Our Waldorf in the Home conference April 16-17, 2005 in Fair Oaks, California
will had 45 workshops relating to Waldorf education, parenting, and Waldorf Home Schooling, and three exciting keynote speakers: Jack Petrash, Linda Knodle and John Cunningham.
Jack Petrash is the founder and director of the Nova Institute and a nationally-known parenting educator. He taught for over 30 years and took three classes of children from grades one to eight at the Washington Waldorf School. He is the author of Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's Gold Award in 2001, and Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out. His newest book, Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline, will be available at the conference (or order it along with your conference registration). Jack and his wife Carol have raised three children (31, 27 and 16) and live in Kensington, Maryland.
Linda Knodle is the founder and director of Community Education Toward a Healthy Social Life. She is a trained Waldorf teacher, having taken a class from grades 1-8 at Seattle Waldorf School, and she continues her 17 years as an educator by teaching blocks in many Waldorf middle school classrooms. Linda has parented four sons and a daughter, all grown. She has recently published I Find My Star Curriculum, written by Tamara Slayton, Linda Knodle and Anne-Marie Fryer. Linda facilitates Women's Circles and Mother/Daughter circles, as well as mentoring parents and schools in developing coming of age programs (see www.LindaKnodle.net. She and her husband live in Seattle, Washington.
John Cunningham helped found a pioneer Waldorf school on Orcas Island (WA), completed the Waldorf training at Emerson College in England, and then taught for fourteen years at the Waldorf School of the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon. In 1999 he trained individually with Marshall Rosenberg, the developer of Compassionate Communication (also called Nonviolent Communication, or NVC) and went on to become certified as a trainer with the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Since June 2000, John has been giving trainings in NVC throughout the country as well as consulting to the Waldorf school movement (see www.empathy-conexus.com ) . He also provides NVC trainings within the prison system as a volunteer with the Freedom Project. John has been parenting for the last 28 years with five children now aged 16-35.
