This August 3rd - 7th on the Meristem Campus (former Rudolf Steiner College) in Fair Oaks, California, the North American Youth Section will host its annual conference!

This year the conference is called COURAGE: From Idea to Initiative, exploring what it is be young people with a relationship to the spiritual in this time and the courage that requires. This conference will be an opportunity to then bring that courage into initiatives that meet the world of today working out of the spirit.

After the exciting Light Between conference of 2025, where we gathered 180 young adults together in Upstate, New York, there is a mighty wind beneath our wings to fly onward, to the West Coast, and continue this work.

Our intention is turning moments of inspiration into deeply anchored commitments to the future. The Courage Conference will be a container for focused direction, development, and mentorship, which will encourage participants to discover the next step of their journey.

 

This time around, we will work with the 12 Sections of the School of Spiritual Science, bringing together individuals working in these twelve vocational fields, and spend our afternoons workshopping our ideas in that context. These representatives of the Sections introduce both intergenerational collaboration and mentorship, two themes that are deeply relevant to the Youth Section.

The conference days will also work through the three faculties of the human soul, namely, thinking, feeling, and willing. On the “thinking day,” we will hear a good, “heady,” epistemological, dialogical lecture. On the “feeling day,” some of our organizing team will lead a creative writing & visual art exercise, from which the goal is to co-create a book or piece of art, together. On the “willing day,” we will be outside, working, building, and tending. 

Please visit the nayouthsection website to find out more!

Your donation will go toward scholarships that support low-income participants with registration and travel expenses. The cost of the venue, housing, meals, coffee breaks, and program materials adds up to $25,000, and we will need to raise $10,000 in donations.

Any amount helps! Thank you for your support!