The Rudolf Steiner Institute Experience

With gratitude we are sharing this 2009 invitation to the Rudolf Steiner Institute as a recollection of a great, decades-long service which has since come to an end.

Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts

For thirty-five years individuals from all backgrounds and from around the world have gathered at the Rudolf Steiner Institute. The Institute provides an opportunity for individuals to meet one another and to participate in substantive, college-level courses taught by an exemplary international faculty and informed by an anthroposophical understanding of the world. Courses address a variety of themes that respond to the issues and concerns of our time.

This summer (2009) one emphasis is a trio of courses on the theme: Today’s Global Crisis: The Urgent Need for Social, Ecological & Spiritual Renewal. Robert Karp, Robert Hill, Clemens Pietzner, Jerry Schwartz, and Michael D’Aleo will lead courses addressing Community Building, Economics and Capitalism and Water, Energy and Climate Changes. Laura Summer will coordinate group social sculpture with each course.

Spiritual Inquiry, Education & Parenting, Creativity & the Arts, Social, Cultural & Ecological Renewal, Science & Spirit.

Courses are one and two weeks long and cover a wide range of themes and topics. The faculty is extraordinary. Embryology is brought in a new and astonishing way by Jaap van der Wal. Clowning with Vivian Gladwell introduces a unique way of meeting ourselves and others through the truth of the heart. Jack Petrash shares his deep insight into the Waldorf curriculum through the gift of humor and years of experience as a teacher. Puppets and stories will be created with Janene Ping. Nick Thomas brings his original research in Projective Geometry and another course in Karma and Reincarnation. Dennis Klocek, Nancy Mellon, Paul Matthews, Jeff Spade, Robert McDermott, Gertrude Hughes, Tim Hoffmann, Richard Dancey, Robert Sardello ,Cheryl Sanders-Sardello, Brigitte Bley-Swinston, Christopher Schaefer, Gail Langstroth, Joachim Mattke, Celia Riahi, Carol Petrash, Kevin Hughes, Louise DeForest and Jean-Marc Peladeau complete our expert and renowned faculty.

The Institute builds a spirit of collaboration and openness with earnest discourse balanced with humor and playfulness. Study, fellowship, and discovery can benefit not just the rest of the year but the rest of a lifetime. Programs led by experienced Waldorf teachers for children from pre-school through eighth grade make it possible for parents to attend with their families.