Supporting 12 year olds as they meet the physical and emotional changes of childhood. How we as a community of interested adults can support them in a way that not only affects them now but into their adulthood too!

Melanie Deefholts has been working with Freshwater Creek Steiner School for 5 years. Melanie Deefholts has been supporting parents and teachers in various schools through adult education for the past 12 years. She specialises in understanding child development through observations of daily life and how to work with this in a living way within the home and the classroom She works with parents as well as teachers in private and group education and also works directly with young adults as a facilitator of the Social Understanding, Gender and Sexuality program for Developing the Self Developing the World. Melanie regularly works in various Waldorf Schools in Bellingen, Armidale, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Geelong and a number of Victorian Schools.