Four highly experienced Steiner school teachers, consultants and associates come together to create a two-week family holiday programme which, as always, produces a vibrant intergenerational community full of energy and creativity.
In this Steiner school family holiday we rely on and apply many of Rudolf Steiner's original insights in Spiritual Science and Anthroposophy as taught in the Waldorf Schools to bring out each child's individuality and creativity.
We'll use nature based tools, Way of Council and Process Work methods as a means of re-connecting with ourselves and each other. We make our decisions with Sociocracy and the principle of consent. Through interactive media, creative arts and group games we'll express ourselves and build our own unique community together. All this plus of course a fantastic family holiday with walks on the mountain trails and bathing in the safe, crystal clear waters of the Aegean sea.
Join us as we explore the gifts that come from living, working, playing and sharing in a two-week fully authentic multicultural community that the family holiday creates. Today, we consciously need to reinvent cooperative and harmonious ways of living and relating together.Working, playing, learning and sharing together we discover and experience how we can come together as humans and live happily and sustainably into our future, helping to build a world where living our own truth counts and where we reconnect deeply and meaningfully with the natural world, of which we are an integral part.
These Steiner school holiday weeks welcome children, single parents, coupled parents, friends, single people and young people of all ages.
Each morning starts with meditation and sharing, and continues with a session of activities for all ages designed to deepen our connection with ourselves and each other.
We will have fun, play, explore and connect through art, games, nature, inner journeys, group consciousness, participatory video, music and many other practices. In the afternoon, relax (or be vigorous!) on the spectacular beaches or walk in the cooling forest, taking time to re-vitalise and re-energise ourselves in these amazing surroundings.
In the evening, we join with the community in preparing the evening meal or tending the gardens—whatever we can offer in service and love to help the community in their daily tasks. After dinner we will co-create a fun-filled evening together.
There will be time for the children and adults to have separate sessions, based on the needs and desires of the group. There will be plenty of flexibility, the aim being to have a flowing and graceful week together. You are encouraged to bring musical instruments, for your own and everyone’s enjoyment, or indeed any other props for skills or games you wish to play or demonstrate! This includes bringing songs, dances and games for all to join in with and share.
We welcome you to join us in August!
Contact the leaders:
Dorota Owen
Tel. +44 (0)1309 696902
Email:
Julie Leoni
Tel. +44 (0) 797 199 1501
Caroline Hughes
Tel. +44 208 693 4824
Emile van Dantzig
Tel. +31 30 2288388
Email:
Images From Previous Kalikalos Family Weeks
Single Parents Welcome!
Leaders: Dorota Owen
Dorota Owen has been an educator in a variety of settings for over 20 years and has three children of her own.
She has facilitated Steiner family holiday experience weeks for the last four years at Kalikalos Centre which include circle group sessions, meditation, song, dance, painting, walks, script writing, culminated in a hilarious cabaret performance.
Every year's group is different so the specific activities are developed from the group's preferences. Join us at Kalikalos for a nourishing, inspiring family holiday. Families, couples and singles all welcome!
Julie Leoni
Julie Leoni is a secondary Steiner school teacher, a mother, a researcher and a Life and Business coach. Her PhD in Education is in the area of Emotional Intelligence, loss and bereavement and included work with children who find school challenging.
She also has a Post Graduate Certificate in Life and Business Coaching.
Julie runs local and national workshops in emotional intelligence and lectures for both the Open University and Chester University.
Émile C. van Dantzig
After 20 years in computer science in research and academia, and 20 years in international ICT business, Emile works now with organisations employing governance principles based on sociocratic methods discovered in the Netherlands first by Kees Boeke and later developed by Gerard Endenburg.
In his teachings and trainings Emile combines the magic of Sociocracy circles with Marshall Rosenberg’s non violent communication, and the creative conflict management of Dominic Barter's Restorative Circles.
Caroline Hughes
Caroline Hughes is a cognitive therapist working from NHS practices in London and a mother of a 13 year old. She has worked for two decades as a mental health counsellor and staff trainer in the field of drug & alcohol abuse.
Caroline's formal training is in counselling and psychotherapy. She is also an aromatherapist with a degree in Art and Social Context. In addition she has studied yoga, meditation and dance. Her interests include working with children and adolescents via mindfulness cognitive therapy.