Enriching Teacher Training & Adult Education
As a leader in contemporary Steiner teacher training in Australia, Sydney Rudolf Steiner College has been preparing teachers for a fulfilling career in Steiner education since 1980 and offers a diverse range of courses that are nourishing, unique and relevant to our time.
Upcoming Courses & Events
New Courses coming Soon!
There are a number of new courses that will be opening for enrolment soon, and we’d like you to be the first to know.
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High School Teaching
Biodynamic Gardening and Nutrition
Primary Teaching
Family Daycare Courses
Nurturing Early Childhood
Storytelling and Painting Workshop
Join Meg Quinlisk and Julia Byrne for a workshop on the art of storytelling. This storytelling workshop aims to give courage to would-be storytellers to bring tales to life for their own children, the children in their care, friends, or even a group of strangers! We will discover tips for remembering stories, creating our own story lines, and using stories therapeutically to heal our own hurts or to help our children through difficult patches.
We will also deepen the creative process of storytelling through wet-on-wet watercolour painting, to explore and discover an understanding of the mood and character of colour in relation to creating a story visually.
For parents, grandparents, carers, playgroup leaders and aspiring teachers.
Saturday 3 June
$160 (incl GST)
Venue: Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Castlecrag
Group Bookings welcome!
Nurturing Early Childhood
All welcome – parents, teachers and aspiring teachers. Join us for a fun and creative workshop in wet felting. We will explore how to embrace and enhance creativity into your daily and weekly rhythm while we craft a pumpkin house for little mouse.
Saturday 29 April
$160 (incl GST)
The Art of Caring:
Caring for Children under Three
A short course delivered over two weekends that explores the manifold tasks and gestures of caregiving for children under three, preparing the groundwork beginning before birth. It offers guidance to parents and especially those employed to look after babies from birth to three.
29/30 July and 19/20 Aug
$375 (incl GST) per weekend
Life Phases: Holistic Biography Work
Led by Biography Work experts, Karl-Heinz Finke and Laura Summerfield, this self-paced online course invites students to explore their individual life stories; to learn about life phases, archetypes, and the development of the human journey, with an introduction to Anthroposophy.
Begins Tuesday 9 May
$198 (incl GST)
For Parents, Carers, Playgroup leaders and aspiring Teachers.
Join us in Sydney for creative workshops in Early Childhood.
Learn about creating healthy rhythms in the home and education environments, with talks on Steiner early childhood. Nourish your creativity with craft activities such as clay modelling, wet felting, wet-on-wet painting, storytelling, dollmaking and Eurythmy.
13 – 17 April
Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Castlecrag NSW
We invite all new, aspiring and experienced teachers of the Primary and High School years to join us for the Autumn Seminar this April for a series of inspiring lectures and an immersion in the Arts, Bothmer Gym and Creative Speech.
The workshops are available to enrol as stand-alone modules and are also highly recommended for individuals or parents that are providing home-schooling for children in the Primary or High School years.
Our annual courses offer a comprehensive Steiner teacher training that supports the whole human being through a combination of distance learning and in-person seminars, led by highly experienced and internationally regarded lecturers from Australia and around the world.
“I found the course content and delivery to be incredibly well structured, relevant and simply beautiful! My expectations were far exceeded and I am even more glad to have started this journey of bringing Steiner education to the world through my own values and passion.” – PTF Student 2023
“This is an extremely worthwhile investment. I have taught in mainstream kindergarten for 3 years and transitioned to Steiner education. I have learned and gained a deeper insight as my purpose as an educator and who the child is.” ECF Student, 2022
“Outstanding. In every respect. Exceeded my expectations. The standard of lecturing was extremely high.” – HSF Student 2022
“Our highest endeavour must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives.”
– Marie Steiner von Sivers –
Student Testimonial
Genevieve recently completed her second year Certificate in Steiner Primary Teaching and shares her experience learning through Sydney Rudolf Steiner College. Thank you Genevieve for your kind and inspiring words.
Accessible Teacher Training
We are conscious of the importance in establishing a direct relationship with the world, with nature and with other human beings. It is for this reason that the College has established a programme to offer a balance in this technological age, to support distance learning, while ensuring that the human element and sense of community is maintained.
Teachers and schools around the country can now participate in collaborative TEACHER TRAINING HUBS located in their own school or region. This allows for sharing of resources, an enriched learning experience and the opportunity for schools to deepen their understanding of Steiner education within their own teaching faculty.
Windows into the Wisdom of Waldorf
Get a glimpse of some of our tutors at work in this introductory series on Steiner education and Anthroposophy.
~ An Introduction with Sven Saar
~ Insights into Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education with Ben Cherry
~ How do Children Learn? with Kath McFarlane
~ Understanding your Temperament with Lisa Devine
~ Importance of the Development of Touch with Emma Ratcliff
~ Blackboard Drawing with Raphaela Mazzone
What is Anthroposophy?
Sven Saar, an excerpt from “An Introduction to Anthroposophy” 2022
Windows into the Wisdom of Waldorf
Get a glimpse of some of our tutors at work in this introductory series on Steiner education and Anthroposophy.
~ An Introduction with Sven Saar
~ Insights into Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education with Ben Cherry
~ How do Children Learn? with Kath McFarlane
~ Understanding your Temperament with Lisa Devine
~ Importance of the Development of Touch with Emma Ratcliff
~ Blackboard Drawing with Raphaela Mazzone
Ben Cherry, an excerpt from “Insights into Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education” 2022
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Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where the College is located, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. We also pay our respects to all other First Nations people.
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