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International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM Activities report 2011 – Events and perspectives in 2012 Medical Section Goetheanum Human beings require inner loyalty; Loyalty to the guidance of spiritual beings. They can build on such loyalty Their eternal existence and being And thereby perfuse and strengthen Sensory existence With external light. Content Rudolf Steiner Dear friends of the anthroposophical medical movement 3 St. Gallen, 12 April 1922 International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM 5 International Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical Associations 6 International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations / IVAA 8 International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicines / IMKA 9 Anthroposophic medicines in the EU, developments in 2011 10 Association Européenne des Fabricants de Médicaments utilisés en Thérapeutique Anthroposophique / AEFMUTA 11 International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists / IAPP and the Society of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany / GAPiD 13 International Research Council 15 Association of Anthroposophic Clinics 16 International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing 17 Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy 18 International Eurythmy Therapy Forum 19 International Coordination of Art Therapy 21 International Coordination of Physiotherapy and Physical Therapies / APT 22 International Coordination of Psychotherapy 23 Patient Organizations and European Federation of Patients’ Associations for Anthroposophic Medicine / EFPAM 26 International Young Physicians’ Forum 27 International Coordination of Medical Training 28 Group of National Coordinators for Anthroposophic Medicine / GNCAM 29 International Coordination of Public Relations 30 International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT 31 Imprint 10 years of International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT Publisher Medical Section Review in pictures 33 at the Goetheanum Finances 34 Editorial The staff in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum 36 Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler Conferences and meetings at the Goetheanum 2012 38 Heike Sommer M.A. Concept, design / layout, typesetting Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy 40 Heike Sommer M.A. The 2011 annual conference of the anthroposophic medical movement in pictures 42 Ordering address Foundation for Anthroposophic Medicine / FAM 43 Medical Section Annual conference – preview 44 at the Goetheanum Postfach 4143 Dornach 1, Switzerland Fax +41 (0)61 706 44 91 Email sekretariat@ medsektion-goetheanum.ch We would like to thank www.medsektion-goetheanum.ch the Software AG Foundation, Mahle Foundation, Evidenzgesellschaft, Iona Foundation, Picture credits Dr. Hauschka Foundation, Vidarstiftelsen, GTS Stifterfonds, Foundation for Anthroposophic Front page, Rudolf Steiner blackboard drawing GA 236, GA 260; Medicine, Helixor Foundation, Humanus House Foundation, Donata Foundation, Charlotte Fischer p. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, the medicinal products manufacturers Weleda, Wala and Helixor as well as the numerous 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 34, 37; institutions, federations, associations and friends near and far who through their Michaela Glöckler p. 32, 33, 37; collaboration and financial support have made our work for the Medical Section possible. Heike Sommer p. 2, 24, 25, 23, 26, 28, 29, 33, 42, 43; Wegman Institute p. 40, 41; Norbert Roztocki photo no. 3 and 6, p. 42. 2 Activities report 2011 – Events and perspectives in 2012 Dear friends of the anthroposophical medical movement In the triple anniversary year we celebrated: • 90 years of the Ita Wegman Clinic – also included in this is the medicinal products company WALA which has its origins in the collaboration between Ita Wegman and Rudolf Hauschka in the pharmaceutical laboratory of the clinic; this subsequently led to the establishment of an independent company in Germany in 1935 whose 75th anniversary was celebrated in 2010 with staff and guests in Göppingen town hall; • 90 years of Weleda medicinal products and cosmetics, going back to suggestions from and the collaboration of Rudolf Steiner with Oskar Schmiedel, Ita Wegman and others. • 150 years of Rudolf Steiner, who gave anthroposophic medicine its name and content, thus establishing a new spiritual medical system together with his medical collaborator, Ita Wegman. What work motifs arise from these to accompany us in the coming decade? Let us mention three here: Markus Brüderlin, museum director and inaugurator of the large travelling exhibition for the Rudolf Steiner anniversary year, “The alchemy of every-day things”, said at the opening Anthroposophy must become even more cosmopolitan than it is at in Wolfsburg that the time had passed when Rudolf Steiner could be left to the anthropo- present, it must not be constrained by sophists alone, he had long become a cultural factor. Peter Sloterdijk noted at the opening groups of people or remain limited to individual countries; it is for all people in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein that Rudolf Steiner had been omnipresent in throughout the world. the Lebensreform (lifestyle reform) endeavours of the twenty-first century even if he was not Ita Wegman explicitly referred to. The spirit of these statements is also of importance in representing an- See also the report from the Ita Wegman Institute by throposophic medicine. It is healthy to realise that the inspirations of Rudolf Steiner and his Prof. Dr. med. Peter Selg, p. 41 co-workers in the spiritual world reach far beyond the group of members and friends in the Anthroposophical Society and movement and take effect in those places where the burning questions of life are found. Next, an experience which goes back to the roots of anthroposophy: this year’s training week for anthroposophic medicine1 in India took place in Chennai, the city in which the Theosophi- cal Society was founded in 1875. It provided an opportunity to visit the society’s headquarters in the district of Adyar. We were received most warmly by one of the members of the execut- ive council whose daughter – a sixth-generation theosophist – gave us a guided tour outside opening hours: through the wonderful park into the impressive crosswise main building in which the main representatives of the world religions are represented under the roof of the all-unifying truth. It was a particular pleasure to be able to make this visit just one month after the founding of the national Anthroposophical Society in India and to remember these predecessors with gratitude on whom the anthroposophical movement, which today has about 18,000 members, was able to build. How many lectures and inspirations do we owe to the Theosophical Society which appointed Rudolf Steiner as leader of the German Section in 1902, whose members asked the questions which enabled him to speak about the treasures of his knowledge? His account of the Christian path of initiation and the task of transforming the earth through its nine layers (GA178) also belongs to this theosophical period. Thirdly, the 2011 annual conference at the Goetheanum: the clinics celebrating their anniver- saries had wished to work on aspects of therapeutic community building. Such a striving for community also contributes to the transformation of the earth mentioned above, particularly 1 IPMT / International Postgraduate the eighth layer of the earth in which the forces are at work which opposed everything that Medical Training, see report p. 31 Activities report 2011 – Events and perspectives in 2012 3 2 2 Cf. the newsletters of the Medical is unifying and healing in the development of humanity. In order to give active expression to Section from 8 May, Whitsun and this striving, work in small groups took place for the first time among the approximately 750 September 2011 participants as part of the annual conference, work which enlivened the whole of the Goethe- 3 3 “…whereas the point is to take anum also in its foyers and stairwells: four developmental motifs were discussed across everyone as they are and to turn language barriers by the co-workers from more than 40 countries. Here it became evident what they are into the very best…” (Rudolf Steiner Wie kann die seelische that in implementing them in social practice everything depended on the experience that Not der Gegenwart überwunden this only works when each individual truly wants it from out of their innermost, freest impulse. werden?, GA 168, p. 101) That every good thing is opposed by an evil power – not just in the human constitution but “May God give me the equanimity to also in the structure and action of the earth’s organism throughout its nine layers – this is accept those things I cannot change; the courage to change those things something that fundamentally belongs to the developmental conditions of the human being I can; and the wisdom to distinguish which are the most difficult to bear. They can only become bearable, indeed inspiring, when the one from the other.” (Ascribed to it is truly felt that freedom cannot be born other than from the nothingness that is beyond the Swabian pastor and Rosicrucian Friedrich Christoph Oettinger – in good and evil. It is this experience which creates the awareness that every deed, be it ever so fact going back to the Protestant small, which is undertaken out of such an inner experience of freedom in fact builds on the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the year 1943). new heaven and the new earth of which John the Evangelist speaks in his Apocalypse. Community building has many faces. It can enliven