The Kolisko 2025 conference is being hosted at Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in Hastings, New Zealand from Friday April 11- Monday April 14. 

The conference will focus on the theme of expectations and meeting the expectations we hold, often unconsciously, for ourselves, of each other, and of life.  Our theme for the conference evolved through conversations with parents, teachers and health professionals about the knotty issues they are facing in their daily work environment.  Our aim with the conference is to develop new and more comprehensive ways to look at our developing Self, to better understand the also changing and developing Other, and to work with the great expectations we carry. 

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Seminar One of the CRSE at Taruna

Seminar One: 

• Exploring the Anthroposophical foundations of Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Education. What does it mean to be human? What/who are we educating for? Education of the whole child. Life as a journey of development.

• The incarnating child, a broad overview from birth to 21, unfolding capacities, a developmentally responsive curriculum.

• Steiner’s pictures of the three-fold and four-fold human being, the soul faculties of thinking, feeling and willing.

• Self-development of the teacher.

• Meeting the world through the senses.

• Particular focus on the early childhood environment, the kindergarten years. Walking, speaking, thinking. Development of the will, the child as a sense being, the importance of play, of rhythm and of imitation. Understanding children’s drawings. Visit to a local Waldorf kindergarten.

Activities include a selection of:

Morning Circle activities, games, movement, singing, eurythmy, te reo Māori, painting, drawing, modelling, crafts, storytelling, speech, poetry, observation exercises.

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The SEANZ AGM will be held via survey during this week. AGM reports will be available the week prior and sent to all School Board Chairpersons, Kindergarten Trusts and Governance groups.

Seminar two of the CRSE at Taruna

Seminar Two: 

• Refreshing and building on Steiner’s picture of the human being as studied in Seminar One.

• Particular focus on the Lower School child, 7-14 years. The development of feeling and imagination.

• Significant developmental milestones: the nine year old, the twelve year old.

• The art of pedagogy. The main lesson, the arts-based curriculum, the teacher as an artist.

• From fairytale to history, teaching through story-telling, the power of narrative.

• Exploring a curriculum responsive to changes in the child’s developing consciousness

• The literacy journey; from a rich oral culture to writing then reading; the place of digital technology.

• A window into the development of science and mathematics in the Lower School years.

• Working with temperaments; the child’s and the teacher’s.

• The child study; deepening observation.

• The teacher’s journey; taking myself on, the pedagogical law.

• Visit to Taikura Rudolf Steiner School in Hastings.

Activities include a selection of:

Morning Circle activities, games, movement, singing, eurythmy, te reo Māori, painting, drawing, form drawing, geometry, modelling, crafts, storytelling, speech, poetry, drama, observation exercises.

This is the fifth of six seminars held over a three year period as part of the Diploma Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood.

The New Zealand Steiner Teacher Development - Early Childhood (NZSTD - EC) programme has been specifically designed for people working in Steiner Waldorf kindergartens, early childhood centers, home-based situations, and playgroups, who would like to have a formal Steiner Waldorf qualification.  However, people not fitting any of these categories are encouraged to contact the course coordinators to help find a workable solution.

For further information and/or an enrolment package, please contact the course coordinating team.

Seminar three of the CRSE at Taruna

Seminar Three:

• Refreshing and building on Steiner’s picture of the human being as explored in Seminars One and Two.

• Particular focus on the High School years. The development of thinking and the search for truth.

• Qualities of each age from 14 -18 years, curriculum themes and pedagogical approaches that address the consciousness of the emerging adult.

• Planetary soul types as a window for understanding and working with adolescents.

• Weaving the threads; Science, Art and Religion, the main lesson as an interdisciplinary approach.

• Education in the context of our times. ‘Education towards Freedom’, what does this mean? Capacities for meeting the future.

Activities will include a selection of:

Morning Circle activities, games, movement, music, eurythmy, te reo Māori, pastel work, drawing, modelling, hard and soft crafts, outdoor classroom, storytelling, speech, poetry, drama, observation exercises.

Coordinated by the New Zealand Steiner Teacher Diploma - Early Childhood, this mini-conference hosted by the Titirangi Steiner School and Kindergarten is open to all working with the young child, from birth to seven. Further details on the theme and speakers will be shared in due course.