Welcome to the Vital Years 2024 Early Childhood Conference
SECA and the organising group from lutruwita/Tasmania look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 Vital Years Conference in nipaluna/Hobart.
We are excited about our rich lecture and workshop content from international and national early childhood professionals, and offer registrants the experience of some of the best lutruwita and surrounds has to offer.
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Workshops
Registrants can choose ONE morning and ONE afternoon workshop from the following list which will run over three days. Participants may also opt to select an additional workshop for the Saturday.
- Shining a Light: Why do we do what we do?
- Puppetry and the six elements of the visual arts as tools to enhance the daily life of the kindergarten
- Joy and Innocence in Childhood- the Hidden World of the Young Child
- Working with Families and Children to Four Years of Age
- Working with Eurythmy and the Fairytale to Imitate Life
- The Truth, Beauty, and Goodness of a Mixed-Age Steiner Long Day Care Centre
- How to Train our Senses in a Such a Way that we can Recognise the Etheric
- Meeting our Karmic Relationships: It Takes a Village to Raise a Child
- Writing Seasonal Morning Circles using Music in the Mood of the Fifth
- Ellersiek Hand Gesture Games: Inviting the Child into the World of Imitation
- Making Moving Pictures - Bringing Images Alive
- Understanding Play
- Connecting Ourselves to Country, and our Children to their Time and Place
- Elements of a Bush Kindergarten Program
- Understanding Children's Drawings
- Exercises to Strengthen the Teacher
- Creative Patternmaking and Storytelling with Wool
- A Day in the Life of the Children's Garden
- The Rest Project
- Bringing Pikler's Approaches into Your Daily Work
- What Is Child Study?
- The Entertainment Trap
- Knowing Your Own Being; Learning About Others – The Nature of the Human Being, Life-Phases, the Pedagogical Law and the Arts in Relation to the Human Being.
- Make a Knotted Doll and learn to Form the Face
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About the Speakers
Silvia Jensen
Silvia Jensen has long experience working as a kindergarten teacher in
Brazil, the country of her birth, which she has represented in IASWECE for 14
years. Silvia trained in puppetry in the United States and is deeply connected
to handwork, especially sewing, embroidery, and felting. She is completing
her training in art in Waldorf education in São Paulo, Brazil, and loves to get
to know other cultures through travel, enjoying singing, and nature.
Opening lecture: “Worthy of Imitation: Adult Self-development and the Arts”
“The child relates to the adult as the moon does to the sun.” In this lecture,
Silvia will explore gratitude and how adults can use the six elements of the
visual arts as a means of self-development in order to be worthy of the child’s
imitation.
Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna
Dr Lakshmi Prasanna is the founder of the Anthroposophical Medical Society
of India, and a trained paediatrician specialising in neonatology. In 1997 she
opened Little Hearts Children’s Hospital, a private neonatal intensive unit in
Hyderabad, and encountered Waldorf education and the work of Dr Rudolf
Steiner, becoming one of the pioneer parents and a founder member of the
Abhaya Waldorf School. Lakshmi went on to develop an interest in helping
children with autism from a metabolic and sensory perspective, based on
Steiner’s indications, and in 2004 Little Hearts Hospital was extended to
include Saandeepani, a curative centre for children with special needs.
Lakshmi has worked for many years as a school physician in India and
Australia, and since 2007 has travelled extensively as an education consultant
and lecturer in child development and health promotion within school
communities, particularly in Australia, New Zealand, and India.
Main lecture series: “What is the Human Etheric in its Entirety?”; “How Do I
Nurture it?”; “How Do I Work With it?”
Philipp Reubke
Philipp Reubke heads the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum. Philipp
was born in Stuttgart in 1960 and is a former Waldorf student. He went on
to study philosophy, German language and literature, and early childhood
education. He worked in France as a Waldorf German language teacher
from 1989, then as a Waldorf kindergarten teacher until 2017, and from
2010 to 2020 was a member of the coordination group of IASWECE, the
International Association for Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood Education.
Since October 2020, Philipp has shared leadership of the Pedagogical
Section with Constanza Kaliks.
Lecture at the SECA Annual General Meeting:
“Waldorf Education: Support for Inner and Outer Activity” Philipp will include
examples from kindergarten and the school grades.
Closing lecture: “Supporting the Consciousness of the Unity of Life -
Waldorf Education as a Contribution to an Ecological Attitude.”
The Vital Years Conference is made possible by SECA
We are grateful to our supporters...
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