The Natural Science Sections of North America and Great Britain and the Water Research Institute of Blue Hill Maine are pleased to announce:
Sensitive Fluidity: Steps Towards Experiencing the Intrinsic Nature of Water
July 7-13, 2024 at the Water Research Institute, Blue Hill, Maine
Sensitive Fluidity: Steps Towards Experiencing the Intrinsic Nature of Water
July 7-13, 2024 at the Water Research Institute, Blue Hill, Maine
This participatory educational gathering will enhance observational skills in seeing nature a new way and deepen our understanding of this life-supporting element. It is designed for teachers, parents, environmentalists, farmers, artists and engineers working to protect the quality of water. All who seek a deeper relationship to this life-supporting element are welcome.
The conference will begin with a talk by Jennifer Greene, director of the Water Research Institute, Setting the Stage, a New Way of Looking at Water. She will provide an orientation to how this conference will develop a conscious relationship with water and the historical origins of this approach. The next day biochemist, Judith Erb, will give a scientific picture of water: Water – The Chemical Mingling of Earth and Sun…That Life May Become. Beginning with a consideration of the cosmic qualities of hydrogen (H), the element comprising 98% of the sun’s substance, and oxygen (O), the most abundant element in the earth’s crust (49%), this talk will discuss how
their union in water carries the capacity for transformation that life requires. Water’s reversible ease of transforming to bring the qualities of H and O within the organism fashions the biochemical symphony for which water itself is the conductor. The talk will speak biochemistry to the scientist while translating it into musical metaphors as melodies and rhythms emerge, combine, transform and re-emerge through water-mediated biochemical transformations.
The following day will feature a talk by Dr. Branko Furst, author of the much heralded book, The Heart and Circulation: An Integrative Model. Published by Springer, a leading European scientific publisher, this book brings to conventional medical science many insights derived from Rudolf Steiner’s work. He will describe how out of the fluidity of water in our circulatory system our beating hearts are formed. He will lead us into the embryological origins or the circulatory system to see how the heart is not simply a pump, but more like a hydraulic ram guided by the heart’s sensing and responding to input from our limbs, lungs and brains.
Jennifer Greene will share her work with micromovements in water flow as indicators of water quality, based on work by Theador and Wolfram Schwenk of the Institute for Flow Sciences in Black Forest Germany. As an extension of this she will also describe her water purification work with municipalities in using plants to treat their waste water.
Simon Charter, who leads an international consortium of researchers on water phenomenology and Flowforms, will report on this and the water work going on in his home base in England. He will also work with us on modeling a clay meander and flowform.
Liesl Haasbroek comes from South Africa to demonstrate hand held flow forms, samples of which she will bring with her. There will be discussion on the application of these handheld forms for curative education.
Workshops will occur each day which will allow participants to experience water’s reproducible and yet never exactly identical forms. Water’s movements and gestures will be brought to consciousness by careful observation skills and strategic sequential questions as drops landing into water creating rings and vortices. Out of this artistic beauty of flow, invisible integrative water forms will be found.
“Flowforms” can be found in Waldorf schools worldwide, gardens, in interior settings and in play areas. Around them, children are mesmerized by the pulsating flow and sound. But it is not only children who are enthralled: grown-ups stop to wonder at the rhythmical movement and feel its magical pulse. Soothing and transformative, one's attention in captured. In a short time, one is relaxed and can well imagine oneself standing by a small flowing brook burbling around rocks and splashing in rays of light. Flowforms were developed in the 1960s by an English sculptor, John Wilkes, to enhance water quality through cost-effective aeration which supports the micro-organisms that "clean” water. He worked very closely with fluid dynamics researcher, and author of the highly acclaimed book Sensitive Chaos, Theodor Schwenk, making models over which water could flow for quality enhancement.
For further information and registration please go to: www.sensitivefluidity.com
The conference will begin with a talk by Jennifer Greene, director of the Water Research Institute, Setting the Stage, a New Way of Looking at Water. She will provide an orientation to how this conference will develop a conscious relationship with water and the historical origins of this approach. The next day biochemist, Judith Erb, will give a scientific picture of water: Water – The Chemical Mingling of Earth and Sun…That Life May Become. Beginning with a consideration of the cosmic qualities of hydrogen (H), the element comprising 98% of the sun’s substance, and oxygen (O), the most abundant element in the earth’s crust (49%), this talk will discuss how
their union in water carries the capacity for transformation that life requires. Water’s reversible ease of transforming to bring the qualities of H and O within the organism fashions the biochemical symphony for which water itself is the conductor. The talk will speak biochemistry to the scientist while translating it into musical metaphors as melodies and rhythms emerge, combine, transform and re-emerge through water-mediated biochemical transformations.
The following day will feature a talk by Dr. Branko Furst, author of the much heralded book, The Heart and Circulation: An Integrative Model. Published by Springer, a leading European scientific publisher, this book brings to conventional medical science many insights derived from Rudolf Steiner’s work. He will describe how out of the fluidity of water in our circulatory system our beating hearts are formed. He will lead us into the embryological origins or the circulatory system to see how the heart is not simply a pump, but more like a hydraulic ram guided by the heart’s sensing and responding to input from our limbs, lungs and brains.
Jennifer Greene will share her work with micromovements in water flow as indicators of water quality, based on work by Theador and Wolfram Schwenk of the Institute for Flow Sciences in Black Forest Germany. As an extension of this she will also describe her water purification work with municipalities in using plants to treat their waste water.
Simon Charter, who leads an international consortium of researchers on water phenomenology and Flowforms, will report on this and the water work going on in his home base in England. He will also work with us on modeling a clay meander and flowform.
Liesl Haasbroek comes from South Africa to demonstrate hand held flow forms, samples of which she will bring with her. There will be discussion on the application of these handheld forms for curative education.
Workshops will occur each day which will allow participants to experience water’s reproducible and yet never exactly identical forms. Water’s movements and gestures will be brought to consciousness by careful observation skills and strategic sequential questions as drops landing into water creating rings and vortices. Out of this artistic beauty of flow, invisible integrative water forms will be found.
“Flowforms” can be found in Waldorf schools worldwide, gardens, in interior settings and in play areas. Around them, children are mesmerized by the pulsating flow and sound. But it is not only children who are enthralled: grown-ups stop to wonder at the rhythmical movement and feel its magical pulse. Soothing and transformative, one's attention in captured. In a short time, one is relaxed and can well imagine oneself standing by a small flowing brook burbling around rocks and splashing in rays of light. Flowforms were developed in the 1960s by an English sculptor, John Wilkes, to enhance water quality through cost-effective aeration which supports the micro-organisms that "clean” water. He worked very closely with fluid dynamics researcher, and author of the highly acclaimed book Sensitive Chaos, Theodor Schwenk, making models over which water could flow for quality enhancement.
For further information and registration please go to: www.sensitivefluidity.com
