The Kingdom of Childhood
Growing Together Book Study Spring 2025
When: Tuesdays May 20th to June 24th
Where: Online via Zoom
Time: 6:30-8:00pm EST
Investment: $60CAD, payment via e-transfer (or PayPal if in a different currency)
Materials: The Kingdom of Childhood by Rudolf Steiner (PDF available online if you don’t have the physical book!)
Each week will include reflections for one lecture and its themes (I’ve created theme titles for each lecture), as well as my insights into each of the grades, creating a big picture from which we can then focus on individual needs.
Week One: Lecture One: The Art of Education and The Wisdom of the Human Being, grades 1-3 overview
Week Two: Lecture Two: Observing Life Itself and Touching the Soul with Imagination, Grades 4-6 overview
Week Three: Lecture Three: The World In Me, Me In The World, Grades 7-8 overview
Week Four: Lecture Four and Five: Enkindling the Soul and Whole to Parts, open development/curriculum discussion and answering specific group questions
Week Five: Lecture Six: Feeling into the Curriculum, open development/curriculum discussion and answering specific group questions
Week Six: Lecture Seven: Rhythm and Reality, open development/curriculum discussion and answering specific group questions
As the weeks progress, each participant will be invited to send in questions they would like answered during the open discussion weeks (questions can be sent anonymously). If no questions are sent in, we will come upon questions organically during our discussion!
Who Shall Raise the Children?
The Living Art of Parenting for the 21st Century
An Intensive for Parents and Educators, Offered by Marg Beard and Kati Gabor
Through inspiring presentations, artistic activities, and movement exercises, space will be created to find and explore your own unique question in the field of parenting. This question shall become the North Star that guides you through the turbulent waters of raising children in our times. Throughout the journey of following the Star, you develop new parenting skills and capacities which then become an inner compass. Our intention for the workshop is to plant seeds together for connection and to inspire new social forms out of the ever deepening inner knowing of what is needed for the future. After all, it takes a village to raise a child. Marg and Kati, as New Adult Education Facilitators, apply individualized spiritualized learning processes based on Coenraad van Houten’s work and will introduce My Child MySelf, a parent education process developed by Arlene Thorn. As students and facilitators of these modalities they will call on the work of Kim John Payne (Simplicity Parenting) as well as Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi (U-lab and Social Presencing Theatre https://www.u-school.org/social-arts#spt-in-education ) Please bring a notebook, sketch book and coloured crayons.
Location: Rudolf Steiner College Canada, Toronto, Ontario www.rscc.ca
Date: July 21-25
Time: 9:00am-4:45pm
Investment: Festival fee is $680 CAD per week (about $475 USD), with
10% discount for two weeks and 20% discount for 3 weeks. For more information and to register, please follow the link: Rudolf Steiner College Canada Summer Festival
Past Events
The Four Temperaments: Balancing Temperaments to Support the Adult-Child Relationship Tuesday evenings in March, 6-7:30pm EST
Spring 2023 Book Study – Homemaking and Personal Development: Meditative Practice for Homemakers by Veronika van Duin Tuesday evenings 6-7:30pm EST beginning April 4, 2023
Grade One Overview Workshop January 12 2023 6-8pm
Growing Together Winter 2023 Book Study – Growing Children, Thriving Children by Lou Harvey-Zahra Tuesdays January 17-Feb 28 2023
Growing Together Book Club – Life is the Curriculum by Cynthia Aldinger October 2 2022
The Soft Launch Rhythm Workshop – Tuesday August 30, 2022 8-9pm
Growing Together Book Club – Growing Children, Thriving Children by Lou Harvey-Zahra June 2022 Tuesdays 7-8pm
The Advent of Something Special – December 2nd and 4th, 2021
The Seven Life Processes with Marg Beard – Autumn 2019 September 7, 28, October 16, November 26th
The Four Temperaments with Marg Beard- Autumn 2018 Workshop Series – September 22, October 13, November 3, November 24
The Living Art of Learning, and Your Child: A Child Development and Education Intensive Workshop Series with Marg Beard – Spring 2018
