DRAFT Cultivating Warmth and Light in Creative Community: Tools for the Future An International Camphill Youth Leadership Conference

Unless otherwise noted, everything will take place in the Heartbeet Community Hall!

Saturday, Sept 17

2:30 - 3:30 Registration Annie Volmer

3:30 - 4:30 Welcome and Opening Words: Hannah Schwartz and Leah Walker Early Risers and First Responders

Panel Discussion: Sherry Wildfeuer, Maria van den 4:30 - 5:30 How We Live with the Foundation Stone Meditation Berg, Seneca Gonzalez, Penny Baring, David Adams, Patrick McCarthy

5:30 - 6:00 Singing Don Jamison

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner -- Bible Evening Supper

8:00 - 9:30 Performance : Glen Williamson and Laurie The Refugees’ Tale (Based on Goethe’s Green Snake Parable) Portocarrero

Sunday, Sept 18

7:00 - 8:00 Tea and coffee

8:00 - 8:45 Festival of Offering

9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast

10:15 - Warmth and Light, Soul and Spirit, Circle Work David Adams 11:15

11:15 - Singing Don Jamison 11:45

11:45- 1:15 The Foundation Stone Meditation as a Lifelong Path of Sherry Wildfeuer Discovery

1:15 - 3:00 Lunch

3:00 - 4:30 Artistic Workshops See below

4:30- - 6:00 Circle Work Seneca Gonzalez will briefly introduce tools for listening

6:00 - 7:30 Dinner

7:30 - 9:00 The Fairy Tale of Vidar Hannah Schwartz

1604 and Onwards: Working with the Spirit in Earthly Life Guy Alma and Pete Lemire

Monday, Sept 19

7:30 - 8:45 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Building Meaning Penny Baring

10:30 - 11:00 Singing Don Jamison

11:00 - 11:30 Snack

11:30 - 12:30 Circle Work

12:30 -1:30 TBA TBA

1:30 - 2:30 Lunch

2:30 - 4:00 Artistic Workshops See below

4:00 - 4:30 Snack

4:30 - 6:00 Small Group Conversations

6:00 - 8:00 Dinner

Woman of Samaria at the Well Hannah Schwartz 8:00 - 9:30 Meeting at the Fountain Leah Walker

Tuesday, Sept 20

7:30 - 8:45 Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Creative Being Maria van den Berg

10:30 - 11:00 Singing Don Jamison

11:00 - 11:30 Snack

11:30 - 1:00 Artistic Installments/ Rehearsal for Festival Artistic Workshop Groups

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch

2:30 - 4:30 Foundation Stone Festival (separate schedule)

4:30 - 5:00 Snack

5:00 - 6:30 Culminating Conversation and Reflections for this conference series

6:30 - 8:00 Dinner

8:00 - 9:00 Open Evening

Wednesday, Sept 21

8:00 - 10:00 Breakfast and goodbyes Social clowning, with Angie Foster and Kristin Crowley of Nose to Nose of will be interwoven throughout the weekend.

Artisitic Workshops We will stay with the same workshops for the entire conference. This enables deeper work in preparation for an offering/performance for the September 20 Foundation Stone Festival.

1. Biography: My Life, My Threefold Nature: Taking Steps into the Foundation Stone Meditation-- Seneca Gonzalez and Leah Walker 2. Clowning: Social Clowning -- Angie Foster and Kristen Crowley 3. Spacial Dynamics: TBA -- Lisa Damian 4. Lantern Making: TBA -- Tom Meskell 5. Singing: TBA -- Don Jamison 6. TBA: -- Laurie Portocarrero and Glen Williamson

Cultivating Warmth and Light in Creative Community: Tools for the Future September 2016 Camphill Conference Presenters

David Adams David was born in 1947 in Winnipeg, Canada. As a young adult, trying to find himself in a life he didn't understand, he discovered Botton Village in 1970. This gave him a way forward and Botton has played a major role in his life right up to the present. He became a farmer for many years. In the last years he has worked more on social development and the inner ethos of Camphill. At present, he lives with his wife in Stroud in England, as is moving to Cascadia Camphill in Vancouver this September.

Guy Alma Guy has lived and worked as a coworker at Camphill Special School for the last 25 years. He has been a house parent, teacher, land-worker and has served on the faculty of the Camphill Academy. Guy is currently Director of Development at the school. He has particular interest in the impulses behind the and the practical application of social three-folding in community life.

Penny Baring I was born in Nova Scotia daughter of a Canadian naval officer and a British mother. Following five years of university I came to Camphill Copake and a year later went to Beaver Run to do the training there. Then my husband Tom and I spent two years in before returning to Copake with our family, by then three children. Through Janet McGavin and I became involved at a young age with the , first on the Eastern Regional Council and later the National Council. At the same time through Peter Roth and Renate Sachs I was brought into the international aspects of the Camphill Community. Both these involvements have played a major role in my biography, through which I have been able to experience both Camphill and the Anthroposophical Society from a worldwide perspective, traveling extensively, especially in and in Asia, including helping Camphill to find a ground in India. Since the 1980's I have been teaching in the Camphill training course, now the Academy. Throughout that time I have also served on the Collegium of the School for Spiritual Science in North America, standing for the General Anthroposophical Section together with Rudiger Janisch. Since 2007 I have been married to John Baring, father of Andrea.

Kristin Spaeth Crowley Kristin Spaeth Crowley is a champion for the imaginative and compassionate capacities of the heart, cultivating sensitivity for the invisible and unseen. She has also trained as an improvisational clowning facilitator and 'social clown' with Vivian Gladwell, and the team from Nose to Nose of North America. The mistakes she makes: the limitations she must overcome; the struggles she faces in being and becoming; the gifts she has been given. Her sense of wonder, reverence, and gratitude inform and guide her in her work with others. She is interested in presences and possibilities. She splits time between Vermont, New York, and the Pacific Northwest. Her specialties include weeping, making mischief, and falling in love.

Eurythmy Spring Valley

Lisa Damian Lisa has been a Waldorf educator for almost 25 years and a student of Spacial Dynamics since 1997. She met , , Camphill and Spacial Dynamics all within a period of 7 years while teaching at the Green Mountain Waldorf School and continues to grow and deepen her relationship to all of them. She holds a BS in Biology/Environmental studies, a Level I certificate in Spacial Dynamics and is a SD Movement Therapist. After teaching elementary students for 12 years she shifted to teaching adolescents, informally applying her training as a Movement Therapist with her students and has been a founding faculty member for two Waldorf high schools. Her most exercised capacity when working with young people or those with differing needs and abilities is her capacity to be present and aware during encounters with them. Fortunately they will support this aspect of our development earnestly and whole heartedly by providing us many opportunities to practice.

Angie Foster Angie Foster is a clowning facilitator, actress, and director. She is on the team of Nose to Nose of North America. She has facilitated clowning workshops in the Philadelphia area, at the College in Sacramento, Threefold Community in Spring Valley, Green Meadow Waldorf School, with co-workers at Kimberton Hills, Beaver Run, and Soltane Camphill communities, and at AGM and AWSNA conferences. She has been directing plays at Kimberton Waldorf School for 20 years. Angie brings Social Clowning to various places too. She also works with faculties, organizations, and privately. This form of clowning combines her passion for improvisation and theatre, her quest for what it is to be human, and the discovery of freedom through play.

Seneca Gonzalez Recently moved back to Austin Texas after eight years of living at Camphill Heartbeet. She is a recent graduate of the Biography as a Social Art training in Spring Valley, a graduate of a three year Anthroposophical Foundation studies program, and is deeply interested in healing and recovery for our self, each other, and the earth.

Don Jamison Don Jamison is a composer and singer who lives in Burlington, Vermont. He is a founder of Social Band, a lively band of singers, which has commissioned many works by Vermont composers, and of the Vermont Employee Ownership Center where he works. Don is a longtime Anthroposophist and a Class Holder in the School of Spiritual Science.

Peter Lemire Pete Lemire is a member of the planning group for this conference and a former short-term co-worker at (and loving friend of) Camphill Village Kimberton Hills. This is his third year involved with the conference and his second year on the planning group and serving as a presenter. He joins this conference from Cape Cod, MA.

Patrick McCarthy Patrick is a Hardwick local who at the age of fifteen started volunteering with the Special Olympic Basketball Team. He worked with the team for three seasons, and became acquainted with Hannah and with Heartbeet. As a teenager, Patrick became interested in the idea of playing a supporting role in the lives of people with special needs. Patrick graduated from Lyndon State College in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in graphic design, and an Associate of Science degree in digital media. Patrick met his wife, Kaylin through Heartbeet. Kaylin was a Heartbeet Americorps volunteer until July 2012, when the couple married and moved to Cabot. Kaylin continued to regularly volunteer at Heartbeet, and they provided respite for Heartbeet Friends in their home. In July 2014, Patrick, Kaylin and their son Alden moved back to Heartbeet to live in Karl Konig House as householders.

Tom Meskell

Laurie Portocarrero Laurie Portocarrero is an actor, storyteller, drama teacher and director. Laurie has studied and taught movement, drama and speech in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Australia. A long-time associate member of The Actors’ Ensemble, Walking the dog Theater, and Threefold Mystery Drama Group, she has most recently been seen in A Winter’s Tale, Touch of the Irish, and Thornton Wilder’s 3-Minute Plays. Within the 2010-2014 series of Mystery Drama conferences in Chestnut Ridge, NY, directed by Barbara Renold, she played Maria in Rudolf Steiner’s four mystery dramas. Her one- woman pieces include The Power of Imagination, Miriam, Path of Maria, Timeless Tales of Christmas, and Rise up with Spring! With colleague Glen Williamson, Laurie tours widely in the U.S., Canada and the U.K, with their two-person pieces Aeschylus Unbound, and The Mystery Journey of Johannes and Maria. She directed the Whitsun 2016 public reading of the new mystery drama written by Glen Williamson, Future Dawning. Laurie leads the year-long course “The Art of Acting: Drama as a Path of Inner Development” through Threefold Educational Center. She directs the summer children’s camp Drama for the Little Folk, culminating in outdoor performances of Shakespeare on the Green for the local community. She teaches drama and storytelling to academy students at multiple special needs communities, and brings variations of her workshop “Drama as a Path of Consciousness” to conferences across the country.

Hannah Schwartz Hannah Schwartz is one of the co-founders of Heartbeet Lifesharing. She serves as the community’s executive director, drawing on her lifelong experience with social therapy and her commitment to bringing the lifesharing philosophy of community-based care for adults with developmental disabilities. Hannah was born and raised in Camphill Village/Kimberton Hills in Pennsylvania. She pursued her college education in the field of health and care-giving, taking time off to participate in a Camphill community-based training course in care for adults with disabilities in Copake, New York. She also worked for eight months in a residential program for severely disabled adults, L’Amitié in Canada. Hannah received a Bachelors Degree in Women’s Studies and Health Education from Goddard College in 1999, and A Masters of Education in Waldorf Education in 2016. As executive director, she weaves together the unique and often incomplete histories of each of the adults under her care, so that a care plan can be tailored to their specific biographies. She also works to create advocacy circles for each of Heartbeet’s adults with disabilities, including friends, family and members of the community who have found a connection to Heartbeet.

Maria van den Berg Dr. Maria van den Berg was born and grew up in the Netherlands where she studied and graduated in medicine. She met Anthroposophy in 1975 and extended her medical practice through this. In 1976 she joined Camphill Community Christophorus in Zeist, where she lived and worked for twelve years as a doctor, homemaker, teacher and member of the Management Council. In 1988 she moved to Ireland, and while living in Camphill Community Glencraig, was the peripatetic doctor for all Irish Camphill communities until 1998. From this time on she worked in five Camphill communities in Ireland. Since 1976 she has been teaching in the Camphill Seminar for Curative Education and Social Therapy, and worked in several Waldorf schools together with teachers and parents. She has extensive experience teaching, lecturing and leading workshops in many different settings and trainings in the Netherlands, Ireland, United Kingdom, USA, Portugal and lately in China. Healing, in all its different forms and possibilities, is at the heart of her life.

Leah Walker Leah has a deep interest in human development and earth evolution, particularly as described by Rudolf Steiner. She is a biography worker and licensed professional counselor (LPC), as well as a faculty member of the Center for Biography and Social Art. She holds a certificate in homeopathy and a Master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She lives somewhere in the midwest.

Sherry Wildfeuer Sherry Wildfeuer is an adult educator and an active member of the Anthroposophical Society and its Agriculture Section. She is the editor of the Stella Natura biodynamic planting calendar and is a long-term co-worker in Camphill Village Kimberton Hills.

Glen Williamson Glen Williamson is a traveling actor, storyteller – and now playwright – based in New York City, where he has acted in numerous productions. He continues to tour North America and Europe with his solo epic storytelling performances of The Incarnation of the Logos, Beat the Devil! (Faust, the Whole Story) and Kaspar Hauser: The Open Secret of the Foundling Prince as well as with Vonnegut, Vonnegut! He played Johannes Thomasius in the festival of all four of Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas, directed by Barbara Renold in Spring Valley, New York, in 2014. Glen Williamson trained in Michael Chekhov’s approach to acting, under Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan. He has appeared with Laurie Portocarrero in numerous productions of The Actors’ Ensemble. They have toured widely together in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., playing multiple roles in The Refugees’ Tale (based on Goethe’s Green Snake parable) and in The Gospel of John with David Anderson of Walking the dog Theater, as well as performing two two-person plays, The Mystery Journey of Johannes and Maria and Aeschylus Unbound, which Glen co-wrote with the late film star and Anthroposopher Mala Powers. Glen Williamson’s new mystery drama Future Dawning debuted in a public reading directed by Laurie Portocarrero on Whitson 2016.

Cultivating Warmth and Light in Creative Community: Tools for the Future

An International Camphill Youth Leadership Conference

Registration Information

Dates: Saturday, September 17, 2:30 pm – Tuesday, September 20 dinner (note: casual breakfast will be offered Wednesday morning)

Location: Heartbeet Lifesharing, 218 Town Farm Road, Hardwick, Vermont

Cost: The registration fee is $200 per person for the weekend. o Finances should not prohibit anyone from attending. Please contact Heartbeet for scholarship information. o Scholarship and travel donations are welcome.

Accommodations: Limited beds and floor space are available at Heartbeet. Camping is welcome. Local accommodations are also available (see accompanying list).

Meals: All meals are included, Saturday dinner through Wednesday breakfast.

Registration Deadline: July 31, 2016

Please contact us at (802)-472-3285 or [email protected] for more information.

Cultivating Warmth and Light in Creative Community: Tools for the Future

An International Camphill Youth Leadership Conference

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Return registration form with payment to: Annie Volmer, Heartbeet Lifesharing 218 Town Farm Rd., Hardwick, VT 05843 [email protected]

Please be advised that by registering for the conference you are agreeing not to use drugs or alcohol at any time during the conference.

Travel and Directions to Heartbeet Lifesharing

218 Town Farm Road, Hardwick, VT 05843 802-472-3285 (business hours) [email protected]

Driving from points east, south and west:

 Find your way to Hardwick, Vermont.  Turn North on Vermont Route 14 (also known as Craftsbury Rd.) at the Hardwick Kwik Stop and Deli.  Drive 3.2 miles to Town Farm Road on the right  Bear right at the mailbox (218) onto Town Farm Rd. It is a dirt road, winding steeply uphill  Check in at the Heartbeet Community Hall, at the top of the winding hill on the left

Driving from points north:

 Find your way to Craftsbury, Vermont, and the intersection of South Craftsbury Rd. with VT Route 14.  Drive 3.8 miles on Vermont Route 14 South, to Town Farm Road on the left.  Turn hard left onto Town Farm Rd. It is a dirt road, winding steeply uphill.  Check in at the Heartbeet Community Hall, at the top of the winding hill on the left

By train:

 The Amtrak Vermonter travels from Washington DC, through Philadelphia, New York City, Connecticut, Amherst, MA and through Vermont.  The Montpelier-Barre, VT station is closest to Heartbeet.

By bus:

 Megabus is inexpensive and serves Montpelier and Burlington, VT  Greyhound serves Montpelier, VT (50 minutes from Heartbeet)

Airports:

 Burlington, VT is the closest international airport, about 1 hour and 20 minutes from Heartbeet.  Manchester, NH airport is 2 hours and 40 minutes from Heartbeet.  Montreal, Quebec airport is 2 hours and 50 minutes from Heartbeet.  Boston Logan airport is 3 hours and 20 minutes from Heartbeet.

Area Lodging

Hardwick (local) all 802 area code Kimball House B&B 173 Glenside St 472-6228 www.kimballhouse.com Jeudevine House 64 N. Main St. 472-3038 [email protected] Air B and B Several Hardwick area listings www.airbnb.com

Craftsbury (15 min) Phoebe’s House & Cottage 1866 E Craftsbury Rd. 586-2863 www.neverenoughvermont.com Three Bee’s Guest House 1000 King Farm Rd 586-2228 [email protected] Craftsbury Outdoor Center 595 Lost Nation Rd. 586-7767 [email protected]

Morrisville (20 min) Sunset Motor Inn Jct. Rtes. 15 & 100 888-4956 www.sunsetmotorinn.com

East Montpelier (35 min) Sunrisehill Center for Anthroposophy and Nutrition 229-6085 [email protected]

Stowe (35 min) Green Mountain Inn 18 Main St 253-7301 www.greenmountaininn.com Trapp Family Lodge 700 Trapp Hill Rd 253-8511 www.trappfamily.com

And many other possibilities at: www.vtinns.com/northeast_vt_inns.php