Resources
Part of the work of the Section takes the form of research, reports, and other content that remains useful and relevant beyond the time in which it was created. We have gathered these resources here.
Research
The Youth Section carries out research projects on a wide range of themes. Since 2017, a core team of young researchers based at the Goetheanum has been developing participatory action research projects and exploring anthroposophically oriented approaches to social research. The team shares and publishes the results of their work through conferences, and other publications.
(Re)Search 2017-2021
Research in Latin America
Research in times of COVID-19
The Research School
Research in Living & Working Communities
Reports
Each report is a snapshot of a period in the Youth Section's life. Written by whoever was carrying the work at the time, alongside contributions from coworkers and young people who took part along the way. Read in sequence, they also trace something else: how the network itself has grown and changed shape, one period at a time.
Publications
The Thinking Heart
A booklet published twice a year by the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. It brings together poems, articles and artworks from contributors around the world. Rather than being written in a single language, each piece appears in the author's original language alongside an English translation.
Magazin
A community publication by the Jugendsektion in Germany, shaped entirely by contributions from its readers. It is open to anyone who feels connected to the anthroposophical youth impulse, offering a space for the themes and questions that move young people today. Published in rhythm with the seasons, each issue focuses on the experience of that particular time of year, in any written or artistic form.
Futuring Now
A triannual, publication of poetry, visual art, essays, and more. The publication strives to collect young adult contributions around pertinent themes, in an effort to create a polyphonic depiction of what streams from the future toward the youth of our times. Each issue develops a specific question or theme. Futuring Now was founded in March, 2025.
IUVENTAS
A publication of poetry, essays, and more. Updating...
Lectures and Podcasts
About the Goetheanum
The Thoreau College Podcast by Thoreau College. An episode with Andrea de la Cruz and Nathaniel Williams.
Taking Heart - The Podcast of the ISC24
Before and after-conference episodes where organisers, contributors, and participants share about the great International Students' Conference of 2024! Learn more about what happened, the event's intention, and the preparation process.
Questions of Courage
is a video/podcast with Nathaniel Williams, leader of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum. It is an independent and unique look at questions related to technology, education, art, ecology, vocation, community, justice, and meaning require a deeper, spiritual take on life. The ability to take up these issues from this perspective is a question of courage.