Online: Anthroposophy

Sarita Sanghai and Shashwat Agawhal have set up the platform Nurturer’ Studio to provide professional contacts, combined with courses for children.

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This year of the pandemic will be remembered in part because video conferences have soared in popularity. Considering the attitudes that many anthroposophists held in the past on the internet’s influence, it is remarkable to see how this technology has been embraced by anthroposophists. There are online platforms, including the Front Range Anthroposophical Café, RudolfSteiner.org, EduCareDo, Rosenkreutz, Millennialchild, Meetup, Gradalis.edu, InnerWorkPath; many are the direct result of the 2020 pandemic.

One such example is Nurturer’ Studio, started by a mother and son team in India: Sarita Sanghai, a Waldorf teacher and founder of Kathmandu Waldorf Kindergarten, and Shashwat Agawhal, a Waldorf school alum unable to return to university. Their online platform enables parents, teachers, therapists, doctors, artists and other “nurturers” of children to connect with each other and continue their own development. Their first two-hour presentation on Art as the Language of Human Development drew 200 participants from 13 countries. Plans for more sessions on the arts, health, Waldorf education, and self-development by presenters from India, Israel, Australia, Europe and the US are in the works.

The question will more and more be how we use this technology in a way that it can be humanized as much as possible and does not cause an even further descent into the “dark matter” of web technologies.

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