Born in Indonesia, I attended school and the Academy for the Performing Arts in The Hague in the Netherlands. I came to England with a folk band, worked in London in fashion, film and television and married Mick Rhodes, then editor of the BBC Natural History Unit. My first daughter guided me to the Kindergarten in Queen Caroline Street and Waldorf Education. Jan Grefe at the Academy and Eileen Wreford in the Kindergarten taught me the rudiments of speech-formation, eurythmy and spiritual science. After meeting Francis Edmunds, I attended Emerson College where I met my second husband Simon Blaxland-de Lange. We had three more daughters, attempted but failed to set up a community in Brookthorpe, ran the box-scheme for Joachim Grundmann and I began work at Wynstones School in the Kindergarten and then at Cotswold Chine Special Needs School as matron. We moved to Camphill Newton Dee in Aberdeen to learn how a succesfull community could be founded, where I performed, directed and taught in the village and Camphill Schools and lived with an adult household. Our path led us back to Emerson College, Philpots Manor Special Needs School, and to Hoathly Hill Community, where we founded Pericles Translations and Research and the varied Pericles work with adults with special needs, from which we are just now retiring. This included housing, arts and crafts, a café, woodland projects at both Tablehurst and Old Plaw Hatch Farms, an integrative professional Theatre Company and Biodynamic soft fruit gardening and processing. We still live at Hoathly Hill, growing Demeter certified soft fruit, and gardening. I am chair of ACESTA, have been an active member of ECCE , a member of the STAG (the international social therapy working group), and am a delegate on the Council in Dornach.