Draw Into the Circle
biography, social art, soul-spiritual development, anthroposophy
Draw Into the Circle
biography, social art, soul-spiritual development, anthroposophy
biography, social art, soul-spiritual development, anthroposophy
biography, social art, soul-spiritual development, anthroposophy
Within your cells awaken, you children of the past.
Your resting place abandon.
The morning comes at last.
Your threads I am now spinning into one single thread.
Gone are the days of feuding.
One life shall now you wed.
Each one will live in others and all in everyone.
One heart within you surges
through life-breath of the One.
Novalis
April 25-28, 2024
Foxhollow Farm
What are you doing now?
What currently excites you about biography and social art?
How can our individual and shared interests come together in a creative way?
Please see the companion letter below for more on our proposed way of working.
We warmly invite biography workers/facilitators and social artists, those conducting research in biography and social art, those in training, as well as those "grandfathered/mothered" into the work.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
1) Send an email -- biographyworker@gmail.com
2) Pay the fee --
via Zelle – You MUST use Diane's PHONE NUMBER!
Diane Piette – 708-642-0440
or paper check –
Diane Piette
1110 Grove St. Unit 5E
Downers Grove, IL 60515
or Venmo -- contact Diane -- dtpiette@yahoo.com
To those active with research, whether practical (such as the development of a course or workshop) or academic, perhaps deeply esoteric: We’d like to include your work! We envision several brief presentations – approximately 20 minutes each – followed by full group dialogue. We wish to feature research activity for a few reasons: this is a developing activity within biography and social art and therefore deserves support; we anticipate research being increasingly necessary to the growth and strength of the field in the future; and, most importantly, a conference is an ideal opportunity for professional sharing where both researcher and listener learn from one another. We acknowledge that taking this step requires courage and we intend to support you all the way! – through a well-crafted space and clear yet flexible form, through partnership in preparation, and above all through interest. Please contact Leah– biographyworker@gmail.com – to discuss ways your work can be highlighted in April.
Dear Friends,
The 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s deed—the laying of the Foundation Stone in the hearts of human beings—has been celebrated, and “the next hundred-years” begun. What is the crux of this moment? In 1924, Steiner was more productive than ever, giving more courses and lecture series than ever before, often two or three simultaneously. There was urgency, and he recognized a unique window of opportunity. Perhaps it is similar now in our time.
The forces pressing against human development are strong. How do we keep a hopeful picture, one that can sustain us with confident ease and sure trust as we are called upon to exert enormous efforts?
Meet together. Keep it simple. Craft a space for the sacred.
Rather than formal expert-led workshops, we envision co-created content brought through sharing and dialogue. We will do this by individuals offering their research, both spiritual and practical; active circles having their own special time together in person; new circles coming together; authors telling of their book projects; and more.
Additionally, we find two particular themes calling for attention and advancement. One, the space between us is in need, as ever: Can we make progress with karma, the threshold that is human encounter, social forms that beckon the interest of spirit beings? Also, a deeper understanding of the years beyond 63 is of special interest within our circles, and no doubt others seek healthy and inspiring ideas about aging. Can we further our growth in this area?
The only problem is that we need to be together for a week! At least. Would that we could!
We will also meet the Stones that stand so eloquently at Foxhollow, honor the indigenous people that once walked the land of Northern Kentucky, share stories around the campfire.
Special thanks to our collaborators in the planning process Christina Norris, Patricia Rubano and Susan West Kurz; and for support already lent to the conference through gifts in-kind by Foxhollow Farm and the Center for Biography and Social Art.
We look forward to meeting and working together in April!
Warmly,The IC – Diane, Eileen, Leah, Paulette and Sarah
The Initiative Circle – “the IC” – is an inclusive and open group that seeks to support work with biography and social art, in light of anthroposophy, through circle formation, collegial dialogue, conferencing and other associative activity. The initiative circle is committed to diversity and wholeness, encouraging both individual contribution and “consciousness of the field of the group.” are a professional business that provides top-notch services to our clients. Our team is composed of highly skilled and experienced professionals who are dedicated to delivering the best solutions to our clients. We specialize in various areas such as consultancy, project management, and training. Our goal is to help our clients achieve their objectives and succeed in their respective industries.
Rudolf Steiner
Berlin; November 23, 1905
People who work together in a brother/sisterhood are magicians because they draw higher beings into their circle. One no longer has to witness the machinations of spiritism when one works out of brotherly/sisterly love in a community. Higher beings do manifest themselves there.When we give ourselves over to brother/sister-hood, this giving, this merging into the totality, is a steeling, a strengthening of our organs.When we then act or speak as members of such a community,
it is not the single soul that acts or speaks in us, but the spirit of the community.
It is an express intention among many biography workers/facilitators and social artists to actively associate with one another, particularly through circle formation. Knowing that wholeness is found in diversity, we continue to seek to respond to the call of our time with clarity of purpose: by embracing individual contributions and by developing new perspectives on community.
Guidelines for Forming and Sustaining Circles for Biography Workers / Facilitators are below.
The Initiative Circle is
Please feel free to contact us: eileen.jonesVT@gmail.com
The Initiative Circle would like to grow, with respect to the interests of those who become involved.
All are welcome!
With this initiative, we hope to champion the central role research itself plays in our field. The intention is to support ever deeper insight and ever clearer articulation of that which our beautiful, warm, soul-spiritual practices stand upon.
Spiritual or esoteric science, as communicated by Rudolf Steiner, is the vital underpinning of every general reference to “biography” within anthroposophical understanding. You can read more about the role of research within the School of Spiritual Science, and the special place held for the human being in the General Section of the Anthroposophical Society at:
https://allgemeine-sektion.goetheanum.ch/en/the-section
For more information, contact Leah: biographyworker@gmail.com
The phrase "autonomy in association" is coined from the following passage --
When societies arise, this should come about according to the purpose of the fifth post-Atlantean period, in such a way that the human beings who are united in these societies are the main thing, with the purpose of achieving what can follow from the dealings of these actual people, with one another. If this is realized, truly individual results will be achieved. But what is usually done today? The first thing is that statutes are drawn up. That may all be very good, it may indeed be necessary, because outer circumstances demand statutes. But in our field, we should be quite clear that all talk about programs
and statutes is only a concession to the world, and that the important thing must be the individual life together,
what follows from these actual people. Mutual understanding is the decisive thing.
-- Rudolf Steiner, Zurich; October 10, 1916
“… the important thing is the individual life together”—autonomy in association.
And will go directly to those in need of financial support to attend the conference. Thank you!
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