New newsletter

In addition to its journal Seelenpflege and its website, the Anthroposophic Council for Inclusive Social Development now also plans to introduce a newsletter for passing on information.

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The Anthroposophic Council for Inclusive Social Development (formerly Curative Education and Social Therapy Council) is planning to use a quarterly newsletter to inform readers about its own activities and those of the international movement for anthroposophic special needs education, social therapy, special education and social work. Anybody interested can subscribe to this newsletter and read it online. The Council (Jan Göschel, Bart Vanmechelen, Sonja Zausch) will use the newsletter to pass on information on research, past events as well as publications and forthcoming colloquia and conferences.

You can read there, for instance, that Bernd Kalwitz has initiated a long-term study at Alanus University in Alfter (de) on ways of dealing with self-harming behaviours; that the Department for Anthroposophic Healthcare at Leiden University (nl), under the direction of Eric Baars, is planning quantitative and qualitative studies on the outcomes, values and practices of long-term anthroposophic nursing; or that scientists at the University of Botswana are cooperating with the Camphill Community Trust in Botswana on evaluating means of support for people on the autism spectrum.

Supporting young co-workers

«Work forms and formats of encounter» is another area that is being addressed. The «Young Co-workers» work group seeks to set up a network that connects and supports trainees, students and young co-workers and includes them in the international curative education and social therapy movement. As a first result, a paper has been made available as a basis for conversations with co-workers. In addition, the young medics have founded an interdisciplinary work group for medical and therapeutic professions in curative education and social therapy. In accordance with the Council’s international orientation, its journal Seelenpflege will be developed into a bilingual organ (English and German).

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