eNews - December 2011 

 

Anthroposophical Society in Canada

 

 

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Contact Info
Anthroposophical Society in Canada 
*** NEW ADDRESS***
# 131 - 1 Hesperus Rd.
Thornhill, ON
L4J 0G9

Mark McAlister
Administrator
416-892-3656


Council
BC (President)
NS (Secretary)
Douglas Wylie ON (Treasurer)
Jean Balekian QC
QC (General Secretary)

School For Spiritual Science 

For list of Class Holders, click here.

Membership Update 


LORI SCOTCHKO (Thornhill ON), MYRTHE VAN NEDERVEEN, AIONA ANDERSON (Burnaby BC) and JOHN WINKLER (Burnaby BC) have transferred their memberships to the Canadian Society.  WELCOME!

LAUREA TAYLOR-GILL has transferred her membership to another country.

SPECIALTY CHANNELS 

Occupy Toronto: "The Conversation Has To Continue" 


Mischa
Toronto Waldorf School Alumnus Mischa Saunders has become a spokesperson for Occupy Toronto.  Recent radio interview with CBC's Matt Galloway.
LOCAL ACTIVITIES

Arts and Education Festival 2012 


Encounters

The Rudolf Steiner Centre Summer Festival  will run for two weeks from July 9 to 20 2012. We will be offering a rich variety of courses for artists, teachers, experienced Waldorf teachers, administrators and people interested in anthroposophy.Last summer's festival drew participants from many provinces of Canada and from as far away as Japan, England and Iran.  Details will be posted soon



Upcoming Events
 

FELLOWSHIP OF PREPARATION MAKERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
1-4 March, 2012, Hotchkiss Colorado.  Details.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND CONFERENCE of the Anthroposophical Society In Canada. 
19-21 May, 2012, Thornhill ON

FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND EDUCATION at the Rudolf Steiner Centre. 9-20 July 2012, Thornhill. Watch for details at their website.

THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD.  Third Mystery Play of Rudolf Steiner -
Conference and performances. 18-22 July, 2012Project brochure.

LIVING GOLD.
5th Christian Community North-South Conference, 21-29 July 2012, Vancouver Island.  Conference website



Interview with Philip Thatcher  
 

Reflections from My Years as General Secretary

- Interview by Robert McKay

 

Philip Thatcher...We sometimes speak about "giving leadership" in a particular situation. It is good to pay attention to our everyday language, for leadership can be seen as a gift an individual gives to his or her community. The challenge then is to discern and be true to the gift of leadership a community needs.

In the Anthroposophical Society, leadership serves the working of the members. How then to support, yet help deepen that working? How to confirm work already underway, yet discern new ways of working not yet explored? How to enrich understandings of anthroposophy that already live in the membership, yet open out insights that would extend or even reshape that understanding, however uncomfortable a reshaping might be? When to listen and when to speak? This exercise of leadership involves a balancing of possibilities and a readiness to live in a creative tension between what is and what could become.

As well, amid affirming initiatives of the members, I needed to be awake to and have the courage of those initiatives that were mine to take out of the General Secretary task. The Encircling Light -- Expectant Silence conference was an example of the latter...

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Entrevue avec Philip Thatcher  
 
R�flexions sur mes ann�es comme Secr�taire g�n�ral

- de Robert Mckay  

 

...On entend parfois l'expression � accorder le leadership � .... � dans des situations particuli�res. Il est important de porter attention � notre utilisation habituelle du langage, car on peut concevoir le leadership autrement, comme �tant un don qu'un individu offre � sa communaut�. Le grand d�fi est alors de discerner avec acuit� ce dont la communaut� a r�ellement besoin.

Dans la Soci�t� anthroposophique, le dirigeant doit �tre au service du travail des membres. Comment donc favoriser et en m�me temps approfondir ce travail? Comment confirmer le travail d�j� en cours tout en discernant de nouvelles fa�ons de travailler jusqu'ici inexplor�es? Comment enrichir la compr�hension de l'anthroposophie qui vit d�j� parmi les membres tout en ouvrant des portes qui pourraient �tendre ou m�me reconfigurer cette compr�hension, pour plus inconfortable que soit cette reconfiguration. Quand doit-on �couter et quand doit-on parler? L'exercice de leadership vu sous ce jour implique qu'on soit capable de pond�rer les possibilit�s et qu'on soit pr�t � vivre dans un �tat de tension cr�ative entre ce qui existe d�j� et ce qui pourrait �tre.

En plus, tout en affirmant les initiatives des membres, il fallait que je reste �veill� et que j'aie le courage d'assumer les initiatives qui m'incombaient � moi comme Secr�taire g�n�ral. Le grand congr�s sur le Nord en est un exemple...Lisez plus

Soul's Probation In Spring Valley NY  
 
- by Mary Brian

 

mystery drama

"All of Anthroposophy is contained in the Mystery Plays." This is something I have often heard, and yet to approach these works of Rudolf Steiner is no easy task.Perhaps one reason, as stated by Barbara Renold, director of the second play, "The Soul's Probation" presented August 17-20, 2011, in Spring Valley, New York, is that they are available to most of us in a heavy book, and yet they are meant to be experienced as a colourful living drama of individuals on the stage. Even here on the stage, Rudolf Steiner leaves us free, without enticement; these plays require much chewing and time to digest. My experience has been, however, that like a little seed of cumin in the mouth, they spread and continue to enhance all the life around...Our "guide" into this realm of relationship, reincarnation, and karma was Barbara Renold...Read full article

NOTE: Next summer, 2012, in Spring Valley, NY, will come the third play ("The Guardian of the Threshold") Project Brochure
CAPITAL MATTERS

Finance at the Threshold        

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Conference with Christopher Houghton Budd in August 2011 in Toronto

Click here for a Report by Kim Chotzen .   (Maybe it's all possible after all!  - Ed.)
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