26 Apr From the World Society On A Culture of Agreement
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, Beginnings...
26 Apr Viral Economics A challenge to egotism? Christopher Houghton-Budd
I have been asked by some colleagues if I would comment on the current virus crisis from an economic point of view. I don’t know that I have credentials different to anyone else for doing this, but I am happy to share my sense of...
26 Apr The Australian in the Room New Adult Educator Path I and II (August 2019 and Feb/March 2020).
hands receive and give warmly held community - now I sit alone Outside my small apartment in Highgate, near the Perth Central Business District, Western Australia, birds sing. I was woken by the guffawing laugh of kookaburras and now listen for the sweeter song of doves and wattle...
26 Apr Global Activation of Intention and Action by Emmanuel Vucovich
Last week The Presencing Institute at MIT launched the Global Activation of Intention and Action forum: an international community. Over 10,000 people from around the world registered for this forum and the community is growing exponentially as people are connecting to presencing & collaborative leadership work from all corners of the globe, and from all...
26 Apr Interview with Paul Hodgkins with Geraldine Snowden and Robert McKay December 2019 Part 1
[caption id="attachment_5843" align="alignleft" width="283"] Paul Hodgkins (Photo: Richard Chomko[/caption] Paul Hodgkins was born in the Midlands in England on January 31, 1947. He immigrated to Canada in the mid-1960’s. He married twice, once in 1971 and a second time in 1990 to his wife Susan Richard....
21 Mar From the World Society – On Climbing the Mountain
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, In the years following World War II the disintegration of complex multi-ethnic, multi-religious societies spread as a fracturing impulse across most of the globe. The artificial cohesion imposed by European colonial powers across Asia and Africa...
21 Mar Compostela – Three friends walk the Way of the Stars (Part One)
[caption id="attachment_5755" align="alignleft" width="397"] Chantal Lamothe, Suzie Couture and Manon Sévigny (photo Michel Dongois).[/caption] The protagonists of this adventure are three ladies, all having links to the Waldorf School Les enfants de la Terre, located in Waterville*. One fine day, Chantal Lamothe mentioned that she would...
22 Feb From the World Society: On Our Wounds and Our Healing
Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada, Many years ago, I was very fortunate to be part of the architectural group at Emerson College in Sussex, England when one of the leading anthroposophical physicians from the Netherlands visited the college and spoke about...
22 Feb January Council Retreat in Calgary by Susan Koppersmith
I wanted to share with the membership some personal reflections of a recent Council retreat. This January the Council with our General Secretary visited Calgary for a retreat and also to meet active members. Landing at the airport on a Thursday in a cold, snowy landscape...
22 Feb Class Holders/Council meeting October 17 – 20, 2019 Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
[caption id="attachment_5688" align="alignleft" width="300"] Reviewing our joint art work[/caption] A first conference exploring the General Anthroposophical Section as experienced in Canada included local (Toronto area) Class members as well as Class Holders and Council members. My questions going into this conference were about deepening my understanding of...