December Newsletter

Dear Friends of the Youth Section Worldwide,

As the year nears its closing, we take a moment to reflect on the learnings and achievements of 2022. A year of change, closures and new beginnings.

In this simple newsletter, we want to share our annual review and invite you to our future events, which are currently being shaped by the team in collaboration with youth around the world. We hope you will feel inspired by what has happened in the Section and what will become!

Some of us in the team would also like to take this opportunity to wave goodbye to you all as we move on to our next adventures and away from the Youth Section's work. It has been a true honour to be trusted with the Youth Section's work, and we are full of expectation for what new generations of young people will develop with and for Anthroposophy.

Many of us will think this Christmas and New Year's time about the First Goetheanum and its impulse deeply. We will also look ahead and connect to the centenary of the foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science. It is, therefore, no coincidence that 2023 forebodes to be a year of potential and renewed vitality. We hope you will join us in all that is to come for the Section's work in the future. In supporting youth to experience the Goetheanum, Anthroposophy and the possibilities that it offers to our present times. We also hope that you will continue by our side, enabling young people's initiatives and questions to shape a shared future together.

With much appreciation for your being there, we wish you a meaningful and light-filled Christmas and Holy Nights season,

The Youth Section at the Goetheanum team

THE YOUTH SECTION AT THE GOETHEANUM LOOKS BACK ON 2022 AND ITS ACHIEVEMENTS

Constanza Kaliks, Ioana Viscrianu, Andrea de la Cruz, Johannes Kronenberg, Gaia Termopoli, Jacinta Gorchs, Gabriele Nys and Nathaniel Williams

This year's achievements and highlights include the Youth Section's first Research School, the completion of the research project with three living and working communities in Germany, the second edition of "Question! Encounter! Play!" and the launching of a new initiative: The Threefold Social Order & the Task of Youth.

International Youth Conference in Camphill 2023 | Creating Community - How can we (re)-imagine our future?

11-14 May 2023
Newton Dee Camphill Community
You are warmly invited by the Newton Dee Camphill Community and the Youth Section at the Goetheanum to be engaged in a collective exploration of reimagining the future of communities by learning from the legacy of Camphill Communities and witnessing exciting new projects and ‘Green Shoots’ from around our Movement during our International Youth Conference - "Creating Community - How can we (re)-imagine our future?"

REFLECTIONS ON AGRICULTURE AS A CULTURAL IMPULSE
1-4 February 2023 at the Goetheanum

You are cordially invited to the Agriculture Conference 2023. We look forward to your participation at the Goetheanum in Dornach or at the digital conference!

For young attendees, there are various offers and means of support available, which you can use or apply for

a reduced price for the conference ticket at the Goetheanum and for the digital conference
a travel grant of up to CHF 120 for your trip to Dornach
a discount at the Basel St. Alban Youth Hostel, including the BaselCard

ONLINE COURSE "28 DAYS OF ANTHROPOSOPHY"
30 January - 26 February 2023, Online/Goetheanum

Study Anthroposophy remotely and connect to the Goetheanum from anywhere in the world: Applications are open for the 2023 Goetheanum Online Studies!

Convenience and flexibility are the basis of this learning experience. During the course “28 Days of Anthroposophy”, students can access virtual lectures, artistic practices and in-depth discussion groups led by the Goetheanum faculty. The study work can take place in groups in German, English and Portuguese/Spanish, according to the number of participants.

Tuition fees from 150CHF - 600CHF adapt to the students’ different financial situations.

How can the work of Anthroposophy be renewed and strengthened in a rapidly changing world? After more than 100 years of existence, what are its next steps? How can we take the experiences, challenges and achievements of the Anthroposophical Movement, Society and School of Spiritual Science into the future? Together we want to reshape the world movement that emerged from Anthroposophy!

We look forward to hearing different perspectives and questions from your Anthroposophical work. We are interested in your ideas and viewpoints on how the movement can progress, given the challenges and needs of our time.

A transdisciplinary working conference at which common challenges and questions of our time will be worked through, and artistic interventions, impulses for the future and encounters will be given space.

In 1924 Rudolf Steiner called to the youth of his time with the words, "stick together with an iron will". This was to overcome the great differences in perspectives and because, in Steiner’s words, “Sticking together is what is most necessary if we hope to accomplish anything today with regards to life’s great issues. […] Eventually, you may realise that the greatest of your youth was knowing how to stay together." (Steiner, R. in "Youth & the Etheric Heart" CW 217a)

In this spirit, we would like to appeal to our members and friends to support young people to come together. We would be very grateful for your support and will to help young people find their way to the Goetheanum!