Kairos Institute

Healing in a World of Need

Kairos Institute Offers:

Summer Residency

Wilton, New Hampshire
July 6, evening to July 11, noon

This is a training intensive for experienced teachers, school leaders, and those in the healing professions. We hope to support all those looking to supplement their teacher training with medical and psychological support in healing education. This is an advanced course.

What are the Behaviors of our Children and Adolescents telling us? Addressing Their Urgent Needs through Anthroposophic Medical and Psychological Insights
with James Dyson, M.D.; Kim John Payne, M.Ed.; and Tonya Stoddard, LCSW

Fee: $950

Keynote Address:  The Four Four Erosion into Rock Bottom and Renewing the Flow of the Four Ethers
with Kim John Payne

Evening Offering
with Adam Blanning, M.D., Live Zoom Lecture, July 8 at 7PM

Embracing and Overcoming Developmental Displacements – How to Love the Children Being Born Today Even More!

This short training intensive is designed to offer multidisciplinary perspectives for those currently engaged in helping children needing supplementary support, both educationally, socially, and within family systems. This includes experienced teachers, those involved in therapeutic professions and also school leaders. The three main contributors will bring together perspectives and professional and practical skills grounded in an in-depth anthroposophic understanding of child development and how this relates to our times' changing consciousness. Each of them has very extensive experience in supporting Waldorf education and families, both in pastoral and educational ways. This course is being conceived as an advanced “aster course" designed specifically for those looking to extend their existing understanding and capacities and rekindle enthusiasm for the challenges facing everyone involved in offering support. 

“Witnessing with Wonder, Responding with Reverence” by Tonya Stoddard

Offering thoughts on how teachers, therapeutic helpers and parents can observe the process of incarnation of the modern child and adolescent with curiosity so that the path to supporting each child reveals itself. Can we begin to notice how the cosmic etheric forces brought through the gates of birth interacts with the developing etheric body of the child through their environment. Can we begin to notice as well when the astral forces are released too early and how this shifts the integration of the astral and etheric bodies, creating an incongruence in the development of the child. As we develop our skills to perceive the different ways in which children are unfolding we can then begin to perceive what may be needed to support each unique child in their journey. 

Spacial Dynamics
with Jan Lyndes

Rooted in the art of Spacial Dynamics®, this course invites students to explore the deep connection between their spatial gestalt and the healing power of movement. In a supportive, playful, and curious environment, students will engage in Spacial Dynamic ® movement exercises and hands-on streaming techniques, fostering a deeper awareness of the relationship between the physical body and the Gestalt that enlivens it.
Through gentle, experiential games and activities, students will learn to identify and release spatial hindrances while exploring the fourfold nature of the self. This course offers a sacred opportunity to deepen one’s understanding of the body’s spatial dynamics and provides healing tools that support both personal transformation and collective well-being.

Hygienic Eurythmy
with Maria VerEecke

Protection against Fear
“We must root out from the soul the fear and horror of that which approaches humanity from the future; how anxious and afraid we are today of everything that lies in the future and especially of the hour of death. We must acquire composure with regard to all feelings and sensations about the future, look forward with absolute equanimity to everything that may come, and only think
that whatever may come will come to us through the wise guidance of the world. This must be put before the soul again and again. This leads to receiving like a gift the retrospective powers for past earth lives.”
Rudolf Steiner, Lecture in Bremen, Germany, November 12, 1911

Meditations for Morning and Evening

Morning
With the dawning of a new day, breathe in the light.
Allow myself to flow together with the spiritual world powers.
Maintain a bright awareness of the day with self-confident I-feeling.
Live in harmony with the great world laws and feel at one with them.
Ask for acceptance.

Evening
I carry my sorrows into the setting sun,
Place all my worries into her radiating womb,
Purified in love, transformed into light,
They return as helping thoughts,
As strength for self-sacrificing deeds.

Eurythmy to Strengthen the Soul Forces
with Cezary Ciaglo

TBA

Animal Assisted Therapy
with Brian Jacques

Our brothers and sisters of the animal kingdom share this Earth with us and live in deep relationship to the natural world which is their home. Their heightened senses are attuned to the subtle changes in their environment and the outer and inner movements of those around them. Some animals live closer to human beings, in homes and on farms, and there the human-animal bond can become a mutual source of joy, comfort, and kinship.

In schools teachers are seeing an increase in the number of children who need regular breaks from academic work, who struggle to be fully present in their physical bodies, and who find social encounters challenging.

In this introductory course, we will consider ways that farm animals can support children through different activities and levels of engagement. Time will be spent with several species of farm animals to better understand them and their potential to support a healing process.

This course also serves as an introduction to the new animal therapy track beginning in September 2025 through the Kairos Institute.

Read More about Kairos Institute

The Kairos Institute at the Center for Anthroposophy, founded by Karine Munk Finser, provides professional training in healing artistic therapies and Emergency Pedagogy, addressing global suffering and trauma. The institute offers a supportive community where students develop resilience and self-healing capacities through a combination of residencies, artistic studios, and online classes. As a cooperative member of iARTe, Kairos students work toward a Diploma from the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, and a Certificate in International Crisis Intervention. The program is designed for those in the healing professions, offering a unique approach to personal growth and trauma recovery.

In a world filled with tremendous soul struggle, where the demands on both young and old often lead to overwhelm, mental health crises, and PTSD, the Kairos Institute at the Center for Anthroposophy offers a beacon of hope. Founded by Karine Munk Finser, the institute is dedicated to addressing suffering in the world by providing professional training in healing artistic therapies and Emergency Pedagogy.

Healing in a World of Need

Students in Kairos form a supportive community who journey together over several years. During this time, they develop skills to strengthen resilience and self-healing capacities for themselves and others. Students participate in two residencies per year plus artistic studios and online classes.

At a glance, Kairos provides training in:

Artistic Therapies:

Kairos is a cooperative member of iARTe. Students work towards a Diploma from the Medical Section, Goetheanum, Switzerland. Artistic therapies include painting, clay, and drawing.

Emergency Pedagogy:

Kairos is an English language site for Bernd Ruf’s trauma and crisis intervention modules. These modules deepen students’ understanding of trauma preventative pedagogical and artistic healing approaches. Students work towards a Certificate in International Crisis Intervention. Some modules are included in the Kairos training.

In this time of tremendous soul struggle, the demands on young and old often lead to overwhelm, mental health crises, and PTSD. These stresses can make it difficult to learn in a normal classroom setting or to have enough inner resilience to participate fully in life. The Kairos Institute was created to address suffering in the world. Kairos offers professional training in the healing artistic therapies and in Emergency Pedagogy.

A renowned international faculty contributes to making Kairos a vibrant school of learning. It is a soul school where all are welcomed into a living process dedicated to healing. This work is based on careful training in observation and living into another person’s needs. Empathy and compassion form the foundation of our creativity; and together with the practice and development of artistic capacities, human beings can become medicine for one another.

For questions and more info on our programs, contact Karine today!

Karine Munk Finser
Director

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Attention April ’25 Residency Attendees

See the Residency schedule and Keene accommodations listing below.

KAIROS NEWS

New Art Therapy Training Cohort begins in April 2025

Studio in ColorWorks
with Charles Andrade

Kairos is adding a new track in Animal Therapy in Summer 2025 with Brian Jacques

Please contact Brian below with your interest or questions.

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Please Support Emergency Pedagogy without Borders:

Kairos Spring-Summer 2025 Program Overview

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Kairos Emergency Pedagogy without Borders Team USA in Action

Our Kairos Team, USA, was founded in the summer of 2024. In October, we all met in Asheville under the direction of Bernd Ruf and Alicia D’Urso for our first crisis intervention. We felt called to respond to the wreckage and chaos from the severe storm and flooding that hit North Carolina. Our intervention was successful, thanks to the strong leadership who guided us to become a strong and focused team and to the vast experience of the pedagogues and therapists who formed the sixteen-person team. In addition, we had strong support on the ground from our local coordinator and others who helped us: Sola, School of Living Arts gave us housing and much more, Asheville Waldorf School provided a daily site for students and community members, and we ventured to Shanonoa and Black Mountain where met community members at the Peri Social House. Some of us visited the LatinX community. We returned home grateful for all we had learned and deeply moved by all the human encounters we had experienced—a huge thank you to Bernd Ruf and Alicia D’Urso.

February 8-13, 2025:
Second Crisis intervention under the direction and guidance of Bernd Ruf, Alicia D’Urso, and Renaldo Nascimento Team Kairos will join Team California, who is leading this Los Angeles crisis intervention. We will offer our support to children in the community who are suffering from devastating loss, grief, and trauma after the destructive fires. Natalia Picasso from Team Kairos will submit a report after we return home. We hope to align our two Teams under Team USA for this critical crisis intervention.

Leadership and Faculty

An international faculty of experts contributes to making Kairos a vibrant learning community. It is a soul school where all are welcomed into a living process dedicated to healing. Through careful training in the artistic process, we aim to nurture empathy and compassion, enabling human beings to become medicine for one another.

Karine Munk Finser
Director