Community Stream
Professional Development & Community Offerings
Sacramento Waldorf School’s Community Stream offers professional development workshops for teachers, interested parents, and community members at large.
Our workshops 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. 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 movement, art, and music, 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.
2024-25 Offerings
Please join us for our Saturday Workshops
We do believe a richer experience is gained by joining us in person. If you cannot attend in person, the Lecture & Discussion portions will be live-streamed via Zoom at a discounted price.
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Workshop #1
The Developing Human Being
Workshop #1 Schedule
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Lecture & Discussion 1: The 7-fold human being and their relationship to the evolving cosmos with Andrew Sullivan.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Lecture & Discussion 2: Human development from birth to age 21 and its relationship to the Waldorf curriculum with Isabelle Tabacot.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience: Drawing through the lens of child development with Ari Magruder
COMPLETED
Please choose how you would like to participate from the options above. Note the Participant Code before you click on the ‘Register and Pay’ button.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Workshop #2
Teaching Through the Temperaments
Workshop #2 Schedule
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Lecture & Discussion 1: Understanding and nurturing the four temperaments in Waldorf education with Isabelle Tabacot.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Lecture & Discussion 2: The 7 soul types in adolescent and human development with Betty Staley.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience: Exploring the Temperaments through speech and drama with Luisa Burgess.
COMPLETED
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Saturday, January 11, 2025
Workshop #3
The 12 Senses
Workshop #3 Schedule
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Lecture & Discussion 1: Introduction to the 12 senses and their importance in understanding childhood with Andrew Sullivan.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Lecture & Discussion 2: Developing a curriculum that meets the 12 senses with Isabelle Tabacot.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience: Engaging the senses through wet-felting with Ari Magruder.
Please choose how you would like to participate from the options above. Note the Participant Code before you click on the ‘Register and Pay’ button.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Workshop #4
Inner Development and the Path of the Teacher
Workshop #4 Schedule
9:00 am - 10:30 am: Lecture & Discussion 1: An introduction to Steiner’s meditative path of spiritual development with Andrew Sullivan.
11:00 am - 12:30 pm: Lecture & Discussion 2: The path of the teacher, connecting inner development with the practical tasks of teaching with Isabelle Tabacot.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience: Watercolor painting with Doug Morkner-Brown.
Please choose how you would like to participate from the options above. Note the Participant Code before you click on the ‘Register and Pay’ button.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Workshop #5
Understanding the Educational Task of Our Times
Workshop #5 Schedule
9:00 am - 12:30 am: Lecture & Discussion 1 & 2: Facing reality and instilling hope; A look at where we stand in the evolution of consciousness and how Waldorf education is the antidote to the crisis of the modern world with Andrew Sullivan.
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience: Creating Community through Song with Destiny Elazier.
Please choose how you would like to participate from the options above. Note the Participant Code before you click on the ‘Register and Pay’ button.
Saturday Workshop Outline
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Lecture & Discussion
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Lecture & Discussion
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Artistic Experience
Note: We do believe a richer experience is gained by joining us in person. If you cannot attend in person, the Lecture & Discussion portions will be livestreamed via Zoom at a discounted price.
Please send questions about our workshops to institute@sacwaldorf.org.
We hope you will join us!