Origin and Purpose
At a gathering hosted by the Western Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America [US] in June of 2024 at the San Francisco Waldorf High in San Francisco, it became abundantly evident to the local organizers that new initiative was needed to rekindle what had once been the San Francisco Bay Area Branch of the ASA. Volunteers from the Bay region stepped forward with a willingness to work on this rekindling.
The San Francisco Bay Branch Initiative (SFBBI) was formed from this group of volunteers in order to cultivate the imagination of a refounded Branch. The group formed an unincorporated association initially focused on developing effective working as a group. The purpose of this association is to serve as a provisional, caretaker body dedicated to promoting the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophical spiritual science within the San Francisco Bay region. It exists to foster discovery, dialogue, and collaboration among individuals following a path of anthroposophical inquiry and/or contributing to anthroposophical initiatives in the region, and to explore the development of a more formal and enduring organizational structure.
Feel free to take participate in our interest survey https://anthroposophybayarea.org/interest-questionnaire/
What SFBBI can do
The association may hold funds, enter into contracts, and sponsor activities in support of its purpose, and aims ultimately to contribute to a federation of a wider region of allied anthroposophical members and entities. As an initiative, SFBBI is not a branch with full corporate governance. Each member of the Initiative contributes their capacities to further the work without hierarchy and with fully shared responsibilities.
SFBBI can receive proposals for initiatives, for which there is a very specific submission form available on the website. Proposals will be considered from the point of view of furthering anthroposophy in the Bay Area as well as the initiative-taker’s willingness to take leadership and responsibility for the work entailed. SFBBI can provide promotion through the website and its links to other websites. At least one member of the SFBBI group will serve as a liaison to the initiative to be sure all parties’ needs are understood and appropriately carried, and to ensure that whatever the activity is, it will continue to create interest in anthroposophical inquiry and the work of the ASA.
What SFBBI cannot do
SFBBI cannot provide or ensure access to funding for initiatives, or provide access to spaces and places to carry out the initiative. SFBBI can certainly provide some direction and perhaps contact information for the Initiative-taker to follow up with.
Who is currently part of SFBBI (in alphabetical order)
John Bloom
Natalie Cargill
David Eyes
Dale Robinson
Sandra Stoner
Cole Turner
Jeremiah Turner
Katja Wishart
Mark Zweifel