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Emerson


Emerson College is an Adult Education College based on Rudolf Steiner's insights. It is now celebrating its fiftieth year having been founded in 1962.  Over the years it has had a considerable impact on the lives of thousands of students from all around the world.

The College has, since 2010, been undergoing a process of transformation.  It aims to respond to the needs of our times by inviting new initiatives, and working with the local and global communities in the fields of research, healing, community, housing and more generally, social renewal. 

The Emerson Campus provides a home for a variety of courses for students from the UK and from many countries around the world in the fields of biodynamic agriculture and horticulture, storytelling, visual arts and sculpture, an orientation course in anthroposophy called It's My Life, a foundation course in anthroposophy based on the visual arts, biographical counselling, Building Bridges to Oasis and more.  It is also the home to a leading centre of water research called the Healing Water Foundation.

Emerson is a diverse community which is active in the arts, the sciences and religion.  It aims to create unity out of diversity and wholeness out of fragmentation.  Its basic principles are expressed in its mission statement. 

Upcoming Events

See the full event calendar for lectures, performances, exhibitions and day workshops.

News

Emerson Summer Volunteer Programme - 20 June to 20 August

This post is open to 10 hard working volunteers to carry  the various campus tasks as a part of international team of workers on campus during the busy summer conference season > more info and registration pack

Emerson College will celebrate its fiftieth birthday on Thursday 20 September 2012.

All are welcome.  Further details to follow.

Gap Year course for young people

Emerson is currently planning an exciting new 'gap year' course for young people aimed at preparing them for life in the twenty-first century. Enquiries: 01342 822238, bookings@emerson.org.

See Emerson's new Venue Rental Brochure.

Emerson is 'the place to meet ....'  Set in magical tranquil gardens, on the edge of Ashdown Forest, Emerson is an independent adult learning centre, open throughout the year.'  It offers a wide range of meeting rooms which can be let by the hour, day or year.  It provides overnight accommodation, meals and camping facilities.  It is the 'ideal venue for all types of events: training, conferences, functions and retreats'.

Courses


See our rich and diverse short course and weekend course programme.  This includes our summer programme with such events as Lifeways (full programme for Lifeways 2012: Next Steps now available).

Research Centre events

Programme for 2012 includes three conferences around the theme Time, Evolution, Prophecy and 2012 with contributions from John Meeks, Robert Powell, Angela Lord, Nick Thomas and Frank Spaan and including eurythmy and painting.  The events will, amongst other things, look at the end of the Mayan Calendar and its meaning for humanity and the world.

Pixton Hill Medical Centre events

Programme for 2012 includes a building bridges retreat with Melanie Taylor, Fiona Chapman and Tessabella Lovemore, an anthroposophic shooling course with Dr Michael Evans and Karl Heinz Finke and a self-help course on stress with Frances Tagg and John Lees.

New courses:

English as a Foreign Language - 3 week courses starting May 30, July 2, August 6 and September 10, and other dates

Online/Distant Learning in Biodynamic Agriculture (BDA College)

describe the imageEarly Childhood Study - weekends in  June and October 2012
A course in professional development for educators, doctors, therapists, care workers, curative educators and parents

Healing Water Institute - 2 weekend courses, several dates available

Full-time courses starting in April and May 2012:

Your Journey Your Voice - Voice work and biographical storytelling: 5 week course

It's My Life! - 6 month Orientation Course in Anthroposophy - second term
includes blocks that can be attended independently: creative writing, biography work, eurythmy,arts and crafts: drawing, watercolor, wool and felt crafts, puppetry

Full-time Courses starting every September:

Visual Arts and Sculpture
Foundation Year in Anthroposophy through the Visual Arts

The Now of Storytelling - 3 month course

Biodynamic Agriculture
Biodynamic Horticulture

General information about the campus, aspects of teaching and daily life - 'The College'.

Careers at Emerson College

Positions currently open

  • Early Years Facilities Manager

> more information and contact 

  • Garden Manager

> more information and contact  

  • Registrar/receptionist

> more information and contact 

 

Emerson as a home