In-classroom Sessions Grades 1-8 and Early Childhood
Parent Education for Classes 1-8 and Early Childhood
Community Talk
Faculty, Administration, and Professional Development

The program is facilitated by Meaghan Witri.

Parents are invited to join this talk to learn more about the implications and impacts of technology on adolescent development and their capacities for attention, connection and self-regulation. Led by Meaghan Witri, this session aims to contribute toward an aware and engaged community to help support our teens during this incredibly sensitive and important time.  

Meaghan is one of the Developing the Self Developing the World (https://www.developingtheself.org/) international facilitators of in-school and community Health & Wellbeing programs for students, faculty and communities. She has worked with parents and families in a variety of capacities for over 20 years, including as an early childhood and parent-child educator, and currently as the founder, lead teacher, and mentor of the Phoenix Initiative, a spirit-led education for 1st-6th grade in upstate New York. She is currently bringing Gender & Sexuality, and Healing the Impact of Technology programs to participating Waldorf schools in NY, CA, and Canada.

Tuesday, November 18

7-8:30 p.m.

Healing the Impact of Technology: Supporting Attention, Attachment and Self-Regulation in Adolescence with Meaghan Witri is a presentation that aims to provide parents with a context to support young people to deepen their awareness of themselves and others through the exploration of content and experience that enhance capacities for attention, attachment and self-regulation. Young people need experiences that help to increase these capacities as part of healthy adolescent development in the modern industrialized world, and specifically as an antidote to the exposures of technology.

Meaghan will also offer the presentation on Thursday, November 6 at 8:30am in place of the regular PTA Coffee Hour to give current families an additional opportunity to engage in this important topic.

https://school.hawthornevalley.org/events/presentation-healing-the-impact-of-technology/

Join us on Wednesday, November 5 at 7pm in the Music Room for a talk on a holistic understanding of healthy adolescent development in a modern industrialized world and an antidote to the exposures of technology with Meaghan Witri .

As part of the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others school program, Meaghan Witri will give a community talk on this important and relevant theme.

Séamus will offer the Parzival legend as part of the main lesson block in the 11th and 12 grades.

Supporting Nourishment in Early Childhood - Body, Soul and Spirit
with Sarah Mecca and Anthony Mecca
part of a series of workshops on supporting health and illness at home
at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, NY
10am to 4pm

Cost:
$25 USD ($40 AUD) paid to EduCareDo with registration below
(paid once whether attending 1, 2, or all 3 workshops)
+ sliding scale contribution in-person: $40-75/workshop

In this workshop we will look at different aspects of nutrition in the life of the young child. We will consider the ‘earthly nutrition’ of food in the life of the young child – recognizing that by observing a child’s relationship to eating and food preferences we can gain insight into their constitutional tendencies and needs and ask the question of how we could bring greater balance and diversity to the nutrition of the young child. We will also explore the ‘cosmic nutrition’ of all that they absorb through their senses as well as the influence of their unseen environment, particularly the world of thoughts, feelings, and will impulses of the adults that surround them.

In addition to offerings on each workshop theme, the days will include a nourishing meal, the opportunity to both receive and learn how to offer therapeutic treatments at home and gain familiarity with some home remedies, and space for individual reflection, experiential exercises and group conversation. Each workshop will deepen and build upon the pre-reading Supporting Inner Freedom in the Young Child through Health and Illness (a lesson in the EduCareDo Early Childhood Course). While the workshops are aimed at supporting parents and caregivers in the home, the workshop content and experience will also be relevant for those interested in deepening their relationship to their own experiences of health and illness as well as those caring for other adults. The workshop content will unfold and adapt to meet the questions and interests of the participants. 

This day-long workshop is offered through Developing the Self Developing the World and is open to all. You can attend 1, 2 or all 3 workshops (other two workshops are Jan 19 (Working with Health and Illness at Home) and Feb 23 (Preventative Healthcare at Home).

All three workshops will take place at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, New York.
Childcare available on-site.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema

Meaghan Witri contributing to the Beginning Anthroposophy course with the Threefold Education Foundation.

Songs of Joan of Arc in concert. All are welcome.

Best suited for ages 12 and up please.

Anthroposophy NYC
138 W 15th Street
New York, NY, 10011

Presentation to Hawthorne Valley Early Childhood parent body by Sarah Mecca.

Working with Preventative Health Care at Home
with Sarah Mecca
part of a series of workshops on supporting health and illness at home
at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, NY
10am to 4pm

Cost:
$25 USD ($40 AUD) paid to EduCareDo with registration below
(paid once whether attending 1, 2, or all 3 workshops)
+ sliding scale contribution in-person: $40-75/workshop

Even though we may recognize the deep meaningfulness of illness for growth and development and for the strengthening of both child and caregiver, that is not to say that all illness processes are necessary or unavoidable. By fostering good health we can support greater balance and harmony without having to traverse every illness process ‘available’. As adults, we have to know how to perceive and evaluate the wellness or imbalance of our own system in order to support this development in the young child. By cultivating and deepening our own relationship to rest and to harmonizing therapeutic applications we can more potently facilitate these experiences for the young children in our care.

In addition to offerings on each workshop theme, the days will include a nourishing meal, the opportunity to both receive and learn how to offer therapeutic treatments at home and to gain familiarity with some home remedies. There will also be space for individual reflection, experiential exercises and group conversation. Each workshop will deepen and build upon the pre-reading Supporting Inner Freedom in the Young Child through Health and Illness (a lesson in the EduCareDo Early Childhood Course). While the workshops are aimed at supporting parents and caregivers in the home, the workshop content and experience will also be relevant for those interested in deepening their relationship to their own experiences of health and illness as well as those caring for other adults. The workshop content will unfold and adapt to meet the questions and interests of the participants. 

This day-long workshop is offered through Developing the Self Developing the World and is open to all. You can attend 1, 2 or all 3 workshops (other two workshops are Jan 19 (Working with Health and Illness at Home) and March 23 (Supporting Nourishment in Early Childhood).

All three workshops will take place at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, New York.
Childcare available on-site.

Image Credit: Laura Summer www.laurasummer.com

Working with Health and Illness at Home
part of a 3-part series of workshops on supporting health and illness at home
with Sarah Mecca
at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, NY
10am to 4pm

Cost:
$25 USD ($40 AUD) paid to EduCareDo with registration below
(paid once whether attending 1, 2, or all 3 workshops)
+ sliding scale contribution in-person: $40-75/workshop

Meeting rich and diverse experiences of health and illness support the child’s journey of growth and development towards inner freedom in adulthood. While we need to consciously support their unfolding, at the same time we must tread lightly, so as to not interfere in the potential fruits that may naturally unfold for them through their experiences of health and illness. Our conscious activity of reverence serves them on this journey.

In addition to offerings on this workshop theme, each workshop will include a nourishing meal, the opportunity to both receive and learn how to offer therapeutic treatments at home and gain familiarity with some home remedies, space for individual reflection, experiential exercises and group conversation. Each workshop will deepen and build upon the pre-reading Supporting Inner Freedom in the Young Child through Health and Illness (a lesson in the EduCareDo Early Childhood Course). While the workshops are aimed at supporting parents and caregivers in the home, the workshop content and experience will also be relevant for those interested in deepening their relationship to their own experiences of health and illness as well as those caring for other adults. The workshop content will unfold and adapt to meet the questions and interests of the participants. 

This day-long workshop is offered through Developing the Self Developing the World and is open to all. You can attend 1, 2 or all 3 workshops (other two workshops are Feb 23 (Working with Preventative Healthcare at Home) and March 23 (Supporting Nourishment - Body, Soul and Spirit).

All three workshops will take place at Sun Heart Farm in Stephentown, New York.
Childcare available on-site.

“Heart Warmth” by Laura Summer www.laurasummer.com

Visiting Classes 9-12

This program offered by Developing the Self Developing the World brings anthroposophy to help understand relationships and the responsibility of community in raising children and working together to promote individual wellbeing.

We look at how and when we work with adolescents to bring the understanding of sexuality and gender in relation to where they are in their consciousness. This brings harmony between the evolving body and inner experiences that sets the ground for healthy adult experience.

It speaks to some of main issues confronting health and wellbeing in current times, with examples of how we can counter the unbalancing effects. We also address how to understand gender differences and similarities that both limit or free us and the contribution and struggles of the changing social structures around gender and sexuality affecting us all.

The program is delivered by Developing the Self Developing the World programs facilitator, Meaghan Witri.

Community Education and Faculty Professional Development

The foundations of sensory development are laid down in the first seven years of life and have a direct influence on the growing child’s ability to develop attention, attachment, and self- regulation: capacities essential for formal education.

The program is delivered by Developing the Self Developing the World programs facilitator, Meaghan Witri.

Faculty Professional Development

The program is delivered by Developing the Self Developing the World programs facilitator, Meaghan Witri.