Tools for Change

Anthroposophic Medical Training Conferences

Registration opens
Fall 2024

The 2025 AnthroMedicine Conference

Beyond the Molecular and Mechanical Model: Lung, Liver, Kidney, Heart

Hosted by the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine (PAAM),
presented by The Medical Section at the Goetheanum, Switzerland

This course will open up whole new perspectives for you!

Spring 2024 offered a special AnthroMedicine Conference and Training Week, as we welcomed both new learners and experienced practitioners to study seven healing gestures.

The number seven has long been recognized as an important lens for a whole spectrum of activity. We routinely work within a rhythm of seven days, recognize seven colors in a rainbow, and even seven notes in a musical scale. We considered questions like:

  • How do these relate to processes of illness and health?

  • How do they help us see process and progress?

  • How do they provide an essential therapeutic lens for acute and chronic conditions?

Guest faculty, Dr. Martin-Guenther Sterner (specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology, Germany), Albert Schmidli (Anthroposophic Pharmacist, Thailand) and
Ken Smith (visual artists and sculptor, San Francisco) led us through the experience of:

  • The seven life processes as archetypes for change and transformation

  • The therapeutic use of seven special metal preparations as core healing substances in Anthroposophic Medicine

  • Processes of dynamic change, as experienced through drawing and sculpture (based on the columns of the first Goetheanum)

All of this was accompanied by small group study and conversation, plant observation, eurythmy (group movement), delicious food, and warm community.

SUNRISE RANCH in Loveland, Colorado
is where we are meeting in 2025!

Enter a protected space that allows you to think new thoughts

Sunrise Ranch is home to many people and serves many functions.

  • Serves as a conference and retreat center, as well as a holistically managed working ranch

  • Staffed by a committed community of people in service to the transformation of the world

  • Hosting enlightened thought leaders and educational programs

  • Bringing profound learning to the heart of the human experience

  • In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains

  • Connecting with people around the globe

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Experience new ways of understanding and observing the world

  • 2025 will be the fourth year of a 4-year training cycle, but newcomers are always welcome!

  • The 5-year course in Anthroposophic Pharmacy, taught by Albert Schmidli, PharmD, is now entering its fourth year!

Connect your academic mind with your intuitive heart…

Join us again in 2025 for a chance to consider, shift, reorient, transform, and find guidance for moving into a new phase of life.

Open to all licensed prescribers (MD, DO, ND, NP, PA, DDS and PharmD), as well as students of those disciplines still in training.

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"Every meeting, discussion and gathering I attended created an 'awe' that blew my mind. The lectures were extremely helpful and timely. It gave me a lot of support and hope for the work we do. There have been many suggestions, exercises and opportunities to learn and self-develop at the Anthroposophic Medical Training that I would not have found in any other 'scientific meetings'." 
— Vinay Parameswara, MD

Guest Faculty for the 2024 AnthroMedicine Conference


Dr. med. Martin-Günther Sterner is a specialist in Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology and General Medicine. Under his leadership as Chief Physician, the Medical Clinic at the Klinikum Niederlausitz has developed since into a robust integrative medical center for Internal Medicine with a focus on gastroenterology and oncology.

His professional training began in 1993–1995 at the surgical ward of the St. Vincentius Hospitals in Karlsruhe and Speyer. He continued his training as an internist, general practitioner and gastroenterologist in hospitals including Paracelsus Hospital Bad Liebenzell, Öschelbronn Clinic, Hospital zum Heiligen, Community Hospital Herdecke, and at the Havelhöhe Community Hospital in Berlin.

Dr. Martin-Günther Sterner is a member of various professional societies, including the European Society for Integrative Medicine and the American Gastroenterological Association. He is also active on the Board of the Society of Anthroposophic Physicians in Germany and the Board of the Akademie Heilkunst e.V., the association for research and teaching in Anthroposophic medicine.

He lectures internationally and is the author of various publications.

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Albert Schmidli

Albert Schmidli worked in a very responsible position in research and development for a major pharmaceutical company in Switzerland and Ireland. While he was preventing a huge chemical catastrophe in Ireland, on this threshold between life and death, he heard the call of the great initiate Christian Rosenkreuz. Following this inner call to serve Rudolf Steiner’s medical impulse, he joined Weleda, one of the world’s leading Anthroposophic pharmaceutical companies. It is legendary that the company, inspired by his thoughts, set up a new pharmaceutical research and development department for him on this occasion. In this he developed, in close cooperation with Anthroposophic doctors, new Anthroposophic medicines for over 25 years, and was at the same time, responsible for training doctors and pharmacists. Ten years ago he decided to live as a lecturer and teacher, which he and others recognized as a real calling. Since then he has been invited as a trainer to seminars worldwide to train Anthroposophic doctors and pharmacists. Also trained as a Waldorf teacher himself, his lectures are not only infinitely profound but also full of humor. The inspiring experiments are admired by participants as well as teachers and lecturers in many countries.

Ken Smith

Ken Smith has strong and substantive international experience as a Waldorf educator, educational program developer, and artist. He is dedicated to the anthroposophical principles underlying Waldorf education, to the strengthening of Waldorf education, and to the importance of integrated learning in educating the whole human being. Ken began his working life in New Zealand, training in horticulture and landscape design. Then, following a period of world travel, he attended the Foundation Year at Emerson College in England in 1988-1989. This started him on a path of artistic training, and he graduated from the Visual Arts and Sculpture Course with the Waldorf Pedagogical component at Emerson College in 1993. After teaching in Waldorf schools in England, he returned to Emerson College to be Course Leader of the Visual Arts and Sculpture Course for 8 years, until 2007. Since then he has been active internationally teaching at Waldorf schools, adult education programs, and conferences in Europe, North America, New Zealand and Asia. In the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, he teaches numerous courses in the weekend program, and Art History and Sculpture in the summer.

2024 Training Conference Faculty

  • Dr. Adam Blanning, MD

    Dr. Blanning is certified in Anthroposophic medicine and board-certified in family medicine, and has served on the faculty of New York Medical College and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Adam was elected as Co-Leader of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in September 2023 and he serves as Co-Director for PAAM's Foundation Training Program. He founded and directs the Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies, which offers Anthroposophic Medicine, therapeutic eurythmy, Anthroposophic Nursing and rhythmical massage. He works with Waldorf schools in Denver and Boulder as an educational and developmental consultant.

  • Dr. Steven Johnson, DO

    Dr. Johnson is an internationally respected lecturer, teacher and physician, and has dedicated himself to bridging Anthroposophic and integrative principals into mainstream medicine. After creating one of the first successful models of integrative care in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Johnson joined the Fellowship Community in Spring Valley, New York, an eldercare initiative dedicated to social therapy and community life. Since 2019, Dr. Johnson has served as the Course Director for the PAAM Mistletoe Training Program. He recently co-wrote a book, Mistletoe and the Emerging Future of Integrative Oncology.

  • Carmen Hering, DO

    Dr. Hering integrates Anthroposophic Medicine with Osteopathic and Family Medicine in private practice in Albany, California. She serves as adjunct faculty at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, trains medical students in her office, teaches at the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training (BACWTT), and serves as current PAAM President and Co-Director of PAAM’s Foundation Training Program.

  • Glenda Monasch

    Glenda Monasch, TE

    Glenda grew up in South Africa, surrounded by the songs and rhythmic dances of the indigenous cultures. She received her eurythmy training at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland, and her post-graduate eurythmy therapy training in the U.K. with certification by both the Performing Arts Section and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum. She is the codirector of the Therapeutic Eurythmy Training of North America (TETNA) and has been the resident eurythmy trainer for IPMT/US since 2008. She has extensive experience in all aspects of eurythmy - performance, pedagogical, social, and therapy. Glenda is in private therapeutic eurythmy practice in Boulder, CO, in consultation with Dr. Blanning, and participates with physicians and fellow therapists in yearly study and mentoring conferences in Crestone and Denver. She is a certified AnthroMed practitioner.

PAAM’s AnthroMedicine Conferences

Every year PAAM offers a week-long intensive training in late Spring, as part of the Annual AnthroMedicine Conference (formerly the International Postgraduate Medical Training Week). While the Conference offers opportunity for experienced physicians to connect and deepen their studies, the Conference is also designed to offer a foundational training in Anthroposophic medicine for licensed MDs, DOs, NDs, PAs, NPs, Pharmacists and Dentists.

There are four clinical topics, which rotate by year:

1.  Therapeutic Foundations: Physical, Functional, Emotional, Spiritual (2022, next offered 2026)

2.  A New Physiologic Paradigm: Threefold Insights for Health and Illness (2023, next offered 2027)

3.  Seven Constitutional Gestures in Diagnosis and Treatment (2024)

4.  Beyond the Molecular and Mechanical Model: Lung, Liver, Kidney, Heart (2025)

The curriculum each year builds upon the ideas and concepts of previous years, but it does not assume previous knowledge, making it worthwhile for newcomers to jump in at any point in the four-year cycle