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° Italy Odyssey - LAST MINUTE CALL October 2-18, 2022 Explore Renaissance Italy from an anthroposophical perspective. Only two openings remain available!
º Applied Anthroposophy Course October 19, 2022 - May 10, 2023
º Creating Community: Building Bridges through the Social Art of Biography September 10, 2022
° Resilience and Self-Care with Goethean Psychology Offered multiple times, Sept. - Dec.
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| All of a Feather
The idiom "birds of a feather flock together" appears in literature at least as far back as 1545 AD, but as a proverb and metaphor it likely goes back much farther in history.
It seems fitting to use Feathers for our newsletter that highlights events sponsored by other organizations. It reminds us that there are other "flocks" worth getting to know, building relationships with, and learning from.
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| | | Last Minute Opportunity: Italy Odyssey
October 2-18, 2022
What does it mean to be human?
Embark on a journey with the spirit of pilgrims, seeking to experience the mysterious pagan dream of the Renaissance humanist. Just as Renaissance mystics, scientists, and artists found inspiration from the ancients, it is possible for us to look backward in order to find our way forward.
The stages planned for this Odyssey follow a natural geographical path, beginning in Venice, passing through Ravenna and Florence, heading towards Siena and Assisi in the center of Italy, and ending in Rome.
We will visit gardens, museums, palaces, cathedrals, and tiny cities. Each place expresses a quality of a particular initiation process, practiced in those times within the guilds and workshops of the artisans.
Our tapestry of experiences will include study sessions weaving together art history and Rudolf Steiner's understanding of the Evolution of Consciousness, opera, outdoor concerts, plus eurythmy practice.
Guides: Gillian Schoemaker, Renata Rogie, and Orazio Lo Presti
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| | | | Exploring the Alchemy of Applied Anthroposophy
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| For the third year the Applied Anthroposophy Course (AAC3) is being offered for the purpose of exploring the urgent issues of our time through the lens of spiritual philosophy, awakening meaning, inner reflection, and outer action.
What is contemporary culture asking for now?
What are you being called to bring to the world?
How will Anthroposophia assist you in the task?
Participants include a diverse group of life-long learners, hosted by world class presenters, who together create a transformative container to explore the alchemy of our individual metamorphosis in service to world transformation.
This course is for both beginners plus those already connected to anthroposophy who feel called to experience it in a new way:
Inspiring keynote speakers.
Highlights from the anthroposophical movement.
Themed discussion groups on diverse topics.
The warmth of shared learning with participants from all over the world.
ACC3 is an online course meeting weekly from October 19, 2022 - May 10, 2023.
There are two breaks: December 15 - February 1 and April 1 - May 4.
Registration is now open!
An initiative of the Anthroposophical Society in America (ASA).
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| | | | Creating Community:Building Bridges through the Social Art of Biography
An international Zoom workshop (2 hours) September 10, 2022
You are warmly invited to meet people from different countries for the purpose of exploring common ground and building community.
You will have the opportunity to share life experiences, thoughts, and feelings around our theme, and to listen deeply in small groups of three.
Meeting and listening to each other across borders and divisions, you will be able express support and understanding and thereby contribute to a more peaceful future.
We will aim to meet heart-to-heart, while putting aside judgment and assumptions.
Our gathering will be facilitated by Kathleen Bowen and Karen Gierlach, who have both served on the Board of the Center for Biography and Social Art.
Register early, space is limited
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| | | | Resilience and Self-Care with Goethean Psychology
Presented by Graham Kennish
Offered multiple times, including
September 24, October 15 & 22 & 29, November 5 & 12 & 26, December 3
A 1+ hour (free) Zoom workshop to learn a practical anthroposophical method of handling anxiety and stress, through the Goethean observation of one’s own inner emotional state, with the language of gesture. You will leave with a practical exercise that you will have created yourself, to use in daily life.
Graham Kennish is a Steiner science teacher and psychotherapist (MBACP Accredited).
Free of charge, but donations to cover Zoom costs are welcome.
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| For more information on Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative, please visit our website where you may:- Register for Astrosophy and Birth Charts, an online course by Brian Gray.
- Register for Philosophy of Freedom, a free online course by Brian Gray.
- Register for The Lord's Prayer, an online course by Lelan Harris.
- Investigate all of the free resources available.
- Donate to support the production of more courses.
- Volunteer as a typist, transcriber, or translator.
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| Images Feather Passage by Nico Frey, Unsplash.com Florence by Veronika Galkina, AdobeStock.com
Against the Wind by Pedro Sanz, Unsplash.com
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| Wise Cosmos Educational Initiative is a world-wide community that welcomes all who, in the words of Rudolf Steiner, are endeavoring to unite the spiritual element within the human being to the spiritual in the universe.
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