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Online Courses with Nancy Blanning, Laurie Clark and Anjum Mir
Online Courses with Nancy Blanning, Laurie Clark and Anjum Mir
When: 09/06/2025 - 10/19/2025 Eastern Time
Where: Online via Zoom
Sponsoring Organization: West Coast Institute for Studies in Anthroposophy
Waldorf Early Childhood Educator Training Online Auditing
September/October 2025
We are opening some of our Waldorf Early Childhood Educator Training courses to auditors. Auditing is open to Waldorf educators and those interested in anthroposophy.
The courses below will be held online via Zoom; all times are Pacific Time; all prices are Canadian dollars.
Visit our website to register: https://westcoastinstitute.org/courses/early-childhood-courses/
Birth to Three & Parent Child Programs
with Anjum Mir
11:00 am to 12:30 pm on Saturdays, Sept. 6, Sept. 13, Sept. 27, Oct. 4, Oct 18
(5 classes, $125 CAD total)
This course concentrates on the young child from birth to three within the early childhood setting from a three-fold approach. In Waldorf early childhood education there is the understanding that the Etheric, Soul or Astral and Ego Sheaths are supported by the child’s relationship to healthy rhythms, sleep, attention to the environment and purposeful activity. We will discuss the foundation of early childhood caregiving in the context of sensitivity, warmth and the authenticity of respectful relationships with parents, children and colleagues. Through an exploration of experiential, hands-on activities we will reflect on our thoughts, attitudes and feelings about the young child.
Care & Development of the 12 Senses
with Nancy Blanning
12:30 to 2:00 pm on Sundays, Sept. 7, Sept. 14, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, Oct 19
(5 classes, $125 CAD total)
Rudolf Steiner spoke of the young child as being ‘wholly sense organ’, receiving in many diverse ways the impressions of the world around them. In other contexts, he described twelve senses of the human being, and the importance of their cultivation, care and development. The twelve senses are gateways between the self and the world, informing us about our bodies, the world around us, and the inner nature of other human beings. Each sense is a doorway whereby we come to recognize and know our own self and the other person in manifold and profound ways. The twelve senses provide a foundation for knowledge, self-knowledge and moral development. The more we study them, the more committed we can become to providing an environment where the young child’s senses are educated, nourished properly and protected.
Foundations of Human Experience
with Laurie Clark
9:00 to 10:30 am on Saturdays, Sept. 6, Sept. 13, Sept. 27, Oct. 4, Oct 18;
2:30 to 4:00 pm on Sundays, Sept. 7, Sept. 14, Sept. 28, Oct. 5, Oct 19
(10 classes, $250 CAD total)
This essential pedagogical course will be based on the Study of Man (also translated as The Foundations of Human Experience) by Rudolf Steiner, and the student needs to have read this text beforehand. It provides a wholly spiritual basis for understanding the unique educational task of the teacher today, and it was one of the three basic courses given by Rudolf Steiner to the original teachers of the Waldorf School, in 1919. The descriptions of the interaction of the various systems of thinking, feeling and willing and the relation of these phenomena to the soul of the child, and also to the connection it has with past, present and future, will be discussed. This course will be an introduction to what, over time, will be a source of ongoing strength for the teacher in their daily work.
Visit our website to register: https://westcoastinstitute.org/courses/early-childhood-courses/
