Upcoming Events
We invite you to join us for our upcoming lectures, artistic workshops, classes, and performances.
Upcoming Events
September
September 28 - Michaelmas, 100th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address
October
October 18,19 - Biography and Social Art Workshop - Douglas Garrett
November
November 8-10 - Third Mystery Drama Workshop - Laurie Portocarrero
December
December 6-8 - Emergency & Trauma Education - Bernd Ruf, Reinaldo Nascimento
Details TBA - The Oberufer Shepherd's Play - Directed by Gail McManus
2025
March 28-30, 2025 - The Michael Prophecy: Celebration of Rudolf Steiner’s Life – Steffen Hartman & concert
Perceiving Destinies with our Life Stories
A Biography and Social Art Workshop
with Douglas Garrett
Friday, October 18, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Introduction (in person and via zoom)
Saturday, October 19, 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:00-3:00 pm
Workshops (in person only)
Within our own biography lives the wisdom of our capacities, abilities, and our intentions for life. Looking artistically into our own life story opens new insights for the present and future, sparking us to shape our lives more mindfully, promoting wholeness and wellness.
Come join us for a self-discovery adventure guided by Douglas Garrett
Douglas is a certified Biography and Social Art Facili tator. He works with people in researching life questions through artistically investigating their own life stories. He has co-authored, with Dr. Renee Meyer, a chapter titled New Perspectives in Health, Aging and Biography Work in the book Elder Flowering: Lived Experiences of Growing Older soon to be published by Steiner Books.
"Biography work is a way to become active and awake to our own life story, entering into a dialogue with it, questioning and listening to it so that it begins to reveal to us its secrets and riches…it enables us to find a new, free relationship to our past so that we can awake in the present and meet what comes towards us from the future with openness and expectancy.” Margli Matthews – Biographical Counselor
Suggested Donation: Saturday full day workshop $50.00.
(Space is limited to fifteen participants for Saturday’s workshop.)
Emergency and Trauma Education
with Bernd Ruf, Reinaldo Nascimento, Ida Oberman
December 6th-8th
Rudolf Steiner Community Center and Pasadena Waldorf School
Traumas change lives permanently and can even lead to a break in one’s biography. Emergency and trauma education aims to support children and young people in processing extreme stressful experiences and prevent subsequent trauma-related disorders. The weekend aims to introduce the conception and practice of anthroposophical emergency and trauma education.
For educators at all levels, parents, guardians, medical professionals, and all those invested in the health of childhood.
In addition to the presentors (bios below), this course includes experiencial workshops that include artistic and movement-based activities with local and international Emergency Pedagogs.
FRIDAY NIGHT December 6th:
Lecture at Rudolf Steiner Community Center
110 Martin Alley, Pasadena ~ 7-9:30pm
SATURDAY & SUNDAY December 7th - 8th:
Two Day Workshop - 9am-4pm
Mornings at Rudolf Steiner Community Center (RSCC)
Afternoons at Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS)
(Agenda subject to adjustments)
Co-Sponsored By:
Waldorf Institute of Southern California
Los Angeles Rudolf Steiner Community Center in Pasadena
Pasadena Waldorf School
Contact Christine B. for questions:
programs@anthroposophyla.org
Biography
Bernd Ruf
Author of Educating Traumatized Children and other books on Emergency and Trauma Education (in German). Founder and Director of the Emergency Pedagogy Center, leading missions in war and disaster areas worldwide. Co-founder of the International Institute for Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy (IINTP). In 2019, he founded and has since developed the Emergency Pedagogy Without Borders organization.
Reinaldo Nascimento
Social Therapist, physical educator, neuropsycho educator, emergency and trauma educator. Teacher Trainer and Co-founder of the Emergency Pedagogy Association in Brazil. Member and pedagogical coordinator of the international Emergency Pedagogy team.
Translation: Dr Ida Oberman
Founder & ED emerita Community School for Creative Education, Oakland, CA; Founding Member Emergency Pedagogy Team California/USA.