2025 FEBRUARY CONFERENCE
at Sacramento Waldorf School
Let’s Explore Together
Uncomfortable Transformations: Resiliency and the Art of Education
18-20 February 2025
Living in the world today is more challenging than ever. Anywhere you look, life seems to be rife with crises. Let’s find ways of meeting the uncomfortable transformations required of us.
Explore how we can face these challenges with strength, courage, and imagination.
With three exciting keynote lecturers:
Andrew Sullivan will share insights about biography and how childhood bolsters our future selves.
Alison Davis will speak about the path of the teacher and teaching from your true self.
Megan Sullivan will lead an exploration into a better understanding of resiliency.
In this conference, we will look at many of the significant changes that human beings experience throughout their lives; early childhood through the grades, nine-year change, puberty, first moon nodes, and ego incarnation.
Cost: $275 - 3 Days
Please contact institute@sacwaldorf.org with any questions.
Speaker Biographies
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Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan is a poet, philosopher, teacher, and interdisciplinary artist. He teaches adults and adolescents at Sacramento Waldorf School, his alma mater, and is currently a doctoral student in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program at California Institute of Integral Studies. He has been a student of anthroposophy since he tried to read Foundations of Human Experience in Spanish in 1992 while teaching in Mexico at Colegio Waldorf de Cuernavaca.
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Alison Davis
Alison is an award-winning educator, author, and activist. Her work has been widely published, and her list of degrees is long, but she sees her willingness to be like Rumi and gamble everything for love as her greatest credential.
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Megan Sullivan
Megan has taught in Waldorf schools for more than 20 years, in grades K-12 as a Class Teacher and as a specialist in Australia and the United States. She has extensive experience as a guest teacher, presenter, and lecturer in the field of Sex Education and Social Emotional Learning.
2025 February Conference at Sacramento Waldorf School
Artistic Workshops
Throwing Pottery on a Wheel with Johnny Finn Romero
Explore simple forms that arise from the pottery wheel.
Clay Modeling with Michelle Gallardo
Experience the transformations inherent in clay modeling.
Experience Artistic Modes of Inquiry with Alison Davis
This workshop will combine writing, drawing/painting, collage, and other artistic modes of inquiry to explore the content of the morning lectures. Bring a notebook and any other supplies you'd like. No experience is necessary.
Pastels with Doug Morkner-Brown
Explore value, color, composition, and the therapeutic possibilities of creativite works in soft pastels. The course will introduce participants to everything from the basics of the medium with scaffolded, monochromatic projects on day one to more advanced topics and individualized studio time on day three. Please feel free to bring your own inspiring reference photos.
Creating Harmony with Christiana Quick-Cleveland
Connect with others as you explore your singing voice. Participants will be guided through song arrangements, toward a musical offering during the final session of the conference.
Spatial Dynamics with Thom Schaefer
Study the fluid relationships between human beings and the space around us.
Writing Poetry with Andrew Sullivan
Writing poetry is one of the best means of accessing deep springs of resilience in the soul. In this workshop, we will engage in both individual and group writing exercises that are fun, develop community, and catalyze new forms of sensing and imagination.
We offer a discount of $50 per person to schools that send three or more participants to the Sacramento Waldorf School February Conference.
If you are interested in a group rate, please contact institute@sacwaldorf.org for more information.