Transforming Society: Seeds for a New Social Understanding
A Course by Seth Jordan
Regardless of how we each live and work within society, we all contribute to the health or illness of the whole. So how do we develop the understanding and capacities needed to bring health to society? Vital insights to this question can be found in the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner.
This year-long course provides a foundation in Steiner's social insights. Participants can begin any time and work at their own pace. Over 12 monthly lessons, we will develop the core themes of this anthroposophical social science, exploring all aspects — from the microcosmic level of the individual to the macrocosmic level of society.
Topics include
The Nature of Work | Freedom and Love | Society as a Living Organism | Foundations and Tools of Anthroposophical Social Science | The Substance of Money | Threefold Society: Free Culture — True Democracy — Associative Economy | Social and Antisocial Forces | Ethnicity, Race, and Culture | and many others
An artistic worksheet from one of the lessons
Lesson Plan
All the lessons contain elements of both study and action. Inner work exercises help the student build stronger capacities and perceptions in the social realm, and suggested activities help digest and bring the content of the study into one’s own experience.
In addition, the student is asked to complete assignments and share them with their tutor. In this way, students are able to receive support and feedback as they work their way through the course.
Cost to Enroll
Standard enrollment: $450 AUD (~$320 USD)
This includes
12 PDF lessons via email, sent monthly
Individual feedback on lesson submissions
About the Author
Seth Jordan has been working with Steiner’s social ideas, often called “social threefolding,” since 2007. Inspired by the deep clarity of insight they contain, he has asked, How can we develop our social practice so that these insights become lived experience? Seth writes regularly at The Whole Social.
Seth co-founded and directed Think OutWord, a peer-led training for young adults in social threefolding that ran intensive workshops and conferences for 8 years. Seth has worked with various initiatives including Free Columbia (an arts initiative) and The Nature Institute (a natural science initiative). He has also worked with a number of musicians around the question of bringing support to culture and the arts.
Other significant experiences include organizing around Nicanor Perlas’ 2010 presidential campaign in the Philippines, participating in Occupy Wall Street, and completing a research residency with the social science section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
Seth has written many articles on social and cultural topics as well as given talks, workshops, and courses in the US and around the world.
