Stay up to date with Kamaroi events, festivals, parent education and open days. We hope you find this page helpful and a great resource to current and prospective families.
Stronger, Brighter, Deeper - The Feeling Curriculum in Steiner Education
with Andrew Hill
Artificial Intelligence will challenge the very nature of humanity. By separating out our intelligence from our emotional life, we risk losing that which makes us human at all. Our feelings give us our sense of meaning and to Rudolf Steiner, our highest endeavour is to help young men and women find meaning and direction out of themselves. Our feeling lives are the key to finding meaning. But like intelligence, our feelings need schooling to become rich and mature and then they can guide us from within as an inner understanding. Steiner education has the unique task of growing this new form of feeling cognition, an intelligence wedded to feeling, a heart thinking.
How do teachers do this? As the great fiction writer Ursula Le Guin puts it, Steiner teachers are like good writers who care about words, and how they shape the inner lives of their growing students. They embed creativity into the learning process and imbue formal learning with a powerful artistry that helps the intellect to sing and the heart to understand.
Thursday 14th August - Live at Kamaroi School
Bring You Questions - Anthroposophical School Health Consultant
with Lakshmi Prasanna
Do you have a health or well-being question about your child / children / family? A situation you are striving to meet beyond your research & efforts?
You are invited to bring your question to Anthroposophical Health Consultant Dr Lakshmi Prasanna in this predominantly question & response session, contributing towards today’s varied experiences in child health & development, & socialising at school, at home, & in the world.
Thursday 21st August at 7.30pm via Zoom
Eurythmy, A Characterisation - How can we glean What This Subtle Art Form May Reveal?
with Liz Nevieve
Have you ever wondered what it is that children and young people actually do in their eurythmy classes at school? Have you heard about this art form or encountered a few lessons but are inherently unsure of what it entails? If so, this talk is for you.
At it’s core, eurythmy is a movement art that has been described as ‘visible speech’ and ‘visible singing’, but what do those descriptions actually mean? What did Rudolf Steiner hope to give the world by making speech and singing visible, and why is it even more important to us now than it was 100 years ago?
Join me for an explorative talk that, through characterisation as opposed to definition, aims to unlock the mysteries of this contemporary art form. Hear about links between matter, emotions and thoughts, and how these links suggest what Steiner sometimes called a ‘supersensible’ reality.
Thursday 4th September at 7.30pm via Zoom
Myths and Mysteries - Ancient Rome & The Middle Ages
with Bernadette White
The human story as a context of meaning for life.
Ancient Rome & The Middle Ages
In our time, young people are increasingly experiencing a loss of meaning in their lives. In this series of online presentations, Bernadette White will look at the temple wisdom, art, and mythologies of ancient and medieval cultures to unfold the hidden currents of history and in particular the role of the ancient Mysteries. We will explore how new spiritual impulses entered the stream of human evolution and how, through these Mystery teachings, the future has been prepared.
Having worked as a class teacher, teacher educator, story-teller, and student of history, Bernadette will show how this unfolding of the human story can give a context of meaning within which we can find direction and hope for our lives. Particular examples will be given from the Steiner school main lessons devoted to ancient mythologies and histories. We begin with Ancient India and Persia and continue through 2025 with Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages and beyond.
Thursday 11th September at 7.30pm via Zoom