Adriana Koulias of Sydney Australia, at the age of 29, came across The Four Mystery Plays by Rudolf Steiner and this led to an intensive study of Anthroposophy. Thereafter she dedicated herself to Rudolf Steiner’s Christian path of esoteric development. In 2003 Adriana began lecturing at Rudolf Steiner House in Sydney on the Templars, Freemasons, Cathars, the Grail mysteries, Christology, and the Being of Anthroposophy. She has had many articles and interviews printed in Anthroposophical magazines and her lectures can be found on Anthroposophical and non Anthroposophical websites all over the world.

Paul MacDonald is a member of the Nose to Nose clowning team, which offers workshops in the UK, France, Germany and North America. He teaches drama and clowning at the Artemis School in Peredur, East Sussex where he first trained in Creative Speech, and runs clown workshops for Waldorf teachers, doctors and Special Needs groups. He is currently directing a number of clown performances.

Iris Sullivan
I was born in Australia where there were powerful nature forces and humans were a small minority. I lived on the warm Pacific Ocean, with fragrant breezes and tropical fruits. The light, air and water elements dominated my environment. Through my tough adolescent experiences, I longed to understand the soul and its individual journey to awakening. I read Rudolf Steiner when I was young and in his voice I found my teacher. At 20 at Emerson College, I discovered color through a slide presentation by Michael Wilson and later that year, saw my first paintings by Lianne Collot d’Herbois. My heart had found its guides, yet it took another 14 years of life experiences before I could deepen my understanding and painting out of the wisdom of Lianne Collot d’Herbois. It was not until the death of my fourth child that I could begin my training as a painting therapist following Lianne’s guidelines. Twelve years later, I now work in Fair Oaks, CA with small groups and individuals with light, darkness and color as both art and therapeutic experience. The artworks offered here have arisen from my classes with a group as we strive to make visible the truth of the color as human feeling. The struggle of the human soul for truth and peace through art is my life work.

Nathaniel Williams grew up in the USA and studied art and anthroposophy in Switzerland. He currently lives in NY state where he is active as an artist and a teacher.

 

Frank Chester is an artist, sculptor and geometrican who lives in San Francisco. He has taught art for more than thirty years in high schools and colleges. Since encountering the work of Rudolf Steiner, Frank has been exploring the relation between form and spirit. This has led him to do research on the number seven and discovered a new geometric form never seen before. Currently he teaches sacred geometry in the Waldorf teacher training program in San Francisco.

Daniel Bittleston www.imaginationtroubadour.com and Christine Burke gotravelbee.com will encourage thoughtful exploration of our daily life in relation to the Foundation Stone Meditation. We shall seek to understand the Foundation Stone Meditation as a tool that contains the Archetype of the human being, offering us unlimited treasures of insight and renewal.

How conscious are we of living in the limbs? (Eating breakfast? Walking to the letterbox?). What is the spirit that dancing or skipping carries us into? Can we recall? What are the rhythms we live? (Solitary/ Social? Listening/ Speaking?) When are we uniting our I with the I of the world? Are we aware?

How do we discover free activity through the resting head? What awakening world-thoughts are ready to be unlocked? How can we consciously re-unify our thoughts, hearts and deeds?

Participants in this study should have made some effort to learn the Foundation Stone by heart.

David Newbatt is an artist and teacher who lives and works at a Camphill Community for young adults with special needs in Aberdeen, Scotland. He also teaches art at the Aberdeen Waldorf School. David works in a wide variety of mediums, mainly watercolors, pastels, and acrylics. He has illustrated various books, including a story by Novalis, the poem of Olaf Åsteson, and Goethe’s fairy tale. He is also a prolific mural painter. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe.

Dawn Stratton was a class teacher for eight years at the Olympia Waldorf School in Washington USA. After graduating her class she began training as a facilitator with Nose to Nose and offering workshops on the west coast of America through The Simple Fool's School.

Kelly Connor -The wisdom of love in the mystery of death. One of the great challenges of life is meeting death, and the dead, without fear, prejudice, or sentimentality. Rudolf Steiner's indications about our after-life journey provides firm ground from which we can build bridges between the living and the dead. We can track the after-life journey of those that have gone before us because there is an inherent wisdom and elegance in the mystery of death that can be unravelled through love.