Newsletter World Teachers' Conference 2023

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are delighted to welcome nearly 1000 people from many countries to the Goetheanum for the 11th World Teachers’ Conference from April 10-15. In connection with this event, we are sending you three documents with this newsletter:

Information on how to follow the lectures via livestream (for those who cannot come to the Goetheanum)

A letter to all Waldorf and Rudolf Steiner schools and kindergartens from Trevor Mepham on behalf of the Hague Circle – International Council for Steiner Waldorf Education
An article by Tomáš Zdražil on the conference theme

With warm regards from the Pedagogical Section,

Constanza Kaliks and Philipp Reubke

Follow the livestream on goetheanum.tv!

For all those who cannot travel to the conference, but still want to follow the lectures, there is the possibility to watch them via livestream.

All lectures can be accessed via this page.

The livestreams are accessible via subscription at goetheanum.tv

Normal price 14.90 Euro/month

Reduced price 3.90 Euro/month

For both offers there is a free trial period of 7 days.

Those who are in an economic situation that does not allow them financial leeway can watch the lectures for free by following this link.

In any case, we are grateful for donations, as the conference and the video production are a big financial effort for us.

Dear Colleagues around the world,

The 11th World Teachers’ Conference begins at the Goetheanum on 10th April. So, for all those heading towards Dornach, we look forward to glimpsing the blossoms on the trees on the hill, and meeting a lot of people, and learning many things! The latest estimate of those attending is approaching 1000 (934 to be exact!).

But this letter is to all of you, especially those who are not coming in person. The issues and the questions before us are felt in every home and every classroom in the world. We meet at a time of intense change and challenge, on multiple levels, throughout the world, and right inside the heart of each human being.

It has become almost routine to talk about unprecedented levels of change; perhaps the new element is the speed and scope of change. We seem to live in the age of the exponential. Individually and collectively, it can feel like humanity is walking a world precipice, both in terms of the material, measurable world, and the ‘other’ world – the world that is present, yet often hidden.

The Conference theme – affirming life, nurturing it and having trust – is an unashamedly positive and potent recipe for human development in the world at this juncture. The key-note message is a push-back to the voices of nihilism, and those who predict the hollowing out of human identity and humanness. (...)

Read the full article by Trevor Mepham here in pdf

Spiritual Ecology of the Human Being and Realms of Nature

On the twelfth day of the First Teachers’ Course Rudolf Steiner outlines to the teachers to-be a unique picture of the connections of the true nature of the human being with the three realms of nature, the animal, plant and mineral realm.

The human being is described here – put in modern terms – as an ecosystem in a higher sense that lives in symbiosis with the realms of nature.

Questions on the modern teacher’s tasks by Tomáš Zdražil here