Karl König meditated intensely on the 52 weekly verses of Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul. He often encouraged his colleagues to find inner strength from the verses, and wrote The Calendar of the Soul, which forms part one of this combined volume, as a guide for them, drawing out the patterns through the...
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2024 marks the 70th birthday of the Camphill Village Trust: an organisation which provides support and services for adults with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health problems. Emma Salem, a member of the CVT fundraising and communications team shares with us, for the Floris blog, what they’ve been up to this year to mark...
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The power of music is undeniable. Studies have shown that music has the power to enhance learning, strengthen memory, develop emotional intelligence and amplify creativity. Part of the Karl König Archive series, in Music Therapy: Research and Insights Karl König explores the healing power of music by drawing on the work of Rudolph Steiner....
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The Camphill Movement is a worldwide network of homes and villages for children and adults with special needs. Inspired by the vision of its founder, Karl König, and a group of close associates, the growth of the Camphill Movement is the story of community: community as the basis for special needs education, therapy and...
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Karl König (1902-66) was well-known as a physician, author and lecturer. He began his work at the Institute of Embryology at the University of Vienna but fled in 1938 after the Nazi annexation of Austria. In 1940 he founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland. Based on the educational ideas of Rudolf Steiner, the special...
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Today, 27th March, marks fifty years since the death of physician, author and lecturer Karl König. Throughout his career, he has written on a wide range of subjects from anthroposophy and Christology, through social questions and curative education, to science and history. Floris Books publish many of his writings in the Karl König archive....
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