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Foundations of a Healthy Society

Society is falling apart because we haven’t learned
the lawfulness of its systems.
Join us for an in-depth exploration of this lawfulness.
Join us in building up a movement for social threefolding.

Gathering weekly for presentations, discussions and exercises
Thursdays: 7AM (LA) | 10 AM (NYC) | 4PM (Zurich)
From October 2026 – May 2027

Presenters include:

  • Education in society — with Clara Brunner (Germany, Wanderjahr)
  • Three kinds of social judgements and social agreements — with Sylvain Coiplet (Germany, Institute for Social Threefolding)
  • Social phenomenology — with Michael Draskovic (USA, Common Light)
  • Threefolding as outer expression of the inner life — with Omri Elaad (Israel, Adam Center)
  • Building healthy organizations — with Seth Jordan (USA, The Whole Social)
  • Practicing social artistry — with Robert Karp (USA, Threefold Driftless)
  • Key aspects of an associative economy — with Timothy Kennedy (USA, entrepreneur)
  • The history and future of money — with Fionn Meier (Switzerland, economist)
  • Evolving the three spheres of government — with Gopi Krishna Vijaya (USA, Foundation for Cultural Renewal)
  • Separating nation and state — with Nathaniel Williams (Switzerland, Youth Section)

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Speaking with My Whole Self

Speaking with My Whole Self: Speech Workshop with Christine Burke

Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 9am-3pm

Cost: $175

Through our speech, we impact the world and those around us. Our inner life flows outwards over our vocal cords on our breath, influencing those around us. In earlier times, people had a deeper feeling for the power and importance of the word to do good or to do harm. Today, real communication through the human voice is being undermined. We are losing both the capacity to carry our inner world out on the waves of our words as well as the ability to perceive the other and their inner world through our senses.

Working with speech activities will enliven and strengthen the organs of speech and the ability to carry living pictures, clear thoughts, and forces of the heart in our words. Teachers who use their voice everyday in the classroom will benefit from this care for speech and learn to nourish their students through enlivened descriptions and storytelling.

This workshop is an opportunity to find your voice and is open to anyone who is interested. All levels of experience are welcome.

Christine Burke currently teaches Communication Studies at Ventura College and Logodynamics/The Arts of Speech privately, in groups, at workshops, trainings, and here at BACWTT. Her passion for words began at a young age and has led to and through theater and English literature, a degree in Linguistics, Waldorf teaching in the US and Sweden, Rudolf and Marie Steiner’s “Sprak Gestaltung,” the Michael Chekhov approach to acting, and an MA in Communication Studies focusing on Communication Education, Classical, and Performance Studies.

Please note that this is an in-person event only. A discount is available for group signups. 
Tea, coffee, and snack provided. Please bring your own lunch.

For more information, please contact:
[email protected] | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org

Imagination or Manipulation – a Reflection

On Sunday, June 14th Claus-Peter Roeh gave a talk on the challenges of AI and computer-centered methods for students and educators. Mary Anne Kirkwood has kindly provided her reflections on this talk.

A thoroughly comprehensive talk on the importance of children’s development in ascertaining their own way of knowing through active engagement and application. As Claus-Peter demonstrated by walking us through the early to middle school years as a Waldorf educator, Know for yourself should be aligned right next to the axiom, Know thyself. And Claus-Peter showed us just how the AI-fostered way of educating fails to do this, across the board. 

Unlike what we have in the USA, forward-thinking countries like Sweden and Denmark tried the screen centered and supported education approach which claimed to promote individualized learning in early education, only to discover the drawbacks and severe consequences before making a complete turnaround. Back to the proverbial drawing board, and perhaps in every sense of the term: Human to human is what’s still very much needed.  Lessons learned, but would we listen here in the USA? 

A thoroughly engaging talk on a very important subject–whether one is familiar with Waldorf education or not, the dangers of too much dependency on AI is very real and Claus-Peter’s talk demonstrated this clearly. 

M.A. Kirkwood, San Francisco, CA

Creating Social Health

The World is in Our Hands

How Could We Contribute to a More Human Society?

the online summary and deepening event in the

Sunday, June 28, 2026
1–4 pm Eastern Time / 10am–1pm Pacific Time
19:00–22:00 Central European Time

• How can social threefolding reduce the polarization of our time?
• What are rightful limits to individual freedom?
• What turning points would lead to a healthy economy?
• How can we make a difference and contribute to the necessary transformation?

Gerald Häfner is the leader of the Social Sciences Section at the Goetheanum and a former member of the German and European Parliaments. He has co-founded many initiatives including the Green Party in Bavaria, Democracy International, and Purpose Economy.

• Substantial time for facilitated Q&A
• Purposeful participant conversation
• Optional follow-up conversations after the conference

Suggested fee: $25–$50 US

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This conference is the last of a series in loving memory of Edward Baumheier who at age 87
discovered and became a passionate advocate for social threefolding.

Imagination or Manipulation

The Role of the Human Being as teacher/guide towards Imaginative Thinking

Lecture by Claus-Peter Roeh
Sunday June 14, 2026 @ 5 pm 

Marin Waldorf School,
755 Idylberry Road,
San Rafael, CA
94903

Claus-Peter Roeh

Imagination or Manipulation

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