Engaged Community
Offerings for Walorf Schools
a healthy school community takes care of its parents, students and faculty
Parent Education Faculty Support Student Support
Parent Education
Parent Enrichment
Our parent enrichment offerings come in the form of intensives, courses, and lectures depending on the needs of the parents and the school culture. These include:
The Joy of Parenting​
How can I be my best parent? This offering makes use of practices and insights from Psychosynthesis and anthroposophical psychology. It focuses on mindful parenting, inner development, and authenticity. The goal is to help you to become the parent you want to be, in alignment with your deepest values and sense of self.
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Introduction to Anthroposophy
​This course is for parents (and teachers/staff/board members) interested in learning more about the foundations of Waldorf education. This open, engaging course looks at the roots of Waldorf education and addresses some myths and misconceptions about it.
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Waldorf Education for Adults
Have you sometimes wished that you could have the Waldorf experience that you are making possible for your children? This offering is designed to address that wish. The sessions are divided between exploring the Book of Nature and the Wisdom of the Human Being. In the Book of Nature, we look through an experiential,
Goethean lens at the wonders of color, plants, animals, and embryology. The Wisdom of the Human Being looks through the lens of the evolution of consciousness at humanity’s changing experience of itself and the world, from indigenous/ancient cultures, through agrarian, industrial, and modern cultures.
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Child Development
These classes and lectures focus on child development from ages 0-4, 5-9, 10-13, and from 14-17. They offer parents a map to understand the beautiful, organic unfolding of the child from infancy, through early childhood and the younger grades, into the dynamic wilds of middle school and adolescence.
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Parent Guidance
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Sometimes parents benefit from outside support to work effectively with their students and the school. We offer individual guidance and support.
Faculty Support
​We offer a variety of support to Faculty, Staff, and Board Members.
Professional Development
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Self-Care
Every Waldorf teacher knows that one of its biggest dangers is burnout and that one of the greatest needs is to master self-care. This 6-part, highly practical workshop is designed to give teachers the tools to maintain inner balance and energy across the demanding school year. These in-person sessions focus on inner work, foundational exercises, and rejuvenation. Teachers will learn techniques from psychosynthesis and anthroposophical psychology and will come to see Waldorf teaching as a modern path of initiation.
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Child Observation
More and more, we are coming to see that in our time the educative is the curative. This offering helps the working teacher to use the curriculum as a medicine for their students. It also includes the possibility that we visit your classroom to observe it, or an individual child, to offer our support and suggestions. We can also offer help in navigating challenging conversations with parents.​
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Refreshing the Curriculum
​We are available during in-service days, preview/review days, or college meetings to help refresh both halves of the curriculum, the Book of Nature and the Wisdom of the Human Being. The goal of this offering is to provide new perspectives, tools, and inspiration. We will offer experiences and deepening of Goethean Observations and the Wisdom of the Human Being focuses on the evolution of consciousness, from indigenous/ancient cultures, through agrarian, industrial, and modern cultures.
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Fostering Community
This offering works with suggestions by Rudolf Steiner for recognizing that inner development and community development stand in a healthy, polar relationship to one another. This highly practical workshop takes up and applies to the modern world Steiner’s insights into the four Platonic virtues, the seven soul moods, and the twelve forms of thought. It can help board members, administrators, and faculty members to overcome distrust and to reimagine their organizational model, distribution of responsibilities, and how faculty meetings are run.​
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Study Group
Having passed the first one hundred years of Waldorf education, it is necessary to ask how, and in what ways, anthroposophy remains relevant to Waldorf school. This study group takes up some of the basic works of anthroposophy—not only by Rudolf Steiner, but by Karl König and Owen Barfield as well—with this specific question in mind, to see if they are not only relevant to our time, but even still ahead of it.
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Mentoring and Coaching
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We are available for individual mentoring and coaching for
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Teachers
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Pedagogical Leaders
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Board Members
Student Support
It is increasingly common, for a variety of reasons, that students need specialized support outside of the classroom. This might involve simply tutoring in the subject matter, or deeper work on why particular subjects are difficult, or even deeper work on social and emotional well-being. We offer individualized support for such students on a one-on-one basis, both online and in person, and either during or after school hours.
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Middle and high school writing and reading skills
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Math skills and number sense for students in the lower grades
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Coaching students who face social/emotional challenges​
Meet the Team
Schedule a free 30-minute session
Feeling curious? Schedule a free 30-minute conversation to get a good idea of what I have to offer. This will help you determine if we are a good fit, which package is best for you, and how I can personalize your journey. We will look at your life; where you may feel stuck, where you need support, and how I can be of service.