Summer Intensive Conferences

2025 Early Childhood Summer Intensive Conference

Two full weeks 8/3-8/13: $1400 Early Bird Price Until 7/13: $1300

First week only 8/3-8/9: $950 Early Bird Price Until 7/13: $850

Last 3 days only 8/11-8/13: $550 Early Bird Price Until 7/21: $450

PLEASE NOTE: A supplies fee of about $50 will be collected at the conference.

The Micha-el Institute's annual Early Childhood Summer Intensive Conference will be held from August 3rd - August 13th, 2025. 

The theme for the Early Childhood Summer Intensive Conference this year is “Establishing a Rhythmical Life for a Young Child.” It will be held at the Cedarwood Waldorf School. 

Everyone who is interested in learning as a beginner or in depth about Early Childhood is welcome. 

Week 1:  The conference begins with the Opening Evening at 6:30pm on Sunday, August 3rd, and ends at 12 noon on Saturday, August 9th.  Every day starts with eurythmy to wake up your body, mind, and soul, followed by morning lectures to help you understand the correlation between human rhythms and universal rhythms, explanations and presentations of circle times, and transitioning songs and finger games that you can actually practice.  In the afternoon, you will make your own movable toy, guided by a master of woodwork.

Week 2:  It starts at 8:30am on Monday, August 11th and ends at 4:30pm on Wednesday, August 13th.  Each day begins with eurythmy to wake up your body, mind, and soul, followed by morning lectures and presentations to help you understand rhythmical life in the Early Childhood setting in depth.  In the afternoon, you can develop your singing abilities, focusing on pentatonic and mood of the fifth music, and you will learn wet felting, which has been a traditional fiber art for thousands of years, and make things that are useful in a child's daily life.

2025 Grades 1-8 Summer Intensive Conferences

Grades 1, 2, and 3 Individual Tracks Offered for Each Grade

5 Days July 7-11: $575 Early Bird Price Until 6/16: $525

Grades 4, 5, and 6 Individual Tracks Offered for Each Grade

5 Days July 14-18: $575 Early Bird Price Until 6/23: $525

Grades 7-8 Language Arts & History

4 Days July 11-14: $350 Early Bird Price Until 6/20: $300

Grades 7-8 Math & Science

4 Days July 18-21: $350 Early Bird Price Until 6/27: $300

The Micha-el Institute offers teachers of Grades 1 through 8 opportunities to prepare for the upcoming school year. They will be held at the Cedarwood Waldorf School. These conferences will assist teachers in cultivating inspiration for discovery within the classroom. Through demonstrations and explanations of practical applications, artistic renderings, lectures, and discussions, participants will be shown and will discover how to create enlivened curricula (for each individual grade) that will meet the needs of the growing and developing children in their care. Taught by master teachers with many years of grades teaching experience, the various subjects will be brought to life from many different vantage points, each one contributing to the whole experience.

Grades 1, 2, and 3 Summer Intensive Conference
Dates: July 7 - July 11, 2025

Grades 4, 5, and 6 Summer Intensive Conference
Dates: July 14 - July 18, 2025

Grades 7 & 8 Language Arts & History Dates: July 11 - July 14, 2025

Grade 7 & 8 Math and Science Dates: July 18 - July 21, 2025

Foundation Summer Conference

4 days 8/14-8/17: $500 Early Bird Price Until 7/24: $450

Dates: August 14-17, 2025

Thursday 8/14 @ 6:30pm - Sunday, 8/17 @ 4:30pm. Friday - Monday class times from 8:30am to 4pm.

The Foundation Conference will be held at the Cedarwood Waldorf School in Portland, Oregon. After the opening evening lecture, the next three days will start with eurhythmy in the morning, followed by morning lectures and discussion. The afternoons will begin with singing to help us connect with the spiritual world and create bonds among us. Then there will be artistic workshops to help us to understand what we receive through our intellect and to free our soul.