When a child is sick, parents need clear, reliable information to help them take action quickly. This fully comprehensive guide to child health and wellness, draws on anthroposophic medicine, combining conventional treatments with complementary therapies. A Waldorf Guide to Children's Health includes: -- Easy-to-access guidance on first aid and medical emergencies -- How to recognise the symptoms of many childhood illnesses such as chickenpox, glandular fever and ear infections -- Suggestions on caring for babies and toddlers, including detailed information on vaccination -- How to relieve the effects of common conditions such as pain, fever, vomiting, allergies and asthma -- Advice on coping with serious disorders, including diabetes, chronic illnesses and hospital stays Including current medical advice alongside tried-and-tested tips, this book empowers parents to look beyond the surface symptoms and better understand their child as a whole, in body, soul and spirit. Based on the bestselling A Guide To Child Health, this essential reference guide has been fully revised and updated for today's parents.

In this concise summary and introduction, Michaela Gloeckler presents the therapeutic spectrum of anthroposophic medicine - its scientific basis, diagnostic methods and potential for practice. She gives numerous practical examples of its application and suggestions for treating patients at home. Anthroposophic medicine is an integrative system that combines scientific training and practice with a spiritual understanding of the human being. It seeks primarily to stimulate self-healing powers, directly supporting recovery processes and innate capacities of resistance. Anthroposophic physicians - registered general practitioners and specialists in all fields - utilize the knowledge and skills of conventional treatments as well as anthroposophic and homoeopathic medicines, external applications, and eurythmy, art and physical therapies. Michaela Gloeckler describes the current status of anthroposophic medicine whilst raising awareness of the social dimension of illness and health to address issues of fate and destiny and to show what individuals can do for their own and other people's health. She reflects on Rudolf Steiner's call to 'make the health system democratic' and clarifies why scientific pluralism of methods and freedom of therapy are essential for the further development of the healthcare system and a modern understanding of disease.

"Almost every day you can read somewhere that a fundamental change is needed in schools and the education system..." Dr M Gloeckler. - How do we accompany and support the development of children and adolescents so that they can be motivated to face the challenges ahead? - What skills are needed to solve the global problems of social injustice and deal with the consequences of the ecological economic crisis creatively? - What must the education system be like, that it prepares us as adults to be less moulded to existing conditions and therefore better able to see what needs to be changed for the future? - Which activities in the classroom or necessary so that initiative and entrepreneurial will can develop for the realisation of new ideas? - What does an age-appropriate media education look like, for achieving maturity and competence in working with information technology? Regardless of what problem you are considering: what is needed are courage and confidence, health and a joy for life. But how can school and parental home create the conditions for these qualities to develop? In view of the increasing life expectancy worldwide this is an urgent need, because a healthy physical emotional spiritual maturation is the best prerequisite for a creative life into old age. This book is a plea for radically aligning upbringing and education with what is needed for the healthy development and well-being of children and adolescents - and not aligning at the wrong time with performance goals coming from business and government policy. The author, a paediatrician with many decades of experience, begins with a consideration of what is meant by age appropriate instruction, delving into a detailed discussion of the child as he or she grows through different stages of development, and how the child will grow in health, well-being and resilience if upbringing and education are aware of and an sync with this. As an example, the experiences of Waldorf schools are examined, looking in detail at the growth in each year of childhood and adolescence as it pertains to a holistic curriculum which incorporates education of body, soul and spirit. Dr Gloeckler then considers the effects on health and the causes for illness in adult life if age-appropriateness is not taken into account. She concludes with a discussion of teacher health and health engendering principles that can protect against teacher burnout. Education for the Future is a very informative book and will be of interest for educators as well parents who are interested in nurturing health and human potential in children.

Ever since the Greek philosophers characterized the three foundational ideals for attaining wisdom -- Truth (science), Beauty (art) and Goodness (religion) -- these ideals have been significant influences on all levels of education. They are also the pillars of healthy development of body, soul and spirit. This insightful book, drawing on lectures given by Dr Michaela Gloeckler at the 2018 Kolisko conference, explores these themes and asks what the future looks like in the areas of education, the healing arts, and health care in light of them. How do goodness, beauty and truth acts as preventative medicine in society? And how can they be understood in the context of the Waldorf curriculum?

"The picture we have of viruses and their significance for human beings and nature has fundamentally changed in the last two decades but with hardly any of this more widely known ... Viruses are the oldest, the most common and the most broadly distributed organic structures that evolution has ever created. Viruses basically are the most ancient building blocks of life; without this knowledge we will not be able to understand their role and the part they play in the course of illness." T. Hardtmuth....... Dr Thomas Hardtmuth tackles the many issues of the Covid-19 Corona pandemic. He proceeds from the premise that we first need a thorough understanding of the significance of viruses not just as a cause of illnesses but as a medium, under the right conditions, for building and maintaining health, as a carrier and changer of genetic information in the service of evolution. Still prevalent is the view that all viruses are enemies to be fought, consigning ourselves as in this epidemic to battleground stations, with all that that entails. Governments have described it as a war..... The newest research and understanding, though, is leading to very different conclusions. The prevalent view of a virus attacking us and making us ill, laying the blame fully on the virus, is outdated. Its effect depends on the situation and most importantly the 'host', ie the person - it is not a simple question of cause and effect - or dots on a computer chart touching each other and 'causing infection', as computer modelling tends to be done..... This book delves in more detail into related subjects, in an easily readable language. These themes include the PCR tests and the so-called Ct (or amplification) values; the psychology of fear and power; the inner-outer relationship between human health and environmental health; and the effects of fear as well as other factors on the immune system. In addition, he introduces the subject of alternative therapies and the controversial theme of benefits and risks of vaccination, in general and with regard to the current Covid vaccines. On the latter he details in comprehensible form the processes both by which the different types of vaccines have been produced as well as the different mechanisms by which they affect human cells and immune systems. He goes on to consider the testing processes in production which were significantly shortened for Covid vaccines, the potential risks, and the immunological responses in the organism through vaccines in comparison to responses arising naturally through actual infections - how they are not the same. This leads into a comprehensive survey of the functioning of the human immune system..... In all the sections, the effort is made to explore the issues from a broad, open-minded and holistic perspective, showing how this approach has an important significance also for the details of the Covid pandemic and the various measures being taken. It is written in an easily readable language..... The emphasis: with a comprehensive knowledge incorporating unbiased views of health and human illness, without fears or political pressures, we will be in a better position for discussion on policies as well as for responsible individual choices.

In Corona and the Human Heart, Dr Gloeckler gives new inspiring perspectives on the significant role of the human heart in the development of the immune system, from early embryological growth through to adulthood, and the importance this understanding has for the Covid crisis. The heart is intrinsically involved in the interplay between inner and outer, the dynamic boundary between self and the environment. At the same time it is the centre and life-blood of the human organism, just as the sun is for the living earth. In exploring the wide fields of the heart's functions, Dr Gloeckler sheds light on how immunity is integrally connected with the heart and the inner sense of self. If we disempower the individual through anxieties and fears, or through dependence on outer authority, we reduce the confidence and strength of self; this in turn leads to a significantly reduced ability of the immune system to fend itself against outer influences, such as viruses and other pathogenetic influences. The author leads us on a path showing how by strengthening our inner spiritual life - our inner sun - we will be strengthening our health and immunity, as well as illuminating riddles of conscience and common sense..... "When people follow their conscience and have the courage to speak the truth, even when it is unpopular, without the fear of stigmatisation or exclusion, not only is the immune system strengthened but also people's trust in the future." M. Gloeckler, MD..... "This timely book represents a breakthrough in phenomenological research that will provide far-reaching insights not only to those who are prompted by the current pandemic to ask deeper questions related to health and medical freedom, but also to all open-minded researchers in pursuit of bridging the mind-body divide." B. Furst, MD

This is a comprehensive and in-depth collection of twenty articles from the 2006 Kolisko conferences. Named for Waldorf educator and anthroposophic physician Eugen Kolisko, the Kolisko conferences bring together pedagogical and therapeutic tools found in Waldorf education. In 2006, there were nine such Kolisko conferences held worldwide, and this book brings together the key lectures into a single volume, newly revised. Topics include healthy timetabling, development of physiology, professional ethics, meditations for teachers, medical diagnostics and therapies, spirituality in science, art and religion, children and drugs, children and computer games, parent collaboration, the college of teachers and many more.