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Melanie Deefholts meets with students, parents and staff for the Healthy Relationships Program. Please contact the school for the schedule.
Mansfield Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
We look forward to returning to Mansfield and visiting class groups to help deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourage greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community. Age appropriate content is brought, spanning topics of attraction, relationships, sex, social conditioning and the inner changes that go hand-in-hand with these aspects of growth and development.
The parent education speaks to the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child 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.
We look at how and when we work with children and 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.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.
Parents and caregivers are invited to explore the unfolding developmental changes and feeling-life of the primary school age child as it awakens and becomes independent of the parents and caregivers. The feelings, thoughts and deeds of the community shape a foundation for emotional capacities as adults. What lives in our feeling life in these times? What is the soul-food that can nourish our children’s unfolding development?
Alice Springs Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.
Sophia Mundi Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts who will meet with students, parents and staff.
Cairns Hinterland Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.
Rainbow Ridge Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.
Berkeley Rose Waldorf School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Meaghan Witri to students in 4th - 8th grades. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit.
Birali Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 and up. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information.
Freshwater Creek Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 to 6. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information. (03) 5264 5077
This is an opportunity to reconnect with our ideals, deepen our understanding of ourselves and our children, and rebuild our life-giving forces as parents and caregivers.
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To register: complete this form or email contact@developingtheself.org or phoenixinitiative@protonmail.com
Melanie Deefholts will partake in the Primary School Parents-teacher meetings for Term 2 and will also work with the staff. Building Resilience to Meet the World - Understanding the Complexities of Child Development in Today's World.
Professional Development - Primary Faculty
May 3rd & June 14 3:30-5pm
Class meetings
Kindy May 2, 6-7:30pm
Class 1/2 May 16, 5:30-7:30pm
Class 3/4 May 15, 5:30-7:30pm
Class 5/6 June 8, 5:30-7:30pm
PARENT EDUCATION
The various stages of child development from birth to twenty-one, and how they become a foundation for adult experience, can be observed from many points of view to cultivate a comprehensive picture of human experience. This evening for parents and caregivers will explore the changing consciousness of the developing human being in childhood and how this development provides a foundation for adult faculties that will serve them for life. The exploration of the formative years of childhood can grow our deeds as adults working with and supporting young people as they grow in various ways.
Outline pending
Class 8 to 11
September 8 & 9
The program highlights with each class the growth and changes that they are going through. This includes puberty and the physical and emotional changes that go hand in hand over this time. The content is age appropriate for each class. It aims to deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourages greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community.
Parents & Caregivers
Mon 12/9 Class 8-11
Each session discusses the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child 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.
We look at how and when we work with children and 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.
The content helps to recognise the relevant depth and progression anthroposophy brings to this important aspect of life and the responsibility of community in raising children and working together to promote individual wellbeing.
Freshwater Creek Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students in Class 4 to 6. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information. (03) 5264 5077
This program highlights the growth and changes that occur during the years of classes 5 to 7. This includes puberty and the physical and emotional changes that go hand-in-hand over this time. The content is age appropriate for each class. It aims to deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourages greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community. Parents of Classes 5 to 7 can contact the school for more information.
Melanie Deefholts meets with students, parents and staff for the Healthy Relationships Program. Please contact the school for the schedule.
Sydney Australia: February 26 & 27 from 8am with keynote and workshops, then closing with a 6am keynote on Monday February 28.
New York USA: February 25 & 26 from 4pm with keynote and workshops, then closing with a 2pm keynote on Sunday February 27.
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Along with 3 keynotes by Lisa Romero, our team of educators, artists, and health professionals from Australia and the USA will be providing various workshops that will focus on Early Childhood, Primary School, and High School. This conference welcomes educators, parents, homeschool parents, and caregivers.
As the forms of education undergo the shifts and changes of our current world situation there is a call that can be heard by many. It is a call for a spirit-led education through which the truth of the human being can be given what is essential for their path.
There are certain forces bestowed in the growing child that prepare them to engage in life that are connected to their inner life and the spiritual world, and not only to the material, sensory life. It is these forces that allow us to recognise the reality stated by Rudolf Steiner that “nothing but the will to live life in a spiritual way, the will to allow spiritual decisions and spiritual motivations, to play a part in what we do in the physical world, can make humanity truly healthy again”. As material life intensifies, these forces will be more rapidly extinguished unless they are consciously held and renewed by the adults surrounding the growing child.
FEES
Whole Course (Keynotes and Workshops) : $75 AUD (~$54USD)
3 Keynotes only (no Workshops): $40 AUD (~$29 USD)
RECORDINGS
All sessions will be recorded and accessible to participants for a period after the conference.
This conference has finished and the recordings are available to purchase at the link below (until mid February 2022)
Exploring child development and how these foundational years reflect into adult life. As the adult that guards and guides them, we can strive to adjust our inner life and offer meaningful support.
with Melanie Deefholts
Melanie Deefholts visits the students, parents and staff to work with Health and Wellbeing - Building Resilience to Meet the World; Understanding the Complexities of Child Development in Today's World. Please refer to the school for the schedule.
Melanie Deefholts meets with students, parents and staff for the Healthy Relationships Program. Please contact the school for the schedule.
This is a practical workshop for educators who are introducing wellbeing, health and hygiene curriculums, parents and soon to be parents, grandparents and caregivers educating and caring for children to 9 years of age
with Lynette Clifton and Louise Schnitzhofer
A 90 minute online workshop - $20 (AUD)
Sydney - Sunday, May 30 at 9am
Perth - Sunday, May 30 at 7am
New York - Saturday, May 29 at 7pm
Preventive health care for the young child is fundamentally based on providing a health-giving environment because they rely upon others for nourishment and are yet to develop boundaries from their surroundings. Illness can arise when the child does not have the strength to deal with what enters them.
Artificial intelligence has become a part of every environment within which the young child is united. However children lack discernment of the Sense of Self and Other. By applying rhythmical and natural health-giving applications to the senses and through the skin we can balance the effects of technology and support each child towards wholistic wellbeing.
This hands-on workshop introduces anthroposophic preventative health care applications to the skin that can be carried into the daily rhythms of the classroom and home life. These practises can be adapted and extended to suit the individual, classroom and family needs. They build healthy practises of self-care for life that help to maintain wellbeing while also developing a healthy sense of Self and care for the other.
Each participant will be required to bring some basic equipment such as towels, hot water bottle and lemon to partake in the workshop. The experience can be assistive for participants heading into sleep as well as for those re-aligning with oneself for the day.
This workshop is within the Developing the Self the Developing the World Health and Wellbeing Program: Healing the Impacts of Technology - Care and Development of the Senses which begins in early childhood. Children and adults are supported towards capacities for community-orientated participation in the world. Contact us for additional workshops that support older children and adults.
Anthroposophy, as a science, embraces spiritual, social, emotional, cognitive and physical aspects of the human being.
Melanie Deefholts meets with parents of Perriwinkle Preschool to speak about child development.
Please refer to Perriwinkle for the time.
Melanie Deefholts will meet with parents and educators in the primary school to deepen the understanding of child development and support the children.
May 3 - Class 4
May 10 - Class 2
May 25 - Class 5
May 27 - Class 3
Louise Schnitzhofer meets with Class 3 parents to help understand the importance of warmth and how to support it.
Join Lyn Clifton for Mantle’s of Care to assist to carer's of children to 9yo.
These workshops are held every month and provide an option of a morning or evening group.
Tuesday night (6:30-8:30pm) or Wednesday morning (10am - 12pm)
Working with the archetypal care qualities of enfolding, holding and warming we will begin to prepare the basis for our home wellbeing kit that supports and harmonies our senses, strengthens and develops confidence and capacities in our children towards their own self care and that of others, and encourages and supports our body's self healing and uprightness. Through our connection with our Selves, the plants in our garden and the nature and seasons around us, we can begin to prepare our home health kit in readiness for our family's needs.
During the evening we will be introduced to enfolding , holding and warming , the sphagnum moss and its protective qualities, and the uplifting and harmonising lemon face cloth.
This practical workshop will offer participants an opportunity to begin to create their family's home health care kit whilst replenishing themselves on the various levels.
Covid requirements will be applied.
Melanie Deefholts will partake in the parents teacher meetings for Term 2. Building Resilience to Meet the World - Understanding the Complexities of Child Development in Today's World.
April 27 - Class 10
April 28 - Class 11
May 4 - Class 6
May 5 - Class 5
May 6 - Kindergarten
May 11 - Class 3
May 13 - Class 2
May 17 - Class 7
May 18 - Class 1
May 19 - Class 12
May 26 - Class 4
Melanie Deefholts will visit Tarremah to deliver the Healthy Relationships Program alongside content of the program Healing the Impact of Technology.
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
All day Monday & Tuesday afternoon -
Learning how to learn
Re-looking at the curriculum and how this supports healthy development
Q&A-Healing the impact of technology
PARENT EDUCATION
For parents of Classes 6 to 8
Monday 6.00 – 8.00pm Outline of Health and Wellbeing program to be delivered to students. Developing Child’s body and soul relationship.
For parents of Playgroup to class 2
Tuesday 6.00pm – 8.00pm Child development, foundations for their developing consciousness, understanding how to communicate with your child and support them through transitions.
For parents of Class 3 to 5 parent evening
Wednesday 6.00pm – 8.00pm Child development, 9 year old transition, changes to the feeling life and practical ways to support through these transitions.
STUDENTS
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
Class 4 to 10 Health and Wellbeing program
Freshwater Creek Steiner School is working with the Healthy Relationships with Self and Others: Social Understanding Gender and Sexuality Program.
The program will be delivered by Melanie Deefholts to students from Class 5 onwards. Parent meetings and Professional Development are also offered during the visit. Parents should contact the school for more information. (03) 5264 5077
