In our effort to strengthen our worldwide awareness, we gather online for quarterly meetings with Youth Section co-workers around the world. 
Please contact us if you're interested in participating or contributing.

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We will have our next call on 
February 14. at 2pm Central European Time. 
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The 2026 Coworker’s Gathering was my first opportunity to get to know the global Youth Section and to touch the international anthroposophical community at its very heart — the Goetheanum. I was deeply impressed by the warmth with which our team was welcomed and by the overall atmosphere that accompanied the entire gathering.
This atmosphere was present in every person I had the chance to speak with and was rooted in an openness to genuine encounter — to the unique thought or position that I or anyone else carries. It was precisely this quality that revealed the importance of each individual for the group. And it is in such deep mutual respect that we choose to create something together.

Read the 'Coworker's Gathering' report

Read reflections on working with Steiner’s lecture “What Does the Angel Do in Our Astral Body?” at the Gathering from Keivan Azimi

In 2026, the Global Access and Project Fund once again became a living expression of solidarity, trust, and shared responsibility among young people around the world. Through collective efforts, the fundraised a total of 20,798 Swiss francs. Of this amount, 8,700 Swiss francs were dedicated to the Project Fund, supporting youth-led initiatives, while the remaining funds enabled participants to travel to the Coworker’s Gathering 2026 in Dornach, ensuring global representation and inclusion.

From Vision to Selection

The call for Project Fund applications was met with remarkable enthusiasm. Seventeen thoughtful, creative, and inspiring proposals were submitted from across the globe. After careful consideration, four projects were selected—initiatives that most clearly resonated with the aims of the Project Fund and could realistically be supported within the financial means available.

Two years ago I had the privilege of attending the ISC24, the International Student's Conference that takes place at the Goetheanum in Dornach, with my class. Those five sun-filled days had a huge impact on me and on my classmates as well. We listened to deeply inspiring lectures, sang on terraces with people we had just met, filled the streets of Basel with songs and stories, laughed freely and felt a profound and natural sense of connection and belonging… and so I suddenly realised that being a Waldorf student means so much more than just attending a Waldorf school; it means being part of a powerful international and intercultural community. That feeling stayed with me long after the conference had ended. When I returned home and stepped back to my everyday life, I immediately knew that I wanted to make sure other Waldorf students could experience that exact feeling of belonging, togetherness and connection too…

We are happy to announce that an intergenerational ‘Cynefin - Communities of the Future’ gathering will take place 23rd-27th September 2026 at the Felin Uchaf centre in Northern Wales.

The preparation group got together in early January to explore the landscape of the Llyn peninsula...The Llyn Peninsula’s Arthurian landscape holds an ancient spiritual legacy and the holy island Ynys Enlli (Bardsey) is only a few miles away. This landscape feels the ideal space to draw inspiration for the renewal of the mysteries in our times. Cynefin, this Welsh word captures the feeling of the interwoven relationship of human beings, landscape and the beings who dwell there and how we belong to each other. By coming together in this way we may help each other to remember who we are and why we are here and return enlivened and strengthened to our daily lives.

Following the annual agricultural conference in Dornach, we would like to deepen the connections between biodynamic practitioners and people around the world and reflect together on the needs that speak to the hearts and souls of younger generations.
Interested in joining via Zoom? Message mail@youthsection.org for more info!
 

"New Ground" is our annual gathering at the Tauranga Waldorf School. This space is intended for anyone who’s young and interested in anthroposophy, this is your chance to gather with other young people from NZ and connect over the course of a full weekend. From March 6th to 8th 2026, we will meet in Tauranga for the weekend to share food, learn new things and connect over this rich body of work called anthroposophy.

This spring, young artists and singers will tour the Greater Basel area sharing their unique "light instruments" and their workshops and performances that examine how we connect with screen culture.

We warmly invite you all to the upcoming International Student's Conference, "Disconnect to Connect: The threads that hold us together" 

During this conference, 600–800 16- to 20-year-olds from around the world come together for five days to engage with some of the big questions of our time. We believe that, now more than ever, we need deeper connection - first with ourselves and then with others. This is why the conference will explore this theme in many ways, helping us discover and strengthen the threads that hold us together.

The intention of this gathering is to open a doorway through which star wisdom can enter our shared understanding.

Our vision is to frame agreement structures between human beings and the sources of spiritual traditions such that life can be meaningful again. In doing so, South Africa can re-member its task as host of the New Mysteries, restoring humanity’s trust for our future.

The event, Resisting Inaction, Resilience In Action, is more than a theme- it is an urgent call to action. Over four days, we will gather in Ytterjärna, Sweden, as a global community of activists, philosophical-thinkers, youth, artists, and change agents! We will be hosted in lectures, workshops, music events, and shared meals.

We will question: What is the world asking from us right now? And together, we will build capacities and courage needed to respond.

Das vierte Mysteriendrama verbindet tiefste Geisterkenntnis und uraltes Erdenleben mit neuesten Kulturaufgaben. Durch gemeinsames Lesen und Sprechen soll dieses Werk und damit die Anthroposophie einige Tage unter uns aufleben. Es naht die Frage nach einem ganzen Kunst- und Studienmonat im Sommer 2027 mit Aufführung.

We invite you to step out of everyday routines and into a shared space of reflection, creativity and encounter.

For a long weekend, we will gather on a biodynamic farm in Germany — surrounded by nature, silence, and open skies — to explore a question that concerns us all: How can we meet the growing role of AI in medicine without losing the human being at the center?

• Are you interested in moving beyond clichés of “woke” and “anti-woke” to enter into a vital, living conversation about the social justice issues of our time?
• Do you think it is important to explore how anthroposophy can help us stop othering and start meeting each other as human beings across the various cultural, social, and economic differences?
• Is it time to have constructive conversations about the role of DEI in Waldorf education, Camphill, and other anthroposophical daughter movement institutions?

The presence of the Archangel Michael lives very strongly at The Mount, not only in the presence of the statue above our hall, but in our daily lives as a vibrant community living, learning and working together. We hope to see you at the annual International Camphill Youth Conference!

A step in a continuing exploration of new ways of working with the Lessons of the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science. The 7th lesson will be a focus.
For members of the First Class

This is an opportunity to follow through on creative inspiration with the support and accountability of a passionate community of fellow artists, musicians, and creatives as well as teachers, farmers, builders, dreamers, and all sorts of amazing people young and old.

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. We hope to see you at the annual conference of the North American Youth Section.

We warmly welcome you to our gathering from the 26th - 30th of August 2026 at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. Last year we finished the process of going through the nineteen Class Lessons. Over the next seven years, we focus on all of the recapitulation lessons, one by one. We look forward to working together in the name of Michael and seeing which seeds will be planted for our future collaborative work. 

A Study. Sharing and Discussion on Love, Relationships, the Body and more!

Das Kunststudienjahr richtet sich an Menschen, die ihr Interesse für die Kunst erwecken, intensivieren und vertiefen wollen. In drei Trimestern, die auch einzeln besucht werden können, werden die Künste Architektur, Bildhauerei und Malerei auf der Grundlage der Anthroposophie und des Goetheanismus praktisch erkundet und durch anthroposophisches Grundlagenstudium vertieft.

Frühling: Malerei
13. April – 26. Juni 2026

The Anthroposophy Studies on Campus is for anyone looking for an understanding of Rudolf Steiner's work and how anthroposophy relates to different fields. The program features lessons focused on the study of Rudolf Steiner's books, thematic weekly seminars, artistic courses, and nature observation classes.

Start in August 2026, in Järna, Sweden

YIP offers an educational space where up to 40 participants from around the world learn, create and organize alongside experts, facilitators and innovators. Through our curriculum, we strive to cultivate a space where young people can explore their authentic self and purpose, expand their understanding of the world and develop their fullest potential within it. 

In Deutsch & English
Du hast Fragen an das Leben, bist weltoffen, interessierst Dich für Kunst, für Anthroposophie und Du begeisterst Dich für neue Wege in der Eurythmie! Dein ganzer Einsatz, Deine Kreativität und Gestaltungsfreude sind dem gemeinsamen Ziel gewidmet: eine junge, existenzielle Eurythmie-Performance zu erarbeiten, die wir an vielen Orten zur Aufführung bringen werden.

You have questions about life, are open-minded, interested in art, in anthroposophy, and you are excited about new paths in eurythmy! All your commitment, creativity, and joy of creation are dedicated to the common goal: to develop a young, existential eurythmy performance that we will bring to many venues.

Die AkBB (Akademie für Bewegung und Bildung) ist eine praxisorientierte Ausbildung zum Sport- und Klassenlehrer*in an Waldorf und Rudolf Steiner Schule. Die Studierende sind von Anfang an im Unterricht an der Schule mit dabei und werden in den 2 Jahren an der AkBB zunehmend eingebunden. Im dritten Jahr machen sie an der Freien Hochschule Stuttgart ihr Bachelor Abschluss. Die pädagogische Grundlagen werden erarbeitet und können direkt in der Praxis angewendet und überprüft werden. Eine breite Basis in allen sportlichen Bereichen und Klassenlehrerthemen wird gelegt und mit Fachleuten vertieft. Ein wesentlicher Teil der Ausbildung ist es, die Studierenden in ihrer Persönlichkeit zu stärken, so dass sie sicher im Beruf stehen können und auch den Anforderungen der heutigen Zeit sowie den Bedürfnissen der Kinder gewachsen sind. Weitere Infos unter: www.akbb.ch, info@akbb.ch

Interested in contributing to our bi-annual Youth Section magazine, The Thinking Heart?
We've started a bi-annual publication which is like this e-newsletter but in a longer form and more aesthetically- and content-oriented. We hope to feature art and writing from friends around the world. Let us know if you have anything to share!