The conference will focus on the strengths we need in our work and our lives, which are expressed through kindness, tenderness, and love and nourished from inner sources. These sources have to do with genuine, lasting inner strength rather than external strength, which is often an expression of inner weakness. How do we find access to these inner sources? How do we support children so that they will be able to find access to them in their adult lives?

In addition to offering training and the exchange of experiences and ideas through lectures, discussion groups, workshops, forums and project presentations, the conference will also include celebrations with music, eurythmy, dance, a puppet festival, and a contemplative ceremony to mark 100 years of Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Education. It will be a festive gathering of 1,000 people from all over the world who have made the education of young children their life's work.

You can read «How to Know Higher Worlds» (GA 10). You can contribute your own discoveries and ideas for education and self-education that arise from this in the discussion groups. You can also request a space during the Free Initiatives time, when you can share your views. (Please register before the conference at infonoSpam@iaswece.org).

Those who prepare artistic and humorous contributions have an opportunity on Saturday evening to perform in the Great Hall at a celebration of diversity. (Please register your contribution before the conference at paed.sektionnoSpam@goetheanum.ch).

• Registration is only online, starting in September. 
• You can choose the language in which you would like to hear the simultaneous translation of the morning lectures. 
• You can also choose the language of the discussion groups in which the topic of the morning lectures will be discussed. 
• You can select a workshop (three sessions, for the entire duration of the conference). All workshops are bilingual and offer both artistic and practical activities as well as exchange of ideas and pedagogical training. 

• You can reserve tickets for performances at the Puppetry and Fairy Tale Festival. 

We have tried to organize the conference as cost-effectively as possible. All participants, except the artists, are volunteers. 

• The conference price: 550 CHF (including lunch, dinner and refreshments)
• Sponsorship Price: 650 CHF (everyone who chooses this category enables another one to get a reduced price)
• Reduced Price 1: 400 CHF (This must be requested before registration)
• Reduced price 2: 300 CHF (This must be requested before registration)

With the online registration, you can reserve accommodations in classrooms at a Waldorf school near the Goetheanum for 100 CHF. A free morning and evening shuttle service to and from the Goetheanum is available during the conference (before and after the events).

Further accommodation options near the Goetheanum can be found here. 

Other accommodation options: The IBIS Hotel Basel SBB and the Hyve Hotel, with shared rooms, are only 20 minutes by train (S-Bahn) from Dornach.

If your request is approved, you will receive a link through which you can register at a reduced price. A link will follow.

If your request is approved, you will receive the promised amount in cash upon arrival at the Goetheanum. A link will follow.

We can only give out as much travel support as we have collected. We would like to make a heartfelt request to all those who have little or no travel expenses: Every donation for the Travel Support Fund will help colleagues who come from far away to finance their trip.

To make a donation to IASWECE for the conference Travel Support Fund, use the following bank information with the keyword:

«Travel Expense Fund 2026»

IBAN: CH30 0029 2292 21605460Y

Swift/BIC: UBSWCHZH80A