Workshop: Bringing Up Healthy Children in Body, Soul and Spirit

Event Description

Jake and Bella Tan will be coming to Malaysia to give an immensely insightful workshop on 6-7 May 2017. The workshop costs RM500 for 2 days including meals.

Another mini workshop will also be held at Merryweather Playcare Center (2, Jalan Puteri 12/18 Bandar Puteri, Puchong, 47100 Selangor) on 10th May from 3.30pm – 6pm. The mini workshop fee is RM60. 

Resume of Bella Tan

After encountering and reading about Steiner/Waldorf Education in 1987, Bella Tan underwent teacher training in Melbourne, Australia in 1989, and went to Germany in 1991 to learn more.  Together with other colleagues in the Philippines, she pioneered the first Steiner/Waldorf Kindergarten in 1994, the Grade School in 1996 and a parent/child program in 1997.  In 2003, she began focusing on teacher training and parent education to share her expertise not only to the different initiatives in the Philippines but to other countries in Asia. Bella’s passion to bring Waldorf education to both parents and teachers in as many places in the Philippines, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other parts of Asia is gradually being realized.  She is also the author of a number of children’s books, two of which are already published in Shenzhen, China.  Since 2006, she joined Jake Tan as lecturer in giving an Overview of the Foundation of Anthroposophy for the teacher training in Early Childhood Waldorf Education. She is recently appointed as the educational coordinator of the Waldorf Early Childhood Course (WECC) in Hongkong. 

Resume of Jake Tan

Joaquin “Jake” Tan is the Author of the Book “Healing Ourselves from Medicine: How Anthroposophy Can Save Your Life” Goldenstone press, Benson, North Carolina, 2011. It is a self-help book that empowers individuals and communities to take charge of their own health. He also authored a previous book “Healing Ourselves: a Guide to Creative, Responsive, and Self-reliant Medicine” Anvil Publishing House, Manila, 1995. This book became the main resource material for a number of Community-Based Alternative Health care Programs in various parts of the Philippines.

“Jake” Tan trained in the manufacture of Anthroposophical Pharmaceuticals with the WALA GMBH, Bad Boll, Germany in 1992. In October/November of 1992, he attended the English Course in Anthroposphic Medicine at Arlesheim, Switzerland organized by the Medical Section of the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland. Prior to this, he was a practicing Acupuncturist of which he got his basic training in 1989. Upon his return from Europe, he immediately conducted seminars and workshops to the general public in different parts of the Philippines. The seminars were also attended by some doctors and other medical practitioners who eventually underwent training in Anthroposophic Medicine.

In 1995, he founded the Homeopathic Grail Center that produces homeopathic and Anthroposophic remedies. To this day, the Center serves the needs of his patients and a number of clinics for the supply of the abovementioned remedies.

Since 2013, he sits on the Subcommittee of Homeopathy/Homotoxicology, a Philippine government body tasked to accredit and regulate the practice of Homeopathy and Homotoxicology in the Philippines

Below is the itinerary for the 2 days workshop:

Bringing up Healthy Children in Body Soul and Spirit

Day 1

8:30 – 8:45: Registration

8:45 – 9:00: Introduction of resource persons and participants

9:00 – 10:00: First Conversation (by Jake Tan & Bella Tan) – Children actually grow down – from head to the limbs and wake up to will, feeling and thinking. What then should be the appropriate nutrition for children as they grow down from the head/nerve sense system to the heart and lungs and then to their metabolism and limbs. How then can we educate the will, the feeling and the thinking?

10:00 – 10:30: Open Conversation

10:30 – 11:00: Tea Break

11:00 – 12:00: Second Conversation on Child’s Health (JT) – All children tend to have high fever when they get a fever. Why is this so? An explanation of childhood diseases, fevering as part of their normal growth and development processes. How can we then support the child?

12:00– 12:15: Open conversation

12:15 – 1:30: Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:00: Simple Movement exercises to stimulate proper development of the physical body and coherence in the brain (Bella Tan).

2:00 – 3:00: Third Conversation (JT) – Managing fever without immunosuppressing drugs. The use of warm compress for inflammation, sleep disturbance, hypersensitivity and the like.

3:00 – 3:30: Tea break

3:30 – 5:00: Open conversation and/or continuation of details of nutrition, importance of the first 40 days, weaning from milk and introducing new food to avoid unconscious stress manifested as restlessness then hyperactivity. Sleep as a healing activity

Day 2

9:00 – 10:00: Fourth Conversation (JT) – The seven life processes of Breathing, Warming, Digesting, Secreting, Maintaining, Growth, and Reproduction in health and illness for children and adults.

10:00 – 10:30: Tea Break

10:30 – 11:00: Open conversation

11:00 – 12:00:Fifth Conversation (JT) – The Human being as a whole – the relationship of earlier years to the adult life – for example: current trends in health – Metabolic syndrome – obesity, early degenerative diseases in young adults, effects of modern lifestyle, effects of the educational system.

12:00 – 12:15: – Open conversation

12:15 – 1:30: Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:30: Sixth Conversation (by Bella Tan) Movement exercises one can do at home in the context of play.

2:30 – 3:15: – Open conversation

3:15 – 3:45: Tea Break

3:45 – 4:30: Seventh Conversation (JT & BT) How can we support Waldorf Education in Malaysia? Or Self development of the adult as the model of the child’s inner development.

4:30 – 5:00: Open conversation related to the two days.