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Waldorf East 2025 schedule
Friday June 27th, 3:00pm-5:00pm
3-5pm: Registration & Welcome
Enjoy tea and snacks, collect your registration package, meet other participants and teachers and orientate yourself to the beauty of the South Shore Waldorf School.
5pm-7pm: Opening Ceremony and Keynote address by Mark McGiven
Why Waldorf Does Not Teach Morality: Imposing Social Ethics vs Nurturing a Free Moral Conscience
In Education and the Moral Life (GA 304a) Steiner underlines the importance of allowing students to develop their own moral conscience. In this presentation we will explore the crucial importance of this central Waldorf principle in light of the growing influence of postmodern socialist thought on curriculum adaptation.
Mark McGivern is a trained and experienced Waldorf class teacher. He has worked as an educator in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas in the late 80s, in a small Japanese city teaching English in a Honda factory and spent three years teaching in Dubai. He is a mentor for the RSCC Foundations Studies in Anthroposophy Distance course and an online course developer, and author of Tolkien’s Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle Earth (Steinerbooks 2022). Mark is co-founder of The Anthroposophy and Social Justice Project which, rather than dismissing anthroposophy, seeks to make known the rich resources it offers us on questions of social justice.
Saturday June 28, 9am-7:00pm
9am: Singing
9:30: Candle & Verse
9:45-10:30: Social Artistic Experience
10:30-11: Tea break
11-12:30: Morning Workshop (Slot A)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
12:30-1:30: LUNCH
1:30-3:15: Afternoon Workshop (Slot B)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
3:15-3:45: Tea break
3:45-4:30: Questions, Reflection, Group Sharing & Closing circle
5-7pm: Saturday Social
Potluck, Music and a St John’s celebration hosted by the Nova Scotia Anthroposophical Society.
Sunday June 29, 9am-4:00pm
9am: Singing
9:30: Candle & Verse
9:45-10:30: Lecture: Anthroposophical Perspectives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: How a Simple Understanding of Social Threefolding Can Guide Us Through the Challenging Social Justice Questions of Our Time, with Mark McGivern. Read more >
10:30-11: Tea Break
11-12:30: Practical Integration
12:30-1:30: LUNCH
1:30-3: Afternoon workshop (Slot C)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
3-3:30: Closing Address
3:30-4: Singing our goodbyes.
Waldorf East 2025 schedule
Friday June 27th, 3:00pm-5:00pm
3-5pm: Registration & Welcome
Enjoy tea and snacks, collect your registration package, meet other participants and teachers and orientate yourself to the beauty of the South Shore Waldorf School.
5pm-7pm: Opening Ceremony and Keynote address by Mark McGiven
Why Waldorf Does Not Teach Morality: Imposing Social Ethics vs Nurturing a Free Moral Conscience
In Education and the Moral Life (GA 304a) Steiner underlines the importance of allowing students to develop their own moral conscience. In this presentation we will explore the crucial importance of this central Waldorf principle in light of the growing influence of postmodern socialist thought on curriculum adaptation.
Mark McGivern is a trained and experienced Waldorf class teacher. He has worked as an educator in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas in the late 80s, in a small Japanese city teaching English in a Honda factory and spent three years teaching in Dubai. He is a mentor for the RSCC Foundations Studies in Anthroposophy Distance course and an online course developer, and author of Tolkien’s Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle Earth (Steinerbooks 2022). Mark is co-founder of The Anthroposophy and Social Justice Project which, rather than dismissing anthroposophy, seeks to make known the rich resources it offers us on questions of social justice.
Saturday June 28, 9am-7:00pm
9am: Singing
9:30: Candle & Verse
9:45-10:30: Social Artistic Experience
10:30-11: Tea break
11-12:30: Morning Workshop (Slot A)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
12:30-1:30: LUNCH
1:30-3:15: Afternoon Workshop (Slot B)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
3:15-3:45: Tea break
3:45-4:30: Questions, Reflection, Group Sharing & Closing circle
5-7pm: Saturday Social
Potluck, Music and a St John’s celebration hosted by the Nova Scotia Anthroposophical Society.
Sunday June 29, 9am-4:00pm
9am: Singing
9:30: Candle & Verse
9:45-10:30: Lecture: Anthroposophical Perspectives on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: How a Simple Understanding of Social Threefolding Can Guide Us Through the Challenging Social Justice Questions of Our Time, with Mark McGivern. Read more >
10:30-11: Tea Break
11-12:30: Practical Integration
12:30-1:30: LUNCH
1:30-3: Afternoon workshop (Slot C)
Choice of four different experiences (options and descriptions will be available on registration form) View workshops >
3-3:30: Closing Address
3:30-4: Singing our goodbyes.
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