This book gives a vivid picture of Rudolf Steiner's life, work, philosophy, meditative path, practical initiatives, and approaches to social development. It aims to point out the relevance of Steiner's activities to contemporary social and human concerns.

Rudolf Steiner: His Life, Work, Inner Path and Social Initiatives (Social ecology series) 1st Edition by Lissau, Rudi (1987) Paperback

Rudi Lissau

Religion & Spirituality

Hawthorn Press Ltd

Describes the work of ARTA, a Dutch therapeutic community, giving insights into the nature and causes of addiction, therapeutic methods and the meaning of addiction that arise from their model. The book should be of interest to parents, social workers, doctors and counsellors.

Rock Bottom (Social Ecology Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

This workbook is designed to help parents bring up loving and happy children. It supports the reader's learning on the course run by the Parent Network. Using exercises and examples, the book covers: understanding children's needs and behaviour; positive communication; assertiveness; listening; dealing with feelings; building self-esteem; love and discipline; looking after parents' needs; and setting up support groups.

Parenting Matters: Ways to Bring Up Children Using Heart and Head

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

parent-network-sheila-munro

Home Improvement & Design

Lullabies, nursery rhymes, worksongs and rounds form early musical memories. Music feeds the soul and assists human development. Rita Jacobs discusses the important role of different types of music at certain stages of children's growth. She investigates pentatonic and tonal music, looks at the character of musical instruments and gives insights into which instruments suit different children. The book contains 15 songs with a further 14 appended by the translator who is a parent and former teacher.

Music for Young Children (Learning Resources: Rudolf Steiner Education Series)

Arts & Photography

Music

Who was the "Friend of God"? He was a lay person from the High Lands of fourteenth-century Central Europe, whose name was a mystery. He became the teacher and spiritual mentor of the most famous preacher and mystic of that age, Johannes Tauler, and tradition speaks of his great love and wisdom. His personal letters and writings, rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century, describe his founding of a lay monastery near Strasbourg, as well as intimate details of his life and the inner trials of him and those in the brotherhood around him. The writings also describe his 1377 visit to Pope Gregory XI to appeal for a renewal of the Christian impulse in the established, though spiritually declining Church.  These documents caused a furor among European historians and scholars, and many writers tried to identify the Friend of God or deny his existence as a historical figure.  The author has painstakingly interpreted the medieval pictorial language and lifts the veil of mystery surrounding this nameless person, who is considered to have been one of the leading European mystics, and whose actions and teachings identify him as a "teacher of humanity."

The Friend of God From the High Lands

Rath, Wilhelm

Occult & Paranormal

The essential handbook for all women wanting to make the most of who they are.

Springing Forward (Personal Development Series)

Gina Harris

Liza Edwards

Bernard Lievegoed led a creative life as a psychiatrist, a pioneering doctor working with children with special needs and a management consultant who founded the NPI Institute for Organisation Development. His books such as "Phases", "Man on the Threshold", "Towards the 21st Century" and "Developing Communities" reflect his wide ranging interests. How did Lievegoed combine such profound inner, spiritual research so productively with his pioneering social, medical, educational and management work? This question led Jelle van der Meulen to interview Lievegoed. This book presents a picture of the dynamics between inner and outer worlds, and of Bernard Lievegoed's ability to work with these dynamics. Personal questions are explored, such as Lievegoed's up-bringing in Indonesia, and the war years in Holland. He also looks to the human and spiritual challenges in the coming years.

The eye of the needle: Bernard Lievegoed, his life and working encounter with anthroposophy : an interview with Jelle van der Meulen (Social ecology series)

Lievegoed, Bernard

Biographies & Memoirs

This comprehensive account of painting and drawing in the Waldorf school curriculum combines detailed practical advice with dearly defined philosophy on aesthetic education. The book takes readers carefully through each stage of art teaching, suggesting appropriate exercises and explaining the reasons for the different developments in the curriculum at appropriate stages of pupils' development. This book is not only a vital reference source for all who are involved in teaching in Waldorf schools, but an inspriation to all who are concerned with children's creative development. This eminently useful book includes extensive color and black-and-white illustrations.

Drawing and Painting in Rudolf Steiner Schools

Magrit Junemann

History & Criticism

This tried-and-tested games book consists of numerous ideas for running races, duels, wrestling matches, activity and ball games of skill and agility. Its layout, detailed explanations and diagrams, and its indexing of games by age suitability and title, should make this book a useful resource for parents, teachers and play leaders.

Child's Play 3: Games for Life for Children & Teenagers

Children's Books

Wil Van Haren

Arts, Music & Photography

Profound changes are taking place as people awaken to the experience of the Christ in themselves and in significant human encounters. As tradition fades, individual and social paths of growth emerge. These are helped by building relationships through helping conversations, through dialogue, through exploring heartfelt questions that can lead to liberating personal insights. This book shows how such dialogues can transform relationships and build community.
 But real meeting and healing conversations take effort. There is light and darkness in encounter. There is sympathy and antipathy in relationships. Do we meet ourselves or the other? Margreet van den Brink, a social counselor with helpful insights into building relationships, shows how true encounter can be fostered. Such work may be strengthened by healing powers, which help open up the space for community building.

More Precious than Light: How Dialogue Can Transform Relationships & Build Community

Margaret Van Den Brink

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