Awaken Living Thinking
A Transformative Waldorf Teacher Training with Michael D’Aleo
Join Michael D’Aleo, educator, scientist, and pioneer of Teaching Sensible Science, for a six day immersion into Living Thinking, perceptive awareness, and the art of teaching middle school science the Waldorf way.
The sciences in education are unique in their opportunity to develop a conscious awareness between perceiving and thinking. At an age of growing sense of self, how can we use the sciences to become aware beyond the self and more fully awaken to the living relationships that are experienced truthfully around us? Through a combination of living experiences and guided discussion, each teacher will become more awake to the world around us and also in the need and means to cultivate such awareness in the students in our classes.
"This training is not just about what to teach, but how to think as an educator."
— Michael D’Aleo
July 7 - 12, 2025 at the Whatcom Hills Waldorf School in Bellingham, WA
Cultivating Living Thinking and Perceptive Activity
10:45 to 12:00pm
How can we activate our perceptive activity, so that we can immersively attend to the processes of transformation surrounding us and discover the patterns and relationships therein with living thinking?
Movement
12:00 to 1:00pm
Movement practices to support our explorations
Teaching Middle School Science
2:00 to 4:30pm
Michael will guide participants through key experiences and demonstrations of the Waldorf middle school science curriculum, providing valuable insights for adolescents and adults, and the ways of bringing this material alive for students.
“The thinker seeks the laws of phenomena, and strives to penetrate by thinking what he experiences by observing. Only when we have made the world-content into our thought-content do we again find the unity out of which we had separated ourselves. We shall see later that this goal can be reached only if the task of the research scientist is conceived at a much deeper level than is often the case.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Philosophy of Freedom
Coffee, tea, and generous snacks will be provided throughout the day. This course is being offered in conjunction with Sound Circle Center’s Teacher Training Program, providing participants the opportunity to visit with students and faculty members. Whatcom Hills Waldorf School’s beautiful campus is located just a short drive from area restaurants and grocery stores as well as numerous tourist attractions.