Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Education™ Retreat

Combine learning with vacation! Join us for four days in a retreat-like setting. And after class, have fun in the beautiful Lake Tahoe region of California. We planned this workshop to be informative, practical, and renewing. Not only can you forest bathe, swim in deep clear waters, hike beautiful trails and play at a Lake Tahoe Beach… but you will be learning and fulfilling your professional development at the same time.

Classes from 8:30am - 1:00pm. August 9-12.

• Incarnative Struggles: Looking through a two-fold lens. e.g. What is gravity and levity and how do we struggle with balance? What therapeutic approaches bring balance?
• Bringing harmony to inner and outer life needs
• Healing the Senses and creating cohesion
• Working as a team: The doctor, the therapist, the teacher. Understanding transdisciplinary work in Educational Approaches to Healing.

• Patricia Reber D.O. is an Anthroposophical Medical Doctor and Osteopathic Medical Doctor
• Bonnie River M.Ed., TTE, is a Waldorf Teacher and experienced Transdisciplinary Therapeutic Educator
• Alice Stamm is a Therapeutic Eurythmist who works with class teachers, in schools, and with adults and children

7:30 — Early Morning nature walk and activity to heal the senses (optional)

8:00 — Greeting and Snack-like foods

8:30 — First Course Focus: Upright, Speak, Think: Observations of these in ages 1-7 and 7-14 What posture, speech, and concepts can tell us about a person

10:00 — Snack and social time

10:30 — Artistic Class – Inner work and its importance to the Therapeutic Educator: sketching and sculpting a person’s ear and or hands. Learning what shapes of ears and hands can tell us.

11:15 — Second Course Focus: Using the Twofold Lens of observation. Understanding Gravity and Levity in the physical, life force, senses and thinking bodies. Can a counterbalance be offered therapeutically?

12:15 — Artistic Course: Exploring the Class focus concepts in Eurythmy

1:00 – Break for the day and explore the Tahoe Region

$550, includes tuition and snacks for the four days

The location is about 10 minutes outside Truckee, California, on 40 acres backed up to the Tahoe National Forest with Prosser Creek and Dam quite nearby. The beautiful school building can house our classes and snacks will be outside under a tent-shelter. There is plenty of opportunity to be both alone and with others in this beautiful natural setting.

The Truckee Area offers many AirB&B opportunities.

We are hoping to offer a camping site at or near our location so that attendees can camp, have good morning walks, and come to class. The camping could offer a low-cost and enjoyable opportunity in the Tahoe National Forest. Bathrooms and Showers will be available. We hope to offer campsites at $35 a night. We will soon know cost as we are working with Tahoe National Forest for all the requisite requirements.

• A Foundation in Anthroposopy. This is more advanced, medically based and assumes that the student has more than a familiarity with Child Development, Human Consciousness and the Image of the Human as gained when one studies the work of Rudolf Steiner.

• Experience working with school-age children: Waldorf Class Teacher, Kindergarten Teacher, Remedial Teacher, Therapist, School Psychologist etc.

If you have questions about your own qualifications for this workshop, please set up an appointment with Bonnie River. ([email protected])

Enrollment is limited. Register soon to reserve your place.

A Covid Safety Plan will be in place based on recommendations from local authorities in California to assure safety of all participants and faculty. This plan will be shared with all participants by August 1st.

Refund Policy: If you must cancel your registration, full refunds will be granted up to 30 days prior to the event (minus a service fee of $25.55). Cancellation less than 30 days prior to the event will be granted a 50% refund (minus service fee) unless extenuating circumstances apply.

Host or Publisher Gradalis Teacher Education