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…inspired by the Camphill movement
Mosaic
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Meaningful
Opportunities
Social
Awareness
Inclusive
Culture
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Our Mission Statement
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The Kingston Mosaic Group's mission is to create
Mosaic School: a holistic (education, medical,
arts, spirituality & agriculture) program of care,
curative education and vocational training for
children and youth with developmental
disabilities.
The school will be built within the context of a
social therapeutic community setting, according
to the principles and ideals of Waldorf Education
and the Camphill Movement.
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A Few Definitions:
Curative Education:
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Curative education means healing education and
it is an inter-disciplinary task in which different
professions and functions work together. It
includes remedial teachers, medical practitioners,
teachers, parents, therapists and artists.
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Waldorf Education:
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In a Waldorf School, dramatic, visual, musical, and
movement arts, along with practical skills such as
woodworking, weaving, sewing, and gardening,
are integrated with traditional academic subjects.
This is why Waldorf schools, including Camphill
Special School, are known for educating the whole
human being – head, heart, and hands.
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Camphill Movement:
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Camphill involves residential and day program
communities and schools for adults and children
with developmental disabilities, mental health
problems and other special needs. They provide
services, work, learning and daily living based on
the principles of Waldorf education.
The International Camphill Movement is an
innovative leader in the fields of disabilities and
intentional communities for seventy years, and
fifty years in North America.
There are 119 Camphill communities in 23
countries in Europe, North America, Southern
Africa and Asia.
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 Camphill is dedicated to creating communities where
the values of service, sharing, spiritual nourishment
and recognition of each individual’s gifts and
contributions offer a model of renewal for the wider
society. The result is an offering to all community
members a life of accomplishment, celebration and
meaning.
 Camphill Special School in Beaver Run, Pennsylvania is
currently the only Camphill-based school in North
America for young children and youth.
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 When MOSAIC School opens, it will be the first one of
its kind in Canada.
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How it all Started…
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 Karl König (25 September 1902 – 27 March 1966) was an
Austrian pediatrician who founded the Camphill Movement
in 1939 near Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Our Vision
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After visiting Camphill Special School, we
realized the wish for our son and other
children with special needs to have access to
education that is therapeutic to all senses: a
holistic, wholesome and healing environment
in a practical and arts based education and
life. To be a part of a community where they
will grow, heal and learn to find and
contribute their own special gifts.
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What does Camphill look like?
 Camphill Special School is located in Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1963 and is a
cutting -edge educational community, serving children and youth with mild to
severe developmental disabilities.
 It consists of a residential and day academic and prevocational programs as well as
therapeutic care for children in kindergarten through grade 12. The transition
program for young people ages 18-21 is located at a nearby farm.
 Camphill Special School is located on 88 acres situated on sprawling hills lined
with apple trees and surrounded by creeks and forests. There is a barn with
horses, main farm and garden with nine lovely residential homes where
currently 55 students reside with their house parents.
 There is the kindergarten house which offers a fully inclusive program for
typically developing and some have special needs. No matter their level of
ability, all of the students care about and appreciate one another for who they
are.
The main school-where the Eurythmy and main
therapy room is- is central to the homes and the
woodworking room, pottery room, grocery store,
bakery, weaving room and main theatre.
Eurythmy Room
 Eurythmy: created in 1912 (Rudolph Steiner); a form of artistic expression
and a means to support healthy development in children.
 Therapeutic eurythmy involves modified gestures that are intensified.
Repeated practice stimulates healing life forces, restores balance, and can
correct constitutional problems.
Main Theatre
Pottery Room
Where Are We Now?
 Kingston MOSAIC Group was founded in January 2014 and consists of 8
founding members who meet bi-weekly. Our meeting on the first Tuesday
of each month is open to the public.
 Our group is comprised of people with different expertise, among them
parents of special needs children, teachers, artists, doctors,
administrators. We currently have two teachers with a lot of experience
and training in drama and working with special needs children who will
instruct for our theatre group.
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 Kingston MOSAIC Group is working with a lawyer to finalize incorporation
documents and register as a non-profit & charitable organization.
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Where Are We Now?
SHORT TERM GOALS
• Establish an urban
presence &
programming:
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Early years program
Theatre program
Inclusive play group
Parent support
Summer Programming
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LONGER TERM GOALS
Establish a rural centre
A main school
Woodworking, pottery,
weaving room
Grocery store, bakery and
main theatre
Therapies: conventional PT,
OT & Speech; horseback
riding, art, music, massage,
eurythmy, coloured-light
therapy
Eventual residential homes
What’s Next?
Build community to support and carry the initiative
forward – parents, teachers, therapists, volunteers &
establish cooperative partnerships with relevant
organizations.
Fundraising
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Start with weekly programming:
Theatre group
Play group
Parent support group
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• Camphill is an impulse for social renewal and
an evolving social organism.
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• "Let us not do it in words, but in deeds. To
serve and not to rule; to help and not to
force; to love and not to harm will be our
task."
-Karl König
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