Annunciation (detail), Fra Angelico, c 1442-3, Fresco, Museo di San Marco, Florence
The next Something Else Studio on Saturday 7 December will be our last for 2024. We look forward to welcoming you for this seasonal celebration of the phenomenon of listening. Please note there will be no studio session on Saturday 2 November.
In this experiential presentation, Tanya Coburn will encourage us to explore images of the ‘annunciation’ and ponder how cultivating tenderness and receptivity can help us herald the birth of something new in human life.
Hear Marjatta van Boeschoten speak about how we can meet Steiner’s wishes for tolerance, warmth and openness in group work in the anthroposophical movement.
How do we contribute to a healthy future for anthroposophy in the world?
a live presentation and conversation with Marjatta van Boeschoten
The next Something Else Studio event will be on 5th October 2024 featuring a live video session with Marjatta van Boeschoten, General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, London, UK.
a performance, commentary and conversation with Dawn Langman
6 July 2024, 3pm until approximately 6pm
Dawn Langman will explore the initiation journey of Prospero in what is considered one of Shakespeare’s final plays. Her performance will feature key moments in the play which address recognition of the double or shadow in our lives, forgiveness and reconciliation, woven together with a commentary on these themes. After the performance and an interval for refreshments, you are welcome to join us for a shared conversation.
Miranda, Prospero, and Caliban: The Tempest, Study by George Romney (English, 1734-1802)
Dawn Langman has international experience as an actor, educator, and author. Born in Adelaide, she has lived and worked in Europe, the US and the UK, founded a speech and drama studio in Melbourne, and taught students of acting as a performance art at Flinders University in South Australia. She has written a series of books based on her teaching and performance experience combining the work of Michael Chekhov and Rudolf Steiner to inform ‘the actor of the future’. Her work is being continued by the Heart Fire Centre for Speech and Drama.
You can listen to an interview with Dawn Langman from 2017 here.
An offering from the Something else studio (a Uriel initiative)
Saturday 6 July, 3pm-6pm with afternoon tea
Christian Community chapel 319 Auburn Road, Hawthorn Vic 3121
recommended donation $20 members/concession $15 or what you can afford
NO BOOKING available so arrive early to make a donation at the door in cash or into this bank account under ‘Something else studio’
The Christian Community in Australia Melbourne Inc BSB 313 140, Account No. 12260444
In this inspiring conversation, we meet Janina Papas, who works with the healing modality known as Extra Lesson. She supports children with learning, social and behavioural challenges to address developmental problems, the knots in the cord of life that happen along the way from before birth, through birth trauma and the physical and emotional events and experiences of our lives.
Motivated by experiences at Emerson College in his twenties, Gerry Josephson seeks to enthuse and encourage adults through the wisdom of Rudolf Steiner’s work. Using his passion for speech and drama, and his personal research into the deep roots of anthroposophy, he continues to offer adult education experiences through a course called ‘Grail Quest’, now located in Hobart, Tasmania. Continue reading “kindling courage”
Jane Bradshaw is a clinical nurse consultant in hepatology and the Tasmanian branch secretary for the Anthroposophical Society in Australia. I was interested in interviewing Jane when I heard her describe her approach with her patients suffering liver disease. She talked about her focus on allowing them to tell their stories. In our conversation, Jane explores this further and describes the power of self-reflection and self-care which enables this kind of work.
Julia Wolfson‘s life and work are inspired by her own background, experience and challenges in addressing crisis and difficulty especially in human services organisations through developing our innate powers. Julia is inspired by the work of Arnold and Amy Mindell around the principles of deep democracy.
Dawn Langman, educator and actor, shares her life experiences with great insight, frankness and wisdom. In this conversation, Dawn places her traumatic early life experiences in the context of her understanding of reincarnation. She shares her own mystical experiences and the experience of dissociation and disembodiment and the impacts these have had on her life. She also relates her experience as a homosexual and her insights from anthroposophy about homosexuality.
Susan Vos describes herself as a healing facilitator. Her work involves helping people who are seeking to transform their grief. This work is based on her own life experience. In October, 2006, 24 year old Simon, one of her two sons, died in a kayaking accident. As well as a profound shock and a time of grief for Susan and her family, it was also an experience of deep transformation that led her to understand her life purpose. In this conversation we explore this transformation.