Please join us on August 30, 2026, 2-4 PM
The San Francisco Waldorf High School
470 West Portal Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94127
Celebration of Life: in memory of Nancy Randall
Becoming Aware of the Etheric
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.
Youth Section North America: Initiative Cafe
Thursday, August 6th, 7:30 PM
Meristem Campus
Fair Oaks, CA
Summer Youth Section Conference
North American Youth Section
Annual Conference
August 3-7, 2026
Fair Oaks, California
52 Colors of the Soul
August 12-16, 2026
A Festival organized by the Eurythmy Association of North America (EANA)
Festival Information
The Calendar of the Soul with its 52 verses is the inspiration behind this event. Rudolf Steiner composed the calendar to tune the soul as a companion through the year. Later on he also created eurythmy forms for each verse in variously sized groups. This festival will bring all 52 verses to performance in eurythmy in English, as a U.S. premier. EANA has gathered groups nationwide (including Canada, Mexico and Taiwan) to prepare the verses for performance at the festival.
We welcome the general public interested in exploring this remarkable progression through lectures, and artistic workshops in eurythmy, speech, painting and plant dying. Professional level courses in eurythmy are taught by distinguished teachers in the field from the U.S., Holland, and Germany.
The festival features Mary Stewart Adams, Mac Mead and Daniel Hafner as keynote speakers in the morning and offers evening performances of Poetry, Music and Eurythmy (featuring segments of the whole calendar). The event’s culmination is on Sunday morning with the US premier of all 52 verses performed in sequence in eurythmy. We will witness the unfolding of the breathing of the human soul and cosmos in the realm of the etheric. We look forward to welcoming you on the grounds of the Threefold Educational Foundation.
Eurythmy Association of North America
For the Festival Organizing Team
Susan Hiertz, Monika Leitz, Melissa Lyons, Carrie Mass, Marjorie Taliano-Nordås, and Beatrice Voigt.
Acceleration and Wisdom: Education in the Age of AI
Online Symposium
July 10, 2026
The Symposium will include a keynote address by Ben Klocek, discussion groups, and a moderated panel discussion. Ben’s talk will invite us to consider what it means to educate the human being in a time of rapid change. As technology amplifies our capacity to act, feel, and think, how do we cultivate balance, depth, and discernment? Along with us, Ben will explore how the rhythm of the school day, movement, art, and thoughtful engagement, can support the development of grounded, integrated, and wise human beings in an age of acceleration.
Alliance Members: $60 | Non-Members: $75
The symposium is included with Week I and Week II registration.
Waldorf Family Camp
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
Freedom Community Gathering
Foundations of a Healthy Society
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)
Speaking with My Whole Self
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
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
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
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
Organic Thinking through Chapter 5 of How to Know Higher Worlds
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.
Register through AnthroposophySocial.com
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
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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