Kairos Institute · The Bridge Lectures

Enthusiasm as Warmth to Counter the Cold of our Times

Salutogenesis and the Power of Human Love

Three Sunday seminars with Dr. Michaela Glöckler, who led the Medical Section at the Goetheanum for twenty-eight years. On what keeps people well rather than what makes them ill, and on warmth as something a person can actually generate.

When

Three Sundays in January and February 2027

Each seminar in two parts, morning and afternoon · Online · $350 for all six sessions


Reserve your place

Registration goes through the Kairos general registration form, where you can also sign up for the year’s other public offerings.

Register for the Bridge Lectures

On that page, tick The Bridge Lectures with Dr. Michaela Glöckler. Payment is made by credit card; a 3% processing fee applies.


The three seminars

Each seminar runs on a Sunday in two parts, morning and afternoon, an hour and a half each. Six sessions in all.

  • Seminar One

    Sunday, January 24, 2027

    • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
    • 1:30 – 3:00 PM EST
  • Seminar Two

    Sunday, February 14, 2027

    • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
    • 1:30 – 3:00 PM EST
  • Seminar Three

    Sunday, February 21, 2027

    • 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
    • 1:30 – 3:00 PM EST

Michaela Glöckler

Portrait of Dr. Michaela Glöckler

Michaela Glöckler, M.D.

Pediatrician · Medical Section, Goetheanum 1988–2016

A graduate of the original Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Dr. Glöckler studied history and German in Freiburg and Heidelberg, and medicine in Tübingen and Marburg, while pursuing her own study of anthroposophy. She trained further as a pediatrician and adolescent physician at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and the University Hospital in Bochum, then worked as a pediatrician and as a school doctor in a Waldorf school.

From 1988 to 2016 she led the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, years that included extensive lecturing and the training of physicians at home and abroad. She co-founded the Alliance for Childhood and ELIANT, the European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy.

Her books in English include 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.


The Bridge Lectures close the Kairos Institute’s 2026–27 year, which opens with the convocation with Peter Selg in September.

Questions can go to Lisl Hofer at lisl@centerforanthroposophy.org.