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• ELDER CARE WORKSHOP

  6/18/2009 6:30:40 PM

  
  ELDER CARE WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN KIMBERTON
  JULY 10–11, 2009
  
  Altair Cohousing, in conjunction with local nurses in the Phoenixville–Kimberton area of ChesterCounty, presents a forum to explore community initiatives where elders and others dependent on care can live a meaningful life.
  
   Public Lecture:  8 pm, Friday, July 10th
  
  "Exploring New Forms of Living in Old Age – A Cultural Task for our Community"
  with Armgard Brunotte and Petra Wandelt from southern Germany
  
  At  Camphill Village Kimberton Hills – Rose Hall, 1601 Pughtown Rd, Kimberton, PA
  
  The phrase "a home for the meaningful ordering of life in old age" is not only a beautiful one, but it also presents a great challenge: to find meaning – and also hope. Armgard and Petra will introduce the current state of elder living and the cultural challenge it presents to our community. They will describe an assisted living community which they founded several years ago near Bodensee, Germany, for elder- and hospice-care using an innovative and successful financial model. This lecture is open to the public.  Donations are welcome.
  
  Workshop:  8:30 am – 5 pm, Saturday, July 11th
  
  Guided by a panel of experts from elder care communities in the United States and Europe, we will explore the difficult questions that aging poses to our communities.
  
  How can we keep our independence and self-determination as we become older or need support in our daily lives?
  What do we seek to accomplish during this later phase of the life cycle?
  What amenities would be useful in the later stages of life?
  What financial models would best support the desired community?
  The panel will also present a variety of options to address these questions, Senior Cohousing among them.
  
  Armgard Brunotte is currently working as a nurse in palliative care in Germany. Petra Wandelt is a consultant in organizational development and works with housing projects for the elderly. Armgard andPetra are co-founders of Wohnstaette Haus Rengold, an assisted living home for the elderly in southernGermany.
  
  The registration fee of $55 (if paid by July 3rd / $65 thereafter) includes refreshments, lunch, and dinner at the close of the workshop.  (Scholarships available.)
  
   Contact Margo Ketchum at mketchum@verizon.net or 610-608-9281 for more information.
  

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• 'About Us' Page Updated

  6/13/2009 12:51:06 PM

  Christy Korrow, Editor

  Hello friends! Visit our updated 'About Us' page for a refreshed look at all things LILIPOH.

   

  
  

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• Summer Issue on Farming and Gardening: The Cover!

  6/13/2009 12:47:58 PM

  

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• Urban Farming

  6/13/2009 12:32:57 PM

  Christy Korrow, Editor

  Angelica Hesse, our graphic designer, sent us this video about an urban farming initiative based out of Portland, OR.

  County CROPS (Community Reaps Our Produce and Shares)

  
  

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• Summer Solstice and Biodynamic Vineyard Festival at The Tasting Room Yakima at Wilridge Vineyard 

  6/2/2009 3:57:54 PM

  Summer Solstice and Biodynamic Vineyard Festival at The Tasting Room Yakima at Wilridge Vineyard
  Friday, Saturday & Sunday June 19th to June 21st. 11-9pm
  
  The Tasting Room Yakima will be celebrating Summer Solstice on the weekend of June 19th-21st from 11 am to 9 pm. Bring your friends and family by and enjoy the celebration of the longest (and sunniest) day of the year here at The Tasting Room Yakima at Wilridge Vineyard.  Please call Damon or Lori at the Tasting Room to RSVP for Friday evening or if you have any other questions.  509-966-0686
  Friday - Pig Roast Event (food served from 2pm to 7pm)
      •    $12 per person and kids eat for free (includes food and one glass of wine.)
      •    RSVP for Friday food event
      •    Pig roast and other picnic foods
      •    Local premium craft beer & wine available for purchase
      •    Washington's finest boutique Wineries: Harlequin, Naches Heights, Wilridge Vineyards
      •    Live music to be announced
  Saturday- 3pm -Intro to Biodynamic Viticulture - Vineyard Tour
      •    Paul Beveridge: Winemaker - Proprietor Wilridge Winery and Vineyard
      •    Damon Lobato: Sommelier - Tasting Room Yakima Manager
      •    Participants will learn why biodynamic vineyards make the best wine and have a hands on experience applying biodynamic preparations to the vineyard.
  Sunday-3pm Introduction to Vermiculture
      •    Johnathan Craig: Yakima's own Vermiculture Specialist
      •    Learn about the wonders of worms and how these small creatures can turn a hazardous material like asbestos into fertile organic matter in which food can be grown -- all with the power of digestion! Discover how vermi-composting is more beneficial than regular composting.
      •    Learn to make your own vermi-composter for your home garden.
   
  

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• Early Childhood Experts to Brief Congress On Disappearance of Play and Playful Learning

  6/2/2009 3:56:17 PM

  Alliance for Childhood
  www.allianceforchildhood.org
  
  Early Childhood Experts to Brief Congress On Disappearance of Play and Playful Learning
  Defenders of child-initiated play argue that learning, creativity, and
  democracy itself are threatened by narrow focus on academics and testing
   
  What:  Rethinking Pre-K and Kindergarten Education: A Briefing for Congress
  When: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
  Where: Capitol Visitors Center, HVC-215
   
  College Park, MD, May 22, 2009—Crisis in the Kindergarten, the new study of how play is disappearing from early education because of increasingly intense academics and testing, will be the subject of a Washington briefing for Congress members and staff on Thursday, May 28 at the Capitol Visitors Center. The event is co-sponsored by the Alliance for Childhood and the Forum for Education and Democracy, both nonprofit advocacy groups.
   
  The briefing panel includes educators and researchers with decades of experience in creating effective schools for young children from diverse backgrounds: Joan Almon, executive director of the Alliance for Childhood and co-author of Crisis in the Kindergarten; Deborah Meier, Forum for Education and Democracy convener and MacArthur Award–winning school innovator; Dr. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Education at the University of Delaware; Edward Miller, Alliance co-founder and co-author of Crisis in the Kindergarten; and Yvonne Smith, pre-K and kindergarten teacher at New York’s Central Park East Elementary School.
   
  The Alliance’s report documents evidence of play’s demise in schools and explores the reasons behind this recent change. In a foreword, child psychologist David Elkind writes, “We have had a politically and commercially driven effort to make kindergarten a one-size-smaller first grade.” He calls the findings of the study “heartbreaking.”
   
  Crisis in the Kindergarten argues that creative play is “the engine of learning in early childhood and a vital force for young children’s physical, social, and emotional development.” It also suggests that democracy requires citizens who have had rich experiences of play, which have been linked to higher-level thinking and problem solving.
   
  The study quotes a kindergarten teacher who said, “If I give the children time to play, they don’t know what to do. They have no ideas of their own.” The authors write, “This is a tragedy, both for the children themselves and for our nation and world. No human being can achieve his full potential if his creativity is stunted in childhood. And no nation can thrive in the 21st century without a highly creative and innovative workforce. Nor will democracy survive without citizens who can form their own independent thoughts and act on them.”
   
  The Alliance report has provoked widespread comment in the press and on blogs about children, schools, and the proliferation of testing. Peggy Orenstein wrote, in the New York Times Magazine, “According to Crisis in the Kindergarten … all that testing is wasted: it neither predicts nor improves young children’s educational outcomes. More disturbing, along with other academic demands, like assigning homework to 5-year-olds, it is crowding out the one thing that truly is vital to their future success: play.”
   
  “We need some studies to see how reversible this is,” wrote Deborah Meier on the Forum’s web site, “and how it impacts children in later life. What we know now, thanks to the Alliance for Childhood, is that boys start out at even a greater disadvantage and are far more likely to be expelled and punished for inappropriate behavior, and that black boys will suffer—once again—the most. But that’s the tip of the iceberg—at heart it is influencing the intellectual achievement of all children.”
   
  A kindergarten teacher in Zanesville, Ohio, wrote to her local paper, “All we are doing is stealing childhood from innocent children. Shame on our government for making us be thieves. Shame on them for not listening to what children really need.”
   
  The report makes a series of recommendations to educators, policymakers, and parents for restoring play to early education, including reassessing kindergarten standards, making room for the many different kinds of play that contribute to healthy development, and ending the inappropriate uses of standardized tests.
   
  To reserve a seat at the May 28 briefing, e-mail pam@allianceforchildhood.org with “RSVP” in the subject line. Seating is limited, so if you cannot participate after sending an RSVP message, please send another with “cancellation” in the subject line so we may provide a seat for someone else.
  

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• LILIPOH author wins book award

  5/21/2009 8:23:09 PM

  Christy Korrow, Editor

  Congratulations to an author who contributed to our Summer 2009 issue, Linda Lantieri. Her book, Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children (with introduction and practices guided by Daniel Goleman, in the parenting/family category), was a Nautilus Book Award silver winner. “Nautilus Book Awards Recognizing Books and Audio Books that Promote Spiritual Growth, Conscious Living, and Positive Social Changeand stimulate the imagination and inspire the reader to new possibilities for a better world.”

   

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• Watercolor and Meditation with Martha Loving

  5/18/2009 5:05:55 PM

  Saturday 6 June
  9AM – 5PM

  NYC

  Watercolor and Meditation with Martha Loving
  
  Opening our hearts to the Wisdom of Creation, through truth, beauty, and goodness, we learn
  to connect our intentions and individual will and destiny with Sophia - World Soul of Cosmic Divine Will. Martha Loving will guide you in painting and meditation to facilitate finding your relationship to Sophia, our source for strength and inner striving toward wholeness, opening to GRACE.
  
  $60 / $50 Non-Members, $50 / $40 NY Branch Members Plus materials fee of $10 per person
  All materials provided. Beginners are welcome.
  
  The Rudolf Steiner Bookstore & Anthroposophy – NYC
  138 West 15th Street (bet 6th & 7th) in Chelsea
  To Register Call: Phoebe Alexander at 212-744-0257 or phoebe@artopathy.com
  The Divine Feminine Sophia Open to Grace

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• Two Biodynamic Gardening Classes: West Coast

  5/11/2009 3:46:43 PM

  Christy Korrow, Editor

   WASHINGTON

  The sixth annual BIODYNAMIC WORKSHOP on S&S Homestead Farm on Lopez Island will be held JUNE 26-28. Announcement and registration information coming soon.
  
  The theme will be built around Goethean study of plant morphogenesis and the practical importance for the farm or garden of schooling observation. As always, we will be making the biodynamic preparations, and there will be meals of farm-produced food.
  
  barrylia@comcast.net
  
  OREGON
  Biodynamic
  Farm and Garden Practices
  
  Saturday, May 16th, 2009
  9am-4pm
  
  LEARN HOW TO CREATE SUSTAINABLE SOIL AND GROW FOOD WITH INCREASED LIFE FORCES.
  From this Class, you will be able to apply the basic Biodynamic practices and get an overall understanding of Biodynamics, both practical and spiritual. You will learn and have hands on experience with:
  
  •how to stir and apply Biodynamic preparation #500 for soil development
  •how to apply Biodynamic compost applications: #502 -#508
  •how to develop your perception of nature through art and meditation,
  and a deeper look at the Biodynamic principles and preparations and how they work
  
  Weather permitting, we will apply the compost preparations to a garden compost pile and the soil preparation #500 to the soil. If it is raining, we will take a closer look at the compost preparations indoors.
  
  Kathryn Casternovia Biodynamic profile
  • An active member of the Oregon Biodynamic Group since 1995 and elected president, four years running
  • Creator of Elemental Designs landscape designs, specializing in beautiful sustainable gardens, soil development, managing the gardens life forces, edible and medicinal gardens
  •Teaching classes through So. Oregon University (SOU) extended campus, the University of Oregon, Grants Pass and privately for adults and children since 2000
  • In 2000 produced a Biodynamic/Permaculture conference at SOU
  • Written articles on Biodynamics for Sentient Times
  • Working to insure the future and consistency of Biodynamic prep-makers Nationally
  • A member of the Agriculture Section in the Anthroposophical Society of America
  
  Cost of workshop: $65
  Contact: elementaildesigns@charter.

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• Event at Camphill Triform

  3/24/2009 12:31:54 PM

  When Two or More - Male Female Studies - Weekend intensive
   
  Date- Friday April 17, @ 7:30 Open Lecture
            Workshop- Saturday and Sunday April 18 and 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
            Cost of workshop : $100.00 ( includes Friday evening lecture) Friday evening lecture cost $ 20.00
   
  Place- Triform Camphill Community
             20 Triform Road
             Hudson, New York 12534
   
  Contact- Siral @ 518-851-9320 or information@triform.org

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