ON DEMAND COURSES
Being On-Demand means these courses are available to you
to work through at your own pace, at the times that are most convenient for you
and with absolutely no deadlines. They are yours for life!
All Courses are On Going - Enroll Anytime
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Our on-demand online courses offer childcare workers and parents the flexibility to learn at their own pace, whenever it fits into your busy life. These thoughtfully designed courses empower you to deepen your understanding of holistic child development, creative play, and nurturing care—whether you're a caregiver enhancing your practice or a parent seeking to enrich your child's early years. With a focus on fostering creativity, emotional well-being, and intellectual growth, our self-paced courses give you the tools to create a more thoughtful, child-centered environment in your home or classroom. Start learning today and cultivate a meaningful, enriching experience for the children in your care.
Are you interested in exploring the idea of creating a "home away from home" for children? It's not just the environment that creates this feeling, it's also the activities of the children and the adults in the space. It's bringing to life relationship-based care steeped in the LifeWays Principles. In this course, you will learn how and when to start a program, crafting your program's rhythms and practices, managing the business aspects, building positive relationships and caring for yourself along the way!
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Creating A Home Away from Home
A course created by Mary O'Connoll
and facilitated by Jane McCoy
How do we intentionally craft a family culture that reflects our values? How do we practice those values every day with our children? And how do we continue to hold true to these values as our family grows and our individual needs change?
Creating Your Family Culture
A course created by Mary O'Connoll
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In this four-module course you will discover a meaningful paradigm of care for young children in the modern world. Based on Cynthia Aldinger’s book, Life is the Curriculum, this course guides you through exploring some of Rudolf Steiner's foundations of child development and how to apply these insights to establish care and education that is both relevant and critical in truly supporting the life of the child.
Start your LifeWays journey with this bundle of three foundational on-demand online courses!
Being On-Demand means these courses are available to you to work through at your own pace, at the times that are most convenient for you and with absolutely no deadlines. They are yours for life!
This Bundle includes the following courses:
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The Living Arts: Cornerstones of Care for Families
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Creating Your Family Culture- An Elemental Approach
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Healthy Home Rhythms
Food for Thought: Rhythm and Beauty of Nutrition
with Michaeleen Hinca
On Going- Enroll Anytime
This delicious On Demand course offers a menu of ideas to childcare providers, early childhood teachers and grand/parents who are craving Food for Thought about the nourishment they are offering to the children in their lives. Learn to savor the many rhythms around meals and snacks and serve them up with love and intention.
LifeWays has a new series of of Family-Enrichment Care packages created to bring lasting warmth, intention and joy into your life with children!
Each package includes a previously recorded class as well as notes and reflective questions.
These packages are priced at $50 with the intention
that multiple people may view the recordings, and serve as a great resource for parent meetings in schools & centers, or homeschool co-op parent studies.
Creating Nurturing Transitions
with Acacia Moore
It might be surprising to hear that young children move through 30 to 50 transitions daily, until you really think through their whole day. Wake up at 7 am and go to the bathroom or get a diaper change. Wash hands and maybe play for a few minutes while mom or dad makes breakfast. Sit down to eat, then help clean up or get cleaned up and then get dressed before playing again. It’s only around 8 am and your little one has already moved through eight transitions.
This means that how we handle transitions as caregivers is both really important and that each one is an opportunity to connect and nurture. Join Acacia in developing transitions based on Rudolf Steiner’s fourfold description of the human being - through the physical, rhythmical, emotional, and conscious-thinking aspects of your environment, activity and self-conduct. Learn how to carefully plan transitions, carry them out, and transform the challenging ones into nurturing moments that strengthen your relationship and your child.
Webinar will be available after November 9th once live course has been completed. You can purchase now and the webinar will be sent at that time.
Reinhabiting Our Spaces:
A Practical & Creative Activity with Children
with Shanah Ahmadi
There are so many wonderful crafts that we can explore with our children, and the creations that they fashion with their little hands can become prized pieces on our mantles and dining room tables. On the other hand, our homes can sometimes feel like they will float away in the flotsam and jetsam of the uncountable knick knacks and treasures of childhood. These coveted items can be challenging to sift through, organize, display, and or cull because they are all special in their own right.
In this webinar, we will explore how to artistically reinhabit space. "Reinhabiting" refers to figuring out a new way to live in a given area. The area could be a porch that feels more cluttered than welcoming or a bedroom that feels more overwhelming than relaxing or even a cabinet that feels more confusing than orienting. Resetting a space doesn't need to be simply about cleaning and organizing. While those aspects are necessarily parts of the lifting process, reframing our intentions for the space and allowing our creative impulses to imbue the space are equally valuable.
We will outline how children of all ages can observe and/or participate in the reinhabiting activities. Working with physical spaces with a lifted consciousness builds a foundation for children (and adults!) to inhabit their own selves with increased fullness.
Webinar Facilitators
Acacia Moore
Acacia is the Executive Director of LifeWays and serves as Director for In-Person and Online Programs. She has been devoted to the mission of LifeWays for many years as an educator and mother of three sons. Alongside her role with LifeWays, she is co-founder and teacher at the City of Fountains School, established 2011 as Kansas City’s first school inspired by Waldorf education. She completed her Curative Educators training with the Mulberry Center for Curative Education in 2024, her own LifeWays Certificate training in 2016, and her Bachelor’s degree in Art Education with a focus on Early Childhood in 2003.
Acacia is passionate about partnering with families and educators to build support systems for children that honor their natural, individual development as spiritual human beings. She is tremendously grateful to be serving the LifeWays community with this very mission.
Shanah Ahmadi
Shanah earned a B.A. in Communications from the University of Oklahoma, and she completed her LifeWays training in 2007. That same year she began a home-based program named The Purple House, which in 2010 was incorporated as a non-profit organization named Rose Rock School. Shanah currently serves as Director of Rose Rock School, plus she is a Grade School teacher there. She loves getting to know the individual spirits of the people with whom she works--children, parents, and colleagues. She cannot begin to count the ways that the many people she has worked with over the years have shaped her character and helped her to be a more loving, authentic, and dedicated human being.