About the Training

Location: Puerto Princesa, Palawan
Venue: TBA

This intensive training offers an introduction to holistic and Waldorf-inspired approaches to childhood, learning, and human development. Through lectures, artistic activities, storytelling, observation, and reflective exercises, participants are invited into a meaningful journey of personal growth and educational understanding.

Throughout the week, the program explores child development, creativity, rhythm, movement, imagination, and the role of the adult in nurturing healthy early childhood experiences.

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Save the dates for upcoming three-part series:

MODULE 1: October 5-10, 2026
MODULE 2: November 4-9, 2026
MODULE 3: May 9-14, 2027 (subject to change)

Daily Rhythm

Participants are encouraged to arrive by 8:00 AM to settle into the space before the day begins.

Time	Activity
08:45 – 09:15	Singing, Verse & Echoes of the Night
09:15 – 10:30	Lecture
10:30 – 10:45	Morning Break
10:45 – 12:00	Lecture
12:00 – 01:00	Lunch
01:00 – 03:30	Arts & Crafts
03:30 – 03:45	Afternoon Break
03:45 – 05:00	Lecture, Q&A, Verse & Closing

A single rest day will be scheduled within the training week.

LESSON OVERVIEW

• 1.The Human Being

  • Expanded Image of the Human Being 

  • The "I" - Waking and Sleeping (Dreaming) 

  • Birth & Death

  • The Pedagogical Law

  • Exercise: Backward Review of the Day

• 2. The Young Child

  • Child Development: 7-Year Epochs;

  • Growing Down-Waking Up Process; Willing-Feeling-Thinking; Twelve Senses From Growth Forces to Forces of Thinking, Memory & Feeling

  • Metamorphosis and Transformation of the Lower, Middle & Higher Senses Biography Work; Writing one's Biography Journal

• 3. Heredity and Individuality

  • Two Streams of Heredity and Individuality

  • Conception, Pregnancy, Birth

  • Reshaping the Inherited Body: Fever & How to Manage it; Childhood Illnesses

• 4. The Three Systems of the Human Being

  • Head Nerve-Middle-Metabolic Limb Systems Nutrition & Health

  • The Weaning Process

  • Benefits of and Applying Warm Compress

• 5. The Dreamy Consciousness of the Young Child

  • Imitation & the Adult as Model or Good Example

  • Walking, Talking, Thinking

  • Rhythm & Repetition

  • Creative Discipline

  • Will and Movement

  • Introduction to Morning Circle (Theme, Verses/Rhymes, Songs)

• 6. Fantasy and Imagination

  • Play; Self-directed/Free play 

  • Appropriate Toys

  • Storytelling

  • Domestic Arts

  • Extra Lesson

• 7. Evolution of the Earth and Humanity

  • Spiritual Science & Natural Science: Origin of the Nature of the Human Being; Macrocosm & Microcosm

• 8. Cultural Epochs & the Consciousness of the Developing Child

  • Post-Atlantean Cultural Epochs; the Child's Changing Consciousness; the Waldorf Curriculum & Methodology

• 9. The Fairytales

  • Appropriate Stories for the Young Child 

  • Wisdom and Archetypes of Fairytales 

  • Making One's Own Story

• 10. Earthly Atmosphere

  • Seasons and cycle of the year

  • Celebrating Festivals (including Birthday) 

  • The Nature Table

• 11. Self-Development of the Adult

  • Adversary Forces

  • Seven Conditions

  • Six Subsidiary Exercises

  • Verses for the Days of the Week

  • Child Observation and Child Study

• 12. Constitutional Types, Temperaments and Soul Types

  • 6 Constitutional Types

  • 4 Temperaments

  • 7 Soul Types

• 13. Setting up a Steiner Waldorf Initiative

  • Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophical Initiatives

  • 9 Essentials of a Steiner Waldorf Kindergarten

  • Protocols - Steiner Waldorf Education in the Philippines 

  • Working Together

• 14. Brain Development, Children's Drawings, Grade School Readiness

• 15. Circle-time and Storytelling Demonstration by Participants

• 16. Arts/Crafts/Others

  • Singing 

  • Eurythmy

  • Introduction to-

  • Pentatonic music & Mood of the Fifth

  • Recorder-playing

  • Form-drawing

  • Wet on wet painting

  • Clay modeling

  • Puppet/doll making

  • Storytelling

  • Circletime

  • Biography work 

  • Extra Lesson