Awaken Living Thinking with Michael D’Aleo

A Transformative Waldorf Teacher Training with Michael D’Aleo

Join Michael D’Aleo, educator, scientist, and pioneer of Teaching Sensible Science, for a six day immersion into Living Thinking, perceptive awareness, and the art of teaching middle school science the Waldorf way.

The sciences in education are unique in their opportunity to develop a conscious awareness between perceiving and thinking. At an age of growing sense of self, how can we use the sciences to become aware beyond the self and more fully awaken to the living relationships that are experienced truthfully around us? Through a combination of living experiences and guided discussion, each teacher will become more awake to the world around us and also in the need and means to cultivate such awareness in the students in our classes.

Full Schedule

Cultivating Living Thinking and Perceptive Activity
10:45 to 12:00pm
How can we activate our perceptive activity, so that we can immersively attend to the processes of transformation surrounding us and discover the patterns and relationships therein with living thinking?

Movement
12:00 to 1:00pm
Movement practices to support our explorations

Teaching Middle School Science
2:00 to 4:30pm
Michael will guide participants through a thread of connected experiences and demonstrations of the Waldorf middle school science curriculum from grades 6-8, which will reveal both the method of bringing this material alive for students, as well as the key insights that the curriculum makes available to students and adults alike.

“This training is not just about what to teach—but how to think as an educator.” —Michael D’Aleo

Coffee, tea, and generous snacks will be provided throughout the day. This course is being offered in conjunction with Sound Circle Center’s Teacher Training Program, providing participants the opportunity to visit with students and faculty members. Whatcom Hills Waldorf School’s beautiful campus is located just a short drive from area restaurants and grocery stores as well as numerous tourist attractions.

Cost: $495