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How can we use pedagogy and healing artistic therapies to address the consequences of trauma?

Emergency Pedagogy: Traumatology II With Bernd Ruf

(Traumatology I is not a prerequisite.)

Bernd Ruf, author of Educating Traumatized Children and founder of an international crisis intervention center in Germany, returns to Wilton July 2-7, 2023 to continue his program of emergency pedagogy. This course will build upon last summer’s overview of trauma and offer further insights into human developmental psychology.

Bernd Ruf is a well-known researcher in anthroposophical emergency and trauma education. His initiative, Emergency Education without Borders, is dedicated to addressing and healing trauma in children and adolescents in war zones and places struck by natural disasters around the world. His work includes countries like China, Indonesia, Japan, Gaza, Kirgizstan, Iraq, Nepal, Lebanon, Kenya, Ecuador, Chile, the Philippines, Columbia, Belgium, France, Germany, Mexico, Ukraine, Turkey. Restoring human biographies lies at the heart of this work. Bernd Ruf’s evening lecture at the residency this summer will feature recent crisis interventions.

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Among the topics to be addressed:

  • pre-birth trauma
  • attachment and detachment disturbances
  • sense disturbances
  • trauma and rhythm disturbances
  • heart rate variability
  • sleep research
  • trauma and sleep

The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems will offer the background to better understand the unfolding of adolescence: the search for identity and I development. Bernd Ruf will describe pathways for psychological intervention and healing processes. 

In the afternoons, participants will sing with Jason Child, Music Director at the Emerson Waldorf School in North Carolina, before joining their choice of workshop on trauma prevention. Each workshop will consist of five sessions (one per day). The week will culminate with a celebratory sharing of the various workshops.

Bernd Ruf will offer lectures each morning and daily Q and A sessions in the time slot before dinner. Evening events will include a public lecture on Emergency Pedagogy and cultural events. 

Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion from the Center for Anthroposophy (CfA), as well as a Certificate from the Emergency Pedagogy Center in Karlsruhe, Germany. Participants can apply these certificates towards a full diploma in international crisis intervention. CfA is offering at least the 4 Modules in Emergency Pedagogy most suitable for educators and art therapists (2022-2025), and may add other Modules if this becomes possible. 

Choice of workshops will include: Clowning, Music Therapy, Painting Therapy, Speech and Drama, Healing Storytelling, Eurythmy, and Animal Therapy. 

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Summer 2023 Afternoon Workshops

Workshop description:
Clowns have big emotions, big hearts and great empathy. They mess up, they make mistakes, but they are eternally optimistic. They remind us of what it is to be human. As a practice, clowning affirms relationship and we learn not from what we know but by how much we are connecting to ourselves, to the world and to others. As such, clowning is a social art.

As teachers, parents and therapists we can fortify ourselves tremendously by accessing our inner clown and utilizing a clown’s outlook. In these afternoons together we will take a few small and playful steps to confront fears associated with being seen, not knowing what to do and trusting to stay in authenticity with what is most present. We will also laugh and have fun.

Bio:

Laura Geilen
Laura Geilen studied dance at the Boston Conservatory of Music, started a family and took a degree in Human Development from Leslie University. She completed the Curative Education and Social Therapy course while living in a Camphill community. She has training certificates in childbirth education, Spacial Dynamics, CircusYoga and clowning. She has taught movement education and circus arts in Waldorf schools and therapeutic movement in Camphill for 20 years. She runs a number of circus arts summer programs and leads clowning workshops in many settings as a member of the team of Nose to Nose of North America. In all her work she enjoys bringing people of all ages and abilities a renewed experience of their creativity, authenticity and aliveness through the transformative power of play.

Workshop description:

In this course you will learn how to bring pedagogical speech and drama into your classroom or practice. The class will explore how to use pedagogical drama as a framework for helping students process their experiences, help heal trauma, and grow as free human beings. By gaining a deeper understanding of the twelve senses and how they relate to drama, the class will use the pillars of Creative Speech – sounds of language and imagination – to enliven and transform story, poetry, puppetry, and plays.

Bio:

Debra Spitulnik

Debra Spitulnik, M.Ed.

Debra Spitulnik is an adjunct professor of Creative Speech at Antioch University New England, and faculty member for the Center for Anthroposophy. As a core faculty member of Kairos Institute she leads the training in artistic and healing Speech and Drama. Debra has led the development of pedagogical speech and believes that Creative Speech brings healing and nourishment to the soul and empowers the voice. She infuses all her classes with three decades of her unique experiences as a class teacher, subject teacher and speech teacher. She teaches speech, drama, storytelling, and curriculum to teachers nationwide.

Goetheanum Diploma in the arts of Speech and Drama., PerformInternational; M.Ed., Waldorf Education, Antioch University New England; B.S. Elementary and Special Education, Syracuse University.

Course description:

Trauma has in most cases a polarizing effect on a person(s) ability to feel safe in themselves and the world at large. One polarity (but there are many), goes towards a gesture of condensing, that of hardening, where the soul/physical becomes fixed and entrapped. The other polarity goes towards a gesture of dispersing, of loosening, and becoming lost from the world.  

The aim of this workshop is to explore, discover and practice movement inspired therapeutic modalities, with the intent to support the individual whohas experienced trauma in the past, the present and (the future). To provide a supportive protective gesture, so that the individual may find the place or rather the space ‘in-between’ thepolarities encountered.  

The practical skill activities, practices and applications presentenced in this workshop are primarily inspired out of the research and practice of the art of eurythmy/eurythmy therapy, and Curative Education and aspects of anthroposophical informed nursing homecare practices. 

BIO:

 

Over the course of the last 35+ years, Carsten has lived and worked with children, youth, and adults with developmental disabilities in Camphill communities in Scotland, England, and the United States. In true Camphill style, he has tried his hand at almost everything. He has carried responsibilities as a houseparent, workshop leader, teacher, administrator, counselor, and therapist. Carsten holds a Bachelor of Arts in the Art of Eurythmy and holds a diploma in Eurythmy Therapy. Furthermore, holds acertificate of completion of the Anthroposophical Nurse Training (Home healthcare). 

He currently lives at The Camphill School, Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, where his overall responsibility and focus over the past 15 years has been in the medical and therapeutic field. He serves as The Director of Medical and Therapeutic Services, is a licensed EMT. 

Carsten is a faculty member in the Camphill Academy (Curative Education) and adjunct faculty member of Transdisciplinary Healing Education Program Studies, Antioch University. A motto he lives by is that in life we find a true path of learning in the contemplation of the in-between. He is a therapist at heart, where the listening ear is at the core. 

Course description: 

Through artistic exercises in pastel and watercolor, we will create images that arise from the light of the heart. We will paint the mood of this inner soul landscape, using magenta, cobalt violet and violet together with soothing earth tones to kindle the fire of the heart. 

We will begin with chalk pastels and move to watercolor on the last two days, working with soothing blues that offer us a sense of calm and inner protection, culminating with the carmine red. Finally, we will attempt to express the central light of the heart as an image of a future consciousness that is centered in empathy and compassion. 

Somatic exercises that address trauma, sorrows, and fears will be shared as suggested daily practices. 

Materials: Please bring your favorite brush(es), and feel free to bring your own chalk pastels. Please bring along an image (postcard or photo) of something that you love. It can be anything that is beautiful and comforting to you and that you don’t mind sharing with the class.

Bio:

Portrait of Karine Munk Finser

Karine Munk Finser, M.Ed.

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 with diploma from the Medical Section, Goetheanum. Karine is also an active 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)

Course description: 

We will explore improvisation in melody, harmony, rhythm and the voice as a pathway to freeing trapped trauma in the three soul-forces of thinking, feeling and willing.

With simple, easily playable, beautifully sounding instruments, we seek expression of different soul states, moods, and emotions, to bring about inner

movement, release and harmonization. With the most intimate instrument, our voice, we finally allow the vibrations of sound to stream through and out of the body.

Bio:

Monica Talaya Armstutz

Monica Talaya

Monica Talaya completed the Dorion School of Anthroposophical Music Therapy (AMT) in 2005, after her training as a Certified Music Practitioner. Since then, she has worked as an AMT with different populations, age groups and in varied settings, most consistently in the Camphill Communities. She also teaches the lyre to children (from 5 years old onward) and adults in groups and individually.

Monica has given presentations about AMT and has lead courses and workshops for early childhood teachers and parents of young children about the importance of the ‘mood of the fifth’, providing an in-depth experience and understanding of the different stages of a child’s musical development and needs. She wishes to inspire parents for and teaches the singing of lullabies.
Earlier in her life she trained to be a kindergarten- and later a special education teacher and raised her own five children.

Course description: 

We live in an age of nonstop storytelling. Streaming media, social media, text threads, and now chat GBT deliver more content than our imaginations can comprehend. This is not only overwhelming—it makes us question how we got here, where we are going, and what is the point. When we take the time to breathe, to be still, and to sit in quiet contemplation, our answers to these questions tend to arrive at the same place: everything we do, we do for each other.  What we want and what we have always wanted … is community.  

Time and time again, we remember that community is the antidote for all that ails us. In this workshop, we will take time to connect to the moment, to the place, and to each other and allow the emergent narrative to guide us.  Stories are what connect us to everything—it is our mycelium, and over the course of this week, we will learn to see our web of narrative like a matrix. We then use ritual and rites to tease out the stories that bring us closer, make us more resilient, and help us spread a restored sense of wonder. 

Bio:

David McCain

David Sewell McCann has been working with narrative his entire life. He’s been a fresco painter, a filmmaker, a class teacher, an author, he wrote and told all the stories for Sparkle Stories, and through it all, storytelling has proven to be the most enduring and clarifying form of connection. It works when nothing else can, and it is teachable. He teaches the Twelve Tools for Telling and Attending to children and adults at How to Story. 

Course description: 

Curative agriculture-the healing capacities of the animal/human relationship:
In this course you will begin to understand the healing capacities of the animal/human relationship. We will observe and work with a variety of farm animals and explore how the group soul of the animal relates to the temperament and needs of the children. 
 
All people, especially those who have experienced trauma, benefit from forming safe trusting relationships with animals while they increase confidence, self worth, and a sense of purpose. 
 
We will engage in simple and practical ways to incorporate meaningful work surrounding animal care. We will focus on the rhythm of nature as a healing force and the life of the animal in the context of the cycle of the seasons. Discussions will include how to integrate animals as healers in the realms of thinking, feeling and willing life.  We will focus on the healing effects of biodynamic agriculture and the senses, particularly, the sense of well being, touch, balance, and self movement. We will also consider how domestic pets and wild animals can positively influence the healing process of the traumatized child. We will visit the therapeutic animals on Earth and Sky Farm Community and Temple Wilton Community Farm (both locations are within 2 miles from High Mowing and transportation will be coordinated) 
 
Participants should come dressed appropriately for the weather and farm conditions.
 
Bio:
Michaelann Murphy
Michaelann Murphy is a biodynamic farmer, Waldorf educator, and founder of Earth and Sky Farm Community. She holds a masters degree in Waldorf Education, and her teaching certification encompasses early childhood through high school. She is an experienced educator, having taught nursery, kindergarten, and grades children in a number of Waldorf and private schools. She is the prior director of several early childhood centers and farm based education programs. In addition to teaching, Michaelann has served in Waldorf schools as pedagogical chair, a member of governance groups, and as an early education mentor. Michaelann has long held educational circles and studies for the benefit of adults in community, through movement, parent education, therapeutic agricultural activities, and teacher enrichment. As a trained and experienced biodynamic farmer, she is passionate about creating and guiding programs for the healing of the earth and the therapeutic effects of agriculture and nature in both children’s and adult’s lives.
Tuition Information

Kairos Institute

Healing in a World of Need

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2026 Open Courses 

Saturday, January 10, Saturday, January 17, Sunday, January 24, and Saturday, January 31, all 3:00-6:00 PM EST

Fee: $450

In this introductory drawing/painting course, students will work with the basic concepts of visual thinking that are at the foundation of any two-dimensional art form. Graphic design principles such as polarity, metamorphosis and unity will be studied in various mediums and techniques. Color, value, and form will lead students into the dynamic relationship between intellect and intuition as the two together generate images of personal resonance and conscious visual display.

We begin Saturday, January 10, at 3:00-6:00 PM EST, with a welcome and an introduction of Charles Andrade, who will give you your first Foundation in Light, Darkness, and Color course. This course has four classes

Classes will be recorded and available for 14 days.

Charles Andrade

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.

The Revelation of Formative Forces in the Growing Child

with Laurie Clark

Tuesday, 02/10 at 7:30 – 9:30 PM EST
Wednesday, 02/25 at 7:30 – 9:30 PM EST
Wednesday, 03/11 at 7:30 – 9:30 PM EST
Wednesday, 03/18 at 7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Tuition:

$250 for all 4 classes

Course description:

Understanding the incarnational process of the young child is essential for Waldorf teachers and therapists. This course guides participants in learning how to “read” what a child expresses through their drawings. During the first seven years, children create spontaneous images that reflect archetypal forms, mirroring key developmental stages.

We will also examine how drawing can serve as a powerful support tool for children facing challenges, offering them a nonverbal avenue for expression when words are not yet accessible.

Drawing on more than four decades of research and observation, Laurie Clark will share her profound insights into how children’s drawings reveal their inner experiences. Participants will have the opportunity to view images and video clips from her extensive collection.

Laurie Clark

Laurie has had the privilege of being a Waldorf early educator since 1978. She incorporates her therapeutic training into all aspects of her teaching. The deep question of how to meet the child of today and explore their needs in practical applications lies at the heart of her work. Laurie has been studying and collecting the drawings of children for the last four decades and is in continuous research through observation and constant engagement with the young child. She also mentors teachers, is a teacher trainer and conference presenter. She has co-authored two books with Nancy Blanning on therapeutic movement for young children.

Currently, Laurie is joyously working with her daughter, Clair, who is a Waldorf teacher as well, offering a program called Songbirds, an outdoor home program for two- to four-year-olds.

The Path of the Healer: Physiology behind Case Studies

with Dr. Prasanna

May be taken as a series of 5 seminars or as selected individual classes only.

Wednesdays: 7:30-9:30 pm EST.

2/4: Nervous illnesses 1
Neuroses, Fear, Chronic Fatigue, Burn-Out, Stress, Depression

2/11: Nervous Illnesses 2
Anorexia Nervosa, Trauma: PTSD, including Birth Trauma

2/18: Metabolic Limb System 1
Inflammation, Digestion, Migraine

3/25: Metabolic Limb System 2
Cancer: Carcinoma of skin, Cancer of hollow organs, cancer of reproductive system, cancer of upper organs. 

4/1: Circulatory System
Hypertension, Heart and Circulation Challenges. Respiration challenges: Bronchi and Lung

Tuition: 
$300 for all 5 seminars 
$75 for individual class

Course description:

TBA

Reading material:
Social and Anti-Social Forces GA 186
Bridge Lectures GA 202

3/4: Dedicated to Ita Wegman: Death day is March 4th. 

Ita Wegman invited Rudolf Steiner to articulate what he later called the Renewal of the Mysteries—a contemporary path of spiritual development for the Michaelic age, no longer confined to the ancient mystery temples, but pursued with full consciousness and freedom. In this light, Wegman is recognized as the catalyst for Steiner’s expression of a modern, ethical, and practical path of initiation—one rooted in therapeutic work, social renewal, and the cultivation of moral imagination.

In honor of Ita Wegman...

We are joining the worldwide gesture to offer this event to all interested in healing practices. Read more about this event below and JOIN US FREE!
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Lakshmi Prasanna, MD

Trained as a developmental pediatrician with 25 years of clinical experience, Lakshmi brings a deep understanding of how education can be a powerful force for healing. Her teaching is particularly valuable for Kairos students and for those seeking to understand the physiological foundations of case studies.

Over the course of five seminars, Lakshmi will explore the gestures and underlying contexts of nervous, metabolic, and circulatory illnesses. Participants will engage with questions of health and healing through the lens of anthroposophical medicine, examining both the contemporary challenges to individual and collective well-being and what it means to heal in response to them. The work will emphasize wholeness, resilience, and the healing dimensions of our professional practice as art therapists.

More about Dr. Prasanna:

Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna is a pediatrician and neonatologist with 25 years of clinical experience. Prior to establishing her private practice, she served as Head of the Child Development Unit at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai. In 1997, she founded Little Hearts Children’s Hospital in Hyderabad, India, followed by the establishment of the Saandeepani Centre for Healing and Curative Education in 2004, dedicated to supporting children with special needs and developmental delays.

A significant focus of Dr. Lakshmi’s work has been her role as a school doctor within Steiner schools in Australia. She has also served as President of the Anthroposophical Medical Society in India and is a highly regarded lecturer and educator internationally, known for her integrated and holistic approach to health and well-being. Dr. Prasanna lectures internationally.

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Painting titled Awakening, by Karine Munk Finser

upcoming online course

The Organic Basis of Embodiment: The Seven Planetary Aspects of the Organs

with James Dyson, MD Part 1: Saturday march 14, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm EST Part 2: Saturday April 4th, 3:00 pm-5:00 pm EST Course Description: TBA
James Dyson, MD.

Dr. James A. Dyson first trained as a medical doctor in London University and went on to study anthroposophic medicine at Emerson College, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen and in hospitals in Germany. In 1979, he co-founded Park Attwood Clinic, a residential medical facility in the UK, where he practiced for 25 years. He also worked as a school doctor, both in mainstream Waldorf Schools and schools and communities for adults and children with special needs. In 2008, he completed a five-year program in Applied Psychosynthesis at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London, for which he was later awarded a Masters’ degree in Psychosynthesis Psychology from Middlesex University.

James has lectured over several decades in a very wide range of international anthroposophic medical and therapeutic trainings and is a regular contributor at conferences of the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum, Switzerland. As a founding Faculty Member of the “Association for Anthroposophic Psychology” in the USA in 2014, he is a regular contributor to their foundation programs. This Association (AAP) currently offers three-year certificate programs in anthroposophic psychology as well as a professional certification program in anthroposophic psychotherapy. Beyond teaching commitments, James’s current practice embraces clinical mentoring and independent consulting. His aspirations lie in connecting esoteric experience with cognitive understanding, especially in relation to psychosomatic medicine, mental health and in the context of human relationship. Published in 2022 by Steiner Books, USA, Soul Size, The Eternal Psychosomatic Dilemma, contains a range of James’s lectures, essays and interviews, in which he explores the realm of soul in relationship to body and spirit.

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Special Online Gathering

dedicated to Ita Wegman

March 4, 2026, 7:30-9:30 p.m. EST
(Feb 22, 1876 - Mar 4, 1943)

Ita Wegman invited Rudolf Steiner to articulate what he later called the Renewal of the Mysteries—a contemporary path of spiritual development for the Michaelic age, no longer confined to the ancient mystery temples, but pursued with full consciousness and freedom. In this light, Wegman is recognized as the catalyst for Steiner’s expression of a modern, ethical, and practical path of initiation—one rooted in therapeutic work, social renewal, and the cultivation of moral imagination.

In honor of Ita Wegman we are joining the worldwide gesture to offer this FREE event to all interested in healing practices. 
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Donations are gratefully accepted to support the Kairos students scholarship fund.

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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.

1:30 – 3:30 PM EST
Fee: $50.00

 

7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Children from Violent Homes, 9/23
Children Suffering from Sexual Abuse, 10/14

Fee: $150 for 2 sessions

with Patricia Gans, MD

7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Cosmic and Earthly, Chapters 1 & 2; 9/30
Blood and Nerve, Chapters 5 & 6; 10/7
Point and Periphery, Chapters 3 & 4; 10/28

Fee: $150 for 3 sessions

Note: These sessions are studios, not lectures.

with Gleice da Silva

7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Fee: $150 for 3 sessions

with Torin Finser

7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Fee: $150 for 2 sessions

with Patrick Stolfo

7:30 – 9:30 PM EST

Fee: $400 for 7 sessions

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All Online Seminars Spring 2025, and Summer Residency 2025

(These courses are included in the Training in Art Therapy program.)

Sundays from 1:30-3:30 or 4:00 EST
Wednesday evenings 7:30-9:30 EST

Welcome to the Kairos Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Program. This year, we invite you to embark on a transformative journey of learning and self-discovery through our carefully curated sessions, featuring renowned speakers and experts in anthroposophy, medicine, art therapy, and social arts. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or new to these fields, our program offers a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding, engage in meaningful conversations, and cultivate your personal and professional growth. Join us as we explore the intersections of healing, education, and human development in today’s ever-evolving landscape. If interested, please write to Kairos Director by clicking the “INQUIRE” button, and submitting the contact form.

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Emergency Pedagogy without Borders:

Our Kairos Team is in the planning stages for an intervention in Texas from October7-13 to serve the July 4th flood victims.

Please help us make it happen, and donate to Kairos Crisis Interventions using our secure online form.

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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.

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Karine Munk Finser
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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.
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Our Mission Statement:

The Kairos Institute at the Center for Anthroposophy provides training in Art Therapies and Emergency Pedagogy, aimed at addressing global suffering and trauma. Through a combination of artistic therapies, such as drawing and painting, and specialized modules in crisis intervention, students develop resilience and skills to support healing in themselves and others. The Institute partners with iARTe, an international association dedicated to promoting and ensuring the quality of anthroposophic arts therapies, and offers pathways for professional development for those in the healing professions.

Kairos is dedicated to:

  • Addressing the suffering in the world
  • Deepening our understanding of the consequences of trauma
  • Developing skills and capacities needed to strengthen the resilience and wholeness in human encounters

Our students feel called to healing work and Kairos offers the necessary pathways through transformative artistic processes.