General Secretary Report April 2019
From Sue Simpson, General Secretary, Anthroposophy in New Zealand In the process of finalising this report, I heard news of the shootings in the Christchurch mosques, the full tragedy of which...
Anthroposophy in New Zealand
General Secretary Report April 2018
A snowy landscape greeted me on my arrival in Switzerland, a surprise after the warm days of early spring. It was only a few days before it began to melt and with its departure the plants bent low...
Greetings from Virginia Sease
Dear Friends, Some friends have asked how they may stay in contact with me in view of some of the changes which have occurred in my work at the Goetheanum. It seems appropriate to answer these...
Mystery Dramas – an invitation to attend
“Human beings discover themselves through others.” Rudolf Steiner expands on this simple yet remarkable sentence by Martin Buber in his four mystery dramas. It is therefore not surprising...
A week in Dornach
A report on important matters at the Goetheanum - 27 March 2018 As the plane came into its landing flight, the pilot announced ‘It’s 8am and light snow is falling in Zurich’. A few hours...
The Goetheanum from a New Zealand Perspective
A short address given during the visit of Bodo von Plato to New Zealand on our relationship to the Goetheanum as part of a programme for the Annual General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society...
Announcing A New Goetheanum Edition of Class Lessons
...and a request for funding. We are pleased to announce that the Executive Council of the School of Spiritual Science has decided to publish a new edition of the Class Lessons for the...
General Secretary Report November 2017
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. ELIOT Today was the final of a run of meetings at the Goetheanum for...
Request
In April 2017, Justus Wittich the treasurer at the Goetheanum, shared with council representatives from around the world, the challenge the Goetheanum faced of a CH 400K deficit. To his immense...
Bodo von Plato – August 17 – 30, 2017
Before the Conference the Anthroposophical Society in New Zealand will host Bodo von Plato, a member of the executive at the Goetheanum. He will visit New Zealand in August. Sue Simpson shares a...
General Secretary Report April 2017
Arriving a few days earlier in Dornach, I had a wonderful opportunity to visit a Monet exhibition and hear Bach’s Matthew Passion which two orchestras and three choirs, one being a children’s...
GREAT AGAIN? THOUGHTS ABOUT THE WORLD SITUATION – Gerald Häfne
We are living at a turning-point. Fear and tensions are increasing everywhere in the world. How can we find a way forward? In recent times the degree of violence and conflict in the world has...