Steiner Voices XYZ
by Steiner Education Australia
Latest episode
The Face of Trauma: The Healing Impact of Steiner Education
The Face of Trauma: The Healing Impact of Steiner Education
About this podcast
Welcome to Steiner Voices XYZ, a podcast series hosted by Steiner Education Australia. We’re a forum for some of the varied voices of Steiner school communities and their people around the country, of teachers, parents and students.
Steiner education is a worldwide movement of some 1100 schools across the globe, on all inhabited continents and embraced by parents, teachers and students of all cultural backgrounds. In Australia we have 52 schools who are members of Steiner Education Australia and are all dedicated to delivering the rich and uplifting Australian Steiner Curriculum framework, recognised by the government education regulator ACARA as an approved equivalent to the Australian Curriculum version 9.
Listen to our Steiner Voices podcast series and you’ll meet some of the many people who make our Australian Steiner schools such vibrant learning communities.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 42 episodes
- The Face of Trauma: The Healing Impact of Steiner Education · 40 minA child’s face in a Beirut refugee camp changed Berndt Ruf’s life. The founder of a number of Waldorf/Steiner schools in Germany, Berndt had already learned to apply some of the…
- Jump into the Unknown: Founding Steiner Education In Malaysia · 48 minLim DaVid grew up on the rural east coast of peninsular Malaysia before beginning his professional life as an engineer. But a calling to Steiner-Waldorf education brought him to…
- “Always Evolving into a Different Human Being”: A Teacher’s International Journey · 43 minCharity Muli’s life as a Steiner or Waldorf teacher has taken her from Nairobi, Kenya, to Guatemala City, and now to Perth, WA where she is the Class 1 teacher at Helena River…
- “Who Am I?”: The Journey and the Gift of a Language Teacher · 32 minYasushi Hayashi began life on the outskirts of Tokyo and now lives on the outskirts of Geelong, near Melbourne as the Japanese teacher at Freshwater Creek Steiner school. His…
- “Joy and Wonder”: A Foundation for Life · 43 minFive Steiner schools on three continents! Nishka Varghese is a multiple Steiner X, having attended five different Steiner schools across three continents in the course of her…
- Relationship before outcome: the work of a Relational Wellbeing Counsellor · 46 minLisa Devine wears many hats: psychologist, priest, eurythmist and youth worker. She is neither a teacher nor a parent yet she has been active in many Steiner schools as what she…
- “You’ve got to make it come alive!”: The creative work of the teacher with Jim and Barb Henderson · 39 minIs this a record? Jim and Barb Henderson put their all their five children through the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School in Warranwood, Victoria, and now all of their 12…
- Creation Story: Memories of Milkwood · 42 minLara Andropov was one of the founding students of Milkwood Steiner School in Darwin, NT. After years away, she has returned and twenty years on she runs the After School Care…
- Islands of Coherence: Steiner schools and the Future · 59 minDr Brad Kershner continues his keynote presentations from our recent GLAM (Governance, Leadership, Administration and Management) conference at Samford Valley Steiner School…
- “A magic happening in front of me”: Memories of Sylvia and building credibility · 52 minRosemary Gentle OAM has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in Steiner education. Beginning as a parent, she was over three decades a Class teacher, High School Coordinator…
- Moving Through History to the Other Side of Complexity & Inspiration in a Time Between Stories · 55 minDr Brad Kershner is Head of School at the Kimberton Waldorf School, Pennsylvania, USA, and was the keynote speaker at our recent GLAM (Governance, Leadership, Administration and…
- Finding a Way through the Forest: The Path of a Pioneer · 31 minChris Jack trained as an architect, then worked in construction and property before realising his life’s vocation was in teaching. After coming to a fork in the road in his life…
- An Elegant Journey of Awakening: Learning to think in Science education · 49 minDr Tim Dunn’s educational journey began in IT and computing, then led him on to a university career as a scientist with a PhD in cancer research and immunology. Tim was drawn…
- “There is no greater joy than learning”: Memories of a Beautiful Education · 29 minIn this 28th episode of Steiner Voices XYZ, it’s time to look back on some highlights. Every episode has been a highlight for me as the podcaster, remarkable for the huge breadth…
- Community: Learnings from the Class 12 Major Project · 34 minNicolai, Charlie, Marni and Finley are four students who graduated from the Willunga Waldorf School in SA at the end of 2025. In this podcast they tell of their journey with the…
- The Rhythms of Life: Steiner Education on Five Continents, and Bondi · 56 minDiane Tatum’s long career in Steiner education has taken her around the world, from her origins on the east coast of the US, to schools in Europe, China, South America and over…
- From Nick Cave to Parzival: Steiner Education in a State High School · 40 minKen Killeen recently retired after teaching for 20 years in the Steiner stream classes at Castlemaine Secondary College, Victoria. Ken is a professional artist with a deep vision…
- Ready to Step into the World: A Shearwater Journey · 38 minThea Mills-Crockford has just completed Year 12 at Shearwater, The Mullumbimby Steiner School in northern NSW. Thea gained early entry into the Australian National University…
- There Must be a Bigger Picture…!” · 40 minRosemary Michalowski began her professional journey after starting a mainstream teaching degree but asking the question: Where is the bigger picture…? She found the bigger…
- Think Bigger: From Steiner Pessimist to Advocate · 46 minHere is a podcaster being podcasted! For his Class 12 Major Project, Steiner X Oskar Scarman created a podcast series called A Search for Meaning that explored the themes of…
