The School’s Objectives

Creating a cultural and living environment following the example of nature, a holistic, sustainable, resource-conserving, and life-enhancing learning system that is rooted in a deep understanding of ecological connections

Creating and maintaining a cultural environment – through everyone‘s active participation and in symbiosis with the needs of people and nature – where a mindful examination of one‘s own body, emotions, mind, and mental connection can take place

Building positive, reliable, and stable relationship structures as a robust framework for independent, sustainable learning

Giving people the opportunity within this framework to express their passion, follow their curiosity, act out their creativity, and to lead a happy and successful life

Living democracy, equality, solidarity, responsibility, security, stability, care, and responsibility for one’s self

Establishing a deep connection with nature in many different ways and enabling this connection through spending time in and learning with and from nature

Ensuring a loving and relaxed atmosphere and sufficient time and space for action, thus establishing preconditions for learning

Individualizing learning processes and at the same time embodying responsibility for community

Offering many opportunities to come in contact with the new

Providing lots of space for learning with enthusiasm

Providing many opportunities for out-of-school learning in different learning environments in and around Berlin as well as on trips.

Developing a grounding connection to one’s self, other people, and nature and a sense of responsibility that grows from that

Developing the capacity for peace and democracy as a personal mindset in conflicts and as a political perspective

Promoting respect toward one another and all living things

Developing internal value systems and mindsets and a good connection to one’s own intuition

Developing self-confidence through self-competence: competence with respect to the self, interacting with others, one’s own feelings, and subject matter competence

Learning cultural and technical problem-solving techniques

Good academic and emotional preparation for secondary school

Maintaining and supporting the internal motivation to learn

Developing an appreciation of a society with ethnic and cultural diversity, which is seen as enriching and as having a positive effect on interpersonal relationships

Establishing a healthy feeling of self-worth: I am – I can – I want

Independence and self-confidence

Self-control and self-monitoring

Increasing ability to act appropriately in difficult moments

Pacifying and satisfying conflict management

Experiencing self-efficacy

Noticing and expressing own needs

Increasingly taking responsibility for meeting these needs

Noticing other people‘s needs

Noticing and acknowledging own failures not as a flaw but as a significant developmental step

Endurance and power of concentration

Body awareness

Ability to set boundaries for one’s self

Creativity and imagination