To be a teacher and teaching children and youngsters is still a wonderful profession: it never gets dull or boring. But it is also a professional life under pressure. Complex demands, a high profile in professionalism, delivering sound results, yet also being attentive to the individual needs and development of the students and helping parents to understand their own child. All this demands from the teacher a multitasking talent. The teacher is constantly serving others, without time for him or herself. Working in this profession you can easily lose your balance – the balance between inner needs and demands put on you by children, their performances, the parents and the school organism as a whole. If that happens, then we grow sour in this delightful profession. This book is a guide to find that balance which means gaining access to more energy.

CHRISTOF WIECHERT – Born in The Hague. Studied education, geography, 30 years as a Waldorf teacher in The Hague. Co-founder of the Waldorf teacher seminar in the Netherlands. Board member of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. From 1999–2010 head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, today still active for the Free University at the Goetheanum and dedicates himself to pedagogical and anthroposophical topics at home and abroad. He is married and has five children.

11 Jan 2021; Trans. by D. Winter; VAG; 184pp; 17.8 x 11.8 cm; pb;