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International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAMActivities report 2011 – Events and perspectives in 2012

Medical Section

Goetheanum

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Human beings require inner loyalty; Loyalty to the guidance of spiritual beings.

They can build on such loyaltyTheir eternal existence and being

And thereby perfuse and strengthenSensory existence

With external light.

Rudolf SteinerSt. Gallen,

12 April 1922

ContentDear friends of the anthroposophical medical movement 3International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM 5International Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical Associations 6International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations / IVAA 8International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicines / IMKA 9Anthroposophic medicines in the EU, developments in 2011 10Association Européenne des Fabricants de Médicaments utilisés enThérapeutique Anthroposophique / AEFMUTA 11International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists / IAPP and theSociety of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany / GAPiD 13International Research Council 15Association of Anthroposophic Clinics 16International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing 17Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy 18International Eurythmy Therapy Forum 19International Coordination of Art Therapy 21International Coordination of Physiotherapy and Physical Therapies / APT 22International Coordination of Psychotherapy 23Patient Organizations and European Federation of Patients’ Associationsfor Anthroposophic Medicine / EFPAM 26International Young Physicians’ Forum 27International Coordination of Medical Training 28Group of National Coordinators for Anthroposophic Medicine / GNCAM 29International Coordination of Public Relations 30International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT 3110 years of International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMTReview in pictures 33Finances 34The staff in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum 36Conferences and meetings at the Goetheanum 2012 38Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy 40The 2011 annual conference of the anthroposophic medical movement in pictures 42Foundation for Anthroposophic Medicine / FAM 43Annual conference – preview 44

We would like to thankthe Software AG Foundation, Mahle Foundation, Evidenzgesellschaft, Iona Foundation,Dr. Hauschka Foundation, Vidarstiftelsen, GTS Stifterfonds, Foundation for Anthroposophic Medicine, Helixor Foundation, Humanus House Foundation, Donata Foundation,the medicinal products manufacturers Weleda, Wala and Helixor as well as the numerous institutions, federations, associations and friends near and far who through theircollaboration and financial support have made our work for the Medical Section possible.

ImprintPublisherMedical Section at the Goetheanum

EditorialDr. med. Michaela Glöckler Heike Sommer M.A.Concept, design / layout, typesettingHeike Sommer M.A.

Ordering address Medical Section at the Goetheanum Postfach4143 Dornach 1, SwitzerlandFax +41 (0)61 706 44 91 Email [email protected] www.medsektion-goetheanum.ch

Picture creditsFront page, Rudolf Steinerblackboard drawing GA 236, GA 260; Charlotte Fischer p. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 34, 37; Michaela Glöckler p. 32, 33, 37; Heike Sommer p. 2, 24, 25, 23, 26, 28, 29, 33, 42, 43;Wegman Institute p. 40, 41;Norbert Roztocki photono. 3 and 6, p. 42.

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Dear friends of the anthroposophical medical movement

In the triple anniversary year we celebrated:90 years of the Ita Wegman Clinic – also included in this is the medicinal products company •WALA which has its origins in the collaboration between Ita Wegman and Rudolf Hauschka in the pharmaceutical laboratory of the clinic; this subsequently led to the establishment of an independent company in Germany in 1935 whose 75th anniversary was celebrated in 2010 with staff and guests in Göppingen town hall;90 years of Weleda medicinal products and cosmetics, going back to suggestions from and •the collaboration of Rudolf Steiner with Oskar Schmiedel, Ita Wegman and others.150 years of Rudolf Steiner, who gave anthroposophic medicine its name and content, •thus establishing a new spiritual medical system together with his medical collaborator, Ita Wegman.

What work motifs arise from these to accompany us in the coming decade? Let us mention three here:Markus Brüderlin, museum director and inaugurator of the large travelling exhibition for the Rudolf Steiner anniversary year, “The alchemy of every-day things”, said at the opening in Wolfsburg that the time had passed when Rudolf Steiner could be left to the anthropo-sophists alone, he had long become a cultural factor. Peter Sloterdijk noted at the opening in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein that Rudolf Steiner had been omnipresent in the Lebensreform (lifestyle reform) endeavours of the twenty-first century even if he was not explicitly referred to. The spirit of these statements is also of importance in representing an-throposophic medicine. It is healthy to realise that the inspirations of Rudolf Steiner and his co-workers in the spiritual world reach far beyond the group of members and friends in the Anthroposophical Society and movement and take effect in those places where the burning questions of life are found.

Next, an experience which goes back to the roots of anthroposophy: this year’s training week for anthroposophic medicine1 in India took place in Chennai, the city in which the Theosophi-cal Society was founded in 1875. It provided an opportunity to visit the society’s headquarters in the district of Adyar. We were received most warmly by one of the members of the execut-ive council whose daughter – a sixth-generation theosophist – gave us a guided tour outside opening hours: through the wonderful park into the impressive crosswise main building in which the main representatives of the world religions are represented under the roof of the all-unifying truth. It was a particular pleasure to be able to make this visit just one month after the founding of the national Anthroposophical Society in India and to remember these predecessors with gratitude on whom the anthroposophical movement, which today has about 18,000 members, was able to build. How many lectures and inspirations do we owe to the Theosophical Society which appointed Rudolf Steiner as leader of the German Section in 1902, whose members asked the questions which enabled him to speak about the treasures of his knowledge? His account of the Christian path of initiation and the task of transforming the earth through its nine layers (GA178) also belongs to this theosophical period.

Thirdly, the 2011 annual conference at the Goetheanum: the clinics celebrating their anniver-saries had wished to work on aspects of therapeutic community building. Such a striving for community also contributes to the transformation of the earth mentioned above, particularly the eighth layer of the earth in which the forces are at work which opposed everything that

1 IPMT / International Postgraduate Medical Training, see report p. 31

Anthroposophy must become even more cosmopolitan than it is at present, it must not be constrained by groups of people or remain limited to individual countries; it is for all people throughout the world.Ita Wegman See also the report from theIta Wegman Institute byProf. Dr. med. Peter Selg, p. 41

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is unifying and healing in the development of humanity.2 In order to give active expression to this striving, work in small groups took place for the first time among the approximately 750 participants as part of the annual conference, work which enlivened the whole of the Goethe-anum also in its foyers and stairwells: four developmental motifs3 were discussed across language barriers by the co-workers from more than 40 countries. Here it became evident that in implementing them in social practice everything depended on the experience that this only works when each individual truly wants it from out of their innermost, freest impulse. That every good thing is opposed by an evil power – not just in the human constitution but also in the structure and action of the earth’s organism throughout its nine layers – this is something that fundamentally belongs to the developmental conditions of the human being which are the most difficult to bear. They can only become bearable, indeed inspiring, when it is truly felt that freedom cannot be born other than from the nothingness that is beyond good and evil. It is this experience which creates the awareness that every deed, be it ever so small, which is undertaken out of such an inner experience of freedom in fact builds on the new heaven and the new earth of which John the Evangelist speaks in his Apocalypse.Community building has many faces. It can enliven work, give a healing atmosphere to institutions, can bring joy and light into life and develop the capacity to bear the dark sides of our personal and common destiny. But community building can also mean reflecting, e.g. in the field of medicine, on the different spiritual orientations which have existed from the most ancient times of archaic-magical, and then Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine to the naturopathic and complementary medical procedures still or again practiced today, and the dominant natural science-based medicine of the present. The question arises as to how these medical directions can be reconciled spiritually in such a way that the location becomes visible at which they make their contribution to the recovery of human beings. With regard to this question, 2011 also sent out new signals in that both among the young generation, such as for example the Medizin mit Herz und Hand (Medicine with Heart and Hand) movement,4 and in the international medical training the dialogue between representatives of many of these streams is becoming increasingly more intensive. This was particularly impressive at the IPMTs5 in India and Taiwan. Because in these countries we can indeed substantially find the complete anthroposophical understanding of the human being and cosmological language of ideas from most ancient times, even if different terminology and forms are used. Anthropo-sophy can connect with that directly and build bridges to today’s conventional medicine.In this connection we would also like to remember a special medical personality, Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Dietrich Hoppe, who died on 7 November 2011. From 1999 to 2011 he was president of the German Medical Association and was one of the key co-founders of the Pluralismus in der Medizin6 (Pluralism in Medicine) dialogue forum which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2010 and includes leading representatives of the different forms of treatment licensed in Germany. Anthroposophic medicine owes him and his far-reaching vision of a medicine of the future a debt of gratitude.

With best wishes for Christmas and our work in 2012

2 Cf. the newsletters of the Medical Section from 8 May, Whitsun and September 2011

3 “…whereas the point is to take everyone as they are and to turn what they are into the very best…” (Rudolf Steiner Wie kann die seelische Not der Gegenwart überwunden werden?, GA 168, p. 101)

“May God give me the equanimity to accept those things I cannot change; the courage to change those things I can; and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” (Ascribed to the Swabian pastor and Rosicrucian Friedrich Christoph Oettinger – in fact going back to the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the year 1943).

The idea of reincarnation is a postulate of love. Anyone who really wishes to help will not become tired after only one lifetime. (Michael Bauer, teacher, esoteric pupil of Rudolf Steiner, friend of the Morgensterns).

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” (John 14:26). How can we give our relationship with the healing and holy spirit a con-crete individual and social form?

4 www.medizinmitherzundhand.de5 See Note 16 www.dialogforum-pluralismusindermedizin.de


Dr. med. Michaela GlöcklerInternational Coordination of An-throposophic Medicine / IKAM,Coordinator of the Conference of Councils of AnthroposophicMedical Associations,Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanummichaela.gloeckler@medsektion-goetheanum. chwww.medsektion-goetheanum.ch

International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM

The International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM is the leadership body of the anthroposophic medical movement and thus also assumes the same function with regard to the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. The way it works and its understan-ding of its leadership tasks have been set out in the book The Anthroposophic Medical Movement.1 Its core concern is to observe its leadership tasks not just in a conventional sense but rather to practice and communicate a leadership style which can combine the principles of spiritual leadership with those of professional competence and the demands of work.

With regard to the work of IKAM in 2011, we refer this year particularly to the very infor-mative and illuminating contribution by Nand de Herdt and Christiaan Mol. It shows the immensity of the task and the great gratitude which is due with regard to the work being undertaken to provide a secure legal basis for anthroposophic medicinal products, but also how much work still remains to be done in the coming ten years to safeguard their full marketability in the EU.Christa Hebisch from the legal department of WALA Heilmittel GmbH was bidden farewell with great gratitude for her work in this field in the IKAM collegium to start her well-earned retirement.It is very pleasing news that the Society of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany has decided to apply the new quality label for anthroposophic medicine, AnthroMed® (see p. 13), to pharmacies.In the field of research and academia, a further milestone in the academisation of anthro-posophic medicine was reached: four anthroposophic physicians were able to obtain their habilitation - Dirk Cysarz (Herdecke), David Martin (Tübingen), Harald Matthes (Berlin) and Ursula Wolf (Bern). Training activities, particularly in the curative education and social therapy field, focused on the question of the way that anthroposophy itself should appear in teaching. How is it experienced in practice – as joy in life searching for truth?The International Eurythmy Therapy Forum this year also celebrated 100 years of euryth-my. The AnthroMed certification for eurythmy therapy has already become a reality in five countries and continues to make rapid progress thanks to the untiring efforts of Angelika Jaschke and the initiative of the Forum’s national representatives. In the Art Therapy sec-tion we refer in particular to the new publications on speech therapy (see p. 21).The foundation of the IAABT / International Association for Anthroposophic Body Therapy was a particular pleasure.In Germany, the oldest patients’ association, gesundheit aktiv e.V., has decided to move from Unterlengenhardt to the federal capital Berlin. The latter, but also the other patient initiatives and associations for anthroposophic medicine active throughout the world, cannot be thanked enough for their continuing involvement in making the therapeutic possibilities of anthroposophy better known.In the field of psychotherapy, the coordinator Ad Dekkers should be warmly congratulated for having succeeded in putting his 25 years of experience in psychotherapeutic practice and training to paper in the form of a book (see p. 24).An exceptional event was the re-establishment of the Young Physicians’ Forum (see p. 27) from out of the previous Student Coordination. That was not only associated with new activists joining but also with the focus on certain tasks in training, international commu-

1 The Anthroposophic Medical Movement, Responsibility structures and modes of work, edited by Michaela Glöckler and Rolf Heine for the Interna-tional Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM,Verlag am Goetheanum 2010,ISBN: 978-3-7235-1410-8


nication and the restructuring of the work of young physicians at the Goetheanum, for which Philipp Busche is now responsible. I am also very grateful that Anna-Sophia Riekert was prepared to take on the overall coordination in succession of Natascha Neisecke, whereby Natascha will of course continue to be actively involved in the network. Warm thanks to everyone – also those coordinators not mentioned here – for their largely hon-orary work. Michaela Glöckler

International Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical Associations

At its annual retreat held 19-22 September 2011, the Conference of Councils of Anthro-posophic Medical Associations was able to look back at 22 years of work – a complete sun spot rhythm of twice eleven years of joint work. At the beginning, in 1989, the group of councils was one third as large as it is today. In the meantime it has not only grown but has developed into the central decision-making organ for all those things that need international coordination. Where necessary, new working organs have arisen from this activity: the training collegium, the international certification process, as well as the Re-search Council with its impulse to strengthen the academic credentials of anthroposophic medicine, IMKA (see p. 9), and more.The years from 1989 to 2000 served to develop the forms and structures for international collaboration as far as the creation of IKAM. From 2000 onwards a ten-year strategy was launched together with other activists from the anthroposophic medical movement which gratifyingly was not only fulfilled but exceeded, for example, in the field of research.Now the question arises as to the themes which should occupy us from 2011 to 2022? At the 2011 conference, representatives from 31 countries and their medical associations were gathered to exchange views from this perspective about the further development of anthroposophic medicine in their countries and internationally.In the scientific field, the focus was on the challenge to make the documentation method for representative individual cases developed by Helmut Kiene and Gunver Kienle – cognition-based medicine – capable of being taught and managed in international research and training practice.With regard to communication and PR work, it was decided to expedite the development of our websites in specific languages, i.e. across countries, and endeavour to achieve a certain coherence in quality and appearance. Heike Sommer (see p. 30) has offered her support.

IKAM coordinators after the annual conference, September 2011, at the Goetheanum. From left to right: Michaela Glöckler, Georg Soldner, Roland Bersdorf, Angelika Jaschke, Peter Zimmermann, Guus van der Bie, Kirstin Kaiser, Christa Hebisch, Hans-Jürgen Schumacher, Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers, Andreas Jäschke, Manfred Kohlhase, Rolf Heine, Stefan Geider, Heike Sommer


Furthermore, the organ preparations require greater attention with regard to research and practice. Armin Dörr from WALA management reported about the current situation cre-ated by the new EU directive which entered into force on 1 July 2011 without transitional arrangements and right of continuance. It lays down that no category 1A (brain, nerves) organ preparations from category GBR1 countries (e.g. Germany) may be traded. WALA wants to retain all preparations and also cattle as donor animals and therefore wants a safety study to be undertaken at the Friedrich Löffler Institute (Federal Research Insti-tute for Animal Health). Paradoxically, almost at the same time as the EU Directive it was decided to relax EU regulations in the feed sector, allowing cattle to be fed with animal products once again, thus risking the possibility of the next BSE crisis.

There was a warm welcome for the TOPICS project – the aim of the project is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge in anthroposophic medicine for the English-speaking world in the form of an Internet portal. It is planned to extend the project into the Spanish and Russian language areas. Donations are most warmly welcomed!

In view of a minor measles epidemic in Belgium, representatives from all countries re-ported about the current state of the vaccination problem. Anthroposophic medicine aims to support vaccination as an individual decision www.individuelle-impfentscheidung.de.In the common session with the IKAM collegium, the further international development of the AnthroMed® label (see p. 16) was mainly discussed; the clinic association manages it for the Medical Section on a trustee basis.At the end of the session, the biographical data of Steiner and Goethe were looked at. Steiner (born 1861) encountered Goethe (died 1832) before birth in the time which he later characterised as the fall of the spirits of darkness which corresponds to the culmina-tion of materialistic thinking: 1841–1879. Steiner repeatedly emphasised the importance of not only reflecting on Goethe’s works but also on Goethe continuing to work in the spiritual world. Correspondingly we can also ask ourselves in the councils group how we can maintain our spiritually real connection with the great founders of the anthroposophic medical movement, Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman. The next conference of councils will take place from 17–19 September 2012. Michaela Glöckler

Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical Associations in Dornach

For donations account see back page of annual report, purpose: TOPICS


International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations / IVAA

Four key strategic fields of action are picked out below from the many different aspects of the work of the IVAA. Anyone interested can find further information on the IVAA website www.ivaa.info.

Presence of anthroposophic medicine / AMA key part of the activity of the IVAA is collaboration in alliances, involvement in the de-velopment of the CAM sector and the collaboration with health NGOs, whereby we sup-port the aims and actions of the alliances, as well as promoting anthroposophic medicine within the alliances.

Alliances at NGO level: European Public Health Alliance EPHAAs in the previous year, the work of the IVAA-EU liaison office in the person of Günther Schulz on the board of the EPHA (treasurer) has continued to contribute to the good relationship between both organisations. The IVAA continues to be a respected member of the EPHA and supported several EPHA actions in 2011.

Alliances at CAM level: CAMDOC AllianceThe good collaboration of the European CAM medical associations within CAMDOC contin-ued also in 2011. Special themes included introducing the CAMDOC impulse to scientific CAM congresses in the form of a workshop at the European Congress of Integrative Medicine / ECIM in Berlin in 2010 as well as a round table workshop at ECIM 2011. www.camdoc.eu

CAM stakeholder network (EUROCAM)In addition to the work of the CAMDOC Alliance, the collaboration among CAM stakehold-ers has been consolidated further under the name EUROCAM. The work of the network focused, among other things, on the further preparation of the conference The Added Value of CAM to European Healthcare planned for 2012 as well as supporting the work of the CAM Interest Group in the European Parliament which has so far met three times on the subjects EU Directives are not working for products used in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), healthy ageing, chronic disease management and the potential contribution of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in these areas, as well as CAM research.

Other collaborationCAMbrellaThe IVAA was invited to meetings of working groups of the CAMbrella European research consortium where anthroposophic medicine / SAM was presented in the form of a short presentation Facts and Figures AM. In addition, the IVAA was invited to the Consensus Workshop on CAM methodology where it was again allowed to represent the whole CAMDOC sector. The collaboration continues to be experienced as absolutely constructive. The IVAA was further involved in numerous consultations, visited EU parliamentarians (incl. MEP Dagmar Roth-Behrendt) and organised a parliamentary lunch (MEP Dr. Thomas Ulmer) at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on the subject of integrative medicine using the example of anthroposophic oncology.www.cambrella.eu

Dr. med. Peter ZimmermannPresident of the International Feder-ation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations / [email protected]


Availability of AMP / Anthroposophic medicinal productsA central strategic aim of the IVAA is the realisation of an appropriate legal position of AMPs in EU legislation which allows their availability in the EU member states in a way such that the growth, further development and practice of AM is secured with a sufficiently broad range of AMPs. To this end the IVAA is working actively with the AMPEPWG / Anthroposophic Medicinal Product European Policy Working Group and ESCAMP / European Scientific Cooperative on Anthroposophic Medicinal Products. www.escamp.org

Representation of physicians worldwide with regard to legal and political issues and public relations work in the legal and political sphereThe central information organ of the IVAA is its website which is in the meantime HONcode-certified. Another medium of communication is the periodical, further electronic and ad-hoc in-formation and, most recently, an Internet-based cloud database for delegates. Facts and figures on AM were collected in connection with the CAMbrella project. This project is currently being extended worldwide and is in the data collection phase. In addition, the publication on The system of anthroposophic medicine was completed. Both documents are available for download from www.ivaa.info.

Financing the IVAA while preventing conflicts of interestFrom a financial point of view, the strategic aim of the IVAA is to finance its core activities exclu-sively from members’ contributions and to optimise resources. Unfortunately the reality is such that because of the growing political activities of the IVAA it has no longer been possible to fi-nance the core activities of the executive council completely through the members’ contributions (annual expenditures of approx. CHF 190,000 = Euro 136,000). The office in Brussels alone, which provides the basis for the lobby work in the EU political arena, has annual expenditures of about CHF 70,000 (Euro 50,000). In order to secure these costs in future independently of members’ con-tributions, the executive council has made contact with foundations. Peter Zimmermann

International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicines / IMKA

IMKA’s main task is to raise questions and problems with regard to anthroposophic med-icinal products across countries, discuss them with the manufacturers or, as necessary, mediate between the parties. Georg Soldner has stepped down as the coordinator of IMKA. Andreas Arendt has taken on Georg Soldner’s coordination tasks. IMKA will work in collaboration with colleagues Laura Borghi (Italy), Markus Karutz (Germany) and Reinhard Schwarz (Austria).

Vademecum projectThe second edition of the Vademecum of Anthroposophic Medicinal Products, a collection of experience reports by anthroposophic doctors reviewed by an international editorial board, continues to grow: the third edition, which has been supplemented by more than 100 further indications, will also include oncological mistletoe therapy. An introductory chapter is being prepared by specialists. In 2011, the second edition of the German version was available as a CD and in print and there was an Italian translation of the first edition (print version). Trans-lations into French and Spanish are in progress. IMKA continues to call on anthroposophic physicians to participate in this task both through sending in new experience reports and

Dr. med. Andreas ArendtSpecialist in general medicine (FMH), Executive council member of VAOAS / Association of Anthroposo-phic Physicians in Switzerland and the IVAA, IMKA [email protected]


through sharing critical comments on the existing experiences. In this way the quality of the Vademecum is to be continuously improved.

Contacts with manufacturersIMKA had meetings with WALA in January 2011 and with Weleda in May and Novem-ber 2011. The topics were the international availability of the medicinal products range and the situation of WALA and Weleda medicinal products in Italy. Another concern was developments at Weleda with the move of the production of medicinal products: part of the industrial production is being moved from the factories in Arlesheim and Huningue to Schwäbisch Gmünd. The production of creams is being concentrated in Arlesheim. IMKA has further campaigned for Weleda, as the sole manufacturer with an international base, to register a sufficiently large basic range of medicinal products in Germany so that they can also be available in future in other countries. At the GAS general meeting at the Goethe-anum on 28 May 2011 on the subject of Weleda and the GAS, IMKA delivered a statement which referred to the work of IMKA and its existing contacts with the manufacturers.In September 2011, IMKA chaired the joint meeting between the conference of interna-tional medical associations and the manufacturers of anthroposophic medicinal products at which the view of the organ preparations was discussed, among other things. Cattle as donor animals are again being questioned by the authorities due to the BSE risk, which will lead to new challenges in the registration of organ preparations. Andreas Arendt

Anthroposophic medicines in the EU, developments in 2011

Anthroposophic medicinal products / AMPs have become better known throughout Europe but their secure legal basis and marketability at EU level has not yet been sufficiently realised. There were various events / processes at political as well as specialist level: that included, for example, the healthy breakfast of the European umbrella organisation of homoeopathic and anthroposo-phic medicine producers, ECHAMP / European Coalition on Homoeopathic and Anthroposophic Medicinal Products, on 13 April 2011 in the EU Parliament on the subject of the scientific evi-dence on efficacy in homoeopathic and anthroposophic medicine, the lunchtime meeting of the IVAA in the European Parliament on 10 May 2011 on the subject of anthroposophic medicine as well as the meetings between EU Commissioner John Dalli and ECHAMP on 17 October 2010 and with the Commissioner as part of handing over the million signatures of the ELIANT campaign on 13 May 2011.AMPs are now also represented in the technical bodies in Europe: the commission of the Eu-ropean Pharmacopoeia (the pharmacopoeia is the legally binding collection of quality criteria) this year confirmed the inclusion of anthroposophic production processes in accordance with homoeopathic production techniques in the European Pharmacopoeia. This means, for exam-ple, that globule production by aqueous process, in the development of which the pioneer of anthroposophic pharmacy, Dr. Rudolf Hauschka, was involved, now accords with a European pharmaceutical standard. The Herbal Medicinal Products Committee / HMPC of the London EMA / European Medicines Agency has studied the anthroposophic mistletoe preparations. Although it is not yet possible for the HMPC to reach a positive assessment because of the current state of the data, mistletoe in oncology has for the first time been discussed there in detail. The pharmacists’ associations in Switzerland, Association for Anthroposophically Extended Pharmacy, and Germany, Society of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany, are working on both

Dipl. Pharm. Christiaan MolBoard member of the International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists,Board member of ECHAMP [email protected]


endeavours to implement further definitions and quality standards in their respective national pharmacopoeias, Pharmacopoeia Helvetica and the German Pharmacopoeia. This work is pro-gressing gradually.At the level of internationally organised industry, i.e. ECHAMP, there was, however, a setback in that the Heel Group left. As ECHAMP board member I hope that the collaboration with Heel at project level can be continued. The work continued on drawing up a legal system for treatment systems through ESCAMP, European Scientific Cooperative on Anthroposophic Medicinal Pro-ducts: meetings took place with representatives from European authorities as well as with other umbrella organisations. The basic scientific idea as well as the way to achieve the desired social influence were presented during the annual conference of the Medical Section in September. 2011 was a year of investment. In 2012 the task will be to continue on the paths which have been prepared with the aim of integrating AMPs fully into EU legislation. Christiaan Mol

Report of the Association Européenne des Fabricants de Médica-ments utilisés en Thérapeutique Anthroposophique / AEFMUTA

How to move from a fragmented legal framework for anthroposophic medicinal products to a harmonised regulatory situation in the EU?Despite almost two decades of advocacy work at the European level, anthroposophic medicinal products as such have not yet been included in the legislation in place in the European Union nor in most of the member states. There is some progress and also the level of presence in the discussions and publications at EU level is a sign of hope that they will one day get their legiti-mate place in the legal provisions for medicinal products in the European Union. Homoeopathic and traditional herbal medicinal products have a legal basis in Directive 2001 / 83 / EC on medicinal products for human use. For homoeopathic medicinal products, the directive provides for two specific procedures for market access of these medicinal products in articles 14, 15 and 16. As defined in Article 1.5 of the Directive, supplemented by Recital 22 of the same Directive,1 this applies equally to all anthroposophic medicinal products (AMPs) that are homoeopathically produced.The Special Simplified Registration Procedure of Article 14 can be used only for products with-out indications, only for oral or external use and in a dilution which is absolutely safe. A marketing authorisation in line with Article 16.2 is possible in countries willing to give this kind of authorisations to homoeopathic products which do not fit in the conditions of Article 14 such as homoeopathic medicinal products carrying indications, injections and single or complex products containing substances in low dilutions.Traditional herbal medicinal products are defined in Article 1.29 and Article 16a(1) of Direct-ive 2001 / 83 / EC.2 A number of limitations exclude the large majority of anthroposophic medicinal products also from this simplified so-called herbal traditional use registration: the products can only have indications exclusively appropriate to traditional herbal medicinal products which, by virtue of their composition and purpose, are intended and designed for use without the supervision of a medical practitioner; they are exclusively for oral, external or inhalation administration in accordance with a specified strength and posology; the period of traditional use is at least 30 years, of which at least 15 years in the European Union, and the data on the traditional use of the medicinal product are sufficient which means that the product proves not to be harmful in the specified conditions of use and the pharmacological effects or efficacy of the medicinal product are plausible on the basis of long-standing use

Patrick Sirdey CEOMember of Weleda’s board of man-agement, President of AEFMUTAAssociation Européenne des Fabri-cants de Médicaments utilisés en Thérapeutique [email protected]

1 Definition in Article 1.5 of Directive 2001/83/EC: "Any medicinal product prepared from substances called homoe-opathic stocks in accordance with a homeopathic manufac-turing procedure described by the European Pharmacopoeia or, in absence thereof, by the pharmacopoeias currently used officially in the Member States; a homoeopathic medicinal product may contain a number of principles."2The above definition should be supplemented by Recital 22 of Directive 2001/83/EC: "The anthroposophic medicinal products described in an official pharmacopoeia and prepared by a homoeopathic method are to be treated, as regards registrati-on and marketing authorisation, in the same way as homoeopa-thic medicinal products."


and experience. There are still a large number of AMPs that are not covered by the definition in Article 1.5 of Directive 2001 / 83 / EC as enlarged by Recital 22 of the same Directive, or by the definition of traditional herbal medicinal products as defined in Article 1.293 and Article 16a(1) of Directive 2001 / 83 / EC.

The national legal framework overcomes this fragmentation in only a few European countries: in Germany, anthroposophic medicinal products have full legal status4 and statistics on the German agencies’ website indicate a figure of 1,050 authorised anthroposophic medicinal pro-ducts, including from both homoeopathic and non-homoeopathic production.Anthroposophic medicinal products also have a full legal status in Switzerland; according to a Swiss survey, there are a total 2,200 anthroposophic medicinal products licensed for marketing. Switzerland has licensing procedures for all homoeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal products which are defined in the Swiss Ordinance on Complementary and Herbal Medicinal Products. According to the Ordinance, there are three procedures: an easy notification proce-dure, a procedure of simplified registration and a procedure of specific marketing authorisa-tion. A further positive development is the existence of an extensive monograph, Anthroposo-phic Preparations, in the Swiss Pharmacopoeia.New considerations such as free choice of therapy, availability and accessibility, countries with good practice, and national healthcare budgets might play a more important role in decision-making as regards the extension of the European legislation on medicinal products. A con-sideration which is still absent is the fact that anthroposophic medicinal products should be assessed on the basis of the therapeutic principles of anthroposophic medicine as regards their quality, safety and efficacy. As this is successfully done in two countries in Europe, our advoca-cy work in Brussels should concentrate on this. It is our hope that in the medium term this will lead to solutions at EU level. Nand De Herdt

Nand De HerdtTreasurer – AEFMUTA,President – ECHAMP/European Coalition on Homeopathic and An-throposophic Medicinal [email protected]

3 Article 1.29: Traditional herbal medicinal pro-duct: a herbal medicinal product that fulfils the conditions laid down in Article 16a(1); Article 16a(1): A simplified registration procedure (hereinafter 'traditional-use registration') is hereby established for herbal medicinal pro-ducts which fulfil all of the following criteria:(a) they have indications exclusively appropriate to traditional herbal medicinal products which, by virtue of their composition and purpose, are intended and designed for use without the su-pervision of a medical practitioner for diagnostic purposes or for prescription or monitoring of treatment;(b) they are exclusively for administration in accord-ance with a specified strength and posology;(c) they are an oral, external and/or inhalation preparation;(d) the period of traditional use as laid down in Article 16c(1)(c) has elapsed;(e) the data on the traditional use of the med-

icinal product are sufficient; in particular the product proves not to be harmful in the specified conditions of use and the pharmacological effects or efficacy of the medicinal product are plausible on the basis of long-standing use and experience.

4Definition in Article 4.33 of the 15th amend-ment of the German Medicines Act: An an-throposophic medicinal product is a medicinal product that has been developed in accordance with the anthroposophical understanding of the human being and nature and that is produced in accordance with a homoeopathic manufacturing process described in the European Pharmaco-poeia, or in absence thereof in a pharmacopo-eia officially used in the Member States, or in accordance with a special anthroposophical manufacturing process and that is intended for use in accordance with the anthroposophical principles concerning the human being and nature’.


International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists / IAAP and the Society of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany / GAPiD

GAPiDThe Society of Anthroposophic Pharmacists in Germany / GAPiD recently celebrated its tenth anniversary. The result of a desire by Weleda and Wala pharmacists to create a network with likeminded people, particularly pharmacists working in pharmacies, as well as to establish an independent professional training, the foundation stone for the professional association, still at the time called BAAD / Professional Association of Anthroposophical Pharmacists in Germany, was laid in Stuttgart (Rudolf Steiner House) in spring 2001. Through its umbrella organisation, it has been part of the International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM in the Medical Section at the Goetheanum from the beginning. Key aims of the initiative since its foundation have been achieved. For example, the occupa-tional profile of anthroposophic pharmacists, which did not exist up to that point, has been created with a corresponding code of conduct and advanced training regulations; on that basis a further and advanced training institution was also established: the GAPiD Academy. Its wide spectrum of events can be found on the GAPiD website which is linked with the DAMiD website and the Anthroposophic Medicine Training Network. www. gapid-akademie.de.In the meantime, 15 colleagues have obtained the specialist title of pharmacist or instructor in anthroposophic pharmacy, as set out in the internal training regulations (IWO) based on the further training ordinance of the state Pharmacists’ Association, and are thereby competent specialists in anthroposophic medicinal products or communicators of anthroposophic medi-cine. They are ideally positioned for close local collaboration with their medical colleagues and medical practices.Two years ago, the Section for Anthroposophical Pharmaceutical Assistants was established within the GAPiD which now also has its own occupational profile and internal advanced train-ing regulations.Rising membership numbers show that increasing numbers of pharmacists and pharmacy tech-nicians are interested in this specialist advanced training and that the anthroposophic medical impulse is continuing to spread among pharmacies in Germany.A new five-part advanced training series, designed for the two professions of anthroposophic physician and pharmacist, might also have contributed to this: the basic course in anthroposo-phic medicinal products of the Society of Anthroposophic Physicians in Germany (GÄAD) / GA-PID. It runs over two years in five modules of five days each which are held at anthroposophical producers.The first module from 9–13 March 2011 with WELEDA, Schwäbisch Gmünd, as the host was fully booked and very popular. Seventy participants spontaneously registered for the following course which took place from 29 June–3 July at WALA, whereby only 80 places are available. The enthusiastic feedback shows that the concept of interdisciplinary learning with a lot of practical and group work is a success.The 2011 programme of the GAPiD Academy included well over 20 further and advanced training events: weekend seminars, lectures, practical courses, visits to medicine producers and even further training trips. The latter were particularly popular: a further training trip to Paris with the physician Martin Straube in October 2010 combined seminar work on the subject of Burnout and Modern Living with visits to art museums and Parisian experiences. This year’s seminar trip was fully booked.

Dr. Manfred KohlhasePresident of the [email protected],Chairman of the Council of the Society of Anthroposophic Phar-macists in Germany (GAPID)www.gapid.de

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A wholly new impulse of the GAPiD could give anthroposophic pharmacists and anthroposo-phic medicine and its medicinal products even greater exposure and thus effectiveness: the establishment of a Network of Anthroposophic Pharmacies. This took place in Kassel in May 2011 on occasion of the GAPiD general meeting. After almost two years of preparation by an initiative group of GAPID members, the GAPiD Quality Network of Pharmacies, GAPiD-QV for short, which aim to make their anthroposophical orientation clear to everyone, was born. The pharmacies combined in this network communicate a high level of consulting competence for anthroposophic medicinal products and are potential manufacturers of individual prescriptions from anthroposophic physicians. One prerequisite for membership of this pharmacy community is therefore that one pharmacist specialising in anthroposophic pharmacy and correspondingly trained staff work in the establishment.The applicants must go through a GAPID accreditation process in every case which deter-mines whether the conditions / quality criteria for an anthroposophic pharmacy have been complied with.A further important step is then the acquisition of the license for the AnthroMed® Pharmacy label which the GAPiD can award to a QV pharmacy. The aim would be to establish an Anthro-Med® pharmacy network across the whole of Germany which tells patients that they are receiv-ing competent advice about anthroposophic medicine or that the corresponding preparations can be made there. Patients would also benefit from access to specific information about an-throposophic medical practices, therapists or hospitals, and recommendations and explanations about corresponding treatment methods, etc. In short, anthroposophic pharmacy and medicine would spread and be promoted with high public visibility and as a reputable form of treatment.The shareholders of AnthroMed® gGmbH in agreement with the Medical Section at the Goethe-anum recently contractually assigned the right to GAPiD to grant the Anthromed® Pharmacy label. Thus together with the clinical sector and eurythmy therapy there is now a third partner in the alliance who can carry this quality label out into the world.

IAAPIn the same way that the German society provides the framework for the relevant professional community, so associations of anthroposophically working pharmacists have been set up in other countries – Belgium, Brazil, Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland. In the meantime there are more than 200 pharmacists worldwide who concern themselves with anthroposophic pharmacy and have joined the network.The Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists / IAAP umbrella organisation therefore endeav-ours to promote the exchange between the national societies. In this context setting interna-tional standards regarding pharmaceutical issues plays an important role. Thus the committee of the Anthroposophic Pharmaceutical Codex / APC is working intensively on a revised second edition. The most important new developments are the inclusion of concrete substance monographs as well as production rules for mistletoe preparations. These were drawn up with particular effort by various experts from the network and made available.The International Further Education in Anthroposophic Pharmacy training standard was pub-lished on the Internet this year www.iaap.org.uk / downloads / Intern-Education-Anthroposo-phic-Pharmacy-18-11-10.pdf. The attitude with which the IAAP works internationally is one of support. The motto think globally, act locally applies. Manfred Kohlhase


Dr. med. Helmut KieneIFAEMM, Institute for Applied Epi-stemology/Medical MethodologyMember of the Executive Board of the Research Councilhelmut.kiene@ifaemm.dewww.dialogforum-pluralismusindermedizin.de

Prof. Dr. med. Peter MatthiessenWitten Herdecke UniversityMember of the Executive Board of the Research [email protected] www.dialogforum-pluralismusindermedizin.de

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It requires constant repetition: it is the physician who examines the human being exter-nally and internally, using the hands, x-rays, psychoanalysis, laboratories, macroscopically, microscopically, with molecular biology, genetically ... or also anthroposophically. No other class of profession observes the human being so comprehensively and so professionally across such a broad range as the physician. The physician (not the philosopher, psycho-logist, physicist or educator) is the professional of the human image. The way that the majority of physicians think – that is the way that their respective culture thinks. And this applies with particular force in the present: if the classic period of philosophy occurred 200 years ago, the great period of transformation in physics took place one hundred years ago, then today science culminates in the life sciences, and it does so with great hopes in respect of medicine.If medicine is materialistic, then so is the culture as a whole, and if medicine had a differ-ent scientific understanding of the human being then that would also apply with regard to society as a whole with all the consequences that entails. Nothing less is at stake, seen globally among other things, with regard to research in anthroposophic medicine, with regard to its scientific penetration and illumination.It is all the more pleasing, then, that this research has gathered momentum in recent years in terms of content and structure. It is no longer easy to report in detail about all the publications which appeared in 2011; anyone interested should therefore go to the websites of the IVAA and the Medical Section which generously keep listing new articles and making them available for download. But at least Peter Heusser’s book should be mentioned here: Anthroposophische Medizin und Wissenschaft. Beiträge zu einer integrativen medizinischen Anthropologie (Anthroposophic Medicine and Science. Contributions to an integrative medical anthropology), published by Schattauer Verlag.Things are also moving at a personal and structural level: Dirk Cysarz (Herdecke), David Martin (Tübingen), Harald Matthes (Berlin) and Ursula Wolf (Switzerland) obtained their habilitation this year and others are in progress. The Freiburg Institute for Applied Episte-mology and Medical Methodology became an associate institute of Witten / Herdecke University; and in Aberdeen, Scotland, there is the prospect of a chair being established which must be wished the best of luck. In order to improve the communication situation between researchers, there will be an English-Language Research Letter and a research section in Merkurstab. The master plan for the so-called academisation of anthroposophic medicine, which is intended systematically to develop its capacities to be scientifically present and of scientific presentation, has started well. In all these respects gratitude is due to the generous sponsors, above all the Software AG Foundation, but also the Mahle Foundation, GLS Foundation Fund, etc.And please make a note: against this background a research congress on anthroposo-phic medicine will take place in Berlin in March 2012. Attendance will be well worth-while. Helmut Kiene


Association of Anthroposophic Clinics

The AnthroMed® label, established in 2008, was presented in detail in the 2010 annual report. To begin with, the CLINIC NETWORK and EURYTHMY THERAPY sectors decided to use the label. On the basis of the agreement reached in autumn 2010 between AnthroMed gGmbH and the Medical Section on a cooperation with regard to the AnthroMed® label (documented as a download under www.anthromed.net /de/anthromed/marke/), talks are being held with other sectors of anthroposophic medicine / AM. An agreement on the use of the label was signed with the PHARMACY sector during the annual conference in Dornach in September 2011. Now pharmacies with specially qualified pharmacists and staff competent to give advice on anthroposophic medicines can specifically indicate this to their customers. Currently work is being undertaken on the brand label with regard to appropriate criteria for the certification of practices and therapeutic centres in the medical out-patient field. Physicians from Austria, the Netherlands and Britain have so far shown a particular interest in this.So far 12 clinics and specialist departments have been certified in accordance with the AnthroMed® CLINIC NETWORK criteria. Every three years there is another inspection and the target agreements on quality or structural improvements under the list of criteria are examined and agreed for the next three-year period. Thus the label process with transpar-ent criteria promotes a continuous improvement in quality for anthroposophic clinics. The outside world – i.e. non-anthroposophic clinics – are beginning to show an interest in our label certificate and are seeking advice about ways to qualify.The problem of the next generation of specialists, particularly in the medical field, is growing in urgency for the clinics. A good training for up-and-coming specialist physicians is therefore of existential importance. As long as two years ago a project was therefore initi-ated with the aim of achieving a sustained improvement in the training of assistants. After a period of inactivity – also due to illness – activities have resumed again. In the meantime there is a successfully working training ward at the Filder Clinic. A modular system is to be drawn up together with the GAÄD which gives assistant physicians a structured progres-sion of their training to become an anthroposophic physician. In Switzerland the situation is somewhat different in that an official label, the so-called certificate of competence as an anthroposophic physician, already exists which is recognised by the national medical asso-ciation (FMH). But in additional to the medical qualification, management abilities also play an increasingly important role in the clinic context because otherwise the management positions in the specialist departments cannot be filled by anthroposophic physicians.Following the creation of the AnthroMed label, which in particular reflects the content of anthroposophic medicine in clinical settings in an externally visible formal structure, the focus is turning increasingly on the social form of hospitals. This problem was also raised in the context of this year’s annual conference of the Medical Section from the perspective of the concept of the communal hospital.Another problem, the permanent underfunding of our hospitals, continues to await systematic attention. On the whole, there can only be economically sustainable viability if certain prerequisites are given. One great challenge is the maintenance and, in particular, the renewal of the infrastructure. Roland Bersdorf, Andreas Jäschke

Dr. rer. nat. Andreas JäschkeManager of Ita Wegman [email protected]

Dr. med. Roland BersdorfManager of Havelhöhe district hospital, Executive board member of the Association of Anthroposo-phic [email protected]

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Rolf HeineNurseExecutive board member/Associ-ation of Anthroposophic Nursing Professions in GermanyUmbrella Association for Anthropo-sophic Medicine/[email protected]

International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing

The International Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing / IFAP combines nurses from 16 coun-tries in all parts of the world. The task of the Forum is reciprocal awareness, advice and sup-port in the fields of nursing practice, nursing science as well as training, further training and advanced training.

Training, further training and advance training in anthroposophic nursingThere are currently five anthroposophic nursing training courses with state recognition worldwide (four in Germany, one in Georgia!). Building on a general nursing training, advanced training in anthroposophic nursing can be attended in eight countries on four continents. This advanced training is adapted individually to national requirements but is guided by the guidelines which were agreed within the IFAP. About 150 experts in anthroposophic nursing were certified in recent years. This year for the first time, three colleagues passed through and successfully completed the complete advanced training programme to become an expert in anthroposophic nursing (foundation course, advanced training course, examination). Also for the first time, five colleagues from the USA were certified as experts in rhythmical massage in accordance with the rules set out in the handbook which was adopted last year. The certifi-cation of experts and the approval of course programmes for training, further training and advanced training is organised and documented by the Office for Quality in Anthroposophic Nursing QAP. Procedures and handbooks are available on the QAP website. www.qualitaet-ap.org

What concerned us in 2011 We were particularly shocked in the past year by the natural disasters in New Zealand and Fukushima. A long-planned further training course in Japan had to be replaced by a one-week video conference as a result of the earthquake. At the IFAP annual conference our colleagues from Japan reported impressively about the situation in their country and about the help they were able to give locally with their nursing resources, particularly rhythmical massage. This shaking of the earth and the political, economic and ecological upheavals of the last year gave us cause to put the so-called Samaritan course, which Rudolf Steiner gave shortly after the outbreak of the World War I, at the centre of the anthroposophic nursing work. It forms the spiritual background to the nursing congress which will be held at the Goetheanum in 2012.

Nursing congress – Injury and Healing from 27–29 April 2012Injuries through accidents, operations, tumours or abscesses forcefully cause a breach in the integrity of the body. The wound requires care, the injured person requires care to recover. The invisible wounds caused by psychological violence are often more painful than physical violence. Care can help human dignity to return. Social conflicts, wars, hunger are wounds from which all of humanity is suffering – not only those directly affected. How can we take responsibility for these manmade injuries? How can we help when natural disasters shake the earth itself and with it countless human beings are injured? The congress of the Internation-al Forum for Anthroposophic Nursing aims to give answers and suggestions with regard to these questions. The holistic care of the wound with classic bandages and methods of phyto-therapy will be discussed equally with the treatment and care of psychologically traumatised people. The role of empathy with the individual person, responsibility for social conflicts and their effect on the earth’s organism form the perspective for practical but at the same time spiritual nursing. Rolf Heine


Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy

The event of the year which probably left the greatest impression was the Vienna Congress: it was the fifth international conference for people with disabilities in the Vienna Congress Cen-tre, with more than 700 participants from 20 countries. Alongside the search for the places where Rudolf Steiner lived and worked, the conference was about the central issue of these meetings: about encounter.International collaboration in the field of curative education and social therapy is determined by the annual plenum of the Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy which is attended mostly by 90 people from over 40 countries and the representatives of the specialist areas. The focus was on developments in the Asia-Pacific region, where provisions for people with disabilities on the basis of anthroposophical methods have only been developed in recent years. That is contrasted by developments in the European Union where, in accordance with the objectives of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a strong intention for their social inclusion can be observed, but also an increasing density of rules and regulations. The places where anthroposophical curative education and social therapy are practiced are therefore often subject in many countries to heterogeneous influences – if often for a variety of reasons – which require a constant debate about their self-image and develop-ment within their actual situation. Thus the concept of the ‘I’ in anthroposophy represents a central foundation and unique feature which needs to be communicated and explained.Developments in the training field are worked on at the annual training conference in Kassel in which almost all training courses worldwide participate: this year with intensive work on how the study of anthroposophy in the training courses can be communicated and maintained in a contemporary, exciting and productive way. New training initiatives such as in Colombia, where more than 120 people turned up for a two-week initial training module, show that there are many people who have a binding interest in this method and professi-onal practice. The Healing and Education conferences which have been held for 16 years as an exchange of views between special education and anthroposophical curative education, education and medicine, as well as East and West, were concluded with the most recent conference. Since this series of conferences was started on occasion of the 70th birthday of curative education and its important representative Hans Müller-Wiedemann in 1994, the points of contact between these three fields have become a much more normal part of their collaboration, contacts which are also intensively maintained at the academic locations of anthroposophic curative education, e.g. Aberdeen, Alfter or Oslo. A new series of scientific books in a cooperation between the publishers Verlag am Goetheanum and Athena Verlag is intended to give expression to the public interest in research in curative education and social therapy with the first volumes due this winter.Further information is available at www.khsdornach.org and in the journal Seelenpflege in Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie.Rüdiger Grimm

Prof. Dr. phil. Rüdiger GrimmSecretary of the Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy, Med-ical Section at the Goetheanum, and Professor of Curative Education at the Alanus University for Arts and Social Sciences in [email protected]


Angelika JaschkeEurythmy TherapistEurythmy Therapy [email protected]@forumHE-medsektion.netwww.forumHE-medsektion.net

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Future workshop – 100 years of eurythmyRudolf Steiner’s concept of art arising from the practice of eurythmy as stage art, art in education (educational eurythmy), art in a social context (eurythmy in a social context) and art in medicine (eurythmy therapy) brought us together at Easter for the World Eurythmy Conference. The different structure of the conference, as a result of which these four areas of eurythmy encountered one another through their work together (with the collaboration of two Sections), created fruitful stimuli for the future. The very special keynote lectures were published as a brochure in September which can be obtained for seven euros through the Medical Section [email protected].

AnthroMed®Alongside Germany and Austria (2010), the quality label was granted this year to the profes-sional eurythmy therapy associations in Hungary, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The USA and Finland will follow shortly. In Britain, a different exciting route is being taken for each pro-fessional grouping via the Dachverband Anthroposophische Medizin through the Standards of Competence drawn up by CAHSC (Council for Anthroposophic Health & Social Care) which will lead to the granting of AnthroMed®.For eurythmy therapy, AnthroMed is not only important with regard to quality development but it is also the only international protection for our name and methods which we have as a non-regulated therapeutic profession! AnthroMed® is a quality label for the whole anthropo-sophic medical movement. It is located spiritually in the Medical Section, managed econom-ically by the company which owns it, AnthroMed gGmbH, and at the agreement level can be granted to the nationally registered professional associations and institutions. A threefold, decentralised, international quality label which bears within it the opportunity for global recognition and identification.

TrainingThe accreditation process (IKAM accreditation) for the professional groups comprising euryth-my therapists, nursing, physiotherapists (rhythmical massage), art therapists and specialists in curative education on the basis of a common accreditation procedure (accreditation hand-book) is progressing. The eurythmy therapy trainings in Britain and Germany (Alanus Universi-ty) successfully completed the process in 2010 with much inner benefit. In 2011 the training in the USA embarked on this course and in 2012 it will be the training in Sweden.An important part of this quality process is the audit across the professions as a help for self-reflection and self-correction of training centres. The auditors have now gone through the second year of their three-year auditor training. With great professionalism and much person-al commitment the necessary social abilities are being trained together. Mutual respect has arisen among the auditors of the five professional groups and real-life experience made clear how helpful these visits to other professions can be.

We made the suggestion at the World Eurythmy Conference at Easter that the various re-search projects and results should be presented. It became clear how much research work has been undertaken in the last two years. That led to the impulse to have an interchange between the various eurythmy therapy approaches and versions.A first meeting took place under the coordination of Prof. Dr. med. Arndt Büssing (Herdecke)

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on 24 October 2011. The eurythmy therapy research group is open for colleagues and physi-cians who are interested in the issues of documentation and research through their own work.

Professional associationsThe eurythmy therapy professional associations which have been working together for the last 14 years constituted themselves as an official working group (society under civil law) this year. The national professional associations have developed international standards in the last ten years which today are a key prerequisite for using the AnthroMed label: that includes registration with the national trademark office and clear further training regulations with an exclusion clause in the event of non-fulfilment.At an international political and legal level, we have established a federation of eurythmy therapy and art therapy professional associations after many years of preliminary work: the International Federation of Anthroposophic Arts and Eurythmy Therapies / IFAAET. Each of the two professions remains completely independent in their methodological approach but in the system of anthroposophic medicine we have entered a strategic alliance at a legal level.

Fields of applicationAwareness of the national specialist skills in the six fields in which eurythmy therapy is offered is slowly but steadily developing . (Eurythmy therapy in the first seven-year period, school eurythmy therapy, curative education and social therapy, the clinics, independent practice as well as the work with senior citizens).Field-specific professional profiles are being created from the point of view of basing them on the relevant specific knowledge of the human being and the specific therapy that is called for, as well as working on methodological questions regarding eurythmy therapy. A first interna-tional meeting of the various fields of endeavour took place during the 2011 World Eurythmy Conference.

Delegate conferenceThe higher level heart organ of our eurythmy therapy professional movements is the annual meeting of the 38 country and six field and work area representatives (delegate conference). From here impulses go back to the countries and work areas where the decisions are made. This year we worked on the subject: encounter – trust – responsibility for the whole.

FinancingOur financing concept, in which every eurythmy therapist gives the ForumHE / Medical Section the monetary value of one hour of therapy as an annual solidarity contribution, now allows us to cover the basic costs of our professional field (with the help of two foundations) almost by ourselves. But for any project work we are dependent on financial assistance.

Public relations workOur own website www.forumHE-medsektion.net, which contains all the international basic standards and information regarding eurythmy therapy in German and English, helps us in-ternally and enables us to be transparent externally. It is continuously being expanded and is always right up to date. We would very much hope for comprehensive linking within the AM movement in the near future. Angelika Jaschke


International Coordination of Art Therapy / AKT

There was good news and bad news in 2011. The good news was that the power of Anthropo-sophic Art Therapy / AKT came to appearance in many places and in quite individual ways – the bad news was that our training under private law is hardly able to survive in some countries. How did this development manifest in concrete terms?

Increased conference activityThe International Study Days for Anthroposophic Art Therapy once again attracted a rising number of participants which undoubtedly was connected with the relevant subject of trauma work and trauma therapy. Developing artistic approaches based on experience and know-ledge, and including our understanding of the human being, into which we can also integrate non-anthroposophical methods, is the objective for our practical work. The contributions from therapists who as part of an organisation work in disaster zones, prisons, with refugees or the victims of torture were impressive. But also the unnoticed, more every-day traumas, e.g. through the abuse of power at work, were included in the reflections. The work results and recorded contributions to the plenum from the three conferences on the subject of trauma (2010-2012) will be published in the coming year in a documentation.www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/EYED2/files/file/Arbeitstage Kunsttherapie Einladung 2012 d.pdf The 2011 conference of anthroposophic painting therapists was held in Jaerna, the 43rd study conference of music therapists in Berlin and Michaela Glöckler was invited to the art therapy conferences at Ottersberg College (Anthroposophy in the higher education context. Challenge and opportunity) and Alanus University (Art therapy and anthroposophy) as lecturer for AKT. At the annual conference of the Medical Section, creative speech and singing in the main auditor-ium allowed everyone to experience the artistic resources which we use for our therapeutic work. Working groups from the field of anthroposophic art therapy (Vitalising and harmonising the breathing middle through singing therapy, Substance transformation in eurythmy therapy and the anthroposophical art therapies, The threefold and fourfold human being in art therapy according to Liane Collotd'Herbois) extended the spectrum of this socially so communicative con-ference. In a working meeting with physicians responsible for training we had the opportunity to present therapeutic creative speech which for me at the same time gave rise to new ideas with regard to the future collaboration with physicians.

Research endeavoursAt the annual conference of the Medical Section, posters on the efficacy of therapeutic creative speech and coloured light therapy were shown. Currently further research projects are being conducted on therapeutic creative speech, music therapy and painting therapy and we hope to publish the results in the coming year.

All pulling together – professional policyIn September, the International Federation of Anthroposophic Arts and Eurythmy Therapies / IFAAET was established as a registered association in Switzerland. Professional associations of both pro-fessions and from various countries voted on the statutes of the federation and elected the first executive council. The tasks of the IFAAET include setting up representation at international level of the national anthroposophical art therapy and eurythmy therapy professional associations under public law, promoting the development of AKT and eurythmy therapy / ET in countries without a professional association und giving mutual help and support, working on the further

Kirstin KaiserSpeech and art therapist,specialising in dramaand speech therapy, International Coordinatorfor Art [email protected]

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development of the legal bases of the AKT and ET in association with the Medical Section at the Goetheanum and coordinating activities under public law which are of international impor-tance for IFAAET members. The professional associations of anthroposophical art therapy were in favour of granting the AnthroMed® label to members and drew up the criteria for a contract with AnthroMed® gGmbH.

Developments in training and advanced trainingMuch has happened in the training field: a training at Bachelor level in anthroposophic art the-rapy / social art started in September at Alanus University in addition to the Master course. The European Academy – the accreditation body for art therapy training leading to a professional qualification in the Medical Section – drew up a competence list and handbook. That supports the ongoing and new training initiatives. The working group of the schools for anthroposophic art therapy offering advanced training developed an accreditation process which is comparable to those of other professions in the Medical Section. In future, a trained and interdisciplinary team of auditors will be able to manage the accreditation process. We have received news from Prague, Bratislava, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Buenos Aires about the development of new training courses. In the German-speaking countries the low uptake at privately run schools is threatening their existence. Good and proven quality of training is under threat as their qualifi-cations are not recognised by the state. In Switzerland a professional regulation for art therapists was adopted, opening the way to a legally recognised profession also for anthroposphic art therapists in all fields. In the field of music therapy this fact perhaps also contributed to a full training course starting at the Orpheus School for Music Therapy.

Going publicIn October, the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations (IVAA) drew up an update of Facts and Figures on Anthroposophic Medicine in Europe. The data relating to the artistic therapies were based on a survey which the IVAA carried out with the profes-sional associations. The good preliminary work by DAKART (Executive Councils of the Art Therapy Professional Associations) meant that already existing data could be updated and made available. Facts and Figures shows the representation of active art therapists and a comparison with other disciplines. www.ivaa.info. The publication of books in some specialist areas was gratifying. Kirstin Kaiser

International Coordination of Physiotherapy and Physical Therapies / APT

Allowing the future to enter and taking hold of and shaping new formsTwo events determined the year: the international conference for physiotherapy and physical therapy and the establishment of the IAABT: in the spring, from 7–10 April 2011, the interna-tional conference at the Goetheanum met with lively interest in its subject of pain treatment in anthroposophic physiotherapy – diagnosis, therapy and biographical relevance. The lectures by Dr. med. David Mc Gavin focused on the one hand on the potential of heat, on the other hand he illuminated the situation of patients with chronic pain. Participants warmed to his descrip-tions of working to achieve true healing moments. In her remarks, Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler gave suggestions with regard to finding the meaning of pain. The anthroposophical path of schooling can make a supporting contribution through the relationship between the physical body and the ’I’. Concrete ways of working specific to the profession were enhanced by the

Slezak-Schindler C.:Die Kunst der Sprachgestaltung im Atemraum der Zeit, Marie Steiner Verlag, Unterlengenhardt 2011

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Petersen P., Gruber H., Tüpker R. (Hrsg.): Forschungsmethoden Künstlerischer Therapien. Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011


participants in the various working groups through their thoughts and approaches.In the autumn a completely new step for our international movement was realised: the establishment of the International Association for Anthroposophic Body Therapy / IAABT on 16 September 2011. As a result of the forceful initiative of Lydia Engel, Sabine Nagel, Dieter Bigler and Reinhold Schön there were clear and well-prepared statutes which were discussed beforehand internationally with colleagues.Those attending decided unanimously that certification for anthroposophic physiothera-pists should be drawn up based on the seven points of the certification for anthroposophic physicians. The Association arose out of the impulse to provide an umbrella for the various body therapies which have developed through anthroposophy, but also out of the wish to develop an internationally recognisable certification, including quality characteristics which are common to these therapies.The Association wishes to represent anthroposophic body therapy in public and be a point of contact. The aim, in particular, is to promote the establishment of networks and interdisci-plinary collaboration within all the medical fields of work. The internal structure is based on the representation of the structures of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum, cf. the book edited by Michaela Glöckler and Rolf Heine: The Anthroposophic Medical Movement, Responsi-bility structures and modes of work.In order to realise this aim, we need members. Please make yourself [email protected]; www.IAABT-medsektion.net

Rhythmic massage according to Dr. med. Ita WegmanThe international trainer group for rhythmical massage meets each year before the annu-al conference and is working on the foundations of the method. The schools decide their own form and structure for the collaboration within the Medical Section. New initiatives for training in rhythmical massage are waiting to be established in many places in the world, particularly Romania, Latvia, Georgia, Ukraine, India, China and more. Thus there is a new task for training the trainers. One major question is how this impulse can be borne in terms of staff and financially as a travelling training course. Our strength can lie in active interdisciplinary collaboration. I would like to thank all my colleagues who shape and support this process with their initiative. Unda Niedermann

International Coordination of Psychotherapy

PublicationsA number of books and translations were published in the specialist area of anthroposophically-based psychotherapy in 2011: On 25 March 2011, the Dutch publisher Christofoor published the book by Ad Dekkers, Psychotherapie van de menselijke waardigheid (Psychotherapy of human dignity), 423 pages. This book has meanwhile been translated into Italian and is published by Novalis under the title Psicoterapia della dignità umana. The translation was financially supported by our Italian colleagues and the anthroposophic association in Italy. Translations into English, German and Portuguese are planned

The content of the book reflects 25 years of peer-based and international study, case study-related research work, and teaching at advanced training events relating to an anthroposo-phically based psychotherapy. This started immediately after Prof. B.C.J. Lievegoed had held his first and only advanced training in anthroposophically-based psychotherapy for a group of psychotherapists and psychiatrists in the Netherlands.

Unda NiedermannCoordinator for the physiotherapy profession and Internationale Koor-dination International Coordinator for Physiotherapy and Physical [email protected]


The book has further been written from a concern that – apart from a number of good and beneficial psychotherapeutic endeavours – there is a worldwide trend in psychotherapy which, on the one hand, increasingly aims at the monosymptomatic management of symp-toms and short-term treatment using recorded procedures, while, on the other hand, a trend is spreading for the short-term methodological relief of symptoms, a process in which the two trends are distancing themselves both from a complex overall image of what it means to be human, and social, context-related pathogenesis. Both trends highlight themselves as evidence-based. Nevertheless, the book endeavours to find its place in the full range of histo-rical and modern psychotherapy. As a consequence, account is taken of other professional authors.

There is already an Italian translation of the book Borderline Erkrankungen (Borderline Disorders), Verlag Freies Geistesleben, by Dieter Beck†, Ursula Langerhorst and Henriette Dekkers, with a fore-word by Michaela Glöckler, under the title Malattie Borderline, Verlag Novalis, Milan 2005.The book appeared in Spanish on 1 May 2011. The translation was done by Dr. med. Miguel Martí-nez Falero, general practitioner and specialist in psychotherapy, president of the anthroposophic medical association in Spain. The Spanish title is Trastorno Límite de Personalidad Borderline, Verlag Rudolf Steiner, Madrid. The translation into Portuguese by Ralf Rickli was published on 1 August on occasion of the foundation of the Brazilian anthroposophic psychotherapy association by Ver-lag Ad Verbum – Anthropsófica, initiated and financed by the professional group in Curitiba, Brazil.

Advanced training and the founding of professional associationsOne of the main tasks of the IKAM coordinators was formulated in the IKAM annual report of 2005: to respond to the questions from colleagues worldwide about anthroposophically based psychotherapy by means of country-related advanced post graduate training in ac-cordance with agreed professional criteria in the context of the work of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum; subsequently to encourage the foundation of national professional associations so that the work as a whole can be independently carried on locally. This main task is now broadly coming to fruition. Active German colleagues are making moves in both areas: the DtGAP professional association and a three-year advanced training in psychothera-py, psychosomatics and psychiatry. Our Italian colleagues are also very active in both areas. The English Society for Counselling and Psychotherapy is setting up an interdisciplinary health centre in Emerson and the Brazilian professional association ABPA is active in many areas, including the Sophia foundation for advanced post-graduate training at universi-ties in Sao Paolo and Belo Horizonte. Spain has finished its first advanced post-graduate training and in Spanish Latin America a joint group from Chile, Argentina and Colombia is in its third training year. That is also the situation in Israel, although a number of colleagues in Harduf are in the process of drawing up their own psychotherapy courses.

Participation in international IPMTsIn some places, anthroposophically-based psychotherapy and psychiatry are offered as part of the IPMT. They are expertly represented in India, Chile, Colombia, Dornach / Arles-heim, St. Petersburg and Odessa. The group of lecturers is growing, but the IKAM coordina-tors are still preparing their next objective regarding ‘Train the Trainers’.

Work in the School of Spiritual Science.The group for psychotherapy in the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum has

Ad DekkersInternational Coordinator for Psycho-therapy Psychologist / [email protected]

Henriette DekkersInternational Coordinator for Psycho-therapy Psychologist / [email protected]


existed for 20 years and meets on the sidelines of the annual conference of the Medical Section. Meanwhile there are about 50 colleagues professionally deepening their know-ledge together in the class lessons. For three years, an initiative group from the department of internal medicine at the Filder Clinic has been working with regard to an understanding of the human being on vari-ous topics of pathogenesis, trauma and psychiatric clinical pictures on the basis of Rudolf Steiner’s class lessons. Both groups are fundamentally working on contemporary issues on the basis of an esoteric perspective.

IKAM’s coordination aims for the futureThe next aims can already be seen in the sunrise:

• Organisingasecretariatpost,practicallyandfinancially• Organisingfinancialresourcesfortranslatinganthroposophicalbooks,teachingmaterials

and subject-related texts by Rudolf Steiner• DevelopingaTraintheTrainerscurriculum• Examiningtheexistingqualitycriteriaandkeepingtheminaccordancewithcurrentuni-

versity criteria• Establishinganinternationalumbrellaorganisation.• UntilnowtheIKAMcoordinationhasbeenundertakenonanhonorarybasis,includingthe

supply of teaching materials, mentoring, certification, etc. But for a successor in the coordi-nation group we would wish for a supporting base on which we all still need to work.

www.medsektion-goetheanum.ch. Ad Dekkers, Henriette Dekkers-Appelt

IPMT / International Postgraduate Medical Training in Dornach 2011

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Patient Organisations and the European Federation of PatientAssociations for Anthroposophic Medicine / EFPAM

Maintaining contacts and collaboration with other patient, medical and therapists’ associations in the field of anthroposophic medicine as well as in the field of wider complementary medicine was once again an important task in the year under review. The aim of this collaboration is to create an interest among European politicians and political decision-makers in the particular problems of complementary medicine in general and anthroposophic medicine in particular.

In the year under review, EFPAM took part in various bodies and conferences, such as IKAM, the new ELIANT NGO and EUROCAM. The collaboration with other organisations such as IVAA and ECHAMP is excellent. Our good contacts with the European homoeopathic consumer umbrella association EFH-PA continued to be cultivated taking account of the particular starting positions of both organisations.In 2011 EFPAM worked on the following subjects:

• Theavailabilityofanthroposophicmedicinalproducts• TheroleofpatientsinthevisibilityoftheanthroposophicmedicalmovementinEurope

(forming alliances)• Democracyandfreedomoftherapy• The“Patientcompetence”project.

Our fully redesigned presence on the Internet, www.efpam.eu, is turning out to be increasingly important, particularly as politicians, political bodies and authorities use the Internet as their most important source of information.The EFPAM objectives can be summarised in the three As: Access, Availability and Affordability.

• Accessbyanthroposophicalhealthprofessionalsandmedicinemanufacturerstothemar-ket so that the wishes and requirements of patients can be met.

• Availabilityoftheservicesandproducts(medicines)ofanthroposophicmedicineforcon-sumers.

• AffordabilityoftheservicesandproductswithinthedifferentEuropeanhealthinsurancesystems.

• In2011,thesethreeAsweresupplementedbyafourthone:Applicability.Manypoliticiansand authorities hold the view that the registration (= Access) of medicinal products has been largely and comprehensively settled in European legislation; the reality is, unfortuna-tely, different and allows for the smooth registration of anthroposophic medicinal products only to a very restricted degree.

The current economic situation in Europe causes us great concern as it directly influences health services. It also contains a potential risk for the development and implementation of the individ-ual freedom of therapy. The subject of patient competence and, in an extended sense, health competence of the human being was once again a central theme in the year under review, on which work continued, and it will remain such in the next few years.René de Winter is working as coordinator for EFPAM (European Federation of Patients’ Associationfor Anthroposophic Medicine). Hans-Jürgen Schumacher is his deputy. René de Winter

René de Winter M.A.EFPAM / European Federation of Patients’ Associations for Anthro-posophic [email protected]

Hans-Jürgen Schumacher M.A.gesundheit aktiv, anthroposo-phische heilkunst [email protected]


27Activities report 2011 – Events and perspectives in 2012

International Young Physicians‘ Forum

How do I become a good physician?Starting with this question, we want to promote collaboration among young people with an interest in anthroposophic medicine. The question about our own training arises during our medical studies and – in a transformed form – during our internship or residency in hospital and practice. It is also closely linked with the origin and content of Rudolf Steiner’s courses for young physicians (GA 316). In the autumn of 2011 we renamed the former Coordination of Student Work as the International Young Physicians’ Forum. In this way we are opening our activities to everyone who has questions in connection with their training and are building on the people and content of the courses for young physicians. We are pleased about this new step and look forward to our future work with excitement and hope.

The International Young Physicians’ Forum currently comprises the following tasks: Student initiative: We promote and support the interchange and networking with others who are interested. We help in establishing student working groups and with their work.

Assistant initiative: The question as to good training to become an anthroposophic physician arises anew in everyday clinical work. The practical implementation of anthroposophic med-icine and the social interaction in the team represent new challenges. The assistant initiative aims to support the interchange between assistants among one another as well as to contri-bute to developing and improving the training conditions.

Research initiative: We are happy to help with finding subjects for anthroposophic medical diploma and doctoral dissertations.

Young physicians’ meeting: In the courses for young physicians, Steiner made suggestions with regard to training moral and medical abilities. Joint work on the content of this young physicians’ course gives us an inner connection.

Grants: The realisation of initiatives in anthroposophic medicine also requires financial resources. We help in the search for funding, specifically also in collaboration with the Initia-tive für Ausbildung in Anthroposophischer Medizin e.V. (Initiative for Training in Anthroposophic Medicine).

Email circular: We send out information about events and current news regarding anthro-posophic medicine in training and advanced training six times a year in the form of an email circular.

Newsletter: The Medizin und Anthroposophie newsletter is intended for the exchange of ideas and consists of contributions from readers. We welcome reports about experiences, thoughts and questions. It can be subscribed through our website.

With warm greetings from the co-workers in the International Young Physicians' Forum:Philipp Busche, Tanja Geib, Natascha Neisecke, Ann-Kristin Olk, Anna Sophia Riekert (IKAM-Vertretung), Johannes Weinzirl, Paul Werthmann

Anna Sophia RiekertInternational Young Physicians’ ForumInternational Coordination of Anthro-posophic Medicine / IKAM [email protected]

Paul WerthmannInternational Young Physicians’ Forum International Coordination of Anthro-posophic Medicine / IKAM deputy


Dr. med. Guus van der BieInternational Medical Training [email protected]

International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medical Training

The group of physicians which is endeavouring to promote the professionalisation of training is slowly developing into an international body. If up to this point the group of trainers who were involved in organising the trainer conference already had an international orientation, some national representatives were nevertheless still absent. The first steps – maintaining contact with all training centres – have been taken in forming an internationally representa-tive group of trainers which can function as interlocutors for the Coordination. Such a group makes the connection between the Coordination and the concrete local situation possi-ble. The hope is that through such a group there can be a regular exchange of views with all training courses. Particularly in respect of countries which were not represented at the trainer conference, such a group can set up effective communication so that there can be an exchange between what lives locally and what lives in the coordinator. Email is a suitable means of communication for that purpose. What might we strive for as the product of such communication?

Contacts among colleaguesIt is important that all trainers should be able contact one another at all times and the aim of the Coordination is to promote such contact as a communication interface. The international character of the medical training will be enhanced as a result and we can work together as an international community.

The physician’s path of developmentEveryone who wishes to be trained as an anthroposophic physician will embark on this spe-cific path of schooling in one form or another. The Coordination can support trainers through talks, responses to questions, teaching methods and methodological indications so that the path of schooling can be realised in the best possible way. Because this is an éducation perma-nente, a continuous process arises which is located at the centre of becoming a physician for many for the first time in training. But the Coordination also has a responsibility of its own to be able to represent this path of schooling. This group of locally active trainers should be able to recognise itself in these perspectives and also be actively involved in their development.

ResponsibilityThe anthroposophical medical training courses should be subject to public evaluation, as is taught in our training courses. In that context there should also be the possibility that the training courses and trainees are verifiably examined, which the authorities are already de-manding in some countries. Such an assessment has a social function and at the same time represents healthy feedback for the trainers and trainees.It can indeed be a very important function of this discussion group to bring together for the Coordination vital and essential perspectives with regard to these three aspects of training in joint striving and coordination in the hope that thereby the anthroposophic medical training courses are indeed internationally oriented. Guus van der Bie


Group of National Coordinators for AnthroposophicMedicine / GNCAM

An international group of physicians – representatives of the anthroposophic medical and therapeutic movement in their respective countries – met for the first time in Dornach in Sep-tember 2009 and since then have met annually with Michaela Glöckler.The exchange of views with the colleagues from the umbrella organisations worldwide is exciting. We work together with all the disciplines in our respective countries – e.g. with physi-cians, eurythmy therapists, nurses, masseurs, physiotherapists, psychotherapists and art thera-pists. Our task is to support the mutual awareness and the work of all these groupings, which is why we call ourselves coordinators. In Britain, for example, the umbrella organisation together with all the associated organisations has drawn up the competence requirements which must exist in every discipline to assure the required quality. This work concerns the level of law. It will support all disciplines in their endeavours not to lose recognition in the health system there.In many of our countries we remain in contact with all the disciplines by means of a newsletter and a website. That gives us the opportunity of regular reciprocal exchange and the possibility of mutual support.In 2010, the Group of National Coordinators of Anthroposophic Medicine / GNCAM decided that the translation of basic medical works into English will be one of the main priorities. We want to support the translation into English of up-to-date medical textbooks and specialist articles in the highest quality, as English is used universally as the language of medicine and the material thus becomes accessible to a wider public.In many cases, Rudolf Steiner’s medically relevant works have already been translated. Younger physicians also want and need the opportunity to learn from present-day clinical practice in anthroposophic medicine. In about 20 countries there are well-attended training courses for that.The young participating physicians repeatedly ask for up-to-date literature on clinical work and research in a language they can read and understand so that they can start to practice anthro-posophic medicine with responsibility and excellence.Financing for the translation of two first-class medical textbooks was generously made avail-able by the Vidar Foundation and the Mahle Foundation in 2011: Innere Medizin by Matthias Girke and Individuelle Pädiatrie by Georg Soldner and Hermann Michael Stellmann. Alicia Landman

GNCAM coordinatorsStefan Geider, England, [email protected]; Simon Bednarek, New Zealand, [email protected]; Socorra Cordeiro, Chile, Gcordeiro@ vivephoenix.cl; Ursula Flatters, Sweden, ursula.flatters@ vidarkliniken.se; Alicia Landman-Reiner, USA, [email protected]; Henrik Szoeke, Hungary, [email protected]; Barbara Wais, Germany, [email protected].

Participants (left to right): Mariana Mampaey (AR), Michaela Glöckler, Simon Bednarek (NZ), Ursula Flatters (SE), Srinivasa Rao (IN), Matthias Girke, Alicia Landman (USA), Martin Niemeijer (NL), Marnix Schaubroeck (BE).


Heike Sommer M.A.Public Relations Coordinatorheike.sommer@medsektion-goetheanum.chwww.medsektion-goetheanum.chPress/public relations for the ELIANT [email protected]

International Coordination of Public Relations

2011 was characterised by the continuing development of the public relations work, com-munication within our own professional group both internally at broad international level with a focus on South America, and across the professional groups in Germany.

Medical SectionThe focus this year was on the further expansion of our website. The German language site has grown so far that it is also variously cited as a reference and source. The other lan-guage versions are being systematically brought up to date or created in cooperation with experts from the English, French, Spanish for Latin America, Russian and Japanese speak-ing worlds. That also concerns the Japanese page. I would like to thank you especially for the excellent cooperation!

Networking on social media platformsAnthroposophic medicine can now also be found on social media platforms. Communica-tion is in English so that we can have direct contact internationally with everyone. A small international steering group is currently focusing on Facebook and Twitter.

Design and printThis field covers many parallel activities such as the design of the large conference bro-chures and the advertisements for various events. Proof-reading, typesetting and photo-graphic work are also part of it. This year, too, the annual report of the anthroposophic medical movement provides a highlight, which I always look forward to very much, in which we attempt to summarise for you the key results of the year and the perspectives and planning for the next year. I would, however, like still greater international involve-ment.

From the ELIANT campaign to the AllianceOn 13 May 2011, EU Commissioner John Dalli received the representatives of the ELIANT Alliance who in the European Commission in Brussels presented him with more than one million signatures from 27 EU member states calling for better framework conditions for anthroposophic services and products. A significant day (see p. 43). The specially prepared memorandum with 15 concrete demands for measures under law in the fields of agricul-ture, nutrition, health, education, curative education and research is currently available in English. The German version is in preparation. It was a particular pleasure for me to produce the design, layout and typesetting for it. Heike Sommer

www.eliant.eu/new/userfiles/file/pdf/Memorandum%20Allianz%20ELIANT%202011.pdf


International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT

Alongside the major anniversaries we celebrated this year – the 150th birthday of Rudolf Steiner and 90 years of the Ita Wegman Clinic and Weleda – we also celebrated a smaller one: the 10th birthday of our International Postgraduate Medical Training. Held for the first time in November 2002 in Lodz / Poland, this training week has in the meantime been held 89 times in 18 diffe-rent countries. Meanwhile between 800 and 900 people worldwide make use each year of this advanced training – and the trend is for further growth.The IPMT year 2011 started in January in Chile and ended in early December in neighbouring Peru. In the intervening months it travelled once around the world: to New Zealand, the Phil-ippines, Taiwan, India, Russia, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Cuba and California in the USA.A new move this year was the initiative by Ursula Flatters to invite the physicians’ group from Irkutsk / Siberia to the Vidar Clinic in Jaerna / Sweden. This enabled a seminar week in a clinical setting which allowed the Russian physicians to directly experience the special atmosphere and collegial collaboration in an anthroposophic clinic. There was particular appreciation of the participation in the case conferences and the exchange of experiences with the clinic physicians directly involved in the work process. But also the experience of the medicinal plant garden of the clinic, the productive collaboration between physicians and therapists as well as the caring treatment of patients were new fields of experience for our Russian colleagues which produced important suggestions and impulses for shaping their own work in Siberia.A special environment for the advanced training week in another way was offered by the IPMT at the Goetheanum; not just because this was the starting point for Rudolf Steiner’s work or because anthroposophic medicine was practiced for the first time in the vicinity and one can visit the Ita Wegman and Lukas clinics, Hiscia and Weleda in Arlesheim – no, also because the Goetheanum in its artistic design offers rich stimulation for a more profound understan-ding of the human being and illness. This year people from 12 nations ranging from China to Canada gathered in Dornach and focused in their work on the cosmological aspects of the nature of plants and humans. This work found its culmination in a study of the Representative of Mankind and the pink window in which the cosmic polarity of the adversary forces can be experienced between which the human being is positioned, in sickness or in health.The IPMT week in Cuba had a different character again. Cancelled at short notice the previous year by those responsible in the country due to the difficult financial situation, it was thanks to the initiative of the five-member core group that in October 2011, in tropical temperatures, 41 Cubans were able to continue in Matanza the work they started in 2009. The afternoon and evening courses in particular led to the experience that conventional medicine, spirituality, and sheer humanity do not need to contradict one another but can supplement one another in the most fruitful way. The heart quality of this IPMT was particularly noticeable: the Cuban soul is full of poetry and creativity and thus poems arose from the plant observations and the daily review of the day took on poetic form; the eurythmy each morning was also received with express gratitude. Thus inner warmth became one of the pillars of this week.On the other side of the world it was no less tropically hot six months previously when 30 physicians met in April in the province of Ilo Ilo, the heart of the Philippine archipelago and the cradle of Malayan civilisation in the Philippines. A whole series of people in charge or teachers

Stefan Langhammer Finances, IPMT Coordinator Tel.: + 41 (0)61 706 43 70 [email protected]


from organisations working in the health sector were also present who in turn brought some of their students. Michael Evans could not have been more surprised when he learned from them in the introductory course that in the first-year medical curriculum of their training centre the treatment of the four elements is already embedded! This new generation of interested persons gives hope that anthroposophic medicine will be actively cultivated here in the future, too, and will reach increasing numbers of people.In conclusion, let us look towards the Czech Republic: there, where the Vltava makes two loops so tight that they almost form an island, lies the small town of Český Krumlov. The whole town was involved in the IPMT which took place there for the second time: the lectures were held in the prefecture, the working groups in the school – where there was also the accommodation for many participants – and the dignitaries of the town supported the whole thing with the best of goodwill. Not just physicians and therapists were gathered here to work on a deeper under-standing of the etheric; the approx. 120 participants also included a larger group of teachers who were intent on learning about the preventive medical aspects of a child-centred education. Many young physicians also took part who prepared the refounding of the Young Physicians’ Forum on the sidelines of the IPMT work.It becomes clear that the IPMT weeks – as similar as they might be in their structure – take on very individual characteristics in each country, that each country shapes its IPMT. A large part in the success of such a week is due to the local preparatory group which prepares the ground for the work and which is mostly made up of one or two people who carry the initiative. We also look with gratitude to the numerous helpers as well as all the lecturers and group leaders who perform with phenomenal commitment – and they do so mostly without any kind of fee. And, finally, we should mention all the institutions, foundations and private donors who over and again make this work financially possible. To all of them our warmest thanks!Stefan Langhammer

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1,2 IPMT psychology course in the Halde, Goetheanum, Switzerland 2011,

3 IPMT projective geometry course with simultaneous interpretation at the Goetheanum, Switzerland 2011,

4 IPMT art therapy course in the Hal-de, Goetheanum, Switzerland 2011,

5 In the laboratory at Weleda AG Arlesheim 2010,

6 Group photo of the IPMT course before departure, near San Francisco, USA 2011,

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10 years of IPMT – reason enough to stop and ask: what is it that makes this further training provi-sion so special, that speaks to people all around the world?An IPMT day is divided into three parts: courses with exercises in the morning: content and prac-tice oriented medical, therapeutic or pharmaceutical workshops in the afternoon: lectures and discussions on questions of professional ethics and the inner path of schooling in the evening – mostly more than 12 hours per day for one week. Movement – observation – comprehension: these steps are undertaken by participants every morning and they take them into the work in small groups through eurythmy as well as nature observation and textual work. This structure is an attempt to stimulate the whole human being to mental and spiritual activity and receptivity which forms the basis for the anthroposophic medical work in the afternoon. In the afternoon lessons, the development of abilities also stands in the foreground, but now at a diagnostic and therapeutic level: cases from concrete practice are discussed among colleagues and on that basis the specific approach of the anthroposophic physician to the sick and healthy human being is de-veloped. Finally, in the evening, joint work is undertaken in the discussion of questions of medita-tive training, self-education and professional ethics as to how what has been gained in insight and found to be correct can turn into a medical and therapeutic attitude which is guided by the true nature and dignity of the human being.In the best case the lecturers at the IPMT do not work as teachers in the classic sense but as assis-tants in the development of an extended medical awareness which brings one closer to oneself, closer to the other human being, and closer to the world. After such a week many participants have the experience: a little bit I have become a different human being ...Further information on the IPMT: www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/ausbildung/medizin/ipmt

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Finances

As the regular readers of our annual report already know, we cannot yet present the final figures for 2011 due to the early copy deadline. So, based on the annual accounts for 2010, we take a look below at the budget-relevant developments in 2011 and present a brief outlook as to what can be expected in 2012.We had to conclude 2009 with a deficit of about CHF 36,000 which was covered by taking recourse to donations from 2010. So we were very happy to receive in early 2010 two payments from foundations, backdated to 2009, for the Conference and Training and Advanced Training items which covered this deficit after the event or rather established a corresponding surplus in 2010.The 2010 accounts presented below show that the International Coordination / IKAM with PR and Publications items were not yet able to cover their costs. That is due, on the one hand, to the relaunch of our website in summer 2010, and on the other to the grow-ing complexity and intensity of the coordination work within the individual professional groups. Thirdly, the preparation of the Responsibility structures and modes of work text (in German and English, see p. 5) represents an investment in the future – as a guide for the

Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Annual Accounts 2010 (in CHF)

Fees Administrative and material costs Staff costs

Office / EDP Travel costs Advertising Miscellaneous Expenses (in CHF)

Staff and honorary staff

Lecturers, coordinators, translators

etc. incl. support and development

incl. subsistence and accommodation

incl. printing and postage

incl. room rental and acquisitions

Total

Med Section general 290,570.00 36,100.00 16,210.00 1,470.00 19,840.00 364,190.00

IKAM (with PR work) 152,220.00 46,960.00 2,780.00 25,190.00 25,700.00 3,150.00 256,000.00

Publications 92,630.00 710.00 22,610.00 115,950.00

Conferences 108,070.00 79,800.00 230.00 172,060.00 93,560.00 7,140.00 460,860.00 Training and further training

118,290.00 120,880.00 220.00 91,370.00 7,610.00 11,150.00 349,520.00

Total 669,150.00 340,270.00 39,330.00 305,540.00 150,950.00 41,280.00 1,546,520.00

Sales / charges Services Donations

Income (in CHF) Conference contributions, books,

tuition fees

Fees, exhibition stands, certificates

Institutions and partners

Foundations Assoc./Institutes (reg. payments)

Donations Total

Med Section general 73,390.00 262,340.00 700.00 57,900.00 34,760.00 429,090.00

IKAM (with PR work) 131,520.00 36,800.00 54,020.00 2,400.00 224,740.00

Publications 27,840.00 8,810.00 19,760.00 1,040.00 57,450.00

Conferences 359,860.00 10,500.00 23,450.00 85,950.00 22,970.00 502,730.00 Training and further training

100,950.00 163,680.00 94,490.00 7,380.00 366,500.00

Total 488,650.00 92,700.00 600,750.00 217,940.00 111,920.00 68,550.00 1,580,510.00

Deficit 2009 ‐36,030.00

1,544,480.00


work of the School of Spiritual Science and the institutions associated with the medical movement. The gratifying surplus under the Med Section general heading is primarily due to all free donations and allocations (including the contribution from the GAS) being posted there. These allocations were required in full in 2010 to finance the ongoing work. It is our wish to be able to use free support in future also in the form of an initiative bud-get to give life to new impulses.In February 2011 we were pleased to welcome Dagmar Brauer to work in the Medical Section. As a trained medical documentalist she took on looking after the reference work Anthroposophische Arzneitherapie (Anthroposophic Medicinal Therapy) published by Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, a project which is to be completed by mid-2012. In addition, she will immediately begin setting up and look after a library management pro-gramme for our extensive pool of print, sound and picture media. In the summer Evelyn Steppat joined us to familiarise herself with the work of assistant to the Section head. The International Coordination also grew: since the summer the International Coordination of Physiotherapy has also been financially supported alongside the eurythmy therapy and art therapy sectors in order thereby to allow for the professionalisation of this work which can no longer be managed on a purely honorary basis. Stefan Langhammer

Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Budget 2012 (in CHF)

Fees Administrative and material costs Staff costs

Office / EDP Travel costs Advertising Miscellaneous Expenses (in CHF)

Staff and honorary staff

Lecturers, coordinators, translators

etc. incl. support and development

incl. subsistence and accommodation

incl. printing and postage

incl. room rental and acquisitions

Total


IKAM (with PR work) 142,200.00 56,500.00 1,800.00 14,500.00 22,200.00 3,500.00 240,700.00

Publications 74,300.00 8,000.00 4,500.00 8,500.00 95,300.00

Conferences 106,500.00 62,300.00 1,000.00 99,400.00 53,000.00 3,900.00 326,100.00

Training and further training

118,900.00 133,500.00 15,100.00 96,600.00 9,350.00 6,250.00 379,700.00

Total 845,500.00 260,300.00 80,200.00 220,500.00 95,550.00 27,950.00 1,530,000.00

Sales / charges Services Donations

Income (in CHF) Conference contributions, books,

tuition fees

Fees, exhibition stands, certificates

Institutions and partners

Foundations Assoc./Institutes (reg. payments)

Donations Total


IKAM (with PR work) 93,700.00 68,000.00 70,000.00 2,500.00 234,200.00

Publications 38,000.00 12,000.00 24,000.00 18,000.00 92,000.00

Conferences 208,300.00 9,000.00 26,000.00 56,000.00 23,800.00 323,100.00

Training and further training

96,100.00 188,700.00 94,500.00 7,600.00 386,900.00

Total 342,400.00 118,000.00 519,400.00 337,900.00 135,000.00 77,300.00 1,530,000.00


The staff in the office of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum

From the work of the secretariatFor over a year I have been managing the secretariat, a job which gives me great pleasure. My wide range of activities include the classic tasks of a secretariat, from letters to filing, issuing certificates and keeping data up to date. The secretariat is often the first point of contact for people with questions about anthroposophic medicine or who have come to us in the Section at the Goetheanum. I am happy to respond to the many telephone and email queries we receive and to refer them to the competent person or institution. One particular concern for me is to keep our address database up to date, hence the request: please let us know if you have a change of address or perhaps set up a new email. Sending the newsletter, notifications of events and other information out by email represents a great cost saving for us! Angela Wirth

ResearchThe intensive spectrum of tasks of the Medical Section includes not only the tasks and questions associated with spiritual science but also the technical and formal scientific ones. One focus of my work since joining the Section has been, in the context of pre-paring the fourth instalment of Anthroposophische Arzneitherapie für Ärzte und Apotheker (Anthroposophic Medicinal Therapy for Physicians and Pharmacists), undertaking the factual research for many different lecture topics delivered by the Section head as well as the preparation of their content in the form of PowerPoint presentations where that is expected by the organiser, such as for example the German Homoeopathic Congress, the art therapy or epistemological discourse at the Alanus and Ottersberg higher education institutions or the advanced training for French educators.Proof-reading Michaela Glöckler’s increased publication output forms another focus of my work. In addition, our Section library with its great variety of media – monographs, journ-als, videos, photos, audio CDs and, above all, the historically original works of the Daems bequest – will in future be electronically managed and is being prepared as a research and reference instrument alongside its function as a reference library. To this end we are seeking to establish technical cooperation with other bibliographical databases and are harmonising the electronic documentation program accordingly.The Medical Section is the legal provider and / or technical cooperation partner with regard to a series of research projects which I, given my profile as medical documentalist, am involved in looking after and coordinating. I look forward to expanding my research work in 2012! Dagmar Brauer

Sabbatical workThe triple anniversary year of anthroposophic medicine has stood under a lucky star for me. I decided to take a year out from my medical practice and to devote myself wholly to research work. That persuaded me to come from Argentina to Switzerland to the Medical Section. My work is concentrated on the completion of the fourth instalment of Anthropo-sophische Arzneitherapie für Ärzte und Apotheker (Anthroposophical Medicinal Therapy for Physicians and Pharmacists) with Michaela Glöckler and Dagmar Brauer. Here my focus is on the preparation of the indication descriptions for frequent clinical pictures such as, for example, allergies, rheumatism and oncology.

Angela [email protected]: +41 (0)61 706 44 75

Dagmar BrauerResearch Associate, Medical [email protected]: +41 (0)61 706 44 24


In addition, Heike Sommer and I are using the opportunity to collaborate in optimising the Spanish-language Internet presence of anthroposophic medicine, to adapt and link it in terms of content and form to the Latin American world, which implies occasional transla-tion. I helped as an interpreter at the Spanish-language International Postgraduate Medical Training / IPMT training week. Mariana Mampaey

Research assistantThis year Carol Brousseau spent less time managing Michaela Glöckler's travel and increas-ingly took on tasks as a research assistant. The job is to free up the time of the Section head and assist wherever possible. That means, for example, key translation work into English, tracking down information, the preparation of documents, entering proofing cor-rections and working on and completing footnotes.She sorted through the over 500 ring binders in the Section building, with letters and do-cuments from the worldwide Section activities and research topics, listed them electroni-cally and thus made them available for everyone. Every member of staff can now quickly find the location of each ring binder in the building at their computer. In the coming year she hopes to undertake a more detailed inspection – collate what has been separated, fill gaps and make space for the latest additions.As a native English speaker she is frequently in demand for English translation and proof-reading. In addition she stood in for the secretariat and assistant to the Section head during holiday periods and helped out where the need arose.

Organisation of conferences and meetingsWhen the individual flexibility of staff helps in the organisation of administrative tasks that need to be done, a special quality arises. Within the Goetheanum conferences of the Med-ical Section such individual flexibility was clearly in evidence in the past year, particularly also at the annual conference. It meant that the daily organisation could be undertaken as agreed.When 120 lecturers arrive and prepare to go to the rooms where their working groups are being held, a lot of preparation needs to have been done. This is an order of magnitude which is not usual for Goethenaum operations. If in addition there is an unusually large ex-hibition landscape, that only raises the bar. And if on top of that a completely new type of experiment is to be conducted involving almost 70 locations (!) for working groups which are to be spontaneously formed in the building at locations which have never been tested, then things become really exciting.The call on and deployment of the building services accordingly went well beyond their limits and yet some of the staff found real joy in these very dynamic activities and gave as-sistance as if it was their own conference. A real pleasure was also meeting one of the staff who recalled the previous year when the introduction of a new computer system precisely at the time of the annual conference caused enormous problems: this year we aim to do it perfectly, she said – and it worked. Brilliant!In this spirit I want to thank my colleagues at the Goetheanum and in the Medical Section for collaborating so exceptionally well in almost 60 conferences and other occasions with a total of almost 2000 participants from more than 40 countries. Roland Tüscher

Roland TüscherConference [email protected]: +41 (0)61 706 42 93

Carol BrousseauResearch [email protected]: +41 (0)61 706 44 93

Dr. med. Mariana MampaeyResearch AssociateNational delegate of the Anthro-posophical Medical Association in [email protected]


Conferences and meetings of the Medical Section in 2012

January 2 Meeting of IKAM1 coordinators of the professions by invitation onlyJanuary 2 Councils of the art therapy professions DAKART2

January 2 Councils of the art therapy professional associations / IFAAET3

January 3-4 Council of directors of training in anthroposophic art therapyJanuary 4 International working group of directors of training in anthroposophic art therapyJanuary 4 School of Spiritual Science meeting for art therapistsJanuary 5-8 European Academy for Art Therapy EA4

January 5-8 International study days for anthroposophic art therapy –January 7-8 IFAAET3 meeting for countries without professional associationsJanuary 8-15 IPMT5 Santiago / ChileFebruary 5 IFAAET3 CouncilFebruary 15-23 Training course for eye eurythmy therapyFebruary 18-19 IVAA6 council retreatFeb. 25 - March 3 IPMT5 Iloilo / PhilippinesMarch 3-10 Study course for medicine students and younger physiciansMarch 8-10 3rd Scientific Congress of Anthroposophic Medicine in Berlin; organised by: Medical Section and Research Council of the Medical SectionMarch 12-17 Medical study week at the GoetheanumMarch 15-18 Colloque Médical, physicians’ colloquium of Weleda FranceMarch 21 IKAM1 / DAMiD7 meeting by invitation onlyMarch 22-24 IKAM1 retreat and conference on perspectives by invitation onlyMarch 23-25 Meeting of Young Physicians’ ForumApril 5 Internal physicians’ meeting by invitation onlyApril 5-11 IPMT5 Auckland / New ZealandApril 20-22 IKAM1 auditor training by invitation onlyApril 26-29 Medical conference in the HaldeApril 27-29 International Nursing Congress April 28 - May 4 IPMT5 Nagano / JapanMay 4-11 IPMT5 Fair Oaks / USAJune 8-10 School of Spiritual Science pastoral medical conference July 2-6 IFEMA8 conferenceJuly 5-7 Eurythmy therapy further training courseJuly 7-14 IPMT5 Tauyuan / TaiwanJuly 12-19 IPMT5 Odessa / UkraineJuly 13-15 Meeting of Young Physicians’ ForumAugust 11-18 IPMT5 Český Krumlov / Czech RepublicAugust 18-25 IPMT5 St. Petersburg / Russia Aug. 8 - Sept. 6 Eye eurythmy therapy training courseSeptember 1-8 Study course for medical students and younger physicians September 10-14 Pre-conference for annual conferenceSeptember 10 Councils of the art therapy professions DAKART2

September 10-11 IFAAET3 council and advisory board meeting and general meetingSeptember 10-12 International group of trainers in rhythmical massage

1 IKAM Coordination of Anthroposo-phic Medicine2 DAKART Executive Councils of the Art Therapy Professional Associations3 IFAAET International Federation of Anthroposophic Arts and Eurythmy Therapies4 EA European Academy for Anthro-posophic Art Therapy5 IPMT International Postgraduate Medical Training6 IVAA International Association of Anthroposophic Medical Associations7 DAMiD Umbrella Association for Anthroposophic Medicine in Germany8 IFEMA Institut pour la Formation et l’Edition en Médicine Anthropo-sophique9 IFAP International Forum forAnthroposophic Nursing10 IAABT International Association for Anthroposophic Body Therapy 11 IAAP International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists


September 10 Conference for trainers in rhythmical massage, IFAP9

September 10 Anthroposophic nursing education conference, IFAP9

September 11-12 IFAP9 annual conferenceSeptember 11 International conference of eurythmy therapy councilsSeptember 12 International delegate conference of the Eurythmy Therapy ForumSeptember 12-13 Conference for members of the School of Spiritual Science in the anthroposophic medical movementSeptember 13 International Association for Anthroposophic Body Therapy / IAABT10

September 13-16 Annual conference of the anthroposophic medical movement, meeting of professional groupsSeptember 14 Conference, general meeting of the International Association of Anthroposophic Pharmacists / IAAP11

September 15 The Anthroposophic Pharmacopoeia APC, IAAP11

September 16 International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM1 by invitation onlySeptember 17-19 Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical AssociationsSeptember 17 Conference of Councils and IKAM1 representativesSeptember 18 Conference of Councils of Anthroposophic Medical Associations and Medicine ProducersSeptember 19 Delegate meeting and general meeting of the IVAA6

September 16-19 International School of Spiritual Science conference for those working in psychotherapy by invitation onlyOctober 5-7 Retreat of the Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy by invitation onlyOctober 7-8 School of Spiritual Science conference of the Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy by invitation onlyOctober 8-12 International curative education conference of the Council for Curative Education and Social Therapy October 15-20 Medical study week at the GoetheanumOctober 25-28 Study days on therapeutic creative speechOctober 27-31 International advanced training for kindergarten and school physiciansNovember 2-4 International eurythmy therapy trainer conferenceNovember 15-18 Medical conference at the HaldeNovember 16-17 Study weekend on Rudolf Steiner’s basic medical work. “Knowledge of the human being and therapeutic approaches in the first medical course" (GA 312) with Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler and Prof. Dr. med. Peter SelgDecember 6-9 Council of the Society of Anthroposophic Physicians in Germany / GAÄD, retreat

Preview 2013-20154/28-5/1, 2013 Societa Italiana di Medicina Antroposofica / SIMA10/26-10/30, 2013 International advanced training and study conference for school physicians10/25-10/29, 2014 International advanced training and study conference for school physicians10/31-11/4, 2015 International advanced training and study conference for school physicians

The conference calendar is continuously updated on our website,www.medsektion-goetheanum.org/en/events-and-conferences/#month01


Prof. Dr. med. Peter SelgDirector of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthro-posophy [email protected] www.wegmaninstitut.ch

Ita Wegman [email protected]

Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy

The work of the Ita Wegman Institute this year focused on studies on Rudolf Steiner’s biography and the development of his work – the comprehensive book Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). Aspekte einer inneren Biographie will be published early in 2012. What already appeared from our Institute in 2011 in book form were various monographs on general anthroposophical, medical, educational and curative education and social issues which were worked on by Rudolf Steiner or are closely associated with him:

General anthroposophy:Die Grundstein-Meditation Rudolf Steiners und die Zerstörungen des 20. Jahrhunderts. •Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.Der Wille zur Zukunft.• Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.Der Vorstand, die Sektionen und die Gesellschaft. Welche Hochschule wollte Rudolf Steiner? •Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.Die Weihnachtstagung und die Begründung der neuen Mysterien• ( jointly withSergei O. Prokofieff ). Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.•

Medicine:Das Leib-Seele-Problem. Zur Entwicklung eines geistgemäßen Menschenbildes in der Medi-•zin des 20. Jahrhunderts (together with Peter Heusser). Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.Die beseelte Menschen-Sonne. Eine Herz-Meditation Rudolf Steiners• . Verlag des Ita Weg-man Instituts, Arlesheim.

Education / curative education:Ich bin anders als Du. Vom Selbst- und Welterleben des Kindes in der Mitte der Kindheit.• Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.Karl Schuberts Beziehung zu Rudolf Steiner.• Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, Arlesheim.

•In the Karl König edition which we have been publishing jointly with the Karl König Ar-chive (Camphill Aberdeen) since 2008 in two languages (www.karl-koenig-archive.net), we published the volumes Communities for Tomorrow, Becoming Human. A Social Task and At the Threshold of the Modern Age (Floris Books, Edinburgh) and in Germany Über die mensch-liche Seele and Geister unter dem Zeitgeist (Verlag Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart) due to the outstanding work and initiative of Richard Steel (Berlin).The work on a monograph on the point and circle meditation in Rudolf Steiner’s curative education course is currently being concluded and will be available in book form by the end of the year. The impressive publication by Bernd Ruf (Parzival School Centre, Karlsruhe/Friends of Waldorf Education): Trümmer und Traumata. Anthroposophische Grundlagen notfallpädagogischer Einsätze will also be available from Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts towards the end of the year. It reports not only about the crisis interventions for psychotraumatised children and adoles-cents since 2006 in war and disaster zones (incl. Lebanon, China, the Gaza Strip, Indonesia, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan and Japan), but for the first time applies in a comprehensive way and on an acade-mic level the anthroposophic understanding of trauma.The courses taught by us in 2011 at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter (chair of medical anthropology and ethics in the art therapy department) were

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Verlag des Ita Wegman InstItuts

Der Wille zur zukunft


centred on the subject areas of fear and pain as basic phenomenon of human existence and sickness, the concept of health, sickness and therapy in the medical upheavals of the twentieth century, and on questions of resilience in extreme situations – the latter on the basis of the survivors’ reports of former concentration camp inmates (cf. Peter Selg: Überle-ben in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel, Ruth Klüger, Ruth Elias, Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl. Arlesheim 2010). Together with the historians of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial, work is currently being undertaken on a comprehensive documentation of the medical situation of the prison-ers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on the behaviour of German medics and on forms of resistance within the Jewish medical establishment. At Witten-Herdecke University, we were involved in 2011 in the lecture series for the Studium Fundamentale: Is there objective spirit? and 150 years of Rudolf Steiner. His importance in science and life today with our own lecture contributions (The spiritual dimension of the human being? On the development of medical anthropology in the twentieth century./Rudolf Steiner, 1861-1925. The intentions of his life and work). A publication of the lecture series on Rudolf Steiner’s input to the special branches of science is being prepared for Schattauer Verlag by Peter Heusser (ed.).Apart from the focus on scientific, publishing and training work, we were able in 2011 – in collaboration with the Ita Wegman Clinic – to extend and renovate the premises of the Institute in Ita Wegman’s wooden house which is now also able to house the scientific and personal estates of Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven, Karl König, Karl Schubert, Hilma Walter, Madeleine van Deventer and Margarete Kirchner-Bockholt where they are available for further study. Ita Wegman’s room with the remainder of her personal library was also renovated, can be visited by interested guests in guided tours by the staff of the Institute and, in addition, serves the spiritual scientific studies of the clinic staff. In early November there was a meeting of the international group of friends of our Institute in the Therapy House of the Clinic at which stock was taken for the first time of the almost ten years of our work, and future perspectives were outlined. Gunhild Pörksen from the Ita Wegman Archive was additionally involved in preparing an exhibition on Ita Wegman’s life and works which has been on show in Arlesheim since November and received a very positive public response.It should still be mentioned that during the renovation work of the Ita Wegman House the long-lost collection of carcinoma-mistletoe case histories was found which had been published in December 1924 – and thus still during the lifetime of Rudolf Steiner – under the management of Eberhard Schickler and Ita Wegman. It has now been included in our documentation about the development of the mistletoe therapy for cancer under Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman (1917–1939), which is to be finished after the conclusion of the Rudolf Steiner biography.Translations of our Institute monographs in 2011 appeared in English, French,Dutch, Italian, Czech and Hungarian due to the initiative of many internationally active friends.We continue to work on the further expansion of the international group of friendsand sponsors of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy,which is of vital importance for maintaining the work of the Institute: contact: [email protected]. Many decades ago Ita Wegman wrote: Anthroposophy must become even more cosmopolitan than it is at present, it must not be constrained by groups of people or remain limited to individual countries; it is for all people throughout the world. Peter Selg

PETER SELG

«DIE BESEELTEMENSCHEN-SONNE»

Eine Herz-Meditation Rudolf Steiners

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Der VorstanD, Die sektionen unD Die Gesellschaft

Welche Hochschule wollte Rudolf Steiner?

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Zur Entwicklung eines geistgemäßen Menschenbildes in der Medizin des 20. Jahrhunderts

Peter Heusser / Peter selg

das leib-seele-problem


The 2011 annual conference of the anthroposophic medical movement in pictures

Pictures from left: 1 At the Medical Section information stand. 2 Friedrich Glasl answers questions during the break. 3 The auditorium in the large hall. 4 The granting of the Anthromed®Pharmazie label is sealed by contract here (see p. 13-14 and 16). 5 An exhibitor’s informa-tion stand at the annual conference. 6 Panel discussion in the great hall. 7, 8, 9 Intensive conversations during the work in small groups in the foyers and corridors of the Goetheanum.

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This annual conference exceeded the expectations of many of the approx. 750 participants – it was devoted to the question of the path of schooling in the social sphere (see p. 3-4). After the morning lecture, discussion groups sat together in the whole Goetheanum (pic-tures 7, 8, 9) which sought to explore the development motifs in a threefold ques-tioning attitude (see p. 4).


Foundation for Anthroposophic Medicine / FAMPresentation of the signatures gathered by the ELIANT Alliance in Brussels 2011 – Projects 2012

More than one million signatures being handed to Commissioner John Dalli by the ELIANT Alliance:

1 From the left: Dr. jur. Jürgen Erdmenger, Commissioner John Dalli,Dr. med. Michaela Glöckler.

2 In the conference room with Commissioner Dalli and his staff listening to the demands of the ELIANT Alliance

3 The sponsors of the ELIANT Alliance after the hearing in the EU Commission in Brussels

Presentation of the concerns of ELIANT in the European Parliament in 2012.The major project of the FAM foundation this year too was the ELIANT campaign. Now the ELIANT campaign is developing into the ELIANT Allianz

Commissioner Dalli, taking note of the initiative, said: "I am committed to look seriously at the request made through this petition signed by over one million Europeans. ELIANT'S request is inspired by Art. 11 of the Lisbon Treaty and the re-cently adopted regulation on citizens' initiatives. I also pointed out that the Council and European Parliament regulation on citizens' initiatives (no. 211/2011) is not yet in force and only applies as of 1 April 2012."

After the successful conclusion of the ELIANT campaign – one million signatures for anthroposophic services and products – the Brussels office of the ELIANT Alliance is being set up. The local team comprises Susanna Küffer-Heer, Dr. Michaela Sieh and Dr. Andreas Biesantz. They are the basis for the continuing work to achieve the set objectives. The active participation in selected European nonprofit organisations pursuing similar aims to ELIANT plays an important role in advocacy network-ing in Brussels. ELIANT is aiming for membership in various umbrella organisations: ECAS, involvement in the European Policy Centre (EPC) in cooperation with the Software AG foun-dation, Euroaktiv, Democracy International, European Forum and others. The first bigger project of the ELIANT Alliance is to present itself in the European Parliament before 1 April 2012 with the content of the Memorandum because that is when the implementing regulations with regard to future European citizens’ initiatives enter into force. All these activities generate ongoing costs which can only be enabled by membership contributions and donations. Heike Sommer

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Documents

International Coordination of Anthroposophic … Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine / IKAM ... Mahle Foundation, ... Medical Training, see report p. 31