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Five Questions with Our Co-Founder
This issue features a short conversation with Shepha Schneirsohn Vainstein MA LMFT, co-founder and president of reGeneration Education, exploring the organization’s vision to protect the spirit of childhood and support children whose learning has been impacted by toxic stress.
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Education for a World in Crisis: The Call for Minimum Standards for the Waldorf Movement
At Dornach, Switzerland, a panel discussion for Das Gortheanum TV on emergency education and learning in times of crisis. Pictured left to right: Fiona Bay, head of emergency education at Friends of Rudolf Steiner; Stefanie Alon, Waldorf early childhood teacher trainer in Israel; Moderator Franka Henn; Barbara Schiller from START; Beatrice Rutishauser Ramm, who developed…
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Five Key Points About Childhood Toxic Stress in the Holy Land
By Shepha Schneirsohn Vainstein, MA LMFT, reGeneration Education President The Toxic Stress framework is the international gold standard for measuring the impact of negative childhood experiences on later-life health and well-being. But understanding Toxic Stress can be overwhelming. In this blog, I have distilled the five key points about Toxic Stress and its causes.
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How Do We Educate Children Traumatized by War?
“Our everyday life is as it is. This is normal for us,” a second-grade student told me in Damascus, Syria. In my work with traumatized children, I have witnessed many different versions of “normality.” Some students left their homes with their parents to create a new home elsewhere. Others have experienced their fathers leaving the…
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Why Trauma-Affected Children Fail in Traditional Schools
“He seems lazy. He can’t motivate himself to do his work or remember anything.” “She has angry outbursts in class and screams at teachers and students.” “She always seems to have a stomach ache.” Trauma and toxic stress exposure can wreak havoc in the classroom.
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Why We Believe Bilingual Kindergarten is a Path to Peace in Israel
We are Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel whose children learn together in a bilingual kindergarten in Israel. For over a year, we have been working hard to establish a warm and cohesive environment for young parents that seek to give their children an alternative and multicultural education. Where we live in Israel, this shared…
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West Bank Trauma-Informed Waldorf Teacher Training!
Thanks to a generous grant from the British Shalom Salam Trust, reGeneration, and our partner school, House of Hope Vision School, were privileged to host a multi-day teacher trauma-informed Waldorf and NonViolent Communication training course. Access to trauma-informed teacher training is very limited in the West Bank. House of Hope is a training hub for teachers seeking…
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Why more peaceful childhoods create more peaceful societies
Many aspects of life in the Holy Land can generate toxic stress for children: the blare of missile alarm systems as rockets hurdle overhead, the pang of hunger in the stomach of a child growing up in poverty, or the sense of unease and fear on the street after a terror attack from a Jewish…
