institute: Welcoming a New Track in Animal Therapy, July 2025 At 8:15am on a frosty winter morning, small groups of children are carrying buckets of water and cutting baling twine loose from hay bales as they move around the farm animals at their school. Some… Renewal Courses – Step Into Summer And Be Inspired by Karen Atkinson, Director of Renewal Courses, Center for Anthroposophy Summer is a sacred time in the rhythm of the year—a chance to rest, reflect, and prepare. At the heart of this season, we… Struggling with Behavior in Consciousness Soul Times What are our Children and Adolescents Behaviors Telling us? Rekindling the Courage to Heal: July 6-11, in Wilton, New Hampshire with James Dyson, MD, Kim John Payne, MEd, and Tonya Stoddard, LCSW. by… 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 → Kairos News Kairos News Struggling with Behavior in Consciousness Soul Times May 28, 2025 Read More » Kairos Institute: Welcoming a New Track in Animal Therapy, July 2025 May 28, 2025 Read More » Upcoming Kairos… Rekindling the Courage to Heal: What are the Behaviors of Our Children and Adolescents Telling Us? Addressing Urgent Needs through Anthroposophic Medical and Psychological Insights with James Dyson, M.D.; Kim John Payne, M.Ed.; and Tonya Stoddard, LCSW Kairos Institute: Center for Anthroposophy Wilton, New Hampshire: July 6-11, 2025 Training Intensive Residency In Roots of… Upcoming Kairos Program Alerts February 28-March 2: Traumatology, Module 4: All Welcome Online, with Bernd Ruf. Emergency Pedagogy For more information and to Register, click here April 2025 We welcome a New Cohort in Art Therapy… 
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 → Explorations Online: A Journey into Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education As Explorations Online enters its sixth year, the program has connected nearly 400 educators, parents, and lifelong learners from across the globe through its weekend seminars. The program operates… Emergency Pedagogy Team Provides Hurricane Relief in Asheville In late October 2024, the newly formed Kairos Emergency Pedagogy Without Borders team conducted their first crisis intervention in Asheville, North Carolina, following the devastation of Hurricane… Help Fund Emergency Pedagogy Team USA Help Fund Emergency Pedagogy Team USA—For Immediate Release Healing in a World of Need “Traumatized children and adolescents require stable and competent teachers schooled in diagnosing and averting… Center & Periphery Newsletter — Special Douglas Gerwin Appreciation Issue Click the image for the full newsletter: Center & Periphery September 2024: Special Douglas Gerwin Appreciation Issue —————————————————————————————————————– From the Editor’s Notepad October 2024… For Our Kairos Community October 3, 2024 Dear Kairos community, Some of our Kairos community members live in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Some caught on the path of destruction just received their electricity back last… The Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education (TSHE) at Antioch University Happy Michaelmas! At a time when we experience the edge of the abyss, both inwardly as a spiritual reality and outwardly, in world affairs, we are increasingly challenged on all sides. Daily work in… Discover the Heart of Waldorf Education with “Listening to Our Teachers” by Torin Finser We are thrilled to announce the release of Listening to Our Teachers, a profound exploration of the Waldorf educational experience by esteemed author and educator Torin Finser. Now available through… News From Abbot Hill Check back here as we introduce new graduates and let you know about other news from Abbot Hill. Kairos Institute: Traumatology and Spirituality Wilton, New Hampshire, July 7-12 In today’s world, we are constantly bearing witness to global crises and tragedies, and therefore, we live in a world that is rife with untreated trauma. How do we… 
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 → Training Waldorf High School Science and Math Teachers through the Arts High school teachers specializing in science and math are especially helped by a training saturated in the arts––especially the performing arts––as this new video of CfA’s Waldorf High School Teacher… 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 → High School Seminar Week High School Seminar Week More than 20 Waldorf teachers and student teachers attended a high school seminar this week at RSCC with visiting teacher David Barham. When he’s not traveling around giving… 
Out of the Classroom and into Nature CfA's Op Ed Out of the Classroom and into Nature by Rachel Freierman and Sarah Davidson Northeast Woodland Chartered Public School It’s 4 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon in late January. Snow has… 
Breaking Hearts, Opening Hearts CfA's Op Ed Breaking Hearts, Opening Hearts by David Barham The country watched with amazement as the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two of its youngest members, Representatives…