Renewing Our Commitment to the Health and Well-Being of the Growing Child in the 2020s

Northern California Waldorf Teachers Conference with Keynote Speaker Dr. Michaela Glöckler

Sunday, February 16 – Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 9 am – 3 pm

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Waldorf education must continue to renew and redefine its orientation and priorities in a rapidly changing social and technological setting. Contemporary culture increasingly has the potential to undermine the healthy unfolding of childhood with repercussions for the whole of life.

In the forward to her recent book Education for the Future: How to Nurture Health and Human Potential, Dr. Michaela Glöckler writes:

“[Our] goal is to release mature, self-confidant, creative, and courageous people into life. What are the conditions for the development of such character traits? Even more: what are the conditions for healthy physical, soul/emotional, and spiritual development in childhood and adolescence? How can daycare centers, kindergartens, and schools become places for healthy development?”

In an educational environment where stress, burnout, postural damage, and mental health issues are becoming commonplace among students and teachers, can Waldorf schools be a bastion of health? Dr. Michaela Glöckler will bring her many years of experience as a pediatrician and Waldorf school doctor as well as her concerns for child health in contemporary society. She will offer guiding thoughts for Waldorf teachers as we navigate our way into the second half of the decade.

Dr. Michaela Glöckler attended the Waldorf School in Stuttgart, studied German language, literature, and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg, and qualified for teaching at the high school. She then decided to study and train as a pediatrician. She has been the Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland, from 1988 to 2016. She is cofounder of the Alliance for Childhood and the President of ELIANT, a foundation striving towards improving the quality of life and cultural diversity in Europe.

She is the author of many publications including:
– A Healing Education: How Can Waldorf Education Meet the Needs of Children?
– A Guide to Child Health
– Growing Up Healthy in a World of Digital Media
– Education for the Future: How to Nurture Health and Human Potential

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Conference Fee: $250
A discount is available for group signups.

For more information, please contact: tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org