Children Search for the Truth
Interdisciplinary Conference of Health Care and Occupational Care Professionals
6 – 13 August 2016 | Český Krumlov
A Freshly born baby is a little miracle and in this year’s conference Sources of Health we wish to focus on the further development of a baby: the path from a suckling until the age of nine. Young parents, paediatricians, teachers and therapists are faced with a number of difficult questions with regards to a child: What does a healthy childhood mean and how can it be carried out now in the 21st century? How can we establish the right rhythm in everyday life, in nursing and nutrition, in sleeping and waking, in caring attention and respectful relaxation? Furthermore, we might struggle with often discussed medical questions: How to reasonably deal with childhood illnesses, with fever or with vaccination? Why are the first three years of a child’s life so essential for the rest of their lives? When is a child ready to enter school? What is hidden beneath the changing of teeth around the seventh year? How should school education be structured to be both educational and curative? What does a child need from adults? What role can a child’s relationship to nature play and how can a child’s soul be nurtured by meaningful stories, fairy tales and myths? In order to fully grasp childhood we shall address the mystery of life itself: What is life and what is rhythm? How do they relate to the developmental phases of uprightness, speech and thinking? In this manner we will follow the development of a child towards the ninth year which is an important threshold in his or her biography – so called Rubicon. The child now begins to experience his or her own individuality and relates to the world in a new way. Children by their very nature live truthfully and they require and expect their environment to offer them the truth. How can we as adults achieve this truthfulness and how are paediatrics, education and parenting affected by this demand?
We would like to invite you to take part in the educational conference Children Search for the Truth. This topic should be addressed from the perspectives of Anthroposophical anthropology, medicine and education. The various formats will include: lectures, specialised interdisciplinary seminars, work groups, Eurythmy exercises, observatory exercises, diagnostic exercises and work with philosophical texts.
Target group: Occupational care professionals, doctors, pharmacists, therapists, nurses and caretakers, teachers and educators, psychologists, psychotherapists, clergy, social workers, carers and students of all aforementioned or related professions.
Translation into English
Up to these days we have had always just a few English speaking participants. Because of that, including financial and organizational issues, is translated just part of the conference into English. If there is a need to have translation in others parts of the conference than is offered, you can contact organization team.
Program which is translated into English includes all collective parts (except of eurythmy in the morning and the lectures for the public) and two afternoon workshops (will be specificated later, according the interest of the first english speaking participants). These translated lectures and workshops are marked in the program with a blue sign „EN“.
How to arrange the translation of other parts of the program? There are two possible options:
1) If there is an interest in the workshop of at least 3 people, we will find an interpreter for this workshop. The best way to make it possible is to bring 2 other colleagues or friends with you.
2) Self-help: You can take with you your own interpreter – the colleague who understands very well German (or Czech) so that he/she can translate for you.
If both of these ways are for you inaccessible, contact us and we will find a date for letting you know for which parts of the program (afternoon workshops) could be the translation possible. Or we will look for other ways so that you can participate the conference.
Contact: czech@ipmt.net (you will get the reply from Johannes Weinzirl or Hana Giteva.)
For practical information regarding accommodation, meals, and parking, refer to Technical and organisational matters section.