The healthy social life is found
when in the mirror of each human soul
the whole community finds its reflection,
and when in the community
the virtue of each one is living.
This is the Motto of Social Ethic.
-Rudolf Steiner
“Verses & Meditations”
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Front Range Anthroposophical Café
780 Quince Circle, Boulder, CO 80304
Please join us for inspiring connection, community and conversation, in support and celebration of Anthroposophical themes. Our unique Café format features live Guest Speakers who present a glimpse of their work and offer leading thoughts for break-out conversation and community reflection.
< new recordings are posted after each session, within a week >
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This Friday, September 18th at 6:30 p.m. MT, the Front Range Anthroposophical Café presents:
Timothy Kennedy
Economics and Entrepreneurship
through Spiritual Science
A Middle Way Forward in Our Times
Our Times are often defined by Economic and Entreprenuerial imbalances, and we know Anthroposophy invites us to cultivate dynamic balance in the face of polarization. But, Dr. Steiner didn’t leave us a business plan. He left us with a question: what would it look like if economic life were shaped by the same conscious dedication we bring to our soul development and to our social forums — not charity bolted onto commerce, but commerce reimagined from the root?
Several institutions have spent decades answering that question in practice. Weleda has run a global pharmaceutical and cosmetics company on biodynamic sourcing and associative pricing for over a century. Sekem turned a patch of Egyptian desert into a thriving biodynamic economy and a living argument for what “sustainable development” can evolve into. L’aubier in Switzerland has shown that a farm, a hotel, a school, and a community can be one organism rather than four competitors for the same “Limited resources”.
None of them are utopian experiments. They are businesses — audited, competitive, and long standing.
This talk asks what happens when we bring their hard-won lessons into conversation with the other great economic experiment of the last two centuries: the American entrepreneurial spirit — its willingness for risk, its genius for organizing capital and talent around a single founding idea, its restless refusal to accept “that’s how it’s done.” Not as opposites. As a marriage. Conscious capitalism has been circling this territory for more than twenty years without quite naming its philosophical spine; associative economics has the spine but has struggled to inspire the entrepreneur’s spirit. This presentation tries to close that gap.
Come with your questions and skepticism. Leave with a framework of hope— and a few concrete next steps, drawn from full scale field tests happening right now — for building initiatives that are spiritually serious and commercially healthy at the same time.
Timothy Kennedy seeks to incorporate and embody anthroposophy in all aspects of modern life, which has included co-creating the largest natural building and design company in the United States from 1998 – 2022 and is now the Managing Director of Anthroposophy.Social. He is especially active with the Western Regional Council of the Anthroposophical Society in America, the Social Sciences Section of the School for Spiritual Science as representative to the Collegium in North America, and the Economics Conference of the Goetheanum. He also teaches entrepreneurship and financial literacy as an inner and outer path of service, especially to the younger generations.
*View our Café recordings with Timothy from 9-10-21, 3-22-24, 8-30-24, 12-20-24 and 6-26-26.
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Dear Friends:
Blessings to everyone for a healthy, safe and inspiring summer’s end!
We hope you enjoyed our Summer Pause and weekly offerings!
We look forward to seeing you this month–as we resume our Café schedule.
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We are pleased to share our up-coming Café Guests:
Please watch for special Saturday Cafés as we periodically
will hear from Café Guests outside of North America!
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Michael Burton
Sept. 25
Maureen Amelia
*first Saturday
Oct. 3
Ben Cherry
Oct. 9
Jolie Hanna Luba
Oct. 16
Laura Scapaticci
Oct. 23
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