Waldorf parenting and home schooling conferences this year include:
Keynotes speakers will feature Joseph Cornell, whose books on Sharing Nature with Children have been a classic resource for parents and teachers. Chris Korrow,a bio-dynamic farmer and film maker, will be joining us from Kentucky. And we are also delighted to welcome Sharon Lovejoy, who is an internationally acclaimed author on gardening. She has written several books on gardening with children, including Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots, Sunflower Houses, and Hollyhock Days. And we will be joined by Craig Holdrege, Director of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY and a frequent lecturer on biodynamic agriculture and the Goethean approach to the natural world. In addition, there will be three dozen workshops on various aspects of the Waldorf curriculum, parenting, and ways to nurture children--and ourselves--in the living forces of nature.
"Waldorf at Home" with Donna Simmons, July 18-20, 2008 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Topics include the young child at home, self development as a parent, language arts and storytelling, form drawing, Waldorf curriculum for grades 1-3, anthroposophy, science, and discipline. For more information and registration forms, please email darcieperkins@gmail.com.
Barbara Dewey (Waldorf without Walls) will be offering two sessions at her farm in Ohio: Homeschool Kindergarten Training June 27-29, 2008 and Homeschool Teacher Training for Grades 106, august 15-17. See www.waldorfwithoutwalls/seminars.
June 22-July 5, 2008, The Art of Teaching, at Rudolf Steiner College, Fair Oaks, California. Offering one-week sessions on teaching each grade (1-8), plus 3-4 year olds, and Fundamentals of the Waldorf Kindergarten. www.steinercollege.edu or 916-961-8727 for a catalog.
Rudolf Steiner Institute, July 6-26 at Green Mountain College in Vermont. One- and two-week sessions including "The Essentials of Waldorf Education" with Jack Petrash and "The Spirit of Early Childhood" with Joan Almon. www.steinerinstitute.org
Gene Campbell (Chiron) offers early childhood intensives (July 19-20) and grades 1-8 (July 22-24) for home schoolers. The conferences are at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in Toronto, Ontario. See www.chiron.ca
"Bringing Waldorf Home" is the annual conference in the Mid-Atlantic area, produced by Nicole Correri. Dates are Aug 29-31, and further information is available from clarityskr@yahoo.com.
