Encounters with Imagination
| Place: | The Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto |
| Start date: | Monday 11, July 2011 |
| End date: | Friday 22, July 2011 |
| Times: | 8.30 am - 5.30 pm |
| Price: | see brochure details |
Welcome parents, educators and artists interested in working with the imagination. The Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto has invited a team of internationally acclaimed artists and educators to offer a diverse selection of practical and artistic workshops. Each explores how the capacity for imagination can be cultivated to serve the arts and education and to enrich our lives. Enrol in one, two, three or four of these week-long workshops and savour your encounter with imagination.
The capacity for imagination is central to advances in all fields of human endeavour. Scientists, artists and educators alike rely upon creative capacities to forge new understanding and build healthy relationships. The cultivation of imagination is fundamental to Waldorf education, in which teachers and students alike are encouraged to perceive living interconnections between seemingly separate things. These reveal that individuals and objects are but a part of a whole meaning-filled world. Imagination lifts the veil of materialism and offers insights into how to work holistically in any endeavour.
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Workshop leaders
Heather Church graduated from the Ontario College of Art, Sunbridge College and Sophia’s Hearth. She has been teaching kindergarten in Waldorf schools for eleven years. She is the cofounder of “My Child Myself Centre.”
Sandi Churchward teaches visual arts at the Toronto Waldorf School. She studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design, the North American School for Geomancy, Arscura and RSCT. She is a practising artist.
Warren Lee Cohen, M. Ed., B.A. Physics, is the director of teacher education at RSCT. He directed the Foundation Studies program at Emerson College and has been a Waldorf teacher. He is the author of Raising the Soul and Baking Bread with Children.
Anna Gruda is a graduate of Ontario College of Art and Design and RSCT. Anna has been a Waldorf class teacher and art teacher for 20 years. She currently teaches at the Toronto Waldorf School and RSCT.
David Hadden, B.A. Music, B.A. Ed., is a highly experienced Waldorf class teacher at the London Waldorf School. He has been teaching there since 1980. His outside interests include watercolour painting, music and gardening.
Leed M Jackson, B.Sc. Math, studied sculpture and Goethean science at Emerson College in England. He has been teaching high school science, math and metal craft at the Toronto Waldorf School for 18 years.
Regine Kurek is an anthroposophical art therapist and biographical counsellor. She works internationally developing art and art therapy courses. She is enthusiastic about art, personal development and ‘forever learning and growing as an adult.’
Paul Matthews led creative writing, Foundation Studies and gymnastics at Emerson College. He now travels widely, speaking his poetry and encouraging
others in the use of imagination. His inspirational books include Sing Me the Creation and Words in Place.
Patrice Maynard, M.Ed., is the leader for Outreach and Development of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA). She is a Waldorf teacher and a music teacher. Patrice is a passionate advocate for renewal and pluralism in education.
Dawne McFarlane, M.H.Sc., is a storyteller, dancer, Waldorf teacher and RSCT faculty. She weaves storytelling and movement into creative tapestries with adolescents and adults. She is a NIA movement teacher and is an Ontario Arts Council grant recipient.
Leigh Mellor is a Waldorf teacher at the Edge Hill Country School, art therapist and a faculty member of Arscura. She is dedicated to enlivening her relationship with art and education in a creative and soulful manner.
Julian Mulock graduated from Michael Hall Waldorf School in England and then studied art in Toronto. Julian is an acclaimed practising artist with lifelong interests in the worlds of art and the invisible and the dynamic intersection of the two.
Elyse Pomeranz is a Waldorf teacher who has trained with the North American School for Geomancy and as a biographical counsellor at Arscura. She is a facilitator, mediator, photographer, fi bre artist and writer.
Jef Saunders is director and faculty member of Arscura – School for Living Art. He is a biography counsellor and anthroposophically inspired art therapist. He currently divides his work equally between patients and teaching.
Stacey Schwarz is a eurythmist and Spacial Dynamics educator and therapist and is licensed in massage therapy. She currently works at the Toronto
Waldorf School and RSCT. She offers workshops and individual therapy.
Greg Scott is a sculptor and a Waldorf teacher at the Toronto Waldorf School and RSCT, where he runs the woodwork program and teaches high school. His
artistic work has carried him throughout North America and Europe.
For further details see: http://www.rsct.ca/site/rudolf_steiner_centre/assets/pdf/Encounters_broc.pdf
Registration Form: http://www.rsct.ca/site/rudolf_steiner_centre/assets/pdf/Encounters_form.pdf
