Spring Fair!! Saturday, May 2nd! Indoor Portion of Fair at 62 Avenue B and Picnic & Activities in the Garden, El Jardin del Paraiso

Save the date for this glorious event featuring a New Amsterdam Faculty Puppet Show; Mother Nature's Magical Garden; Crystal Cave; The Magical Meadow Wool Craft Room; Pocket Fairy; Eurythmy; The New Amsterdam School Spring Market; and Angel's Share (new this year)! We will also have a picnic and activities in our beautiful garden, El Jardin del Paraiso. Stay tuned for info on the time and ticket sales. See you at the Spring Fair!

Parent Lecture: Parenting as a Spiritual Path. Monday, Feb 23rd, 7pm at 62 Avenue B

Parenting as a Spiritual Path  

With Yehuda Tagar

Psychophonetics Institute International

          Monday, Feb 23rd, 7pm
          62 Avenue B

Parenting is without a doubt the most demanding, accountable, consequential and important task in the world. It is also one of the least supported ones. For much simpler and less important professions, people are trained, supervised, and supported. At crucial moments in parenting, we are left alone to our own limited existing devises and resources. No one trains us for parenthood.  Yet internal support, guidance, life energy and inspiration are available in the depth of parenthood if it is taken as a path of spiritual development. Children present the strongest opportunity for parents to grow. 

Still partially in the spiritual world, children can remind us of our source, if we listen. They need us to really See them, Hear them, Know them. That is active empathy.  

If we take up the challenge to develop conscious empathy with our children, we are taking a step in our spiritual development. Children need us to deal with and to contain our emotionality: reactions, projections, frustrations, anxieties, neediness, hurts and losses. If we take this task seriously, we develop self awareness, self-management and self-healing.  Children need us to be truthful. If we take that challenge seriously, we find the courage to see ourselves objectively and honestly, and to change. 

Psychophonetics is a practical application of Rudolf Steiner's Psychosophy. A form of Anthroposophically based soul-phenomenology, personal development, counselling, coaching and  psychotherapy, the psychological application of Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom. It is being taught and practiced in Australia, South Africa, UK, Slovakia, Hungary and Czech Republic. 

This is the first public presentation in New York by Yehuda Tagar, founder of Applied Psychosophy, Psychophonetics and Methodical Empathy, director of Psychophonetics Institute International, British College of Methodical Empathy and Psychosophy Academy of Central Europe. 

Thank You for Coming to Our Saturday Craft Studio! Next Saturday Studio Will Be in March!!!

We hope you and your children had a lovely time at our first Saturday Craft Studio. Thank you for spreading the word, thank you for helping, and thank you for joining us!!

Our next "Crafternoon" will be in mid-March. Stay tuned for the date and the project!!

Free Puppet Show for Children in Our School and in Our Greater Community!

Please join New Amsterdam teachers in welcoming children from our greater community to a puppet show at our school on Sunday, February 22nd

10:30am showing for Children 3 & 4 Years Old

11:30am showing for Children 5 & 6 Years Old

Share the event with friends, family and neighbors! 

Lecture at Brooklyn Waldorf with Nancy Blanning ~ Wednesday, February 25th, 6:30pm

Please join speaker Nancy Blanning at the Brooklyn Waldorf School Wednesday, Feb 25th, 6:30pm

"My Mother-In_Law Insists on Buying My Child a (Fill In the Blank) No Matter What I Say"

Simplicity Parenting Group Workshop, Monday Evenings beginning February 23rd

Simplicity Parenting Group

Upcoming Workshop

Mondays in February & March 2015

Simplicity Parenting is a supportive, systematic approach for creating more calm, connection and cooperation in families by decreasing sources of cumulative stress. The model operates out of the understanding that parents are the best experts on their own families. Parents and caretakers are provided with an accessible, empowering framework and practical solutions for establishing a values-led lifestyle that supports healthy social-emotional development & strong family bonds.

Workshop will meet Monday evenings for approximately 2 hours (time tbd) February 23rd-March 30th

For information and registration, please email meryam.schneider@me.com

Cost*
$150 per person (+$30 materials fee)
$275 per couple (+50 materials fee)
*All Proceeds will go to Benefit new Amsterdam School

Location
133 Norfolk Street
NYC 10002

Saturday Studios at new Amsterdam School, 1-3pm 62 Ave B

Join us on Saturday Afternoon for our Saturday Studios Craft Program!

Saturday, March 28th, 1-4pm
So sorry this event is Cancelled
Stay tuned for a new date!

62 Avenue B

Parents and Children over the Age of 6* are welcome to join our next Saturday Studio Crafting Workshop where we will try our hands working with LEATHER!

Join First Grade teacher Jamie Loftus for a Leather Workshop

Learn to print, cut, dye, punch and design leather to create a key rings, bracelets or belts.

We look forward to seeing you!

*Due to the nature of the materials required to work with leather, this craft is not appropriate for children under 6 years old. We hope children under six will join us at a future date for soft crafts!

Parents and Children over the age of 5 are welcome to join us to make Valentine Crafts with New Amsterdam handwork teacher Anne Elliott on Saturday, February 7th, 1-3pm.

Saturday Studios are open to the public.
There will be a small materials fee for this session.

For more information Please RSVP to: kaarin.vonherrlich@newamsterdamchildhood.org

We hope to see you there!