FALL 2025
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Kairos: Healing in a World of Need
An ever-growing community of Healing Crisis Interventions
by Karine Munk Finser
Beginning in September:
Our annual Convocation will feature an overview of the year and a keynote address by Orland Bishop:
Please consider joining us. All are welcome. Registration link: Click Here
We need your support:
Many of our students are entering their final fourth year and will be looking for clinical experience, working alongside a nurse practitioner, a therapist, or a doctor. We are hoping for anthroposophically inspired practices or holistic practices. Healing Centers, schools, eldercare, and any organization that has an interest in art therapy, using the media of painting, drawing, and clay, are of interest. If you wish to connect with me on this topic, please write to karine@centerforanthroposophy.org
Our Studios, designed for these advanced students only, will continue to focus on case studies and the application of what we have learned, including intake for different age groups and how to create a conscious color journey, from human encounter to healing motif. With children, we use stories, images, and colors. This is the highly effective Kairos method. With adults, we work more directly with the laws of light, darkness, and color, as well as dynamic healing processes. The foundation of this method is the 12-fold aspect of light, darkness, and color, as given to us by Liane Collot d’Herbois. As this work is somewhere between the medical and the pedagogical, we have a very strong medical and psychological foundation to frame our color studies. This semester will feature Dr. Jin Sook Song (Children from Violent Homes, Children who have suffered Sexual Abuse), and Dr. Patricia Gans (Study of lectures from the Curative Education Course). Dr. Gans taught the spring residency focusing on the cardinal organs, which were offered as case studies and organ dissection. We are incredibly grateful for these contributions to Kairos.
This September, we are welcoming a new cohort to our vibrant community. This is a 4-year part-time transformative training. Please write to me if you are interested in joining. We offer two residencies per year, with a third optional residency focused on the artistic process. We are Cooperative members of iARTe, (Medical Section, Goetheanum) and work on fulfilling all the competencies while also staying true to our own healing pathway.
Kairos always knew that animal-assisted therapy would be part of what we offer, and this year, we will begin a new track. If interested, please write to brian@centerforanthroposophy.org
Kairos: Healing in a World of Need
An ever-growing community of Healing Crisis Interventions
We began Kairos in 2022 with a deep commitment to facilitating training in both Emergency Pedagogy and Trauma Pedagogy. The former is for addressing acute needs after a disaster strikes, while the latter is for process-oriented work that helps embody healing through various therapies.
Kairos is a vibrant community of individuals, some of whom are in our Studios and full members of the art therapy training, while others we only meet when studying Traumatology or when on the ground, such as in Asheville in October ‘24 or in Los Angeles in February ’25.
We are, then, Emergency Pedagogy without Borders, which is part of a worldwide trauma intervention effort led by Bernd Ruf. We join our friends from all over the US. A crisis intervention is currently being planned for Texas and Michigan, and we will be in Texas in October.
There is immense suffering in the world. In this time of celebrating Michaelmas, we are reminded of the Mystery schools of old, where they celebrated the four virtues: Wisdom, Balance, Justice, and Fortitude. Fortitude was the original one, the essential virtue. The virtue of fortitude is essential in Steiner’s framework. It is the soul’s capacity to endure the rigors of spiritual development with steadiness and courage. Fortitude arises from a trained will and becomes the strength that supports imagination. Without fortitude, imaginative forces risk dissolving into illusion or fantasy; with it, the soul remains grounded and receptive to genuine spiritual insight. Fortitude, then, is not only moral courage—it is the very vessel that contains and sustains our spiritual fire.
From all of us at Kairos, I wish you a spirit-filled Michaelmas,
With gratitude and with joy,
Karine
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places,
But still, there is much that is fair. And although in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows perhaps the greater.
— JRR Tolkien
Spring/Summer 2022