Hope – Springs – Eternal Even In the Fall ! A Workshop with Christopher Houghton Budd

100 years on, can we find the courage to take up the insights of Rudolf Steiner and build toward a strong and healthy Anthroposophical Society. A society that is in service to the challenges of our times and for the next 100 years?
(Fly all the way to Dornach – or spend a weekend in Portland!)

29 September – 1 October 2023
No one turned away because of finances, Event includes snacks and beverages
Location: Anthroposophical Branch Library, 5415 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, OR 97206 (Enter from the rear of St Mark’s Church)

As part of all that transformed in 1923, Rudolf Steiner encouraged the formation of the wide reaching country societies out of which the worldwide Anthroposophical Society was born. The Anthroposophical Society in America, out of its own unique character, has a role to play in the health and wholeness of the worldwide society. What is our unique character and possibly our unique task? Looking back on the 100 years since then, how do things stand? What, do we think, would he make of our efforts? And how do we see things going forward? Are we able to look him in the eyes?
Especially if we look at our finances – as they are an expression of our will and strength of initiative – is the Goetheanum a distant place or something we create or something we create on our own doorsteps? Do we meet them only in simple earthly terms (i.e., pay our dues on time and in full) or is there something more at work? How can we understand the role and tasks of ‘the Far West’? And how can we get to work for the next 100 years?

Accommodations and local restaurants and delis are available nearby
For Further Details and Program email us at portlandanthroposophy@gmail.com

Christopher Houghton-Budd is an economic and monetary historian with a doctorate in banking and finance from Cass Business School, London. Though trying to go ‘emeritus’, he continues to work independently in many contexts around the world, ranging from mainstream to ‘alternative’, central banking to organic farming, lay to academia. Born in England in 1948, he left school at 16 then spent his youth travelling, working on private yachts and learning the film business in California. In Berkeley in 1968, he developed a strong interest in Marxist ideas, but became convinced that Marx had failed to interpret his vision accurately. Prior to this time Houghton Budd had also met the work of Rudolf Steiner, whose contributions to sociology and economics have been of special interest to him ever since. During his 50 year career, he has initiated or participated in a variety of small, mostly ‘green’, businesses in fields as varied as farming, housing, food distribution, retailing and investment, and served for seven years as a local councilor and four as a state school governor. His particular interest is the development of associative economics, an approach to economics that combines financial discipline with active social responsibility on the part of people generally. On this basis, he especially focuses on youth financial literacy and the associated need to fund their aims and initiatives through ‘Youth Bonds’. For more information http://christopherhoughtonbudd.com/welcome/