STEINER SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
AMRITA HOBBS has worked in Rudolf Steiner Schools in different capacities all around the world.
Amrita
has offered a wide variety of workshops both within the school
curriculum and also for parents and teachers. Sometimes she is called
in when a class or the school community is experiencing difficulty.
Sometimes she is invited to offer ceremonies and rituals.
Her work is received in Rudolf Steiner Schools in a number of different ways:
- A teacher hears about the work and invites Amrita to work with his or her class.
- The Faculty invites her to work within the school community or to present workshops to students as part of the school day.
- The parent council decides to offer evening talks and other programs under their umbrella.
- An interested parent finds out about her work and organises groups independently of the school.
How it all began
A teacher
invited Amrita to facilitate a weekend residential program after
reading her first book IT COULD BE DIFFERENT. This was at Chrysalis
Steiner School,
Coffs Harbour, Australia in 1992. Amrita has worked in mainly in Rudolf Steiner Schools since then.
What has been offered
Amrita has:
facilitated workshops within the school curriculum on Boys and Girls
Growing Up!,
Understanding Gender Differences, and Teenage
Relationships.
offered ‘troubleshooting’ with different classes and teachers where
there are relationship difficulties and with, parents, Faculty and
Board members.
spoken at Faculty meetings about integrating Rites of Passage themes into existing school events.
presented evening talks to parents on Creating Conscious Community, Sexuality
– what to tell them when and how!, Fathers raising Daughters and about integrating weaving Rites of Passage themes into family life.
facilitated programs for mother and daughters, fathers of daughters, boys and men and
women’s workshops, teachers.
These events have been organised by interested individuals, the school or through the Parent Council.
Amrita has worked in or though the following schools:
UK 2007
Edinburgh
CANADA 2006
Vancouver; Kelowna; Nelson; Duncan and Roberts Creek.
USA
Bright Water, Seattle; Portland Waldorf.
AWSNA NW Region Waldorf Schools Conference, Seattle.
Rites of Passage – a community-building tool
Creating Intimate Classrooms
AUSTRALIA 1992 – 2005
Mumbulla,
Bega; Silkwood, Gold Coast; Sophia Mundi, Melbourne; Warranwood,
Melbourne; Terramah, Tasmania; Mansfield; Cape Byron; Armadale;
Chrysalis, Belligen; Blue Mountains; Noosa Pengari, Queensland;
Casuarina, Coffs Harbour; Mansfield, Victoria; Kamaroi, Sydney;
Fremantle, Western Australia; Little Yarra, Victoria.
Some of these programs were organised by parents through word of mouth others were organised directly through the school.
SOUTH AFRICA 1995
Baobab Teacher Training College, Soweto, Johannesburg; Rudolf Steiner Teachers College,
Cape Town - programs for kindergarten teachers on Gender and Relationships.
Michael Mount, Johannesburg; Constantia, Cape Town; Michael Oak, Cape Town; MacGregor Steiner School.
Steiner Teachers Conference in Johannesburg.
Amrita is happy to discuss options with you and to see if a visit to your school is possible. If
you would like to organise a visit to your school contact us, including
your contact phone number and which programs interest you.
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