WTEE February 2025 Conference
Renewal opportunities for currently practicing teachers
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February 17-19 and 19-21​​
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We are pleased to invite you to our February conference for Waldorf educators! This year's conference will consist of two separate sessions. First, Helen Lubin will lead a session entitled A Breath of Deepening: Speech and the Arts from Monday evening February 17 through midday Wednesday, February 19th. In addition to speech work, we will further enliven our time together with eurythmy, form drawing, and singing. Our second session, Early Childhood Developmental Movement and Music, begins on Wednesday, February 19th, and continues through Friday afternoon February 21st. We look forward to you joining us for one or both sessions. Discounts are available for groups of teachers coming from the same school. Register now!​
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Session I
​A Breath of Deepening: Speech and the Arts
with Helen Lubin and WTEE faculty
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Monday, February 17th, 4:45 pm–Wednesday, February 19th, 12:30
​(in-person only)
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Early registration by February 12th: $225 (sliding scale between $250–$300 thereafter)
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The spoken word supports and furthers the evolving relationship between the world and the self. This significant cornerstone of Waldorf education plays out in various ways to support child development. For the teacher, how do we build a taproot to the living and healing forces in speech, so that these various speaking activities become a source of strength and not a source of exhaustion?
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Monday, February 17
4:45–5:15 Registration
5:20–5:45 WTEE Welcome and Introduction
6:00–6:45 Eurythmy
7:10–8:30 Speech
Tuesday, February 18
9:00–9:15 Singing
9:30–10:20 Eurythmy
10:30–11 Snack
11:00–12:30 Speech
Lunch at local eateries
2:00–3:30 Speech with Early Childhood teachers
2:00–3:30 Form Drawing or Visual Art for Grades teachers
3:30–4:00 Snack
4:00–5:30 Speech with Grades teachers/Form Drawing or Visual Art for Early Childhood teachers
Attendees arrange for their own dinner/conversation
Wednesday, February 19th
9:00–9:15 Singing
9:30–10:20 Eurythmy
10:30–11:00 Snack
11:00–12:30 Speech
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Helen Lubin completed her training in speech arts in Germany and Switzerland and has been working with Waldorf schools, adult education, and therapeutic speech arts for 35 years. Founded Speech Arts in Waldorf Schools in North America to further this integral component of Waldorf education. With this project now in its 31st year, Helen has done some 250 'school speech visits' to over 55 North American Waldorf schools, working with classes, teachers, individual students, office staff, and parents. Camphill Seminar in Curative Education, with 10 years of experience in this field, including as a class teacher. BS Special Educational Studies; BS Speech Pathology and Audiology; MA Human Development; role of Maria in Rudolf Steiner’s four Mystery Dramas; certified TESOL instructor; freelance editor/translator.
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Session II
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Early Childhood Developmental Movement and Music​
​with Lynn St Pierre, Beth Daly, and Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna
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​Wednesday, February 19th, 4 pm–Friday, February 21st, noon
​​(in-person with online option available)​​​
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Early registration by February 12th: $225 (sliding scale between $250–$300 thereafter)
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Developmental movement and music will be explored for kindergarten, parent/child, nursery, and early-grade settings. This workshop will include Spacial Dynamics and handwork as well as inner work and plant study in preparation for child observation in summer 2025.
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Wednesday, February 19th
4:00–6:00 pm
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Thursday, February 20th
9:00 am–5:00 pm
Friday, February 21st
9:00 am–12:30 pm
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​​​​​​​​Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna is a pediatrician (neonatologist) with 25 years of experience. Before starting her private practice, she was the Head of the Department of the Child Development Unit at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai. She then founded Little Hearts Children's Hospital in Hyderabad, India in 1997. Dr. Lakshmi also founded the Saandeepani Centre for Healing and Curative Education in 2004 (in Hyderabad) for children with special needs and developmental delays.​​ Dr. Lakshmi uses an integrated approach to child development and treatment. Her approach includes consultation, teacher training workshops for schools, child development workshops for parents, and family meetings. She has worked extensively in India, Nepal, Singapore, Australia, and the US.
Lynn St. Pierre joyfully presents early childhood developmental movement and music including hand gestures, loving touch, large movement adventures, and singing in the mood of the fifth, as well as Spacial Dynamics® for Waldorf teacher trainings, conferences, and schools around the world. She offers a two-year deepening program for those who wish to carry this work forward. As a certified teacher trainer in both the developmental movement & music for early childhood created by Wilma Ellersiek and Spacial Dynamics®, Lynn enjoys mentoring and working with parents. In the mid-nineties, Lynn came to Waldorf Education as a parent and Specialty teacher of movement and has led Kindergarten, Nursery, and Toddler classes.
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Beth Daly is the Early Childhood Coordinator at Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene and Waldorf Early Childhood Educator at the Eugene Waldorf School. Beth is also the WECAN Regional Representative for Oregon and a WECAN site visitor. Her advanced trainings include Ellersiek Early Childhood Games and Fingerplays and Nurturing the Roots- An Advanced Anthroposophic Early Childhood Therapeutic Training.
