Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak

The younger generations will shape our future. These days, they are increasingly educated in the sciences and, at the same time, they long for new impulses that fulfill their soul-spiritual needs in such a way that they can find and realize themselves with their whole being in their fields of work. Goetheanism helps to build bridges between a materialistic view of nature, which has a self-limiting, intellectual orientation with no reference to the Earth, and an expanded, spiritual but scientifically based view.

This path of education permeates and shapes human thinking, feeling and willing in such a way that people can develop living thinking and a deeper feeling for nature and themselves, and thus become capable of taking action. New skills in the arenas of imagination, inspiration and intuition can be acquired in this training, using several methodical, didactically guided stages of cognition, so that participants can progressively approach a holistic understanding of nature. Such training is therefore highly relevant to many current problems in society and their solutions.

This project is ongoing and will be expanded in the future. It includes several smaller and larger research projects from various fields. Students from different disciplines, as well as people who have already completed their specialized training, are accompanied individually by experienced mentors from relevant fields of work and research. They work on their own research project, practicing the goetheanistic method. Various goetheanistic research methods are applied, combined with the study of important goetheanistic-anthroposophical texts.

Depending on the participant's interests and the complexity and scope of their project, the program, including the research project, lasts between three to seven years. The results of individual projects are published as articles or books^[1], but can also flow into social life in other forms, for example through development^[2] of new medical remedies or with new technical or methodological didactic contributions to specific research questions.

Co-operation with the Youth Section, the Medical Section, the Section for Agriculture and the Section for the Literary Arts & Humanities, as well as with various institutes, universities and companies is encouraged, depending on the research questions of the participants. Research projects can also support each other within existing educational initiatives in the goetheanistic field^[3], so as to be implemented better in the world.

^{[1] The list of existing publications from completed research projects in the in-service training in Goetheanistic-anthroposophical natural science is available here: https://www.anthrobotanik.eu/ausbildung/abgeschlossene-ausbildungsprojekte/}

^{[2] Examples of new developments in the field of medical remedies include completed research projects with wild teasel (Dipsacus fullonum L.), cyclamen (Cyclamen europaeum L.), white cinquefoil (Potentilla alba L.) and lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis L.).}

^{[3] Ongoing training initiatives as part of the NWS and its extended cooperation with the following initiatives and companies: In-service Training in Goetheanistic-Anthroposophical Natural Science and Initiative for Goetheanism (www.anthrobotanik.eu), training courses in Goetheanism “Microcosm and Macrocosm” in cooperation with the Anthroposophical Society Romania and Asociatia Euritmia Bucharest, research projects on medicinal plants in cooperation with the company Wala, Bad Boll (DE) and the Association for Cancer Research, Hiscia, Arlesheim (CH).}

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