Inscribing Signs with a Finger Dipped in Light: A Spiritual-Cultural Approach to Dying, Death & Life
Event description
Inscribing Signs with a Finger dipped in Light is a one-day presentation that offers non-denominational insights, creative activities, holistic approaches to dying, death and life. We will use poetry, storytelling, contemplative exercises to explore the questions:
What is Death?
What does it mean to die?
How do I accompany someone who is dying?
How do I prepare myself?
Presenter Bios:
Irmhild Kleinhenz, Anthroposophic Naturopath and Mentor
Post Grad Cert. Anthroposophic Medicine, IPMT Mentor and Tutor, endorsed by the International Anthroposophic Medical Association, Dornach, Switzerland. Lecturer and School Health Advisor.
Post Grad Dip. Applied Science, Integrative Medicine.
Naturopathic Diploma for Naturopathy, Homoeopathy, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine, ANTA accredited fellow.
Irmhild has over forty years of experience in Anthroposophic medical therapeutic work. Her background includes studies in the Anthroposophic Medicine Orientation Training, Lukas Klinik, Switzerland, studies in the prescription of Curative Eurythmy, Goetheanum, Switzerland.
Irmhild works with allied medical practitioners and therapists to ensure a highly professional and personal approach to health care. She holds public lectures on health and spiritual enrichment, works as a Tutor and Mentor for allied health professionals and Steiner teachers and supports Steiner schools as a school health consultant.
Iris Curteis, PhD, Storyteller and Social Artist
Iris Curteis is a Storyteller and Social Artist who encountered Steiner's work as an 18-year-old and had the privilege to meet and learn from inspiring, knowledgeable, and creative teachers in Europe. She studied visual arts, dramatic arts [speechformation] in Stuttgart; a BA & BA Hon. in Creative Writing (SCU; UNE), and explored Storytelling and Community Building in her PhD thesis [SCU]. Working as a storyteller for several decades has convinced her that storytelling empowers our imagination and creative thinking and encourages us to appreciate our lives as works of art. As a social artist, she is passionate about using art, threefolding and creativity to examine and change the way we think, build our capacity to shape more humane communities and support transformational change. She has explored the power of the human voice and the possibility to use the creative spoken word, sounds and storytelling to support those who are approaching death; to overcome a sense of overwhelm and loneliness. Storytelling takes us into a liminal space - a crossing of thresholds - that can support us to gently and consciously enter a different state of being.
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