Embodying the wounded Amfortas and the aspiring Parsifal in meeting the other for healing in our time.
Location:
Mettabee Farm and Arts
551 Harlemville Rd.
Hillsdale, NY 12519
“We must learn to ask questions in the spiritual stream. In the materialistic stream, everything is designed to stop people asking questions.” (Rudolf Steiner, GA 148, Lecture 9, Berlin 6 January, 1914)
Each patient encounter comes out of the past and moves toward the future as part of the living stream of destiny. Why do I meet this person on this day in these circumstances? What needs to come forth from this encounter? How do we learn to meet others so they can speak their truth and express their need and feel recognized? How can I meet each healing substance and treatment in a living way that is open to change from one moment to the next?
We are meeting to enliven our nursing practices by sharing from our experiences and expressing and exploring our questions…and, particularly, in order to develop a web of relationships that allows us to share with our colleagues in the further development of our work.
The first of these decentralized conferences will be offered from November 6, at 4:30 PM to November 9, at 1:00 PM, 2,025, in the Harlemville area of New York at Mettabee Farm and Arts Center.
The conference will be preceded by a Keynote presentation by Rolf Heine on the theme via Zoom on November 1st. the time is yet to be decided.
The schedule is still in process, but there will be morning eurythmy, content presentations, practical work and group discussion.
There will be the opportunity for participants to present experiences using the anthroposophical treatments or the anthroposophical picture of the human being which would be instructive to the rest of us. We would like to plan appropriate space for this. Participants must let us know before the conference the content they would like to bring and the amount of time they need to do this. This is also an opportunity for sharing experiences or results you could not explain and that have left you with questions. (Call Margaret, 518-672-4253)
Bring your questions!
We plan a refreshing and healing pace and content.
Organic (where possible), wholesome, vegetarian meals will be catered (by the founding chefs of Paul and Elizabeth’s, Northampton, MA!)
An included concert of classical music arranged by Gili Melamid Lev takes place on Saturday evening.
The location of the conference is Mettabee Farm and Arts, a beautiful and quiet working farm which is dedicated to providing a site for self-development, the arts, education and for healing of the social life and the earth. The kitchen allows vegetarian cooking only. Cell service is spotty there and meeting spaces are off limits to cell phones, though arrangements are made to accommodate urgent needs for contact.
The fee for the conference will be $375, or $350 for NAANA members. The fee includes Rolf’s presentation as well as all meals and snacks (except breakfast on Friday and Saturday), as well as the Saturday concert. A few work scholarships are available by special arrangement by phoning Margaret at 518-672-4253. Please register by October 23, 2025.
There are a number of simple, but beautiful and comfortable, lodgings available at Mettabee for $35 to $45 per night (an optional $35 extra if linens are provided) as well as other low-cost rooms at Hawthorn Valley VSP on Friday and Saturday evenings. Some local residents, including Camphill Ghent, have offered rooms. For assistance with lodgings, contact Deborah Enright at Debaenright@gmail.com.
To enrich the experience, we are strongly recommending that participants read the legend of Parsifal (Wolfram von Eschenbach, etc.) which Rudolf Steiner described as being the legend for our consciousness soul time.
Those with questions may call Margaret Rosenthaler at 518-672-4253.
Texts of Rudolf Steiner being used to prepare for the conference are not required reading, but may be of interest…
The Mysteries of the East and of Christianity (or The Mysteries of Initiation, from Isis to the Holy Grail), GA 144, Lecture 4, Berlin, February 7, 1913.
The Fifth Gospel, GA 148, Lecture 9, Berlin, January 6, 1914. To understand this lecture one needs to have read the previous lectures on 10/21/13, 11/4, and 11/18.
The Samaritan Course, CW 56, concerning the healing of the wound.
Christ and the Spiritual World and the Search for the Holy Grail, GA 149, Leipzig, December 28, 1913 to January 2, l914, Lecture 5.
The Foundations of Human Experience, GA 293, Lecture 8 where Steiner speaks about the I-sense.
The Philosophy of Freedom (or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity), GA 4, Chapter 14, Individuality and Genus.
