Anthroposophy Worldwide What Is Happening in the Anthroposophical Society 7–8 /20

Anthroposophy worldwide What is happening in the Anthroposophical Society 7–8 /20

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July 2020 • N°7–8

Pause for thought 3 Becoming institutionalized

Anthroposophical Society 1 Humaneness 2 Rudolf Steiner: Devotion 3 Canada: Longing to gather 3 Brazil: Brazil is burning 4 General Anthroposophical Society: agm 4 South Korea: Many tasks to work on … 5 Finland: Important social questions Humaneness even if they live on other continents and speak 5 Sweden: Time in office ends for Mats-Ola Ohlsson Enabling breathing other languages, they understand due to their 11 Obituary: Jochen Bockemühl shared humanity. A concrete Whitsun experience 11 Membership News is possible – in anthroposophical institutions and Whitsun is the festival of communication and of organizations, too, as we hear from members Goetheanum the proximity of the spirit. Whitsun reminds us and friends in many places around the world. 5 Stage and exhibitions: Summer of culture that what lives in the heart can be understood in Comprehensibility, communication and active 6 Leadership: Understanding, nurturing all languages. This year Whitsun was celebrated interest in others have become a daily necessity and supporting life at a time when people across the world were during this time – they enable a dignified life and 6 Book on Corona troubled: about the earth and its climate, Co- allow us to breathe. 7 World Goetheanum Association: vid-19 as a viral infection, the lockdown of society, Economy of Love but also about the suffering and anger provoked Awareness and exchange School of Spiritual Science by the newly evident inhumanity and brutality of In an endeavour to address some of the questions 2 Correction: date of racism and discrimination. Environmental pollu- arising from the Corona crisis, the Goetheanum Michaelmas Conference tion, sickness, poverty and widespread violence Leadership has collected thoughts and inspira- 7 Section for Agriculture: make breathing impossible – even to the point tions from the various Sections of the School of Living Farms in Kenya of death. Spiritual Science and published them in a book 7 Medical Section: World Conference? Yes! of which an English edition is due in August 2020. 8 Visual Art Section: Call for art work Active interest in others We send warm greetings to the members from 8 Youth Section: Invitation Where can we draw strength from so that we our June Leadership retreat and from the video to shape the future can communicate what lives in our hearts; so conference with the country representatives on that spirit-presence can become the presence 8 June that made it possible for us to be aware Anthroposophy worldwide 8 Worldwide: Supporting Waldorf of humaneness, that the spirit can live in and of each other and share our thoughts on the around the world open our hearts to nature, animals and to our current situation across the world. | Joan Sleigh, 9 Turkey: Study courses fellow human beings? Constanza Kaliks, Goetheanum postponed to autumn But we also witness profound humanity ev- 9 Germany: Strengthening the good erywhere in the world. The experience of others 10 Israel: Social impulse on the Image Sources of strength enable breathing does not remain outside of us, it touches and in troubled times: the Goetheanum in the slopes of Mount Carmel concerns us. Where solidarity embraces the globe, spring by Xue Li/Goetheanum a protective layer of warmth is generated that en- Feature ables us to breathe again. Many people are busy www.rudolfsteinerpress.com 12 Clown: Heart of hearts helping their neighbours, helping those whom, Call: Clowns, show up! 2 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20

■ Pause For Thought Rudolf Steiner Becoming institutionalized Devotion Life is resilient Whatever lies ahead, whatever the Almost all of us presently experience the phe- next hour or morning may bring, I nomenon of institutionalization. It is usually cannot change it by being fearful reserved to those with disabilities or other or anxious. I will await it with the marginalized groups, and if we are exposed most complete peace of soul, with to it at all, it is only for a short period of time complete tranquillity of mind! […] and in exceptional situations. Anxiety and fear stand in the way of development and hold back what seeks to stream into souls out of Institutionalization means that an authority, the future. […] Devotion to divine rather than we ourselves, is in control of es- wisdom in all that happens; calling sential aspects of our everyday life. It means up again and again within us the that a person’s individual freedom is subjected thought, feeling and inner impulse to predefined actions implemented to protect that whatever will come must come them or others. Physical presence in public and that it will do good in some way: spaces in itself already constitutes a risk. Since calling up this mood of soul and let- the ‘threat’ is invisible and cannot be grasped, ting it live in our words, feelings and we depend on an authority that has exclusive ideas – that is […] the mood of devo- access to information and makes judgements for tional prayer. us. Because the measures relate to the physical,

Source Rudolf Steiner: ga 59, Lecture of the authority feels authorized to interfere, if be considered from the point of view of fragility 17 February 1910. necessary, directly at the physical level. and antifragility.

Dynamic self-regulation Growing through stress and trauma In contrast to this institutional top-down crisis The more ‘mechanical’ organizational principles management with its command and control prevail in a system, with their centralized su- Correction structures there are social organizational forms pervision focused on fixed targets and linear Unlike stated in Anthroposophy that emerge spontaneously in particular situa- process and communication schemes, the more Worldwide 6/2020, the Michael- tions and places. Action groups or disaster com- fragile the system’s response and the sooner mas Conference will be held at the munities based on individual initiatives are using disruptions will lead to a breakdown. On the Goetheanum on 26 and 27 Septem- existing networks or are creating new ones. Be- other hand, the more fully a community embod- ber 2020. cause these initiatives are directly in touch with ies the principles of self-organization and the the situation and the consequences of their ac- decentralized, dynamic-responsive processes tions, they can often act faster, adapt to chang- of self-regulation characteristic of living organ- ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide. What is hap- ing conditions and learn fast. All this requires isms, the better able it is to deal with stress and pening in the Anthroposophical Society› ap- people to have free contact with one another. trauma and the better it can grow and develop pears monthly in German, English, French and The quality of actions therefore depends on by overcoming them. | Jan Göschel, Goetheanum Spanish as a supplement to the weekly ‹Das the vitality of the acting social organism. Lifeless Goetheanum›. Publisher General Anthropo- bodies and systems determined by mechanical sophical Society represented by Justus Wit- laws are subject to entropy. For them, stress tich. Editors Sebastian Jüngel (responsible for the German edition), Margot M. Saar leads to attrition which needs to be constantly (responsible for the English edition), Michael ‘repaired’ by external order-imposing interven- Edited extracts from the Kranawetvogl (responsible for the Spanish edi- tions. ‘Antifragility’ (Nassim Nicholas Taleb) as a book Perspective und Initiativen zur Coron- tion), Jean Pierre Ablard and Anselme Killian characteristic of life is the exact opposite. azeit (cf. page 6) (French edition; coordinator: Louis Defèche). Living organisms have a dynamic and resonant Proofreader for the English edition: Amadeus relationship with their environment that enables Jan Göschel, born Bodenstein. Address Anthroposophy World- them to develop, renew themselves, change 1974 in Priem am wide, po Box, 4143 Dornach, Switzerland, Chiemsee (de), stud- fax +41 61 706 4465, aww@dasgoetheanum. and reproduce. They are not only resilient in ied psychology and com • We expressly wish for active support the sense that, after trauma, they are able to re- Waldorf Education at and collaboration. Subscriptions To receive establish a previous state of balance; they even Edinburgh (gb); he is a ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide› please apply to need stress and disruption in order to develop special education teacher and completed his PhD at Cologne Univer- [email protected]. Digital sub- and increase their abilities. This is due to prin- scriptions are free. As a supplement to ‹Das sity (de) with a dissertation on the Child ciples of dynamic self-regulation and responsive Study in Anthroposophical Curative Goetheanum› ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide› self-organization that are inherent in the organic Education. He lives in the Camphill is also free. If the printed edition is posted to formative forces and life processes. Community Beaver Run, is managing you directly, we ask for a donation to cover director of the Anthroposophic Council costs. Printed by Birkäuser + gbc, 4153 Rein- All social organisms – partnerships, commu- for Inclusive Social Development and ach, Switzerland. Design concept according nities and organizations of any size or shape, head of the Camphill Academy. to Karl Lierl, Unterföhring, Germany. © 2020 municipalities, states and transnational net- General Anthroposophical Society, Switzerland. works as well as the global community – can Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20 | 3

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Canada Longing to gather Vastness characterizes the soul of the bilingual nation - and the longing to come together. The annual conference was also affected by the lockdown, but the bridg- ing of distances through digital communication channels led to the gathering of twice as many members and to valuable new experiences.

A place of quiet vastness, Canada spans 9000 Brazil km through six time zones, a nation of many countries. Rocky promontories confront the At- Brazil is burning lantic while steep forested mountains face the In Brazil the Amazon, the lungs of the earth, sunset; filled with lakes and rivers in between. is burning and, figuratively speaking, so are Facing north Canada embraces the Arctic, where cities such as São Paulo. The spiritual fire of sun and earth parted. Across it all our members St John provides a contrast to this. and their initiatives spread like stars that, in places, draw into constellations. We have the Particularly in the slum areas, the existing twins – one French, one English – with their wound had been made even more evident by cities, Toronto and Montréal, balanced by what the pandemic and the lockdown: the most basic has evolved along the Pacific. Smaller centres, provisions such as water, soap, food and health- each distinct, spread across this vastness. At our care are lacking. Children and youngsters are heart is a place where rivers converge, sacred often without emotional support. What used to for First Nations, a gathering place for speaking, give them joy in life – being with their friends, for listening, for understanding each other: the with those who love them, who paint, play or capital Ottawa. What these First Nations culti- throughout the Easter weeks, agreeing to work practise Capoeira with them – was suddenly vated lives in us. In our landscape’s endlessness individually, together. An initiative joined by taken away because of the curfew. All this is a we long to gather, to create warmth. others around the world. trial of strength: had the children been able to develop enough resilience in the day nurseries Like the water – all movement Twice as many members participated and schools before Corona? In addition to all This landscape, this longing, shapes anthroposo- Most difficult was losing our annual conference. that, there is the political turmoil in the country. phy here. By intent, our Council mirrors our land. Like trying to stand on ever shifting waters, plan- I think that is the mood the girl was trying to Its members live thousands of kilometres apart, ning changed daily as travel restrictions esca- express in her drawing. each from distinct regions. Annually, this Council lated. Yet we carried on, holding three days of Looking at ‘fire’ as an image brings us to the moves to three different areas, stitching together virtual events. Though unable to be together, St Johns fire. There will be no outer fire this year, our dispersed membership. Each May a counter this alternative made possible the participation no personal meetings with music, corn dishes movement occurs. Members travel, often great of twice as many members. Many who are home- and quadrilha dancing. But we can still ignite distances, to celebrate together the shared work bound, or at a greater distance, attended. Joyous the fire within us, especially because we cannot and hold our annual meeting. Like the Council, greetings began each session as the faces of old meet in person, we can, thanks to the technol- these gatherings move across the country, each friends appeared on our screens. Though some ogy, connect via Zoom with people in the most year in a different region. Members bring what members felt they could not take part electroni- remote parts of the country, and beyond, in has engaged them. Like the water all around cally, many who did felt the experience was of Poland, Africa, Latin-America and other countries us, our anthroposophical life is all movement, value and could provide future possibilities if for a virtual Whitsun festival! all convergence. used creatively. After the initial shock, people in the anthropo- In these past months this life-giving move- Through it all an appreciation grew for our sophical movement are wondering what Corona ment has abruptly stopped. This damming Chief Medical Officer and her warm call “to be is trying to tell us. How can we connect even has become a numbing soul ache, the loss of calm, to be kind, to be safe”, somehow truly more deeply with Brazil’s open wounds and with something fundamental. This, while held by an Canadian. | Bert Chase, Canada our time? What is our task? How can the will to amazing spring of clear skies, joyous birdsong. heal be strengthened in us so that we not only Nature has succoured us. think and feel what is good, but actually do it, Image Joyous greetings: Bert Chase, So, like so many, we turned to phantom con- as Rudolf Steiner admonished us, in the spirit of courtesy of nection electronically. Some faithfully call each Uriel? | Ute Craemer, São Paulo (br) other nightly, others begin their days turning to the Foundation Stone rhythms with short zoom Images Torn inside: painting calls. Members of the School have individually by a young woman, courtesy of continued their established Class lesson rhythms. Others carried the complete series of lessons 4 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20

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South Korea Society Many tasks to work on... General Anthropo- Preventive measures against Covid-19 have been continually developed in Korea sophical Society and are observed worldwide. While for Annual General some the serious situation has been overcome, others are constantly wearing their Meeting mask. Teaching in Waldorf Schools has As announced earlier, this year’s An- also been resumed and anthroposophical nual General Meeting will be reduced working groups are working again. to one day and will take place at the Goetheanum on 31 October 2020. The South Korean government has tried hard to support and care for the vulnerable as well as We hope that by then all the essential those confirmed with Covid-19, providing mental restrictions will have been lifted and help together with financial support. Now the that members, at least those from Eu- whole society is putting in efforts to get back ropean countries, will be able to travel to the norm which we try eagerly to summon to Dornach. It will also be possible for but which still seems quite far away. members to stream the agm live in Ger- In early May, the policy changed again from man and English (as originally planned strong social distancing to physical distancing for April). A login account is needed for in daily life. Since then schools have been re- this for which members can apply on the opening step by step and society as a whole Goetheanum homepage (see below). is more visible again. All Waldorf schools as More than 2000 members have reg- well as most of the state schools in Korea are istered so far. An updated agenda for welcoming students back. However, hundreds one would have dared to ask in performance- the AGM will be published in Anthro- of schools have unfortunately been forced to based society. We have ultimately come to posophy Worldwide 9/2020; registra- close just days after they reopened, due to realize that we’ve inhaled way too much in tion for the meeting will be open until a new spike in virus cases. In our school, in almost all areas of life and society to make 4 September 2020. the meantime, several Anthroposophy study the best achievements. We hope that most of the country groups and other gatherings have begun again representatives will be able to travel to outside the school buildings. Warm interest in each other the Goetheanum for their meeting in We already worry about the recurrence of this the week running up to the agm and Opportunity to breathe out disease when the weather gets cold. We are that they can be there for the agm it- As time goes on, regardless of the dimming of our unsure about what other catastrophic situations self. So far it has only been possible hope of getting rid of the mask sooner or later we are going to meet shortly. The South Korean to hear news of the situation in other and unconfirmed information that virus cases government is aggressively promoting its model countries through video conferences would diminish in hot weather, wearing a mask of disease control (‘K-Quarantine’), each time and email reports. can be really tough and even make breathing working out new preventive measures and rec- more difficult with approaching early hot and ommendations, which has sparked considerable School of Spiritual humid summer which arrives earlier every year. international interest. More discussions are yet Science Conference For some people, this serious situation is al- to happen as to the real causes of this pandemic Directly after the agm, from 1 to 6 No- ready finished and they don't even care about and its social and environmental impact. The em- vember 2020, the postponed School of the minimum preventive measures anymore, but phasis should also shift from the technological Spiritual Science Conference – origi- for others it is still an acute situation, wearing approach of tracing and of preventive programs nally scheduled for Holy Week – with all masks all the time and keeping not only physical towards understanding the cause and meaning nineteen Class Lessons in German and but also inner distances towards many persons. of this pandemic in more depth. English will be held at the Goetheanum. Some students hesitate to take off masks even We realize again that the whole world is con- | Justus Wittich, Goetheanum when keeping distance outside. Some parents nected: one whole organism. We come to know don't want to send their children to schools ultimately, with warm interest in each other, until it is ‘completely’ safe. The silent trans- that we shall be receiving and we will be giv- 31 October 2020 Annual General Meet- mission, in particular, has brought a huge fear ing. I guess we have become smart enough to ing (German, English), General Anthro- posophical Society, Goetheanum (ch) in our minds, to instigate ‘untact’, as much as realize this simple principle and will hopefully Web www.goetheanum.org/gv2020 possible, among people. remember it in the long term. | Eunhwa Lee, (registration required for access) This pandemic situation, however, has given Kyunggi-do (kr) us a chance to look back on our lives, especially 1 to 6 November 2020 Towards the Embodiment of the School of Spiritual family lives which are, I would say, rather broken Image Warm interest in each other: Eunhwa Science – Working with the 19 Class Les- and dissolved nowadays. Ironically, Covid-19 has Lee, courtesy of sons, (German, English), General Anthro- made us stop working, breathe out, and think posophical Section, Goetheanum (ch) what is more precious in life – a question no Web www.goetheanum.org/en/international-conference Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20 | 5

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Stage and exhibitions Summer of culture A charity piano concert on 28 June started off the Summer of Culture at the Goetheanum as it reopened for the public.

“We are very happy that one can hear music again in a concert, played on Finland Sweden acoustic instruments!” says Stefan Hasler, referring to the «whole range Important Time in office ends of sound» one was able to hear again. “Under the heading Five pianists and Mats-Ola Ohlsson steps down because the social questions two grand pianos we have reopened time in office for general secretaries is limited the Main Auditorium again after When in mid-March corona restrictions and to twelve years. Due to the Corona crisis, he will the imposed closure,” continues the lockdown began in Finland, life changed very remain in office until the next general meeting. little for Henri Murto. head of the Section for the Perform- According to our statutes the general secretary ing Arts, who is also a pianist. On 28 That not much has changed is due to the fact is appointed for a maximum of twelve years. June, Hasler himself, Johannes Greiner, that farmers need to grow food and work out- I have come to the end of that period. Because Hartwig Joerges, Olaf Marggraf and side every day. So it has been a very interesting our annual meeting in Sweden also needed to Hristo Kazakov played on two grand experience to be able to observe society as it be postponed, I will remain in office for the time pianos, one of them having recently changed, but at the same time to see all the being. Even though the statutes will probably be been completely refurbished, present- new possibilities with 'fresh eyes'. amended at the annual meeting, I find that the ing a “rich sound and a rarely heard If I Iook at the past few months from Finland's length of this period is good as it is. Twelve years repertoire” with works by Francis Pou- perspective, I see two possible paths towards the are a long time, and I was a council member for lenc, Gustav Holst, Dmitri Shostakov- future and post-corona time: one path awak- several years before that. ich, Ludwig van Beethoven, Alexander ens more cosmopolitan Michaelic qualities in The meetings I had with people and interest Skriabin, Hans-Georg Burghardt, Josef individuals around the globe and a new kind of groups both in Sweden and internationally have Matthias Hauer, Sergei Rachmaninoff solidarity and spiritual awareness will start to been enriching and have widened my horizon, and und Witold Lutosławski. develop through social meetings. The second I hope I was able to make helpful contributions. The new production of Goethe's path leads into more closed national societies The organism as a whole – the School of Faust 1 & 2 in nine hours will premiere and everyday life will be more determined by Spiritual Science, the Anthroposophical Soci- on 10 to 12 July. Andrea Pfaehler is the communication and surveillance technology. ety, the Sections and the spheres of life – has director and Eduardo Torres is responsi- Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been been worked on increasingly and been enlivened ble for the eurythmy. The premiere will able to keep our country society’s ’house’ and by the transformative processes that have af- be followed by two more Faust week- office open and the eurythmy school was able fected the Goetheanum over the years. This has ends in July and one performance-only to continue practising. Of course, high precau- given me, and others, impulses for similar joint event in October. The Arlesheim youth tion measurements were implemented also. initiatives in Sweden, helping us to move from theatre Junge Bühne, also under the di- I think many of our members have started to work thought to deed through working together. But rection of Andrea Pfaehler, will present more individually and the pandemic has brought all our endeavours are ‘fresh products’ and they guest performances at the Goethea- important social questions to the surface. are in danger of becoming stale if we are not num between 28 August to 6 Septem- And as we need humour in times like these, awake and continue to ‘stir the pot’. ber, showing a programme based on we have this joke in Finland that, when the gov- I am deeply grateful for all the encounters I had Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. ernment implemented the two-meter social and for everything I was able to experience in my Until 5 July Ortwin Pennemann is ex- distancing rule, the Finnish people said that we years as general secretary. Maybe I have only just hibiting 28 pictures at the Goetheanum can't wait for the corona restrictions to lift, be- settled into the job – but then it will certainly be on the theme of ‹The New Seed of the cause normally we have 5 meter social distancing the right moment to pass it on to someone else. Earth›; from 4 July to 30 August various in Finland. | Henri Murto, Raikku (fi) I am convinced that many threads will continue artists will show Corona-related works to be woven together in the fabric that we share. under the title Into the Unknown. I shall wait and see – and watch from my garden Image New possibilities: what the future holds in store. We will meet as usu- Henri Murto, courtesy of Events goetheanum.org ally at the Annual General Meeting, on 31 October Web faust.jetzt at the Goetheanum. | Mats-Ola Ohlsson, Järna (se)

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Goetheanum Leadership Book on Corona Goetheanum Leadership The Leadership of the School of Spiritual Understanding, nurturing and supporting life Science at the Goetheanum is working on multidimensional solutions based on its un- With parts of the Goetheanum reopening, the Goetheanum Leadership’s work- derstanding of life. ing year 2019/2020 has come to a preliminary conclusion. A book on perspectives and initiatives in the time of Corona is one of the fruits of this work and contains, “The Corona crisis and the ecological crisis are in- among other things, contemplations on the Christ-Michael experience and the terrelated.” With this statement, Matthias Girke cosmic Christ impulse. and Georg Soldner, the leaders of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, are calling for the As travelling and conferences had to be cancelled On 9 June, Matthias Rang and Johannes Wirz sustainable strengthening "of the ecological due to the Corona crisis, the Goetheanum Leader- (the two new leaders of the Natural Science balance of human beings and nature". Factory ship devoted this time to intensive inner work that Section) took us to their Section premises in the farming is one example of what they are con- resulted, for instance, in the book Perspectives Glass House, where they spoke of the Goethean cerned about: keeping animals in the smallest and Initiatives in the Times of Coronavirus, pub- approach to science that has been fostered in of spaces can cause "the release of viruses on lished in German by Verlag am Goetheanum and this Section for many decades, supported by the a massive scale and promote their mutation." in English by Rudolf Steiner Press. The German work of Jochen Bockemühl, who passed away The two physicians and the other authors of edition was completed and printed in record time very recently (1928-2020, page 11) and Georg Mai- the book think that understanding the Covid-19 and delivered to the Goetheanum Leadership er (1933–2016). According to Rudolf Steiner, a con- pandemic requires an understanding of the na- fresh off the press at the end of its June retreat. cept is esoteric when it is kept united with the ture of life. Life rests on what has evolved and, Since Easter, our work on the question of phenomena that first gave rise to it. The Goethe- being itself in the process of evolving, it holds un- how to approach Michaelmas in a way that is an experience of nature is therefore an experi- realized potential. The way to approach the crisis appropriate for our time has been extended ence of the living spirit – in the Michaelic sense. is therefore by being open to what only emerges by the Christian dimension of Anthroposophy in the encounter and interaction of life forms. in the sense of the Christ-Michael experience Transsectional focus theme Particularly when there is danger, institution- described by Rudolf Steiner in his Michael Let- These experiences lead directly to the theme that alized actions tend towards centralized control ters (ga 26). The inward, spirit-illumined path the Sections have chosen to be guided by over based on regulations and supervision. The less and the outward, spirit-supported path belong the next three years: “Understanding, nurtur- an approach relates to the concrete life situation, together – as we were able to experience during ing and supporting life”. We also consulted and the more fragile the social system and the sooner our retreat when our new colleagues introduced decided on a logo for the whole Goetheanum, the disruption leads to a breakdown. If com- us to places that are important to their work. approved internal regulations, allocated respon- munities that know the specific situation come sibilities for further anniversaries in 2023, 2024 together locally, the decentralized, dynamically Cosmic Christ impulse and 2025, and worked on a descriptive text for responsive, self-organizational processes that On 8 June Peter Selg (a new member of the lead- the School of Spiritual Science. are characteristic of living organisms make it ership of the General Anthroposophical Section) In the evening of 8 June we had a Zoom meet- possible to overcome stress and trauma through spoke to us in a moving and intimate way about ing with 47 participants, including almost all the individual responsibility and initiative and allow Rudolf Steiner’s work at the end of his life, in country representatives from Australia to Canada. for personal growth and development. The Co- the room where he died: his studio, which is Matthias Girke and Florian Osswald will be the rona pandemic therefore also asks for new social situated in the Schreinerei building, next to the spokespersons for the Goetheanum Leadership forms of participation and decision-making as Goetheanum. How modest is this ‘shed’, where in the next working year, starting from Septem- well as for trust in the power of self-organization. so many seeds were planted out of inner spiri- ber. | Ueli Hurter and Justus Wittich, Goetheanum | Sebastian Jüngel tual power that have now grown strong in the Leadership spokespersons world. The Christ Statue of the large wooden sculpture, the Representative of Humanity, used Book Ueli Hurter, Justus Wittich (eds): Perspe- Image New Goetheanum logo ktiven und Initiativen zur Coronazeit, Verlag am to stand in this room then. In Peter Selg’s de- Goetheanum, Dornach 2020, 240 pages, 10 Eu- scription the relationship to the cosmic Christ- ros/12 Swiss Francs impulse, in which the global anthroposophical Web www.goetheanum-verlag.ch movement originates, lit up. Image Book cover (detail) Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20 | 7

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World Goetheanum Association Section for Agriculture Medical Section Economy of Love Living Farms in Kenya World conference? Yes! Using 'ImpacTrace', the quality label Economy On its biodynamic school/farm, the Mbagathi This year’s conference of the Medical Section of Love investigates the impact of products Rudolf Steiner School (ke) combines educa- at the Goetheanum will be dedicated to the on the economy, on culture, society and the tion with basic food provision for its students. centenary of Anthroposophic Medicine. environment. The Rudolf Steiner School in Mbagathi has 350 The Medical Section would like to go ahead with Helmy Abouleish, a partner within the World students. An eleven-minute documentary by its planned festivities in celebration of a hundred Goetheanum Association, is convinced that "re- Lin Bautze (project manager) and Philipp Wilson years of Anthroposophic Medicine. The prepara- sponsible customers do not want to destroy the (camera), which is part of the Living Farms series, tion team is aware that there is still uncertainty world." In order to make responsible decisions, focuses on the school's agricultural orientation. as to whether travelling to the Goetheanum in buyers need information on the environmen- Food crops are part of the syllabus, for instance September from outside Europe will be possible. tal impact created at any stage in the supply the plants that form part of the children's break- Ways of holding the one or other event online chain, on the effects on society and on how fast. There is a good reason for this: some of are therefore being considered. Newly included the process supports the development of every the students attending this school come from in the programme are experiences and perspec- person involved in the production. By assessing very poor backgrounds and are undernourished tives in relation to the Corona epidemic from these factors, the quality label Economy of Love when they first arrive. the point of view of Anthroposophic Medicine. promotes the goals of an associative economy The school started in 1989 with a small veg- Aside from the conference at the Goetheanum and fair trade: not only the 'fair' price is estab- etable plot that has now grown into a large area with the festive celebration at its centre, a hun- lished but also the 'true' price. For this, as many with fruit trees and fields where vegetables such dred work groups, over twenty lectures and sci- components as possible need to be included as cabbage, spinach and carrots are grown. Fran- ence and health-policy forums, various countries that contribute to the impact a product has cis Kilonzo, who is responsible for the farm and are planning regional conferences outside Europe. and whichh should ensure a life in tune with the garden, points out the soil's specific proper- In order to prepare for the conference, the human dignity and nature. Economy of Love ties, "It is difficult to grow anything in black earth. young inter-professional team of organizers was developed by the Egyptian Biodynamic As- It retains a lot of water in the raining season and suggests contemplation of the following three sociation and certified by the Center for Organic dries out quickly when the rain stops. Plants questions arising from Rudolf Steiner’s ‘Bridge Agriculture in Egypt. struggle to survive in such conditions." Red earth, Lectures’ (ga 202), which will form the founda- Interest in the label has been expressed from compost, manure from the school's own cows, tion for the conference: within the Fair Trade, Fair Wear and biodynamic weeds from the garden, kitchen scraps and the 1. How can I penetrate myself with an ideal so movements. Sekem is one of the interested par- five biodynamic compost preparations are mixed that it can become a seed of life that can ties. The label is inspired by the visions of Ibra- in to improve the soil's basic structure. strengthen my body and my surroundings? him Abouleish, who founded Sekem as a social In the gardening lessons the students learn 2. Where can I sense, discover and develop the enterprise with far-reaching cultural goals. how the food is produced – with long-term ef- sources of my inner freedom and capacity Sustainability reports and the research con- fects: some have gone on to become farmers for love? ducted by Sekem and by Heliopolis University in after leaving school. «They really know how im- 3. How can we meet Michael, with his qualities Cairo (eg) are consulted in order to establish the portant the soil is," says gardening teacher Rose of courage and knowledge-seeking? And Ra- true price of a product. They consider the often M. Ingala. A practical solution has been found phael with his healing karmic, and therefore externalized costs of water, the co2 balance and for the school holidays, when the land is used community-inspiring, forces? factors such as renewable energy, social security, for students of biodynamic farming and Waldorf More ideas for preparing for the conference can fair wages and people's individual chances of education from all over Africa. | Sebastian Jüngel be found on the Website of the Medical Section. development. | Sebastian Jüngel | Sebastian Jüngel

Film www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBt866- Web www.economyoflove.net, BOs Conference Crossing Bridges. Being human, worldgoetheanum.org 12 to 20 September 2020, Goetheanum Image Gardening teacher Rose M. Ingala www.crossingbridges.care in action, by Lin Bautze Image Transparent supply chains: Helmy Abouleish, by Economy of Love Image Creative in non-perceptible space, by Olaf Dickreiter 8 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20

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Visual Art Section Youth Section Worldwide Call for art work Invitation to Supporting Waldorf The Visual Art Section at the Goetheanum shape the future around the world calls on professional visual artists to submit The research team of the Youth Section at the The Friends of Rudolf Steiner Education and their work on the topic of Corona. Goetheanum extends its research project (Re) other foundations and organizations have been “We must consider the important social and Search to include young people’s experience of helping Waldorf institutions whose existence is cultural implications of artistic activity”, it the present time and their ideas for the future. under threat as a result of the lockdown. said in an appeal sent out by the faculty of the The research team of the Goetheanum's Youth Because of the closures – in some countries Goetheanum's Visual Art Section. Due to the Section has come to the conclusion that «What long-term – and because some parents have to Corona pandemic we have all experienced what is happening in the world at present urges us to work reduced hours or have even lost their jobs, it means to live in uncertainty. For artists this question our way of life and our social forms». payments of school fees have become uncertain is a familiar experience given that every artistic They call on young people up to the age of 35 or have even ceased (Anthroposophy Worldwide process involves uncertainty. «And yet, art and to picture the changes they would like to see in 6/2020). This is why, inspired by the Friends of culture in particular were not considered to be the world and to explore ways of realizing their Rudolf Steiner Education, organizations such as 'key aspects' of crisis management», the appeal vision. The results of the survey will be evalu- Waldorf 100, the International Forum for Steiner/ continues. ated and presented at the next colloquium in Waldorf Education, the Mahle Foundation, Stif- Rather than complain about this situation, the December 2020. tung Evidenz, Waldorf Stiftung, Iona Stichting faculty wished to inspire activity. The profes- The research team encourages young people and the International Association for Steiner/ sional visual art works should express how the to reflect on the present situation, either by Waldorf Early Childhood Education (iaswece) crisis is being experienced and what new artistic themselves or with the people close to them, have agreed Corona support measures that will developments have arisen from it. and to consider the following questions: help those Waldorf kindergartens and schools The pandemic affects people differently de- 1. What has been happening around me: how to survive that receive no state support and pending on where they live and on their situation has life been impacted on or changed by the depend entirely on parental fees. in life: while some have welcomed a period of current developments? By 17 June, following an appeal for donations, peace they had been longing for, others find that 2. What gift would I like to give to the world more than € 231,000 had been received from their work has gained in intensity and depth. today that would benefit the earth, humanity private donors and € 130,000 from partners Amazing nature experiences have presented and all creatures? within the initiative. More than € 344,000 of the world in a new light. Others again struggle 3. What changes should be initiated by my gift? this were made available to Waldorf institutions to make ends meet or they take to the roads to 4. What would I need to do so that the changes in Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Egypt, demonstrate for their basic rights. I envisage can become reality? Ethiopia, Chile, Costa Rica, Columbia, Mexico, A selection of the work submitted – in prin- The purpose of the Youth Section's (Re)Search Nepal, Peru and Tanzania to help them with ciple one piece per artist – will be exhibited at project, which started in 2017, was to explore paying rent and salaries. In addition, the alli- the Goetheanum between 4 July and 28 August how young people envisage the future. The ance helped schools and social institutions, for under the title ‹Into the Unknown - Art in the results of the first part of this research were instance in Brazil, Columbia and Ethiopia, to time of Corona› published in 2019. The Corona pandemic has provide food for families. inspired the research team to extend the study The work does not end there, however: schools Exhibition Into the Unknown. Art in the Time of and ask young people about their experience of and kindergartens around the world have Corona, 4 July - 28 August 2020, Goetheanum the Covid-19 measures. | Sebastian Jüngel registered their needs: the total sum needed Vernissage 4 July 2020, 4.30 p.m., amounts to € 824,000 and more applications at the Goetheanum are expected once all the problems caused by Web sbk.goetheanum.org Study (Re)Search. The Spiritual Striving of Youth: Shaping Our Reality, www.youthsection.org/re- the Corona crisis have come to light.| Christina Image “Étude de chaosmos” (2020) search Reinthal, Berlin (de) by Jean-Paul Ingrand Submissions possible until September 2020 Contact Ioana Viscrianu, ioana@youthsection. org; Andrea de la Cruz, [email protected] www.freunde-waldorf.de/en/waldorf-worldwide/call-for-donations Image Video-conference in the Youth Section, Image Wheat flour for Finks Hawzien Waldorf by Youth Section School (et) , Freunde der Erziehungskunst Ru- dolf Steiners Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20 | 9

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Germany Strengthening the good The Ascension Conference on the future of the Anthroposophical Society and movement did indeed take place in Kassel (de) from 22 to 24 May.

In no other German-speaking town could this conference have gone ahead. Despite the Co- rona-related restrictions, but thanks to special arrangements in the German State of Hesse, Turkey the Anthroposophical Centre in Kassel was Study courses postponed to autumn able to open its doors wide and offer places for 75 people in its 600-seat auditorium. The lockdown imposed in mid-March due to the Covid-19 pandemic came as The theme of the conference was ‘Strength- a surprise in Turkey, too, and has changed life immensely. The directors of the ening the Good. How can everyday life become anthroposophical teacher education seminar in Istanbul had to inform stu- a service to God?’ and, based on artistic, social, dents that study courses would not resume until the autumn. cultural and ceremonial contributions, the team consisting of Steffen Hartmann from Within a few weeks hundreds of deaths were they were willing and able to do this. It would be Hamburg (de), Johannes Greiner from Dornach reported. Those aged 65 and over were no longer very difficult, because all our courses have to be (ch) and Anton Kimpfler from Freiburg de( ) allowed to leave their houses. Life was restricted interpreted in several languages. The lecturers expanded on the idea of the ‘reversed cult’. It to the home and then Ramadan started in May. were not keen to meet the students in that way. all grew out of a mood of stillness. The confer- This has made it easier to turn more inward: Since April we have had four bi-weekly Zoom ence, shaped entirely by the community of people understand that everything is transient meetings with around 25 to 30 kindergarten speakers, musicians, listeners and those who and relative, but also that there is a potential for teachers. This exchange was very important. contributed to the conversation, culminated spiritual faculties arising through the individual The meetings are coordinated by Birgül T. Meriç, in an evening of eurythmy, speech and music: heart forces. This has led to a sense of solidarity who is supported by Ayşe Tuzlacı who reads the Sharon Karnieli from Zurich (ch) guided us and made it easier to cope with the restrictions. weekly verse from Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of into cosmic expanses with poetry and music Schools will remain closed until September; the Soul in Turkish; Hande Başaran plays music chosen especially for Ascension. The Impulse the school year has ended. Our sponsor school live. Our lecturer Nurtaç Perazzo joins us oc- Eurythmy Ensemble from Berlin (de) with Kath- Alev, where we hold our courses, is also affected. casionally from Berlin (de). arina Okamura and Pia Secondo presented Luckily we already had the first module for third- poems by Hans Müller-Wiedemann and Paul year teacher education students at the end of Catching up next year? Schatz, musically framed by Arvo Pärt’s Fratres: January and the first module for fourth-year Although all kindergartens were allowed to open an appeal that moved us all deeply! In between students in early February – all other courses again on 1 June, only a few did this because many the two presentations, Gabriele Kleber from as well as visits from mentors in Kindergartens parents are worried. Most kindergartens will Freiburg (de) recited some of her own poems had to be cancelled. offer three weeks of playtime in the garden in and Steffen Hartmann played pieces by Torben August, for which permission has been granted. Maiwald. The auditorium then resounded with Conscious use of digital technology In order to keep our friends informed, esdd a piece by Aram Khachaturian performed by Because associations were not permitted to has translated several articles from newsletters Johannes Greiner. hold any events, the Friends of Rudolf Steiner and from Waldorf Resources and uploaded them Education Istanbul (esdd) also had to close. Only to our website. Like pillars of light gatherings of up to five people are allowed who Now people can return to work again, but the What was special was that, because everyone need to observe the recommended minimum regulations may change any time, existing in- sat alone, we were like pillars of light in the distance. This means that nothing can happen structions may be revoked or new ones imposed. auditorium, individuals connecting heaven and at the esdd. We are hoping for better and healthier times earth, but forming a community nevertheless, The Waldorf School in Alanya, which has and will try to catch up what has been missed anticipating, as it were, Whitsun as the festival seven classes, quickly adapted to the new situ- next year. | Tarhan Orhan, Istanbul (tk) on behalf of the free individuality. ation and started to offer digital lessons. Some of the esdd course leaders A spiritual gathering in challenging times! Waldorf-inspired kindergartens did not want The Anthroposophical Centre in Kassel also their children to sit in front of the screen and intended to send out a sign of hope with this merely communicated with parents via Skype www.egitimsanati.org conference. A big thank you to everyone in- or Zoom, advising them on what they could do volved and especially to those who helped to Image Just before the lockdown: third teacher with their children. Other kindergartens have education course, courtesy of prepare this event. had digital contact with parents and children. We felt supported and acknowledged from We were also asked if we would offer digital above, too, and heard the spirit call of Michael. courses. We would have to ask all lecturers if | Gesine Fay, Kassel (de) 10 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20

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Israel Social impulse on the slopes of Mount Carmel Four years ago, in addition to the existing anthroposophical initiatives, a new initiative was launched in Tiv'on: the Sheikh Abreik Festival. It has become a model of civil society commitment in Israel, which derives its strength from the impulses of the threefolding of the social organism.

The world is constantly changing; and not only Sheikh Abreik Festival that, but the changes – technological and so- From this, the organizational code of the festival cial – are becoming more intense, rapid and is organically constructed: individual forces are dramatic from year to year. The question is what fulfilled through the forces of the community; I kind of changes are needed nowadays for the help you fulfill your dream, and you help a third world to change for the better, and accordingly, person, and the third helps a fourth, and so on. how to live and apply, in a way that is adapted And in order not to fall into the illusion that fulfill- to reality, the social ideas of spiritual science. ing our wishes depends on money, our economic I can talk about what is occurring in my place starting point was zero Shekels (nis). The forces of residence. Kiryat Tiv'on is a small town of with which we help each other are first of all the 20,000 inhabitants in the north of Israel. Tiv'on forces of will, love, vision, creativity, freedom and is located at the foot of Mount Carmel, close to devotion. Every idea is welcome. Anyone can Beit She'arim's necropolis (meaning in Hebrew initiate what they want at the festival – per- 'The house of gates'], where the Sages are buried. formances, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, In the 20th century, modern Tiv'on was founded, meetings, games or parades. It can happen any- based on groups of immigrants who built their where: in the courtyards of homes, public insti- own homes. The pioneering ethos, volunteerism tutions, streets, shop windows, parks or forests. and self-reliance have characterized the place In the first festival there were 230 events in throughout its existence. three days, a year later – 400 events, and in the third festival there were already 750 events Longing for culture - the labor of about 3000 volunteers – while the which was recently renovated by a local artist. In the 1990s and 2000s, a branch of the An- fourth was canceled because of the Corona crisis. We strive to build a social organism that com- throposophical Society was established here, The economic model has proven itself: a festival bines different types of human activity - social, followed by the local residents establishing Wal- whose total cost, in government or commercial artistic, higher educational, ecological, business dorf kindergartens, a Waldorf primary school, production channels – would reach 2 million and technological – and maintain a weave of a Waldorf high school and anthroposophical Euros – was produced, through civilian recruit- "bottom-up" free initiatives that sustain spiritual, education and art trainings. These initiatives ment, with just tens of thousands. organizational and economic connections be- have developed around a community-based tween themselves. And if that goes well, it may education of hundreds of families. Thriving of free civic initiatives create an opening for ideas of spiritual freedom, In 2017, another development occurred, this The effect on Tiv'on was enormous. It was fol- political equality and economic fraternity – to time in the cultural sphere: the "Sheikh Abreik lowed by a thrive of free civic initiatives in the be integrated into the future organizational Civil Culture Festival" was founded. Our start- fields of culture, education, environment and thinking of the kibbutz movement. Through all ing point were the insights of the threefold social business, and even two political factions this – one may hope – another door to spiritual social organism, and the way Rudolf Steiner stood for local elections – one of which became social thinking in Israel can be opened. | Yonatan emphasized the need to free the spiritual life the largest in the council. Meanwhile, seven Levy, Kiryat Tiv’on (il) from government-political forces and market more festivals based on the same model were forces. How to create a cultural community that founded in Israel, and the Lottery Fund has cre- defines itself as a culture creator and not merely ated a special criterion for budgeting civilian fes- Translated into English from Hebrew by Daph- nee Littman a culture consumer - out of the freedom of the tivals which 120 bodies and groups throughout spirit, in full sovereignty of its creators? the country have approached. Sheikh Abreik Festival www.iogazette.fr/festi- In order to properly build the relationship We are currently seeking to take the vision vals/2019/sheikh-abreikh-festival-kick-in-the- between culture and the social structure, it is one step further. The festival is by definition hornets-nest/ important to return to the source: art and cul- non-centralistic - both organizationally (it has no Image Band at Sheikh Abreik Festival ture spring from the longings and the spiritual association or legal entity) and geographically (it by Tamari Gat impulses that arise in the heart of the individual happens everywhere in the space). But a social and the community. Every person - even if this organism that operates continually throughout person is not a professional artist - has a longing the year needs a home. The idea is therefore to for a culture in which they can express them- establish a center for civil culture, which will selves and develop optimally. And if there is a constitute an overall social art work. recipe for joyful action in the world, it depends, The center will operate in the "Kama Flour for the most part, on two factors - that one does Mill" at Kibbutz Sha'ar Ha'amakim (meaning in what one wishes for, and together with friends. Hebrew 'The gate of the valleys'), near Tiv'on, Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20 | 11

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18 Nov. 1928 • 21 May 2020 We have been informed that the following 65 members have crossed the threshold of death. In their remembrance we are pro- Jochen Bockemühl viding this information. | Membership Office at the Goetheanum Jane Bouwmeester Zeist (nl) 4 November 2018 Hedwig Gassmann Zurich (ch) 16 June 2019 Jochen Bockemühl crossed the Rudolf de Charon de St Germain Zeist (nl) 16 July 2019 threshold on 21 May 2020. He had Peter de Gruyl The Hague (nl) 16 August 2019 worked at the Natural Science Sec- Tony van Coolwyk The Hague (nl) in 2019 Helena van Loon Leiden (nl) 5 January 2020 tion’s Research Institute since 1956 René Gay Warnsveld (nl) 25 January 2020 and as head of the Section from Lisa Steuck Kilkeel (gb) 20 February 2020 1971 to 1996 he greatly influenced Robert Kellum Portland (or) (us) 21 February 2020 the anthroposophical approach to John Cunningham Eastsound (wa) (us) 25 February 2020 Albert Wardenburg Driebergen-Rijsenburg (nl) 26 Feb. 2020 Goethean science. Jacqueline Weibel Delémont (ch) 26 February 2020 His investigations into the meta- Andreas Wijgmans Leer (de) 27 February 2020 morphosis of leaves and the devel- Irmgard Manecke Kassel (de) 1 March 2020 opment of individual leaves with Cornelis Beumer Zeist (nl) 5 March 2020 Richard Rettig San Francisco (ca) (us) 5 March 2020 their reverse form changes belong Wouter de Gans Zeist (nl) 10 March 2020 to the classics of Goethean morphol- for documentaries. Later he began Albert Smit Zeist (nl) 11 March 2020 ogy. He worked equally creatively on to paint, an activity that he did not Reto Kaufmann Reston (va) (us) 13 March 2020 questions of inheritance and the at- see as ‘art’ but as a path of inner Hans Laube Zurzach (ch) 15 March 2020 Erik Bürgel Überlingen (de) 23 March 2020 mosphere, essential characteristics development. When returning from Tijk de Gast-Medema Utrecht (nl) 28 March 2020 of landscapes and on plants used in hikes, excursions or his many jour- Geerke Zomerman-van Bergeijk Ermelo (nl) 31 March 2020 preparations and in medicine. Ob- neys he would sit down, usually Knut Sæland Stavanger (no) 9 April 2020 Christiane Weber Wil (ch) 9 April 2020 servation and the formation of ideas in the evening, and transform his Christoph Zimmer Bochum (de) 15 April 2020 were for him stepping stones on the impressions into large-scale pastel Gijsbertus de Jong Bolsward (nl) 24 April 2020 way to a deepened understanding of drawings. He must have done hun- Jacobus Koopman Appelscha (nl) 25 April 2020 the relationship we have with nature dreds. Painting allowed him to enter Andreas Hagemann Stockach (de) 27 April 2020 Christiane Langer Kaufbeuren (de) 29 April 2020 and with ourselves. For Jochen Bock- more deeply into the mood and es- Barbara Weise Pasadena (au) 2 May 2020 emühl, the self-experience in the sence of landscapes, and – in keep- Ursula Heitmann Schlitz (de) 3 May 2020 individual cognitive process was the ing with what Rudolf Steiner said Martin van Ledden Filderstadt (de) 3 May 2020 crucial step on the way from under- about the relationship of memory Karin Gutbrod Dornach (ch) 5 May 2020 Claire Cazaux Kaysersberg (fr) 7 May 2020 standing nature to spirit-knowledge. and imagination – to develop his Sue Heinrich Meggen (ch) 7 May 2020 imaginative faculties. Elsbeth Mühlschein Munich (de) 10 May 2020 Explorer of Goetheanism Gerhard Schelski Schacht-Audorf (de) 12 May 2020 Together with Georg Maier Jochen Practical approach Bettina Sack Moosburg (at) 13 May 2020 Anneliese Seufert Bonn (de) 14 May 2020 Bockemühl helped many students In a third phase, Jochen Bockemühl’s Willy Skilbrei Bønes (no) 14 May 2020 on the courses on anthroposophi- striving for spiritual insight focused Gabriele Bartling Stuttgart (de) 17 May 2020 cal natural science to find access to on the study of nature as a way of Terje Christensen Oslo (no) 17 May 2020 Goetheanism. In Dornach (ch), he achieving consciousness of his own Wilfried Dautlich Stroud (gb) 17 May 2020 Judith Rasmussen Espergærde (dk) 17 May 2020 developed courses for pharmacists thinking activity and capacity for Winfried Zastrow Heidenheim (de) 18 May 2020 (initiated by Weleda staff members), experience. His research into the Carol Dunn Forres, Moray (gb) 19 May 2020 for young farmers (with Georg Maier true relationship between human Josephine Kent Stourbridge (gb) 19 May 2020 Jochen Bockemühl Dornach (ch) 21 May 2020 and Kari Järvinen) and for physicians beings and the world, between mi- Hans Möller Bromma (se) 21 May 2020 (with Friedrich Edelhäuser), explor- cro- and macrocosm, was not based Christa Gebel Planegg (de) 22 May 2020 ing the Goethean method in relation on theory but on the living practice. Irma Schaafhausen Hamburg (de) 22 May 2020 to these professions, and later on he This constituted the religious deep- Gerd Hollwurtel Renan (ch) 25 May 2020 Monica de Liagre Schliersee (de) 25 May 2020 carried them into the world at large, ening of his scientific endeavours. Rose Peschkes Grafrath (de) 25 May 2020 offering seminars on all continents The sadness to have lost him as a Alfred Wettstein Teufen (ch) 25 May 2020 with his wife Almut. friend and colleague is mixed with Sabine Zeeck Dransfeld (de) 26 May 2020 Jochen Bockemühl, the son of an gratitude and joy in having been al- Harald Harlan Hamburg (de) 27 May 2020 Ghislaine Fontaine St. Gilles les Bains (re) 29 May 2020 electrical engineer and a painter, lowed to join him on part of his jour- Paula Trebin Skogås (se) 29 May 2020 began his earthly journey on 18 ney: his legacy will live on through Ilse Goebel Gifhorn (de) 31 May 2020 November 1928 in Dresden (de). his many students around the world. Thomas Schuller Aurich (de) in May 2020 In his working biography he took | Johannes Wirz, Goetheanum Walter Jerger Mannheim (de) 1 June 2020 Christel Beck Stuttgart (de) 6 June 2020 a path from science via the arts to Ramona Sigg Walkringen (ch) 6 June 2020 religion. Having studied biology, he With contributions from Jo- gained his doctorate in Tübingen hannes Kühl, Ruth Richter and In May 2020 the Membership Office at the Goetheanum in 1955 with a study on collembola, others. registered 61 new members. 18 left the Society between or springtails. He started his career 9 May and 16 June 2020. in the Natural Science Section as a Image Jochen Bockemühl by Cornelis Bockemühl. photographer, providing material 12 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/20

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Clown The warm-ups we do support dropping out of Heart of hearts our heads and into our heart of hearts, opening up a space of not knowing, a space where For some decades now there have been professional clowns in anthroposophical institutions deepest intentions and intuitions are dormant, and Waldorf schools, too. The Section for the Performing Arts at the Goetheanum is exploring waiting to see conscious light. When we clown, who is working as a clown or is interested in clowning. Catherine Bryden, who trained with we unlearn. We remember that we are artists. Nose to Nose (gb), is one of the active clowns. Opening up space for the future sj What do you see as the clown's task? I was first touched by the clown Geist in high cb Awakening. Enlivening. Rejuvenating. Healing. school during improvisation and theater work- Connecting. Opening up space for the future, shops with a Canadian director, Robert Lepage. the unknown. His approach to a creative path is one of deep sj Can performers lead a daily life without the openheartedness. He created safe fun spaces for attitude of a clown? teenagers to be as much themselves as possible. cb When people start clowning regularly, they After that I studied theater and developmental feel as though the world around them opens psychology at university, while running summer up in ways that they hadn’t previously seen. theater and language camps based on similar Clowning is a practice of being true to ourselves, qualities learned from Robert Lepage, in par- remembering our deep aches, choosing to con- ticular curiosity and fun. sciously observe and above all reserve judge- ment or set answers. The more people clown, Round red door the more they are able to tap into their feelings, In 2001, when I landed in Germany at the Rudolf turn to them as guides, but not be controlled by Steiner Schule Gröbenzell, outside of Munich, I their emotions. was mentored by another beam of artistic light, sj In your opinion, should a clown wear a red Kirsi Talvela. She said that I might find my door- nose? Why? way into the anthroposophical world or not. I cb The red nose, the smallest mask in the world did. Since I did not speak German, I attended as as Jacques Lecoq named it, carries a particular many anthroposophical training courses and magic. I experience the world in new ways and workshops as possible in English. others experience other aspects of my ‘Self’ This opened my door: it was round and red, and when I am wearing a red nose. It feels as if I opened up a world of heartfelt freedom and am wearing my heart on my face; when I look continual discovery. After doing the whole series out at the world with a nose on, I feel exposed, of courses offered by Vivian Gladwell, founder vulnerable, and protected. of Nose to Nose, I trained as a facilitator and sj Learning to become a clown is often trans- transitioned from teaching English and running ferred to other areas of life, for instance as a the grade 9 farming project to full time clown- method for developing creativity or for man- ing. I have been well guided and supported on agement (body language): doesn’t this mean Reconnecting with our individual purpose this path: from Vivian Gladwell and courses at that the clown is used for something he or she Emerson College (gb), to Norman Skillen and SJ If this someone were an anthroposophist, how should not be used for? Peter Lutzker’s PhD research on the influence would you explain why a clown is important for cb I think the clown can serve people in many of clowning on the personality development anthroposophy? ways. I think that the clown serves where of teachers, to participants in workshops and cb I prefer to have people find this out through service is needed. cooperation with students from the various direct experience and personal discovery. That teacher training seminars. said, I would say that the clown serves to re- It does not matter if I am working in the field of connect us to our deep longings, our individual Call: Clowns, show up! clown & conflict, clown & teacher, clown & trau- purpose, our ‘true I’ in the presence of others. We Please contact Sebastian Jüngel at Sebastian. ma, storytelling, social circus or dance, the clown embrace all that we are and all we are becoming [email protected] stating your name, changes me. The changes are tangible. After be- in surprising ways. (email) address, training and activity. Sebas- ing touched by the clown, we walk away clearly sj Would you agree with a statement by Clown tian is compiling a list on behalf of Stefan lighter and brighter, with greater permission to Dimitri who writes about developing from the Hasler, head of the Section for Performing Arts at the Goetheanum. be our unique selves. | Catherine Bryden, Ering (de) “clown in me to the clown through me”? This reminds me of the famous Pauline words “Not Sebastian Jüngel When you meet someone, I, but the Christ in me” (Galatians 2:20). Of the what image of the clown do you meet? archangel Michael we know that he affirms the Contact catherinebryden@playisseriousbusi- Catherine Bryden Since we do not build char- world – an attitude a clown should have: dealing ness.info acter clowns, I wait to see what sides of a per- with obstacles in a positive way. Is the clown a Web nosetonose.info son’s clown decide to present themselves in a fairly central aspect of being human? Image Individual purpose: Catherine Bryden, particular moment. We leave room for any side cb Absolutely. When we are clowning, we step by Charlotte Fischer of a person’s clown to show up. into the state of clown or wake up our clown.