Welcome to Steiner Voices XYZ, a podcast series hosted by Steiner Education Australia. We’re a forum for some of the varied voices of Steiner school communities and their people around the country, of teachers, parents and students.
Steiner education is a worldwide movement of some 1100 schools across the globe, on all inhabited continents and embraced by parents, teachers and students of all cultural backgrounds. In Australia we have 52 schools who are members of Steiner Education Australia and are all dedicated to delivering the rich and uplifting Australian Steiner Curriculum framework, recognised by the government education regulator ACARA as an approved equivalent to the Australian Curriculum version 9.
Listen to our Steiner Voices podcast series and you’ll meet some of the many people who make our Australian Steiner schools such vibrant learning communities.
The Face of Trauma: The Healing Impact of Steiner Education
A child’s face in a Beirut refugee camp changed Berndt Ruf’s life. The founder of a number of Waldorf/Steiner schools in Germany, Berndt had already learned to apply some of the methods of Steiner education to children suffering the effects of trauma. Now in the aftermath of the 2006 war in Lebanon, Berndt recognised the impact of severe trauma on the child’s face and knew he had the methods, and the people, who could help. Berndt went on to found the organisationEmergency Pedagogy without Borders, an international movement that works to ameliorate the impact of acute trauma on children in disaster situations. Since that moment in Beirut, Berndt has led 160 interventions around the world, from war zones in Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq, to earthquakes in Nepal and Haiti, floods in China, typhoons and school shootings in the Philippines, and locally, in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack. Berndt has been here again recently providing further training for members of the Australian Emergency Pedagogy without Borders team, and he kindly recorded this episode of Steiner Voices XYZ.
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The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
12 Oct 2026
Jump into the Unknown: Founding Steiner Education In Malaysia
Lim DaVid grew up on the rural east coast of peninsular Malaysia before beginning his professional life as an engineer. But a calling to Steiner-Waldorf education brought him to Australia where he trained at the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar over two years. There he was inspired by his teachers, who urged him to return to Malaysia. He was told: “There are children waiting for you!” There certainly were, and after founding a Kindergarten, the first class of the first Steiner school in the country came into being with DaVid as the teacher. Within a year he had handed over guidance of the school to a pioneering group of parents and other teachers while he stayed in the classroom. From a single house with eight students in Class 1, the school has now graduated three Class 12 cohorts, has 430 students plus over 40 staff, and Sasana International Waldorf School is an International Associate Member of Steiner Education Australia. DaVid’s philosophy has been one of saying ‘Yes to life”, and as he looks back on this remarkable journey, he reflects that it was all possible because he and his colleagues were prepared to “jump into the unknown”.
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
28 Sept 2026
“Always Evolving into a Different Human Being”: A Teacher’s International Journey
Charity Muli’s life as a Steiner or Waldorf teacher has taken her from Nairobi, Kenya, to Guatemala City, and now to Perth, WA where she is the Class 1 teacher at Helena River Waldorf School. After discovering Steiner education in Nairobi, she has taught three cycles of the early years of the class teacher period, taught Swahili as a second language, run an Inclusive extra lesson department and also been one of the founding teachers of a new school. Her experiences of Steiner education across three continents have affirmed her confidence in the curriculum and pedagogy where she feels safe and supported. Each school has felt like “another home”. A guiding light through this journey has been the foundational picture of the human being that underlies Steiner education, and the collaborative work by teachers to apply this vision in the classroom. Charity values the renewal that comes from this work, which gives her a sense of always evolving into a different human being.
For more information about Steiner education: https://steinereducation.edu.au/
For more information about locations and contact details of Steiner schools: https://steinereducation.edu.au/schools/
Teacher education and professional learning: https://steinereducation.edu.au/events/
Working in a Steiner school: https://steinereducation.edu.au/jobs/#vacancies
Our facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/steinereducationaustralia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steinereducationaustralia/
The beautifully performed theme music ‘Libertango’ is played by Esther Abrami and Alexandra Whittingham.
Esther’s website: https://www.estherabrami.com/
Alexandra’s website: https://www.alexandrawhittingham.com/
Podcast produced by: https://piccolopodcasts.com.au/
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