“We need courage, real courage! We need the courage to say that the life of the world must be re-established on totally new foundations. This courage is something we learn very quickly or not at all.”
Rudolf Steiner, from an address to the young people in 1924.
About the Youth Section
The Youth Section is dedicated to fostering and encouraging gatherings, exchange, deepening, and initiative amongst young people (14-28) interested in the anthroposophical movement and society and the School for Spiritual Science.
The School for Spiritual Science is founded on contemplative practices and orientations intended to expand contemporary knowledge and understanding in the direction of spiritual dimensions of the human being and the greater world, and the renewal that this expansion can offer in all fields of contemporary society and life.
The Section's goals are fostered by a global network of affiliated groups that are each active in unique ways. Members from affiliated groups communicate together regularly through the Section's newsletter, quarterly network calls, regular co-worker gatherings, and international youth conferences. The nexus of the global work is located at the Goetheanum, in Switzerland.
The aims of the Section include youth-organized and youth-led activities, intergenerational work, and offering an understanding that can support individuals who are working with Anthroposophy and young adults through events, research projects, publications, and dynamic media.
Get Involved in the Global Network
Quarterly Gobal Network Calls
To strengthen our worldwide collegiality, we gather four times a year for quarterly meetings with Youth Section co-workers around the world.
Our next call will take place in early August.
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Calling on artists and writers!
We are starting a bi-annual Youth Section magazine. Check out our first issue here. Stay tuned for more news!
We Please get in touch if you're interested in contributing writing or art!
Upcoming Events
Michaelic Youth: Connection, Courage, Belonging: The Mount Camphill Community, UK
The Mount Camphill Community invites you to attend a gathering of inspired young minds who share a connection to or interest in the Camphill impulse. We encourage attendance from the younger generation of committed lifesharers within communities across the world.
The presence of the Archangel Michael lives very strongly at The Mount, not only in the presence of the statue about our hall, but in our daily lives as a vibrant, youthful community living, learning and working together.
Explorations of Imaginative Contemplative Inquiry: Dornach, June 5-7, 2026
Join this participatory seminar with Dorian Schmidt and Nathaniel Williams offered in English and German.
This weekend-long seminar with the Youth Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland is an introduction to imaginative contemplative inquiry. With a group of young people, we will discover this unique way of working with consciousness through short presentations, exercises and group sharing.
Courage: From Idea to Initiative: Fair Oaks, CA, USA, Aug 3-7, 2026
The Courage Conference is a five-day inquiry into the heart of spiritual-science, hosted by Meristem (formerly Rudolf Steiner College) and the Sacramento Waldorf School. Together, we will seek an experience of the truth as it lives in the warmth of soul, transforming dead intellectuality through direct revelation. By engaging our faculties of thinking, feeling, and willing, we will learn what it means to create out of a living relationship to Spirit.
The Gifts of Africa: Nairobi, Kenya, Sept 21-25, 2026
Deepening our anthroposophical journey in Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. For young people aged 15-35 years. This gathering offers space for study, reflective dialogue, artistic work, and shared African experience, inspired by Rudolf Steiner's education of the higher words, to support inner development and service in Africa.
Articles, reflections, news & more
An Introduction to Eurythmy for Bees - Animals - Mammals - Pets
The Light Between-A New York Gathering
Reflections on the Global Youth Confluence
Action Week in Dornach: A Weaving Together
Loch Arthur Camphill Community Youth Conference 2025
Initiative Forum: Sowing Seeds of Connection
The Journey Through the Old Hibernian Mysteries and the New Mysteries with Anthroposophy
I am the night full of colours to come
The Key to Freedom
February Days 2025 - Reflection
A Quest for a Pictorial Understanding of Anthroposophy - … Reflections … Images … Impulses ...
Threefold Youth House
The Light Between - An update
Gratitude and best wishes on a new path!
Section work around the world: global and local
In search of an artistic understanding of Anthroposophy
A Dream of Freedom
Biodynamic Youth International
Preparing a Space
The Light Between - questions, craft, community
“How do I find the Good?” 100 years of the Course for Young Doctors
Will Anthroposophy still be possible in Georgia in the future?
Youth Initiative Africa: about the group and the Youth Conference and Safari in Tanzania!