Professional Development & Community Offerings

Sacramento Waldorf School’s Community Stream offers professional development workshops for teachers, interested parents, and community members at large.

The workshops below offer an introductory exploration of the Anthroposophical worldview, Steiner’s picture of the human being and child development, Waldorf education and its evolving curriculum and teaching methods, as well as the path of the teacher for today and well into the future.

2023–24 Offerings

Register for upcoming workshops at the bottom of this page.

Please send questions about our workshops to institute@sacwaldorf.org

Our Vision
We believe that Waldorf education, at its heart, is not a series of curricular texts and algorithmic recipes. It is an approach that puts the developmental needs of the whole child—body, soul, and spirit as well as race, ethnicity, gender expression, learning differences, and on and on—at the center of our inquiry and love.

Our Objectives

Our workshops are steeped in a deep reverence for the developing human being. Our central aim is to help individuals cultivate a rich personal relationship with the foundations of Waldorf education while thoughtfully exploring and iterating its future. In addition, our workshops provide an immersion into the transformative geniuses of eurythmy, yoga, dance, Spatial Dynamics, gardening, painting, drawing, poetry, and woodworking, among others, facilitating the imaginations of what insight and intuition might make of Waldorf education in the future.

Our Faculty

Our workshops are developed by experienced faculty Andrew Sullivan, Isabelle Tabacot, and Ari Magruder.

Monthly Workshop Outline

Friday

5–7pm: Lecture & Discussion

Saturday

8:30–9:30am: Art/Movement

9:45–11 am: Lecture & Discussion

11:15am–12:30pm Lecture & Discussion

1:30–3pm: Art

Note: We do believe a richer experience is gained by joining us in person. If you cannot attend in person, the Lecture & Discussion portions only will be livestreamed via Zoom.