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Charlotte von Bülow Director
Charlotte von Bülow is the Director of Crossfields Institute. Before founding the Institute in 2007, Charlotte worked within mainstream further and higher education as a quality assurance and accreditation officer, educational consultant and academic administrator. In 2003 she decided to specialise in achieving recognition (accreditation, validation) for independent further and higher learning centres. Her particular interest in holistic and integrative teaching, learning and research methods led to the founding of Crossfields Institute. Charlotte’s academic background includes higher education trainings in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Philosophy of Mind. She is currently doing a Master's of Education.
Dr John Lees. Coordinator of Quality Assurance, Learning and Research.
John Lees advises on quality issues in Higher Education and research and is also responsible for the Crossfields Research and Scholarly Activities Forum. He is an anthroposophic counsellor and psychotherapist, is Chair of the Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists working out of Anthroposophy and represents the Worldwide Anthroposophic Psychotherapy movement in the UK. He is also Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Leeds. His research interests include the relationship between psychological distress and cultural and social factors in psychological distress, the relationship between counselling, psychotherapy and complementary and alternative medicine, research as transformation and the development of creative research methods. He has edited or co-edited four books, a Routledge counselling journal, has written over thirty peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed articles in the fields of anthroposophy, transformational research methods and counselling and psychotherapy and has lectured or presented at peer review conferences in the United States, Australia, Brazil, Japan and India as well as the UK.
Theresa Johnsons PA to the Director, Internal Verifier
Theresa joined the Crossfields team in March 2008 as Administrative Assistant, and now also fulfils the role of Personal Assistant (PA) to the Director, Charlotte von Bülow. Theresa will soon be the Open College Network Internal Validator for Crossfields upon completing the training in 2009. She was born in Canada and educated at the University of Toronto in psychology, anthropology, English and German. When not working at Crossfields Institute she runs a part-time homoeopathy and healing practice with her partner. Outside of work, you can usually find her rehearsing with her bellydance troupe Haziz!
Simon Reakes PR Coordinator, Internal Verifier (awaiting text)
Anne Mansfield Course Development Services Team Coordinator (awating text)
Board of Trustees
William Steffen Chairman of Trustees, Company Secretary
William grew up Switzerland and read Physics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. He has been working in UK Camphill communities for the past 30 years. Concurrently he taught senior school sciences for 15 years at Elmfield Steiner School and was involved in the school’s educational, financial and organisational development. Over a number of years he served on the board of the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship. For the past 6 years William has been running the Camphill England & Wales Co-worker Development Project (CDP), promoting co-worker recruitment and development on behalf of 25 Camphill centres. He has held director and trusteeships of a number of organisations including Park Attwood Clinic and William Morris (Camphill) Community. His concern for the need to develop accredited study and training courses that embrace anthroposophy for Camphill centres led him to get involved in the development of Crossfields Institute. As a result Camphill communities have become a crucial element of support for the Institute. The Institute in turn has started to provide essential advice to Camphill training facilities.
Aonghus Gordon
From a background in arts and education, Aonghus founded the Living Earth Training Course in 1984, which developed into Ruskin Mill Educational Trust in 1996. He co-founded Hiram Trust 1994, co-founded Waldorf College, Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1999, established Glasshouse College, Stourbridge, in 2000, co-founded Makhad Trust for endangered nomadic tribes particularly in Sinai and Tibet, in 2003, established Freeman College, Sheffield in 2005. Awarded Social Entrepreneur of the Year for the South of England in 2005. He is currently in the process of establishing Clervaux College in Darlington, due to open in 2008. Aonghus Gordon’s spiritual intention is the opportunity of the re-creation of culture from the inside out for young people who are in need of specialist educational re-integration. This intention is particularly informed by John Ruskin’s visionary picture of the renewal of culture through arts and Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual picture of human development.
Dr Isis Brook
Isis is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Her discipline is philosophy with specialisms in environmental aesthetics and Goethean science, but she also has a longstanding interest in theories of learning and innovative practice. She has been teaching in Higher Education since 1991 including running courses to train lecturers in new approaches to teaching. Isis has a wide experience of validation and examination processes including serving for two years as a Faculty Teaching Dean at Lancaster University, as a regular member of the Health Faculty validation committee at UCLan, and serving as an external examiner for both Derby University and Nottingham Trent University. As a perpetual learner Isis undertook a training in Goethean Science with the Life Science Seminars (as part of her PhD on Goethean Science in Britain) and a course in adult education with the Centre for Social Development. She is currently enrolled on a master in education course where her research focus is the problem of assessment when the aim of a course is developing the whole person.
Simon Fielding OBE
Shaina Stoehr Shaina has been a central figure in the development of Eurythmy and Eurythmy therapy in the UK. She is currently the course carrier of the Diploma course in Eurythmy at the Glasshouse College in Stourbridge and the co-director of the only UK-based Therapy Training, based in Stroud. Shaina also carrys out international teaching commitments in Moscow, Tblisi, Geneva and Bonn. Shaina played an important role in the founding of Crossfields Institute and co-facilitated the early stages of research and development
Eric Kaufmann
Eric is an organisational consultant working mainly in the public and not-for-profit sectors in the UK and abroad. He has many years experience in running and developing organisations both anthroposophical and non anthroposophical. Recent projects include the Heart Leadership in Cultural Organisations training in the UK, development work in the Espoo Waldorf School in Finland and a community wellbeing project involving thirteen large public schools also in Finland.
Academic Council (in alphabetical order)
Marcelo da Veiga
Marcelo is currently professor and vice-chancellor of the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Germany. Born in Brazil in 1960 and raised in Germany, Marcelo received a PhD in philosophy and carried out postdoctoral work as a sixth form teacher in Sao Paolo, later becoming a professor of German Language and Literature at the Federal University of Florianópolis, Brazil. Since 2001 his work has focused on business and international project consultation for educational institutions on behalf of the Software AG-Stiftung. Working as a project manager in 2002, he successfully gained state accreditation for the Alanus University and was voted in as its first vice-chancellor. While he has focussed all his efforts on building up the university departments over the past few years, in his current period of office he sees his principal task in consolidating the university’s artistic and academic profile of excellence in teaching and research, while also enhancing the university’s profile within the region.
James Dyson
Dr James Dyson was a co-founder of Park Attwood Clinic where he worked from 1979 to 2003. He has worked as a doctor in Steiner Waldorf Schools and with individuals with learning difficulties. His areas of special interest are developmental psychology and adult mental health. He has been a regular contributor to several anthroposophic therapeutic trainings and is a faculty member of the Medical Section Seminar on Mental Health
Michael Frosch
Michael Frosch was born and educated in British Columbia, Canada. He Holds a BSc in Biology from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. and a certificate in management from Lancaster University. He Completed the Science Teachers Training at Wynstones Rudolf Steiner School in 1985 and taught general sciences at the Vancouver Waldorf School for 8 years. Michael worked as a houseparent and a practical skills tutor at Ruskin Mill College in Gloucestershire for three years and currently works in the role of College Principal.
Aksel Hugo
Aksel Hugo was born and lives in Norway. His educational backround is in ecology and environmental education from the Norwegian University of Life Sceinces, where he is currently teaching as associate professor in science education. His interest in the ”ecology of knowing” led him to Steiner, and in particular to studies of his epistemology. As an academic and as Waldorf teacher, Aksel has been a pioneer in establishing new school initiatives where education is in touch with life. He is leading the International Master Degree Programme in Waldorf Steiner Education at Rudolf Steiner University College, Oslo.
Martin Large.
Martin Large lectured in management and organisational behaviour, including organisational development, education management and postgraduate research supervision. He works as a facilitator, coach and publisher with Hawthorn Press, as a writer, lecturer and action researcher with two national land reform programmes. He has enabled action learning groups in business, the community and educational organisations for many years.
Angelica Monteux (awaiting text)
Sebastian Parsons
Sebastian Parsons is co-founder and Chief Executive of Elysia, which is a business set up in 1994. Elysia has the Liv brand of textiles, is the Dr.Hauschka distributor in the UK, and has a 200 acre biodynamic farm in North East Worcestershire. Sebastian is also the Chair of the Biodynamic Agricultural Association in the UK. He has a long standing interest in leadership and business.
Andrew Phipps
Andrew has worked for Novalis Trust, a charitable organisation that follows the principles of Rudolph Steiner, since 1994. The Trust provides education and care for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities and adults with learning disabilities. Andrew is an Ofsted Additional Inspector, Qualified Teacher and Qualified Social Worker. He is currently employed as Quality Assurance Officer for the Trust and has previously held the posts of Head Teacher and Head of Children’s Services. Andrew has been subject to enhanced CRB disclosure.
Sue Reed
Sue Reed works as Education and Development Manager at Hiram Academy, Ruskin Mill Educational Trust. My experience of teaching a range of practical subjects in primary and secondary schools, further education and specialist colleges, and a passion for creating festivals and facilitating community programmes, is a resource which has given me the capacity to learn from and with colleagues, and develop training and educational courses for all ages and abilities. I am involved with Crossfields Institute because I think collaboration develops coherence, initiative, openness and self knowledge. Sharing our knowledge through an umbrella organisation in the present will create security for others in the future.
Julia Wolfson
I work with groups, communities and organisations as consultant, educator and mentor. I am inspired by the many people I meet who thrive from developing themselves and mastering the art of collaboration for the benefit of people, purpose and planet. I work closely with colleagues with whom I share a love of learning. Our friendships rejuvenate and sustain our aspirations, optimism and creativity throughout complex projects over time.
Arthur Zajonc
Arthur Zajonc is professor of physics at Amherst College, where he has taught since 1978. He has been visiting professor and research scientist at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, and a Fulbright professor at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His research has included studies in parity violation in atoms, the experimental foundations of quantum physics, and the relationship between sciences, the humanities and meditation. He is author of the book: Catching the Light, co-author of The Quantum Challenge, and co-editor of Goethe’s Way of Science. Since 1997 he has served as scientific coordinator for the Mind and Life dialogue with H.H. the Dalai Lama whose meetings have been published as The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama (Oxford 2004) and The Dalai Lama at MIT (Harvard UP, 2006). He currently directs the Academic Program of the Center for Contemplative Mind which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in higher education.
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