Working with one’s own speaking can be a powerful path of self development. To a trained ear, the spoken word reveals the inner, wisdom-filled soul life of the speaker. Speech carries a spiritual potency that moves both the speaker and the listener. When our speech becomes a blessing, we too are blessed.
This is reason enough for anyone to journey on the path of cultivating living speech, but there are other gifts too, particularly for those whose vocation it is to guide children. Speech training enables the speaker to consciously use ego forces to direct the flow of the etheric body and engage the astral body; As a word gives shape to thoughts and experiences, the ego structures and guides the process. It is through this activity that we become worthy of imitation. Furthermore, Speech is the main instrument of the teacher whose speech patterns are absorbed by the children - every day, every hour, for years, no matter how penetrated their speech may be. A teacher’s speech may bless, bludgeon or rattle on like dry leaves. When mastered, speech can be a most powerful means for guiding children through daily activities, making classroom management invisible, and can provide generous spoonful's of soul-spiritual nourishment, not only through enlivened images of story and poetry but through the very movement within living speech that washing through the children, supports their life forces and nurtures imagination.
Craig Giddens & Daniel Stokes have dedicated their lives to cultivating a living speech and to guiding others to enlivened speech. In this new training they will lead us on this path of speech for self and human development, especially suited for teachers. If you are so moved, please join us in a Sounding Circle for the good of speech.
Starting July 18, 2022 - Whidbey Island Waldorf School - Langley WA campus / Registration Deadline is June 30th. More ...
This is reason enough for anyone to journey on the path of cultivating living speech, but there are other gifts too, particularly for those whose vocation it is to guide children. Speech training enables the speaker to consciously use ego forces to direct the flow of the etheric body and engage the astral body; As a word gives shape to thoughts and experiences, the ego structures and guides the process. It is through this activity that we become worthy of imitation. Furthermore, Speech is the main instrument of the teacher whose speech patterns are absorbed by the children - every day, every hour, for years, no matter how penetrated their speech may be. A teacher’s speech may bless, bludgeon or rattle on like dry leaves. When mastered, speech can be a most powerful means for guiding children through daily activities, making classroom management invisible, and can provide generous spoonful's of soul-spiritual nourishment, not only through enlivened images of story and poetry but through the very movement within living speech that washing through the children, supports their life forces and nurtures imagination.
Craig Giddens & Daniel Stokes have dedicated their lives to cultivating a living speech and to guiding others to enlivened speech. In this new training they will lead us on this path of speech for self and human development, especially suited for teachers. If you are so moved, please join us in a Sounding Circle for the good of speech.
Starting July 18, 2022 - Whidbey Island Waldorf School - Langley WA campus / Registration Deadline is June 30th. More ...
