Parent Education

Empowering Parents with Personal Development

Through the Parent Education Program, the Austin Waldorf School endeavors to create and offer opportunities for parents and the wider community to increase their understanding of Waldorf education. Our lectures and workshops allow our faculty to share their expertise as well as engage the community in personal development. The program also hosts distinguished guest speakers from around the world.

Please check the Event Calendar for upcoming Parent Education events, workshops, seminars and more!

 

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For questions regarding registration and fees, please email auxiliaryprograms@austinwaldorf.org

 

“The responsibility of being human is to bring life, light and love. The way we do this is through our connections with one another.” – Orland Bishop @ASA 

The longing to understand our lives is a part of the human experience. And perhaps this longing is even more pressing and urgent given our current world conditions. It is a time like no other for all of us to reach out and find ways to connect in meaningful, authentic ways. Biography work gives us new understandings through the power of sharing and listening to one another’s life stories in a space of mutual trust created through the social artistry of working consciously together. The tools that Rudolf Steiner gave regarding the archetypal cycles and patterns of human life – body, soul and spirit- provide us ways to observe our life’s themes and patterns, and connect us to the evolution not only of our own life, but all humanity. In the safe container of small group sharing, and in larger conversations, we come, as Steiner said, to find true interest in ourselves and the other. This reflective work has the capacity to change the way we see and connect to all those in our lives – our children, students, parents, colleagues – for it gives us a larger framework of the development of the whole human being. So…… 

“Let’s invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us. Maybe we can embrace the ways we are the same. There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s grace in being willing to know others.” ~Michelle Obama 

Jennifer Fox has been a student of Anthroposophy for 35 years. She was a co-founder of several Waldorf School initiatives and served in the pioneering efforts of various other Anthroposophical initiatives. Jennifer has been facilitating Biography and Social Art workshops for twenty years in Waldorf communities, in Foundation Studies programs and at Renewal. Last year she came to AWS bringing the “Awakening Connections – Creating Community” program. This was offered to Waldorf School communities throughout the country by the Center for Biography and Social Art. 

 

 

“Even though each of my children has different interests, personalities, and needs, this Waldorf high school has met them where they are and given them what they need to move forward and develop into great people.”