Antioch University New England 

Waldorf Administration and Leadership Development

The response to our recently announced learning opportunity has been amazing and we're happy to be able to announce more details regarding Waldorf Administration and Leadership Development.
Morning Presentations by Torin Finser
  1. Role Clarity in light of Waldorf School Governance and Organizational Dynamics

     

  2. Strategic Leadership vs tactical decision making:  alignment of accountability, authority and responsibility in the context of a threefold model

     

  3. Agreements, including personal conduct, the importance of process and policy development, individual freedom vs. group accountability...HR issues (facing in)

     

  4. Entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, enrollment and community development (facing out)

     

  5. Collaborative Leadership and the search for common ground/consensus


Focus Area Workshops

  • Threefolding, from theory to practice
  • Basic HR best practices and most common errors
  • Financial management for non finance leaders
  • Group dynamics and process
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Parent relations
  • Developing a donor circle and philanthropy
  • Addressing biographical issues toward emotional health
  • Shared principles and core principles at the heart of Waldorf Education
  • Strategic planning and school development
  • Diversity and inclusion, cultural, religious, gender and orientation issues
  • Having that difficult conversation
  • Accessibility
  • Dynamics in the history of American education
  • Case studies


 

Please note that the Renewal course offered July 5-10 will focus on Communication and Conflict Resolution
Late Afternoon Sessions

Participants will have two afternoon session on each of the following:

  1. Applied Anthroposophy -  methods for understanding and working with governance and leadership issues

     

  2. Color Exercises for personal and group development

Our Daily Schedule

8:30  Morning opening & review

8:45  Eurythmy in the Workplace - exercises that support learning

10:55 Morning Presentation - see list

10:30 Break

11:00 Focus Area Workshops - see list

12:30 lunch

1:45   Focus Area Workshops  - see list

3:00  Break

3:15   Applied Anthroposophy/Color Exercises - two days for each

4:30  Eurythmy in the workplace, ending at 5:30


 

Note: Friday evening and Wed morning are partial days with different schedule. See 
below for start and end times.

 

Faculty and Mentors will include:
  • Torin Finser, Program Director
  • Lisa Mahar, Program Advisor
  • Laura Thomas, Administrator

Potential Adjuncts and Mentors

  • Lisa Mahar, Lead Administrator at Monadnock Waldorf School.  
  • Rea Gill, Director, High Mowing School
  • Elizabeth Nugent, School Chair, Cedarwood Waldorf School
  • Milan Daler, Administrator Center for Anthroposophy
  • John Cunningham, Social Artist
  • Leonore Russell, Consultant, Eurthymy in the Workplace
  • Barbara Richardson, Foundation Studies Coordinator,  Center for Anthroposophy & Eurthymy in the Workplace
  • Tim Connolly, Consultant & Former Waldorf Teacher & Administrator
  • Karine Munk Finser, Antioch University New England Teaching Faculty, Center for Anthroposophy Renewal Courses Coordinator
  • Jocelyn Romero Demirbag, Administrator Haleakala Waldorf School
  • Deb Abrahams-Dematte, Development Director Anthroposophical Society
  • Ted Curtin, Waldorf Teacher & Faculty Leader, Cape Cod Waldorf School
  • Caleb Buckley, Administrator, San Francisco Waldorf School; Former Administrator, Yuba Valley Charter School
  • Donna Newberg-Long, Experienced Waldorf Teacher & Advisor
  • Judy Lucas, Administrator Denver Waldorf School
  • Christine Sloan, Administrator at the Merriconeag Waldorf School
  • Beverly Amico, Leader of Outreach and Development for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America

The schedule:
 Onsite Intensive: April 10-15, 2015, Antioch, Keene, NH
Summer 2015- Renewal Course of your choice
Fall/ Winter 2015-2016- Online mentoring and coursework
 Second Onsite Intensive: April 2016, Antioch, Keene, NH

 
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