News from the School

19 June 2025
Biodynamic preparations promote microorganisms in the soil
The use of specific preparations is a central part of biodynamics, but until recently there had been no scientific explanation for the way they work. ...

30 May 2025
“Agriculture needs cooperation”
Agriculture is under pressure due to climate change, monocultures and soil erosion. Fields are devastated by wars and the earth is poisoned by ...

28 May 2025
Argentinian Portrait
The Alma Humana! Conference will take place at the Goetheanum from July 23 to 27, 2025. Mayumi Matsumiya will be holding a workshop on the artistic ...

31 March 2025
Experiencing farming with active senses
After six years of development and testing, the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, has handed over study modules on ...

18 February 2025
Contributions from adults with assistance needs to their social environment
To this day people with assistance needs experience discrimination and exclusion, although knowing and recognizing their contributions to the social ...

18 February 2025
Screen Culture
A research project of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum is dedicated to understanding today's interactive screen technologies; at the same time, ...

28 January 2025
The Earth Lives
A biodynamically managed farm is seen as an organism, a living being. At the annual conference “The Earth as a Living Being” from February 5 to 8, ...

24 January 2025
Does Waldorf School Make Children Healthy, Strong, and Confident?
Belle Leung and Jacinta Gorchs from the Pedagogical Section are coordinating the Resilience and Pedagogy research project.

30 October 2024
Podcast on therapeutic intuition by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum
What remains when all the knowledge from guidelines and textbooks does not suit the individual patients one meets as a physician or therapist? Erik ...

26 September 2024
Supporting self-sufficiency and independence
Biodynamic projects give small farmers and their families access to food through self-sufficiency, promoting self-reliance and sustainable food ...

17 September 2024
A Path to Promote Life
Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak has co-led the Natural Science Section of the School of Spiritual Science with Matthias Rang since 2023. We ask where she ...

27 August 2024
Civilizational tasks: 100 Years‘ School of Spiritual Science
For 100 years the Sections of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum have been working with an understanding of life under cosmic, earthly ...