Michaela Gloeckler, MA
Dr. Glöckler was born in Stuttgart in 1946 and attended the Waldorf School until graduation. Then she studied the German language and literature and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. From 1972 to 1978 she studied medicine in Tübingen and Marburg. Her further training as paediatrician took place at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Paediatric Clinic. Until 1988 she was a colleague in the children’s outpatient’s clinic at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and served as school doctor for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten/Germany. Since 1988 she has been Head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland. Various publications.
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.
Elma Pressel
Elma's parents' practice anthroposophic medicine and massage at home. After finishing the Waldorf school, she spent a few months in South Africa before returning to Europe and worked in different theaters as technician.
She began her education as „Heilpraktikerin“ (a therapeutic profession for natural healing which only exists in Germany) in 1991. Later in 1993 she trained in Pressel Massage from her parents and since 1994 assisted in educating Massage of Simeon Pressel.
She has been working as „Heilpraktikerin“ specialised for Massage of Simeon Pressel and others since 2003. She has also been busy as a teacher for further training in Pressel massage as well as in different activities in lecturing and seminars.
She began her education as „Heilpraktikerin“ (a therapeutic profession for natural healing which only exists in Germany) in 1991. Later in 1993 she trained in Pressel Massage from her parents and since 1994 assisted in educating Massage of Simeon Pressel.
She has been working as „Heilpraktikerin“ specialised for Massage of Simeon Pressel and others since 2003. She has also been busy as a teacher for further training in Pressel massage as well as in different activities in lecturing and seminars.
Stephan Thilo
Stephan Thilo is a Bothmer teacher and a physiotherapist living in the south of Germany (Emmendingen). He has been teaching Bothmer since 1992, is a course leader in different European countries and is a senior teacher of bothmer - movement - international. Active internationally in courses and trainings.
Bothmer Gymnastics: the human being and space In movement, the human being becomes visible in their different layers of being. Gaining knowledge of these relationships, and shaping movement in space, open up great therapeutic possibilities. In this workshop we shall venture on a sensitive approach to these relationships in a mood of research.
Bothmer Gymnastics: the human being and space In movement, the human being becomes visible in their different layers of being. Gaining knowledge of these relationships, and shaping movement in space, open up great therapeutic possibilities. In this workshop we shall venture on a sensitive approach to these relationships in a mood of research.
Hans van Florenstein Mulder
A Waldorf educator and anthroposophist, Hans Mulder has been involved in Waldorf education and biodynamic agriculture since 1972. As a Dutch he grew up in Indonesia before returning to the Netherlands and later moved to New Zealand. Helping established the high school for Taikura Rudolf Steiner School and his wife Ineke, he taught science and horticulture there for many years besides working on his biodynamic farm in for 26 years. Also, Hans was director of the one-year diploma course in biodynamic agriculture at Taruna.
Since 1996 he has been visiting many countries in Asia giving lectures and seminars on anthroposophy, Waldorf education and biodynamic farming and gardening. Hans served for 14 years as General Secretary of the New Zealand Anthroposophical Society until 2006 when he stepped down to help the Executive Council at the Goetheanum foster life of the General Anthroposophical Societies and the School of Spiritual Science in Asia as the Representative of the General Anthroposophical Society in Asia.
Since 1996 he has been visiting many countries in Asia giving lectures and seminars on anthroposophy, Waldorf education and biodynamic farming and gardening. Hans served for 14 years as General Secretary of the New Zealand Anthroposophical Society until 2006 when he stepped down to help the Executive Council at the Goetheanum foster life of the General Anthroposophical Societies and the School of Spiritual Science in Asia as the Representative of the General Anthroposophical Society in Asia.
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.
Molly McIntyre
Molly McIntyre is a long time licensed Speech Pathologist, Waldorf Remedial teacher, Speech Formation artist with a diploma from Dornach and a children's book author. She was co-course carrier for the Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech Training that was based in England for 7 years and has been teaching speech in the teacher training program at Rudolf Steiner College for the last 6 years.
She lives in Fair Oaks, California with her husband Mark and their cat Bumps.
She lives in Fair Oaks, California with her husband Mark and their cat Bumps.