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Pause for thought 3 Presence Anthroposophical Society 1 Facts and their effects on the soul 2 : Joint responsibility 3 South Africa: Understanding the new world situation 3 India: Overcome the darkness 3 Japan: Interconnected 11 Obituary: Klaus Dumke 11 Membership News 11 Information: detailed financial statement Facts and their effects on the soul mitted from animal to human, causes a global School of Spiritual Science wave of sickness. Experts in various scientific 4 Section for Social Sciences: Realistic attempts disciplines make unsubstantiated predictions What lies ahead and give guidelines. The media are spreading 4 Youth Section: Finding meaning at finding solutions 5 General Anthroposophical Society: immense fear. Politicians have to do something The Gospel of Knowledge and and take drastic actions to contain the disease basic research Dear Members and Friends, that affect every single person. As wakeful ob- 6 Medical Section: Medical servers we are called upon to take in these facts, expertise in infectious diseases thank you very much for the many reports you observe their effects on the soul and understand 6 Section for Agriculture: have sent from all corners of the world follow- the spiritual signature and dimension of these Nature’s power of renewal ing our invitation in Anthroposophy Worldwide developments. Just as a hundred years ago, fol- Finding balance in cooking 5/2020! We had asked about the spiritual situa- lowing the catastrophe of World War I, we now 7 Natural Science Section: tion where you are and how you are responding need “realistic attempts at finding the solutions Healing plants and bees to the challenge we are currently experiencing. that life demands” (Rudolf Steiner) or initiatives. 7 Section for the Performing Arts: Working conditions The friends in Zagreb, Croatia, have written to In the past hundred years anthroposophy has 7 Humanities Section: More than ‘bare’ life us about the earthquake that did considerable inspired solutions in many different spheres, such 8 Class Lesson transcripts damage to the premises they are using for the as nutrition and agriculture, education and medi- 8 First Class: Paradigm shift anthroposophical work. cine. Can we, on the basis of these experiences, Slowly, the restrictions are being lifted; the contribute to finding the “realistic solutions” that first borders will open in mid-June and life will are needed now? 4 Stage: “We are going to perform” 5 Communications: Social media gradually return to a certain degree of normality. The School of Spiritual Science decided to col- 9 Goetheanum Press: At the Goetheanum we sincerely hope that the lect contributions towards an understanding of Healthy first quarter new production of Goethe’s Faust 1 & 2 will be the situation from the point of view of the differ- 9 Building Administration: able to premiere on 10 to 12 July 2020 and that ent Sections. They will be published in this and Transformation of a building we can welcome as many of you as possible. How in the June issue of Anthroposophy Worldwide. Anthroposophy Worldwide many seats we will be permitted to use in the | Justus Wittich, Goetheanum 9 World: No access to education Main Auditorium will unfortunately only be an- nounced at the end of May (cf. ‘We are going to Forum perform’, page 4). Image Connecting education and basic food 10 Readers’ letters in the time of Corona What do we learn from these almost inconceiv- supply: potato harvest at Mbagathi Steiner 10 Music in nature: Christian Ginat School (ke), by Lin Bautze. able constraints imposed on our usually so busy Feature lives? This is the fact: a contagious virus, trans- 12 Knowledge is participation 2 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20

■ Pause For Thought Rudolf Steiner Presence Joint responsibility Being aware of The second requirement [for eso- our humanity teric training] is that we feel we are part of the whole of life. […] We can As a result of the Coronavirus measures, only meet this condition individu- schools and educational institutions around ally, each in their own way. If I am a the world are exposed to the impact of digital teacher and my student fails to meet technology. One of the features of this tech- my expectations, I should initially nology is that it outpaces human achieve- not direct my feeling against the stu- ments. If we don’t widen our perspectives, we dent but against myself. I should feel may lose sight of the very qualities that make at one with my student to an extent us human. that I ask myself, “Is my student’s shortcoming not the consequence of Keep realizing your potential! That is the mot- mutual awakening to the other – this is you!” A my own actions?” […] With this inner to of education today. We can keep educating sudden conscious awareness of what is usually attitude I will also look differently at ourselves, discovering and creating. The ex- overlooked in the other person. a criminal, for instance. I will reserve pectations are so high that stress is almost the judgement and tell myself, ‘We are logical consequence. Alain Ehrenberg foresaw The vibrancy of the encounter both human beings. I was fortunate ‘the Weariness of the Self’ in 2008 (in his book The description of the sense of ‘I’ in Lecture 8 of enough to have had an upbringing by the same title). In order to avoid this from Rudolf Steiner’s First Teachers’ Course (ga 293) that saved me from a fate like theirs.’ […] I will contemplate everything I happening, one begins to look for safe ways of becomes tangible: in the immediacy of the en- had that the other person did not meeting the demands. One such way is informed counter, in the ‘vibrating’ between sympathy have; that I owe my good fortune to by power and control. Anything that cannot be and antipathy, between devotion and conscious- the fact that it was withheld from calculated and planned is questionable. The ness, we can perceive the essence of the other. them. This will bring me closer to the world is currently witnessing the large-scale For the older generation, too, there are such idea that, as members of humanity, installing of a control mechanism that reawak- moments of ‘becoming aware of the other in we are jointly responsible for every- ens the old belief that human beings and the a new way’ as we alternate between weeks of thing that happens. world can be controlled. online meetings and real encounters. | Florian The use of technology, which makes the Osswald, Claus-Peter Röh, Goetheanum Source Rudolf Steiner: ga 10, Chapter 5 realization of these principles possible, has a Refers to Our responsibility as human tacit precondition: its availability – and there- beings for world events fore excludes anyone who has no access to it or who finds using it difficult. There is also the www.goetheanum-paedagogik.ch danger of being reduced to what this technol- ogy ‘can do’. 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South Africa India Japan Understanding the Overcome the darkness Interconnected new world situation India has a population of 1.3 billion, and it's Japan is strongly affected by Covid-19. The an- growing rapidly. Any problem is thus magni- throposophical work continues, among other On 1 May 2020 South Africa entered its sec- fied manifold. Spiritual work helps to purify things, through newsletters – without Zoom ond phase of lockdown after a month. Group the environment. or Skype conferences. meetings continue to be prohibited, euryth- my therapy is possible. Because of the fear that the present situation of The epidemic came not only to us but spread all the Covid-19 pandemic could get out of control, over the world very quickly. By 5 May almost 3.6 Anthroposophical meetings cannot take place; the Indian government has introduced very strin- million people were officially infected and over no group meetings can take place for religious, gent measures to ensure that the rules of the 250,000 had already deceased. This means for cultural or social purposes. Nevertheless, many lockdown are far worse than getting infected us a strong warning against the materialism all anthroposophical articles and videos are cir- by the virus itself. over the world. culated via the internet, particularly regarding In my city of Mumbai, with its population The pain of animals flew into the astral world information on the Coronavirus. Since essen- of 25 million, there are crowded slums where and comes to the earth as Coronavirus. May the tial medical services are allowed certain thera- the people live very close to one another and Sun power penetrate the earth! Rudolf Steiner says pies such as therapy can take place. there is no question of social distancing. Also, that ‘bacterial illnesses’ can be traced back to spir- Members of the School of Spiritual Science are the daily wage earners and migrant labourers itual origins (ga 93a, lecture of 3 November 1905). encouraged to read the lessons at home. One from other states, who have come to Mumbai Many of our activities, such as the Class Les- battles to understand the new world situation. in search of work, now find themselves without sons, seasonal festivals, seminars and the eu- Having been in the strictest lockdown for a any money and are keen to get back to their rythmy school have been postponed, as has month, some businesses have been allowed to homes far away, mostly in Uttar Pradesh and our annual conference (from St. Johns to Mich- open; one may now walk outside from 6 am to Bihar. However, that is easier said than done. aelmas). We don’t use Zoom or Skype, since the 9am and there is a curfew from 8 in the evening The trains are filled to capacity, the inter-state spiritual reality is lost in them. to 5 in the morning buses are limited and the poor find no way At Easter we translated a lecture by Rudolf It is unfortunate that the government prom- out but either to walk hundreds of kilometres Steiner and sent it to the members. We have ises food for the poor and financial help for small without proper food and drinking water, or to translated articles about Coronavirus written by businesses, a goal that can hardly be reached hitch rides on the highways in order to get back the Medical Section into Japanese and published (the South African population is over 50 mil- to their homes and families. Often they meet them with mantras by Rudolf Steiner in a special lion) after proclaiming the lockdown laws. The with police brutality. Many have died in traffic edition of our newsletter Anthroposophia. cultural life is barely mentioned. Police try to accidents on their way to their villages – and On 10 April the mantras of the eighth Class enforce social distancing and the curfews. Long most recently sixteen workers were run over by Lesson were recited at the same time in Dornach queues at the banks tell of the social grants for a train near Aurangabad. (ch) (11 o’clock a.m.) and in Tokyo (JP) (6 p.m.). In people who financially cannot survive. Many Af- No doubt help is also forthcoming and there the face of the situation we felt the world as rican foreigners cannot go back to their countries. are ngos and kind-hearted individuals who do a spiritual circle. We really have a connection On 5 May surfers were arrested for standing what they can to ease the situation, but the with one another. with their boards and saying that they should sheer magnitude of the problem and the apathy We are requested to join in the fight between have the right to exercise in the sea. We look of those in power make the entire picture bleak. Michael and Mammon for the future of the earth. forward to a relaxing of the laws, particularly One does what one can to purify the envi- | Yuji Agematsu, Kawasakishi-Tamaku (jp) for the survival of the poor and the boosting of ronment. Eurythmy exercises like Halleluiah, the economy. | Grant Ovenstone, Cape Town (sa) walking the form of the Crown, certain medita- tions and lectures by Rudolf Steiner and a lot of Images center: Aban Bana, Sebastian Jüngel; right: Yuji Agematsu, Wolfgang Bach. Image Grant Ovenstone, courtesy of singing help to overcome the darkness. On the other hand, every cloud has a silver lining. Skies are clearer, nature is more vibrant and the air is less polluted. The incessant noise of the traffic is also lessened, making one more aware of the environment. | Aban Bana, Mumbai (in) 4 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20

■ School of Spiritual Science Goethe’s Faust 1&2 at the Goetheanum Youth Section «We are going Finding meaning The Youth Section provides forums for becom- to perform» ing active and prepares the next phase of the ‘Re-Search’ project as well as forthcoming events. The new production of Goethe’s Faust 1 & 2 (director: Andrea Pfaehler) at the Goetheanum will go ahead: there will With all the measures taken due to Coronavirus, be three performances in July and one in the question as to the meaning of it all looms October. large, because the effects of our social life are “The premiere in June cannot take place due made so clearly visible. Together with young people all over the world, the Youth Section to Coronavirus restrictions, but we will start Section for Social Sciences in July and we will perform Goethe’s Faust team is working on contributions that can help 1 & 2 in nine hours,” says Stefan Hasler, ar- us to individually find meaning at a time like this. tistic director of the Goetheanum Stage, What lies ahead who is pleased about this news. “During The restrictions imposed due to the pandemic rehearsal it has become apparent how frag- Preparing for the time after the pandemic ile even the greatest certainties are – all the are affecting the work of the Sections. All Are we able to think of a time after the pan- performers were struggling with this: they public events had to be postponed for an in- demic even now and live in ways that can help became Faust,” says Andrea Pfaehler of her definite period of time. impressions of the rehearsals, and adds, us to realize our ideals? We have invited young Lectures and seminars, study groups and collo- people around the globe to enter into a process quia, the major congress ‘Social Future’ – orga- of searching for their own answers (in writing nized in cooperation with the Anthroposophical or artistically) and of sharing their thoughts Society in Germany, numerous anthroposophi- regularly. We would like to make the motives of cal associations as well as organizations of the young people visible and contribute to forming a civil society and scheduled to take place in the substance that can carry us through this time; for Jahrhunderthalle, a prominent cultural venue an incredible force can grow wherever connec- in Bochum (de) – they all had to be called off. tions are forged and wherever there is a chance Years of work in vain. to meet with interest and share experiences. Many efforts went into the attempt to find Presently, the Youth Section work focuses on alternative dates and to reorganize speakers and the second publication of its ‘Re-Search’ project. venues. The work is increasingly moving online. We are also preparing ways of participating in Countless emails, questions and requests. We this research for young people who, due to their are spending almost all our time in front of a circumstances, have little or no access to educa- “The daily work on Faust has become more fragile and has at the same time gained in screen, with tired, square eyes, experimenting tion. We will start interviewing these youngsters strength, because the uncertainty on the with new formats such as digital meetings, we- and young adults in the summer. outside has strengthened the ensemble’s binars and online lectures. Preparations for the 2021 conferences are un- will to perform.” Justus Wittich of the Above all there is the attempt to give orien- derway: the February Days in cooperation with Goetheanum’s Executive Council finds that “the curtain has been torn: what will tation and to understand what is happening the Section for Agriculture, the International be shown on stage is what we are now ex- and why. Policies dictated by fear and defence. Students’ Conference, a young people’s School of periencing in reality.” The discourse narrowed down to one single Spiritual Science meeting, the Summer Academy, topic – and to one single dimension of looking the postponed summer conference in Georgia The performances of the new production of Goethe’s Faust 1 & 2, directed by Andrea at it and of acting. The basic right to human and other initiatives. Pfaehler, with Eduardo Torres responsible freedom curtailed to a never imagined degree. A A weekly study of the scientific foundations of for eurythmy, will go ahead under the freezing of the entire public, social and economic anthroposophy and the question of the Youth conditions that will then apply for public events. “We are preparing for possible sud- life – with dramatic consequences. A sense of Section as a part of the School of Spiritual Sci- den changes and ask for understanding if the evil that could arise from this – and yet ence inspire us to develop further contribu- the organizational processes differ from the firm knowledge that fear is wrong and the tions from the Youth Section. | Ioana Viscrianu, what they usually are,” says Stefan Hasler. future open – which is why preparations are Goetheanum The festival programme surrounding the made for what lies ahead, focusing on the good Faust performances will offer the oppor- that can come from this pausing and deceler- www.youthsection.org tunity to share and discuss the events on ating of our rapid, breathless civilization: the stage and pursue key questions concerning true crowning of the human being as a free, the pandemic. | Sebastian Jüngel Image Ready to help: Klinik , social, mindful and caring co-shaper of creation. by S. Jüngel | Gerald Häfner, Goetheanum Performances 10 to 12 July 2020, 17 to 19 July 2020 and 24 to 26 July 2020 (can be booked with the accompanying festival Web sozial.goetheanum.org programme). In addition: performance only on 24 and 25 October. Ticket sales are due Illustration Work has shifted to the screen, to open in mid-June by S. Jüngel

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The Goetheanum has had social media ac- counts in German for some years. In Feb- ruary accounts in other languages have been added. Aside from news from the Goetheanum and from all over the world, you will find photographic impressions of life at the Goetheanum, its architecture and surrounding nature. A greater variety General Anthroposophical Section of themes is planned for the future. We Three of the research assistants at the Insti- invite you to follow us on these platforms The Gospel of Knowledge tute are presently not able to travel into Switzer- in the language of your choice. land. We are nonetheless working on preparing and basic research the future in these difficult times, be it in con- Here are the corresponding links: The work of the General Anthroposophical versations within the Goetheanum Leadership German Section is affected by travel restrictions for and the General Anthroposophical Section, in facebook.com/goetheanum.deutsch our co-workers and by the cancellation or our extensive correspondences or via Zoom con- instagram.com/goetheanum_deutsch changing of live events. And yet, jobs are get- ferences. | , Goetheanum twitter.com/goetheanum faust.jetzt ting done from event preparations to publica- dasgoetheanum.com tions to new study courses. A special study programme: The international Anthroposophical Studies at the Goetheanum English Class Lessons: While physical meetings are not will offer a special programme in the autumn facebook.com/goetheanum.english possible under the current conditions, initiatives term, from October to December: ‘Metamor- instagram.com/goetheanum_english twitter.com/GoetheanumEN for staying connected in thought and spirit are phosis – Paths of Participation’. A variety of ap- springing to life. In many places, members of the proaches will enable students to experience School of Spiritual Science have arranged to con- and practise the Goethean approach, in which tinue the individual inner work in order to keep knowledge is informed by what one seeks to the stream of the Class Lessons alive. One can know. The course will be devoted to the study of feel the difference between working for oneself Rudolf Steiner’s book Goethe’s Theory of Knowl- and knowing that one is spiritually connected. edge (ga 2), nature observations and biographies, artistic processes as well as questions of Chris- Preparations for the Michaelmas Conference: tology and the impulses that shape the social The questions surging up at this time as to what life (cf. page 12). Invited are alumni and anyone is essentially human need to be addressed in with a deeper interest in a knowledge inspired future events. The General Anthroposophical by life and metamorphosis. The course language Section at the Goetheanum and the Anthropo- will be English. | Constanza Kaliks, Goetheanum French sophical Society in Switzerland therefore extend facebook.com/goetheanum.francais a warm invitation to you for the Michaelmas instagram.com/goetheanum_francais twitter.com/GoetheanumFR Conference on 25 and 26 September 2020 in 1 ‘Rudolf Steiner, die Anthroposophie und der Rassismus-Vorwurf. Gesellschaft und Medizin Dornach, which will focus on the sculpture of im totalitären Zeitalter’ (Rudolf Steiner, an- Spanish the Representative of Humanity and the Gospel throposophy and the racism claims. Society facebook.com/goetheanum.espanol of Knowledge. | Claus-Peter Röh, Goetheanum and medicine in the totalitarian age) instagram.com/goetheanum_espanol twitter.com/GoetheanumES ‘Nach Auschwitz. Auseinandersetzungen um Publications: At the Institute for Ba- die Zukunft der Medizin’ (After Auschwitz. Russian sic Anthroposophical Research I finished writing Struggling for the future of medicine) facebook.com/_goetheanum.russian two comprehensive monographs in the relative instagram.com/goetheanum_russian twitter.com/GoetheanumRU Corona stillness of the past weeks. They are deal- Web goetheanum.co/en/school/general- anthroposophical-section ing with socio-political aspects of medicine and The accounts are managed by Elena Borer, the Institute’s research into totalitarianism – and Image Study course: including active, artistic Louis Defèche, Xue Li, Jonas Lismont and indirectly also with the challenges we currently processes, by Edda Nehmiz Sofia Lismont. | Sofia Lismont, Communica- tions: Social Media experience. Both monographs will come out in June (in German).1 In addition I have published articles on aspects Image Images of Instagram posts of the current Corona crisis, most comprehen- sively in the journal Kernpunkte of 7 May 2020, in an article entitled ‘A medicalized society’? (www.wegmaninstitut.ch/aktuell). 6 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20

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Medical Section Section for Agriculture Section for Agriculture Medical expertise Nature’s power of renewal Finding balance in cooking in infectious diseases Despite the restrictions imposed by the Coro- Even as the coronavirus measures restrict navirus measures, the Section for Agriculture our lives, one place offers some balance: the In webinars, articles and correspondence, the is as busy as ever and develops new forms of kitchen. Cooking is an activity that speak to Medical Section at the Goetheanum makes communication. the senses and enhances our social life. its expertise in the field of infectious diseases widely available. The outer isolation with the closure of the “What is good for me and my family? What should Goetheanum to the public asks us to nurture we eat to stay healthy? How do we find a little In early March, the Medical Section at the the health-giving sources of soul and spirit and enjoyment, maybe even pleasure? What builds us Goetheanum provided concrete proposals for to be consciously aware of nature’s power of re- up?” Jasmin Peschke knows the answers to these the therapy and prevention of Covid-19 and sent newal. Because of the prevailing restrictions we questions. With a doctorate in ecotrophology, this information out to all medical associations are working mostly from home at the moment; Peschke is a member of the Nutrition Department worldwide. Since then the Section has been in some of us also work reduced hours. of the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum lively contact with colleagues sharing experi- Fortunately most of the Section for Agricul- and recommends that we do everything we can to ences of relevant therapies and therapeutic con- ture’s events are in the winter, which means that strengthen our immune systems and our health. cepts. These concepts are continually adapted we are now preparing for 2021. This includes In her opinion, this includes meditation, outdoor and refined. In addition, the Section leaders the Agriculture Conference ‘Breathing With the exercise, enjoying the green spaces just outside Matthias Girke and Georg Soldner are involved Climate Crisis: Ecologically – Socially – Spiritu- our window, and even a white cloud against a blue in a comprehensive correspondence on the topic. ally’ in February 2021 and the Organic World sky – and last but not least a home-cooked meal. They both are also active in their roles as ex- Congress in September 2021. In addition, we “Cooking is an art that only we humans can perts: Matthias Girke for instance in a Covid-19 review events and write articles, for instance for master – especially now, ideally with the children”, webinar of the Society of Anthroposophical our Section Newsletter, or books such as that says Jasmin Peschke. After all, preparing meals Physicians in Germany on 24 and 25 April that by Jasmin Peschke on nutrition. Other activities appeals to many of our senses. The conscious per- focused on the question of infection. In addi- that continue as before include the preparing ception of the food’s colours and its presentation tion, he and Georg Soldner have written articles, of conference presentations, the completing of on the plate as well as the smell and, as we chew, providing foundations for an understanding of project documentations, videos and publica- the taste, are important sensory experiences that viruses in general and of Sars-CoV-2 in particular. tions and our accompanying of running projects are already part of digestion. “Last but not least, Their contributions to the weekly journal Das such as Living Farms. the intestinal microbiome is nourished this way, Goetheanum have been made available online. What is new is that we are developing new and our immune system is strengthened”, empha- Georg Soldner’s article The Coronavirus can be formats such as webinars for basic and fur- sizes the nutritionist. Freshly prepared meals from read in Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, ther training as well as the communication of high-quality organic or biodynamic ingredients German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish and conference contents worldwide. We also use play an important role here. This is because they was viewed more than 160,000 times. the time to move forward as a Section. Since contain more secondary plant ingredients that Reorganizing events that need to be post- our team has grown we need new processes promote health than conventionally grown foods. poned takes up much time. Events affected by and procedures which we develop together All this can be done in a fun and playful way. the crisis are the congress on the Dignity of the so that we can emerge stronger from this “Some foods may surprise us: we can learn about Young Child (postponed to 19 to 22 May 2021) challenging situation. ingredients, herbs and spices and their composi- and a mistletoe therapy training for Indian and You will find up-to-date information on our tion, even discover how to decorate dishes with Thai colleagues. Preparations for this year’s an- work on our website and platforms such as Face- blossoms. Beauty and creativity have a positive nual medical conference on 12 to 20 Septem- book, Instagram and YouTube or in our Newslet- effect on our organism and do wonders for our ber at the Goetheanum continue as before so ter. | Johannes Onneken, Goetheanum soul.” | Sebastian Jüngel. English by Bettina Hindes that this conference can go ahead as planned. | Sebastian Jüngel Newsletter www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/ www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/thematic- en/ueber-uns/newsletter areas/nutrition-department Web medsektion-goetheanum.org Image Matthias Girke and Georg Soldner, by Image Section for Agriculture: the Section Image Growing strong with healthy food, by RitaE François Bonhôte team, courtesy of auf Pixabay. Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20 | 7

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Natural Science Section Section for the Performing Arts Humanities Section Healing plants and bees Working conditions More than ‘bare’ life The Natural Science Section at the Goethea- Stefan Hasler is in contact with his colleagues Faced with the lockdown, the Humanities num continues with its research projects, for worldwide on how the artistic, pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum is finding new instance on medicinal plants and on bees. and therapeutic work can be continued ways of working and is concentrating on pub- lications, conferences and research projects. With all the worries and difficulties that Coro- Given that teaching has moved to the family navirus and its consequences for society have home, eurythmy teachers and therapists ask In February, just before the lockdown, it was still imposed on us due to the restriction of basic themselves how they can effectually reach their possible to hold the East Asia Conference (An- rights, we also experience the blessings that the students through the media. What is frustrating throposophy Worldwide 4/2020) and the con- lockdown has brought for nature and human for them is that no real warmth can be created ference on Rainer Maria Rilke that was devoted beings every day. It starts early in the morning without physical presence: warmth of move- to the theme of ‘death’. The pausing enforced before sunrise, when the sky in the east lights ment and of the eyes, warmth that can only by the restrictions has led the Section team to up in golden hues – and not a single contrail be created in a group. “The warmth of the air ask what it is that seeks to newly come into in sight. Will these experiences lead to lasting is necessary so that something can really grow being – and this includes new forms of working. change – not out of fear but out of insight? between people,” is how Stefan Hasler summa- Now we are in the process of assembling an In tune with the season, the Natural Science rizes the problem. On the other hand, teachers international Section faculty and of completing Section’s plant and bee projects are in full welcome the fact that the young people are publications on transhumanism, the Foundation flow. Experiments planned in the winter now challenged and have become more independent Stone Meditation and the research project ‘The have to go out into the soil or onto the trees in the way they work. It is not clear yet how humanizing effect of literature’. earlier than expected. As part of our search much importance is assigned to the arts in our Sadly, the Whitsun Conference on the Goethe- for a disease-tolerant St Johnswort, to be used present society. Freelancers suffer most from anum Glass Windows has to be postponed to in the production of medicines, we sow and the difficult working conditions. 2021. We are looking forward, however, to the test many varieties from the Swiss gene bank. The eurythmy and speech schools allow conference on ‘Esoteric Science’ from 6 to 11 July. Using alchemical methods, a preparation is their graduates to complete their training. It We are also preparing next year’s conferences made from gold that will then serve as a fer- does not matter that they cannot come to the and research meetings. tilizer for scarlet beebalm – a method applied Goetheanum for this; what matters is that they The Goetheanum Leadership has developed by biologists, physicians and pharmacists to find solutions that suit the situation in their cross-sectional research projects for which we enhance the plant’s healing power. particular country. Graduates should receive a will assemble working groups that will also co- As early as April, and in cooperation with qualification that enables them to practise their operate with other institutions. Topics covered the local Dorneckberg Forestry, the first bee profession, but at the same time a record needs will include the physiological effect of language; swarms could be caught and installed in spe- to be kept on what needs to be caught up with technology and transhumanism as a challenge cial containers at a dizzying height. Trees with later: there are certain competences essential for humanity; beauty and art as a field of experi- hollows that are suitable for being colonized to the artistic work that can only be acquired ence in the encounter with living forces. with bees are rare. in a group process. The current crisis shows us at an existential The season is also alive in our weekly meet- The projects of the Eurythmy Research Insti- level that being human involves more than just ings, invoked by our conversations on the tute are continued, such as a commentary on ‘bare’ life. It is therefore crucial that, based on an weekly verses. Most of us in the Section are ga 279 (Eurythmy as Visible Speech) and the work awareness of human wholeness, anthroposo- physically present, others join us via Zoom. on the Apollonian Course. | Sebastian Jüngel phy, literature, philosophy, history and art make | Johannes Wirz, Goetheanum themselves felt more profoundly and decid- Web srmk.goetheanum.org/en edly as individualizing disciplines in culture and Web science.goetheanum.org/en/ civilization. | Christiane Haid, Ariane Eichenberg, Image Stefan Hasler, by Wolfgang Held Goetheanum Image Beehives high up on trees, by Johannes Wirz Web ssw.goetheanum.org/en Image Glass window sketch by Rudolf Steiner (detail), courtesy of 8 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20

■ School of Spiritual Science

Class Lesson transcripts Becoming a responsible community

A new edition of the School of Spiritual Science’s Class Lessons has come out as ga 270 and will soon also be published for the first time in German and English. These texts will then be available to Class members to work with and to anyone who is interested in them.

Readers of the Class Lessons will come across an into being as we as individuals seek for truth ‘occult law’ described by Rudolf Steiner, which in knowledge, through the meditative mood of The First Class of the states that, once published, the meditations con- our inner work and the earnest endeavour not School of Spiritual Science veyed in these lessons lose their effectiveness. to forget that we are active members of this What has the work of the First Class of the School School. All these are essential preconditions of of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum been effectiveness. Paradigm shift guided by since these conditions changed in 1992? One essential point made by Rudolf Steiner From mouth to ear “The Anthroposophical Society sees on 28 December 1923 was already quoted in the The Class Lessons, which are conveyed ‘from the School of Spiritual Science as preface to the publication of the Class texts in mouth to ear’, allow us to sense the connec- the centre of its activities” – this is 1992: “This spirit of the time cannot tolerate tion with the spiritual world and the Michael what it says in the founding stat- outer secrets, while it can cope quite well with being – and therefore with the source of effec- utes of 1923/1924 and it still applies the inner secret” (ga 260, 1994). The inner secret tiveness. This source is tangible: we may therefor today. In the course of the year 1924 needs fostering because it is of particular impor- ask whether the life force of anthroposophy that Rudolf Steiner described the condi- tance, especially now that the texts are public. has been so impressively apparent in the past tions for this new kind of School and It lives in the will of Class members to be repre- hundred years, transforming the cultural and established the first of three intended sentatives of anthroposophy and encompasses social life, is not connected with this work of the classes along with several specialist the inner development and self-knowledge “that School of Spiritual Science and its Sections. Not sections. While the publications of seeks to guide the spirit in us to the spirit in only ‘earthly helping hands’ are at work here but this School are public, the mantras of the universe” (ga 26, first Leading Thought). A those of the dead as well, of those who went the First Class were for many decades community of responsible individuals emerges before us. Against this background it becomes only accessible (‘from mouth to ear’) that has the will to do this work as its substance. apparent that the work of the School of Spiritual to members of the School of Spiritual Science has an effect not only on individuals but Science; the transcripts of Rudolf Aspects of effectiveness above all on humanity as a whole. The School is Steiner’s words only to the responsible While the effectiveness of individual medita- consequently a global working community that, Class holders. tive work remains untouched by the medita- in this sense, can develop a ‘non-publishable’ After Rudolf Steiner’s death the tions’ publication (Rudolf Steiner published the quality and effectiveness and that has clear School’s impulse was kept alive be- Rosicrucian meditation, for instance, presumably terms of admission. yond World War II (see the presenta- without its effectiveness being diminished), the It will only unfold its potential, however, if tions on this by Johannes Kiersch and effectiveness of meditative work is endangered it is carried by the Anthroposophical Society Peter Selg); it was further developed when pursued by a larger group of people. The and if it sees itself as the ‘soul’ of this Society. by Jörgen Smit, among others, and individual work is accompanied by the person’s Other active groups may well achieve much that increasingly built up in other countries spirit being; with the communal work not only is good; but for the effectiveness described it and cultures. the angel of each individual, but a spirit being needs the connection of a social body (the An- In 1992, the then Leadership of the from the hierarchy of archangels can connect throposophical Society) with its soul (School of School of Spiritual Science decided itself. This is why Michael, a spirit of time and Spiritual Science) and its spiritual being, which is together with the administration of archangel, is addressed as the School’s leader. implied in the name ‘Michael School’. A healthy Rudolf Steiner’s estate (Nachlassver- Very soon after Rudolf Steiner’s death the union of body, soul and spirit is essential for the waltung) to publish all the texts and School’s original coherence was disrupted con- strong and fruitful effectiveness that is so very mantras before copyright expired in siderably and the restrictions to its effectiveness important for the next hundred years of the a large-format format first edition continued through the following decades. Now anthroposophical cultural impulse. | Matthias that was difficult to access. The Rudolf we are no longer required to hold on to traditions Girke, Goetheanum Steiner Verlag in Basel (ch) has now that have lost their former validity – because published a revised and annotated “the world cannot tolerate outer secrets”. What edition of the Class Lessons in one vol- www.steinerverlag.com is consequently needed more than ever – as ume. It includes all notebook entries Jörgen Smit pointed out – is the will of those and blackboard drawings and consti- who are, or wish to become, members of the tutes volume 270 in Rudolf Steiner’s School of Spiritual Science to form, in every complete works (Gesamtausgabe). moment anew, this worldwide association of | Justus Wittich, Goetheanum ‘sisters and brothers’, this chalice; to promote it and thus make it effective. This chalice comes Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20 | 9

■ Goetheanum ■ Worldwide

Goetheanum Press A healthy first quarter Following restructuring in 2019 the Goethea- num Press (Verlag am Goetheanum) has managed to break even at the end of the first quarter of 2020 and the book production has increased.

The closure of bookshops as a result of Coronavi- rus restrictions has not impacted negatively on the Goetheanum Press’ sales in Germany and its Building Administration World internet sales have even gone up. One contrib- uting factor has been the Newsletter that now Transformation No access to education advertises the Press’ wide range of publications. The Friends of Rudolf Steiner Education are Only in Switzerland sales figures have dropped. of a building supporting Waldorf Schools affected by the Following restructuring in 2019, the publishers Making metamorphosis come to life – a first Coronavirus restrictions and provide emer- have broken even in the first quarter of 2020. exhibition site will illustrate the development gency education. The managing director Thomas Didden thinks from the First Goetheanum to Rudolf Stein- that the low point has been passed. er’s model for the second building. In March and April more than 1.5 billion children and adolescents around the world had no access Busy book production This site will be in close vicinity to Rudolf Steiner’s to education. One may think that lessons just In celebration of 100 Years of Anthroposophic Studio. The model of the First Goetheanum (on continue online, via video conference etc. But Medicine, the Goetheanum Press, in cooperation a scale of 1:20), created with great diligence by there are regions where this is not possible be- with Salumed Press in Berlin (de), brought out Rudolf Feuerstack and his helpers over a pe- cause people have no computers, smartphones volume 1 of a commentary on Rudolf Steiner’s riod of more than 25 years, is a research project or even a reliable internet connection. And yet, First Medical Course (ga 312) by Peter Selg and commissioned by the Goetheanum Building teachers are creative there, too: they take lesson Péter Barna. The book was published [in German] Administration. It will be embedded in an exhi- materials to the children, and often also food just in time for the Medical Research Conference bition to be designed by Pieter van der Ree and and soap. In many countries parents are left at the Goetheanum, which could still take place François Croissant. without work and can no longer support their just before the lockdown. The volume focuses on The model’s current location near the wooden families (sufficiently). This means that they are the historical foundations. The second volume, sculpture of the Representative of Humanity was struggling even more than usually to pay school which is expected in September, will discuss part of a workshop project conceived in 2010 fees. For schools that anyway largely depend on the first three lectures of the Medical Course in that was provisionally limited to five years. The donations from abroad and that receive no state the light of current research. Further volumes project has been supported by an association as funding, this can cause serious problems. The are planned. well as interested individuals and visitors. So far, organization Friends of Rudolf Steiner Education The second volume of Die Würde des Kindes the model’s relocation to a more suitable site have therefore set up a special fund. (The Dignity of the Child), edited by Michaela has been postponed again and again, not least In addition, they offer aid within the context Glöckler and Claudia Grah-Wittich, deals with for financial reasons. of their provision of emergency education. The the first three years of childhood. It has come Despite the financially tight situation, prepa- media reporting and lockdown measures can be out in time for the childhood conference that rations are now underway for converting the quite traumatizing. Stress and anxiety weaken now had to be postponed to 2021. left Schreinerei Südsaal (south room) and for the immune system and can therefore make Angelika Feind-Laurents explores the life and a remodelling of the forecourt area. Work on people more prone to physical or mental ill- work of the Swiss musician Joseph Gunzinger, these projects is due to start in early June 2020. ness. Aside from their international activities the former head of the Performing Arts Section The idea is to display the model in a suitable the ‘Friends’ have set up a hotline for Germany at the Goetheanum. environment, with information that will bring that can be contacted by phone (+49 721 680 78 Hans Hasler’s guidebook on the Goetheanum to life the historical development from the first 66 22) or email (notfallpaedagogik@freunde- has been fully revised for a new edition that will Goetheanum to the design of the second build- waldorf.de). They also publish video clips on You- be available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese ing. The exhibition is due to open towards the Tube, offering information and practical advice. and Russian. Translations into other languages end of the year. | Christina Reinthal, Berlin (de) are still available in the former edition. A history Four further exhibition sites are planned, of the sculpture of the Representative of Hu- spread across the Goetheanum campus, that will manity by David Hornemann and Mirela Faldey show variations on the theme of metamorphosis www.freunde-waldorf.de/en/donate-help/ urgent-appeal-mitigating-the-consequences- will come out in the autumn. | Sebastian Jüngel in the work of Goethe and Steiner. | Susanne of-the-corona-crisis/ Böttge, Goetheanum Image Empty classrooms: Zenzeleni School in Register for the Newsletter (only available in Khayelitsha (sa), by Zenzeleni School for Creative German) at goetheanum-verlag.activehosted. 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■ Forum

The editorial of the newsletter of ness. From there alone comes the Music in nature Anthroposophy Worldwide 5/2020 strength we so urgently need. Since 23 April Christian Ginat received some feedback. Here is a 4. The political posturing is an at- has been playing his viola in the reminder of the editorial’s main tack on all of humanity. Goetheanum Park at 6.30 on points: 5. It is an attack on the human Thursday evenings. individuality. 1. Keeping your head (and heart) 6. It is an anti-Christian impulse Sebastian Jüngel What do you ex- free for something other than that even closes churches in times perience when you play in nature? Corona. There are so many im- of need. Christian Ginat It started when portant topics and themes that 7. It is a fight against the cen- I was looking for an uncomplicat- can nurture us. tre – geographically, individu- ed way of playing music, because 2. Filling the empty spaces that ally and in relation to the Christ I have time for practising (!), and have emerged creatively (so they impulse. | Rainer Schnurre, I want to offer some degree of re- don’t ‘fall into disrepair’ like a Hildesheim (de) sistance, however small, to the en- deserted house), for instance forced banishment to isolation of by continuing to clean or walk Walking in the vineyard yester- all things cultural. Inspired by the through the rooms and cor- day, / A reassuring picture came work of Hans-Christian Zehnter ridors of an institution even if to me: / On every side I saw old and Dirk Kruse I have developed it is closed to the public. And be walls / Surviving crisis and up- an interest in a dialogue between mindful of other empty spaces: heavals / As long as no one tears culture and nature, between music how do I nurture my inner soul them down / - unheard of - for and landscape. space? What thoughts do I take financial gain. / A little flower in consciously? Am I listening to fresh with dews / Delighted me: Open to the spirit Nietzsche, for instance, speaks, be- what my body needs? uncrushed, it used / The gaps Jüngel Sound travels well in nature, cause one can make it available to 3. Fostering my connection with between the stones to tether / and seems almost clearer from a the composition. But with the more the sensory world, taking in the Its roots there firm through wind distance of 20 or 30 meters than recent music one has the impression natural world which is ‘real’ in and weather. | Frank Jentzsch, from only five meters. Your viola that the tone itself is open to the a more existential way than the (de) (translated by could even be heard from behind spirit. This can assume all kinds of digital world and vital for the Matthew Barton) the Felsli hill. Why is that? forms: for years, a composer friend development of my soul and Ginat When a place like this – of mine could only ever ‘tolerate’ my ‘I’. Our consciousness of the bound- shaped to an equal extent by build- very soft tones. Others – like my- 4. Keeping up a sense of humour ary of the human being is now ings and roads and by plants and self – love the finer nuances of the and joy in life: totalitarianism changed from the surface of our trees – offers such a special acoustic, intervals that the Schlesinger Scales is when you are not allowed to skin to now being an air and mois- it is as if the tone is enlivened, or provide if used undogmatically and laugh. ture 3 foot radius bubble. So the redeemed. Sound always arises in the composition is generally less 5. Start preparing the future now: human being is forcefully being the conversation between space firmly structured. think about and plan reopening made aware of the mixture of and instrument, and in the mood celebrations. Reflect on what to air and water that we exchange of this acoustic dialogue we can Welcoming fellow musicians do if something happens that with each other and our sur- sense the weaving of (nature’s) Jüngel How does your instrument you don’t consider appropriate. roundings. How does one influ- spirituality. This explains what you react to the weather conditions? 6. There are many people who are ence the environment as we walk have observed as the resonating Ginat I’m playing on an ash wood active and productive, many over the earth? How do we relate environment. viola from Arthur Bay, with steel whom I don’t know and whom I chemically with those we ride in Jüngel You play Schlesinger Scales strings; they are relatively ‘robust’. may trust. I am not alone. elevators with? It’s the first step and music by Heiner Ruland as well Even the rosined bow reacts to ev- towards attaining consciousness as your own compositions. For me, ery change in humidity … 1. Be aware of when you, or oth- of the life force we carry with us. these kinds of music merged more Jüngel What else have you ob- ers, become fearful or aggres- | Tom Wilkinson, Enfield, easily with the natural surround- served? sive (in relation to the so-called Connecticut (us) ings than the more strongly formed Ginat I have called this attempt ‘Cul- pandemic). This creates gateways composition by Johann Sebastian ture at the Pond’ and am excited to (openings) for the adversary Bach. Even the accidental rustling see what fellow-musicians will join forces to enter. of the wind in the trees and the me: I would welcome company very 2. Fear and aggression can be trig- humming of a bumblebee nearby much. I am dreaming of stairwell gers, as a result of the previous became music within me. Is there a concerts inside the Goetheanum! earthly life. type of music that goes better with 3. It is important to have long natural and another that goes bet- Contact breaks from information. Remem- ter with cultural spaces? [email protected] ber that we are in the Michael age Ginat When one plays classical mu- and that Christ is at work in the sic one feels strongly affirmed by Image Christian Ginat playing his etheric; turn there willingly and the tones. This does not have to lead viola, by S. Jüngel with the full power of conscious- to the selfishness, of which Friedrich Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 6/20 | 11

■ Antroposophical Society

27 January 1925 • 12 April 2020 Membership News We have been informed that the following 36 members Klaus Dumke have crossed the threshold of death. In their remem- brance we are providing this information. | Membership Klaus Dumke was born on 27 January Office at the Goetheanum 1925 in Korbach (de) as the youngest of four children; he had a sister and Hilde Janke Koblenz (de) 23 September 2019 two brothers. His father was a phy- Helga Rabe Munich (de) 21 November 2019 sician and obstetrician; his mother Enid Janssen Essen (de) 1 February 2020 looked after the family. Klaus Dumke Elke Hoffmann Detmold (de) 2 February 2020 grew up close to nature. When he Michael Wachsmuth Munich (de) 8 February 2020 was fourteen his parents relocated Erika Kaiser Munich (de) 11 February 2020 to Schildau (de). Even before he fin- Gertrud Weis Munich (de) 13 February 2020 ished school he was drafted into the Jonny Kløften Solovær (no) 16 February 2020 army in 1943 and posted to Southern Karl-Heinz Tritschler Weimar (de) 6 March 2020 France and Italy as a radio opera- Bernard Nesfield-Cookson Stonehouse (gb) 18 March 2020 tor. His most dramatic war expe- Frederick Jones Llanelli (gb) 20 March 2020 rience was the explosion of a gre- Helmut Kalo Dahme (de) 20 March 2020 nade very close to him. This event, Gerhard Meighörner Munich (de) 28 March 2020 which occurred near Roccasecca Brunhilde König Öschelbronn (de) 29 March 2020 Castle, the birthplace of Thomas Ton Schepman Sint Jansteen (nl) 1 April 2020 Aquinas, was something that oc- Linda Frömming Reinach (ch) 2 April 2020 cupied him until the end of his life. many; he was a council member for Christine Schmidtchen Stuttgart (de) 3 April 2020 Rosmarie Kaspar Oberentfelden (ch) 4 April 2020 more than twenty years. In 1964 he Michael Wispler Borchen (de) 4 April 2020 Medical work started giving seminars for nurses Klaus Ruge Winterbach (de) 5 April 2020 After serving time as a us prisoner and medical students in Järna (se), Edwige Vidal Mornant (fr) 6 April 2020 of war, Klaus Dumke completed a task he continued for over twenty Pavel Syrkow Balaschicha (ru) 7 April 2020 his secondary education and went years. In the mid-1970s he co-found- Clara Schwarz Kiel (de) 8 April 2020 on to study medicine in Würzburg ed the Pedagogical-Social Centre in Gennadij Parchomenko Moscow (ru) 9 April 2020 (de). There, he also met his first wife. Dortmund (Hermann Keiner Haus) Gisela Storto Trier (de) 9 April 2020 They later married and started a and was active on several of the Klaus Dumke Dortmund (de) 12 April 2020 small family in Frankfurt (de). Centre’s committees. Lieselotte Essmann Rotenburg (de) 16 April 2020 In 1952 Klaus Dumke went to Klaus Dumke’s open-mindedness Una Lewers Winsford (gb) 17 April 2020 Dortmund (de) where he joined a was both a gift and a temptation Wolfgang Wünsch Bremen (de) 17 April 2020 group of physicians around Her- to spontaneously pursue his many Helga Beeck Niefern-Öschelbronn (de) 18 April 2020 mann Keiner. He acquired his li- interests. His greatest strength was Joachim Kanski Wuppertal (de) 18 April 2020 cense to practise medicine in the the ability to communicate with Nelly Doyon Walkringen (ch) 25 April 2020 local hospitals which meant that others directly at a soul level. His Ingeborg Thorsen Ahrensburg (de) 1 May 2020 he was very familiar with the city’s lectures were imbued with imagina- Friederike Hofmann Überlingen (de) 2 May 2020 medical landscape. In 1958 he took tive thoughts. His sense of humour Franz Wissneth Jar (no) 5 May 2020 over the practice of Hermann Keiner. often helped him to overcome the Dorothea Merkle Lucerne (ch) 6 May 2020 This was the beginning of intensive severe episodes of illness that af- medical activities that included the flicted him in the second half of his In April 2020 the Membership Office at the Goetheanum writing of numerous medical ar- life. Inwardly strong and healthy, he registered 41 new members. 22 left the Society between ticles on healing plants, anthropo- suffered from progressive arthritis, 10 April and 8 May 2020. sophic therapies, on infections – in mostly of the lower limbs and spine. particular on Aids. He also pursued He was supported in all his activi- his interest in occult epidemiology ties, including his medical practice, and moral virulence. by his second wife, Marianne. | Hans Klaus Dumke had met anthro- Christoph Kümmell, Aachen (de) General Anthroposophical Society posophy as early as 1942 – a meet- ing that was not without danger at Image Klaus Dumke, courtesy of Detailed financial statement that time. In Würzburg (de) he soon established contacts with other ac- The detailed financial statement of the General Anthropo- tive anthroposophists. sophical Society, which was not available yet for the agm’s originally scheduled date in April 2020, can now be accessed Responsible positions at www.goetheanum.org/login (choose language in top right Klaus Dumke was not only active hand corner). The statement complements the report pub- locally but more widely within the lished in Anthroposophy Worldwide 4/2020, p. 4f.) 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■ Feature

Study and Further Education at the Goetheanum Knowledge is participation The Goetheanum’s Study and Further Education programme encourages self-reflection and flexibility. New questions arise as a result of the Coronavirus measures and events need to be rescheduled. This means that each term of the academic year starting in October 2020 can be attended separately and without pre- conditions. The Goetheanum’s Adult Education Programme and Leadership Course will only start in 2021.

Goetheanum Anthroposophy Studies Goetheanum Adult Education Program Goetheanum Leadership Course “Transformation is “With the digital world “Inspiring and required in all spheres of life” we learn a new language” complementing each other” The study courses at the Goetheanum have been The restrictions to learning caused by the Coro- In addition to entrepreneurial skills, leadership adapted to the current conditions. The first term navirus make us aware of the basic conditions of an enterprise increasingly asks for the ability of the academic year 2020/2021 is about finding needed for the acquisition of skills. to respond to external crises at various levels. ways of actively dealing with uncertainty. “Our habits in connection with learning pro- “When the world around us becomes uncer- “Transformation is required in all spheres of cesses and the conditions for the acquisition of tain – as is the case presently due to climate and life,” is how faculty member Constanza Kaliks skills have been seriously called into question,” finance issues and the Coronavirus measures – it describes the task we face due to the Coronavi- says Robin Schmidt, an adult educator and lec- is helpful to widen one’s horizon by exchanging rus. Transformation, or metamorphosis, occurs turer on the Goetheanum’s study courses. Ac- with others,” says Jean-Michel Florin, one of the as we move from something that exists towards cording to Schmidt we now experience acutely lecturers on the Goetheanum Leadership Course. something we don’t know yet, something that how important sensory-physical presence is for This course helps entrepreneurs to access sources may only come into being as we approach it. the members of a learning group. Edda Nehmiz, of strengths such as self-leadership based on How we deal with the experiences on this jour- another faculty member, adds that “If the en- self-reflection and methods for developing inner ney will change us and the world. counter does not take place in a space that has freedom. The knowledge and skills of experi- The present phase of uncertainty is challeng- been prepared but via digital channels, more enced colleagues are another such source of ing. The faculty’s approach is to accept and shape individual responsibility is needed in order to strength. The participants meet their need for this situation. The first term is a response to create a personal learning space, because the sharing experiences by remaining in contact the question as to how we can practise dealing lecturer has no influence on this.” between the modules. Paul Mackay, a member of with uncertainty in life: by having the will to the Leadership faculty, has observed that “They develop, observe and take action. This starts Dependent on human contact greatly inspire and complement each other”. He with our perceptions of nature with its seasons, Every medium has its own conditions. Digi- sees it as a crucial precondition for entrepreneur- of other people and of cultural achievements. tal spaces of communication tend to take us ship that “the inspirations conveyed become a They enable us to connect with a reality that lies back to the sender-receiver model, because they part of life so that one not only knows things outside our own immediate sphere of influence. limit the extent to which we perceive different but is also enabled to act in situations one is sensory qualities simultaneously. According to not prepared for.” Active engagement leads to transformation Florian Osswald, an upper school teacher and Perceiving others as well as our own being – for lecturer on the Goetheanum Adult Education Dealing with forms of fear instance by studying biographies – makes us Program, “The social situation is central to learn- The demands on leaders caused by the Corona aware of the effectiveness of our own actions. ing – when we use the screen we mainly address crisis are initially the same as those imposed by Robin Schmidt, an adult educator and lecturer the head.” He thinks that computers as a learning other crises: “to find the possible in the midst on the Goetheanum study courses, knows from tool are discriminatory, because some families of the impossible” (Paul Mackay). An additional experience that “In the way we approach each have little or no access, or for people with autistic requirement is the ability to address co-workers other and the situation we learn about partici- spectrum disorders, for instance, who depend in ways that make it possible for the enterprise pation. Pursuing this actively leads to personal on direct human contact. At the same time we to “remain healthy and on track and to act con- transformation.” see how relaxed and confident young people fidently,” says Jean-Michel Florin. Paul Mackay Matthias Rang, co-leader of the Natural Sci- tend to be in their approach to technology. Edda explains that “Dealing with forms of fear that ence Section at the Goetheanum, illustrates Nehmiz says, “We are in the process of learning affect us more deeply than concerns about our how the methods of Goetheanism can give us something like a new language with the digital place of work is a challenge.” The way to achieve direction. In addition transformation can also be world. For acquiring skills it is important to speak this is by showing interest. “When we are inter- practised through artistic activities which give the language best suited to what we aim to ested and when we carry a question over several visible expression to impulses. | Sebastian Jüngel achieve in a given situation.” | Sebastian Jüngel days through the night, a working relationship emerges that is rooted in the cause itself and in our humanity.” | Sebastian Jüngel Web studium-goetheanum.org/english- Web studium-goetheanum.org/gaep studies Web leadership.goetheanum.org