July 2024 “In summer, the song sings itself.” –William Carlos Williams Welcome to the glorious expansiveness of Summer—where the days can roll along languorously and the moments can seem both endless and short-lived, where we strive to balance getting things accomplished with taking long moments to relax. In a dynamic season such as this, we […]
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June 2024 As an extension of her work as Executive Director, Acacia Moore is setting the intention to keep a finger on the pulse of Waldorf, early childhood, childcare, etc. by establishing a rhythm of reading current articles on such things. Here she shares her reflections. David Sewell McCann shares about the
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June 2024 When I took the Waldorf Early Childhood Training in the early 1980’s, one principle that impressed me was, “The Waldorf kindergarten takes the healthy home as its model.” I didn’t quite know what that meant, never having seen “a Waldorf home” at that time–maybe they existed in Europe, but certainly not
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June 2024 This blog has been written by Acacia Moore, the Director of Online Courses and apprenticing Executive Director for LifeWays North America. This May, I completed a three year Curative Educator’s training from Robyn Brown, founder of The Mulberry Center for Curative Education. For these past three years, I have taken up
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May 2024 Today’s article has been written for LifeWays by Robyn M Brown. Learn more about her and her remarkable Curative Education work here! In the moment we are born we bring with us two distinct beings. We bring with us our highest and truest self and we bring with us a
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May 2024 Today’s article was shared with us by our LifeWays Board President, Shanah Ahmadi. When we purchased the property for our program (Rose Rock School) 12 years ago, the 4 acre lot included an inground pool. We discovered that the idea of a serviced pool on the premises disturbed parents’ nerves, so we
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May 2024 Today’s article is by Judith Frizlen, sharing a chapter from her book, Where Wisdom Meets Wonder, Forty Stories of Grandma Love. When Tools are Toys, Work is Play It doesn’t take a lot of space to experience the outdoor world. Our urban yard is small but big enough. There’s a an
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But what exactly do we mean by play? Let’s begin to narrow the field by looking at what this kind of play is not: Not driven by the commercial culture; not based on a movie, not “themed”, not initiated in order to sell merchandise, not packaged, not bought or sold. Not technological, does not
It is springtime and the abundance of Mother Earth is arising, sprouting up green and lush. Her seasons of abundance will soon be with us! Here is a Fairy Tale from Japan, shared with us by Sharifa Oppenheimer, that gives the children images of generosity and the abundance that is created by sharing. The Magic
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March 24th, 2024 Change is chaotic. Even seasonal transitions can cause disturbance. But fortunately, our greatest capacity as human beings is to adapt to change. That is, unless we get stuck in trauma responses and our survival brain. If we do get stuck, it’s time to return to the lessons of early childhood.
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