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The Waldorf in the Home Online Store is your source for CDs, videos and books from leading presenters on parenting and Waldorf education.
Birth: Special Delivery
Special Delivery
By Rahima Baldwin Dancy (Celestial Arts, 169 pages) $22.95
The classic guide to creating the birth you want for you and your baby. Practical, with an emphasis on making your own best choices. Chapters include prenatal care, planning for the birth, tools for working together and handling labor, dealing with complications, spirutal and psycholoical aspects, the newborn, and concerns of the first six weeks.
Sorry, currently out of print.
Birth: Pregnant Feelings
Pregnant Feelings: Developing Trust in Birth
by Rahima Baldwin Dancy and Terra Palmarini Richardson
(Celestial Arts, 187 pages) $17.95
This book can help you explore the emotional aspects of pregnancy and birth, develop trust and have an easier pregnancy and birth. Includes ways to enhance prenatal bonding, release fear and create the optimal birth experience for you and your baby. Also has several chapters on "looking toward parenting." Written in workbook format for pregnant women to share with their partners.
Sorry, currently out of print.
Birth: Normalizing the Breech Delivery
"Normalizing the Breech Delivery"
by Valerie El Halta and Rahima Baldwin Dancy (VHS, 36 minutes)
The most complete and clearest teaching video available for midwives, doctors, ETs and parents whose baby is in a breech position. Includes the beautiful birth of a first baby in frank breech position, delivered in a birthing center; demonstration of the delivery techniques using a doll and plastic pelvis; and the birth of a footling breech. The unique scoring system for assessing risk is also discussed in detail, to help practioners determine the relative risk and safety of undertaking a vaginal breech delivery.
Video in VHS format (36 minutes) $59.95
Your Growing Child: Becoming Peers: Mentoring Girls
Becoming Peers: Mentoring Girls into Womanhood
Book by DeAnna L'am
This book provides practical guidelines for mentoring a girl into womanhood. It offers creative ceremonies and activities designed to honor a girl's transition and call her to new levels of maturity. At the same time, it presents the adult woman/mentor with powerful tools for enhancing her inner and outer life. The book is motivated by the belief that for a girl to enter womanhood in a meaningful way, it is essential that her mother and other special women in her life cultivate a new way of relating that will gradually help her to become their peer.
DeAnna will be a keynote speaker at our conference on "Celebrating Family Life" in Spring, 2009 in Fair Oaks, CA. She has been a frequent and popular workshop presenter at many conferences in the past. DeAnna has been teaching in the United States and internationally since 1980 in the fields of team building, conflict resolution, peacemaking, and women's spirituality. Since founding Red Moon Rites of Passage in 1994, she has been leading groups for girls and women throughout California and around the world.
Book, $14.95
Your Growing Child: Coloring with Block Crayons
Coloring with Block Crayons
Workshop by Sieglinde De Francesca
Learn to draw luminous images to delight your child by exploring basic drawing techniques and techniques with beeswax block crayones. Ample demonstrations and overview to take you through the early grades. Sigi is an amazing artist and teacher--and she does it all with only the three primary colors. This video will inspire you to dig out your child's crayons and give it a try!
Your Growing Child: Integrating Brain, Body and Heart
Integrating Brain, Body and Heart: Revelations from Recent Brain Research
Keynote Address by Tim Burns
In the past ten years more has been learned about the brain than in all previous years combined, rapidly altering the landscape of what science knows about human learning and development. Tim shares how this new research, combined with scientific discoveries about the human heart as an organ of intelligence and the vast intelligence of the body, with a “brain” of its own, support the wisdom of Waldorf in educating head, heart and hands.
Supplement this CD with the video presentation of Tim's workshop, "Brain in Motion: How Movement Organizes and Improves Brain Function."
Your Growing Child: Brain in Motion
Brain in Motion: How Movement Organizes and Improves Brain Function
Workshop by Tim Burns
This practical workshop combines brain research and fun activities to do with your children to promote healthy growth and development and increase learning. Video format!
You'll also want to listen to Tim's keynote address, "Integrating Brain, Body and Heart: Revelations from Recent Brain Research."
Your Growing Child: Undestanding the Twelve Senses
Understanding the Twelve Senses as the Basis for Learning
Keynote Address by Ingun Schneider
Rudolf Steiner described not five or six, but twelve senses that develop and change from infancy through old age. Steiner gave unexpected links between the senses, clarifying how children learn while they adjust to their daily lives as citizens of the world. Understanding the twelve senses can help inform our parenting, make teaching more effective and promote healthy development.
Your Growing Child: Supporting the Four "Foundational Senses"
Supporting the Four “Foundational Senses” in the First Seven Years
Workshop by Ingun Schneider
This practical session includes activities for supporting the healthy development of the four “foundational senses” described in Ingun’s keynote*: touch, life, movement, and balance. Learn engaging ways you can help your child develop spatial orientation, body geography, bilateral integration, and more. Help your child form a strong foundation for the skills of learning through the activities demonstrated in this video!
*See Keynote: "Understanding the Twelve Senses as the Basis for Learning" by Ingun Schneider
Continue reading Supporting the Four "Foundational Senses"Your Growing Child: Developing Resiliency
Developing Resiliency: Supporting Our Children in Challenging Times
Keynote Address by Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
Because today’s children will need to cope with more stress and cultivate more resiliency than ever before, it is vital to offer the guidance they need for living into their souls’ destinies. This will call for new understandings and new strategies. Dr. Coulter discusses some of the important neurological findings that can point the way toward these new strategies and then explores a wide range of practices and activities that can enable us to cultivate resiliency in our children.
Continue reading Developing ResiliencyYour Growing Child: The Four Temperaments
The Four Temperaments through Movement and Poetry
Workshop by David-Michael Monasch
An understanding of your own and our child's temperaments is an invaluable aid for parenting, teaching and all relationships. We will explore the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholic aspects of ourselves through poetry, movement, lecture and play. We will look at the four temperaments historically from the Greeks through Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf education and explore both the gifts and challenges of each type.
Continue reading The Four TemperamentsYour Growing Child: The Rebirth of Play
The Rebirth of Play
Keynote Address by Joan Almon
Creative play—which is so critical to the well-being of children and culture—has been disappearing from children’s lives. Just when caring parents and professionals began to give up hope of its return, signs of change have begun to emerge during the past year. Joan explains why play became an endangered activity and how it is coming back, including the Alliance for Childhood’s work to restore play to all children.
Your Growing Child: Re-Creating Play
Re-Creating Play
Workshop by Joan Almon
Once upon a time parents said to children, “Go out and play and don’t come home ’til suppertime.” While we may not be able to do that freely today, what can we do to re-create time and opportunities for play at home and in our communities?
Your Growing Child: Children and Nature
"Children and Nature"
Workshop by Cook Rodgers (Audio in CD format)
Practical and playful ideas for working with the nature spirits and helping your child tune into the natural world. Help develop a relationship with nature that will provide a source of comfort, joy and healing throughout your child's life and nurture his or her role as a future caretaker of our Mother Earth.
Audio in CD format $12.50
Your Growing Child: The Nine-Year Change
The Nine-Year Change: Leaving the Garden
Workshop by Daena Ross
What’s going on with your suddenly-moody nine year old to make the eviction from the Garden of Eden such a fitting metaphor? Learn how to meet these inner changes with equanimity and practical life activities.
Your Growing Child: Neurology and Nurture
"Neurology and Nurture: Supporting Our Children in Challenging Times"
Keynote by Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
Because today’s children will need to cope with more stress and cultivate more resiliency than ever before, it is vital to offer the guidance they need for living into their souls’ destinies. This will call for new understandings and new strategies. Dr. Coulter discusses some of the important neurological findings that can point the way toward these new strategies and then explores a wide range of practices and activities that can make parenting fun and successful for the children, while nourishing parents as well.
Continue reading Neurology and NurtureYour Growing Child: Supporting Your Child's Growing Mind
"Supporting Your Child's Growing Mind"
Workshop by Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
The developmental time line from age 3 to 12 contains some surprising times when special needs and opportunities arise. Dee addresses the most important neurological shifts that children make during these years and ways parents can recognize and support them. Contains a wealth of practical suggestions.
Continue reading Supporting Your Child's Growing MindYour Growing Child: Helping Our Children Get into their Bodies
"Helping Our Children Get into their Bodies and Live More Comfortably"
(Through age 9)
by Nancy Blanning
This workshop will help you understand what the process of "inhabiting" the body is, along with practical tools for helping young boys and fidgety girls get the type and quantity of movement they crave.
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Your Growing Child: Discretionary Play
"Honoring and Encouraging Discretionary Play"
Workshop by Barbara Dewey (audio CD)
Most children today get very little of this kind of play time. Learn why it is so important and how facilitating your child's play also helps you develop your own capacities as a human being on the earth. Practical suggestions for early childhood through the grades.
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Your Growing Child: Children and Nature
"Children and Nature"
Workshop by Cook Rodgers (Audio in CD format)
Practical and playful ideas for working with the nature spirits and helping your child tune into the natural world. Help develop a relationship with nature that will provide a source of comfort, joy and healing throughout your child's life and nurture his or her role as a future caretaker of our Mother Earth.
Audio in CD format $12.50
Your Growing Child: Working with the Temperaments
"Working with the Temperaments"
Workshop with Daena Ross (Audio in 2-CD format)
Gain a basic understanding of each temperament, including body type, soul mood, colors, and relationship of center to periphery and gravity-levity. Then learn ways to apply this in your parenting or home schooling through stories, math, artistic work and verses.
Audio recording in 2-CD format
Your Growing Child: The Twelve Senses
"Protecting and Developing the Twelve Senses"
Keynote Address by Daena Ross
Daena gives a clear and practical presentation of what these senses are, how they interrelate, and how they metamorphose over time. Many practical suggestions are included to help you best support your child's healthy development, starting in early childhood and continuing through the grades. The video presentation, where you can see on the blackboard how the senses are grouped, is the clearest presentation you'll ever find on this topic and an excellent introduction for further study.
Video in DVD format (45 minutes) $20.00
Audio in CD format (45 minutes) $12.50
Inner Development: Standing in the Heart
Standing in the Heart: The Brain of the New Intelligence
Workshop by Claudia McLaren Lainson
Our children are coming with a heart knowing that requires us to meet them with our heart if they are to recognize us as authorities, guides and pathfinders. Making the changes these children need requires our moving into the new intelligence. Who are these children and what changes do I need to make in myself to meet them?
Inner Development: Stress Management
Stress Management—Whole Person and Whole Family
Workshop by Susan Kaplan
What are your balance and imbalance cycles as a family? As an individual? As we explore the four levels of body, mind, heart and soul, you will find ideas to re-balance and create the daily life you want.
Inner Development: The Human Soul & the Soul of the Earth
“The Human Soul and the Soul of the Earth”
Keynote Address by Cynthia Hoven
Understanding our sacred and intimate connection with the earth can warm our heart forces and strengthen our will. The earth is a living being, whose soul breathes with the seasons and expresses itself in the cycles of nature. The wealth of pictures developed by Rudolf Steiner in his booklet The Calendar of the Soul and other works guide the contemplation of this vital topic.
Continue reading The Human Soul & the Soul of the EarthInner Development: Language of Virtues
"Learning the Language of Virtues"
Workshop by Cynthia Wand
By helping your children relate to the virtues or values that underly all social and religious life, you can help their inner development as well as their outer actions. Cynthia is a Waldorf home schooling parent and a Master Facilitator with Virtues Project International, a model global program for families that has been honored by the United Nations.
Continue reading Language of VirtuesInner Development: Spiritual Feminine
"Honoring the Spiritual Feminine"
Workshop by Nancy Poer
Sophia Wisdom, the universal spiritual feminine knowing of the eternal, was once revered. In our era of materialism, egotism and destructive domination of the natural world, we are called consciously to renew in our hearts and communities, this life-giving interconnectedness to spirit, earth, all nature, and one another.
Continue reading Spiritual FeminineInner Development: Harmony in Relationships
"Create Harmony in your Relationships"
Workshop by Susan Kaplan
Amidst all the demands of parenting, how can you value your partner and build on your strengths? Learn how to build bridges, deepen the four levels of your relationship (body, mind, heart and soul), energize your relationship zest, and how to use your “heart camera.”
Continue reading Harmony in RelationshipsInner Development: Sacraments of Social Life
"Sacraments of Social Life"
Workshop by Willliam Bento
This workshop weaves together the sacred and the artistic as ways of meeting the mystery that lives between us. William invites us to explore the seven traditional sacraments in the Christian church and how they can be expanded to help elevate daily life to the realm of the sacred.
Video recording in DVD format, $20.00
Inner Development: Parenting Authentically
"Dare to Parent Authentically"
Keynote address by William Bento
Conditions today have made raising the next generation a mission extraordinaire! Who dares be a parent in these complex times? The answer: “Only those who still know deep in their hearts that the next generation is the only hope for humanity’s sanity.” We need to be who we are authentically so our children will see, hear and experience the glorious mystery that men and women of all ages have paid homage to, the one single truth we know as Love. Dare to parent in the virtue of Hope and live in the power of Love!
In this presentation, William adapts Steiner's "Six Basic Exercises" to form a path of inner development for parents.
Inner Development: Healing from the Heart
"Healing from the Heart"
Keynote address by Thomas Cowan, MD
Today’s emphasis on fad diets and nutritional supplements makes it truly challenging to know just what to feed our children and ourselves. Dr. Cowan draws on the work of Dr. Weston A. Price (traditional nutrition), Rudolf Steiner and others to show that the heart and digestion are foundational for health. Steiner’s insights into the circulatory system and the physical and spiritual aspects of the heart can affect our definition of health and the treatment of illness. They can also provide a new metaphor or paradigm for nonhierarchical living, noncentralized farming, and so forth--a brilliant talk you won't want to miss.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50 (#AK09)
Inner Development: Anthroposophy 101
"Anthroposophy 101 for Parents"
Workshop by Cynthia Hoven
Rudolf Steiner envisioned an education that would educate the child towards freedom, and the fundamental principles of his curriculum were inspired by his enduring commitment to understanding the spiritual nature of the human being and the world. This will be a "blitz introduction" to Steiner's world view, known as anthroposophy or "wisdom of the human being."
Audio Recording in CD format $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: NVC: Crafting Requests
"Crafting Requests that Create Connection"
Workshop by Lorene Allen
In this workshop we investigate the difference between requests and demands. How can upsets turn into connection? How do my needs contribute to community building? Because this assumes a basic familiarity with the principles of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), you might also want to purchase "Introduction to Nonviolent Communication," a workshop by John Cunningham in CD or DVD format.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: NVC: Needs and Values
"Needs, Values, Wants and Hopes"
Workshop by Lorene Allen
Recognition of needs is a key to peace and connection with our children. This workshop explores the skills of self-connection and silent empathy, with an emphasis on NVC and small children. Because this workshop assumes a basic level of familiarity with NVC, you might also want to order either the CD or DVD "Introduction to Nonviolent Communication" by John Cunningham or Marshall Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. We also offer the workshop by John Cunningham "But I Don't Have any Needs!"
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: Nonviolent Communication (Book)
Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life
by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD
Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, developed Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and explains it in this clearly-written book book that can help you "Create your life, your relatioships an dyour world in harmy with your valules." I've found NVC to be really life-changing and am a strong supporter. I really recommend you read the book and watch one of our videos (under the heading "Nonviolent Communication" in our on-line store). Then find a practice group near you! For more information, you can visit their website at www.cnvc.org. --Rahima
Book, 222 pages, $17.95
Nonviolent Communication: Next Steps in NVC: Empathy and Self-Empathy
Next Steps in NVC: Empathy and Self-Empathy
Workshops by John Cunningham
NVC is about being in connection with others, not about "rote techniques." Self-empathy, or a practice of discovering what you are feeling and needing, is the key to first defusing your own reactions so you can listen empathically and understand others as they would want to be understood.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: Next Steps in NVC: Needs
Next Steps in NVC: "I don't have any needs!"
Workshops by John Cunningham
Our culture teaches women to put themselves last and teaches men to ignore their emotions and underlying needs. In this workshop we will approach "needs" as healthy expressions of soul life and a key to compassionate communication (nonviolent communication, or NVC, developed by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.).
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: Introduction to NVC
Introduction to Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Workshop by John Cunningham
Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, is used around the world-and increasingly by Waldorf parents. This is a lively and clear presentation of the basic principles of listening empathically and the four elements of communicating-observations, feelings, needs and requests. A great accompaniment for Marshall's book!
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Nonviolent Communication: The Changing Nature of Authority: NVC and Waldorf
"The Changing Nature of Authority: Integrating Waldorf and NVC"
Workshop by John Cunningham (Video in DVD format)
This workshop focuses on how we can foster a culture of respect and cooperation within our families and classrooms through compassionate communications (Nonviolent Communication or NVC). By looking at the nature of authority, motivation, discipline, and needs we will explore ways to integrate NVC with Waldorf parenting or teaching.
Video recording in DVD format $20.00
Nonviolent Communication: Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Parenting & Waldorf
"Nonviolent Communication (NVC), Parenting and Waldorf Education"
Keynote Address by John Cunningham
We, as adults, are being asked to develop new capacities, both to serve as models for our children and to transform society. How can we foster genuine social development in our young people and support their latent and emerging capacity for empathy? John shares how the confluence of Nonviolent Communication [NVC, developed by Marshall Rosenberg] and Waldorf pedagogy is transforming his life and the lives of others.
Video recording in DVD format (60 minutes) $20.00
Audio recording in CD format (60 minutes) $12.50
Parenting: My Guardian Angel
My Guardian Angel
Book by Sharon Sofia Fletter
Sharon's beautiful watercolor illustrations and the contemplative words (translated into five languages!) will encourage your child to know that you understand his or her connection with the spiritual world. Rahima wrote in the introduction:
Many parents have had the experience of entering the room where their newborn was sleeping and being amazed that such a tiny being could have such a huge presence. A parent I quoted in You Are Your Child's First Teacher reported that her three-year-old asked who was in the corner of the room as her baby sister was being nursed. The mother, seeing no one herself, asked tentatively, "Perhaps an Angel?" and reports that the child broke into smiles and agreed enthusiastically as the room filled with peace and light. Such examples are not uncommon, and illustrate that many young children are still very much in touch with the spiritual world from which they have recently come.
This book provide a wonderful opportunity to give your child the recognition and reassurance that wheat they may experience as common place is not foreign to you, even if your own awareness of the angelic realms may have dinned as you became engrossed I the affairs of the Adult world.
This book is designed to be read slowly with your child, without a lot of questions or intellectual commentary. Linger over each drawing, simply allowing your child to "live into" the beautiful colors and images and the simple words.
If you don't ask questions or intellectualize, you might find that your child shares something with you, either as you look at the book together, or at a later time.
Parents sometimes wonder how to respond to a young child who asks about angels or God or what happens after you die (or before you were born). Jesus often responded with parables--living stories or images that feed the soul rather than cold, hard facts, which as more like stones. Or you might give the question back to the child--"What do you think about that?"--providing space for your child's own perceptions and understanding tot come forth.
As an early childhood specialist and author, I recommend My Guardian Angel and encourage you to enjoy this time of closeness with your child, allowing it to be a blessing for you both! --Rahima Baldwin Dancy, You Are Your Child's First Teacher
Parenting: Fostering Your Child's Creative Spirit
Fostering and Preserving Your Child’s Creative Spirit
Keynote Address by Regina Mason
Every parent and teacher struggles with the balance between setting limits and fostering the creativity of the child. How is it possible to bring order and still allow children to flourish in their creative development? Through her varied experiences over the years as a homeschooling parent and Waldorf educator, Regina shares insights into the difference between creative expression and freedom of expression, discusses how to provide “discipline” without stifling your child’s creativity and spontaneity, and offers supportive ideas for guiding children toward a creative, expressive adulthood.
Parenting: Peace and Philanthropy Ed
Educating Children for Peace and Philanthropy
Workshop by Joan Almon
In a world gone mad, what can families do to prepare their children for a lifetime of valuing peace and service to others? Joan explores some of the ways that are working and participants share stories and resources.
Parenting: Sharing the Joy of Nature & Flow Learning
“Sharing the Joy of Nature and Flow Learning”
Video by Joseph Cornellhttp://waldorf2.intercast-media.com/cgi-bin/mt.cgi?__mode=view&saved_changes=1&id=89&_type=entry&blog_id=1
Joseph Cornell, author of the pioneering works Sharing Nature with Children and Listening to Nature, shares from 25 years of developing inspiring nature activities you can use to deepen your family’s experience and relationship with nature. Filmed in the Sierras, this beautiful video reviews the steps of Flow Learning(TM) and provides examples, in nature, of many of Joseph's teaching exercises. Practical as well as inspirational--don't miss it!
Parenting: Creating Play Spaces for Young Children
Creating Play Spaces for Young Children
Workshop by Simone Demarzi
What is free play and how can we design our play environments to encourage children to play both indoors and out? We will talk about toys, the four elements, and how to begin the transformation in your home or program.
Parenting: Nurturing Love & Reverence for Nature
Nurturing Love and Reverence for Nature with Our Children
Workshop by Nancy Poer
Children who have experienced wonder and reverence in childhood can have the basis for gifts of spirituality, universality and love of the earth and its peoples as adults. However, in today’s culture, these soul capacities require special nurturing. With spiritual insight, we will look at imaginative, practical ways to nurture thankfulness in the children for our blessed Mother Earth.
Parenting: The Nine-Year Change
The Nine-Year Change: Leaving the Garden
Workshop by Daena Ross
What’s going on with your suddenly-moody nine year old to make the eviction from the Garden of Eden such a fitting metaphor? Learn how to meet these inner changes with equanimity and practical life activities.
Parenting: Sharing Nature with Others
Sharing Nature with Others
Workshop by Joseph Cornell
Experience many nature awareness games from Joseph Cornell's Sharing Nature books. These innovative nature activities make learning fun, meaningful and deeply inspiring. Activities from the Earth Stewardship program, Journey to the Heart of Nature, and from Flow Learning (TM) can encourage individuals in group-settings to have their own profound experience of nature.
Parenting: Gardening with Children
Gardening with Children: The Waldorf Curriculum
Workshop by Carolyn Brown
Home schooling or just gardening with your child? Carolyn shares how the gardening curriculum she developed at Waldorf School of the Peninsula relates to and strengthens the development of the school-aged child and the main lesson curriculum.
Parenting: The Greening of Story
“The Greening of Story”
Keynote address with 2 puppet shows by Suzanne Down
When we trust the depths of goodness living in nature’s stories and share them with our children when they are young, we build skills and understanding for them to want to become the future earth healers in a challenging world. Suzanne shares practical suggestions and some of her puppetry.
Continue reading The Greening of StoryParenting: Family Celebrations
"Create Your Own Family Celebrations"
Workshop by Esther Leisher
Esther writes frequently on this site, sharing her awareness and the celebrations she created as her four children were growing up. In this video, you'll see many of the simple items she used and be better able to develop your own celebrations, based around the principlces of meaning, symbol, beauty and activity. You'll be inspired to create more magic and wonder in your family's life--fun!
Continue reading Family CelebrationsParenting: Parenting and Teaching the Millennial Child
"Parenting and Teaching the Millennial Child"
Keynote by Eugene Schwartz
In considering ways to understand and meet children today, Eugene discusses some of the factors underlying the rise of learning disabilities and behavioral problems and how they are met by the Waldorf approach. He pays particular attendtion to autism, Aspberer's and adoption. A very strong and provocative talk by a leading proponent of Waldorf education.
Continue reading Parenting and Teaching the Millennial ChildParenting: Nurturing Ourselves/Our Families
"The Sacred Art of Nurturing Ourselves, Our Children and Our Families"
Keynote by Donna Simmons
In today’s world, the family has been called the “bearer of culture.” Yet there is very little support for intentionally creating a home life that supports every member of the family. Donna focuses on the importance and pitfalls of mothering in today’s culture. She also addresses how mothers, by working with rhythm and festivals and with their own strength and mood of soul, can set the stage for a healthy, child-friendly family life, in contrast to one that is child-centered.
Donna describes her rich and unique experience, which includes being a houseparent in Camphill, teaching children from preschool through high school, homeschooling her two sons, and advising parents through Christopherus Home School Resources, which she founded. Donna has many books and other recordings available at
www.Christopherushomeschool.org [If you have young children, I especially recommend her book on Kindergarten at Home with Your Three to Six-Year-Old. --Rahima]
Parenting: Language of Virtues
"Learning the Language of Virtues"
Workshop by Cynthia Wand
By helping your children relate to the virtues or values that underly all social and religious life, you can help their inner development as well as their outer actions. Cynthia is a Waldorf home schooling parent and a Master Facilitator with Virtues Project International, a model global program for families that has been honored by the United Nations.
Continue reading Language of VirtuesParenting: Spiritual Companioning
"The Art of Spiritual Companioning"
Workshop by Cynthia Wand
By being deeply present and listening with compassion and detachment, we can help others “to empty their cup of emotion.” This powerful yet gentle tool from Virtues Project International supports children and adults to discover their inner wisdom.
Continue reading Spiritual CompanioningParenting: Surviving Parenting/Six Basic Exercises
"Surviving Parenting with the Help of Steiner's Six Basic Exercises"
Workshop by Betty Staley
Everyday situations often cause parents to lose their composure and react. Working with Rudolf Steiner’s six basic exercises is a powerful way to help us make parenting a positive and creative experience.
Continue reading Surviving Parenting/Six Basic ExercisesParenting: Courageous Parenting
"Courageous Parenting: Changing Our Families and the World"
Keynote by Nancy Jewel Poer
The family in today’s world has been described as a “bearer of culture.” Having explored our own values through the preceding keynotes, how can we create the quality of life we want for our families in the face of forces like commercialism that are working so powerfully against our efforts? How can our parenting impact the world situation, and can we know what the effects of our actions will be on our children? Nancy shares her life-long experience as a parent and grandparent, educator and activist for culture change.
Continue reading Courageous ParentingParenting: Communities of Learning
"Creating Vibrant Communities of Learning for Our Children"
Keynote by David Darcy
We simultaneously participate in many different communities, with all their attendant joys and frustrations. Whether our child’s community of learning is at a school or at home, the dynamics of community are part of the fabric of learning. We will explore the dynamics that exist in healthy and challenging communities, as well as the ideals of the “three-fold social order” brought by Rudolf Steiner. How can we, as adults, take up the challenges of community so that our own learning will be an inspiration to our children?
Continue reading Communities of LearningParenting: Parenting by HEART
"Parenting by H.E.A.R.T~Resurrecting the Family"
Keynote by Cynthia Wand
What is at the heart of our families? What is at the heart of our lives? What lies at the core of our values? Virtues are qualities that provide the framework for creating a meaningful life. They are universally valued by all faiths and cultures and form the content of our character. By exploring and resurrecting the purity, meaning and power of virtue, we will redefine what it is to create a family and parent from that place of inner strength.
Continue reading Parenting by HEARTParenting: Neurology and Nurture
"Neurology and Nurture: Supporting Our Children in Challenging Times"
Keynote by Dee Joy Coulter, Ed.D.
Because today’s children will need to cope with more stress and cultivate more resiliency than ever before, it is vital to offer the guidance they need for living into their souls’ destinies. This will call for new understandings and new strategies. Dr. Coulter discusses some of the important neurological findings that can point the way toward these new strategies and then explores a wide range of practices and activities that can make parenting fun and successful for the children, while nourishing parents as well.
Continue reading Neurology and NurtureParenting: Freedom and Choice
"Freedom of Choice or Freedom from Choice?
Workshop by Eugene Schwartz
Is there a difference between the parenting role and the teaching role? In this session for parents, teachers and home schoolers, Eugene explores ways of distinguishing between the varying expectations of the two roles and ways in which your child benefits by responding to a “formed” approach. He also discusses implications of recent research by Judith Rich Miller (The Nurture Assumption) on the relationship between parental and peer influences.
Continue reading Freedom and ChoiceParenting: Depth in Fairy Tales
"The Hidden Depth in Fairy Tales"
Workshop by Thesa Kallinikos
Discover what lies hidden within fairy tales and why they speak so strongly to the young child (through first grade). Learn how to select and tell fairy tales for children of different ages.
Continue reading Depth in Fairy TalesParenting: Letting Stories Teach
"Letting Stories Teach"
Workshop by Eugene Schwartz
It is no exaggeration to say that stories are the most powerful teaching resource available to both parents and teachers, having been the primary means for transmitting religious truths and cultural values from time immemorial. Explore ways stories may be used to convey information, ameliorate psychological problems, and stimulate healthy social interchange among children. [Note: Eugene is the author of Why the Setting Sun Turns Red and Other Stories for Children and an expert on curative or pedagogical stories and using stories in the curriculum]
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"Sharing Stories with your Children"
Workshop by Daena Ross
How can you make up stories that are age appropriate? How do you memorize stories, and how much should you dramatize them? This storytelling workshop will help you build confidence and investigate themes and sources of inspiration that can enrich your life as well as your children's.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Parenting: Working with the Angels
"Who's Helping Whom? Working with Your Child's Angel"
Workshop by Myra McPherson
How do we help our children go to sleep, trust the world, or take on a challenge? There is help available from the spiritual world as parents and angels work in partnership to support our children’s development. Learn some ways to stop, look and listen with our hearts for guidance.
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"Adolescence: A Grail Journey of the Heart"
Workshop by William Bento
As the biological chemistry alters throughout puberty, the delicate subtle sheath of the heart transforms, setting the soul upon a universal quest that will involve 16 gateways to maturity. Using the story of Parzival as a metaphor for our times, this presentation explores the meaning of the transformation and the gateways for youth today.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Parenting: Nourishing Our Families
"Nourishing Ourselves, Nourishing Our Children"
Workshop by Thomas Cowan, MD
The research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price was the first to show how food determines health in teeth, bones, organs, growth and reproduction. Dr. Cowan discusses the power of eating traditional foods, locally grown and traditionally prepared. This approach has recently been made more accessible through Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions.
Audio recording in CD format, $12.50
Parenting: Parenting Authentically
"Dare to Parent Authentically"
Keynote address by William Bento
Conditions today have made raising the next generation a mission extraordinaire! Who dares be a parent in these complex times? The answer: “Only those who still know deep in their hearts that the next generation is the only hope for humanity’s sanity.” We need to be who we are authentically so our children will see, hear and experience the glorious mystery that men and women of all ages have paid homage to, the one single truth we know as Love. Dare to parent in the virtue of Hope and live in the power of Love!
In this presentation, William adapts Steiner's "Six Basic Exercises" to form a path of inner development for parents.
Parenting: Children and Sports
Children and Sports--When and How?
Workshop by Michael Mendizza
Soccer, T-ball--when to start team sports? Or lessons in competitive sports? What about children with special drive or talent? Michael shares his insights on play and sports gained from extensive interviews with star athletes about playing "in the zone" and interview with their coaches. Learn what really works to encourage, not scare or scar your child.
Audio Recording in CD format $12.50
Parenting: Family Matters (DVD and CD)
Family Matters or "Homemaking 101 for Busy Parents"
Workshop by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
In this video with Rahima, you are invited to consider the four levels of family life-physical, rhythmical, emotional and spiritual-as a practical lens for making your home life more harmonious and supportive for all members of the family. Something you'll want to watch again and again over time, as your family changes.
Video Recording in DVD format $20
Parenting: Early Childhood through Adolescence
"It's Never Too Early (to Prepare for Adolescence)"
Keynote Address by Betty Staley
Adolescence doesn't fall out of the sky! Healthy parenting through the early stages of childhood and through the golden years of 7-10 sets the stage for this very important transitional period when we may feel we are dancing on a tightrope with 10-16 year olds. Betty gives a clear description of the path of parenting by discussing five themes of parenting and how they change from early childhood through adolescence.
Audio Recording in CD format (60 minutes) $12.50
Parenting: Cultivating Mastery
"Cultilvating Mastery--Preparing Untroubled Children to Live in a Troubled World" Keynote by Regina Mason
Through her varied experiences over the years as a home schooling parent and Waldorf teacher, Regina will share insights into the effects on our children's development of the current trend toward permissiveness. How can parents instill a sense of order without sacrificing their child's spontaneity, independence, and creativity? Regina will delve into the issues surrounding authority, discipline, and helping children cultivate the mastery to navigate the world's social waters.
Audio Recording in CD format (60 minutes) $12.50
Parenting: The Next Frontier in Education
"The Next Frontier in Education"
Keynote Address by Michael Mendizza
The next great challenge in education is reaching and engaging adults-moms and dads, families, coaches and communities-to become what Joseph Chilton Pearce refers to as the "model imperative" for our children. Michael discusses how only such a model can mentor a new generation of children and through time a new intelligent, creative, sustainable culture.
Audio Recording in CD format (60 minutes) $12.50
Parenting: The Best Start in Life
"The Best Start in Life" -- keynote address by Rahima Baldwin Dancy,
plus a handout on creating a naturally enriched environment for your child
All parents want what is best for their child. Yet it is easier to define and meet basic physical and emotional needs than it is to know how, what and when to teach children in the preschool years. What do young children really need? What will really prepare them for life in our rapidly changing world? Rahima addresses these issues, bringing in many of the studies cited by neuropsychologist Jane Healy. She also discusses practical ways to help your child's learning through creating a naturally enriched environment.
Audio recording in CD format, 54 minutes, plus 1-page handout, $12.50.
Parenting: Exploring the Temperaments
"Exploring the Temperaments"
Workshop by Kristie Burns (Audio CD)
Knowledge of the temperaments can help create more harmonious relationships through understanding oneself and others better, and can help create more joy in life. Kristie teaches an online course in The Four Temperaments and will share insights on their development by Steiner, Galen and Islamic medicine.
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Parenting: Parenting in the 21st Century
"Walking the Fine Line: Parenting in the 21st Century"
Workshop by Jack Petrash
Parenting today is demanding work filled with paradox and contradiction. This workshop will explore some of the essential parenting polarities and help both mothers and fathers to maintain a balanced approach.
Audio recording in CD format $12.50
Parenting: The Joys and Challenges of Fathering
"The Joys and Challenges of Fathering"
Workshop by Jack Petrash (Audio in CD format)
As fathers today, we play a greater role in the raising of our children and, yet, we often feel unprepared for the task. This interactive workshop explores the fundamentals of fathering and shows how the same principles that guide a Waldorf approach to education are at the heart of effective parenting. Jack led groups for Waldorf fathers for many years and has two grown sons and a daughter in high school.
Audio recording in CD format $12.50