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Foundations of a Healthy Society

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Society is falling apart because we haven’t learned
the lawfulness of its systems.
Join us for an in-depth exploration of this lawfulness.
Join us in building up a movement for social threefolding.

Gathering weekly for presentations, discussions and exercises
Thursdays: 7AM (LA) | 10 AM (NYC) | 4PM (Zurich)
From October 2026 – May 2027

Presenters include:

  • Education in society — with Clara Brunner (Germany, Wanderjahr)
  • Three kinds of social judgements and social agreements — with Sylvain Coiplet (Germany, Institute for Social Threefolding)
  • Social phenomenology — with Michael Draskovic (USA, Common Light)
  • Threefolding as outer expression of the inner life — with Omri Elaad (Israel, Adam Center)
  • Building healthy organizations — with Seth Jordan (USA, The Whole Social)
  • Practicing social artistry — with Robert Karp (USA, Threefold Driftless)
  • Key aspects of an associative economy — with Timothy Kennedy (USA, entrepreneur)
  • The history and future of money — with Fionn Meier (Switzerland, economist)
  • Evolving the three spheres of government — with Gopi Krishna Vijaya (USA, Foundation for Cultural Renewal)
  • Separating nation and state — with Nathaniel Williams (Switzerland, Youth Section)

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Speaking with My Whole Self

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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

Imagination or Manipulation – a Reflection

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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

Creating Social Health

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The World is in Our Hands

How Could We Contribute to a More Human Society?

the online summary and deepening event in the

Sunday, June 28, 2026
1–4 pm Eastern Time / 10am–1pm Pacific Time
19:00–22:00 Central European Time

• How can social threefolding reduce the polarization of our time?
• What are rightful limits to individual freedom?
• What turning points would lead to a healthy economy?
• How can we make a difference and contribute to the necessary transformation?

Gerald Häfner is the leader of the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and a former member of the German and European Parliaments. He has co-founded many initiatives including the Green Party in Bavaria, Democracy International, and Purpose Economy.

• Substantial time for facilitated Q&A
• Purposeful participant conversation
• Optional follow-up conversations after the conference

Suggested fee: $25–$50 US

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This conference is the last of a series in loving memory of Edward Baumheier who at age 87
discovered and became a passionate advocate for social threefolding.

Imagination or Manipulation

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The Role of the Human Being as teacher/guide towards Imaginative Thinking

Lecture by Claus-Peter Roeh
Sunday June 14, 2026 @ 5 pm 

Marin Waldorf School,
755 Idylberry Road,
San Rafael, CA
94903

Claus-Peter Roeh

Imagination or Manipulation

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Organic Thinking through Chapter 5 of How to Know Higher Worlds

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AnthroposophySocial.com

A social, learning, and research platform for Spiritual Science

ORGANIC THINKING 5-Week Online Study with Mark Riccio

Sundays • 8:00 AM Pacific • 11:00 AM Eastern

Dates: June 14, 21, 28; July 5, 12, 2026

Join us for a close study of Chapter 5 of Rudolf Steiner’s How to Know Higher Worlds, exploring the Seven Foundational Exercises through the practice of Organic (Living) Thinking.

Course Features
• Custom numbered translation preserving Steiner’s original structure
• Guided group study and discussion
• Artistic exercises using simple materials (colored pencils)
• Access to class recordings and study resources

About the Instructor

Mark Riccio has worked with this method of studying Steiner’s texts for more than thirty years, building upon the pioneering work of George O’Neil. Mark was taught by Florin Lowndes and has decades of research and experience teaching living organic thinking in groups.

Informational video

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Membership includes this course, class recordings, study materials, and access to additional classes, groups, and resources within the Living Thinking • Heart Cognition community space.

A social, learning, and research platform for Spiritual Science.

Three Springs Community Farm needs your help

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Three Springs Community Farm needs your help. 

We still need to enroll 9 more CSA Members for this season to meet our operations budget, otherwise we will have to consider cutting staff and will have a very difficult time completing our season. 

So far this season the vegetables are beautiful and the farm fields are all planted out, now we just need to fill our membership so we can get that beautiful produce to the community! We all buy food–please consider supporting a Biodynamic, Anthroposophical initiative with some of your food dollars.

We have pickup locations throughout the Bay Area, and the CSA Membership includes unlimited free camping at the farm in Freestone, Sonoma County ($75 value). (We suggest if you would like a half-share, to please find another family to split a share with). See below for details…

Click here to Join our CSA Vegetable Share Membership

Three Springs Community Farm

BIODYNAMIC VEGETABLE SHARES FOR THE 2026 SEASON

weekly • seasonal variety • regenerative • local • nutrient dense

Delicious flavor, optimal nutrition and a resilient future, all in one box!

PICK UP FRIDAYS AT 8 BAY AREA LOCATIONS
$200-$300 per month. 

Your Membership Supports Your Health and our Biodynamic Farm Organism:

We apply all the Biodynamic preparations and honor the farm elementals and individuality…our soil is remineralized & enlivened with Biodynamic compost to ensure your family has the highest quality produce, taste the difference. Save on healthcare costs with food as medicine!

FRIDAY DELIVERY SITES:
• Marin Waldorf School: 9:00-5:30
• San Francisco Pacific Heights-Waldorf School Grades: 11:00-dusk
• San Francisco West Portal-Waldorf Highschool: 12:00-5:30
• San Francisco Excelsior-Golden Bridges School: 12:30-5:30
• Oakland-Berkeley Rose Waldorf School: 1:30-5:30
• Sebastopol: Morning home delivery
• Bodega: 11:30-dusk

* VEGETABLES * HERBS * FLOWERS * PRESERVES AND TEAS *
* FREE MEMBER CAMPING, EVENTS & WORKSHOPS * WINTER U-PICK *

Questions, please text: 510-409-3214

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What Is Forged in the West

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What Is Forged in the West

an Interview with Alejandro Urtizberea

The following is a conversation between Western Regional Council Member Jeremiah Turner and Alejandro Urtizberea, visiting board member of the Anthroposophical Society of Argentina. It took place at the Plant Cafe Organic in San Francisco on May 10th, 2026, as part of the regular “Second Sundays” monthly meetings hosted by “Medical Freedom, San Francisco” and “Plant Community”.

Transcribed and edited by Jeremiah Turner and Colene Turner.

First published on Substack at “Medical Freedom, San Francisco”. Reprint permission is freely given to all. 

Jeremiah: Welcome, Alejandro!

Alejandro: Thank you.

Jeremiah: First, could you please introduce yourself to our readers who might not be familiar with you or your work?

Alejandro: Well, I consider myself an entrepreneur. I am working in Argentina but also now all around the world. I am very focused on working with young people and on financial literacy courses. I have been working for the last five years on the board of the Anthroposophical Society in Argentina. I am part of the School of Spiritual Science in the School of Michael. I am trying to really experience all of this activity not only as an individual or as a member of the community, but rather – I really have this impulse to connect with the world. And I would say this is a need in Anthroposophical work. 

Jeremiah: Yes. Please say a little more about that need. 

Alejandro: I can give some practical examples. Many people can say that certain things in the Anthroposophical Society are not happening. And I would say that you are the Anthroposophical Society. You are part of the Society. So this comes down to what kind of consciousness we have about who we are, and where we are, and when we are acting. We are acting in the name of what? Where is the awareness around this?

I think that things are changing in a very fast way. The world is getting smaller and in some ways we are becoming more and more connected, and yet at the same time many people are experiencing the opposite. So why is humanity experiencing a profound sense of loneliness at the time of this age of rapid communication?  Why are we experiencing a kind of inner life that goes in the opposite direction?

Jeremiah: Right! We’ve got this increase in interconnectedness in terms of the facility of global travel and communication. You can post something instantly and people can see it all over the world. This has all increased. But at the same time, you’ve got young people who have become more inward or isolated or don’t know how to connect with other people face to face. They’ve lost something … or maybe this indicates that they are developing new capacities, perhaps that haven’t quite evolved or developed yet? 

But I experience there’s something of a hyperindividualization happening, where people are in the process of  becoming more themselves but simultaneously losing a sense of their relationship to other human beings or to the world around them. Is that partly what you’re referring to?

Alejandro: Yes. I think that my reflection about that is that we have a big challenge in this epoch. A challenge to become really an individual, a strong individual. And that has a collateral effect on the antisocial impulses that arrive with this individualization. So many times we are having conversations about Fraternity and Threefolding – and this is very challenging, because how can we achieve those grand ideas, these big images, and at the same time develop our individuality? And how can we be sure that the steps we are taking in this process are not steps before the proper moment, before the proper time?

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[Click on the link for the full article]

https://open.substack.com/pub/colet1/p/what-is-forged-in-the-west?r=172vbo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Imagination or Manipulation

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The Role of the Human Being as teacher/guide towards Imaginative Thinking

Lecture by Claus-Peter Roeh
Sunday June 14, 2026 @ 5 pm 

Marin Waldorf School,
755 Idylberry Road,
San Rafael, CA
94903

Claus-Peter Roeh

Imagination or Manipulation

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Crossings: Caring for Our Beloveds in Life and Death

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Spiritual content, specifically related to karma and reincarnation (from GA236 to GA240, and others), is linked to the permeability that human beings need to develop in order to grasp it through life experiences, since it is not possible to attain it solely through intellectual thought. The efforts of Crossings as an initiative are specifically aimed at developing this permeability through exercises. These exercises also address two specific recommendations of Rudolf Steiner: strengthening our vital structure under waking consciousness and intensifying our activity during sleep under dream consciousness.

The Planets: our cosmic family

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A Zoom talk by Howard Smith

10 am Pacific Time – Saturday, May 16

Rudolf Steiner often spoke of the planets from different aspects: for example as the homes of spiritual beings, and as physical entities in space. Some of his views were far ahead of his time and many can be related to modern findings.

Modern space research has produced phenomenal insights into the physical aspects of the solar system, and NASA has released many astounding close-up photographs.

In this talk Howard will attempt to bring these two approaches together, to narrow the gulf between natural science and spiritual science.

Howard is a life-long student of Anthroposophy, has a PhD in Chemistry, and founded the Science Group of the Anthroposophic Society Great Britain.https://sciencegroup.org.uk/

Admission $10.
Faust Branch Members $5.
Supporting Members No Charge

You may pay using the donate button on our website faustbranch.org

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 A Mighty Devotion: The Manichaean Path in the Consciousness Soul Age

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A talk with Andrew Sullivan

ZOOM ONLY – May 6th – 7 pm Pacific Time

Andrew Sullivan is a poet, philosopher, educator, and interdisciplinary artist and thinker. He has been connected with the Sacramento Waldorf school for most of his life as a student, high school teacher, and teacher of teachers. He seems to be getting more interested in and devoted to spiritual science as the years and incarnations pile up and feels much that we are experiencing today has been incarnations in the making. He lives in Midtown Sacramento with his wife, Megan, and has two adult daughters, Rosa and Lily.

Join the conversation

Admission $10.
Faust Branch Members $5.
Supporting Members No Charge

You may pay using the donate button on our website faustbranch.org