Learning Packs – Holistic Biography Work

5-Doorways Learning Packs, Parts 1 to 4 – Bundle

Karl-Heinz Finke — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:05:20 +0000

All four Learning Packs of the 5-Doorways series, in one bundle Parts 1 to 4, at a bundle price. Each Learning Pack contains its Study Guide, the readings, and the linked Lectures by Dr Michaela Glöckler. A Learning Pack can also be topped up with Guided Group Work. The series follows the human constitution one principle at a time. This bundle brings together the four Learning Packs that precede…

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BGO-10 | Foundation Course – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:04:37 +0000

This Learning Pack offers the Foundation Course as a self-paced study pack. Allow 80 hours in total — 60 prep (self-paced) plus 20 course hours (guided group-work online). The Study Guide for the Course includes the indications for guided Group-work. The guidelines for the group-work may benefit Study Groups who decide to complete the whole Learning Pack together. This provides the possibility…

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BGO-11 | Typologies – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:58:42 +0000

In this Learning Pack, we explore the ways in which we may come to better understand ourselves and others. We use different lenses to explore who we are, how we are unique, and how we are connected with each other and the world around us. Here are some of the lenses that we use: Unity with the world – by knowing ourselves we can know the world – by understanding the world we can come to know…

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BGO-12 | Mental Health Challenges – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 05:44:21 +0000

Mental Health Challenges: Recognising common mental health issues. Learning strategies to manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress. This Learning Pack consists of a Study Guide with reading and activities. There are Lectures from Karl-Heinz Finke to support learning. 55 hours in total — 40 prep (self-paced) plus 15 course hours (guided group-work online). It is the first of our Learning Packs on Mental Health issues. The second, Mental Health Crisis, deepens knowledge and understanding.

BGO-13 | Communication Skills – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:06:16 +0000

Communication Skills is about noticing the three activities of thinking, feeling and intention as they happen in a speaker — not only what someone says, but how they say it. Is their thinking linear or associative, straight to the point or circling back? How does their feeling weave through the voice and the breathing? And what are they actually trying to achieve? A person’s thinking…

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Study Guide – Six Basic Exercises

Laura Summerfield — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 02:53:33 +0000

This free Study Guide was created to support the understanding and practice of the 6 exercises which Rudolf Steiner called Subsidiary Exercises. They are the basic or fundamental exercises for personal and/or spiritual development, that Steiner believed were a crucial accompaniment to any other practice. They are assembled here by Karl-Heinz Finke as a synopsis from 6 different sources where…

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Study Guide – Overcoming Nervousness – Free Activity Pack

Karl-Heinz Finke — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 05:47:11 +0000

This Study Guide was created as part of our course, Mental Health Challenges. It contains Rudolf Steiner’s lecture on Overcoming Nervousness, which includes 10 Exercises aiming to strengthen the mastery of the ‘I’ on the Astral, Etheric and Physical Bodies. Here are the exercises, starting with the Physical Body and moving up to the ‘I’. 1. Exercise to balance being fidgety. | 2.

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BGO-20 | The Helping Conversation – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:17:02 +0000

The Helping Conversation - Deep Listening and empathy in encounter. Practising 3 levels and 7 qualities in helping conversations. This Learning Pack consists of a Study Guide with reading and activities. There are Lectures from Karl-Heinz Finke. 80 hours in total — 60 prep (self-paced) plus 20 course hours (guided group-work online). It is the second Part of our 2 Modules on the communication skills that underlie The Helping Conversation, and builds on the Communication Skills Learning Pack. The latter is recommended as a starting point.

BGO-21 | Life Encounters – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:03:40 +0000

In this Learning Pack, we support you to look at your individual biography or life story through the lens of significant encounters – family experiences, friendship in childhood and adolescence, intimate relationships, work relationships. Learn about the developmental stages in a relationship. Examine concepts of masculinity and femininity, anima and animus, and the limitations of these…

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BGO-22 | Trials & Thresholds – Learning Pack

Laura Summerfield — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:34:34 +0000

With this Learning Pack, we look at the trials that we experience in life, as part of an initiation process through life. Specifically, we explore fire, water and air trials as they occur as incidents and experiences within our biography, and how they may be spiritual experiences and part of our initiation process. We consider the nature of the inner and outer thresholds that lead to our…

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