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• Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certification Program OPEN ENROLLMENT

  • Start
    24 Feb 2026
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    20 Nov 2026
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    1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online Application

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  We are excited to announce that we are now accepting Applications for the 2-Year Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certification Program (APCP) beginning October 9, 2026.

  Upon receipt and confirmation of your Application fee payment, you will be sent an email with a link to the Application.  Please complete this Application and email it to:   admin@anthroposophicpsychology.org with a copy to APCPFaculty@GoogleGroups.com, as noted on the Application.

  Your Application will be reviewed by Faculty before acceptance.  If accepted to the program, your Application fee will be applied towards your tuition.

  For more information about the 2-Year program and to review the pre-requisite requirements, please visit:  2-Year Certificate APCP 2026

  Counselors AdVenture (CAV) delivers the programs of the Association for Anthroposophic Psychology (AAP).  In a gesture of good-will to other mission-related organizations, CAV may also alert you to their offerings when the content is related to the mission of AAP.

  

  Here is a preview of some of the questions on our Application for the AAP Program:
  Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certification Program (APCP)
  (an Educational Program¹)

  Starting Dates for Module #1: October 9th – October 11th, 2026

  We ask for demographic information, licensure information, and acknowledgement of various aspects of the program. We also would like to hear more about you and your professional practice.

  Please paste the URL for a webpage where your license status can be verified:

  Please list the 3-year program in Anthroposophic Psychology or Anthroposophic Psychotherapy which you have completed, along with the name of the institution providing the program and the years attended. Example: AAP 3-Year Certificate Program in Anthroposophic Psychology, CA Cohort, 2014-2017:

  If you completed an IFAPA-approved program through IPMTs, please attach the curriculum of the IPMTs that you attended to the email when you submit this application.

  Did you complete a capstone project or research paper during your 3-year training in Anthroposophic Psychology, or in your IFAPA-approved program? If so, please give the year and title:

  Please attach your capstone project or research paper (if any) to the email when you submit this application.

  For the following questions, please use as much space as needed.

  Professional degrees and/or certifications with name of institution and year:

  Please share with us the various modalities of therapy and/or schools of therapy which influence your own practice. Be sure to mention any modalities and styles which you have training or experience in or anticipate developing:

  Please share more about your therapeutic practice. Do you specialize in certain types of clients, certain modalities, or in the treatment of certain types of disorders? Do you see clients of all ages? Do you engage in group therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, or other modalities? List any psychotherapeutic trainings and styles you have learned or anticipate learning.

  Please share with us what you are most interested in learning or experiencing as part of your participation in the Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certificate Program:

  Please tell us about any modalities or specific areas of expertise which you might like to share with the cohort during our time together:

  
  

  ¹Friendly Disclaimer: Please note that the Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certificate Program is set up as an in-depth schooling in spiritual, or esoteric psychology. The program is an educational schooling. While self-development and mental health are comprehensively addressed conceptually, and through experiential activities, the program is NOT designed to be a group therapy experience nor a full training in psychotherapy. One cannot achieve a professional ethical standing as an anthroposophic psychotherapist/counselor without a creditable licensure in a designated mental health discipline plus a comprehensive schooling in anthroposophic psychotherapy. Lastly, the program supplements conventional academic achievements. It does not grant a recognized licensure in mental health, psychotherapy, social work, psychology, or counseling.
  

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• Goetheanum Medical Section: Hidden Elements of the Case Studies

  • Start
    06 Jun 2026
  • End
    25 Oct 2026
  • Location
    Live Sessions

  

  Hidden Elements of the Case Studies

  A continued celebration of Steiner and Wegman's Book "Fundamentals of Therapy"

  

  
  

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  Dear colleagues, dear friends,

  
  

  We would like to remind you that the second online teaching presentation of this years case studies series will take place on Saturday, 6 June / Sunday, 7 June.

  
  

  All three online sessions are moderated by Adam Blanning, and will be paired with guest presenters and interdisciplinary small group discussions about the cases.

  Those who have registered for the first presentation will automatically receive the link to the second session a few days before the event.

  If you haven't attended the first session in April, recording is available on demand.

  Saturday, 4 April / Sunday, 5 April  (recording available)

  Special Focus on Curative Education, Case #4

  with Jan Goeschel, Leader of the Section for Inclusive Social Development

  
  

  Saturday, 6 June / Sunday, 7 June

  An Almost Forgotten Remedy - What are the Special Qualities of Melilotus? Case #3 with Christoph von Dach, Nurse

  
  

  Saturday, 24 October / Sunday, 25 October

  How Can These Cases Inspire our Work Today? A World Conversation Where We Share Our Idea (Plus Some Fairy Tales)

  
  

  Anyone who is working with patients is welcome to take part!

  
  

  The main meeting language will be English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish and Mandarin.

  
  

  We look forward to welcoming you!

  Adam Blanning MD

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• "Breath of Life - Life of Breath," presented by Laurie Portocarrero and Sibylle Eichstaedt

  • Start
    08 Jul 2026
  • End
    12 Jul 2026
  • Location
    Mettabee Farm and Arts, Hillsdale, NY

  For more information about registering, please email Laurie Portocarrero at:  laurieportostories@gmail.com
  

  

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• APCP 2-Year Psychotherapy Program Information Session #2

  • When
    30 Aug 2026
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    AAP Zoom Room

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  Please join APCP Faculty in a FREE Information Session about our upcoming 2-Year Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Certificate Program

  More information on the Program can be found HERE.

  

  Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation with the Zoom link.  Additional emails are scheduled.  If you do not wish to receive additional emails about this event, please select:  No - Not Attending.

  We also invite you to preview the 2022-2023 webinar recordings to the series "Explorations in Anthroposophic Psychotherapy," before the Information Session.  You can watch these recordings for FREE at our Online Store.

  
  

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• "Awakening in the Temple of Spirit: Orienting to our Spiritual Home," Goetheanum Conference for Psychotherapists

  • Start
    12 Sep 2026
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    9:00 AM
  • End
    15 Sep 2026
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    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Glashaus Building near the Goetheanum in Dornach

  
  Awakening in the Temple of Spirit:
  Orienting to our Spiritual Home

  A First Class Conference of the School of Spiritual Science
  for Professionals who work Psychotherapeutically
  
  

  September 12 (15:00) - September 15 (12:15), 2026
  Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland
  Blue Cards Required

  
  

  Once we have crossed the threshold into the spiritual world, we must orient ourselves to this new world, to this new form of existence. We must navigate many reversals. Where we were once passive recipients, we must now become active builders. Where we were once active out of our own self-will, we must now become receptive to the deeds and speech of the hierarchies. We stand on a vista encompassing both past and future, both subject and object, and must find our stance in the middle. From the middle space, the present-moment feeling ourselves within spirit, we begin to discover and explore our home in spirit. We meet our higher self and become both perceptive and active in this new world. We learn to stand on a spiritual foundation stone and perceive a world filled with the activity of many beings including the Gods who create the very foundation of our existence, our bodily nature. With true meditative forces, we create a temple which enables us to commune with spirit.

  Our First Class conference for psychotherapists will work with Class Lessons 10 and 11. These lessons do not speak directly of the guardian, but rather our “I” begins to orient itself in the spiritual world. Class Lesson 10 brings a 12-fold mantram which helps us orient to the experience of earth, stars, deeds of the spirits, and speech of the Gods, utilizing body-free thinking, feeling, and willing. In Class Lesson 11, we discover from a spiritual perspective with the help of our angel how our threefold physical form created by the Gods allows us to build a temple for our spirit, enabling us to be, to live, and to will.

  How does this new perspective, grounded in real spiritual experience and knowledge, impact us and our work with our fellow human beings? How can our newfound orientation in spirit contribute to healing for our clients? How can our knowledge of the temple of the body, created for us by the hierarchies, inform our healing work?

  The conference is participatory, with small group work. The conference will include Class Lessons, conversations, and eurythmy.

  Interested First Class members from healing professions are welcome to attend, especially psychotherapists and all professionals who work in a psychotherapeutic way with clients. Please bring your School of Spiritual Science blue card for admittance. The conference will be offered in the English language, with additional reading of the mantras in German.

  To receive further emails about this conference, and to register, please email the initiative group with your contact information at FCPsych@GoogleGroups.com. Your email is your registration; there is no online form. Please arrive on September 12, 2026, at 15:00 (3pm), with cash to support the conference.

  Warmly,

  Giovanna Bettini, Wolfgang Drescher, Jacqueline Gerbrands, Boris Krause, Susan Overhauser, Tatiana Pavlova, and Ursula Schöbel

  
  

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• International Annual Conference of the Medical Section at Goetheanum in Dornach

  • Start
    16 Sep 2026
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  • End
    20 Sep 2026
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  • Location
    The Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  
  

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  International Annual Conference

  
  

  Standing on the Abyss –

  Trauma, Development and Resilience

  
  

  16–20 September 2026

  at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Dear colleagues, dear friends,

  
  

  We are in a turbulent time with a feeling of many quickly-approaching thresholds. Change comes rapidly and in unexpected ways. Some shifts are a clear call for more wakefulness, part of the time of the consciousness soul. Other changes bring painful chaos, separation, trauma and loss – with the border between these two types of experiences not always clear.

  
  

  At our annual medical section conference, we will strive to create a protected space to explore both the wounds and scars that come with trauma, as well as gaining a deeper understanding of mostly unexpected developments in spiritual growth and new resilience.

  How can we interact with the world and our fellow human beings in a helpful and healing way during this time? What are we being called to do?

  
  

  A selection of planned lectures:

  • Trauma and Evil from an Anthroposophic Perspective | Nurit Rosengarten, Hanan Goldman

  • The Individualism and Trauma: 'The ethical view of the injured envelopes of the "I" | Oswald Hasselmann

  • Post-traumatic Growth and Resilience | Zheni Nasi, Adam Blanning

  
  

  A selection of working groups:
  
  

  • Cancer diagnosis as trauma – The physiological and spiritual Background of Cancer | Julia Babics, Zita Pogány

  • Addressing developmental trauma through eurythmy therapy | Mary Ruud

  • Practical approach to the treatment of acute stress reaction / disorder and PTSD | Meron Barak, Yoray Simatov

  
  

  We look forward to seeing you again or meeting you for the first time!

  
  

  Best greetings, on behalf of the preparation group

  Marion Debus, Karin Michael, Adam Blanning

  
  

  PDF Version of the Program:  CLICK HERE

  Register now!  CLICK HERE

  
  

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• Psychotherapy Specialist Conference organized by IFAPA during Goetheanum Annual Conference

  • Start
    16 Sep 2026
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  • End
    19 Sep 2026
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  • Location
    The Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

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  Psychotherapy Specialist Conference
  presented by IFAPA

  
  

  16–19 September 2026

  During the Annual Medical Section Conference
  at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  Dear Friends of Anthroposophic Psychology and Psychotherapy,

  As in years past, the International Federation of Anthroposophic Psychotherapy Associations (IFAPA), of which AAP is a member, is organizing a hybrid Psychotherapy Specialist Conference during the Annual Medical Section Conference in Dornach, which begins Wednesday, September 16 and ends Sunday, September 20, 2026.

  This year’s Medical Section Conference is dedicated entirely to trauma, as ever-present war and violence, both in real and virtual settings, increases and children are subject to physical and sexual abuse, including in online settings, where those tasked with guiding them may be dissociated because of their own use of social media in the presence of children.

  The hybrid conference is open to all, not only licensed professionals, and will take place as follows (all times CEST):

  Wednesday, September 16, 4:30 pm to 6 pm

  Opening of the Forum:

  • Future trauma-related disorders and pathophysiological consequences from parent/caregiver emotional and mental absence due to media use in the child’s presence with Hartmut Horn, MD, Germany
  • Early childhood traumatization—intergenerational impact of parental dissociation with Henriette Dekkers, Lic. Psychologist, Netherlands
  • The therapeutic process in serious early traumatized persons with Susan Overhauser, Lic. Psychologist, USA

  
  

  Thursday, September 17, 4:30 pm to 6 pm

  • Drug treatment and psychotherapy in traumatized schoolchildren in the Parzival-Center, Karlsruhe, Germany, with Hartmut Horn, MD
  • Medication and psychotherapeutic treatment in traumatized children in Norway and Estonia with Anne Daniel Karlsen, Estonia
  • Treatment of schoolchildren with social trauma with Swapna Narendra, MD, India

  
  

  Friday, September 18, 4:30 pm to 6 pm

  • On traumatizing influences upon adolescents in the social context with Lisa Devine, Lic. Psychologist, Australia
  • The impact of effective media education on the development of family systems with David Martin, MD, Germany

  
  Saturday, September 19, 4:30 pm to 6 pm

  • The Ukrainian presentation of the above quoted problems with Nairine Maltseva, Psychotherapist, and Yevhen Volchenko, MD, from Kiev, Ukraine
  • Love, hope and trust in a social cohesion with Vasuprada Kartic, Lic. Psychotherapist, India, and Giovanna Bettini, Lic. Psychotherapist, Italy
  • The Harvest of the Conference—Closure with Henriette Dekkers and Hartmut Horn

  
  This conference will be run in hybrid format, in English, with translations into Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, and German provided.

  Online participants need Zoom access and will receive a link to their respective language channel two days before the conference.

  If interested, you may register through AAP in the following steps:

  • Write a note to Rick Ruffin, AAP Secretary, at rruffin@leader.com, with your full name, licensed profession (if the case), e-mail address, the language channel you want to attend, and indicate your method of payment (directly to IFAPA or via PayPal).
    
    
  • Both routes are to the attention of IFAPA Treasurer Ellen Moses and should note that the payment is for the September 2026 Specialist Psychotherapy Conference.
    
    
  • Before September 5, fees are:
  • • 150€ for Europe/North America;
    • 110€ for Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, and New Zealand;
    • 90€ for India, Southeast Asia, Philippines, and Thailand; and
    • 40€ for Ukraine, South America, Romania, and Bulgaria.
  • Fees paid between September 6 and September 12 need to include an additional 10€.
    
    
  • Make PayPal payments to ifapaswiss2012@gmx.de and email the receipt to Ellen Moses at e.keller.61@gmail.com and Rick Ruffin at rruffin@leader.com.
    
    
  • Pay directly to IFAPA bank account as follows:

  Name of account: Internationaler Verband der Gesellschaften für Anthroposophische Psychotherapie
  Address: Rüttiweg 45, 4143 Dornach, CH
  Bank: Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank BLKB
  Rheinstrasse 7
  4410 Liestal
  IBAN: CH 71 0076 9434647462001
  Konto/Depotnumber: 4346.4746.2001
  Clearing Nr. 769 (similar sort number)
  BIC/SWIFT BLKBCH22

  Receipts of payment will be mailed to participants upon request. Certificates of participation will be provided for licensed professionals. The lectures will be recorded and will remain available for approximately two weeks after the closing of the conference.

  Note that this form of registration is only for the hybrid conference. Registration for in-person attendance takes place through the Goetheanum at this LINK.

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• Goetheanum Medical Section CALM-LD: Training for Medical Doctors, Therapists and Caregivers

  • When
    30 Sep 2026
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  • Location
    The Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland

  
  

  
  

  CALM-LD: Training for Medical Doctors, Therapists and Caregivers

  
  

  In-Person (Dornach and the UK) and online,
  starts 30 September 2026 (in English)

  
  

  

  Dear colleagues,
  
  

  CALM-LD stands for Children & Adults with Lifelong Multiple & Profound Learning Disabilities.

  
  An international, anthroposophic, multidisciplinary initiative in Therapeutic Education and Social Therapy, it is carried by the Medical Section and the Section for Inclusive Social Development at the Goetheanum bringing together research, practice, and collaboration.

  
  This 2.5 year international advanced training program supports anthroposophic doctors and therapists in deepening their diagnostic, therapeutic, and relational capacities when working with children, adults, and older adults with complex needs.

  
  Those who are working within a therapeutic team and involved in the therapeutic process may also benefit from this training which will enhance their understanding of, and ability to participate in the therapeutic process.

  The course integrates an Anthroposophic understanding of human development, therapeutic education, contemplative practice, artistic and movement therapies, and conventional medical insights.

  
  You can find the program’s aims, the curriculum, and general information on the Goetheanum website.

  
  On behalf of the Section for Inclusive Social Development, the Medical Section, the entire organizing team and faculty

  Jan Göschel, Karin Michael

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• Rome & Sicily Odyssey Journey with Gillian Schoemaker (AAP Adjunct Faculty)

  • Start
    16 Oct 2026
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  • End
    31 Oct 2026
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  • Location
    Rome & Sicily

  You are invited to this special event co-hosted by Gillian Schoemaker (AAP Adjunct Faculty).  For more information about registering, please email Gillian at:  gillianschoemaker@gmail.com
  

  
  

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