Author: Jessica La Grange

Lisa Devine originally trained as a youth worker and worked with homeless young people. After completing her Masters in Psychology, she specialized in work with conflict situations and trauma. She also followed her lifelong love of dance and trained to become a Eurythmist. For the last fifteen years she has worked as a priest in…

Lesley Carlton began her Steiner connections as the Kindergarten teacher at Glenaeon Steiner School where she served for 17 years. Lesley attended the Wynstones Steiner training college in England for 1 year during her sabbatical, returning in 1985 to initiate the Vital Years Conference for Australian Early Childhood Teachers that still runs today. Lesley now…

Working as a Psychologist in Australia for 15 years, counselling all ages, Laura now provides student support, creates resources and co-facilitates courses for Holistic Biography Work. Laura has post-graduate qualifications in Education, including a Masters in Steiner Education (UNE, 1998). Laura has a strong interest in personal transformation and the arts. In 2007 Laura completed…

Dr. Konrad Korobacz is an educationist and education researcher. His interests include educational philosophy, place conscious education, Paleo-archaeology and the evolution of consciousness, painting, sculpture, history and art history. Konrad commenced teaching at Lorien Novalis in 1973 and was the founding teacher and founding Director of Teaching at Shearwater The Mullumbimby Steiner School. Konrad is…

Having attended Michael Mount Waldorf School in Johannesburg, Kathy went on to join the South Africa Ballet Company before attending Emerson College. In 1988 she began teaching at Titirangi Steiner School in Aukland, where she still teaches today, and in 2006 started coordinating the Steiner Teacher EDE qualification at AUT University and Taruna College in…

Katherine Arconati is currently teaching Year 7 at Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School where she has carried her class on the journey from Class One. She is also the Faculty Coordinator and teaches mathematics in Years 7 and 8. Katherine has taught as a mathematics specialist in the high school at Glenaeon and previously at the…

An experienced Teacher of Biography Work worldwide, active since 1998. Karl-Heinz Finke has graduates from 22 three-year Training Programs in Biographical Consultancy, with another 8 trainings currently in progress, including Online. Has studied Adult Education, Anthroposophy, Psychology, Psychotherapy and Social Sciences. His teachers included: Gudrun Burkhard, Coenraad van Houten and Helmut ten Seithoff. His own…

Jamie York is an internationally respected Waldorf math consultant and lead author of Making Math Meaningful™ books. Jamie was born in Maine, went to public school in Connecticut, received two computer science degrees, and then began teaching math in 1985 at a boarding school in New Hampshire. In 1994, after spending two years in Nepal…

James Goodlet has worked in the Education sector since 1991 and in 2020 was appointed as Head of School for Shearwater Steiner School in Mullumbimby. His first involvement with Steiner Education was as a parent in 1996, later becoming involved as a Board member and then as a teacher from 2007. James completed a Class…

James Deefholts is a qualified primary school teacher with over 15 years’ experience, specialising in Rudolf Steiner Education. He holds a Bachelor of Education from UNE and completed his Steiner teacher training at Sydney Rudolf Steiner College in 2002. James has concluded two cycles of class teaching (classes 1-6) and is currently completing his third….

Dr. Fiona Campbell is a professional artist, lecturer and researcher. Trained at Emerson College and Tobias School of Art, she has been teaching in Steiner adult education for over 25 years and has a deep knowledge of the foundations of Anthroposophy and Spiritual Science. She specialises in evolving human consciousness, creative cognition, phenomenology and visual…

Emma Ratcliff is an occupational therapist working in private practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Emma has been involved with professional development for Waldorf schools and early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand, China, Vietnam and Hong Kong. She works with adults and children who have sensory processing, coordination and learning challenges and has worked alongside…

Ebba Bodame has worked with Steiner Early Childhood Education for more than 30 years. She has taught at Glenaeon Steiner school for the past 19 years and provides workshops and talks in Sydney and throughout Australia, lecturing on Teacher training and Early Childhood courses. A wonderfully wise woman with decades of experience with playgroups and…

For more than 35 years Diane Tatum has worked extensively with Steiner’s meditations in the context of being a teacher, performing artist and Learning Support specialist. Through daily interaction and interplay with Steiner’s path of inner development, Diane has found the practices to be rich with deep meaning, bearing the power to transform all aspects…

As a senior teacher at Glenaeon Steiner School and Regional Representative for SECA NSW, Catherine has worked with all ages and brings a depth of knowledge of Steiner’s picture of child development and care of the young child.