FROM THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN COUNTY CLARE

Dear Friends, Please mark this date in your calendar:
the all Ireland conference 2008, which had to be postponed at Epiphany

will take place on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th September 2008.

Venue: "live at the marquee" in Tuamgraney, Co. Clare.
Program and registration forms to follow shortly.
Kind regards
Anne Benham
congregational correspondent

anne.benham@yahoo.ie

Letter from Jonathan Angus:

Dear Friends, as you may have heard, the Irish Government has approved the applications for two new national schools, teaching the primary curriculum using the methods espoused by Rudolf Steiner. This is exciting news, and it marks the beginning of a new phase of development for Waldorf education in Ireland.

TWO EVENTS

1. Early Childhood Education Programme presents
Open Courses at Easter 2008

5 days : 25th - 29th March, 9.30am - 5.30pm

at Raheen Wood School, Tuamgraney, Co Clare
You are welcome to join the students on the Early Childhood Education Programme

for five days of classes on interesting and creative themes:

· Introduction to Anthroposophical Medicine with Dr Maria van den Berg
· Watercolour Painting: with Dick Bruin
· Eutony : with Helene Roitinger, musician and eutony therapist
· Introduction to Artistic Speech : with John Nixon

Cost: €75/topic for 5 days or €300 for full week’s programme
A cooked lunch is available each day at a cost of €8.
Prior booking essential
For more information or to book a place please email: training@steinerireland.org


2. Irish Steiner Kindergarten Association

& Early Childhood Education Programme

present
Two Workshops:

Sat 15th March: Therapeutic Storytelling

Sun 16th March: Creative Discipline
With Susan Perrow

at Raheen Wood School, Tuamgraney, Co Clare
Cost: €55 per workshop, incl. lunch
Discount: €95 for both workshops

For more information or to book a place on the workshop please email:

email:training@steinerireland.org

SUSAN PERROW (M Ed) has an extensive background (24 years) in storytelling, early childhood teaching and facilitating courses. In 1986 she founded the first Steiner Kindergarten in Byron Bay, Australia, and in 2000 developed the first course on Storytelling for an Australian University (S.C.U.). Over the last twelve years Susan has worked in Teacher Training and Parent Education in Australia, Kenya and South Africa, specialising in storytelling, therapeutic story writing and creative discipline. A writer of children’s stories for twenty years, she has several collections published locally. Her resource book on ‘Healing Stories’ will be published by Hawthorn Press in the U.K., March 2008.