2024 Annual Conference ONLINE
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ONLINE
It is with great pleasure we invite you to our online series for the 2024 ASA Annual Conference!
Online activities will take place both before and after the conference and include:
*Two online pre-conference events as preparation for conference themes
*The Annual General Meeting livestream
*General Secretary Address livestream
*Post-conference recordings of Marc Desaules' keynote addresses
*Post-conference online event capturing the leading thoughts
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Learn more about our online conference offerings at anthroposophy.org/portland24
Registration is closed for our in person conference. We hope to see you online!
NOTE: This program is included with registration to the in-person conference in October.
If you are registered for the Annual Conference, no need to register for this program!
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EVENT DESCRIPTION:
The online offerings for this year's Annual Conference allow for dynamic participation through an array of both live and recorded events beginning with two pre-conference online events, followed by a post-conference event to reflect as a community. Participants will also be able to livestream during the conference and receive recordings of keynotes.
The events on September 10 and October 1 are designed to prepare participants to step into the themes that live at the heart of the Annual Conference (for more about conference, click here), as articulated through research carried by members active on the Western Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society, and through a view into the significance of place as presented by members of the Portland Branch of the Society. The event on October 22 (after the in-person gathering) will be a space to reflect on themes and questions carried during the conference and collectively carry them into the future.
Online Sessions (Live via Zoom + Recorded)
Tuesday, September 10
5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern
The Great Peacemaker: The Spiritual Impulse behind the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and its Relationship to the First Continental Congress
with Micky Leach of the Western Regional Council
Micky Leach will lead this session by meeting these key conference questions:
How do things stand with anthroposophy in the world? And especially, here and now, how does anthroposophy live in the United States? How would we like it to live?
This will be held in consideration for what these questions give rise to in the soul:
What was already living on the North American continent that received the European influence coming from the East? What were the spiritual impulses that lived in the West that over time integrated what flowed in from the East?
Tuesday, October 1
5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern
Anthroposophy in Portland
with Valerie Hope and Walter Rice
Valerie Hope and Walter Rice of the Portland Branch will lead us on October 1 into a lived sense of the place where our conference will take place, to give ground for our meetings as building stones towards a further realization of anthroposophy in the United States.
Saturday, October 12
9:15am Pacific/12:15pm Eastern
Aligning the Stars and the Stripes: Unsheathing America, why now?
with Mary Stewart Adams
Livestream from the Annual Conference
A banner of stars and stripes might well imply that here a culture will arise that balances individual freedom with community, safeguarding agency (one’s star) while celebrating harmonious relationships (alternating stripes). Such an imagination belongs to the deepest mystery of World Whitsun, with its archetype of a band of individuals recognizing their task together, in spite of betrayal, matured in sorrow, and realized in self-directing forces. Their hearts penetrated with feelings that encouraged unity with those seeking the same goals, combining earnest striving wth the light of spirit beings.
What has this to do with America today? And what signposts can we discern in the current landscape when, as anthroposophists in the US, we find ourselves between the two centennials of Rudolf Steiner’s Last Address with a waxing the Michaelmas Moon and the moment of his death adjacent to the Lazarus Moon of Easter 2025? And all this while the planet Uranus returns to the place of its discovery at the time of the American Revolutionary War.
Saturday, October 12
4:45pm Pacific/7:45pm Eastern
Annual General Meeting (AGM Business Meeting) of the ASA
with the General Council of the ASA
Livestream from the Annual Conference
As we transition from the first 100 years of anthroposophy in the world, the Annual General Meeting portion of our Conference allows for Society members to meet the General Council and hear how the Council is working to fulfill the tasks set before us as members of the Anthroposophical Society in the United States. This includes the treasurer's report, highlights of the year's programs and events, and consideration of membership activity and support through publications and communications. The AGM also allows for welcoming new Council members and for saying goodbye to those whose terms have completed. This year we will also hear an update on the Rudolf Steiner House strategic review.
Tuesday, October 22
5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern
Reflections and Leading Thoughts from the Conference
with the General Council of the ASA
Join General Council members online for a review of leading thoughts arising from the Annual Conference, and an exchange of ideas about how these thoughts might inform the Society in America as it continues its journey to provide both home and context for the work done out of spiritual science. This will be a moderated panel discussion.
Conference Recordings
Released via email after the conference
- The Anthroposophical Society and Today’s Riddle of the Threshold with Marc Desaules
- America’s Contribution as Healing Response to the World Crises of our Time with Marc Desaules
- Opening Remarks and Welcome with Timothy Kennedy and Friends
TICKETS
NOTE: This program is included in the Conference Ticket Price - Conference Attendees do not need to register for the online event.
$85 - Regular Rate
$125 - Supporter Rate
$45 - Youth/Equity Rate
Interested in joining us in Portland?
Visit anthroposophy.org/portland24 to learn more
Note: In-person conference attendees will have free access to this series as well as conference recordings!
Keep up to date on all our offerings at anthroposophy.org/ASAPrograms
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