Weekly online groups exploring spiritual science an its relationship to modern technology

Can a real community form online?

A conference can introduce a question. A study group has time to live with it — to read carefully, listen to one another, and ask what Rudolf Steiner’s work may reveal about the significance of our technological age.

This autumn, MysTech is offering twelve-week online groups drawn from Steiner’s lectures and books. These timely courses consider what humanity faces, the meaning of the human being, the proper course of human evolution, and the challenge of machines shaped by Ahrimanic intelligence.

If you are relatively new to Anthroposophy, the First Course is the natural place to begin. Experienced students are welcome to enter another course or return to earlier material; many participants find that the work deepens through repetition.

The Autumn term begins the week of September 6, 2026. Participation is free, and each confirmed group meets online once a week with a host.

• First Course — hosted by Mark Z or Lawrence
• Second Course — hosted by Andrew
• Third Course — hosted by Shruthi or Mark H
• Mysteries of Evil, Volume 1 — hosted by Mark Z
• Mysteries of Evil, Volume 2 — hosted by Andrew
• Light & Electricity — hosted by Malana

Refined Breathing will be added when its session timezones are confirmed. Courses without a confirmed host can be studied individually without a host but will remain unavailable for registration.

 Choose a study group

(Re)Wilding Honeybee Workshop, Tour, and Lunch

$125.00

Honeybees stand at a threshold. Their health and future are in question worldwide, calling us to reimagine our relationship with these remarkable beings.

Join us at Filigreen Farm and Forest, among our living “bee nests” sited within trees and across the land, to explore what wild, free-living honeybee colonies reveal about resilience, self-healing, and belonging within a thriving landscape.

This event is guided by colleagues from Apis Arborea — a California nonprofit devoted to wild honeybee conservation through a holistic ecological framework — grounded in long-term field research, biomimetic nesting structures, and deep attentiveness to the bees’ own nature.

Location: Filigreen Farm 11600 Anderson Valley Way, Boonville, CA
Date: Saturday, August 15th, 2026
Time: 9 AM – 1 PM
Cost: $125, includes farm-fresh lunch
Fifty percent of proceeds will go to support the work of Apis Arborea.

Outdoor footwear such as boots or sneakers is recommended.

To reserve your spot, please select the number of participants in your party,

Click here

Annual MysTech Conference 2026: Becoming Aware of the Etheric

For our landmark 10th conference, we turn our attention to the etheric realm — the domain of living, formative forces that exists between the physical plane and higher spiritual planes. As technology increasingly shapes the conditions of modern life, understanding these life forces becomes essential for counterbalancing our slide via technology into sub-nature.

Our speakers will explore practices, such as eurythmy, for opening doors to etheric perception. Using Goethean science, we seek to discover the living qualities within substances and elements. Can each of us strengthen our etheric vitality to fully participate in our age of screens and social media? Can we find Christ in the etheric to be our brother as we necessarily tread through Ahriman’s sphere?

“We can only become sure of ourselves as human beings if we walk the road created by the whole of technology, but do not let our lives be governed by the products of technology, and grow able to behold the Christ power that can become part of us and overcome all those products of technology.”

— Rudolf Steiner

Conference Themes

• Evolution of the Human Constitution — Our etheric body is loosening from the physical.
• New Spiritual Awareness — How will etheric awareness affect culture and civilization?
• Christ in the Etheric — To be with us as we tread into Ahriman’s sphere.
• Technology as a Reflection of the Etheric — Is there something similar to Zoom in the etheric?

Three Registration Tiers

• Resonance Pass ($97 early bird) — Live stream access with 3-month recordings.
• Luminous Pass ($197) — Lifetime recordings, transcripts, and HD audio.
• Illuminated Circle ($397) — Everything above plus 1-year media library access and a private community group.

“Through meditation the etheric body gets the tendency to become separated from the physical body.”

— Rudolf Steiner

Schedule at a Glance

• Thursday, August 6 — Welcome with Andrew Linnell and evening keynote from Emanuel Blosser.
• Friday, August 7 — Full day of sessions on the etheric and Goethean science, plus a Biodynamics forum and a Gopi K. Vijaya keynote.
• Saturday, August 8 — Sessions on Christ in the etheric, eurythmy practice, the Strader Machine, and an Andrew Linnell keynote.
• Sunday, August 9 — Morning lectures on life, moral technology, and sensory development, followed by a closing forum.

All sessions are online via Zoom. Times shown are Eastern Daylight Time.

For more details and registration click here

North American Youth Section
Annual Conference

August 3-7, 2026

Fair Oaks, California

Join other Bay Area Waldorf Families at Three Springs Biodynamic Farm in West Sonoma County for a weekend of Waldorf Family Camp!

Waldorf-oriented adults without children at home are also invited. 🙂

Camp dates are the afternoon of Friday 7/31/2026 through mid-day Sunday 8/2/2026. Registration & details HERE.

Join us on 80 beautiful acres of farm, woodland and meadow in joyful Anthroposophical arts, study, crafts, games, music and play.

There will be classes & sessions for parents and children including Children’s Arts & Crafts, Kite Making & Flying, Eurythmy, Campfire Singing, Botanical Salve Making, Spatial Dynamics, Form Drawing, Farm Animal Visits, Folk Dancing & more! Drop-in afternoon childcare will be available so parents may also rest & play.

Delicious chef-cooked Biodynamic/organic meals will be provided (meat and vegetarian options). Arrival is mid-day Friday (dinner provided), and departure is mid-day Sunday (breakfast provided; leftovers for lunch available).

Accommodations in our beautiful campground are basic (your own tent; composting or portable toilets). All attendees will help with meal prep, setup, cleanup, etc. by signing up for shifts during the camp–this is how we are able to keep the registration fees low!

Camp is just 15 minutes from the beach and 30 minutes from the river for tag-on pre or post-camp nature time.

Sliding-Scale Pricing (Meals are included):
ADULTS: $250-$300
CHILDREN UP TO 12: $120-$160
YOUTH: 13-29: $200-$240Details & Registration HERE.

Join our CSA Vegetable Share Membership Today!
https://www.threespringscommunityfarm.org/Candid Gold Seal
PO Box 44, Bodega, CA 94922, USA

Speaking with My Whole Self: Speech Workshop with Christine Burke

Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 9am-3pm

Cost: $175

Through our speech, we impact the world and those around us. Our inner life flows outwards over our vocal cords on our breath, influencing those around us. In earlier times, people had a deeper feeling for the power and importance of the word to do good or to do harm. Today, real communication through the human voice is being undermined. We are losing both the capacity to carry our inner world out on the waves of our words as well as the ability to perceive the other and their inner world through our senses.

Working with speech activities will enliven and strengthen the organs of speech and the ability to carry living pictures, clear thoughts, and forces of the heart in our words. Teachers who use their voice everyday in the classroom will benefit from this care for speech and learn to nourish their students through enlivened descriptions and storytelling.

This workshop is an opportunity to find your voice and is open to anyone who is interested. All levels of experience are welcome.

Christine Burke currently teaches Communication Studies at Ventura College and Logodynamics/The Arts of Speech privately, in groups, at workshops, trainings, and here at BACWTT. Her passion for words began at a young age and has led to and through theater and English literature, a degree in Linguistics, Waldorf teaching in the US and Sweden, Rudolf and Marie Steiner’s “Sprak Gestaltung,” the Michael Chekhov approach to acting, and an MA in Communication Studies focusing on Communication Education, Classical, and Performance Studies.

Please note that this is an in-person event only. A discount is available for group signups. 
Tea, coffee, and snack provided. Please bring your own lunch.

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

On Sunday, June 14th Claus-Peter Roeh gave a talk on the challenges of AI and computer-centered methods for students and educators. Mary Anne Kirkwood has kindly provided her reflections on this talk.

A thoroughly comprehensive talk on the importance of children’s development in ascertaining their own way of knowing through active engagement and application. As Claus-Peter demonstrated by walking us through the early to middle school years as a Waldorf educator, Know for yourself should be aligned right next to the axiom, Know thyself. And Claus-Peter showed us just how the AI-fostered way of educating fails to do this, across the board. 

Unlike what we have in the USA, forward-thinking countries like Sweden and Denmark tried the screen centered and supported education approach which claimed to promote individualized learning in early education, only to discover the drawbacks and severe consequences before making a complete turnaround. Back to the proverbial drawing board, and perhaps in every sense of the term: Human to human is what’s still very much needed.  Lessons learned, but would we listen here in the USA? 

A thoroughly engaging talk on a very important subject–whether one is familiar with Waldorf education or not, the dangers of too much dependency on AI is very real and Claus-Peter’s talk demonstrated this clearly. 

M.A. Kirkwood, San Francisco, CA