Serving Social Healing
SERVING
SOCIAL
HEALING
About Us
The “Ways to Social Healing” outline methodological answers to the challenges of our times and provide a practical, step-by-step elaboration of the anthroposophical path as developed by Rudolf Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds and other works. This website contains information about upcoming courses and ways to contact individuals and groups that work with these methods.
“We can look forward to a future humanity when heart-thinking will again be functioning to the fullest extent, when out of direct feeling, human beings will behold the truth.”
— Rudolf Steiner, CW 119, March 30, 1910
Ways to Social Healing
Basic Methods Book
About this Book
Ways to Social Healing–Basic Methods is a compilation of lectures, book excerpts, and practice guides that can be useful to those who are seeking ways to harmonize their relationships with themselves, others, and their environment. The book contains practical, step-by-step elaborations of the anthroposophical path laid out by Rudolf Steiner in How to Know Higher Worlds and other works. A practitioner can use the methods described here to find practical solutions that have a healing effect on different life problems.
The ability to arrive at Inner Peace is a necessary preparation for any meditation work. The book provides detailed explanations and guides for a practice called Logic of the Heart, which anyone can use to separate from their soul experiences and arrive at a place of inner stillness and objectivity. From this state of inner stillness, we can encounter beings in the spiritual world and find their true names and intentions. Only once we have found our higher self in the spiritual world can we discern our individual karmic tasks and find the free and healing impulses to work on them. This encounter with the true self also gives us the capacities we need to make these impulses effective in our lives and the world.
Readers of this book are encouraged to seek out groups working with these methods and to practice them with others who have more experience with them.
Healing Journey
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DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY MEETINGS
WHAT DOES IT INVOLVE?
WHY WOULD I WANT TO JOIN THE MEETINGS?
HOW CAN I APPLY THE MEDITATIVE PRACTICES IN MY DAILY LIFE?
Regular Meetings
Weekly Online Practice Group
Time: Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:30 am PST
Please inquire with
Franziska Kionke Nguyen via
Dietlind Kionke-Thoemmes
Online One-On-One Consultation
and Offerings of Workshops and Courses
based on Armen Tougu’s work
Please inquire with Dietlind directly via Phone or reach out via
Sally Greenberg and Karola Thurman teach LOH:
Every other Friday @ 3:30 pm Online Offering
of LOH (Logic of the Heart).
Please inquire via Franziska Kionke Nguyen
(Email above).
Dr. Susan Overhauser and Arianna Golden
Offer workshops and courses based on Armen Tougu’s work.
See website: anthroposophicsoul.com
Inner Peace and the
Logic of the Heart
When we are in a state of Inner Peace, we can relate to our feelings and the world in a way that is grounded in both truth and empathy. Usually, our feelings are of a personal nature, i.e. they let us experience the world from a subjective standpoint. In fact, one purpose of our feelings is to allow us to experience being an individuality separate from the world. The meaning of individuation is that we first undergo separation and then return to the world as individualities with freedom, empathy, and truth. If instead we get stuck too deep in the feeling-based subjectivity, we, our feelings, and the world suffer.
Logic of the Heart is a way of working with our feelings and helping them to find balance. We first acknowledge and pacify our subjective emotions, so that the soul can open to feelings of a spiritual nature: empathy, truth, harmony, meaning. These are transpersonal, or spiritual, feelings that can only fully be felt once the personal feelings are balanced and thus no longer at the forefront of our experience.
The first step consists in fully acknowledging and getting to know a feeling that is currently present in us. Through this, we experience a kind of separation from the feeling–I realize that I am here and the feeling is there, like a vis-à-vis. And if I then feel what arises inside of me, perhaps at the same spot where the previous feeling was, I can notice a process that is like a balancing or healing substance for the first feeling. Again I stay present to get to know it completely until it is also fully in my awareness and “in front of me.”
This is what we call “balancing feelings.” The result is a state in which neither the first feeling nor its complement dominates the soul’s experience. Instead, the transpersonal feelings can arise and open my soul to a very different way of looking at myself and the world. One can say that I am now able to perceive the world for what it actually is instead of what my personal feelings make it look like.
The spiritual world is one of the worlds that can now be experienced more objectively. Therefore, the Logic of the Heart and the resulting state of Inner Peace can serve as the first step on a spiritual path that recognizes that everyone today can gradually prepare their soul for a wholesome and fruitful entry into this world.
LINK BELOW FOR CHAPTER 6 LOH
Past Courses
Courses held to date in California:
2026, July 20-26—Online 3 ½ hours daily via Zoom: Intensive Course 5.1
2026, April 25-26 & May 16—Intensive Course 2
2026, March 6-8—Intensive Course 4
2026, February 28—One Day Course in Santa Cruz: Intro to Harmonizing Life Situations
(Outer Adventures)
2026, January 24-25 & February 7—Intensive Course 1
2026, January 17—One Day Intro Course in Santa Cruz: Chains of Repeated Occurrences (Cont.)
2025, October 11-12 & November 8—Preparatory/Introductory Course in San Rafael
2025, October 4—One Day Intro Course in Santa Cruz: Chains of Repeated Occurrences
2025, August & Fall—(Online) Practical Methods for Spiritual Development:
New Anthroposophic Methods for Personal and Social Harmony
2025, August 2—One Day Intro Course in Santa Cruz: Logic of the Will (LOW)
2025, July 12—One Day Intro Course in Santa Cruz: Logic of the Heart (LOH)
2025, May 23-25—Spiritual-Physical Adventures (Outer) and the Stream of True Life:
Harmonizing Body, Soul, and Spirit
2025, May 9-10—Intensive Course 4
2024, November 7-10 – Intensive Course 1
2024, October 24-27 – Preparatory/Introductory Course
2024, October 10-13 – Intensive Course 4
2024, July 27-28 – Preparatory/Introductory Course
2024, February 8-11 – Intensive Course 3
2023, November 15-16 – Intensive Course 2
2023, June 15-18 – Intensive Course 2
2023, May 25-27 – Intensive Course 2
2023, February 22-24 – Intensive Course 1
2023, January 19-22 – Intensive Course 1
2022, October 6-9 – Intensive Course 1
2022, September 15-18 – Preparatory/Introductory Course
2022, May 12-15 – Preparatory/Introductory Course
2022, February 17-20 – Intensive Course 1
2022, January 14-17 – Preparatory/Introductory Course
ONGOING PRACTICES
Beginner Group Practice Once/Month
Inner and Outer Adventure Group Practice Once/Month
Word Course Practice Bi-Weekly
Online Saturday Morning Practice Bi-Weekly
