NALM Research

The people listed on this page are some of the researchers out of whose work the NALM has developed.


	Coenraad van Houten was born in the Netherlands in 1922. After studying Chemistry, Economics, and 'Social Pedagogy', he lived and worked in Holland, Indonesia, Hong Kong and Britain as a manager in business, as a consultant, and as the director of the Centre for Social Development (which he co-founded). He has developed specialist programmes and seminars for educating adults, and presently advises organizations on training schemes. He is the author of Awakening the Will and Practising Destiny and the co-founder of the New Adult Learning Movement.


	Shirley van Houten was born in Canada in 1935. She gained her education through work experience, taking on initiatives in relation to anthroposophy. Two major initiatives were the Toronto Waldorf School for education of children and the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto for adult education. She identified her career as "possible-maker". Following training at the Centre for Social Development in England, she moved there in 1989 to pioneer yet another initiative, the Anthroposopohical Schooling Course, with Coenraad van Houten and others. Ten years later its development culminated in the international New Adult Learning Movement, as a free association of individuals who carry a common intention.

	Jaak Hillen is living as a free artist and specialised in creative processes. He discovered in his career that the force of the creative process can change lives. He organises workshops and courses and participates in several trainings in Europe to work with creativity. He is born in 1959, studied curative education in the ‘IPSOC’ in Kortrijk and in Zeist (Netherlands). After that he studied sculpture in the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany), in the KASK in Gent and in the HISK in Antwerp. In 2001 he did a three months training in ‘Adult Education’ with Coenraad van Houten. Since 2002 he became co worker and trainer in the NALM. Find more information on: www.hillen-sculptor.com or www.artObe.org

	Hans Supenkämper, born 1949, is living in a curative community in Bayern / Germany since 1979. He was there the biodynamic farmer and housefather for adult handicapped people. Since 2007 he is working for WALA, travelling to many countries to teach farmers in biodynamic farming especially in rose cultivation. There he got the opportunity of applying the experiences and results of “New Learning” in a practical field. The NALM work he met in 1996 and since 1999 he is busy in giving and carrying NALM-courses. He found the expression of “Spiritual Composting”, where you develop your individual “wastes – one-sidenesses and blockages” to new faculties and forces for social processes. He is member of the board of NALM e.V.

Foto Folgt	Ulrike Schauss Ihr Interesse gilt dem Menschen und heilenden Prozessen. Besonders schwere Schicksals-ereignisse in der frühen Jugend belasten die physische und seelische Gesundheit eines Menschen. Das therapeutische Begegnungsge spräch hat sie als notwendige Ergänzung ihrer kunsttherapeutischen Arbeit weiter entwickelt. Ulrike Schauß wurde 1955 in Ostwestfalen geboren, war Staatsschullehrerin im berufsbildenden Bereich, Germanistin und Kunstpädagogin. Ab 1993 Anthroposophische Kunsttherapeutin, Mitbegründerin des Päd. therap. Zentrums am ‘hof’ in Frankfurt-Niederursel, jetzt an der Kaspar-Hauser-Schule in Überlingen tätig. Seit 1997 Ausbildung und Arbeit mit dem Begegnungsgespräch (Coen van Houten), ab 2001 zunehmend in der Erwachsenenbildung, u.a. mit Schicksalslernkursen tätig.

	Sophie Pannitschka Geboren 1966, kommt aus dem Ruhrgebiet und lebt seit vielen Jahren in Süddeutschland. Sie hat drei fast erwachsene Kinder. Sie ist Mitbegründerin der Elias-Initiativgemeinschaft und von Adventura. Nachdem sie eine Ausbildung in anthroposophischer Biographiearbeit (Gudrun Burkhard) und Neuer Erwachsenenbildung (Coen van Houten) gemacht hat, hat sie an der Universität Tübingen Germanistik und Erwachsenenbildung (M.A.) studiert. Sie ist in der praktischen Erwachsenenbildung tätig und promoviert an der Universität. Ihr Thema ist die Bedeutung Parzivals für das Lernen Erwachsener.

The Core Group

A group of persons undertake the tasks needed for communications and connections among those involved and the general public. This is an open group.Coenraad van Houten

Shirley Routledge

Jaak Hillen

Kurt Pistek

Hans Supenkämper

Sophie Pannitschka

Ulrike Schauss

And others ...

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