Our Courses in Thailand

In 2021, the Training Program for Holistic Biography Work continues online.

The Modules planned for 2021 are:
February – Destiny Learning
July – Meeting Conflict
September – Mission and Meaning
October/November – Training module, conducted by Thai assistants
Project work – Biographical Analysis

Workshops and Biography Training in Thailand

From 2011 to 2015, a Traditional Thai Doctor, coach and consultant – Chinrinee Weerawutiwong – attended a Living-way Biography Training in India, in English.  During the training process she expressed her desire to bring this work to Thailand.  She was advised to wait until the end of her training.

After working in Hungary and later in China, Living-way colleagues questioned whether Biography Work, or any self-development work, was possible via translation. We concluded that this depends on the quality of the translation, the course material and the lectures.  Furthermore, that the quality of translation depends on familiarity with the subject matter.  We made it a policy that any training in a new culture and language needs the support of at least one local person who has finished a Living-way Biography Training.

The first Foundation Workshops in Thailand ran in March and October 2015. At the beginning we hoped that teaching in English with a translated summary would be enough. We also hoped that the hand-outs and course material could remain in English. Both of these ‘hopes’ turned out to be unrealistic.

We also discovered that there are almost no translations of Anthroposophical books into Thai. We decided to employ an interpreter for the workshops, and to get all workshop materials translated, including some crucial material written by Rudolf Steiner – a mammoth task.

We have now completed the first Biography Work training cycle. We have discovered that the preparation of the course material takes almost as long as conducting the workshops. Further training cycles should take less time to prepare. It feels a huge responsibility to bring the Biography impulse via written material to a new country, as there is little available to cross-check our work. We have to be as accurate as possible and all quotes and resources need to be double-checked.

It now appears that our translations are spreading out into the local networks of people interested in Biography Work, Anthroposophy and Waldorf education. In retrospect, it seems that the decision to run this training was a huge step into the unknown. ‘May the force be with us …’

The training in Thailand is conducted under the umbrella of The Three Worlds Creator, a consultancy organisation based in Bangkok. With a lot of good-will and support from the local organisers, translators and interpreters, and the 3 Worlds team we move forward into this second training cycle.

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