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| "Let the beauty we love become the good we do" Rumi |
Michael and Briar Grimley have both taught in mainstream and Waldorf schools for many years – Michael teaching history, art, and philosophy, and Briar teaching mathematics.
After majoring in painting, graphics, history of art and philosophy, Michael completed a master’s degree in fine arts with a thesis on the concept of freedom in the history of art. He has also been a teacher and teacher trainer in Waldorf Education. He has published 2 books, 'Truth and Consciousness: A story of how the First World War Began', and 'The Fog of Untruth: the South African Origins of the First World War.' He has written and published numerous papers, and gives lectures, training and enrichment programmes in Waldorf Schools and Conferences, and is busy writing his third book: 'A Drop of Light' - a colation of all these papers and lectures.
Briar loves exploring with others the joys and wonder of form and number in the universe, and after attending many courses in 'alternative' mathematics and doing her own researches, she started offering courses, 'Geometry for the Joy of It!' for the public and for Waldorf Schools and Conferences. She has published Projective Geometry books under the auspices of the University of Cape Town, and in 1994 started the McGregor Waldorf School. She has also attended courses with Ashley Ramsden, founder of the International School of Story Telling, and tells stories rich with imagery and deep with meaning. She is also a facilitator for the Active Practical Love courses developed by Dr Tessabella Lovemore.
Briar and Michael have formed a partnership, ‘KalloSophia’ (beauty-wisdom), through which they do their work in education, give presentations and run studies on Anthroposophy, and inspired by the transformative power of the arts and their role in the nourishment of soul and spirit, they run courses for adults using art, geometry, story-telling, conversation, and inner development.
… and about KalloSophia
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| The birth of Aphrodite (Venus) |
KalloSophia means Beauty (Kallos) Wisdom (Sophia). The logo motif is derived from an ancient Greek bas relief. It possibly depicts an initiation rite connected to the birth of Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and love), emerging from the waters of the elemental world.
