Online Programs
Rooted in the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, our online courses are designed to support childcare workers and parents in fostering healthy, holistic development in young children. Whether you're a caregiver looking to deepen your practice or a parent seeking to enrich your child’s early years, our courses offer valuable insights and tools to support a meaningful, child-centered approach to learning.
Working Together with the Living Arts
An Interactive Workshop Series
for Careproviders, Teachers, Families, & Anyone working with the Living Arts
The YES to Life Series
with Cynthia Aldinger and Mary O’Connell and guests Rahima Baldwin Dancy,
Chinyelu Kunz, Jack Petrash, Laura Scappaticci, and Tim Francis
A series of seven individual courses.
Mary O’Connell and Cynthia Aldinger are collaborating on a brand new series that extends through the whole scope of childhood and focuses on Goodness, Beauty and Truth as a foundation for creating strength and resiliency for ourselves and for the children and youth in our programs, our homes
- anywhere in our lives- and, most especially, in our hearts.
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Heavy Baby Workshop
A special gathering offered
to you by Mindy Upton
August 30th 10am- 3pm Central
In this online workshop, we will create a Heavy Baby, a softly weighted companion designed to bring a sense of warmth, security, and belonging to the children in our care. Together we will learn the art of constructing these special companions while exploring the deeper intention behind their place in the classroom.
Cultivating Warm & Loving Spaces in Parenting Classes for Infants, Babies, & Toddlers
A Workshop series with Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton
Saturdays, October 10 & 17,
and November 14 9- 11:30 am Central
Creating a program specifically for parents and their very young children is a special task. Our rhythms must meet the needs of the very youngest (infants) to toddlers under three. How do we craft our programs for developmental needs while balancing the essential understanding for all families to be at their best?
Join Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton for this three-session workshop and learn how to work with each specific age’s development and explore how to provide these elements to create your own warm & loving program.
Preparing for Teacher/Family Conferences
A Workshop series with Leslie Wetzonis Woolverton
Wednesdays October 14 & 21
6 pm - 7:30 pm Central
Midpoint in the fall, we begin to prepare for our first set of parent conferences with families. By this point in the school year, we have begun to know our children, discovering ways of support for each child’s individual needs.
This course will encourage trust building with the families of our children and deepen mutual respect for the remaining school year to strengthen each child we teach and care for.
Gestures and Meditations from Curative Education
A Self-Paced Course with Molly Brett
Three Weeks starting November 18
Rudolf Steiner gave four indications in the Curative Course for gestures therapists and teachers should have living in their work with children.
Come deepen your understanding of these indications to enliven your teaching and study the point/circle mediation which was also given in the curative course to strengthen ourselves for our work.