Developing the Self Developing the World

Parent & Caregiver Education 

The Alice Springs Steiner School is proudly hosting Melanie Deefholts to deliver two Parent & Caregiver talks in April. All parents and caregivers are welcome to attend. The workshops are free. 

Developing the Self, Developing the World - Social Understanding and Healthy Relationships with Self and Others | Class 5 - 8 

| 6:30pm Tuesday, April 2nd at The Alice Springs Steiner School 

Melanie Deefholts looks forward to meeting students in Classes 5 to 8, bringing age appropriate content to help deepen the young person’s healthy relationship to themselves and encourage greater understanding, mutual respect and compassion for the other members of their class and the school community. 

In Classes 5 & 6 the conversation focus is on taking up care for one’s body as it grows towards adolescence alongside the emergence of feelings of loneliness, longing and fear of being rejected. In Class 7 and 8 these feelings are intensifying and the themes move towards attraction and a deepening awareness of one self and other.

This parent education speaks to the themes of the content brought to the students and some of the main issues confronting child health and wellbeing in current times, with examples of how we can counter the unbalancing effects. We also address how to understand gender differences and similarities that both limit or free us and the contribution and struggles of the changing social structures around gender and sexuality afecting us all.

We look at how and when we work with children and adolescents to bring the understanding of sexuality and gender in relation to where they are in their consciousness. This brings harmony between the evolving body and inner experiences that sets the ground for healthy adult experience. This program is offered in more than 20 schools around Australia, plus Taiwan and the USA. 

Developmental Milestones throughout the Primary School Years | Class 1 - 6

 | 6:30pm Wednesday, 3rd April at The Alice Springs Steiner School. 

Parents and caregivers are invited to explore the unfolding developmental changes and feeling-life of the primary school age child as it awakens and becomes independent of the parents and caregivers. The feelings, thoughts and deeds of the community shape a foundation for emotional capacities as adults. What lives in our feeling life in these times? What is the soul-food that can nourish our children’s unfolding development?

Please register for these events via the form or by email office@alicesteiner.nt.edu.au

For more information, please go to www.developingtheself.org