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 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 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.”