Who We Are
For over twenty years the Association
for a Healing Education has served as an agent of change in the
culture of education for children with individual needs. It has
acted as a "listening ear" to the needs and questions
of classroom teachers, parents, and therapists who are involved
with providing care for the child of today. Our main work is
with children in regular classrooms who, faced with the
challenges of their destiny and the world environment, often
require some help for a time. Our intent is to help caregivers
provide right practices in education, therapy and medicine
through a deeper understanding of child development and
hindrances to that development. We also serve as a bridge to
the Camphill movement for Curative Education.
What We Do
The Association provides the
following services:
Workshops and lecture
presentations
Remedial Teacher
Development programs
Bi-annual newsletter
Care Group Manual
Activity books for
teachers and parents
Workshops for parents
School or individual
consulting services
If you are interested in these
services, please contact us. We are a non-profit organization
and rely on memberships, gifts and volunteers to complete our
work. Membership is open to everyone and includes the
newsletter, notification of conferences and discounts on
conferences and publications.
"Our rightful place as educators is to
be removers of hindrances.
“...Each child in every age
brings something new into the world from divine regions, and it
is our task as educators to remove bodily and psychical
obstacles out of its way; to remove hindrances so that his
spirit may enter in full freedom into life. These then must be
regarded as the three golden rules of the art of education,
rules which must imbue the teacher's whole attitude and all the
impulse of his work. The golden rules which must be embraced by
the teacher's whole being, not held as theory, are: reverent
gratitude to the world in the person of the child which we
contemplate every day, for the child presents a problem set us
by divine worlds: Thankfulness to the universe. Love for what
we have to do with the child. Respect for the freedom of the
child — a freedom we must not endanger; for it is to this
freedom we educate the child, that he may stand in freedom in
the world at our side. ...If we realise the full import
of this we shall say to ourselves: the main task of the teacher
or educator is to bring up the body to be as healthy as it
possibly can be; this means, to use every spiritual measure to
ensure that in later life a man's body shall give the least
possible hindrance to the will of his spirit. If we make this
our purpose in school we can develop the powers which lead to
an education for freedom.”
Rudolf Steiner, “Spiritual Ground of
Education”, Lecture 4
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