About
Us
The Spiritual
Science in Everyday Life programme is
delivered in association with the Hebden Bridge Steiner
Education Initiative (UK Registered Charity No. 1090119) - see
Links - and is facilitated
by John Bewick.
John was born in Hull, England, in
1952, and graduated in Sociology and Education from Manchester
University. Following a serendipitous encounter with
a student of Steiner’s spiritual science he learnt how to
strengthen the capabilities for intuitive remembrance –
capabilities we all have. He has spent the last 30 years
working with adults and young people developing the training
activities that are now included here.
He has always
been keen to incorporate this work into peoples’ everyday
lives, whatever their background. This has included
remembrance and intuitive thinking workshops for women
prisoners and the development of adult ‘access’ programmes in
personal biography studies. In the 1980’s he became an
Associate with the Counselling and Career Development Unit at
Leeds University integrating practical spiritual exercises
into professional development programmes. He was then
appointed Senior Lecturer in Staff Development in Bradford and
extended this work into mainstream teacher training. From the
mid 1990’s he became deeply involved in community regeneration
using many of the activities found in this book to re-engage
adult learners. In 1997 he was appointed Head of Faculty for
Community Education in Keighley and founded the Keighley Arts
Factory in 2000.
He retired in 2004 to write and
facilitate workshops full time. He is a trustee of the
Camphill Community College in Wakefield and secretary of the
Hebden Bridge Steiner Education Initiative. He lives in Hebden
Bridge, England, with his wife Vivienne, a nursery school
teacher, and they have five wonderful
grandchildren.
For mainstream further and higher
education, he has also written –
Research
papers:
“A strategy for Recurrent Education” for the Open
College Network, 1984.
“Post 16 Education” for the Northern
Ireland Board of Education,
1991.
Publications:
“The Life and Work Pack”, Hodder Arnold, 1982
(ISBN 0713107170)
“Recognising and Recording Achievement”
(Editor), 1994 (ISBN 0951634305)