Trailer II | Whitsun Conference 2025 · A Look Ahead

The School of Spiritual Science and its Sections · Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual impulses for a civilisation of the future

One hundred years after the founding of the School of Spiritual Science, another step towards its realisation is due. All our lives are marked by polarisation, disorientation, loss of meaning, social discord and even armed conflict – this calls for a new approach of spiritual deepening if it is to become effective for civilisation. To date, twelve Sections have been established, which accompany and inspire the work in the individual areas of life worldwide with regard to research, further education and mutual exchange.
At Whitsun 2025, we would like to take the 100th anniversary of Rudolf Steiner’s death as an occasion to bring to mind his inspirations for the individual Sections and areas of life against the background of the present situation.
How can we shape the work of the Sections in the School of Spiritual Science in the sense of a school of Michael, the Spirit of the Age? How do we make the new spiritual impulses fruitful under difficult conditions of our time – and how is the substance of anthroposophy transformed by what is worked out in the respective practice? – Can we connect Section-specific and individual forms of work in a community of knowledge in such a way that a higher reality becomes recognisable?
Here the Whitsun community of the disciples can inspire us as an ideal image. Despite their different languages, they were able to understand one another in the task to be accomplished. At the Whitsun Conference one hundred years after Rudolf Steiner’s death, we are seeking a future perspective for the School of the Sections out of this spirit..

Three questions form the basis for a conversation with you

1. What are Rudolf Steiner’s central inspirations for the respective Section field?
   

2. What does the individual Section contribute to the School’s work of knowledge?
   

3. What do the individual Sections achieve for a civilisation of the future?

The conference is addressed to all those interested in anthroposophy and the Sections of the School of Spiritual Science. You can take part in in-depth specialist colloquia on the Sections’ research and development questions.

We look forward to exchanging ideas and meeting you!

For the Goetheanum Leadership,
Marion Debus, Christiane Haid, Karin Michael, Matthias Rang, Nathaniel Williams