Conference Program
Lecture Program
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Day 1, Monday July 3
Shelley Davidow : Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition – on the role of creativity in Steiner Education
Day 2, Tuesday July 4
Kevin Lowe : Culturally nourishing schools
Day 3, Wednesday July 5
Kirsty McGeoch and Noela Maletz: Courage, trust and the cultivation of joy, creativity and inspiration
Day 4, Thursday July 6
Nicole Ostini: Finding Ithaca
Workshop Program
Morning workshop series
The morning workshops are a series of three workshops that run over three mornings: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 11:30am – 1:00pm. Please choose one workshop from the list below and attend the same workshop for the three mornings. Workshop content will build over the three days as you work deeper into the topic with the presenter and fellow participants.
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Workshop 1.1 | Supporting our learners | Annette Barone |
Workshop 1.2 | Culturally nourishing schools | Kevin Lowe |
Workshop 1.3 | How do we approach challenging behaviours in today’s Steiner schools? | Elise Duffield |
Workshop 1.4 | The harmonious teaching rhythm of a Steiner teacher: literacy | Lisa O’Donnell, Claudia Alfaro and Jacqui Dutson |
Workshop 1.5 | How does the Steiner curriculum work creatively in unplugged ways in primary school to scaffold and develop the skills needed for digital technology in the high school? | Corey Flynn |
Workshop 1.6 | Bringing wholeness to meet Child Safe standards | Melanie Deefholts |
Workshop 1.7 | What is science and what does Goethe have to do with it? | Jane Greenslade |
Workshop 1.8 | Wellbeing – creating cocoons for transformation | Lisa Devine |
Workshop 1.9 | How can we breathe new life into our shared humanity? | Jan Baker Finch |
Workshop 1.10 | Differentiation in Mathematics in Australian Steiner primary schools | Svantje Mertens |
Afternoon workshop series
The afternoon workshops are a series of three workshops that run over three afternoons: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:30pm – 4:00pm. Please choose one workshop from the list below and attend the same workshop for the three afternoons. Workshop content will build over the three days as you work deeper into the topic with the presenter and fellow participants.
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Workshop 2.1 | Teacher as writer | Shelley Davidow |
Workshop 2.2 | Creative arts in the Steiner curriculum | Lily Riley and Annette Batchelor |
Workshop 2.3 | Geometrical Transformations and Nature | Sophia Montefiore |
Workshop 2.4 | Clay and its many therapeutic and joyous applications | Tania Hungerford |
Workshop 2.5 | Whittling and binding | Tom Hungerford |
Workshop 2.6 | The inspired, creative and joyful learning classroom | Nicole Ostini |
Workshop 2.7 | Courage, trust and the cultivation of joy, creativity and inspiration | Kirsty McGeoch and Noela Maletz |
Workshop 2.8 | Bothmer Gymnastics – Movement, integration, incarnation – ways in which movement can assist and support children and young people of today to live into a balanced experience of the physical body as the home and temple of the soul and spirit. | Elise Duffield and Katherine Ellis |
Workshop 2.9 | Narragunnawali: Reconciliation in Education | Nina Ross, Reconciliation Australia |
Workshop 2.10 | Nature Connection for the Wellbeing, Development and Vitality of the Whole Being | Bethanie Jolly |
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