Meet our course leaders

Ulrike Farnleitner, Soulscape founder, mentor. Ulrike holds an MA in Early Years Education and is a Steiner/Waldorf Early Years practitioner and mentor to Waldorf kindergartens with many years’ experience. She has previously run the Orientation Course and the Steiner Kindergarten Teacher Training Course. Ulrike’s education and experience helps her to bridge the academic world views with the creative innovative teachings of Rudolf Steiner’s Educational Approach connected to Anthroposophy. Her hope is that Anthroposophy and Steiner/Waldorf education may contribute to the evolution of the “whole,” such as family, community, nation, and humankind.

Leads: Foundation Year, Early Childhood Steiner Training

Martin Henry, Soulscape founder, mentor. Martin spent many years living and working in a Camphill Community and as a Steiner Teacher. He has been interested in Anthroposophy since he first met it at the age of 18. He has been much involved in adult education and has lectured on various anthroposophical subjects over the past 20 years. He is a council member of Anthroposophical Society in Ireland.

Leads: Foundation Year

Niamh Ruiséal, Early Childhood mentor, Kindergarten Teacher. She trained as a children’s nurse and went on to teach nursing.  She trained as a kindergarten teacher in 2005. She has worked for many years as an assistant in Raheen Wood Kindergarten. She has served as chairperson of Bláthú and is currently a member of the council of the Anthroposophical Society in Ireland.

Leads: Early Childhood Steiner Training

Heike Stenzel, Early Childhood mentor, Kindergarten Teacher. She has served as chairperson of ISKA (now Bláthú) and currently teaches Féileacán Group in Kilkenny Steiner School.

Leads: Early Childhood Steiner Training