Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual

Waldorf Resource Teacher Training Program

Association for a Healing Education

Wirebound

$24.00

What an amazing resource this little book is! It holds the instructions for 33 developmental exercises and their variations, discusses what the purpose of each exercise is, how often to do it, what sorts of observations are helpful and includes a space for your notes.

Additionally there is a beautiful and highly useful introduction by Mary Jo Orestito offering insight into the nature, origins and goals of the exercises and a section on "Teacher Tips for Many Ages and Various Situations."

The potential of this simple tool nearly takes my breath away -- with it, teachers and parents will have at hand the means to help their students and children move into the world more firmly, develop their capacities more fully. The Association for a Healing Education is to be commended for bringing this exceptional resource into print.

Contents:

• Dedication to Ruth Nilsson
• Introduction by Mary Jo Oresti
• Teacher Tips for Many Situations
• Blind Man's Bluff Forms
• Run, Hop Numbers
• Animals Out West
• Clogging Numbers with the Feet
• Form Drawing Homework
• Group Letters in Space
• Memory and Concentration
• Multiplicaiton Table Forms in Movement
• Blind Walk
• Nature Creep
• 20 Creeping Games
• much, much more
• Bibliography

Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual II

Association for a Healing Education

Spiral Bound

$30.00

The gift continues! I have characterized the original manual as the single most valuable book we sell -- it is simple to follow, genuinely healing, and even in the hands of untrained non-specialists, really cannot be misapplied. The choices for creative, fun and healing exercises that characterize the first developmental exercise manual have just increased 100%!

Contents:

• Dedication
• Introduction by Mary Jo Oresti
• Exercises for the Whole Class
  • Individual Practice in the Classroom
  • Memory Star Exercise
  • Incoming First Grade Exercises
  • Jumpers
  • Foot Clapping
  • Red Shoes, Blue Shoes
  • Adzuki Bean Bags and "Polar Bears"
  • Sound Train: Experiencing Phonemes
  • Writing with the Feet
  • Body Geography Through the Grades
  • Two Variations on Exercises for Reading and Writing
• Exercises for Individual Sessions
  • Marble Relay
  • First Aid for a Bad Day
  • Magic Scarves; Laughing Scarves
  • Water Works
  • Gross Motor Lower Sense Journey/Obstacle Course
  • Balance Beam Grammar
  • Balance Beam Phonics
  • Making a Movie
  • Treasure Hunt
  • The Butterfly Dance: Moving Spirals with Red and Blue
  • Mix a Pancake
  • Over and Under the Bridge
  • Through the Tunnel
  • Bean Bag Catapult
• The Stations Approach
• Glossary of Movement, Growth and Consciousness Resources
  

Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour

Susan Perrow

Softbound

$30.00

Susan Perrow has developed the art of pedagogical stories to a luminescent degree. In her beautiful book she offers dozens of stories, some her own, some traditional and retold by her. Each story carries with it the seed of healing for just about any childhood problem, from unruly behavior to deep grieving. Her voice is one of warmth and caring, her stories are richly engaging to young and old alike.

Having her book at hand is like having a medicine chest filled with homeopathic remedies for all conditions - and, like homeopathy, Susan's stories are guaranteed to produce no unwanted side effects.

Healing Stories includes chapters on creating stories and on the art of storytelling, as well as stories selected for their ability to heal. This is a resource that is so vast in its usefulness that we predict it will become one of the most sought after parent/teacher resources ever printed.

The Power of Stories
Nurturing Children's Imagination and Consciousness

Horst Kornberger

Softbound

$25.00

I knew Horst Kornberger about 20 years ago (though it is hard to imagine that so much time has intervened) - I found him to be one of the most powerfully creative people I had ever met. His humor and balance were met with extraordinary vision and a capacity to manifest that vision within a cloak of remarkable beauty. He remains the sole painter of my experience whose work is truly inspired by personal insight nurtured by anthroposophy, as distinct from works inspired by Steiner's lectures on, say, color. His paintings always took my breath away.

That being said, his book The Power of Stories also takes my breath away - it is drenched with the same artistic insight and warm understanding that I best remember Horst as offering to everyone he met. It is beautiful, it is inspiring, it is elucidating. You'll find yourself in a world of images and passageways, in the world of young children and deep imaginations, in the world of your favorite stories. Through his text, you'll also find yourself understanding within yourself how it is that stories heal and move us forward as human beings.

This is an amazing book - one which will remain a gift to children and the world for years and years and years.

Creative Therapy for Children with Autism, ADD, and Asperger's
Using Artistic Creativity to Reach, Teach, and Touch Our Children

Janet Tubbs

Softbound

$18.95

Anyone who is concerned with the seemingly exponential increase in children manifesting a wide variety of developmental syndromes will rejoice at the appearance of Janet Tubb's truly great book. Janet has worked for over thirty years with children with difficulties ranging from low self-esteem to autism, ADD and more. She has developed her own approach using art, music, and movement - and, when research supports it, nutritional supplements or modifications. Her awareness of children's developmental needs and the effects various artistic therapies can have has its roots in both Waldorf education and conventional therapeutic research and modalities.

Her book is a powerful gift, filled with clear pictures of children with various difficulties, incredibly helpful advice that is amazingly multi-dimensional, and clear instructions for delivering a cornucopia of therapeutic activities and exercises.

Thank you, Janet!

The Extra Lesson
Movement, Drawing and Painting Exercises to Help Children with Difficulties in Writing, Reading and Arithmetic

Audrey E. McAllen

Softbound

$31.95

Audrey McAllen's treasured resource has been revised and expanded -- the result is a work of depth and insight which is even more practical and valuable than before.

This edition of The Extra Lesson gives careful and thorough instructions for the remedial drawing, painting, and movement exercises developed by McAllen. The difficulties students experience when struggling to learn writing, reading, and arithmetic are addressed with specific activities -- the results? Students in both elementary and high school discover new relationships to themselves and the world, and find their path beyond the obstacles they face.

This latest edition of The Extra Lesson gives many more insights into the difficulties children are experiencing now. In it you are shown how to check for these disruptions, and how to remediate them, in far greater detail than before. The book has now increased in breadth and shows the depths from which this work has come. It is clear to me, having communicated with Audrey over the years, that no one else has come close to developing a program so universal in its application and yet holding such deep spiritual truths and insights.

Lalage Craig
Institute for Learning Difficulties
Sydney, Australia

Foundations of the Extra Lesson

Joep Eikenboom

Softbound

$29.95

This is a rare and marvelous book, one who's content actually goes beyond the vast hopes that the title evokes. It is truly must-read material for anyone working to foster and balance children's development.

In it, Joep Eikenboom links Audrey McAllen's Extra Lesson work to a rich and potent understanding of Rudolf Steiner's observations and insights. He then moves on to firmly and clearly find the connecting points between McAllen's discoveries, Steiner's science of the spirit and modern day neurology, psychology and physiology. Had he stopped there, for a well-deserved rest, we would all still have been endebted to him.

However, that is not where he stops: once he has laid the foundation of understanding, Eikenboom goes on to describe and explain many, many exercises and describes in intimate terms how they address different human conditions. His explanations are clear and easy to follow, exciting in their accessibility and usefulness.

In other words, this is a book not to miss - a joy to read, powerful to use.

Reading Children's Drawings
The Person, House and Tree Motifs

Audrey E. McAllen

Softbound

Full color and black & white illustrations

$23.95

There is so much helpful material, examples, insight and inspiration between the covers of this book that it is hard to know where to begin. Audrey McAllen shares the fruit of her lifelong study of children and their remedial needs and gifts us with a book that, in the hands of loving parents, dedicated teachers and able healthcare practitioners, is sure to make children's lives better.

This is the book we have all been waiting for with bated breath. What an amazing achievement this book is! Audrey has made links to health, illness, and the development of the child from her observation of children's drawings and of the child. Audrey has an amazing gift to bring so many aspects of anthroposophy into a very practical application to help us better understand the child.

Lalage Craig, M.Ed.
President of the International Extra Lesson Association

Understanding Children's Drawings
Tracing the Path of Incarnation

Michaela Strauss

Hardbound

$30.00

Michaela Strauss's landmark book was first published in 1978, and sold out so quickly that if you blinked, you missed it. The same thing happened to the 1988 reprinting. Since that time, the only copies available have been used copies handed down, or worn out xerox copies. Which is tragic, considering the wealth of wisdom Strauss shares about how to see children's developmental progress and well-being in the way they create their drawings.

Happily, we now have another edition available, this time in a format that makes the picture presentation a bit clearer. Hopefully, it will stay available long enough to impart Strauss's wisdom to another generation of parents and teachers.

It is a deep pleasure to be able to offer this wonderful book to you - it is the sort of book that, once read, can live in your heart and awareness through your life.

Living Literacy
The human foundations of speaking, writing and reading

Michael Rose

Softbound

$27.00

Michael Rose makes the case that the very life and nature of language are breaking down under the pressures of modern society. I couldn't agree with him more -- I hope many people will read his book and be inspired in a thousand ways to make changes to reverse the slippery slope of this trend.

In Living Literacy, he attributes these threats to inappropriate electronic media and to fundamental flaws in modern educational systems, while examining what really works in teaching and preparing for literacy.

Living Literacy investigates the nature of literacy and how it relates to child development. It explores how teachers and parents can prepare for the transition to literacy through conversation, story, song, and play, followed by relevant and living ways to introduce reading and writing formally.

Contents:

• Part 1 Seeing the Picture
• The Great Divide
• What is Literacy?
• Literacy in the World Today
• The Emergence of the Alphabet
• Lessons of Development
  
  
• Part 2 Making the difference
• Tuning to the Mother Tongue
• Animating the Word
• First Writing and Reading
• Developing Literacy as Faculty
• Further Suggestions for Practice
• Literacy and Learning Differences
  
  
• Part 3 Closing the Book
• The Three Persons of Literacy
• Harvesting the Word
• The Future
• Appendices
• Bibliography
• Resources

Sleep
An Unobserved Element in Education

Audrey E. McAllen

Softbound

$23.95

Back in print!!

One of the first things Rudolf Steiner told the original Waldorf School teachers was: teach the children to breathe and sleep properly. Audrey McAllen, a remedial teacher of no small genius, can be said to have devoted her life's work to this directive.

In The Extra Lesson, she developed therapeutic exercises for children and diagnostic tools for teachers -- the goal: to help children integrate more fully into their bodies and develop their capacities to the utmost. It is in this way, not through superficial and inappropriate breathing exercises, that the breath becomes rhythmic and regulated in a child's developing body.

In Sleep, McAllen goes on to look at the inner significance of children's sleep, particularly its relationship to education. McAllen notes that children take their daytime experiences over into their sleep life; from that she offers both insight and artistic exercises to help that sleep be everything it should be for the child. She also offers meditative material for adult contemplation, for who but adults create the world our children live in?

This is a deep and profound work which addresses an aspect of life that is often hidden and overlooked, but is nonetheless at the heart of our children's well-being.

Take Time
Movement exercises for parents, teachers and therapists of children with difficulties in speaking, reading, writing and spelling

Mary Nash-Wortham
and Jean Hunt

Softbound

$32.95

To my mind no therapist or remedial teacher should be without this edition by their side.

( Dr. Béve Hornsby PhD, MSc, MEd, MSCT
Consultant Speech Therapist
and Clinical Psychologist
From the Foreword )

Take Time has been used in Waldorf schools by Extra Lesson teachers for years and is regarded with love and gratitude by everyone who has benefited from this wonderful marriage of curative eurythmy and speech therapy. It is recommended for by all the major advisory and learning support organizations in the UK and many more in other English-speaking countries. Because it is highly readable, it has also become one of the most popular resources for parents.

The authors of Take Time tackle some of the root causes behind difficulties in speaking, reading, writing and spelling, especially where there is a lack of co-ordination, rhythm and timing.

The innovative movement exercises, based on curative eurythmy, and the other activities described in Take Time can be tailored specifically to individual situations. This feature has resulted in the enormous popularity of the book, especially for use by parents. It is recommended by all centres concerned with dyslexia, dyspraxia and other difficulties.

Take Time features:

• 'Pointers' to clarify areas of difficulty, including timing and rhythm, direction, spatial orientation and movement, sequencing, laterality and fine motor control needed for clear speech and successful writing and reading.
  
• general exercises for co-ordination and body awareness.
  
• specific exercises to help with particular areas of difficulty and individual situations.
  
• details of useful resource equipment, books and contact addresses.

Phonic Rhyme Time
A unique collection of phonic rhymes for precise practice in speaking and reading

Mary Nash-Wortham

Spiral bound

$39.95

An outstanding resource for class and remedial education teachers, speech therapists, homeschooling parents and ESL teachers!

Here we have hundreds of rhymes, each of which concentrates on one specific sound. When repeated as an exercise, they train the mouth to form the sound correctly. Or, use them as a creative way to expand vocabulary or to learn to correctly spell words that sound similarly.

The first part of the book describes how speech sounds are produced and illustrates consonant and vowel positions. The wide range of rhymes and verses means it is suitable for both children and adults, including those learning English as a foreign language.

Mary Nash-Wortham has extensive as a Speech and Language Therapist. She is co-author along with eurythmist Jean Hunt of Take Time, widely used in remedial and extra lesson settings for children with learning difficulties.

Being Human
Diagnosis in Curative Education

Karl König

Softbound

$18.95

Karl König's point of view is that "disabilities" are exaggerated forms of ways we all use to cope with life. He presents the outline of a comprehensive child anthropology for diagnosis in the areas of motor disturbances, sensory disturbances, right and left, the world of language and the gestalt of the child. Finally he introduces us to convulsive disorders, epilepsy and hysteria.

This unique book is of value not only to those working in special education but to anyone interested in the dynamics of all human development.

An Unchanged Mind
The Problem of Immaturity in Adolescence

John A McKinnon, MD

Softbound

$23.00

John McKinnon addresses what has to me been the most pressing question of the past two decades: why is it that our children seem to be "getting stuck," developmentally speaking, at ages well below what I remember of adolescent maturity? And then, of course, the real question: What on earth are we to do about it?

I'm very happy to say that his book is filled with insight and with hope. My hope is that every parent and teacher read it long before the children in their care become teenagers - his insights will help avert some of the problem because it is so much easier to prevent than to "fix" these things.

My larger hope is that the wisdom of this book will come to permeate our society as a whole, for it is ultimately a collective healing that is called for.

*****

An Unchanged Mind begins with a clinical riddle: Why are American teenagers failing to develop normally through adolescence? We are presented with case studies from a therapeutic boarding school for troubled teenagers: All new students had been deemed treatment "failures" after conventional psychiatric care. All were bright teenagers, full of promise, not obviously "ill." Yet they found themselves unprepared for the challenges of modern adolescence and inevitably failed—at school, at home, and among their peers socially.

An Unchanged Mind is the discovery of the essence of this problem—disrupted maturation and resulting immaturity. The book explains the problem carefully, with a brief review of normal development and an examination of the delays today's teenagers are suffering: the causes of those delays and how they produce a flawed approach to living. There is a solution. With a sustained push to help troubled kids catch up, symptoms abate, academic and interpersonal functioning improve, and parents pronounce their teens miraculously recovered. This remedy is not a matter of pharmacology—and the cure is not in pills. The remedy is, instead, to grow up.

McKinnon's inspiring message is that no behavioral problem along these lines is hopeless. He shows how he has done it.

—Evander Lomke, Executive Director, American Mental Health Foundation

The Higher Senses and the Seven Life Processes

Dr. Lotte Sahlmann, Anke Weihs, Rev. Baruch Urieli

Softbound

$16.95

Perhaps at no other time in human history have our senses been so bombarded by the outside world, whether through visual or auditory stimulation (TV, video, computers) or more subtly in the areas of language, ideation and human encounter. The world is simply overflowing with ideas and issues that we have to deal with.

The first part of this book deals with the higher senses - those of word, thought and I - as described by Rudolf Steiner. The authors attempt to further reveal these unrecognised senses and the role played by them in social interaction.

They then go on to consider the workings of seven active forces which affect our everyday lives. These are the seven life processes, which function unconsciously within our organic system, but which can appear as disturbing forces affecting our physical and spiritual wellbeing.

Given our need to understand how we communicate with one another, and how our physical and mental states are affected by our unconscious life, this is a book with a great deal to offer all of us.

Snip, Snap, Snout!

A Waldorf Reader for Third Grade Extra Lesson Work

Text by Arthur M Pittis

Illustrations by Ausa M Peacock

Hardbound

$8.00

By third grade, if a student is still having significant struggles with the written word, extra lesson work is often recommended. Snip, Snap, Snout! is perhaps the best remedial reading book ever written. Stories are kept short, but they are never dull or contrived. The trained eye can catch that each story focuses on different word groups, sounds, punctuation and grammar, but all this is done so very artistically that someone who didn't know this was a book of stories for remedial reading would never notice. As with the other grade 3 readers, this one recapitulates the grade 2 curriculum of fables and saints, and does so with grace, charm and warmth.

Difficult Children
there is no such thing

An appeal for the transformation of educational thinking

Henning Köhler

Softbound

$18.00

Köhler's unceasingly heart-filled account appears at a time when, on the one hand, we face rising numbers of children whose classroom behavior classifies them as "educationally difficult," and on the other hand seem to find ourselves painted into a corner with fewer and fewer means to address this crisis. Köhler eloquent protest is founded in his long and deep experience in working with special needs children, and the success of his approach is beyond dismissal. He challenges these accepted patterns of thought and outlines a spiritually deepened concept of education and upbringing that is truly refreshing. Every parent and teacher will benefit from this book. In fact, I'd go so far as to say every adult human being will benefit from learning to see others through eyes taught to look as Köhler looks. Difficult Children has our highest recommendation!

Learning Difficulties
A Guide for Teachers
Waldorf Insights and Practical Approaches

Mary Ellen Willby, editor

Audrey E. McAllen, René Querido, Margret Meyerkort, Ingun Schneider and many other contributors

$23.95

A wonderful book and one for which I have been hoping for many, many years. Learning Difficulties gathers together nearly 300 pages of the best insights, deepest experiences and most successful approaches to learning difficulties by over 30 teachers expert in the field of learning disabilities.

In it you will find eye-opening accounts of the physical/emotional/mental configurations that most fully describe common and uncommon learning difficulties. Paired with these incisive descriptions is a clear and practical account of approaches, therapies, exercises that can be used to counter and heal these conditions. There are also numerous articles giving (often with really good illustrations!) diagnostic exercises that teachers can use to better understand a child's difficulty.

This book is such a grace-filled gift! My hope is that many, many children experience and benefit from the work this book can inspire.

Education as Preventative Medicine
A Salutogenic Approach

Michaela Glöckler, MD

Softbound

$26.95

How and when something is taught affects the student's disposition towards health or illness for life. The whole Waldorf curriculum is built on an understanding of the development and physiology of the child. … The healthy development of the physical body is the basis for a healthy unfolding of the soul-spiritual individuality of the child. Therefore it is of great importance that doctors and teachers work together.

- Astrid Schmitt-Stegmann

Dr. Glöckler has brought together for the first time in English research and insights into the relationship between how we educate children and the health they enjoy both as children and later as adults. This is a book to read deeply, to ponder over. The application of these insights in our teaching and working with children has the power to resonate far into the future, creating a healthier world as it does.

In addition to Dr. Glöckler's insights, Education as Preventative Medicine also includes contributions by:

Johannes Bockemühl, Ernst Bücher, Wolfgang Göbel, Wolfgang Kersten, Daniela Greif, Mariana Kayser-Springorum, Armin Husemann, Gisbrt Husemann, Helmut v. Kügelgen, Karl-Reinhard Kummer, Hans Müller-Wiedemann, and Maria Theresia Pehm.

Working with Anxious, Nervous and Depressed Children
A Spiritual Perspective to Guide Parents

Henning Köhler

Introduction by Philip Incao, MD

Softbound

$18.00

Henning Köhler courageously presents parents and teachers with a practical path of schooling the thinking, heart, and will in selfless devotion to the individual destiny of each child. This is a book every teacher, parent and friend of children will want to read and consider - it offers a way of receiving troubled children into our hearts, into the stream of our love such that healing and forward movement become possible.

A Healing Education
How Can Waldorf Education Meet the Needs of Children?

Five Lectures

Michaela Glöckler, MD

Softbound

$15.95

These lectures on health in education, given in 1998 at the Waldorf Teachers Conference at Rudolf Steiner College, are a potent support for the work of the Waldorf teacher. As a physician, Dr. Glöckler brings to the fore the physiological foundation of Waldorf Education, moving from clearly observable physical phenomena to the soul-spiritual forces working in them. This physiological approach supports the teachers' striving for sensitive observation of each child and gives new perspectives for their gasp of the complicated nature of the human being. She demonstrates teh difference between human and animal and shows how, in the animal, wisdom and intelligence have formed the physical body and express themselves through instinct.

These lectures appear as increasing numbers of children are being identified as learning disabled and, more subtly, as daily life provides less and less a foundation for health. Dr. Glöckler points out that the understanding that whatever the manifestations are, underlying them are physiological problems and that this understanding is fundamental to Waldorf Education.

The key task of the educator, therefore, is to insure for the child a healthy physical development, for this is the basis for a healthy soul-spiritual development.

The Gift of Dyslexia
Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read . . . and How They Can Learn

Ronald D. Davis
with Eldon M. Braun

$14.95

Like other dyslexics, Ronald Davis was gifted with an unusual talent for creativity and imagination . . . yet, he grew up wondering why he couldn't function right in school, where teachers labeled him "retarded." After numerous failures and setbacks, he eventually became an engineer, a businessman, and a sculptor--and at the age of thirty-eight made a startling discovery that enabled him to read a book, cover to cover, in just a few hours. Davis's approach enjoys a 97% success rate, in my opinion because its foundation is a reality he knows intimately, not a theory thought from a distance. If you or someone you love has dyslexia or other learning disorders, please take a look at this book. It may well open wide a door you weren't sure even existed.

Education for Special Needs
(formerly: Curative Education)

Rudolf Steiner

$24.95

In 1924, Rudolf Steiner gave a course for teachers and doctors on working therapeutically with children and adults with special needs. The diagnostic insights are based upon a quality of clear observation and biographical understanding that allows the practitioner to see the patient as whole, not as a collection of symptoms. The recommended therapies range from medical remedies to therapeutic exercises and serve to underscore the often overlooked relationships between body, soul and spirit. Though highly accessible, this volume also promises a lifetime's exploration to those who are interested.

Children with Special Needs

Michael Luxford

$9.95

This is the best "first book" on curative education we have seen, and we are genuinely glad to be able to offer it to you. This is a concise and fully illustrated introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the education of children with special needs. Though not intended as more than a general overview, the details of working with children manifesting a variety of learning barriers and emotional/physical challenges are incredibly instructive, in part because of the many well-chosen photographs (some of which are simply terrific!).

Healing Sounds
Fundamentals of Chirophonetics

Alfred Baur

Hardbound, dustjacketed

$42.95

Dr. Baur and his wife Dr. Ilse Baur developed Chirophonetics therapy in 1956. Since that time, Chirophonetics has been successfully used in remedial and educational work. It has shown outstanding results with the developmentally disabled, children with behavior difficulties, adults suffering from strokes, as well as children with speech and language difficulties. It has also supplemented and supported prescribed medicines in cases of chronic illness.

In Dr. Baur's experience, speech is more than a means of communication - each sound of spoken language has a life of its own, with qualities and properties of remarkable potential.

His years of research and treatment of communication disorders in both children and adults, coupled with in-depth studies of philology and Anthroposophy have given Dr. Baur a deep understanding of the creative power of the spoken word in all its manifestations.

Healing Sounds introduces the therapeutic approach of Chirophonetics, placing this approach in the hands of caregivers, healers and teachers. It is an outstanding resource and guide to a therapeutic modality that shows enormous promise in precisely the sorts of situations where many other approaches fail.

Thinking in Pictures
and other reports from my life with autism

Temple Grandin, Ph.D.

$13.95

Prepare for an incredible journey into the workings of the human mind - both normal and abnormal. Temple Grandin, a Ph.D. animal researcher who is also autistic, has gifted us all with an intimate "insiders account" of autism. You will learn more about the nature of this syndrome and of the workings of your own mind from this account than you could from any collection of theoretical reports. Further, because Temple is also a consummate scientist, her report is filled with the latest discoveries about the neurological basis of autism and about what therapies have been found to work and for whom they are effective. This is a great book that is certain to help anyone working with any special human needs. Outstanding!

Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy

Liane Collot d'Herbois

Softbound, includes color chart bookmark

$40.00

One should try to see health and disease in the light of the theory of colour.

- Rudolf Steiner

Through her work as an art teacher Liane Collot d'Herbois discovered that an individual's constitution, temperament and illness were often revealed through their painting.

Taking Rudolf Steiner's remark above as her starting piont, together with her own observations, she went on to develop therapeutic painting.

Light, Darkness and Colour in Painting Therapy offers Collot d'Herbois's deep insights into the nature of color, light and darkness and into the way human beings relate to them in various states of health and illness. Included are exercises which you can use to explore these realities yourself. Whether your interest is in the healing arts or whether you are looking for a way to deepen your own understanding of color, you will want to explore Light, Darkness and Colour. It is amazingly complete and wonderfully deep.