Reports

In January 2026, Youth Section coworkers from around the world gathered at the Goetheanum for an intensive week of study, collaboration, and exchange. Together, they explored the diverse initiatives and impulses emerging within the movement internationally.

The event sought to strengthen a shared commitment to youth work and deepen understanding of the work unfolding across different countries and communities. Through dialogue and collaboration, participants cultivated new connections and a renewed sense of shared purpose.

This booklet explores the conferences, initiatives, research projects, and events carried out by the Youth Section in 2025. It offers an overview of the wide range of activities that took place throughout the year, highlighting the questions, collaborations, and impulses that shaped the Section's work.
The aim of this publication is not only to share what happened at the Goetheanum, but also to present a broader picture of the Youth Section's activities around the world. It seeks to illuminate the diverse ways in which young people are engaging with anthroposophy, building community, and responding creatively to the challenges and opportunities of our time.

This booklet presents the Visiting Youth Leaders Program, an initiative that welcomed young coworkers from Youth Sections worldwide to the Youth Section House at the Goetheanum for several months. Participants supported a variety of projects, contributed to the life of the anthroposophical youth community in Dornach, and cultivated skills and experience to share with their home communities upon their return.

This small booklet has been created as part of the event “Working for freedom and the common good”, a collaboration between the World Goetheanum Association and the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. It is inspired in large part by the centenary of the first World Power Conference (WPC), inaugurated by Daniel Dunlop.

The International Students’ Conference «Taking Heart - Finding our way together» took place in April of 2024 in Switzerland. Over 700 high school students from 35 different countries found their way to the Goetheanum to share this unique experience. 

There are countless young people who feel connected to anthroposophy and who are working in anthroposophically inspired initiatives around the world, trying to connect their university studies with anthroposophy or to find a vocation that can fully engage them. In their hearts, in their will, there is a drive to work toward spiritual knowledge and renewal in themselves, their localities, and globally. It is a task of our Section to support this, to see to it that these glowing embers are not snubbed out but are fanned to brighter flame by association, deepening, and collaboration.