New Adult Learning, Three Paths, Three In-Person Retreats
Over the last three years at the February Conference in Spring Valley, we have introduced participants to New Adult Learning, highlighting one of the three learning paths each year. New Adult Learning, developed by Coenraad van Houten and grounded in anthroposophy, is a professional development program for educators, mentors, facilitators, coaches, administrators, and leaders. It develops capacities for individual learning, ongoing transformation, and creative engagement.
To embark on this approach to development, individuals are invited to further explore the three paths through three separate full-week in-person retreats to be held in Southern Ontario.
Each will begin on a Friday evening and end the following Saturday, providing seven full days to focus on the seven-step processes. The seven-step process offers participants a renewed sense of meaning and purpose, courage to apply insights in life, and a deepened connection to both their work and themselves. This is not just a course—it is a lived, creative, and social practice that helps participants bring spirit into conscious form.
The focus of each week’s intensive is as follows:
- Path 1 – Learning to Learn – July 31 – August 8, 2026
Explore and practice the Seven-step Learning Process that moves from knowledge to wisdom and awakens creative forces for living and working. Sessions include watercolour painting exercises. - Path 2 – Destiny Learning – March 6-14, 2027
Engage with the paths of Destiny and Karma. Through artistic exercises, participants sense their past, understand how it may hinder or support them, and discover new paths forward. Sessions include pastel exercises. - Path 3 – Creative Spiritual Research – July 30 – August 7, 2027
Cultivate conscious connection with the spiritual world through your interests, intentions, and initiative. This path supports becoming a co-creator with spirit and living into your unique destiny. Sessions include clay exercises.
Creative Spiritual Research Online Sessions, Seven Weeks
WECAN NEW ADULT LEARNING EVENT
Tuesday evenings, beginning February 17, 2026
We were once naturally in communication with the spiritual world. As humanity evolved, we lost this direct connection and now must consciously cultivate our relationship with spirit through our interests, intentions, and initiative. This course invites you to become a co-creator with spirit and live into your unique destiny. Choose to join us for weekly online meetings over seven weeks or monthly meetings over seven months.
Creative Spiritual Research (CSR) is about creating the new by working with the self and spirit. It encourages conscious engagement with the spiritual world through attention, intention, and initiative.
Join Otisistohkwi:yo Elliott, Wahsonti:io Hill, and Heather Church for a seven-session journey into CSR, a living path of self-discovery, artistic practice, and meaningful action in the world. Together, we will explore thinking, feeling, and willing as guides for inner transformation and insight.
Each session focuses on one step of CSR: finding your research question, developing a sense of warmth of spirit, meeting the self, encountering the being of your research, humanizing what arises, testing insights, and realizing results. Small-group and individual work is paired with hands-on clay practice and reflection, supporting both inner growth and creative expression.
By the end of the seven sessions, participants will emerge with a renewed sense of meaning and purpose, the courage to bring their insights into life, and a deepened connection to both community and self. CSR is not just a process—it is a lived, artistic, and social practice that helps you bring spirit into life and life into conscious form.
SEVEN MONTHLY SESSIONS ALSO AVAILABLE HERE.
Creative Spiritual Research Online Sessions, Seven Months
WECAN NEW ADULT LEARNING EVENT
Monday evenings, beginning February 23, 2026
We were once naturally in communication with the spiritual world. As humanity evolved, we lost this direct connection and now must consciously cultivate our relationship with spirit through our interests, intentions, and initiative. This course invites you to become a co-creator with spirit and live into your unique destiny. Choose to join us for weekly online meetings over seven weeks or monthly meetings over seven months.
Creative Spiritual Research (CSR) is about creating the new by working with the self and spirit. It encourages conscious engagement with the spiritual world through attention, intention, and initiative.
Join Otisistohkwi:yo Elliott, Wahsonti:io Hill, and Heather Church for a seven-session journey into CSR, a living path of self-discovery, artistic practice, and meaningful action in the world. Together, we will explore thinking, feeling, and willing as guides for inner transformation and insight.
Each session focuses on one step of CSR: finding your research question, developing a sense of warmth of spirit, meeting the self, encountering the being of your research, humanizing what arises, testing insights, and realizing results. Small-group and individual work is paired with hands-on clay practice and reflection, supporting both inner growth and creative expression.
By the end of the seven sessions, participants will emerge with a renewed sense of meaning and purpose, the courage to bring their insights into life, and a deepened connection to both community and self. CSR is not just a process—it is a lived, artistic, and social practice that helps you bring spirit into life and life into conscious form.