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When the full-scale invasion began in Ukraine, psychologist Alona Liashenko, pedagogue Hanna Romanova, and coordinator Nataliia Andrushchenko recognized that people with deep emotional wounds needed special approaches for healing. The training in emergency pedagogy offered by the Friends of Waldorf…

Since the earthquake in Turkey in February 2023, the Emergency Pedagogy department of the Friends of Waldorf Education has been supporting children and young people while at the same time providing advanced training for pedagogues in the field of emergency and trauma pedagogy. Beginning in October…

The civil war in Tigray, which began in November 2020 and ended two years later in November with the Pretoria Agreement, left the region with significant social, political, economic, and security challenges. The conflict not only caused widespread destruction of infrastructure but also severely…

The Wurzelkinder Wald- und Naturkindergarten e.V. is located in the Eifel National Park and has a long and eventful history. It was founded in 1988, but only in 2019 was it transformed into a forest and nature kindergarten. At the same time, it became the first Waldorf forest kindergarten in North…

Today, July 24, is International Self-Care Day. Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared several posts on our social media channels showing how our colleagues around the world care for themselves and what aspects of self-care are especially meaningful to them. We’re taking today as an opportunity to…

For the Emergency Pedagogy department of the Friends of Waldorf Education, Jessica Prentice and Kseniya Karman-Samet coordinate emergency and trauma pedagogical work within Ukraine. Since 2022, they have already carried out numerous missions and trainings. Three full training cycle in emergency and…

In mid-June, we, Larissa Küllmar and myself, Fabian Krämer, from the Emergency Pedagogy Department of Friends of Waldorf Education in Karlsruhe, had the opportunity to visit our long-standing partner organization, the Waldorf Kakuma Project in northern Kenya. The work of the Friends began there in…

In May 2025, the thematic seminar "Grief and Trauma" took place in Ukraine for the second time. It is part of the project "Promoting Resilience through Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy in Ukraine." In a country at war, loss and grief are omnipresent. Participants typically have friends, family members,…

Myanmar, a country with more than a hundred ethnic groups, has been under military rule since 1962. In 2011, a brief phase of democratic reforms began, but it was abruptly ended by a military coup in 2021. Since then, a civil war has been raging. Additionally, at the end of March this year, a…

The Emergency Pedagogy department is virtually inseparable from its work in Lebanon: The idea of emergency pedagogy was first put into practice during the return of Lebanese young people in the summer of 2006. This marked the launch of the Emergency Pedagogy department at Friends of Waldorf…