Northern NSW Regional Meeting

We warmly invite you to our next Regional Meeting.

Where: Cape Byron Steiner School

When: Saturday 19/10/24

Time: 9.30 am to 3.30 pm

Cost per person: $45.00 to be paid in advance as the places are limited or $35.00 concession for those experiencing financial hardship.

 (The cost includes the talks and workshop, the accommodation and travel costs for the presenters and photocopying)

Pay by: 11/10/24

Payment Method: Money Bank Transfer

Please contact the organiser to register your attendance

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PROGRAM FOR THE DAY

9.30-1100          Charlotte Rogers – The Importance of the Human Hand and the sense of touch

                Heather van Zyl – Hand Gesture Games –  a learning session

11.00 – 11.30     Morning Tea

11.30 - 1 pm  Charlotte Rogers – The Sense of Warmth

             Heather van Zyl – Hand Gestures Games –  a practicing session

1.00 - 2.00    Lunch - Socialising with colleagues

2.00 – 3.15    Craft – Make a caterpillar on a leaf, flowers and/or butterflies.  

FOOD: Morning Tea will be provided but please note that you will need to bring your own Lunch.

Please read below some important information about the speakers, the hand gestures and the craft session.

Warm regards,

Ana Luz

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:    

WILMA ELLERSIEK’S GESTURE GAMES are little rhythmic-musical plays that reflect nature and her myriad wonders, sometimes involving touch or song. 

Wilma Ellersiek was a professor at the Academy for Music and Theatre in Stuttgart, Germany. She dedicated her life to developing her now-famous gesture games, focusing her attention on the needs of young children and perfecting her sense of rhythm and musicality in these intricate little plays. Over the years she composed about two hundred of these gesture games, all of which have been published in several books in German. These have long since become a rich resource in Waldorf early childhood education.

Her gesture games have turned out to be wonderfully healing and therapeutic in working with small children, and they have gained a large following not only in Germany, but also internationally.

Heather van Zyl

"Heather van Zyl is a semi-retired Steiner early childhood teacher with many years of experience and at present works at the Newcastle Waldorf School on Awabakal Land.   She developed her skills with the Ellersiek games over many years and continues to explore the avenues where this therapeutic work can bring healing.  She is a member of the International and English Ellersiek Circles.  She also applies these games in her work as a qualified Extra Lesson practitioner. 

She is the Australian representative on the IASWECE council and is in charge of SECA’s mentorship program."

Charlotte Rogers

Charlotte Rogers is a registered nurse and Anthroposophical Nurse Consultant. In her health retreat in Bellingen, she offers Anthroposophical nursing treatments such as foot baths, organ compresses, and body oiling.

She is also a rhythmical massage therapist and art therapist. All these therapies are inspired by the indications given by Dr Ita Wegman and Rudolf Steiner.

Charlotte has worked nearly 45 years and is now training as a rhythmical massage tutor and tutoring rhythmical massage in Thailand. She is also part of the local palliative care group.

CRAFT – Please bring scissors, needle and thread, pieces of felt (leftovers) to make the caterpillar, a wooden bead for the head (we will have some available), a piece of green for the leaf and coloured pieces of felt - 2 cm wide x 10-12 cm long - to make some very simple flowers.

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