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In the Living Farms project, Lin Bautze and Philip Wilson visit farms around the world to document their lives and opportunities for action and ...

As a result of the Coronavirus measures, schools and educational institutions around the world are exposed to the impact of digital technology. ...

The pause because of the corona crisis will allow for a future that will come when we take hold of it. This raises three key questions.

Jasmin Peschke, nutritional scientist from the Section for Agriculture, describes why biodynamically cultivated and produced food is especially ...

Since Christiane Haid became head of the Visual Art Section in the autumn of 2019 (in addition to her leadership of the Humanities Section), an ...

In their report for the year 2019/2020, the members of the Executive Council and Section leaders describe new forms of working, activities and ...

Even as the coronavirus measures restrict our lives, one place offers some balance: the kitchen. The meaningful activity of cooking, the ...

Matthias Rang and Johannes Wirz are now leading the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum. The two scientists, who have doctorates in physics ...

Anthroposophic medicine has decades of experience with viral pneumonia and is now broadly networked with medical fields that work in a ...

Internal perspectives, authenticity, reflection and meditation contribute to the internal orientation of the soul and can positively influence the ...

Nature is not affected by the corona pandemic – it breathes a sigh of relief and is able to provide security, especially as it now unfolds in ...

The coronavirus pandemic challenges us as a community, demands our wakefulness and prudence, determination and patience. For anthroposophical ...

The Goetheanum Leadership is making use of the cancellation of public events to intensify its inner work and work on questions concerning the ...

Due to the measures being taken against the Sars-CoV-2 virus, teachers and parents are now teaching children and adolescents via multimedia or ...

The commemoration of the 95th Anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's death coincides with a special time: humanity is facing a pandemic threat with ...

Illnesses are images, and when an illness affects all of humanity, like COVID-19 does, it is an image of contemporary life. What facilitates this ...

Project Leader Joan Sleigh and coworkers Juan Bottero, Milena Kowarik and Nicole Asis of the Social Initiative Forum engage in upholding human ...

On 1 and 2 May the Goetheanum will hold a further training course in eurythmy therapy on vision. The course will be open to eurythmy therapists, ...

A conference held at the Goetheanum from 15 to 17 February illuminated the significance of East Asia for our present culture.

For veterinarians, corona viruses are part of daily life, but now the corona virus SARS-CoV 2 has crossed the barrier to humans. What is a virus, ...

Commercial kitchens often have a poor reputation. Cafeteria food must be cheap. The Nutrition Circle for Kitchen Professionals advocates an ...

The German Frommann-Holzboog Press publishes works by Rudolf Steiner as critical editions as well as the journal Steiner Studies.

More than 210 young people gathered from 30 January to 2 February under the motto Bound to Earth to talk about climate questions.

On 1 January, the Harmony Amateur Eurythmy Club in Taiwan had a three-minute performance at the National Taichung Theatre – with real instruments.

Marianne Schubert has led the Visual Arts Section for almost six years, but she has known the Goetheanum for much longer as a member of the ...

After 23 years in office, Johannes Kühl has stepped down from his leadership of the Natural Science Section at the end of 2019. He was the ...

The art therapy school Swaasthyakala Niketan in Bangalore has been recognized by the Medical Section; the second training course will start in April.

At Easter 2020 Anthroposophic Medicine will celebrate its one hundredth birthday. The special anniversary will be marked with various events and ...

Farmers are under pressure: climate change with uncertain harvests, bureaucracy with time-consuming administration and a precarious financial ...

On December 28th, 2019 the Goetheanum eurythmy ensemble will perform its new program ‘Leuchtfäden’ (Rays of Light). It‘s about being on the move ...

The Kunstmuseum Basel has invited the Goetheanum to design two artistic evenings around the theme of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ as part of ...

In 2010 Stéphane Hessel (FR) demanded in an essay «Indignez-vous» (Rise up!). In 2018 the German politician Sahra Wagenknecht (DE) founded the ...

In the spring of 2020 Constanza Kaliks, Claus-Peter Röh and Peter Selg will take on the leadership of the General Anthroposophical Section at the ...

The work of the Natural Science Section is done both by groups working globally and at the Goetheanum’s Research Institute.

The Section for Mathematics and Astronomy as a place of research includes the Kepler Observatory at the Goetheanum. It is from there that Søren ...

The Section’s activities focused on the Waldorf 100 celebrations: perceiving, giving impulses, sharing experiences – and taking Rudolf Steiner’s ...

‹New listening and authentic speaking› in connection with earth maturity were the topics of the speech therapy conference from 23 to 27 October at ...

Human beings are increasingly influencing the limits of their lives: the date of birth is planned by Caesarean section, and the moment of death ...

A new youth movement has emerged out of concern for the earth as a living habitat. From 30 January to 2 February 2020, young people will gather at ...

Loss of soil and biodiversity, pollution of water resources and challenges from climate change cast doubt on the agricultural practices currently ...

Johannes Kühl has been head of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum since 1996. At the end of 2019 he will pass on the leadership to a ...

The topic of vaccination elicits passionate responses. But why? And why do we need to vaccinate earlier and earlier today? Georg Soldner in ...

Our spending habits determine how the world looks, because the purchase of a product supports the conditions under which it is produced. ...

September 24th is World Eurythmy Day: Eurythmy is lived on stage as the production of spoken language, musical and dramatic events as well as in ...

The first Waldorf School opened in Stuttgart 100 years ago. There are now 1,180 Waldorf schools worldwide. Why was – and still is – the Waldorf ...

Three artistic training programmes – a eurythmy training, a speech training and a painting school – have merged in St Petersburg (RU). Some of the ...

In the autumn the Visual Art Section will hold both an exhibition of Georgian artists and a sales exhibition at the Goetheanum.

From 1 to 5 July the first Goetheanum Studies alumni meeting took place at the Goetheanum. The gathering took the form of a study week on the ...

World War One represented a deep trauma for the soul of Europe, the effects of which we are still living with. A conference in London on 14 and 15 ...

From 23 to 25 August the tenth Soul of Europe conference – Facing Europe’s Challenges – will take place in Brussels be (in German, English and ...

From 6 to 8 December a conference will take place at the Goetheanum that is dedicated to questions regarding the threshold between life and death. ...

In April, Thomas Didden became managing director at Verlag am Goetheanum (Goetheanum Press). Christiane Haid will continue as programme manager.

All four Mystery Dramas by Rudolf Steiner will be performed as part of the conference ‹Spirituality – Fear and Health› from 29 July to 4 August 2019.

The Goetheanum Leadership School is aimed at self mastery as a prerequisite for the management of companies and groups as well as for the exercise ...

At the forthcoming summer conference at the Goetheanum, from 29 July to 4 August, on Spirituality, Fear and Health the Goetheanum Stage will ...

On 15 April 2019 the Medical Section and the International Association of Anthroposophical Medical Societies (IVAA) responded to multiple requests ...

«Courage» was the theme and title of an international student conference at the Goetheanum from 23 to 27 April. Around 650 students from more than ...

Since 2017, a team of young researchers has put this question to their generation peers: What would the world look like in 2030 if what lives ...

Impulse for the Future: A Hundred Years of Social Threefolding was the title of a conference that brought 650 people to Stuttgart (DE) from 5 to 7 ...

More than 1000 Waldorf educators took part in the International Early Childhood Conference Inner Freedom – Social Responsibility. Finding Paths to ...

From 13 to 17 February a Medical Conference on anthroposophic pain therapies organized by the Medical Section took place at Wellington University ...

On 20 February, the Leadership team provided information on the planned new production of Faust 2020 at the Goetheanum – initially to be shown in ...

On 10 and 11 February, twelve people prepared the network meeting of the Goetheanum Worldwide Meditation Initiative which will be held in Avignon ...

In January 2019 a group responsible for Anthroposophic Pharmacy was founded within the Medical Section.

On 29 December the Goetheanum’s new Eurythmy Ensemble presented the premiere of its first programme: Heartbeat – Herzschlag – Latir del Corazón.

The conference of the Section for Agriculture, to be held at the Goetheanum from 6 to 9 February, will focus on practice-oriented models of a ...

Here you can find the documentation of the Goetheanum World Conference, which took place at the Goetheanum from 27 September to 1 October 2016.