Change your Thinking, Change your Heart
The New Thinking Institute offers classes on Rudolf Steiner's new thinking and Waldorf pedagogy. We are currently holding classes online and in person. Our goal is to have a center and community farm where individuals can live in a new thinking way of life and offer courses in new thinking subjects such as pedagogy, forgiveness, energy work, and food preparation.
Our civilization needs a new type of thinking, a new thinking that opens hearts and moves us to intuitive action. Times are changing quickly, but our old thinking is holding us back and making us emotionally miserable and hopeless. Rudolf Steiner wrote a book the Philosophy of Freehood encoded with these new thinking patterns necessary for enlivening our soul-powers. By practicing the New Thinking, you learn not only to harmonize your mind, but you develop your heightened senses and power of intuitive knowing.
Please Join us in this endeavor.
What is New Thinking
New Thinking is non-linear method of organizing ideas. Rudolf Steiner used this method when he wrote his books, held lectures, and created his various projects. New Thinking is a process of thinking in perspectives and colors. Where mere logical thinking is dead and intellectual, new thinking energizes and opens us up to new intuitions. The diagram above illustrates the levels and colors of the Preface to the Philosophy of Freedom, Steiner's greatest work and primer for his new thinking.
How to learn New Thinking
Learning New Thinking could be compared to learning philosophy and painting at the same time. Once you learn the basic thought-patterns of the new thinking, it is relatively easy to practice in Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom. Our introductory workshops lay that foundation for this new thinking.
The New Thinking For Educators
Waldorf education was founded in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner, however, his followers did not practice the New Thinking that he himself employed in his projects. The result is that the dynamic living thinking of Waldorf education is missing in spite of having very dedicated individuals carrying the movement. The NTI currently offers Waldorf administrators and faculties workshops and courses in new thinking. The goal is to enhance Waldorf pedagogy gradually to the point where the teachers are comfortable utilizing their new thinking abilities. "First, the Waldorf teachers must be awakened, then the teachers must awaken the children."
- R. Steiner