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The Case for Wild Thinking
March 3, 2026
These times demand wild thinking, not wild thoughts. Wild thinking is the heart and will poured into imagination and shepherded by angelic beings who bathe us in a moral atmosphere of love. Wild thinking manifests spiritual freedom and derives meaning from individual and mutual responsibility to and for the wellbeing of human-becoming in an age of anguish. Such thinking expresses courage accompanied by the need for positivity in a field of thought fraught with artificialization, commodification of everything, and political agendas real and imagined. The push to return to old ways centered on monoculture and imperial domination is accompanied by an intent to shape thinking by infusing it with ideology. The longer-term purpose is to separate the flow of thinking from that which has always called it forward: the necessities of human and natural realities. These necessities include the will to know the world, freedom to know the self, and the recognition that we co-create an ever-changing understanding of how the world works and why each of us is present in it. More »
Destroyed Soul Landscapes
January 14, 2026
Time and again, children and young people experience the incomprehensible. They suffer the loss of the ones they trust, get pulled into grave accidents, or have to undergo serious medical procedures due to illness. They are victims of natural disasters, wars, torture, flight, and displacement. Millions of children are neglected, sexually abused, and abused by the ones they trust. When the inconceivable occurs, the lives of these children and young people are permanently changed. The consequences of the experiences are all the more serious, the younger the child is and "the closer the relationship to the perpetrator". In the case of children, the experiences need not be quite so extreme to nevertheless elicit penetrating persistently painful symptoms. Children experience and evaluate experiences differently than adults. The death of a pet, separation from loved ones, or a move can have a traumatic effect. Media consumption can also traumatize children. More »
The long journey, a Steiner odyssey
December 15, 2025
Global Cultures, those most in touch with the cycles of season, attachment to land and an understanding of life through stories, send their young people out, away from parents and families, away from the comforts of community life and home, out onto the land on whose life they must learn to share mutual prosperity. At our school, at the base of the vast mountain ranges whose feet have been walked and sung by the Taungurung, and whose pioneering spirit lives in the mountain huts of sinewy, hard living migrants in search of a life of independent means, our young people set out into these mountains of our home place in search of adventure, independence and an increased understanding of themselves. After a year-long, intentionally sequenced, compulsory Outdoor Education program, the year nines at Mansfield Steiner School take up the challenge to create their own journey. More »
Westside Waldorf School Opens New Campus After Fire Destroyed Pacific Palisades Home
December 9, 2025
Ten months after the Palisades Fire destroyed their Pacific Palisades campus, students at Westside Waldorf School will return to permanent classrooms when the school opens its new Santa Monica location on Dec. 1. The new grades 1-8 campus at 2601 Colorado Avenue marks the first time since the January fire that students will learn together under one roof, ending months of makeshift arrangements in tents, park structures and borrowed spaces across the community. "When we walked into this space, we knew immediately. This is where we'll heal," said Anjum Mir, school co-coordinator. "Our students have shown incredible resilience through ten months of upheaval. Now we get to give them back what every child deserves: a beautiful, stable place to learn and grow." The school signed a multi-year lease this fall for the 26,000-square-foot campus in Santa Monica's Colorado Center district, located at Colorado Avenue and 26th Street. Crews spent recent weeks completing fast-tracked renovations to transform 8,000 square feet of former office space into functional classrooms. The new campus features a central courtyard with olive trees that echoes the beloved space lost in Pacific Palisades, along with a dedicated middle school wing and administrative offices. More »
Marin Waldorf School Launches Reforestation and Restoration Project
October 20, 2025
Just west of Marinwood Park and a short walk from Lucas Valley Road in Terra Linda, the Marin Waldorf School occupies 10 acres of land leased from the Miller Creek School District. Today some of that land, mostly covered in weeds and grasses, has been replaced with native plants and now buzzes with pollinators in a landscape supported by students who learn to care for their piece of Earth. In February, the school launched a three-year reforestation and restoration project in partnership with Point Blue Conservation Science, formerly known as the Point Reyes Bird Observatory, and its STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring a Watershed) program. The goal was to help heal the land, support pollinators and teach students that climate action begins in your own backyard. “We know that native plants need less water, promote soil health and lead to a more balanced ecosystem, all important steps to mitigating the effects of climate change,” said Megan Neale, director of the Marin Waldorf School. More »
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