Caring for Health
Health Practitioners Supporting Communities and Families
Age-appropriate offerings provided to children and adults to care for body, soul and spirit.
The focus is on health practises that enliven and contribute to dynamic participation with life.
Home Health Care
‘Home health care’ are practises offered by a caregiver at home for supporting oneself, children and family members to become well. Home health care is used to prevent illness as well as to care for acute and chronic illness.
Developing the Self Developing the World contributing health practitioners offer experiential workshops and online articles towards establishing home health care practices.
Instructions
For workshops in Australia please email Louise Stewart
For workshops in USA please email Sarah Mecca
Therapeutics
Therapies are professional services for strengthening health and overcoming illness. The practitioner takes a person’s case then prescribes and implements a therapy based on their assessment of the case.
Developing the Self Developing the World professional health practitioners contribute to child observations and child studies with educators. We help to facilitate child studies based on the seeds of a Spirit-led Life, working from the basis of Lisa Romero’s EduCareDo lesson “Wonder, Positive Social Connection and Virtue”.
To connect with a practitioner for a private consultation or for therapeutic care in schools in Australia please email Louise Stewart
To connect with a practitioner for a private consultation or for therapeutic care in schools in the USA please email Sarah Mecca
Mantles of Care – Self Care
Mantles of Care has evolved out of health practitioners coming together to contribute to Developing the Self Developing the World and recognising that therapeutic outcomes are enhanced greatly when daily hygiene is practiced consciously.
Hygiene practices that in the past were handed down have dropped away from home and school life. The fast-pace of life and the quality of fibres, food, colour, light and all that is part of our environment are, in our times, becoming lifeless shells. In taking for granted the gifts from nature that live with us through our life, they become outer forms, without life and nutritional qualities for healing.
As an adult we can be active in our inner life in such a way that we can stand in chaos and bear it. We may also possibly be able to transform the environment and receive nourishment from it. Since 2020 we have begun to recognise a subtle but profound loss in the understanding and care of daily hygiene practices available to children. The archetypes that have supported the human beings health are slipping away. These archetypes are a required condition for future esoteric training.1
The intention and the activity of Mantles of Care is to consciously apply oneself in ways that brings life to daily hygienic practises such as cleansing the skin. It offers a reverent space for enlivenment and nourishment. We experience that Mantles of Care brings movement towards health and prepares the way for further therapeutics and home care when still required.
Care in the Classroom and Community
Mantles of Care is offered to class groups as part of the curriculum, and also outside of the classroom to children and adults. Professional development and mentoring is available to integrate Mantles of Care into the health and wellbeing curriculum and maintain a culture of care throughout the community.
To begin a conversation about Mantles of Care please contact Lyn Clifton.
“There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the Body of the human being. Nothing is holier than this high form, Bending before a human is reverence done to this Revelation in the Flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hands on a human body.” – Novalis
Coming up…
Recent Offerings
- The first condition of esoteric training is to care for bodily and spiritual health. Lecture by Lisa Romero 2022
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Rudolf Steiner ↩︎