Jacob Gerber, WHiSTEP Alumni SpotLight ~ Class of 2024

Learning to fly is a process. The fledgling needs to try its wings and keep moving forward through many attempts until it finds the stream of air that will carry it up and into the sky. CfA’s high school program is carrying young science educators into their vocation of supporting and nurturing the scientists of the future.

Alumni Directory

CfA’s Abbot Hill Alumni Group will launch its online alumni directory on February 1, 2025.

“This has been a project that has been many years in the making,” says Abbot Hill leadership team lead Diana Tesni. “We are excited to see what was a vision take shape as a reality.”

Explorations Online

A portrait of Deborah Dornemann

Explorations Online is now entering its sixth year. Over this period of time nearly 400 participants from around the world have gathered for the weekend seminars, and have come away enriched and inspired.

Building Bridges

From Alaska to Florida, northern New Hampshire to LA (with three stops in central California along the way!) we have found bridges that portray the mission of our Building Bridges Program: to connect aspiring Waldorf teachers with our teacher education programs at Antioch University and our Center for Anthroposophy.

Waldorf Leadership Development

Portrait of Torin and Karine.

Now in our ninth year, the Waldorf Leadership Development Program has been fortunate to work with our first ever international cohort.

Forward by the Executive Director

Portrait of David Barham

For many, these are scary times. An unstable and unpredictable political and economic situation, fires and floods, an unknown and unknowable future calling to us. Rudolf Steiner tells us, “Above all, we need to cultivate courage and fearlessness in the inmost depths of our thought life itself.”

CfA Calendar of Program Events

CfA has greatly expanded its summer season and beyond to include an array of courses spread throughout the year. In the coming half-year, we are offering a record seven distinct programs. Here are some highlights.

Alumni Ahoy!

CfA and Antioch graduates from across North America and beyond are being called together this summer to mark the retirement of one of their lead teachers. Bev Boyer, CfA’s faculty liaison to our alumni association, sounds the clarion call.

Before the Watch, the Watchmaker

In the run-up to an international youth conference on technology, Gareth Dicker peers beneath the dazzling distraction of digital devices to the creative human impulse that gave rise to them.