All Friday Seminars & Lectures Events

Journeying 7pm - 8.30pm (UK time) A series of zoom and face to face seminars exploring the spiritual significance of nature given by speakers working with the insights of Rudolf Steiner. All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose. Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776 or via Paypal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836 Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kw5KhlMVS 

Online events are highlighted in blue.

  • Friday 1 November
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Dr. Peter Gruenewald

    Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis is a renowned Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founded in 2016. He once described himself provocatively as a battle hardened, reconstructed materialistic socialist. In a moving podcast with Gabor Maté, Varoufakis shares his spiritual journey through music, experiencing profound ecstasies and catharsis. He reveals conscience, social responsibility, and social engagement, qualities that underscore his spiritual path and inspire hope. Varoufakis describes the death of capitalism and its replacement with techno-feudalism, driven by AI algorithms that manipulate human behaviour, reflecting the despair of individuals in a society rooted in social Darwinism and materialism. Human and nature relationships are being replaced by working and living with technology, and many young people are left in a state of hopelessness. The resulting mental health crisis among young people is a heart-breaking consequence.

    Transforming human relationships and society can begin with individual change, fostering personal, interpersonal, social, and spiritual skills to promote self-knowledge and transformation. Building communities based on truthfulness, selfless love, and brotherhood are essential. A holistic therapeutic approach to managing stress, fostering spirituality, and reconnecting people with each other and nature is my form of therapeutic activism.

    Peters contribution lies in resilience training, which, when well-taught, can significantly positively impact people from all backgrounds, initiating transformation and appealing to the core of our humanity. This path embraces Steiner-inspired and scientifically validated techniques, such as Resonant Frequency Breathing Meditation, emotional regulation through journaling, purpose finding through courageous self-dialogue, moral imagination as a manifestation technique, mindful nature observation for spiritual reconnection, and active listening for deep interpersonal connections.

    Introducing ‘psychological safety’ in various contexts, from families to work environments, will allow these resilience skills—rooted in service, respect, love, and personal freedom—to flourish. Let’s explore these techniques and how they may contribute to our collective human journey.

    Dr Peter Gruenewald is an anthroposophical doctor, general practitioner, specialist doctor in sleep medicine and a trainer in Adaptive Resilience and stress management. He is the author of many books, including Rosicrucian Alchemy. A Spiritual Christian Path (2024),  Mastering Life. Rosicrucian and Magical Techniques for achieving your Life’s Goals (2022),  Manifesting your Best Future Self: Building Adaptive Resilience (2020) and  The Quiet Heart. Putting Stress in its Place (2007).

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776.

    PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

  • Friday 8 November
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Angus Jenkinson

    The 19 class lessons are a path whereby the human goes from the mystery of uncertain existence to knowledge of the high eternal being that is the true self, the I that embraces Christ. How does this path unfold and how can it be seen as both spiritual science and soul journey?

    This does not require membership of the School of Spiritual Science to attend.

    Angus Jenkinson is a Class Holder and the author of From Stress to Serenity.

    Chapter 4 of that book describes an experience of the true I in contrast with the everyday me.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776.

    PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

    Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836

    Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359

  • Friday 15 November
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Dr Andrew Welburn

    The journey to the light - to the Sun, to the East - is one of the profoundest symbols of the inner path.  It has been quite literally a guiding power in human evolution, and remains a potent image of our cosmic responsibility for the future.  Andrew Welburn will help us focus on finding the inner Sun, our future goal, and also on the question of what we bring back to share with the present.  Strangely, we cannot really know if we have found the way unless we confirm it here and now!

    Andrew has been an academic in the fields of English Literature and biblical interpretation and history. A life-long Anthroposophist, he has written several books on Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy, esotericism, and Christianity, and on the prophet Zarathustra.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776. PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

  • Friday 22 November
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Dr. Douglas Miller

    In the pre-dawn darkness of September 3, 1786, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe—already a celebrated author in Germany—departed his homeland for Italy. He had told only a very few friends about his plans, and he traveled under a pseudonym; he would not return until a year and a half later. He wrote about this journey: “I had a second birthday, a true rebirth, beginning with the day I entered Rome.” In our discussion we will consider what the roots of this quest for a “rebirth” were, and what the Italian journey meant for the many remaining years of Goethe’s personal life and his creative contributions in literature and science.

    Douglas is a retired professor of German at the University of Michigan–Flint in the United States; his research, publication, and lecturing has focused on Goethe’s accomplishments as a scientist and writer, as well as on the history and meaning of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776.

    PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

    Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836

    Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359

  • Friday 29 November
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Trevor Dance

    We all experience the journey through earthly life, which is followed by another journey through the spiritual world, determining our requirements for our following incarnation. Karmic friendships form part of the itinerary, and it is fruitful to reference such a resounding partnership of J.W. Goethe and Friedrich Schiller in their life journeys when thinking of our own life paths and friendships.

    Trevor Dance is the author of, 'The Mystery of the Portal', about Steiner's first mystery drama, which focussed upon Goethe's fairy tale, 'The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily' and is a member of The Printmaker's Council.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776.

    PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

  • Friday 6 December
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Howard Smith

    What exactly are the chemical elements? Rudolf Steiner once referred to them as if they were individuals; living beings. So we can perhaps ask “WHO are the elements, and what do they have to tell us?” Some tell us of very ancient times, even before the earth evolution began. Some speak of the sun; others speak of the moon. In this talk we will explore the “biographies” of a few representative elements and try to discern what they say about our Earth and its spiritual origin.

    Howard is a life-long student of Anthroposophy. He has a PhD in Chemistry and worked as researcher into the properties of water and as a science teacher. He founded the Science Group of Anthroposophical Society in Great Britian and now works as a piano technical specialist. 

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776.

    PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com

    Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82632129836

    Meeting ID: 826 3212 9836, Passcode: 755359

  • Friday 13 December
    7pm - 8.30pm

    with Patrick Dixon

    See the creative process in action! This is a microcosmic work in progress, within the macrocosmic work in progress within which we are all involved. Patrick will enact scenes from 2 dramas that he is currently writing - ‘Seeing in the Dark’ and the ‘Not Quite Immaculate Deception’. We’ll be brought right up to date and into the future with a preview of another of his works in progress - ‘American DNA and spinchronicity’.   

    Patrick Dixon trained at RADA and is an actor, writer, poet and performer. He lives in London and gives frequent lectures, seminars and one-man shows.

    All welcome, no need to book, no charge. Events are not recorded and Zoom meetings are limited to 100 participants. Voluntary donations towards costs are gratefully received and can be made by cash donation on the day, transfer to a Nationwide account held for this purpose or via PayPal.

    Account name: Adrian Hotten, sort code: 07-01-16 account number: 31466776. PayPal to suejoanpeat@gmail.com