Good day,

In June 2023, we invited Dr Michaela Glöckler to bring her approach to Biography Work to an English-speaking audience in the Indo-Pacific region. The idea was that she would introduce us step by step to her Five Principles. This October, the five-step journey closes with the Fifth Element, the Quinta Essentia.

Her Five-Star Archetype approaches the human being through five aspects, each opening a Doorway to Health and Healing. Four of them describe how we take hold of earthly existence — the Physical-organisation, the Etheric-organisation, the Astral-organisation and the ‘I’-organisation. We have worked through these four, one at a time, since 2023. This time our focus is on the fifth, and it is of a different nature: the Quinta Essentia is no longer constitution-forming. It builds no body at all.
This is what we explore at the Gathering, 16 to 18 October. Everything that has led to it — that is, Parts 1 to 4, some 355 pages with links to 14 recorded lectures — is now gathered together in a bundle. There is more on the Quinta Essentia itself on our website.
We invite you to join us in October.

With warmest wishes from a misty winter day in Canberra,
Karl-Heinz Finke & Laura Summerfield

Part 5 completes the series, with lectures by Dr Michaela Glöckler. In English, with adjunct gatherings in Mandarin and Japanese. Read more about the Gathering.

Time Zones
AU AEDT 17:00–22:00  |  CN 14:00–19:00  |  TW 14:00–19:00  |  IN 11:30–16:30  |  CH, DE 08:00–13:00  |  UK 07:00–12:00

The four Parts that led to the Quinta Essentia, in one bundle. Each Learning Pack includes its Study Guide, readings and links to the recorded Lectures.

Part 1 · June 2023 · the Physical-organisation · 100 pp, 3 lectures
Part 2 · June 2024 · the Etheric-organisation · 107 pp, 3 lectures
Part 3 · June 2025 · the Astral-organisation · 70 pp, 3 lectures
Part 4 · Nov 2025 · the ‘I’-organisation · 78 pp, 5 lectures

355 pages and 14 lectures in all. Bought singly the four would come to 240 AUD. In the weeks leading to Part 5, the bundle is the only way to get the previous Learning Packs.

Three hours to find out what Biography Work is, and how our holistic approach differs. Bring your questions about the courses and about the three-year International Online Training Program. You will take part in a short group-work session, so that you experience the method rather than hear it described, and you will meet some of our team. Register through the Web Shop for your Zoom link.

You do not have to wait for a cycle to begin. You can start your biographical studies at any time by ordering the Learning Pack for our Foundation Course — Take Charge: Reflect on your Life Journey. Its guided group-work runs 12 to 15 November 2026, so allow yourself enough time to work through the Learning Pack beforehand.
There is also a free sample Learning Pack and an introductory lecture on Biography Work, if you would like to look before you commit. Every module, with its dates and fees, is listed here — and some modules are open to guest participants.

Guiding Groups is part of our Holistic Adult Learning stream, for consultants, educators and facilitators working with adults. It is open to everyone — there is no prerequisite. Our Adult Learning modules are inspired by Coenraad van Houten (1922–2013), who described the meeting of adult educator and adult learner as a ‘co-human relationship’ — one individuality relating to another, as equals.

The course opens with core skills, practices and principles of adult learning: the path from information to wisdom, and the growth of the learner from Reactor to Witness, to Learner and to Researcher. It then turns to its main subject — creating, supporting and holding an open space. You will explore three types of group, and the three elements at work in every conversation: Content (Thinking), Interaction (Feeling) and Process (Willing). You will be introduced to the seven Archetypal Qualities related to the seven Planets, which help you assess the personality types at work in a group, read its dynamics and find ways to facilitate the process. And you will learn and practise a structured process of collegial Inter-vision — a safe way for colleagues to learn from the incidents they find most difficult.

Most of our work is online, but here is the chance to meet in person. Every second year, our Indian colleagues host an International Onsite Biography Gathering. The new issue of The Voice of Biography carries the announcement. Its 2025 Winter Solstice edition reports on the last one, in Pondicherry. Full details and bookings will follow — for now, just save the dates.