Are you a pioneer spirit with Michaelic courage and a Raphaelic will-to-heal?
Are you looking for a community to put down roots and work in anthroposophic medicine and therapies? If so, consider these communities inspired by Steiner’s tri-ordered social forms in beautiful Chester County, PA. Opportunities to collaborate professionally include working with one of the local Camphill communities (including the possibility for life-sharing) and/or working with patients at the growing nonprofit clinic Carah Medical Arts while living in the socially aware greater Phoenixville/Kimberton area outside of Philadelphia.
Local possibilities for expansion could be:
Anthroposophic nursing, oil dispersion bath and Einreibung therapies
Anthroposophically inspired art, music, singing, and speech therapies
Biodynamic Gardening as therapeutic activity
Sauna for warmth therapy and wellness hygiene
Rehabilitation
Therapeutic Respite
Holistic end-of-life care
Carah Medical Arts is a community supported clinic which opened in November 2017 in Phoenixville, PA. Our vision is to grow our activities beyond the initial offerings of integrative anthroposophic Family Medicine with two physicians, osteopathy, and educational events. Since this spring Therapeutic Eurythmy is also offered at Carah now with a waiting list. We hope that additional activities may follow, depending on the needs in our community and who feels called to join us in their work. The physicians now also have a growing waiting list and we are looking to add another Family Physician as we grow.
What does the word Carah mean? Definitions of the word "carah" include: Gaelic- "friend", Welsh- "love", Indonesian- "wise" and "the way".
Our work will continue to be inspired by these Gaelic, Welsh and Indonesian meanings as we unfold our future vision of patients, doctors, nurses, therapists and supporters working together in a healing space. We envision building a new clinic inspired by life-enhancing architecture in Chester County, PA to provide a home for patients’ individual healing journeys. We are currently looking for an appropriate property which will allow for the realization of this vision.
As we embark on this project we are looking to connect with cultural creatives who feel called to collaborate in further manifesting this unique mission founded on freedom in the medical-therapeutic realm, equality in our relationships and solidarity in economics. (As a 501c3 nonprofit, Carah Medical Arts qualifies for the federal loan forgiveness program.) Visit carahmedicalarts.org for more information.
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills
Camphill Village Kimberton Hills is a vibrant, multigenerational, agricultural and crafting intentional community in Kimberton, PA that especially includes adults with special needs. As a Camphill community, the insights of Rudolf Steiner regarding individual development, social organization, and world evolution inform our striving. There are just over 100 residents of the community and a rich network of families, employees, day volunteers and friends that we interact with daily.
We are interested in long term co-workers for life sharing or for local therapists who could work with our community part time. We envision for either option that therapy artists could have the option to work part time with patients in the surrounding community through the Carah Medical Arts clinic if desired. We currently have anthroposophic nurses, oil dispersion bath therapy and a retired therapeutic eurythmist in our community. Although we would be open to conversations with all anthroposophic therapists, we are particularly looking for art therapy, music therapy, speech therapy, rhythmic massage and therapeutic eurythmy. Visit camphillkimberton.org for more information.
The Camphill School is a lively and vibrant community, serving both children and young adults with learning differences and intellectual and developmental disabilities within a life-sharing Camphill Community located in Glenmoore and Kimberton, PA. The school offers both day and boarding placements for students, with a more land- and work-based approach at Beaver Farm for those age 18-21. The Camphill School is a Pennsylvania approved private school, accredited by AWSNA as a Waldorf School and licensed as a special education school by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The art of Curative Education is at the core of our work and life as a school and as a community, with anthroposophic medicine and therapies as an integral part. We also strive to foster the art of life-sharing between students and live-in/commuting co-workers.
The mission of the Camphill School is to create wholeness for children and youth with developmental disabilities through education, extended family living, and therapy so that they may be better understood, they may more fully unfold their potential, and meaningfully participate in life.
We welcome long-term co-workers and therapists who want to join our life-sharing community and local therapists who want to work in our school. We currently have anthroposophic nursing, color light therapy, rhythmic massage, oil dispersion bath therapy, therapeutic eurythmy, art therapy and a retired music therapist in our community as well as an anthroposophic school physician. We are particularly looking for art, music and eurythmy therapists. Visit camphillschool.org for more information
Next Steps:
If you are interested in learning more, write to set up a zoom meeting. If possible, make space in your calendar to come visit this beautiful part of the country.
A further opportunity: join us in Kimberton - to be held at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills - for the 2022 AHA biennial conference as an introduction to the area. Read more here: AnthroposophicHealth.org/conference2022
Contact us at: kimbertonamt@gmail.com
