Peter Lutzker
Lecture 1: Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition in Teaching and Learning
In this lecture we will explore ways in which imagination, inspiration and intuition can be integrated into classroom practices and what that can potentially mean for our pupils.
Lecture 2: AI and its Consequences for Education
Artificial intelligence is already transforming education in ways that we are only beginning to realize. In the concluding lecture, we will consider what perspectives Waldorf pedagogy can offer in addressing the challenges which AI presents.
Workshop 1 - Jo-anne and Peter - Shakespeare in Performance: “All the world’s a stage”!
This workshop is based on our conviction that some of the most important preparations for teachers to be able to teach a Shakespeare play is for them to have worked on acting Shakespeare themselves. Our experience has been that this very fruitfully supports teaching Shakespeare in many different respects and offers them ways of enabling pupils to also work performatively on scenes from a Shakespeare play. “
Workshop 2 – Literature - Performative Approaches to Teaching Prose and Poetry (Peter)
In this workshop we will explore ways to dramatize prose fiction in class and thereby engage pupils more fully through the embodied, artistic experience of works of literature. In a similar vein, we will also explore how one can take a poem “off the page” into the realm of an artistic performance. In both genres, participants will be working together in small groups and at the end of the week present their “works in progress” to each other. Not only can this kind of work be integrated into classroom practice in high school, but it also can provide opportunities for the further artistic development of the teacher.
Workshop 3 - Reading and teaching a Shakespeare play in the classroom (Peter)
In this workshop we will first discuss ways of preparing pupils before reading a Shakespeare play, so that their interest and enthusiasm for taking on this challenge can already be awakened. We will then read together different scenes from a Shakespeare play (Othello) and discuss how to engage and support pupils while reading the play in class.
Julia O'Leary
Lecture 1 - The Importance of Eurythmy in the Waldorf School
She will to offer to talk about introducing eurythmy and exploring its significance within Waldorf education. The presentation will consider the role of eurythmy in supporting the child's physical, emotional, and spiritual development, and its contribution to the broader educational aims of the Waldorf curriculum.
Workshop 1 - Experiencing Eurythmy
This workshop offers participants an experience of the hygienic exercises given by Rudolf Steiner to support and nourish the soul. Through movement and gesture, we will explore exercises that strengthen and harmonise the rhythmical system of breathing and circulation. These activities aim to support the healthy engagement of the higher self with the body, fostering qualities of light, warmth, balance, and inner resilience.
Workshop 2 - Pedagogical Eurythmy - Movement, Learning and Human Development
In this workshop, participants will engage in a range of Pedagogical Eurythmy exercises drawn from the Waldorf curriculum and tailored to the developmental needs of the growing child. Through practical experience, we will explore how Eurythmy supports both academic learning and healthy social development, helping children to strengthen concentration, spatial awareness, coordination, and self-confidence.
Particular attention will be given to the cultivation of balance, cooperation, and harmonious movement within the group. Through these exercises, participants will experience how Eurythmy fosters an appreciation for beauty, order, and social responsibility, while nurturing the capacities that support learning, wellbeing, and healthy relationships throughout the school years.
Workshop 3 - Basket-Weaving Workshop
In this workshop, participants will learn how to prepare and guide a child in making a simple basket suitable for a Class 3 craft main lesson. We will then progress to weaving a more advanced basket of the kind that a Class 8 student might undertake in a basket-weaving lesson. The workshop will explore both the pedagogical and practical aspects of basket-making within the Waldorf curriculum.
Jo-anne Sarre
Workshop 2 - The World is the Word of the Spirit - Creative Speech & Drama for Teachers
Central to the Steiner/Waldorf teachers’ practice in the classroom is working with sacred verse, poetry, storytelling and theatre-making. How can the spoken word be a conscious creative act, how can it become an artform, “Creative Speech”? This introductory workshop will offer experiences of Creative Speech and Drama, developed by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers, arising from a holistic vision of our sacred origins. By way of preparation, Jo-anne would appreciate knowing in advance what age group/s you work with and any poems/stories/plays in English that you are currently exploring with your students.
Workshop 3 - The Parsifal Project – Exploring a Healing Story for our Time
The story of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach offers a pathway of striving and hope amidst our challenging times, based on Deep Ecology. While it is part of the Year 11 Waldorf/Steiner curriculum that offers biographical exploration to the students, it also illumines a pathway of personal growth, transformation and healing in modern times for all of humankind. In April-May 2025, Jo-anne Sarre directed and produced a theatre season of the Parsifal story in South Australia, told through the eyes of the women. During this workshop we will explore and bring to life a couple of scenes from this poetic production.
Jan van Gils
Lecture 1 – High School and Puberty: "Earth-Maturity"
Puberty marks a profound developmental transition as the young person moves from childhood toward adulthood. Rudolf Steiner suggested that this phase is best understood not merely as sexual maturity, but as a process of becoming fully incarnated and engaged with earthly life: "We should really speak, therefore, not of sexual, but of earthly maturity." In this lecture, Jan van Gils will explore the developmental needs of adolescents and discuss pedagogical and didactic approaches that can support young people as they seek independence, responsibility, and a deeper relationship with the world. The lecture will consider how education can meet the challenges and opportunities of this important stage of human development.
Workshop 1 – Observational Phenomenological Astronomy
This workshop explores astronomy through direct observation and the phenomenological method. Participants will investigate the spiral movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets, trace the historical evolution of astronomical worldviews, and study observable solar and cometary phenomena, including sunspots and electromagnetic eruptions. A central theme of the workshop is the cultivation of careful observation before explanation. Through practical exercises and discussion, participants will develop the phenomenological approach to understanding the heavens and learn to recognise reductionist and materialistic habits of thought that can limit our perception of the living relationships between the Earth, planets, and starry sky.
Workshop 2 – Michael and the Emergence of New Thinking
Modern science has brought humanity remarkable powers of observation and analysis, yet it also presents new questions concerning the nature of knowledge and consciousness. This workshop examines the evolution of human thinking and explores the possibility of a new relationship between thought and perception. Beginning with the development of thinking in the Greek era, moving through the modern age of sensory observation and scientific enquiry, and culminating in the Michaelic age, participants will consider how thinking and perceiving may once again become united in a conscious and creative way. The workshop will explore the idea that the Michaelic impulse calls for a form of thinking that not only understands the world intellectually but is capable of perceiving the spiritual realities living within it. Through discussion and reflection, participants will examine the relationship between moral intuition, perception, and the future evolution of human consciousness.
P. Jayesh Narsimhulu
Workshop 3 - Practical Astronomy and thinking through ‘Sound’ .
This hands-on workshop invites students to explore astronomy and physics through observation, measurement, and experimentation. Participants will learn to use a sextant, investigate how the Sun appears from different latitudes and seasons on Earth, and discover the principles behind celestial navigation and surveying. Through practical activities, model building, and observational challenges, students will develop a direct and living relationship with the phenomena of the heavens.
The workshop will also explore the fascinating world of sound, vibration, resonance, and wave phenomena through experiments such as resonance tubes, Chladni patterns, and investigations into the hidden order underlying physical processes. Emphasis will be placed on careful observation, questioning, and discovery, encouraging students to develop scientific understanding from experience before explanation.
These sessions complement the workshops Observational Phenomenological Astronomy and Michael and the Emergence of New Thinking by providing practical experiences through which participants can explore the relationship between perception and thought. Through direct engagement with natural phenomena, students will be encouraged to recognise how observation, imagination, and thinking work together in the formation of knowledge, offering a living bridge between scientific investigation and a deeper understanding of the world and our place within it.
Lecture 1: Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition in Teaching and Learning
In this lecture we will explore ways in which imagination, inspiration and intuition can be integrated into classroom practices and what that can potentially mean for our pupils.
Lecture 2: AI and its Consequences for Education
Artificial intelligence is already transforming education in ways that we are only beginning to realize. In the concluding lecture, we will consider what perspectives Waldorf pedagogy can offer in addressing the challenges which AI presents.
Workshop 1 - Jo-anne and Peter - Shakespeare in Performance: “All the world’s a stage”!
This workshop is based on our conviction that some of the most important preparations for teachers to be able to teach a Shakespeare play is for them to have worked on acting Shakespeare themselves. Our experience has been that this very fruitfully supports teaching Shakespeare in many different respects and offers them ways of enabling pupils to also work performatively on scenes from a Shakespeare play. “
Workshop 2 – Literature - Performative Approaches to Teaching Prose and Poetry (Peter)
In this workshop we will explore ways to dramatize prose fiction in class and thereby engage pupils more fully through the embodied, artistic experience of works of literature. In a similar vein, we will also explore how one can take a poem “off the page” into the realm of an artistic performance. In both genres, participants will be working together in small groups and at the end of the week present their “works in progress” to each other. Not only can this kind of work be integrated into classroom practice in high school, but it also can provide opportunities for the further artistic development of the teacher.
Workshop 3 - Reading and teaching a Shakespeare play in the classroom (Peter)
In this workshop we will first discuss ways of preparing pupils before reading a Shakespeare play, so that their interest and enthusiasm for taking on this challenge can already be awakened. We will then read together different scenes from a Shakespeare play (Othello) and discuss how to engage and support pupils while reading the play in class.
Julia O'Leary
Lecture 1 - The Importance of Eurythmy in the Waldorf School
She will to offer to talk about introducing eurythmy and exploring its significance within Waldorf education. The presentation will consider the role of eurythmy in supporting the child's physical, emotional, and spiritual development, and its contribution to the broader educational aims of the Waldorf curriculum.
Workshop 1 - Experiencing Eurythmy
This workshop offers participants an experience of the hygienic exercises given by Rudolf Steiner to support and nourish the soul. Through movement and gesture, we will explore exercises that strengthen and harmonise the rhythmical system of breathing and circulation. These activities aim to support the healthy engagement of the higher self with the body, fostering qualities of light, warmth, balance, and inner resilience.
Workshop 2 - Pedagogical Eurythmy - Movement, Learning and Human Development
In this workshop, participants will engage in a range of Pedagogical Eurythmy exercises drawn from the Waldorf curriculum and tailored to the developmental needs of the growing child. Through practical experience, we will explore how Eurythmy supports both academic learning and healthy social development, helping children to strengthen concentration, spatial awareness, coordination, and self-confidence.
Particular attention will be given to the cultivation of balance, cooperation, and harmonious movement within the group. Through these exercises, participants will experience how Eurythmy fosters an appreciation for beauty, order, and social responsibility, while nurturing the capacities that support learning, wellbeing, and healthy relationships throughout the school years.
Workshop 3 - Basket-Weaving Workshop
In this workshop, participants will learn how to prepare and guide a child in making a simple basket suitable for a Class 3 craft main lesson. We will then progress to weaving a more advanced basket of the kind that a Class 8 student might undertake in a basket-weaving lesson. The workshop will explore both the pedagogical and practical aspects of basket-making within the Waldorf curriculum.
Jo-anne Sarre
Workshop 2 - The World is the Word of the Spirit - Creative Speech & Drama for Teachers
Central to the Steiner/Waldorf teachers’ practice in the classroom is working with sacred verse, poetry, storytelling and theatre-making. How can the spoken word be a conscious creative act, how can it become an artform, “Creative Speech”? This introductory workshop will offer experiences of Creative Speech and Drama, developed by Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner-von Sivers, arising from a holistic vision of our sacred origins. By way of preparation, Jo-anne would appreciate knowing in advance what age group/s you work with and any poems/stories/plays in English that you are currently exploring with your students.
Workshop 3 - The Parsifal Project – Exploring a Healing Story for our Time
The story of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach offers a pathway of striving and hope amidst our challenging times, based on Deep Ecology. While it is part of the Year 11 Waldorf/Steiner curriculum that offers biographical exploration to the students, it also illumines a pathway of personal growth, transformation and healing in modern times for all of humankind. In April-May 2025, Jo-anne Sarre directed and produced a theatre season of the Parsifal story in South Australia, told through the eyes of the women. During this workshop we will explore and bring to life a couple of scenes from this poetic production.
Jan van Gils
Lecture 1 – High School and Puberty: "Earth-Maturity"
Puberty marks a profound developmental transition as the young person moves from childhood toward adulthood. Rudolf Steiner suggested that this phase is best understood not merely as sexual maturity, but as a process of becoming fully incarnated and engaged with earthly life: "We should really speak, therefore, not of sexual, but of earthly maturity." In this lecture, Jan van Gils will explore the developmental needs of adolescents and discuss pedagogical and didactic approaches that can support young people as they seek independence, responsibility, and a deeper relationship with the world. The lecture will consider how education can meet the challenges and opportunities of this important stage of human development.
Workshop 1 – Observational Phenomenological Astronomy
This workshop explores astronomy through direct observation and the phenomenological method. Participants will investigate the spiral movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets, trace the historical evolution of astronomical worldviews, and study observable solar and cometary phenomena, including sunspots and electromagnetic eruptions. A central theme of the workshop is the cultivation of careful observation before explanation. Through practical exercises and discussion, participants will develop the phenomenological approach to understanding the heavens and learn to recognise reductionist and materialistic habits of thought that can limit our perception of the living relationships between the Earth, planets, and starry sky.
Workshop 2 – Michael and the Emergence of New Thinking
Modern science has brought humanity remarkable powers of observation and analysis, yet it also presents new questions concerning the nature of knowledge and consciousness. This workshop examines the evolution of human thinking and explores the possibility of a new relationship between thought and perception. Beginning with the development of thinking in the Greek era, moving through the modern age of sensory observation and scientific enquiry, and culminating in the Michaelic age, participants will consider how thinking and perceiving may once again become united in a conscious and creative way. The workshop will explore the idea that the Michaelic impulse calls for a form of thinking that not only understands the world intellectually but is capable of perceiving the spiritual realities living within it. Through discussion and reflection, participants will examine the relationship between moral intuition, perception, and the future evolution of human consciousness.
P. Jayesh Narsimhulu
Workshop 3 - Practical Astronomy and thinking through ‘Sound’ .
This hands-on workshop invites students to explore astronomy and physics through observation, measurement, and experimentation. Participants will learn to use a sextant, investigate how the Sun appears from different latitudes and seasons on Earth, and discover the principles behind celestial navigation and surveying. Through practical activities, model building, and observational challenges, students will develop a direct and living relationship with the phenomena of the heavens.
The workshop will also explore the fascinating world of sound, vibration, resonance, and wave phenomena through experiments such as resonance tubes, Chladni patterns, and investigations into the hidden order underlying physical processes. Emphasis will be placed on careful observation, questioning, and discovery, encouraging students to develop scientific understanding from experience before explanation.
These sessions complement the workshops Observational Phenomenological Astronomy and Michael and the Emergence of New Thinking by providing practical experiences through which participants can explore the relationship between perception and thought. Through direct engagement with natural phenomena, students will be encouraged to recognise how observation, imagination, and thinking work together in the formation of knowledge, offering a living bridge between scientific investigation and a deeper understanding of the world and our place within it.
