March 1 and 8 2024 Friday evening talks to mark the centenary anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's work and anthroposophy.

Anthroposophy - What was the start of the 20th of Century? What is it today? 

      Friday 1 March from 7:30 pm
      Location: Imaginarium Theatre in Motueka, next to New World
      Speaker: Michael Burton 
      Koha  

Health and in Body Soul and Spirit 

     Friday 8 March from 7:30 pm   
     Location: Imaginarium Theatre in Motueka, next to New World
     Speaker: René de Monchy
     Koha  

For more information and registration please contact: Hilda HMazza@gmail.com

Note: See poster attached below 

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Biography of speakers to the March centenary celebration RSVP and book your choice of workshops by February 23rd, 2024

Michael Burton

After majoring in university in English literature and drama, Michael embarked on a four-year study of the art of speech according to the insights of Rudolf Steiner.

Since graduating from the Pacific Speech School in 1988, Michael has worked in Europe as an actor, both in groups and in solo shows for children learning English as a foreign language, a voice coach and a teacher of speech and drama to children and adults with special needs. He has studied Chirophonetic Therapy, a healing modality that utilises the formative forces present in the vowels and consonants of human speech. He is the author of a number of books and some fifteen or so plays.

At present he lives in Auckland and, while offering speech courses and individual speech part-time, spends most of his time studying what is happening in the world today and writing articles for Counterspin Media.

René de Monchy

Rene was born and educated in the Netherlands. From age 12, he knew that he wanted to be a doctor and go to Africa to work. Rene studied medicine and had extra training in surgery, tropical medicine, etc. for that purpose.

Destiny, however, decided differently and sent him with his then young family to New Zealand. Rene met Anthroposophy through a very experienced anthroposophical doctor, Dr Friedlander, who lived nearby. That encounter changed his life.

From then, as a father of five children all going through the Steiner education, Rene started his own holistic, anthroposophical GP practice for the next 26 years and was very active , in all aspects of life, before at age 50 finally living and working for four years in the bush in rural Africa.

After coming back to New Zealand, Rene became a junior doctor again, this

time as a registrar in psychiatry, and finally at 62, he became a psychiatrist. Still working full-time in hospital and in that field, Rene loves(d) every moment of his long professional life, to try to help the individual patient to “become who they are”, to access their inner healing as far as possible. He still finds being a doctor and in the medical field, “the spirit and art of healing” (not the corrupted and crumbling health system version), the most humbling and privileged task. After fifty years in that profession he is still daily filled with feelings of immense gratitude .