This group was first formed in the Bangalore IPMT of 2008 in response to interest in what anthroposophy can contribute towards healthy organizational structures, and community development. The initial group included people from the corporate, and industrial sectors as well as managers of not for profit organizations.

In our work, home and leisure, it is worth asking the question of whether the many communities we attach ourselves to are health promoting, or illness producing? In the last 25 years or so there has been a deeper interest worldwide in the connections between individual health and the economic, social and political terrain in which a person lives.

According to UK public health specialist Dr. John Ashton:

“ Health is not, by and large, gained or lost or even to any great extent mediated by health services, but in the real world of work, leisure and home life.”

Examining this dilemma, Rudolf Steiner gives us a clue with his famous and oft quoted phrase:

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".

The group has been facilitated by Michaela Gloekler in co-operation with Dr Lakshmi Prasanna and Michael Kokinos.

Topics explored so far have included :

• The use and abuse of power and the ideal of Servant Leadership.
• Modern civilization and indigenous/traditional cultures.
• The role and circulation of money within organizations. Does finance rule or serve the community?
• Organizational structural models.
• The tension between individual and group needs.

References:

Ashton, J 1998 Vision or Dream? - A Healthy Liverpool. Liverpool University Department of Public Health, Liverpool, pp 3 – 47

Steiner, R 1919 quoted in Anthroposophy, 1927 Vol. II, No.3. (Original lecture - “Capital and Credit”, 1919, GA 24.)