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<\/a> Constanza Kaliks, working on behalf of the youth section at the Goetheanum, also shed light on why the youth section exists and how it works.\u00a0 Paul Zebhauser, a youth at present, working with Constanza at the Goetheanum, shared his work overseeing the youth hostel and study groups around Dornach.\u00a0 Johannes Kronenberg, organizer of youth section work in the Netherlands, announced a forthcoming Youth Section International Gathering 3, taking place in Den Haag, Netherlands next summer.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Artistic workshops were held after lunch, and ranged from poetry, to sculpture, painting, to acting, music, to drawing, Eurythmy to storytelling, as clowning and water based consciousness rounded out the flood of creativity.\u00a0 I participated in Julie Le Gal\u2019s offering based in Michael Chekhov\u2019s acting method, finding the exercises liberating, challenging, and bewildering.\u00a0 Our mornings began in one of two ways for participants.\u00a0 Members of the School for Spiritual Science shared a Class Lesson given each day by a different Class Holder.\u00a0 Meanwhile Constanza and youth section veteran Nathaniel Williams hosted an introductory exploration of anthroposophic meditation practices.<\/p>\n
We made meals for one another, which led to many interesting combinations.\u00a0 For example, the opening day of the conference was themed “Biography, Karma”…”and Pasta”.\u00a0 The youth members of the Eurythmy Ensemble from Spring Valley offered us breakfast that day with the question, “Where does your name come from?”<\/p>\n
As each day moved along, we swam deeper into unfamiliar waters both warm and cold.\u00a0 The sun was pounding us by day, leaving our nights hot enough to sit outside and speak under the stars.\u00a0 The flood of cosmic wisdom meeting earth-bound initiatives, continued to build tremendous amounts of pressure with questions and conviction.\u00a0 Thankfully thick clouds wafted in to soften us, and though they blocked our meteor shower gazing, they blessed us with gentle trickling raindrops showering.\u00a0 Much needed to be washed and cleansed, so the rain grew stronger.\u00a0 It brought the youth and the elders together.\u00a0 We shared a couple conversations, directly addressing one another, and clarifying questions about the school for spiritual science.<\/p>\n
The final Sunday of the conference was held open for a plenum about the School for Spiritual Science, where members of the North American Collegium for Spiritual Science and the Executive Council answered difficult questions from conference participants regarding the present practices of the Goetheanum.\u00a0 Christian Community Priest Jonah Evans also spoke.\u00a0 He told the story of his spiritual journey, and drew a distinction between prayer and meditation.<\/p>\n
It was a revelation to witness the flexibility and willingness of all members in the conversation.\u00a0 We all found ourselves swimming together, moving forward in some sense, and it felt like a healing, really, as a new seed.\u00a0 May our motions continue, like water, onto these new seeds, these eternal seeds, of loving kindness, trust in one another, forgiveness, and inspiration, growing out in 7 directions, as taught to us by Native American Architect Douglas Cardinal (presenter), as he led us through a ritual on the sacred Island in the middle of Ottawa, considered the heart of North America, where many tribes would meet, and trade, where many rivers come together, generating beautiful power.\u00a0 North, East, South, West, the Earth, the Sky, and our heart.\u00a0 We closed the conference by forming a circle stretching around the entire auditorium, with the words of the Foundation Stone resounding into the space. The final seal came as First Nations Squamish Elder Wendy Charbonneau once again put her walker aside, grabbed the drum, and strode across the stage singing a blessing for our circle to radiate on and out into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To experience the others, and to experience myself, amongst us.\u00a0 The Youth Section shared a rolling stream of meals, words, melodies, meetings, in Ottawa, Canada this August.\u00a0 The Anthroposophical Society of Canada hosted us at their conference “Encountering Our Humanity”. Humanity did show up, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthroposophy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Humanity did show up, and so we had to encounter one another.\u00a0 The conference organizers created a very strong and full form, arriving on a Sunday, working through a full week of programming, and closing again on the following Sunday.\u00a0 As the title infers, each day brings an aspect of the humanities to life.\u00a0 To begin, Arie van Ameringen, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada and the conference\u2019s lead planner, gave a keynote lecture on the individual\u2019s evolving spiritual relationship with the universe.\u00a0 He revealed a progression of the I (each of us) and the it ( the universe) following the trajectory of a U. THE IT – TO IT – IN IT – I – FROM ME – OUT OF ME – I INTO IT. This broad gesture foreshadowed our ensuing launch into a dynamic week of anthoposophisticated presenters, including five of the six members of the Executive Council (Vorstand) of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum and several outstanding representatives of anthroposophical work in Canada.\u00a0 Topics included: Biography and Karma – Education – Medicine – Science and Agriculture – the Arts – Community Building and the Social Arts. Each day’s theme seemed to flow into the next, building and bringing us in deeper, while a program of evening performances sweetened and stirred our dreams.\u00a0 (reviews of lectures and performances at end of article)<\/p>\n