OPEN DOORS – CHRISTMAS MARKET

This Saturday, November 16 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. we are celebrating an open day and Christmas Market at the Fundació Sa Llavor. We invite you to participate, share and celebrate in community. Activity schedule: 11am Doors opening 11:15 a.m. Musical welcome 11:30 a.m. Guided tour of the school 11:30-14h Workshops for families 11:30-12:30h Gamelan Workshop 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Silent auction 12:30-3 p.m. Sa Llavor Menu 1-2:30 p.m. Musical entertainment 2:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Theatre 3-3:30 p.m. Swing for everyone And  you will also find: -Pedagogical material station -Artisan stalls -Tea shop cafeteria We are waiting for you in the gardens of the Fundació Sa Llavor, Plaça Metge Borràs 3 in Binissalem. All proceeds will go to the Fundació Sa Llavor forest project. Thank you very much for your collaboration.

2023-12-12T11:32:59+00:00December 12th, 2023|

NEASC PREPARATORY VISIT

This week Fundació Sa Llavor hosted a two day visit, as part of our ongoing NEASC accreditation process by two professionals: Kevin Glass and Stephanie Packer.   It is the second visit we have hosted so far, and an important step, as a positive result would allow us to be formally recognised by NEASC and would mark the beginning of an ongoing partnership with their organisation.   We are delighted to report that, although we still await a formal written approval (to be received over the coming weeks), we were assured by both our visitors that the outcome would most definitely be a positive one. In fact their feedback was so wonderful to hear that we felt we should celebrate and share some of what they said with the learning community right away. Stephanie told us that in just two days, she had been able to see just how the schools core values and identity are reflected in our students calm and confident attitudes, our teaching staff's natural and friendly relationship with the students, as well as in the wonderful and unique learning environment we have created. That she could feel peace and stability and a true sense of community. Kevin then added that despite having visited hundreds of schools in the past it was truly rare to see one with such clear values and ongoing dedication to a shared belief of what learning should look like. He went on to say that he had no doubt the remaining criteria for full accreditation was mostly already obvious to him and that it would just be down to the pedagogical team to highlight and evidence it over the coming months.   Needless to say, we are delighted with such high praise from two professionals who are dedicated to evaluating high quality learning experiences. We would also like to say a special thanks to all the parents and students that took part in the interviews and request your continued support in an information gathering survey we will be sending out in the near future.   NEASC's accreditation process is a transformative process designed to offer their schools opportunities for self reflection and ongoing growth. It includes a commitment by the schools they work with to develop 10 learning principles, offer and commit to an individualised definition of High quality learning and then produce several learning plans to help grow each school inline with its own ethos.   If you would like to find out more about the ACE pathways, please visit https://www.neasc.org/ace

2023-11-22T10:16:30+00:00November 22nd, 2023|

SOW SEEDS OF KINDNESS, BEAUTY AND TRUTH FOR THE FUTURE. EDUCATION FOR LIFE.

Connect with life, with nature and with humanity; contribute to the development of a more conscientious society. Go Fund Me donation campaign. The Sa Llavor Foundation is a non-profit organisation and a multicultural educational community working towards human evolution through education, the arts, culture, and a connection with nature. Sa Llavor is the first centre in Holistic Pedagogy for nursery, primary and secondary education in the Balearic Islands which has been officially accredited by the Balearic Ministry of Education (Consellería d’educació). It also offers professional teacher training programmes and develops the 7 arts through its cultural area, the Escuela Cultura. Thanks to your support and contributions, the educational project, founded 17 years ago in Mallorca, continues to evolve and grow in an ethical and sustainable way. Now, more than ever, we wish to make a plea for the help and support of the community as we have a unique opportunity to strengthen this ecological, sustainable and autonomous project through a donation campaign. A GENEROUS DONOR, WHO PREFERS TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS, WILL MAKE A MATCH GIFT, DOUBLING ANY DONATION MADE DURING THIS CAMPAIGN UNTIL THE 15TH OF DECEMBER. SA LLAVOR. ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION. Below we will provide further details about the projects that need financial support: 1. BUILDING WORK FOR THE ACCREDITATION OF SECONDARY EDUCATION: Education to live, feel and think freely at Sa Llavor Sa Llavor needs your support to finance the renovation and redistribution of physical spaces which permit the accreditation of secondary level education (Years 1 – 4) by the Ministry of Education of the Balearic Islands for the year 2023-24. Contribute to an education which permits students to live, feel and think freely. Budget: 110.000€ Budget with Match Gift: 60.000 € Donate here>   2. SUSTAINABLE HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING PROJECT: Renewable energy at Sa Llavor. Sa Llavor needs to replace and update the heating and air-conditioning system and refit the building with a thermal system using renewable energy, which, when combined with a solar energy system will ensure energy efficiency for the building. Contribute to the renewable energy system. Budget: 150.000€. Budget with Match Gift: 75.000 € Donate here>   3. KITCHEN AND ECOLOGICAL GARDEN PROJECT: To facilitate its educational goals, Sa Llavor needs funding for a kitchen which permits the pedagogical team to cook with different groups of students (nursery, primary and secondary). Funds are also required to finish the ecological vegetable garden which, in addition to contributing to the protection and cultivation of local varieties of vegetables and cereals, will feed our school through its school canteen. The objective is to promote gardening and cooking activities as a learning tool for students and the wider community, as well as offer an ecological canteen service in which the students participate. Contribute towards education for life. Budget: 46.000€ Budget with Match Gift: 23.000 € Donate here>   4. FOREST PROJECT IN BINISSALEM: Sustainable education for the future at Sa Llavor. Sa Llavor has initiated a reforestation project of a rural plot in Binissalem, Mallorca, with

2023-11-20T13:50:27+00:00November 20th, 2023|

EURYTHMY IN SOCIAL AND WORKING LIFE 23/24

“Through a deepening of social life a new understanding of the human being must be found that will permeate human and social development for Evolution” Rudolf Steiner   Fundació Sa Llavor offers a DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMME : "EURYTHMY IN SOCIAL AND WORKING LIFE"   A post-graduate training for eurythmists and a development program for whoever is interested in developing personal, social and organisational skill in 3 modules throughout 2023-24: December 2023, April and July 2024, with Teresa Mazzei as Social Eurythmy guide.   In cooperation with the Goetheanum, Section for the Performing Arts, Dornach, Switzerland. https://srmk.goetheanum.org/en/   Recognized by the Institute for Eurythmy in Working Life, Den Haag, The Netherlands. https://www.ewl-institute.com/the-institute   Official Public Certification by The Ministry of Education of the Balearic Islands.   A Postgraduate Programme that nurtures and develops the knowledge, sensibility and capacity necessary to work through Eurythmy in social and working context for individual and social organism development. "A COMMON AIM AND TWO PURPOSES THROUGH A SHARED PATH"   EURYTMIST: Postgraduate Programme for qualified eurytmists to work through Eurythmy in social and working contexts and Eurythmy students in their last year of training. EVERYONE: Official Training Programme for enterpreneurs, managers, employees, teachers, artists, or any person who is interested in developing personal, social and organisational skills and learning about social organisms with a living approach. A COMMON AIM     Developing knowledge and skills for sensing the social organisms we are involved in, in order to consciously act on it, each one with one’s own role and competences. By social organism we refer to all companies or associations, or other organised context such as teams, colleges, study groups, and so on, in which several people come together, within organisations of varied complexity, to achieve something that otherwise would not be possible to get off the ground. "INSPIRING A HEALTHY LIFE FOR THE SOCIAL ORGANISM"     GOALS Everyone: Develop and practise our own social consciousness and skills. Experience in practice the relationship between individual and social impulses. Look at the organisation we are involved for social or working reason, as a living organism: its elements, its phases, its living processes and so on. Deepen and enrich intellectual knowledge on individual/social/organisational changing and development theories throughout practical experience (becoming operating forces). Discover the bridges which connect individual with the social organism. Move from intellectual knowing to perceiving and to acting, consciously. Develop self-confidence and creative capacity. For eurythmists specifically: Experience eurythmic exercises suitable for social and working contexts. Deepen the application of fundamental elements of Eurythmy in the social and working fields Transform and create Eurythmy’s exercises for different contexts and different stages of the social organism. Explore the connection of working with Eurythmy with some theories and approaches for social/organisational development paths. Develop own process of conducting Eurythmy sessions in the social and working fields.         IDEAL BEHIND THE PROGRAMME Social organisms live and develop in constant movement.  They acquire the ability to learn and evolve thanks to the people that they interact with, and they

2024-04-23T10:49:55+00:00July 28th, 2023|

THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." The Tempest. W. Shakespeare. Act IV. Scene 1.   Every year, since the Fundació Sa Llavor began its path in 2007, the Educational Learning Community experiences a complete process of theatrical creation. Through work groups on writing texts, set design, eurythmy, speech art, construction, carving, costumes, music and manuals, we work together to create and develop all the elements that make up a play. As an integral, participatory, lively and creative process, it allows to grow in tolerance, respect and trust, offering a space for communication and artistic expression, educating the will, free thought, sensitivity and the power of imagination. This school year we have been able to experience the magic of The Tempest intertwined with the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas.  

2023-07-27T15:47:48+00:00June 29th, 2023|

CROSSINGS 2022-23

CROSSING: FROM SÓLLER TO TOSSALS VERDS On Wednesday May 31 we left Binissalem for Palma by train. There we take the old wooden train to Sóller that leaves us at the beginning of the journey: Biniaraix. Following the winding path that runs through the ravine, we begin the ascent accompanied by the wonderful landscape, the sun and the waterfalls. Everything was going well until suddenly it started to rain. We cover a tree with a tarp, take shelter and decide to eat. In the afternoon we continue along the path and get wet twice more until we reach the top, next to Puig de l'Ofre. We find a place to spend the night and spread out wet things to dry. We spent the night under the stars. The next day we headed towards the Font des Noguer to fill our water bottles. We have the will to start the path again, with almost all our clothes dry, but an intense storm crosses our path. It rains so hard that, even under the tarpaulin, everything we carry gets wet. So we decided it's time to go home. However, although the entire journey could not be completed, it has been a great experience of courage, resilience and improvement for everyone.       CROSSING: CAMÍ DE CAVALLS - MENORCA The crossing to the neighboring island of Menorca was made following the old Camí de Cavalls and the bicycles being our steeds. The path was generous, since nature in its multiple manifestations gave us storms, skies and seas of infinite colors, solitary coves that offered their waters for a refreshing and restorative bath, and a bush of stars under which to rest and dream in peace. Honoring its name and tradition with the school, this was also a demanding journey that put us all to the test; face our own difficulties, expand the limits of our physical and mental resistance, allow emotion at the farewells of colleagues who embarked on new paths. Together, we have contributed to one of those experiences that leave a mark and allow us to confidently cross the threshold that precedes and gives way to the next vital stages. It is an honor to have been able to accompany this group of young people and grateful for this wonderful experience.  

2023-07-05T08:26:32+00:00June 5th, 2023|

SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SA LLAVOR

Activates a lively, innovative thought and creator of new ideas in the learning process     We are happy to announce that the next 2023/24 academic year the Fundació Sa Llavor offers: Compulsory Secondary Education, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th grade, approved by the Ministry of Education of the Balearic Islands. We open the new registration period for the 23/24 academic year. We thank all the people who have made it possible. First Approved Center in Holistic Pedagogy based on the Goethean vision of the world and the essential needs of the different evolutionary stages of Rudolf Steiner's holistic Pedagogy . At Sa Llavor we cultivate, through the learning process, free and KINDLY ACTION that strengthens the will; artistic SENSITIVITY and the perception of BEAUTY that develops the feeling of the global and the particular; free and genuine THINKING, capable of creating new ideas and nurturing the world of TRUTH. The four pillars of Sa Llavor Pedagogy are the compass on the educational path: 1. Comprehensive Education 2. Freedom and Trust 3. Connection with Life 4. Community and Service to Others

2023-04-03T10:34:22+00:00April 3rd, 2023|

SPEECH ART AND THEATRE. HEAR THE WEAVING OF FORCES. APRIL 2023

"And you give a name to everything and the word is born as a creative source"     On April 21st and 22nd, we continue our journey through the 7 Arts and arrive at the fifth meeting of “The path of human being through the Arts” with Severino Airoldi as a guest who will guide an Artistic Workshop for the Speech Art and Theater Community. Through the artistic word we explore fields as vital as: the voice · the breath · the listening · the spoken sound. Creativity, vitality and joy accompany us in speaking exercises and recitation of poems, where we look for the relationship between voice and the gesture. We discovered vowels and consonants as an inspirational source. The theatrical improvisation, the creation of scenes and characters leads us to lose our inhibitions, live in the present and trust one's own creativity through a relaxed and familiar atmosphere. "Any game in which the person has to transform and play a role, is beneficial for the soul, it takes it out of its accustomed routine and reinforces its freedom and adaptability" Georg Kuhlewind   Severino Airoldi He was born in Switzerland. He studied Word Art and Theater in Stuttgart, Germany. Teacher, reciter and declaimer. He has taught German and theater at the Escuela Libre Micael in Madrid. He was part of the Trova de Cuentos and Euritmia Ensemble. He has worked in the art of the word and theater in sociotherapy. He was part of the "L'Arsenale" Theater School in Milan, Italy and has directed the "Christmas Cars" project at the Micael Free School. Since 2001, he has taught theater and speech training courses at different institutions in Spain.   More information: escolacultura@sallavor.es Registration aquí>  

2023-04-03T11:01:02+00:00March 30th, 2023|

OPEN DOORS MARCH 25th, 2023

On Saturday, March 25th, we celebrate Open Doors at the Escola Sa Llavor, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will be a day to share with the family and to open the doors to the entire Community. There will be workshops for all ages, a market, sale of books and educational material, exhibitions of student work, vegetarian and organic food, an Indonesian Gamelan concert, guided tours of all the school spaces for interested families and many more. surprises.

2023-03-14T09:29:22+00:00March 14th, 2023|

THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC IN EDUCATION

Music is an essential element for achieving a healthy development in the evolutionary process of growth and learning. The sound of music awakens balanced and harmonic thought, connects with sensitivity, encourages the will and facilitates the social quality of listening. Music and singing situate the performer on the fine line between the intangible and the sensitive, making them part of an authentic spiritual experience. “When human beings listen to music, they have a feeling of well-being because the tones harmonize with what they have experienced in the world of their spiritual home” Rudolf Steiner It is an essential art in our time to recover the connection with oneself, with others and with nature.

2023-02-23T10:34:03+00:00February 23rd, 2023|
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