Edited by Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen L. Rivers

Waldorf education finds itself catapulted from its humble beginnings 76 years ago into the midst of the central educational and social issues of this decade. What draws parents and educators toward Waldorf education today? Waldorf Education - A Family Guide offers a “first look” for parents and educators into the history, philosophy, curriculum, and traditions of this unique education. This comprehensive book is a collection of articles describing the world of Waldorf Education - the fastest growing independent school movement in the world.

Author: Betty Staley

Between Form and Freedom has a wealth of helpful insights about teenagers, offering a wise look into the souls of children and adolescents. Betty Staley invites you to explore the vibrant nature of adolescence - the search for the self, the birth of the intellect, the release of feeling, male-female differences and character.

Teenagers’ growth needs are explored in relation to family, friends, the media, education, the arts and love. Issues around stress, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse are tackled, clarifying the options.

By Sue Palmer

Sue Palmer presents wide-ranging research on the toxic cocktail of factors affecting children’s lives today. She provides advice on “detoxifying” childhood, including:
- the importance of real food and real play for children’s development
- why sleep is essential to learning, and how to ensure children get enough of it
- childcare and education, and what works for different age groups
- protecting children from aggressive marketing and the excesses of celebrity culture
- the dangers (and benefits) of growing up in a multimedia “electronic village”.

Beyond the Rainbow Bridge is based on an American Steiner School Parent Enrichment program. It is a readable handbook which covers topics such as: healthy rhythms in home and school; what kind of play stimulates imagination; how to protect the child’s developing senses; the stages of a child’s physical growth; creative discipline; and how to create birthday stories, knot dolls and puppets.

By Rudolf Steiner

This account of the Western path of initiation began appearing in installments in 1904. Steiner openly describes a path of development for all who seek to have real experiences of the spiritual world without sacrificing their practical duties in everyday life. The student is led through the cultivation of reverence and inner tranquility to the development of inner life through the stages of preparation, illumination and initiation.

Steiner describes how we pass through the trials of Fire, Water and Air, and new qualities of feeling, judgement and perception unfold. He shows how the transformation of feelings occurs and indicates the consequences of such practices on our inner and outer lives. A guide to working with the chakras is also given. Finally, the student is led to the first stage of spiritual development: the meeting with the Guardians of the Threshold.

By Rudolf Steiner

Theses seven lectures abound in practical illustrations and revolve around certain themes: the need for observation in the teacher; the dangers of stressing the intellect; the need in younger children for what is concrete and pictorial; the education of the soul through wonder and reverence; and the difference it makes when the imagination first grasps a whole so that the parts then later enter into their proper relation.

Steiner shows how essential it is for teachers to work upon themselves – to transform their natural gifts – and to use humour to keep their teaching lively and imaginative. Above all, he stresses the grave importance of doing everything in the light of the knowledge of the child as a citizen of the spiritual as well as the earthly world. Throughout, he returns to the practical value of Waldorf education.

By Rudolf Steiner

Theosophy is a key work for anyone seeking a solid grounding in spiritual reality. Steiner presents a comprehensive understanding of human nature, beginning with the physical body and moving up through the soul to our spiritual being, with an extraordinary overview of the laws of reincarnation and the workings of karma. Steiner shows the different ways that we live within the three worlds of body, soul, and spirit, and describes the path of knowledge by which each one of us can begin to understand the marvellous and harmonious complexity of the psycho-spiritual worlds.

By Rudolf Steiner

In this classic account of the Western esoteric path of initiation, Rudolf Steiner’s advice is practical, clear, and powerful. He leads the student through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation. From the cultivation of reverence and inner tranquillity to the development of the inner life. By patiently and persistently following these exercised in inner and outer observation and moral development, new organs of soul and spirit begin to form that reveal the contours of higher worlds.

By Maricristin Sealey

This book shows how to create handcrafted dolls from natural materials. These dolls are old favourites, originating in Waldorf kindergartens where parents make dolls together for their children.

By Rudolf Steiner

Building on the achievements of Goethe in his Theory of Colour, Rudolf Steiner shows how colour has an objectively moral affect on the feeling life, and even the health and well-being, of the observer. Distinguishing between “image” and “lustre” colours, Steiner lays the foundation, out of his spiritual-scientific research, for a practical technique for working with colour that leads to a new direction in artistic creativity. This book is an invaluable source of reference and study not only for artists and therapists but for anyone interested in gaining a appreciation of art as a revelation of spiritual realities.