Upcoming Events
We invite you to join us for our upcoming lectures, artistic workshops, classes, and performances.
Upcoming Events
April
- April 13 - Foundation Stone Rhythms with Dottie Zold
- April 27-28 - Karl Konig and the Calendar of the Soul: Lectures and Original Drawings with Richard Steel
May
- May 4 - Anxiety, Depression and Anthroposophical Healing with Dr. Harald Haas
- May 18-19 - Biography and Social Art Workshop with Patricia Rubano
June
- June 14-15 - Journey Towards Soul Consciousness with Dr. Susan Johnson
November
- November 8-10 - Third Mystery Drama Workshop with Laurie Portocarrero
December
- The Shepherd's Play with Gail McManus and cast
The Calendar of the Soul
with Karl Konig
Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, 2024
Although not required, all donations are greatly appreciated
They made be made online here or at the door
Karl König’s Drawings for the Calendar of the Soul, Rudolf Steiner’s profound, meditative verses for each week of the year beginning Easter Sunday.
An Exhibition and Conference of the Los Angeles Branch
Of the Anthroposophical Society – April 27 -28, 2024
With Richard Steel of the Karl König Institute
Richard Steel speaks to how Rudolf Steiner and Karl König called on people to work with the Soul Calendar in a manner that could bring renewal and healing to human lives, our social organism, and the being of our earth!
The Calendar of the Soul was so essential to Rudolf Steiner that he gave it to be reprinted in a new form as a last deed even while on his death bed.
Karl König’s 52 illustrations can be viewed as portals that allow us to journey deeply into the inner experience of the 52 weekly verses. König created these meditative drawings as a healing antidote during the horrors of the Second World War.
Richard Steel‘s lectures for the Exhibitions bring insight into key questions:
‘Why is now the time to take up the Michaelic challenge of the Calendar of the Soul in a new way?‘
‘How can we meet this Michaelic challenge and bring transformation and healing to our lives and the world?’
In the remarkable talks which await us, Richard Steel brings to life the deep relationship and understanding Karl König had with the Calendar verses; even how, through his study of the rhythms of the verses weaving together throughout the year, König saw how closely the verses reflect Rudolf Steiner’s own life mission.
The Exhibition lectures and Guided Tours of the Color Drawings open many windows into Rudolf Steiner’s somewhat enigmatic, yet powerfully healing verses. We’ll be shown how König’s drawings incorporate through deep imaginations the mysteries of cosmic and human evolution known to us through Rudolf Steiner.
As one recent Exhibition participant shared, “Richard’s diverse talks are like paths into the hearts of Rudolf Steiner and Karl König. His insights into the complex and deeply healing nature of the verses will have a lasting and significant effect on all of us.” Jacquelyn Bieringer
Indeed, whole new dimensions to meanings within the verses await us on April 27-28 in person and through zoom. Link to Zoom.
Our Saturday-Sunday Schedule
Each lecture will be preceded by a eurythmy presentation of the “light verses” by Andrew Dzedulionis and Richard Steel.
Saturday, April 27
- 10:00 – 11:30: Welcome, Introduction and Talk by Richard Steel. “The Calendar of the Soul and Karl Konig’s Drawings—A New Experience of Time and Rhythm through the 52 Verses“
Refreshment Break: - 11:45 – 12:45: Guided Tour of the Exhibition* (one of three tour times)
12:45 – 2:00: Lunch in town or welcome to bring your own.
2:00 – 3:30: Talk by Richard Steel. “Being Human: What can the Calendar of the Soul Tell us for Waldorf and Therapeutic Education Today?”
3:45 – 4:45: Guided Tour of the Exhibition* (one of three tour times)
4:45 – 5:15: Refreshments and conversation
Sunday, April 28
- 1:30 - 2:30: Guided Tour of the Exhibition* (one of three tour times)
2:30 - 4:00: Talk by Richard Steel. “The Calendar of the Soul – the Path of Feeling Self-Knowledge”
4:00 - 4:30: Refreshments
4:30 - 5:30: Closing Conversation
*Participants: Please sign up to participate in a Guided Tour of the Exhibition, which offers a deep immersion with Richard Steel into this experience with the Calendar of the Soul. Three tour times are offered, and people are welcome to attend one or more tours. Each tour will be limited to 12 participants.
Richard Steel, CEO of the Karl König Institute, has been a researcher into the Calendar of the Soul for five decades. He was born in England, moved to Camphill in Germany in 1972 and after completing the Seminar for Curative Education, taught and worked in community with people with
disabilities for 36 years. Richard founded the Karl König Institute in 2008, with the aim of making König’s innovative anthroposophical work more available for both inspiration and healing in today’s world. The Institute publishes the new editions of König’s literary works, with 22 of 36 volumes now available in many languages. Richard’s work with the Institute calls him to lecture and teach internationally. He offers a series of 52 weekly online talks on the Calendar of the Soul and Karl König’s drawings, called ‘An Inner Journey through the Year’. Please contact the Institute if interested. Richard’s book of new English translations for the Soul Calendar is published, as well.
Drawing of Calendar of the Soul Verse 5, a “Light Verse” by Karl König.
