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

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

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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