What the Case Histories Can Teach Us

100 years of the book "Fundamentals of Therapy"

Saturday, 3 May / Sunday, 4 May 2025

Saturday, 28 June / Sunday 29 June 2025

Saturday, 25 October / Sunday 26 October 2025

Three online teaching presentations (90 min each), held
by Adam Blanning MD
English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish,
Mandarin and German


Register HERE  

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

Three online teaching presentations, held by Adam Blanning MD, will be paired with interdisciplinary small group discussions about the cases.  Anyone who is working with patients is welcome to take part!

The main meeting language will be English, with simultaneous translation into Mandarin, Spanish and German.  Information on times, prices and registration can be found in the flyer.  (CLICK for flyer)

What is it about?

In collaboration with Ita Wegman, Rudolf Steiner finishing the book "Fundamentals of Therapy" ("Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst") as one of his final tasks before his death in 1925. The book is an open secret – difficult to read if you approach it like a usual book of factual content, but profound when understood as a guide to process, constitution and states of being.

That doorway opens wider when we work with it in group study. Through case discussions, we wish to offer an international celebration of this landmark guide for extending the art of healing.

We look forward to welcoming you to this event!

Adam Blanning MD

Emerson College
Medical Section Summer School

August 16-23, 2025

Register at: https://calendar.emerson.org.uk/events/medical-section-summer-school-2025/

To open the PDF brochure of the below Medical Section Summer School Brochure, click HERE.

School for Spiritual Conference

September 5-6, 2025

Conference on Understanding and Cultivating the "I"

September 6-7, 2025

Editor’s Note: Witsun News from the Medical Section, including announcement of the international annual conference of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum from 9–14 September! 'Extending the Art of Healing – Etheric Forces as Forces for the Future':

Dear Friends,

Eight years ago, we held our last conference on spiritual issues in anthroposophic nursing. Nursing itself is a spiritual path that is probably not easy to find in our time. Anthroposophy aims to guide people toward a peaceful future as a gift and a challenge. Today, nursing requires more than goodwill and compassion. It needs a power that permeates and acts through the eyes and hands so that a battered body, an exhausted soul, or a powerless spirit can find the courage to rise again.

This power arises when the “I“ recognizes itself. Ita Wegman gave nurses the task of developing the “I” as an exercise and perspective for the day ahead. Karl König in the Camphill communities pointed out the importance of the lower senses. For Gerhard Kienle, the mantra “to gain the I” was at the core of collaboration in anthroposophical hospitals.

We cordially invite you to this two-part conference in the year marking the 100th anniversary of anthroposophical nursing training.

We will begin with work on the last three class lessons and continue the meditative work on Saturday evening and Sunday on the theme of “Becoming I.” Please bring the blue card with you for the class lessons.

The second part of the conference does not require membership in the first class. However, it can contribute to its understanding. It is about caring for the “I.” We want to engage in practical meditative exercises as well as Christological questions.

Both conferences will be consecutively translated into English. The talk in the first class and the exploratory exchange on mantras and the “I am” words will be in English and German.

We look forward to your participation.

Registration

The registration deadline is September 1, 2025.

The participation fee is CHF 45/EUR per conference, excluding meals. Refreshments during breaks are included.

The participation fee is payable on site. You will receive confirmation after registering. If you have any questions, please contact Rolf Heine. (rolf.heine@medsektion-goetheanum.ch)

Please register here for the School for Spiritual Science and Conference on Understanding and Cultivating the “I” events.

IFAN Steering Committee

Signed by Rolf Heine, Deborah Bednarek, Christoph von Dach, Sonja van Hees, Antonia Olavarria, Tania Prince, Elizabeth Sustick, Michalea Schnur

IFAN Annual Conference

Monday, 8 September / Wednesday, 10 September 2025

ICANA Annual Conference

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Dear IFAN colleagues,

We are happy to invite you to the IFAN Conference, organized as a pre-conference to the Medical Section Annual Conference. Over the course of 3 ½ days, we will address essential issues concerning the anthroposophic nursing profession. During this time, we will not only commemorate the 100th year anniversary of the first nursing course in Arlesheim but also focus on the needs and future perspectives of Anthroposophy within the fields of nursing.

Additionally, we will be faced with the important task of finding a new way to coordinate the worldwide anthroposophic nursing movement, as Rolf will resign in September 2026. We plan to discuss this based on a proposal from the steering committee.

The most important goal of our gathering is a warm and future oriented mood of spiritual community building that can radiate into our daily nursing practice.

We hope that many of you will be able to attend the IFAN Conference (September 8th to 10th) and the Conference of Spiritual Deepening, taking place from September the 5th to 7th —and, of course, the Medical Section Annual Conference.

The main language of the conference will be English. Your contributions can be given in your mother language and will be translated, as well as English contributions that were not understood.

Please register here for the IFAN Annual Conference (September 8-10) AND the ICANA Annual Conference (September 11)

Click this link for the: IFAN Annual Meeting Final Program.PDF