Three Years of Becoming: An Early Childhood Educator's Journey Through New Adult Learning

Pricing for the three-year bundle keynotes  (2024, 2025 and 2026)

• $150 Individual Members
• $175 Organizational Members
• $200 Non-Members

These three years of keynote recordings trace a living journey. Creating Spaces for the Children Coming Towards Us was a three-year arc of inquiry, courage, and transformation as we approached the 100th anniversary of Waldorf Early Childhood Education in North America. Together, they embody one intention: to support the children coming toward us by transforming ourselves as educators, colleagues, and communities.

Guided by a sevenfold New Adult Learning process, we worked to awaken new thinking, feeling, and willing as individuals and in community. Wahsonti:io Hill and Otsistohkwi:yo Elliott of Everlasting Tree, a Mohawk/Haudenosaunee language Waldorf school in Ohsweken, Ontario, and Heather Church of New Adult Learning, shared how this process supported the creation of individualized, culturally rooted Waldorf pedagogy.

Over these three years, we journeyed from awakening to transformation to developing the capacity to consciously shape the future.

May these recordings serve as companions in your own journey — strengthening your courage, deepening your reflection, and re-enlivening your devotion to the children entrusted to your care.

Year One: Awakening the Will to Create

In our first gathering, we posed the question: What must change in us for Waldorf early childhood education to remain alive and responsive? In year one, we sought to ignite the inner fire — the will to create new forms grounded in anthroposophy and responsive to place, culture, and community.

Year Two: Transforming Conflict Through Destiny Learning

In the second year, our work deepened. We asked: What is truly essential in Waldorf Early Childhood Education and what must evolve as we awaken to the needs of our time — including insights emerging through DEIJ work? Destiny Learning, the second path, is about coming to know oneself and how one moves in the world — and in relationships. Through Destiny Learning,  we learn to navigate life’s harder moments in ways that free us to move forward and do our work.

In this keynote, we explore how the presence of conflict, chaos, and tension — in classrooms, faculties, and communities — can be embraced for individual and collective growth. By learning to work consciously with biography, resistance, and relationship, we began shaping the inner capacities needed to become innovators in the service of the children.

Year Three: Remember, Observe: Shape the Future

In our third year, we gathered to honor one hundred years of Waldorf Early Childhood Education in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. We remembered our beginnings, observed our present reality, and turned with intention toward the future.

This culminating conference explored the third path of New Adult Learning: Creative Spiritual Research. The focus shifted from personal transformation to becoming active researchers of our time.  In this spirit, we drew on Rudolf Steiner’s guiding principles for teachers, as outlined in Discussions with Teachers (GA 295). These principles remind us that educators are people of initiative, bringing energy and purpose into their work. That, as educators, we are being asked to cultivate genuine interest in the world and in each child, hold fast to truth, and keep our work inwardly fresh — sustaining a healthy, open, and life-giving mood of soul.

**Included: 3 years of 3 Keynote Presentations. Recordings will be available until April 30, 2026. Certificate hours will be provided at the end of the recording.