The 2023 Acesta Conference: The Human Being from culmination to potential, a journey
A wonderful full programme of talks, workshops, singing eating together accross 4 days 27th-30th May 2023
Starts: 27th May 2023 Ends: 30th May 2023
Where: Emerson College, Sussex
The Human Being from Culmination to Potential, a Journey
Programme for the ACESTA conference at Emerson from Saturday 27th – 30th May 2023
Saturday 27th May 11am Registration 12.45 Lunch
2pm Introduction Paulamaria Blaxland-de Lange and Singing with Anna-Christina Gorbatschova
2.45 Workshops
4.15pm Tea break
5pm Conversation groups
6.15 Supper
7.30 Pericles Theatre Company: The Cat that taught the Seagull to fly
Sunday 28th May
8am Open Introduction to the School of Spiritual Science
With Simon and Paulamaria Blaxland-de Lange
9am Singing
9.20 Linda Thomas: 3-foldness in the home, the Burning of the Goetheanum and Whitsun.
10.30 Coffee break
11.15 Workshops
12.45 Lunch
2.30-3.30pm Ianthe Lauwaert and Melody Brink: Motives of our Hearts
3.30-4pm Martin Schwartz: why circus-skills?
4pm Tea break
5pm Conversation groups
6.15 Supper
7.30 Richard Steel: Kaspar Hauser and the Calendar of the Soul - A Path to Human Potential and Healing the Earth" with a harp introduction and Singing us to bed
Monday 29th May
8am Open Introduction to the School of Spiritual Science
with Simon and Paulamaria Blaxland-de Lange
9am Singing
9.20 Thomas van Elsen: Social Farming, Creating environments for the Future
10.30 Coffee break
11.15 Workshops
12.45 Lunch
2.30-4pm Workshops
4pm Tea break
5pm Conversation groups
6.15 Supper
7.30 David McGavin: Patients revitalising anthroposophic medicine
with a harp introduction and Singing us to bed
Tuesday 30th May
8am Open Introduction to the School of Spiritual Science
with Simon and Paulamaria Blaxland-de Lange
9am Singing
9.20 Ricardo Pereira Crafts as Process from Finished Form to Living Potential
10.30 Coffee break
11.15 Plenum Conversation, Sharing and Singing
12.45 Lunch
Review and ACESTA AGM
Conversation groups (3 sessions plus plenum)
A Richard Steel
B Thomas van Elsen
C Linda Thomas
D David McGavin
E Ianthe Lauwaert and Melody Brink
Workshops (4 sessions)
1 The 7 social laws, Spiritual Biography Hartwig Ehlers, Jon Geelmuyden, Ricardo Pereira and
(a continuation from the Social Farming Conference on 2022) Peter Brown
2 The Karlsteyn Portraits and Whitsun Painting with Marianne Patterson
3 Circus Skills, A lesson in topsy turvy Martin Schwartz
4 Singing Anna Gorbatschova
5. Connecting to Nature through Meditation Michael Fuller
and Movement: Co-creation for the Future
These sessions are formed to make it possible for all those who do the Conversation groups to join the workshops and vice versa.
This conference is designed for all participants to feel themselves invited to contribute and for all contributors to feel they can participate.