September 17, October 15 and 29
Sundays 1:30 -4:30

Course description: 

Michaela Gloeckler will offer three lectures on Salutogenesis, the science of the healthgiving inner Forces of resilience. She will guide us in understanding the symptomatology of illness and health. This course is foundational for iARTe students. 

Michaela Glöckler, M.D., a graduate of the original Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany,  studied history and German in Freiburg and Heidelberg and medicine in Tübingen and Marburg while engaging in her own study of anthroposophy.  After further training as a pediatrician and adolescent physician at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and the University Hospital in Bochum, she launched her career as pediatrician as well as school doctor in a Waldorf school. From 1988 to 2016 she served as Head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum (Dornach/Switzerland). These years included deep involvement in lecturing activities and the training of physicians (IPMT) at home and abroad. She is co-founder of the Alliance for Childhood and the European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy/ELIANT (www.eliant.eu). 

Publications in English: Guide to Child Health, The Dignity of the Young Child, Ethical Considerations in Medicine, Education – Health for Life, Education as Preventive Medicine, Medicine at the Threshold, and Healing Education.

October 11, 18, 25 and November 1, 8, 15
Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 

Course description:

By examining a series of seminal works of art through time, we will follow how human consciousness has imprinted itself in matter via the physical/spatial arts of painting and sculpture, with a few references to architecture. We will practice reading the language of color, line, form, composition, light and dark, etc. without relying on academic interpretations. A number of simple drawing exercises will enhance our capacities to observe.    

Patrick Stolfo M.A., has taught and mentored in numerous Waldorf schools and adult education centers across North America since 1981. As a long time faculty member at Hawthorne Valley School in New York, he has taught in grades 5 through 12 in practical and sculptural arts, drawing, and the History of Art and Architecture. He was an adjunct instructor in the summer Antioch and CFA programs over the span of three decades, and continues as co-director and instructor in anthroposophy and the arts at the Alkion Center for Waldorf Teacher Education at Hawthorne Valley. As a freelance sculptor and graphic artist, his work has been commissioned and/or shown in NY, MA, CA, England, and Sweden.

Sundays 1:30-4:30
October 8 and December 17

Course description:  

In this introduction, you will hear about the development of ATS from its roots in

Creative Speech as taught by Rudolf and Marie Steiner in the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. This development led to a new method in Anthroposophic Medicine with three main areas of application: speech and language disorders, respiration and psychosomatic illness. For each of these fields, specific interventions have been devised, which will be presented.

The second session of the introductory course of ATS that began in October, will continue to explore the three main areas of application: speech and language disorders, respiration and psychosomatic illness. For each of these fields, specific interventions have been devised, which will be presented.

Bio:

Dietrich von Bonin, MME

Arts Therapist (ED) with specialization in Speech and Drama. ATS practitioner. Graduation in speech and drama at the School for Speech and Drama, Goetheanum, Switzerland in 1983. Post-graduate training in Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech (ATS). Master of Medical Education, MME (2006).

Since 1984 ATS-Therapist at the Center for Anthroposophical Medicine „Therapeutikum“, Bern/Switzerland.  1998-2015 research associate at the Institute of Integrative Medicine IKIM, University of Bern, Switzerland. Lecturer and Author.

Wednesdays 7:30-9:00
December 6 and 13

Course description:

Reincarnation and the Human Encounter: Examples from History and Everyday Life.

Bio:

Torin Finser, Ph.D

Director of Building Bridges and Waldorf Leadership Development programs, founding trustee of CfA, Director of Waldorf Programs at Antioch University New England, post doctoral certification in Management Development, Harvard, author of 14 books, including Organizational Integrity and Leadership Development.

September 24, October 1 and 22
Sundays 1:30-4:00

Course description: 

We will continue our work with Liane Collot d’Herbois’ book on Light, Darkness, and Color in Art Therapy, and develop foundational exercises in color, discovering their lawful gestures and their healing qualities. We will address color movement as soul movement between the light of thinking and the warmth of the will and discover the too light and the too dark aspects of these soul gestures. We will paint the colors into images as we learn the gesture of each color and practice how to free and balance the soul.

Prerequisite: Foundational Arts, the Magenta course. 

Bio:

Karine Munk Finser

Director of Kairos Institute. Director of Transdisciplinary Studies of Healing Education, Antioch University New England. Director of Professional Development at the Center for Anthroposophy, art therapist and painter.

Karine Munk Finser was born on the Baltic island of Bornholm, Denmark, and later lived in Belgium, France, Switzerland and England before finding her home in the United States. Karine is an art therapist with a diploma from the Medical Section, Goetheanum. She ran the Center for Anthroposophy’s Renewal Courses for 21 years while being employed as a faculty member at Antioch University New England. In 2014, she began the Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education program (TSHE)

September 24, October 1 and 22
Sundays 1:30-4:00

Course description:
This course is created to give students a clear understanding of the 3 graphic elements used in making all 2 dimensional art: Color, Value and Form/Composition. While the emphasis will be on color, color values will lead us to a composition arising out of the interaction of color work and the value schemes of tint, tone and shade. Utilizing a landscape format we will explore various color harmonies, value schemes and formal composition structures, all of which will lead us to a simple schematic landscape image.

Charles Andrade

Charles paints in the colorist style that he evolved from his initial training in England at Tobias School of Art & Therapy. His paintings can be found in private collections in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Charles owns and operates Lazure Custom Wall Designs, a mural and decorative painting business specializing in Lazure, a unique European glazing finish that creates healing inner environments. Charles teaches fine art classes and offers Lazure and painting workshops worldwide.

November 5 and 19
Sundays 1:30-4:00

Course description:

This course will introduce Goethe’s color theory and explore color from a Goethean perspective. We will explore Goethe’s 7 fold color circle and find our way to Rudolf Steiner’s 12 fold color circle as a foundation for working with healing aspects of color. Kandinsky, Liane Collot d’Herbois, and color as soul will be addressed. 

Bio:

Karine Munk Finser

Director of Kairos Institute. Director of Transdisciplinary Studies of Healing Education, Antioch University New England. Director of Professional Development at the Center for Anthroposophy, art therapist and painter.

Karine Munk Finser was born on the Baltic island of Bornholm, Denmark, and later lived in Belgium, France, Switzerland and England before finding her home in the United States. Karine is an art therapist with a diploma from the Medical Section, Goetheanum. She ran the Center for Anthroposophy’s Renewal Courses for 21 years while being employed as a faculty member at Antioch University New England. In 2014, she began the Transdisciplinary Studies in Healing Education program (TSHE)