Our mission and Purpose

SunGate Educational Community’s mission is to provide holistic educational opportunities to children, teachers and families within a community of mutual support.

1. To support and further the essential role of the human encounter as the source of community building.

2.  To strengthen the spiritual image of the human being and its development in educational practices through the world view of Anthroposophy and the pedagogical indications given by Rudolf Steiner.  

3.  To work in responsibility for the protection and nurturing of childhood, and the advocacy for the rights of children and youth in our time. 

 4. To create a healthy, balanced and integrated relationship to both the material and spiritual aspects of life through the pathway of education.

 5.  To create safe, warm and nurturing spaces for movement, play, learning, self-discovery and the true human encounter, while caring for each other and the earth.

 6. To foster an environment that promotes individual freedom and the development of imagination, inspiration and intuition through living thinking, rather than through dogmatic principles.

 7. To be an expression of the threefold ordering of the social organism through the ideals of freedom in the spiritual realm, equality in the rights realm, and brotherhood in the economic realm. 

 8. To serve all individuals and families who earnestly seek a path of education through SunGate Educational Community regardless of financial circumstances.

 9.  To provide curative (therapeutic) education to all children and families in our care including individuals with learning differences, particularly to children who are not best served by The Camphill School or a Waldorf School.

10. To provide training, mentoring, and internship opportunities to teachers seeking to deepen their educational practices through study, inner development and the arts.