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1. Please send an email with your name, address, phone and class to our Coordinator at info@novalisinstitute.org .
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Watercolor Painting

Dates: Tuesdays, March 9, 16, 23 & 30.
Time: 9 - 11 a.m.
Location: Minnesota Waldorf School

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This is a beginning class using the Hauschka Therapeutic Watercolor Painting method to discover the nature of each color and color mixing. This method of painting, a gentle introduction to the creative process, invites us to open to our unconscious, and through the process allows an image to emerge. The time spent with these pure colors and liquids is rejuvenating to the body and soul.

Price: $120.00

Watercolor Painting

Dates: Tuesdays, April 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: City of Lakes Waldorf School

Price: $120.00

Childhood Reflections To Enliven Your Parenting #1

Date: Tuesday, March 23rd
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: City of Lakes Waldorf School
Cost: $45

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Faculty: Linda Bergh
Come and see how awareness of your life and journey can awaken you to your children. This class provides a chance to experience how opening to your biography can further your understanding of your children and awaken more capacities as a parent. This will be a single 3 hour class offered during school hours.

Linda Bergh, a core teacher at Novalis Institute, has been teaching Biography in our community for over a decade. This class is a new opportunity to have a one time experience of the biography work, focused through our children.

Price: $45.00

Childhood Reflections To Enliven Your Parenting #2

Date: Wednesday, March 24th
Time: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Minnesota Waldorf School
Cost: $45

Price: $45.00

BIODYNAMIC GARDENING

Evening Adult Lectures (more than one adult per household welcome)
Dates: Mondays, March 1, 8 & 15
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Minnesota Waldorf School

Practical Garden Sessions (whole family welcome)
Dates: Saturdays, May 1 & 15
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: 2954 Hamline Avenue, Roseville, MN 55113

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Faculty: Dennis Dietzel
Gardening can be a joyful hobby, a way of producing food for ourselves and creating beauty in our environment. In biodynamic gardening this becomes an inner path that gives us a relationship to the life forces in our soil and food.

Price: $75.00

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RUDOLF STEINER

Dates: April 16 & 17
Time: Friday 7-9 p.m., Saturday, 9-4 p.m.
Location: City of Lakes Waldorf School
Faculty: Michael Holdrege

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This Course will cover a broad overview of Steiner’s life and an introduction to his work through the Basic Books. It will examine how his world conception unfolded in several phases over forty years and how, as time went on, the manner in which he developed this work became increasingly influenced by the existential questions that lived in those around him.

Price: $100.00

KNOWLEDGE OF HIGHER WORLDS: A Modern Path of Esoteric Knowledge

Dates: Saturdays, January 9, 16, 23, 30, at City of Lakes Waldorf School andFebruary 6, 13, 20, 27, at Minnesota Waldorf School.
Time: 9 - 11 a.m.

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Students will explore the practices that lead to one’s own direct perception of soul and spiritual realities. The text describes fundamental attitudes, practices and exercises by which the human being may become a conscious observer and participant in the realities of soul and spirit.
Faculty: John Fuller

Price: $240.00

HANDWORK

Dates: Saturdays, Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: 11:15a.m.- 1:15p.m.
Minnesota Waldorf School

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Working with the hands engages the will as it activates thinking and feeling. It becomes a spiritual act when we strive to create works of beauty.

Price: $120.00

SCULPTURAL ARTS

Dates: Saturdays, January 9, 16, 23, 30,
Time: 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Location: City of Lakes Waldorf School

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For the students the creative experience of working with their hands deepens the understanding of how children learn in Waldorf education. The focus of this course is sculptural, and Kevin will lead students through the process of educating the will in children by molding and carving. This course is designed for teacher trainees, parents and adults seeking an artistic experience. Faculty: Kevin Kane

Price: $120.00

CHILD AND CLASSROOM OBSERVATION

Dates: Saturdays, Jan. 9, Feb 6, March 6 and April 10.
Time: 2 -4 p.m.
Classroom observations will take place during the weeks between Saturday gatherings.

Location: City of Lakes Waldorf School

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Observing Waldorf Education and learning new skills of perception are integral parts of the foundation studies aspect of teacher training. This course will include observing in classrooms during the year, and meeting together to hone the capacity to see and understand both the individual child and the classroom learning environment. Open to parents, teachers, teachers in training, community members.
Faculty: Kelly Larson

Price: $120.00