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Healing Through Art Taster Day and Enrollment Q&A

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Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 9am-12:30pm PT
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 | 5:30-8pm PT
with Pamela Whitman and Ken Smith

Please join us for one or more Taster Days if you are interested in enrolling in the new cohort of our Healing Through Art program this July 2025. These online classes will allow you to meet us and experience our way of working.
Experience guided color and a sculptural activities. Reflect upon the sense impressions of the colors and forms, as well as the experience of the activity, and explore how this can be led into a healing process. We will have time for questions about the three-year Healing Through Art program.

Cost: $25

This lecture will be presented via the Zoom platform. Registration is required.

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Healing Through Art Program

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2nd Cohort Beginning July 2025


A 3-year postgraduate therapeutic visual arts program working out of the Anthroposophical understanding of the human being.
The Healing Through Art program guides students through a deepening process over three years from the hygienic and enlivening aspect of artistic activities into the deeper understanding of human nature, individual life journeys, and the ability to facilitate artistic therapies.

Dates: 2025-2026
Summer session: Two weeks in person: July 14-26, 2025, Spring session: One week in person: March 27-Apri 3, 2026 Online Saturday classes, 9am—3:30pm PT: Aug. 23, Sept. 20, Oct. 18, Nov. 22, Dec. 20, 2025; Jan. 17, Feb. 14, Mar. 14, 2026


Program Leaders: Pamela Whitman and Kenneth Smith

Cost: $5520 per year
For more Information or to apply, please contact:
tiff[email protected] | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org

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Storytelling as a Healing Art – With Nancy Mellon

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Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 9am-3pm

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, 3800 Clark Road, El Sobrante, CA 94803

Explore pathways to story making and storytelling that strengthen heart wisdom and inspire vital creative confidence. Teachers and parents today need to nourish their own inner life to fully embody the comforting warmth, stability, and honest goodness that children seek. This requires courage and belief in the value of our own authentic feelings and voice.

Nancy teaches refreshing approaches to inspired story making and storytelling that evolve more conscious expression, heartfelt resilience, and wellbeing for both adults and children! All are welcome. 

Nancy Mellon is a counselor and mentor who has nurtured storytelling of a healing art internationally since the 1990s. A former Waldorf teacher, her courses and workshops brim with creativity, inspiring deep listening and vital new perspectives. She is the author of several books, including Storytelling with Children. Healing Storytelling, the new third edition of Storytelling and the Art of Imagination, is published by Hawthorn Press UK. healingstory.com 

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The Healing Power of Art with Pamela Whitman and Ken Smith

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Online Distance Program

Discover the healing potential of art through painting, light and darkness drawing, sculpture, and form drawing. Develop your artistic abilities, build observation skills, and increase your sensitivity as a foundation for therapeutic artistic practice. The Healing Power of Art program is also a preparation for our 3-year Healing Through Art program.

October 2024-June 2025 | Cost: $1,080 ($120 per month)

Instruction via monthly online classes with follow-up assignments

In our time, there is a widespread need for the inner benefits that artistic work can provide. Artistic work is able to stimulate remarkable forces of healing. It is calming, centering, engaging, and enlivening and can direct our own life forces of health into positive pathways for our body, soul, and spirit.

The Healing Power of Art program will build a foundation in the health promoting aspects of art and provide the groundwork for further studies. This program is for people of all ages and levels of experience who want to discover the therapeutic aspects of art, with the online format allowing participation from around the world. Students will receive the most benefit by having their own workspace and by developing a routine of regular art practice. 

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BACWTT Upcoming Events

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Visiting Days – Online, January 24 (6:30-8:30pm) & In-person, January 27 (10am-1pm) – Interested in learning more about becoming a Waldorf teacher? Join the BACWTT faculty for an introduction to our Teacher Training and Foundation Studies Programs. This is a free, in-person event but registration is required. Click this link to learn more and to register.

“Reimagining the Future of Waldorf Education”, A Diversity Training Course – Introduction to the program, January 31, 2024 (6-7:30pm) – Encounter an Indigenous wisdom that can support Waldorf education in its search for a new, life-centered future. Discover the breadth of change needed to truly move into a more inclusive non-Western viewpoint and deepen your understanding of the depth of harm perpetuated by colonialism. After ten years of collaboration and exchange with BACWTT, Roman Vizcarra is prepared to offer a deeper training for Waldorf teachers, to guide them into Andean culture and to show how ancient wisdom can guide us into better ways of teaching and working. Click this link to learn more and to register.

“The Role of Waldorf Education in Navigating the 21st Century”, the Northern CA Waldorf Teachers Conference – February 21-23, 2024 (2/21 & 2/22, 9am-3pm | 2/23, 9am-1:45pm) – with keynote speaker Ben Klocek. How do we find a contemporary and healthy relationship to being the “doorkeepers” of technology’s effects on children? We need to be both better informed and more proactive in rediscovering appropriate new thresholds that are true to the underlying intentions of Waldorf education and also true to the realities of our time.

Waldorf graduate and teacher Ben Klocek will lead us in re-finding our feet, walking our talk, and sharing an inspiring vision for a healthy relationship to technology as we navigate these developments of our time. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training Upcoming Events

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Healing Through Art Online Taster Day – April 29, 2023 (9am-1:15pm) – Please join us for one or more of our online Taster Days if you are interested in enrolling in the new cohort of the Healing Through Art program. These online classes will allow you to experience our way of working and our approach to artistic therapies. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Visiting Day – May 13, 2023 (10am-1pm) – Interested in learning more about becoming a Waldorf teacher? Join the BACWTT faculty for an introduction to our Teacher Training and Foundation Studies Programs. This is a free, in-person event but registration is required. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Your Star Child – May 10, 17, 24 & 31, 2023 (10am-11:30am) – Inspirations from Anthroposophy for Expectant Parents – Learn how to gently welcome your child into the world as a spiritual being, both before birth and in the first months of life. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Healing Through Singing­­­­ – June 16-18, 2023 (times vary by date) – With Christiaan Boele and Kate Hammond. This workshop is for anyone seeking to deepen their relationship to the restorative power of tone and sound, and to connecting more closely with the healing, life-giving power of the breath and singing. No prior experience with singing needed! Click this link to learn more and to register.

Early Childhood Teacher Rejuvenation – June 19-23, 2023 (8am-4pm) – With Diane David, Kate Hammond, Anna Rainville, Christiaan Boele, Andrea Pronto, Nancy Mellon, Sibylle Eichstaedt, and Renate Lundberg. Come join Early Childhood educators for a week of exploring the mystery of the child through the unique perspective of Waldorf education and its practical applications. There will be time for small group conversations for teachers in Birth to Three, Nursery and Kindergarten. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Teacher Rejuvenation Grades 1-5 – June 19-23, 2023 (8am-4:30pm) & Grades 6-8 – June 26-30, 2023 (8am-4:30pm) – Join our summer program to remember why you love this work, to nourish yourself, and to collaborate with your colleagues in creating a learning environment filled with vigor, warmth, and enthusiasm for today’s children! This year, we are very happy to have Nancy Mellon with us for both weeks, along with the BACWTT grades track faculty, and summer arts faculty. Click this link to learn more about both weeks and to register.

Who is This Child? Child Study Workshop – June 26-28, 2023 (8am-4pm) – With Diane David, Kate Hammond, Kristine Deason, Nancy Mellon, and Christiaan Boele. Join us in exploring how to prepare ourselves as teachers to carry out the sacred work of truly seeing and supporting the child in accordance with their life purpose, and working within what Waldorf education has to offer. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Enlivening Our Speech, Enlivening Ourselves – July 1, 2023 (9am-4pm) – Creative Speech Workshop with Sibylle Eichstaedt. This one-day speech intensive is for teachers and recent teacher training graduates who wish to deepen their understanding and practice of Rudolf Steiner’s speech impulse. Click this link to learn more and to register.

Upcoming Events for The Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training

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February 4th (10am-1pm) – Visiting Day – Interested in learning more about becoming a Waldorf teacher? Join the BACWTT faculty for an introduction to our Teacher Training and Foundation Studies Programs. This is a free, in-person event but registration is required. Click this link to learn more and to register.

February 11th & April 29th (9am-1:15pm) – Healing Through Art Online Taster Day – Please join us for one or more of our online Taster Days if you are interested in enrolling in the new cohort of the Healing Through Art program. These online classes will allow you to experience our way of working and our approach to artistic therapies. Click this link to learn more and to register.

February 15th & March 15th (6pm-7:30pm) – Healing Through Art: Art History – Join BACWTT Director, Ken Smith, in conversation on how Rudolf Steiner contributed a practice of looking at art as a way to enter into the inner world of our ancestors. This is an online event. Click on this link to learn more and to register.

February 22nd-24th (9am-3pm) – Northern California Waldorf Teachers Conference 2023 – Restorative Practices: Wellsprings of Wellbeing for Waldorf Teachers with Keynote Speaker Elan Leibner. Attendees may participate either online via Zoom or in-person at Marin Waldorf School. Click on this link for more information including the daily schedule and workshop offerings, or to register.