Kairos Institute · The Bridge Lectures
Enthusiasm as Warmth to Counter the Cold of our Times
Salutogenesis and the Power of Human Love
Three Sunday seminars with Dr. Michaela Glöckler, who led the Medical Section at the Goetheanum for twenty-eight years. On what keeps people well rather than what makes them ill, and on warmth as something a person can actually generate.
Three Sundays in January and February 2027
Each seminar in two parts, morning and afternoon
Online by Zoom · Six sessions in all
See registration detailsThe three seminars
- Seminar One Sunday, January 24, 2027 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
1:30 – 3:00 PM EST - Seminar Two Sunday, February 14, 2027 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
1:30 – 3:00 PM EST - Seminar Three Sunday, February 21, 2027 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
1:30 – 3:00 PM EST
Each part runs an hour and a half.
Pediatrician · Medical Section, Goetheanum 1988–2016
Michaela Glöckler, M.D.
A graduate of the original Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Dr. Glöckler studied history and German in Freiburg and Heidelberg, and medicine in Tübingen and Marburg, while pursuing her own study of anthroposophy. She trained further as a pediatrician and adolescent physician at the Community Hospital in Herdecke and the University Hospital in Bochum, then worked as a pediatrician and as a school doctor in a Waldorf school.
From 1988 to 2016 she led the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, years that included extensive lecturing and the training of physicians at home and abroad. She co-founded the Alliance for Childhood and ELIANT, the European Alliance of Initiatives for Applied Anthroposophy.
Her books in English include Guide to Child Health, The Dignity of the Young Child, Ethical Considerations in Medicine, Education – Health for Life, Education as Preventive Medicine, Medicine at the Threshold, and Healing Education.
The Bridge Lectures close the Kairos Institute’s 2026–27 year, which opens with the convocation with Peter Selg in September. Questions about the course can go to Lisl Hofer at [email protected].