During her visit to the Toronto area, Joan gave talks and led seminars at Hesperus, the Toronto Waldorf School and the Waldorf Academy. Empathy was the theme running through all these events. She described how empathy is a process of deepening and challenging relationships. We can only arrive at a real experience of another person when we understand and appreciate their differences. We need to become selfless in order to experience the other's self, and in so doing, we become conscious of our own self. This indeed is social art!
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For the members of "Vers les Sources" of the Eastern Townships as well as the community of Waterville, the recent passing away of R�al Choini�re leaves a great void. We had all become very attached to our dear friend who had recently arrived in our region. R�al moved back to the Eastern Townships in 2008 in order to follow his grandchildren who would be attending the local Waldorf School that year. R�al would constantly talk about and promote the benefits of the Waldorf school, the exceptional work and devotion of the teachers as well as his gratitude for all the wonderful interactions with the community members. This is where R�al first made contact with the Anthroposophical community. R�al would regularly attend to the Anthroposophical society's meetings and then became a member of "La 1re Classe" a few years before passing away. R�al was first introduced to Anthroposophy in 1999 at the age of 67. Continue

 

In one way, G�za was born into Anthroposophy, the science of the spirit inaugurated by Rudolf Steiner in Europe a t the turn of the last century, through his deep connection to his mother, Olga, a lifelong Anthroposophist in Hungary. But it might be perhaps more accurate to say that G�za and his mother were so connected because they shared a common love for this new pathway opened up for the modern human being who not only recognizes that there IS a spiritual world, but that it is possible for the human being to come to KNOW and understand it through schooled, conscious experience, as an extension to natural science. He was a devoted student on this path. On one trip back to Hungary with his son Thomas, G�za fondly showed him the old villa in which he lived with his family, where he and his mother would talk of important spiritual matters. He was an avid reader and researcher into the worlds on both sides of the threshold over the course of his whole life. Continue 

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