News from the School

Clowning: Hearing humour in music, listening to children’s concerns
12 December 2025

Clowning: Hearing humour in music, listening to children’s concerns

Sebastian Jüngel
Can we laugh about something we don’t hear? Hardly. Humour must be audible. But where is the humour in what we hear, particularly if what we hear is ...
Stress-tolerant cucumbers, relaxed cows with horns
09 December 2025

Stress-tolerant cucumbers, relaxed cows with horns

Anna Storchenegger, Sebastian Jüngel
A synthesis of studies presented in ‘Living Farms’, the magazine published by the Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum, illustrates how ...
Post-Covid syndrome: Possible positive effects of whole-body hyperthermia
08 December 2025

Post-Covid syndrome: Possible positive effects of whole-body hyperthermia

Dagmar Brauer
Artificially increasing body temperature is a therapeutic approach that aims to stimulate the human immune system and activate self-healing. A ...
Light horses dancing on the screen
27 November 2025

Light horses dancing on the screen

Sebastian Jüngel
Many people spend their time more or less passively in front of a screen. In the New Pegasus Project young people use colour, form and sound to ...
Warmth Is Balance
19 November 2025

Warmth Is Balance

Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak
In nature and throughout the Earth organism, we find balancing processes expressed in the image and substance of warmth. The physical, soul, and ...
Book project on Rudolf Steiner’s aesthetic education
28 October 2025

Book project on Rudolf Steiner’s aesthetic education

Nathaniel Williams
Nathaniel Williams, leader of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum, is preparing a new publication on Rudolf Steiner’s economics, the modern ...
The importance of inner growth with advancing age
28 October 2025

The importance of inner growth with advancing age

Christian Schikarski
In the autumn of 2024, the CARE group Age Culture and Geriatric Medicine started working and has since published its activity reports on the ...
Mathematics conference not only for mathematicians
24 September 2025

Mathematics conference not only for mathematicians

Detlef Hardorp, Oliver Conradt
The mathematics conference from 8 to 10 October 2025 follows a statement by Rudolf Steiner that mathematical thinking is the very method of ...
A Book that Grounds You
09 September 2025

A Book that Grounds You

Wolfgang Held, Karin Michael
The 2025 annual conference of the Medical Section will focus on Rudolf Steiner’s book Extending Practical Medicine: Fundamental Principles Based on ...
Health for All—Between Order and Freedom
23 June 2025

Health for All—Between Order and Freedom

Adam Blanning
On the WHO Pandemic Agreement negotiations, Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM), and anthroposophical commitment to public ...
Biodynamic preparations promote microorganisms in the soil
19 June 2025

Biodynamic preparations promote microorganisms in the soil

Anna Storchenegger
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. ...
Being Inclusive Means Learning to Be Human
19 June 2025

Being Inclusive Means Learning to Be Human

Bart Vanmechelen, Franka Henn
Bart Vanmechelen is a member of the leadership team of the newly founded Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum. Characterized by ...