Emerson Waldorf School
6211 New Jericho Road,
Chapel Hill, NC [map]

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Water is of central importance to human life. We use it as drinking and waste water, to grow our food, and to power our industry and transportation infrastructure. We are mysteriously drawn to open bodies of water where we live and work; nearly half of the world’s population lives within 125 miles of a coastline. Water is also fundamental to our inner life and spiritual well being; it has been a recurring and prominent motif in religion and esoteric mysteries since the dawn of history. An understanding of this dual aspect of the importance of water—its outer nature and its inner nature—is crucial to the healthy development of the planet and our own self development as human beings.

The Center for Anthroposophy, the Wrightwood Press, and the Emerson Waldorf School of Chapel Hill, NC, invite the public to this very special festival of events with Jennifer Greene and Rick Spaulding that will explore the significance, science, and hidden nature of water.

• May 2-5: Flowform Casting, with Jennifer Greene
• Friday, May 6: Evening lecture, with Rick Spaulding
• Saturday, May 7: Seminar, with Rick Spaulding and Jennifer Greene
• Sunday, May 8: Water Workshop, with Jennifer Greene

You may register for the entire week of events together (a $40 savings--add the "All Events Bundle" to your cart), or register for events individually to suit your schedule and budget (select from the events below and add each one to your cart). If you are registering multiple people at once, please indicate the number for each event in your cart when you check out. If you prefer to pay by check, you may do so using the form on the brochure.

JENNIFER GREENE is the Executive Director of the Water Research Institute (WRI) in Blue Hill, Maine, which operates as an incubator of ideas to deepen understanding of the nature of water through the study of its context, movements, and phenomena. Jennifer travels world-wide offering water phenomena workshops, most notably at the World Water Forums. She works with state and federal environmental protection agencies in the bio-remediation of wastewater, and has the only laboratory in the U.S. working with Schwenk's Drop-Picture Method to look at water quality from the standpoint of minute movement capacities in water.

In 1980, Greene pioneered the work with flow forms in the United States. Since this time, she has also given water workshops at schools, universities, and environmental conferences in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, and most recently in Switzerland. Jennifer will be giving an extended week-long water workshop at the Center for Anthroposophy in Wilton, NH, this July.

RICK SPAULDING is an independent author, researcher, and lecturer. Rick is co-author of the biography Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Infinitude of the Private Man and co- editor of Natural History of the Intellect: the Last Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the first print publication of Emerson's last lecture cycle. Rick taught in the Chicago Public School system and in Waldorf Schools for over thirty-four years and has been working at Arcturus, a Chicago-based Waldorf Teaching Institute, for many years.