SteinerBooks Sunday Letter Podcast

In this episode, Kathy Donchak shares an excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's lecture entitled Forces Leading to Health in Education. In this lecture, Steiner speaks about authentic enthusiasm and how important that is for teaching. The lecture can be found at SteinerBooks.org/blog.

In this episode, Kathy Donchak introduces you to the world of healing education practices within Emergency Education in Waldorf Education as solutions to crisis intervention by sharing the book by Bernd Ruf.

Since 2006, specialists, doctors, psychologists, and therapists of Parzival-Zentrum Karlsruhe have taken part in emergency education crisis interventions, carried out by the organization Friends of Friends of Waldorf Education. They work with psychologically traumatized children and young people in war zones and disaster areas, including Lebanon, China, the Gaza Strip, Indonesia, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, and most recently in Japan following the tsunami there and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Bernd Ruf, who heads these operations, describes in his book in various ways the basics of anthroposophically extended “emergency education,” including the anthroposophic understanding of trauma itself. In addition, he describes processes and experiences, focusing on recent experiences in Japan at the center of his descriptions.

Educating Traumatized Children offers much-needed insight into this little-known area of education and healing for traumatized children and young people. This book will be valuable not only for those working in areas of disaster and armed conflict, but also for any teacher or parent who is teaching or caring for a traumatized child.

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In this episode, Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna shares how we can find new ways to serve ourselves and the world in this new global health crisis. In this continued conversation, Dr. Prasanna helps us to recognize the things we are missing in our lives due to social distancing and invites us into a co-creative process to reenvision how we can move forward. 

In this episode, Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna shares ways to help our families reduce anxiety in this new global health crisis by the way we care for ourselves. She discusses how we can empower ourselves to be of service to the world while helping ourselves and families cope.

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Dr. Prasanna is trained as a developmental pediatrician, neonatologist, autism researcher, author, and health consultant. Kathy Donchak is the Chief Executive at SteinerBooks.

In this episode, SteinerBooks, Kathy Donchak, speaks to Dr. Adam Blanning, of Denver Therapies,  about how to support children and families through illness. There is still much we do not know about the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), but there are steps we can take to protect our health and support ourselves if we get sick. 

Join David and Lila Tresemer as they discuss ways to respond and supplement information from the CDC from an Anthroposophic perspective. 

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