Governance

This alone is healing, 
when in the heart of each
the whole community takes shape
and in the community
the strength of each is active.
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-Rudolf Steiner

Rights
Culture
​Economy

School Governance

Here is a picture sketch of what we've been developing, ​followed by a description. We are working with the model of the threefold social order, as first elaborated a century ago by Rudolf Steiner.
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This model of societal ordering separates the RIGHTS (legal), CULTURAL (education, innovation, development, arts, spiritual life), and the ECONOMIC spheres. This allows the CULTURAL realm to act in freedom, the RIGHTS domain to give equality to each, and the ECONOMIC sphere to support all of society in true fraternity.

For more information about the threefold social order, there is a link here that gives a more in-depth description.

a rights  realm giving equality

culture, education, innovation flourishing in freedom

an economy supporting all in fraternity

General Governance Model

GENERAL GOVERNANCE MODEL
As a progressive model of social enterprise, we practice social generosity and healthy conflict resolution, and we recognize the importance of constantly nurturing a vibrant, living, and engaged community.
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At the core of our life stand the children whom we serve, and their parents who support the school community according to their abilities, talents, and expertise.

·    We see the life of the school reflected in the threefold social order of the Rights Sphere, the Cultural Sphere, and the Economic Sphere.
·    Each sphere has autonomy over aspects of the school life while supporting and respecting the other spheres.
·    We recognize that within each of the three spheres elements of the other two spheres also exist.
·    Every sphere operates under the guidance of the school's vision, mission, and values.
·    One person may be active in more than one sphere, always being mindful of which sphere they are acting in at the moment.
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“[The cultural life] aims at a form of cooperation among men to be based entirely on the free intercourse and free association of individuality with individuality.  Here human individuality will not be forced into an institutional mold.  How one person assists another, how one helps another advance will simply arise from what one, through his own abilities and accomplishments, is able to be for the other. 

​It is no great wonder that presently many people are still able to imagine nothing but a state of anarchy as a result of such a free form of human relations in the social order’s spiritual-cultural branch.  Those who think so simply do not know what powers of man’s innermost nature are hindered from expanding when man is forced to develop in the pattern into which the state and economic system mold him.  Such powers, deep within human nature, cannot be developed by institutions, but only through what one being calls forth in perfect freedom from another being.”

- Rudolf Steiner from a newspaper article