Summer 2010 Ala Carte Workshops

Music and Singing through the Grades with Monika Sutherland
Thursday and Friday, July 8 and 9, 8:30 to 10:30, $60.
Tamarack Waldorf School

Songs for Your Children, Songs for You with Monika Sutherland
Thursday, July 8, 7-8:30 p.m. $25
From simple seasonal melodies to songs that strengthen our soul to meet the everyday, experience how songs can affect the human being from birth to death.
Tamarack Waldorf School

Sensory Integration for the Waldorf Teacher with Ceal Hunter
Thursday and Friday July 8 and 9, 11:00 to 1:30, $75
Tamarack Waldorf School

Finding My Star-Teaching Human Sexuality in the Waldorf School with Corinne Lorian
Wednesday and Thursday July 21 and 22, 11:00 to 1:30, $75
Prairie Hill Waldorf School

Waldorf Doll Making with Dawn Imes
Monday through Friday, July 12-16, 3:30 to 5:00, $110
Tamarack Waldorf School

Plant Dying with Dawn Imes
Monday and Tuesday, July 19 and 20, 2:30 to 4:30, $60
Prairie Hill Waldorf School

WEFT Faculty

Ceal Hunter has been the Learning Support Specialist at Tamarack Waldorf School for four years and an assistant in the program for seven years. Focusing on removing hindrances to children's learning through individual or small group lessons and whole class lesson blocks, she works primarily with the Extra Lesson, but incorporates many complimentary formats in order to enhance students' capacity for growing and learning. She completed the Learning Support/Remedial certificate program at Sunbridge College in July 2009, has a Master's degree in Social Work from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and worked with children and families as a social worker prior to her in involvement in Waldorf education. Other training and workshops include Brain Gym, Lindamood Bell, Sensory Integration, YogaKids and many Waldorf conferences and workshops throughout the years.

Dawn Imes has a BA from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Illinois, and a certificate of completion from the Juniper Tree School of Puppetry Arts. She has been teaching handwork at Prairie Hill Waldorf School since 1990. Dawn has presented workshops in felting wool, knitting, spinning for children and adults.

Corinne Lorian began 37 years ago as Waldorf parent and has 27 years Waldorf teaching experience in kindergarten and the grades. She has been a class teacher at Prairie Hill Waldorf School for the last 12 years. Over the years, has given numerous lectures, workshops, and served as mentor for schools and individual teachers.

Monika Sutherland is Waldorf music teacher and director of the music program at Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School. She created the music program at Pleasant Ridge, which has a full orchestra and chorus program as well as general music in the lower grades. Previously, she taught at Four Winds Waldorf School near Chicago where she also created an orchestra program. She completed her Waldorf music teacher training at Sunbridge College and has worked with master music teachers from around the world including Par Ahlbom, Manfred Bleffert, Fabian Lochner, Elisabeth Kokenbacker, Eleanor Winship and Jana Hawley. She is a professional cellist with two degrees in music. This summer she will be teaching music to the class teachers in the Grades 5 and 6 summer intensives at Sunbridge College in New York.