Online, Tuesdays 9pm – contact 99586369 for details
This is an ongoing series of consultations focusing on the Applied aspects of Waldorf-Stiener Early Years Education, addressed to educators as well as interested parents.
Scheduled events
Weekly Parents Circle – Tuesdays 9pm – contact Chrystalleni 99586369 for the link
Retreat: 2-week Waldorf Training in Zakynthos (Alikanas, between July-Sept 2021)
Current assignments
– Collect individual articulations and put together a shared vision in keywords.
– Capture collective intention: what we wish for the child: which wishes do we have for the body: for the soul: for the spirit
– Parents circle on Nonviolent Communication and Ethos <3
Themes covered
Rhythm and transitions
Pedagogic material and activities
Family-specific questions and solutions
How to connect and meet age-specific challenges
Questions about each child’s developmental journey
Erika Wieser biography
I am a Kindergarten Teacher since 1978. Two years working in the Linz Tobacco Factory Kindergarten in Upper Austria showed me that I didn’t know anything about “difficult children” and that I had to continue my education. I went to Vienna for the next two years to complete the school for children with disabilities and then worked for the next 3 years in Christoph Lesigang’s outpatient department for children with multiple disabilities. Professor Lesigang was an excellent anthroposophic doctor for children and I was lucky to learn a lot from his behavior with children and parents. I worked with the children and gave advice to the parents. After the wonderful years in Vienna I came by accident to Greece where I fell in love with my husband Dimitris Papaioannou, a painter of Byzantine icons. When we came back to Austria, I worked for the next 10 years with children with severe disabilities in a dedicated kindergarten. In 1994 my daughter Myriam came to this world and changed my life. In 1996 I started studying Waldorf Education in Vienna which lasted 3 years, completing my final thesis on the subject of the tactile sense. For 5 years I was special assistant in the two Waldorf Kindergartens in Linz for children with additional needs, and finally, 13 years before my retirement, I started and led a natural Kindergarten on a farm focusing on Waldorf Education. Beside my work I taught for 10 years Basal Stimulation for Kindergarten teachers for children with additional needs. For three years I was working with adolescents with very difficult childhoods and trauma from the war in Bosnia. I am a trainer of health gymnastics since 1985. I am a beekeeper since 2005. Now I am in pension and I am lucky to do what I like most: to share my experiences.