Our next Steiner Saturday Session is on supporting children (and ourselves) through an understanding of the temperaments! This month we have a visiting facilitator offering a fantastic workshop on the four Temperaments and Eurythmy.
This is not to be missed if you are at all interested in understanding your child and people in general, or if you would like to learn some of the real fundamentals of understanding and working with people in a Steiner/Waldorf context.
Some words from our lovely workshop facilitator:
On Saturday we are going to engage with the four temperaments of the human being through interactive and lively observations, movement, conversation and self reflection.
We all are aware of the four seasons- winter, spring, autumn and summer- and the four elements - earth/mineral, air, water, warmth/fire. In this workshop I will unlock these aspects in relation to us as individuals, in search for what lives in us as our predominant temperament. My intention is to guide us into a new understanding of a hidden realm of who you are and the importance of the possibilities of the transformation of yourself.
How can we find out which element/season of a temperament we belong to as an individual? What are the strengths and challenges with our own element/season of a temperament? Why is it important to observe, recognise and use new learning about the four temperaments.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Warm greetings,
Susanne
Susanne is a native of Sweden, where she attended college and received a degree in Economics. Knowing that she never wanted to work in an office setting full time, Susanne started work as a caregiver at a Steiner/Waldorf school for children with special needs outside Stockholm. After that she lived and worked mostly in the United States over the past 30 years with a few exceptions of South Africa, England and Germany, before relocating to New Zealand in 2015.
Susanne finished her Artistic Eurythmy Training in Spring Valley, NY in 1994; The Pedagogical Eurythmy Teacher Training at Antioch, New Hampshire in 1996; The Eurythmy Therapy Training in England in 2001. She finished her Dental Eurythmy Therapy Training in 2012 as well as the Extra Lesson training based on the insights of Audrey McAllen. Susanne has a BA in Eurythmy from the Norwegian Eurythmy School in 2014. She is co-founder of Camphill Communities California, Santa Cruz. Susanne worked in different Steiner/Waldorf schools in the USA as well as in Sweden and Germany.
Her teaching and eurythmy therapy experiences throughout her movement career are varied covering all ages, different learning styles and movement challenges, in private, school and GP practices. She taught pedagogical eurythmy for many years at the Arcturus Teacher Training in Chicago. Susanne also has performance experiences with different performing eurythmy groups in Pennsylvania, San Francisco, Chicago and festival performances in New Zealand.