New workshop series!

You're invited!

Beginning Friday, September 25th, we will be offering a weekly workshop series - Join us online, in our studio, for an hour of conversation and exploration. 

This series is idea for home educators, class teachers & teacher-trainees...but really, anyone looking to deepen their understanding of waldorf pedagogy is welcome!

Guaranteed to be casual (because we're not capable of being anything else), we invite you to bring a notebook, a steaming mug, and your questions!
 

Example Topics

* Form-drawing & Geometry - how to build a living picture of numbers. We'll look at how form drawing prepares children for academic learning. Journey from straight line, curved line all the way to platonic solids!

* Rainbow to Black & White - Art from childhood to adolescence. How do children develop as artists? How does the Waldorf art curriculum meet the developing child? We'll look at the temperaments as they relate to painting/drawing. Inward and outward gestures in Waldorf art.

Why so generous?

For three years now, the question in the back of our minds has always been "how can we make our Waldorfish resources affordable for EVERYONE (and yet still earn a living at the same time)?"  We have always operated our business in a style modeled after the idea of Sacred Commerce -- an idea which posits that business can be a center for personal transformation as well as a source of right livelihood.

When we started planning this online workshop series, it wasn't too big of a leap for us to decide on a pay-what-you-can fee structure.

Really. We mean it.  You decide what you can afford.

For those who have asked for minimum donation guidelines, let's say $5 per workshop. If you can afford to donate more than that, you are helping to make this resource available to someone who cannot. *If you cannot afford the minimum donation, please still attend! 

Our goal is for this to be accessible to everyone!

xoxo-Robyn & Brian

Part 4 of 4 is now available!

Oh how our hearts glow when we see folks using our tutorials to expand what they previously thought possible!! That's what this work is about for both Brian and me...We want to help people EXPAND! For some folks, art is a road block....a mental block... "Oh I can't do that"...we hear it all the time. We have created all of our tutorials to help people find their way out of that murky forest of self doubt...so they can bring the curriculum to their class and children with ✨joy✨and confidence.

The final part of our Block Crayon Tutorial series is now available for purchase! 

This purchase includes: 2 videos and one PDF guide + over 30 sample Main Lesson Book pages ("real life" examples from the topics discussed in the video tutorial). 

Skills covered in the video include:

1. Simple thick borders
2. Thick borders with rounded edges
3. Shaded borders of one color
4. Shaded borders with two color layers
5. Shaded border with three color layers
6. Thick borders with two distinct colors
7. Borders with form drawing
8. Thin borders with two distinct colors
9. Borders with two colors and mirror image forms
10. Complex borders with two colors, mirror images, shading & blending
11. Borders that integrate the curriculum theme

Click image to purchase this and other tutorials.

The latest news...

Ni Hau!
Greetings from Shenzhen....

We were incredibly blessed with an opportunity to have Brian travel to China this summer, where he has been working with teachers, parents and students affiliated with the Wuben Waldorf Training Campus. We are both still trying to find the words to explain the joy we're experiencing in seeing the Waldorf impulse coming alive in the East. Something Brian said to me over the phone today just begins to capture it, I think....

"I don't think this is as much about what I'm learning, rather more about what I'm unlearning..."  

Magic. 

Brian started his trip by leading a 2-day parent workshop in Art and Movement/Games for parents new to Waldorf education and philosophies. The workshop was followed by a week-long camp in the countryside for children ranging in age from 4-12! His trip will end with another 2-day workshop, this one for teachers from around Shenzhen. We're looking forward to continuing our relationship with the Wuben Training Center, and seeing their evolution over the next few years.

In other news, our friends at Living Music in the Home have generously given us a 50% off discount code to share with you! FISH50 is valid for anything in their store, but only through Sunday 8/23 at 11:59pm EST. LMIH is a Waldorf-inspired resource for parents and teachers who wish to share the joy of music with their children and students. Dan & Michelle Prindle provide on-line musical training for adults so they can nourish a culture of music in their homes and classrooms. It's been a big year for the Prindles...Michelle finished her Early Childhood training, they released their new Foundations of Music e-course, and they are now awaiting the birth of their third child...any day! Click the image below to use your 50% off code:

It's been an exciting year for us too, and we're grateful. The Waldorfish community continues to grow, which means new and exciting opportunities to travel and teach. Let us know how we can help you and your school community!

Blessings,
Robyn (& Brian, in China ;)

PS. The 4th video in our block crayon tutorial series was released this week!

Play hard, sleep hard....and repeat.

(The most) important work is happening this week while we're on vacation. Much love from the Nepisiguit Bay!

xoxo - Robyn & Brian