Radiant Resilience: Building Health, Vitality, and Inspiration for the Child and Adult

Northern California and Nevada Regional Conference for Waldorf Early Childhood Teachers with Ruth Ker

Friday, November 7, 2025 | 5pm-9pm

Saturday, November 8, 2025 | 8:30am-4pm

In-person at the Marin Waldorf School | 755 Idylberry Road, San Rafael, CA 94903

These uncertain times call for a deeper understanding of the formative forces present in the child's first seven years. How do we recognize this life body? How do we engage in meaningful ways to strengthen this wellspring for the child and the adult?

Ruth Ker, WECAN’s Teacher Education Coordinator and representative on the AWSNA Teacher Education Delegates Circle, is also a Program Director for West Coast Institute for Studies in Anthroposophy. She lives in Duncan, BC, Canada, where she was a founding teacher at the Sunrise Waldorf School. As facilitator of the WECAN Older Child in the Kindergarten Group and member of the international IASWECE working group on this theme, Ruth edited From Kindergarten into the Grades and You’re Not the Boss of Me. She is also the author/editor of Please, Can We Play Games?

Schedule
Friday, November 7th

5:00pm - Tea and Registration
6:30 - Outdoor Singing Among the Lanterns and Oaks/Land Acknowledgement
7:00 - Move Inside for a Warm Welcome, Diane David
7:15 - Keynote Lecture I, Ruth Ker
8:30 - Puppetry, Jennifer Aguirre
8:45 - Good Night, Diane David

Saturday, November 8th

8:30am - Singing, Anna Rainville
9:00 - Keynote Lecture II, Ruth Ker
10:30 - Snack and Mini Marketplace
11:00 - Workshops
12:30pm - Lunch and Mini Marketplace: If you are both a teacher and craftsperson and have select items appropriate for the early childhood classroom, you are welcome to bring them for sale. There will be time during the two breaks for a mini marketplace.
1:30 - School Reports - Roses and Thorns
2:00 - Reflections on the Theme from BACWTT Director, Ken Smith
2:30 - Spacial Dynamics®, Kate Hammond
2:45 - Plenum, Ruth Ker and others
3:15 - Report from WECAN, Diane David
3:30 - Thank Yous
3:40 - Puppetry, Jennifer Aguirre
4:00 - Farewell

Workshops

Please sign up for one of the following workshops.

“Make a Sweet and Simple Puppet” with Jennifer Aguirre

In this workshop, we will make a puppet together, accompanied by a poem, with ideas on how to bring it to life for young children. A $10 supply fee is requested.

“The Peace and Wonder of Storytelling” with Dagmar Eisele

“Where did it happen, where did it not?” In this workshop, we will learn how to create a nourishing atmosphere and a quiet, inner mood so that the child can listen and later move into playful puppetry and acting out the story.

“Move Your Life Force with Spacial Dynamics®” with Kate Hammond

In this workshop, we will explore how to move and shape our life force using Spacial Dynamics® exercises and movement experiments to bring calm, levity, gravity, and vitality to our teaching and to our lives.

“Please, Can We Play Games?” with Ruth Ker

Through conversation, sharing, and playing together, let’s discover some enlivening and compelling activities we can do with children of all ages to bring rejuvenation to all.

“Circle Time” with Steve Spitalny

In this workshop, we will experience and learn how a circle can bring joy and movement to support the young child’s development.

“Working with Parents & Caregivers with Heart and Purpose” with Sarah Whitmore

In this workshop, we will learn activities and practices that bring warmth, vitality, and inspiration to the school-home relationship.

A discount is available for group signups.

For more information, please contact:

tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org