Harald Matthes
Dr. Harald Matthes has been Head of the Department of Gastroenterology at Havelhöhe Community Hospital since 1995, which he co-founded and where he is also Medical Director. Dr. Matthes is a specialist in internal medicine, gastroenterology/ oncology and psychotherapy. In 2011 he received his habilitation at Charité Berlin in internal medicine. He is also a Board member of the Hufeland Society, the German Association of Comprehensive Cancer Centres (ADT) and the Tumour Centre Berlin (TZB and TZKB). He serves as a Director of Weleda AG. Dr. Matthes is a member of Commission C and the Pharmacovigilance Committee of the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) as well as a member of the Medical Committee of the German Hospital Organisation (DKG) and the National Cancer Council AG5. He served as a Research Assistant in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at Benjamin Franklin University Hospital (Charité), Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1987. Residencies followed in London (UK) and Stanford (USA). He attended the Rudolf Steiner School and studied human medicine in Berlin.
Karin Jarman
Born into a large family in Germany, Karin Jarman grew up near the Black Forest. After starting her own family, she moved to England and worked in the Camphill Village Trust community of Botton with people with special needs. She then trained in Art Therapy at the Fox Elms School of Artistic Therapy near Gloucester and qualified in 1988. After having built up her own private practice, she started working as an art therapist at St Luke's Medical Practice in Stroud in 1990.
She also started running her own courses under the name of Indigo and helped to found the Hibernia School of Artistic Therapy which she was the Course Director from 1993 to 2003. Besides teaching assignments in Finland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Canada, she co-founded the Oasis programme in Stroud in 2004. She went on a half-year pilgrimage on foot from Stroud to Prague in 2001 and published "Touching the Horizon" about the experience.
She also started running her own courses under the name of Indigo and helped to found the Hibernia School of Artistic Therapy which she was the Course Director from 1993 to 2003. Besides teaching assignments in Finland, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Canada, she co-founded the Oasis programme in Stroud in 2004. She went on a half-year pilgrimage on foot from Stroud to Prague in 2001 and published "Touching the Horizon" about the experience.
Dr. Andrea Seemann
Dr. Seemann was a teacher for physics and chemistry before she started to study medicine. Apart from her own practice for Anthroposophic Medicine, she is working as a school doctor at Friedel-Eder-School in Munich, a Waldorf School for children with special needs and also at Parzival-School, a Waldorf School for children with learning difficulties. Besides, she is consulting an inclusive Waldorf-Kindergarden, a nursery based on Waldorf Education and giving lectures about curative education at the Waldorf Teacher Seminar in Munich.