Prologue to Sacred Faces Recently I visited a Sacred Place; sacred for me at least. This was a small Methodist church (now Creek Orthodox) on a hill with a view of the city of Sydney 15 miles to the east. When I was a small child, I delighted in the fact that our house, right […]
AUTHOR: Alan Whitehead Experience
A Steiner High School: Teacher Education
TEACHER EDUCATION The Michaelian Faculty I was privileged to be one of the first teachers to receive a formal training in Steiner Education in Australia. In 1966, under the guidance of Rainer Fieck, I took part in a lesson observation/assisting program at Dalcross in this Class 2 – even helping produce the end-of-year play! This […]
The Australian Word: A Waldorf Conference Experience
WHEN POWER RAINS DOWN Report by Alan Whitehead on the Australian Anthroposophical Conference, Melbourne, January 2005 Seeking the Spirit of Australia Among other things, this was a conference of both reunion and renewal; we stood in the present to revisit the past, and envision the future. Evidence of the former was one speaker who expressed […]
Word Circus: A Tale of Two High Schools
TALE OF TWO HIGH SCHOOLS Reflections of a Steiner High School Founder and Teacher On the 16th July 2002, your author was interviewed by Ms. Glennis Mowday for her Master of Education thesis on Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, of which I was privileged to be one of the founding teachers of the high school. I […]
Word Circus: Alan Whitehead Experience in Japan
OVER THE ANGLO-NIPPON BRIDGE Your author has always had a strong karmic connection to Japan – and later to its people. As a small child during World War 11, I lived in a cauldron of fear, kept simmering by wild speculation of an impending Japanese invasion. I however redeemed by Nipon-phobia by being the very […]