WORKSHOPS - Rudolf Steiner College

WORKSHOPS
Please choose one workshop for the whole conference
1. Weaving with Raffia Learn four and five strand plating techniques that are simple and versatile
for creating hats, baskets, bags, and mats of your own design. With Alicia Dodge, grades teacher
at the Santa Barbara Waldorf School, and director of the Handwork Program, Rudolf Steiner
College.
2. Healing Gifts from the Hive Learn about Honey Bees, their hive, and how their gifts can bring
healing qualities to your life. With Keith Gelber, biodynamic beekeeper and practical crafts
teacher.
3. Care of the Earth—From Soil to Substance Building relationships and values through a garden
work based curriculum. With Stephen Payne, farmer and gardening teacher at the Sacramento
Waldorf School.
4. Color, Form, and Pigment Hands-on experience with the origins and archetypes of color through
painting and color studies. With Pamela Whitman, painting therapist and instructor of light,
color, and darkness.
5. Singing as a Resurrection Process Explore the different layers inherent in any vocal composition:
breath, rhythm, tone quality, speech sounds, melodic production, right harmonic relationships,
imagination, and interpretation; cultivating our collective ability to liberate the music from the
coffin of the score. With Christiana Quick Cleveland, director Tiana Music Enterprises
6. A Portrait of Earth Medicine A hands-on study of the alchemy of the biodynamic preparations.
With Matias Baker, biodynamic consultant.
7. From Fleece to Felt to Slippers Explore the warmth and healing of the craft of felting a pair of
your own slippers. With Dahlia Habermas, handwork teacher at the Davis Waldorf School, and
Trisha Lambert, early childhood teacher at the Davis Waldorf School.
8. Wet Felting Tapestries Engage your will and your artistic heart to create colorful felted wool
tapestries that can then be augmented with needle felting, and a subtle three dimensional
element to delight the senses. Bring two large old towels. With Suzanne Down, director, Juniper
Tree School of Story and Puppetry Arts.
9. Goethe’s Method on the Genius of Place An exploration of how to connect your school’s
locality, curriculum, vision and method to a sense of place or “genus loci”. With Isis Brook, PhD,
Lecturer in Ecological Philosophy and Goethean Science Phenomenology, Essex University,
England.
10. Green Woodworking Learn how to create and use traditional hand tools and a manual polelathe
to transform green wood into practical objects. With Dirk Baughman, master carpenter and land
steward.

11. Tablet or Card Weaving Learn a weaving technique dating back to the Iron Age that is used to
produce strong, durable bands, and create lively patterns and possibilities. An ideal handcraft
for upper grades projects. With Patty Townsend, Arts Program Coordinator at the San Francisco
Waldorf School.
12. Weaving in the Waldorf Classroom Learning the advantages of including weaving in the lower
school and high school and an introduction to the basics of weaving on the Inkle loom. With
Carol Clifton, handwork teacher at the Sacramento Waldorf School.
13. Pine Needle Basketry How to source the materials and craft a pine needle basket, a project
appropriate for seventh grade on up. With Judith Thomas, master weaver and Waldorf
handwork teacher.
14. From Iron to Hook— The Iron Age Forge Learn how this ancient craft can bring excitement to
your practical arts curriculum. With Johnny Romero, crafts teacher at the Sacramento Waldorf
School and Bodo Langen, crafts teacher at Pine Mountain Arts.
15. Self Mastery through Movement Experience the forces of the universe that shape our
movements and that create the physical vessel for the unfolding of soul and spirit. With
Maureen Curran, founder of Movement as a Path of Transformation (MAPT) and Myra
McPherson, remedial and therapeutic movement educator.
16. The Alchemy of Soapmaking Transforming the gifts of the world of plants and minerals into the
healing substance of soap. With Nicole Fields, handwork teacher at the Sacramento Waldorf
School.
17. Reviving the Art of Herbal Care in Home and Classroom Learn how to harvest and prepare
herbal remedies to support wellness and care for common ailments. Making poultices,
compresses and First Aid kits. With Kami McBride, lecturer and author The Herbal Kitchen.
18. The Plant is All Leaf A phenomenological approach to studying the plant kingdom through
exercise in observation, artistic exploration, and inner picturing of the morphology and color
and leaves. With Laura Liska, Biodynamic Events Coordinator at Rudolf Steiner College and
instructor.
19. Raw Substances into a Healing Balm—Rose Gold Ointment Explore the transformation of
simple natural ingredients into healing balms with special emphasis on creating Rose Gold
ointment. With Jonathon Code, Ruskin Mill tutor in Goethean Science phenomenology, drama,
and soap making.
20. From the Dust: Hands to Clay—The Matrix of Life Finding the center of our souls through
honoring the ordinary in hand building with clay. With Melanie Hatch, handwork teacher at the
East Bay Waldorf School and Patricia Dickson, arts instructor at Rudolf Steiner College.
21. Food and Our Future Explore wild and domestic food craft. A very practical course on finding,
storing, and preserving food for the sake of the future of food and humanity. With Rusty Lynn
Diggs, farmer, educator and social activist.