We are excited to announce that registration for The Arc of Becoming: Medical and Pedagogical Support in the First Phase of Life is now open.
The conference has been co-created by members of the Medical Section and the Pedagogical Section, and we look forward to welcoming teachers, practitioners and other interested parties to Spring Valley, NY, from August 6-10, 2025.
We appreciate your help spreading the word within your circles and look forward to seeing many of you at this important in-person conference.
Adam Blanning will facilitate the conference keynote lectures, bringing two disciplines together in the keynote sessions: medicine and midwifery in the first session, midwifery and education in the second, and education and medicine in the final keynote session. Karin Michael will speak about spiritual and medical embryology; Johanna Hünig will talk about pregnancy, birth, and life through the first year; and Debbie Laurin will talk about life from 12 months to three years. Together, these presentations will weave a picture of how a spiritual space is created that fills as a child grows and forms in the womb, then enters and fills the space that a loving environment can provide from family members, caregivers, and the broader community.
We will have workshops from many different streams to dive deeper into this critical time from all different perspectives. Throughout the conference, we will have space for artistic work together, small group child study, and case discussions. We hope to weave together the pedagogical and medical perspectives to deepen all our work and create space to more fully welcome today's incoming children.
Visit our conference website or reach out to care1conference@gmail.com with any questions.
Warmly,
Christa Lynch, on behalf of the Care 1 2025 Steering Group
(Steering Group: Dr. Adam Blanning, Elizabeth Sustick, Katherine Scharff, Lael Stimming, Tanya Stoddard and Heather Church)
If you have questions, please contact us at care1conference@waldorfearlychildhood.org
FEES
We hope that The Arc of Becoming can be accessible to anyone interested in joining us. We are offering three tiers in the hopes of making them accessible to most. Please choose which tier best suits your circumstances
$450 - “Fraternity” (covers your conference costs plus a bit extra to help make the conference accessible)
$400 - “Equality” (evenly covers your conference costs)
$350 - “Liberty” (select this tier if it is the most comfortable, or if you are a member of WECAN or other connected organization and want to take advantage of a “member discount”)
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