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speakers and facilitators

ANA PAULA

CURY

60 years old, married, mother of three children. Doctor graduated in 1988 from UFMG. And later in Anthroposophical Medicine. Master Practitioner in Neurolinguistic Programming. Biographical advisor. Additional training in Somatic Experience, New Germanic Medicine, Medical Biomagnetism and PSYCH-K. ICTUS Branch Coordinator. Founder of the Escola de Famílias at Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner and COPA – training for leaders of parental communities.
Coordinator of the Semear Social Project in Paraisópolis. Member of MOVEH – movement for humanizing education. She also works as a guest lecturer at ANEP (National Association of Prenatal Education), Faculdade Rudolf Steiner and other institutions, as well as a researcher and lecturer on topics such as Anthroposophy, health and education.

BERNARDO KALIKS

Chilean, he discovered anthroposophy in Santiago, aged 21, while studying medicine. Training in clinical neurology. First medical internship anthroposophic medicine at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Switzerland in 1969. Since 1972 he has lived in Brazil working in the field of clinical medicine and teaching anthroposophic medicine.

CONSTANZA

KALIKS

Born in 1967 in Chile, Constanza Kaliks grew up and lived mainly in Brazil. Constanza completed her Mathematics studies in São Paulo and was a mathematics teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in São Paulo for 19 years. There she was also a teacher in Waldorf teacher training. Constanza has a Ph.D. in Education with a thesis on Nicolas de Cuse. He has been part of the Goetheanum board of directors since 2015. Co-leader of the Pedagogical Section and the General Anthroposophical Section of the Goetheanum.

CONSTANZA

KALIKS

Degree in eurythmy (IMO, Brazil) with a specialization in therapeutic eurythmy (West Midlands Eurythmy School - England) and a master's degree from the University of Alanus (Germany).
She created, in Campinas, the therapeutic space Casa das Rosas, where she works as a therapeutic eurythmist and rhythmic masseuse, and where she develops a Therapeutic Education project with children and adolescents in situations of high social vulnerability.
She collaborates, as a eurythmist and speaker, in anthroposophical courses and training.
She coordinates the Cristóforus Branch and, since 2022, has been cultural director of the Anthroposophical Society in Brazil.

JOHN

TORUNSKY

Born in Brazil in 1956. He graduated in Computer Programming and studied Mechanical Engineering for four semesters. In 1977, his encounter with Anthroposophy took place and, in 1980, he began his studies at the Seminary of Priests of the Community of Christians, in Stuttgart, Germany. He was consecrated in 1985 and served as a priest in Reutlingen, Ulm, Esslingen and Stuttgart, which belong to the Württemberg region, of which he assumed the task of rector in 2010. In 2015 he returned to Brazil and was rector in South America and priest in São Paulo. Since 2021 he has resided in Berlin and has taken on the role of central rector of the Community of Christians.

JONAS

BACH

Professor of philosophy at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). He is currently undertaking a post-doctorate in music at the University of São Paulo (USP-RP). Researcher of Goethe's phenomenology and Steiner's philosophy of education. Musician and writer.

KARINA

BRANCHER

Psychologist (IPUSP), Master in Psychology (IPUSP), PhD student in Clinical Psychology (IPUSP). Biographical Counselor (Sagres), Training in Psychoanalysis (SBPW), Astrologer (Humaniversity). Member of SAB. Founder of the Fio Vermelho Institute for the Study of Human Biography, where she works with individual assistance and mentoring and group facilitation and teaching courses and study groups based on Anthroposophical Biography and General Anthroposophy.

LUIZA

LAMEIRÃO

Graduated in Pedagogy from the University of São Paulo (1974). She was a preschool and elementary education teacher within the scope of Waldorf pedagogy. She coordinated the Waldorf Teacher Training Center in São Paulo for 22 years. She teaches several specialization courses for teachers and doctors. She works as a consultant for schools throughout Brazil. She co-founded the Aliança pela Infância and the Instituto Olinto Marques de Paulo, where she conceived the Ilumina Program, aimed at educators who work in NGOs and municipal public networks. Since 2023, she has been general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Brazil.

MARIANA
AZOUBEL

Born in 1990, in São Paulo/Brazil, Rafael's twin. She studied medicine at FAMECA (2011-2016), specialized in Clinical Medicine at FAMERP (2017-2019). She completed her training in anthroposophic medicine at ABMA (2018-2020) and since then has dedicated herself to consultations and actions related to the communication of anthroposophy for people who are not anthroposophists - coordinating a study group for Waldorf school parents, online lectures and courses. In 2023 she was coordinator of the introduction course and the in-depth course in anthroposophy at the Anthroposophical Society in Brazil. She is one of the coordinators of this congress.

PETER

SELG

Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1963. 1986-1993. Study medicine at the University of
Witten/Herdecke, in Berlin and Zurich. From 1993 to 2000 Further training as a specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Senior doctor in the psychiatry department for adolescents and young people at Herdecke Community Hospital.
From 2000 to 2002 Associate researcher at the Institute of Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology (Freiburg). From 2002 to 2006 he was chief physician at Clínica Ita Wegman
Arlesheim (adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy); since 2006, establishment and management of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Anthroposophical Research. Since
2007 professor of medical anthropology and ethics at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences; teaching at Studium fundamentale and in accompaniment
studies in anthroposophic medicine at the University/Witten-Herdecke. Since 2020,
member of the Board of the General Anthroposophical Section of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum.

RAFAEL

GONZÁLEZ

He was born in Santiago de Chile, in October 1946, into a family with 2 more brothers. By profession a Civil Hydraulic Engineer, he worked as such for 10 years. At 19 years old he learned about Anthroposophy and with a group of 5 young people of similar ages, they formed what would be the seed of the future Chilean anthroposophical movement. At 33 years old, in 1979, he participated in the founding of the first Waldorf School in Chile, the Giordano Bruno School, as person in charge of administrative-financial affairs, ad-honorem. In 1982, he left his original profession and became a primary Waldorf teacher. In 1983, due to an internal crisis at the College, he stopped being a professor there, and together with a colleague they founded the Rudolf Steiner College, where he still works. In 1995, after a 2-year preparation, he led the creation of the first Secondary Education in Chile. That same year, he founded, together with a colleague, the Pedagogical Seminar attached to the same College, existing to this day, and from which dozens of teachers have been trained, active as such in various initiatives throughout Chile.

SONIA

SETZER

Doctor specializing in Anthroposophical Medicine. She was a school doctor from 1972 to 1999. President of the Brazilian Association of Anthroposophical Medicine (ABMA) from 1991 to 1999. Since 1998, coordinator of the Rudolf Steiner Branch in São Paulo. Speaker and author of two books. He is currently dedicated to translating anthroposophical works. From 2016 to 2023 she was one of the general secretaries of the Anthroposophical Society in Brazil.

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