A definitive guide to children's health and wellness includes first aid, how to treat common complaints and illnesses, and advice on when to seek medical help. Based on the bestselling A Guide To Child Health.
This acclaimed guide to children's physical, psychological and spiritual development is now available in a third revised edition. Combining medical advice with issues of upbringing and education, this is a definitive guide for parents.This book outlines the connection between education and healing, with all that this implies for the upbringing and good health of children. Medical, educational and religious questions often overlap, and in the search for the meaning of illness it is necessary to study the child as a whole -- as body, soul and spirit.The authors based their theory and practice on 17 years' experience in the children's out-patient department of the Herdecke Hospital in Germany, which is run along anthroposophical lines.The first section covers childhood ailments and home-nursing. The second part looks at the healthy development of the child and how to create the best conditions for it. The authors go on to examine issues of upbringing and education, and their consequences for later life. Throughout, the book is extremely practical, with example situations of conflict and crisis presented, along with possible solutions. This new edition also includes medical and health practices in North America, Southern Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Michaela Glockler speaks on themes relating to the esoteric path of spiritual development and its therapeutic task for the individual and community. Giving an account of the evolution of the ancient mysteries in relation to medicine, she discusses the application of inner work in outer action, reflecting on modern social and ethical issues such as organ transplantation and the termination of pregnancy. The author addresses primarily those in the healing professions, but this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the new science of the spirit.
New and successful insights for the care and raising of the child in the first three years of life. The contributions in this book deal with the process of incarnation in the first three years of life. They highlight questions concerning walking-, speaking- and learning to think of the young child – on the one hand from the viewpoint of anthroposophic knowledge of the human being, and on the other hand from research by Emmi Pikler. • How can the young child be given enough free space, to best unfold his innate capacities for the future? • How can the child’s autonomous will to learn be supported and promoted, so that his personality can develop on the basis of trust and security? • How can the relationship skills of the young child be formed by attentive and trusting togetherness in care situations, as prerequisite to be freely active. • How should the surrounding of the little child be designed, also with regard to the self-education and self-development of the parents and educators, so that the child can experience being by himself and then again in connection with his surroundings? The answers to these four essential questions correspond to the current state of knowledge and practical experience. In order to optimally support the child in his development in a world that is often not child friendly, the interdisciplinary combination of medical-psychological-pedagogical research has proven to be particularly fruitful and forward-looking. In coordination with the Association of Waldorf Kindergartens and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.
Rudolf Steiner is known around the world as an author, speaker and the creator of anthroposophy, yet few are aware of him as an inaugurator of new ways of working together. As a result, questions of management and leadership are especially challenging also in institutions that work out of anthroposophy. Here the model for forms of collaboration created by Steiner in 1923/24 can serve as an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Using this social concept as an orientation, the authors show how the social framework of the anthroposophic-medical movement has evolved and stood the test of time since 1988. A „leadership style with heart“ was needed that could unite the principles of individual responsibility, collegial leadership and democratic codetermination. This led to an understanding of leadership that can constructively complement the necessities of today's workplace thanks to the peace-endowing principles of spiritual leadership.
Was bedeutet das bewusste Erfassen der Schwellensituation der heutigen Menschheit für die medizinische Arbeit? Welches sind die Kräfte, die die Brücke zwischen der sinnlichen und der geistigen Welt, die sogenannte Schwelle zur geistigen Welt, bilden können? Hier sind Anregungen und Gesichtspunkte zur therapeutischen Arbeit zusammengefasst.
Despite dramatic outer advances, medicine -- like many other disciplines -- has become prone to materialistic tendencies, viewing the human being as little more than a machine. Can a new science of healing, which takes into account soul and spirit realities, be developed in our time?In this collection of challenging lectures. Michaela Glockler speaks on themes related to the inner path of spiritual development, and its therapeutic task for the individual and the community She discusses the application of such inner work in outer action, reflecting on modern social and ethical issues such as organ transplants and the termination of pregnancy. In her considerations she gives a broad picture of human evolution and the development of the ancient mysteries, and their relation to medicine.
FIVE LECTURES Dr. Michaela Glöckler begins by focusing on the “pedagogical law” as suggested by Rudolf Steiner in his lecture course Education for Special Needs . She illumines the comprehensiveness of that law―the insight it offers into the functions of our fourfold human nature and the karmic effects of our fourfold activity from one life to another. She then takes us on a path that starts with the physical body, pointing to some of the wonders of embryological development, and then brings to our consciousness further growth rhythms of the brain and other organs. She demonstrates the difference between human and animal and shows how, in animals, wisdom and intelligence have formed the physical body and express themselves through instinct. Dr. Michaela Glöckler opens new doors of understanding for teachers that lead to a deeper understanding of the significance of releasing intelligence from the body for human development.