Continuous, Living Connection

JAN C. GOESCHEL is head of the Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum’s School of Spiritual Science. He holds an MA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh, an MA in Educational Leadership with a teaching qualification in special education from Immaculata University, and a doctorate in Supportive Education and Rehabilitation Sciences from the University of Cologne. He has also completed professional trainings in Waldorf education, anthroposophical supportive education, and Spacial Dynamics. A long-standing member of the Camphill Movement in North America, he has served as a classroom teacher at the Camphill School in Pennsylvania and as Director of the Camphill Academy, where he led professional education and training programmes.RÜDIGER GRIMM trained as a supportive educator at the Camphill Seminar on Lake Constance, Germany, and studied Waldorf education at the Seminar for Waldorf Education in Stuttgart. He subsequently pursued studies in general and special education and earned a doctorate in educational sciences. From 1971 to 1995, he was an active member of the Camphill Movement in Germany. He later served as Secretary of the Curative Education and Social Therapy Council at the Goetheanum in Dornach from 1995 to 2017 and was Professor of Supportive Education at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Bonn from 2009 to 2019. Grimm has contributed to numerous working and research groups and is the author of publications on supportive education and social issues.

• Preface to the English Edition (Jan Goeschel)Foreword (Constanza Kaliks)About this book (Jan Goeschel & Rüdiger Grimm) IntroductionSteiner’s Supportive Education Course in Its Time and Today (Bente Edlund)Reading Rudolf Steiner’s Supportive Education Course (Rüdiger Grimm)Editorial Work on the New Edition of the Supportive Education Course (2024) (Anne Weise) Foundational ThemesHuman Development in Dynamic Balance - Rudolf Steiner’s Supportive Education Course: Conceptual and Anthropological Foundations (Jan Goeschel)A “…law that appears in all education”: On the Forming of Relationships in Supportive Education (Bente Edlund)Qualities, Attitudes, Ethos and an Artistic Understanding of Tasks Within Anthroposophical Supportive Education and Social Therapy (Andreas Fischer) Understanding the Human BeingThe Understanding of the Human Being in the Supportive Education Course – Introduction (Bernd Kalwitz)The Sheaths of the Human Being and Thinking, Feeling and Willing (Karl-Reinhard Kummer)Epilepsy, Epileptic Constitution and the Hypersensitive Child (“Hysteria”) (Walter Dahlhaus)Memory and Remembering: Between Compulsion and Forgetting (Bernd Kalwitz)The Processual Character in the Anthroposophical Understanding of the Human Being: Living Concepts and Contemplations (Rüdiger Janisch)Movement Impulse and Action Capacity (Martin Niemeijer)The Educational-Therapeutic Significance of Speech and Eurythmy in the Supportive Education Course (Wilburg Keller Roth) The Children of the Supportive Education CourseThe Child Discussions in Rudolf Steiner’s Supportive Education Course and their Diagnostic and Pedagogical Context (Rüdiger Grimm)Rudolf Steiner’s Educational Approach to Individual Children (Gerhard Hallen)The Horoscope Studies of the Supportive Education Course (Alan Thewless) On Inner DevelopmentOn Developing the Ability to Use Intuition in Supportive Education (Sabine Bulk)The Point-Circle Meditation: Geometric Metamorphoses Opening up Inner and Outer Spaces for Action (Simon Pepper)Finding Your Way into Another World: Prerequisites and the Potential of the Point-Circle Meditation (Annette Pichler) Spiritual Perspectives on DevelopmentThe Spiritual in Sensory Appearance: The Life-Constituting Power of Thinking (Wolf-Ulrich Klünker)Supportive Education as Creative Practice in Karmic Relationships: Reincarnation and Destiny in the Supportive Education Course (Jan Goeschel)Supportive Education, the Anthroposophical Society and the School of Spiritual Science (Peter Selg) EpiloguesBente EdlundJan C. GoeschelRüdiger GrimmBernd KalwitzAcknowledgementsImage CreditsAuthors

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