IASWECE Newsletter
February 2021
Dear colleagues and friends,

A sound of hope and deep longing for regaining our freedom filled the air at the turning of the year. The imposed limitations out of safety regulations have had a far-reaching impact on our individual and social freedom and have forced us to reconsider and reimagine how a healthy balance can be found between this freedom and individual and social responsibility.

The experience of the past year has shown clearly how the question of health cannot be understood as an isolated physiological matter but needs to be considered from the wholistic perspective of physical, social-emotional, mental and spiritual health.

In this newsletter we bring articles with different perspectives relating to the question of health in the education of the young child. They offer inspiring thoughts and can help us adults to find our own healthy position in the complexity of questions related to the topic of media and how we can build a health-promoting soul environment in times of crisis. The reports from our colleagues in South Africa and Brazil are stories of courage and hope that provide insights into how the pandemic has affected their lives and how they have found creative ways to make the best of the situation.

Dear friends, we hope that the content of this newsletter can support you in your endeavors to create inner and outer health as a basis for developing inner freedom and social responsibility for the children, yourselves and your surroundings.

Clara Aerts
On behalf of the IASWECE Coordinating Group
Waldorf Worldwide
Different Ways for Thinking About Building Immunity
Where is the good? What are the essential things that make us human? What nourishes our core being when there are so many unpredictabilities around us that if we only rely on them we will be lost?
Media in Early Childhood
The Corona era has brought the media even more into the foreground and made the media more prevalent. What kind
of living environment do we want to create
for our children?
News from the Centre for Creative Education on Early Childhood Development Work in South Africa
Steiner predicted that there would come a time when humanity would experience challenges that would call for human beings to strive, more than ever before.
The Pandemic: a chance for a different future?
Silvia Jensen, IASWECE representative of Brazil, reflects on what as adults we need to learn from the pandemic.
Together for our Children’s Health in a Digitalized World
To ensure that education in the future will still be human-based, we need to develop an awareness of developments in educational policy and become active as citizens and co-creators of our societies.
Anthroposophic Medical Association Statement on 
Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
By the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations IVAA and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum
The Corona Pandemic affects us all in different ways, but for some it has become a matter of survival or shutting down. In many places all over the world Waldorf Kindergartens are working without any state subsidies and only can function further through additional donations from parents and educators. The current pandemic has led some of them into an existential crisis through which they are now threatened with closure.

IASWECE is participating with the Friends of Waldorf Education and other partners in establishing an emergency fund to ensure their survival. Help us to help these Waldorf initiatives by donating!
FREUNDE DER ERZIEHUNGSKUNST
GLS Bank Bochum, Germany
IBAN: DE47 4306 0967 0013 0420 10
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
Reference: Corona worldwide

For more information or to donate via PayPal: 


We are incredibly grateful for the donations we have received toward our projects and the Corona Aid Fund. Click here for a list of donors.
Conferences
North American Online Conference 5 - 7 February 2021
Toward a Kinder, More Compassionate Society
A challenging individual and collective exploration of our work, our underlying assumptions, deeply held ideas, and ways of being with children and with others.

UK SWSF Online Conference
15 -16 February 2021
A Sense of Development:
Sensory Sensitivities, Integration and Movement Journeys
Incarnating into movement in the right way can be a challenge for some children, particularly in these times when so many factors hinder sensory development.

With Nancy Blanning, Laurie Clark and Jane Swain



German Kindergarten Association Whitsun Conference May 2021

In each child is situated a centre for the world...

Also online lectures

With Marcel de Leuw, Michaela Glöckler, Geseke Lundgren and Claus Peter Röh






Care1 Early Childhood Congress:
19 - 22 May 2021
Care1 is an interdisciplinary working group in which IASWECE is an active partner on behalf of the little child.

The close relationship among all professionals dedicated to this early stage of childhood is of utmost importance, because this is such a fundamental and delicate phase of life.


Goetheanum Anthroposophy Studies:
28 Days of Insights, Art and Encounter
We hope to create a cross-cultural and intergenerational experience...We are committed to creative transformative spaces of encounter, dialog and insights.

In English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.



Swiss Professional Development Conference for Educators
September 2021
The senses as doors for creativity of inner and outer worlds Rudolf Steiner Schule in Basel.

In German, French and Italian.




World Conference for Teachers and Educators postponed to 2023!





Books from IASWECE
IASWECE is pleased to announce the publication of several books and resources that have been created through the collaboration of our council members and colleagues.

Books with prices in $ can be ordered through the WECAN bookshop in the USA (just click on the links below).

Books with prices in € can be ordered by sending an email to info@iaswece.org. We will take your order, calculate the shipping fees, and send the books to you after receiving your payment through wire transfer.
For Europe: 15€ Order at info@iaswece.org
CD and book $22
For Europe: 20€ Order at info@iaswece.org
15€ Order at info@iaswece.org 
How You Can Help

IASWECE provides financial and pedagogical support to projects in order to develop and foster the quality of Waldorf early childhood education all over the world.  

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The IASWECE Newsletter is published on behalf of the IASWECE Council by Lourdes Tormes, with support from Clara Aerts, Susan Howard, and Lara Radysh. 

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