Webinars
LifeWays has a new series of webinars
created to bring lasting warmth, intention and joy into your life with children!
Each webinar includes a previously recorded class and offers as a Family-Enrichment Care Package that includes notes and reflective questions or recommended deepening practices. 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.
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.
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.
About the 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.