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Exploring the Roots of Being:
The world as dynamic relationship
(or “Becoming a Dancing Wa Li Master”)
with Michael D’Aleo
Toronto Waldorf School
March 25 - 27, 2010
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
Ninety years ago, Rudolf Steiner founded Waldorf education in order to bring a healing force to counter the effects of modern thinking, the split between our inner world of ideas, and what we perceive as the outer world of objects. Steiner warned in his time that if we did not take up this task, soon there would be no real thinking left.
Steiner’s intention was to develop a “new thinking” or “true thinking” in human beings that would heal this fundamental split between ourselves and the phenomena outside us. He called this “thinking in the etheric realm” which is when our thinking is not grounded in our inner activity trying to grasp outward objects, but rather is located outside us trying to grasp the inner human being.
In a talk to the worker’s of the Goetheanum about his book The Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner spoke of the effect of developing this new thinking, saying:
“But what it means is that it is impossible, in a true experience of thinking, to go on feeling the world mystery to be inaccessible; one is inside it. One no longer feels oneself outside the divine, but within it. To lay hold on thinking in oneself is to lay hold on the divine there…achieving it gives us the feeling of having taken a uniquely decisive step for one’s whole life”.
This March, Toronto Waldorf School will seek to offer an experience of this new thinking. Our keynote speaker, Michael D’Aleo, will invite us, through guided experience and reflection, to have a taste of the new thinking Rudolf Steiner describes.
Michael’s passion for this work comes as much out of his experience as an inventor and scientist as out of his experience as a Waldorf Teacher. He understands that our times demand a new thinking in order to provide truly sustainable solutions to the serious questions of our time.
From Michael’s vantage point, he will invite us to see the world not as a collection of objects, but as a series of relationships. From his perspective as scientist, he calls this moving from a science of nouns to a science of verbs. It has implications for all of life, and for every aspect of our work in Waldorf schools. From this new perspective, we have the possibility of finding elegant, sustainable solutions to the problems that face us.
We hope you are able to join us to be inspired by this work
and to take away renewing imaginations for your schools and communities.
Michael D'Aleo | Schedule | Workshops | Meals | Accomodations | Directions
