Taruna College

27/08/2026

🌿 WE'RE LOOKING FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA & MARKETING COORDINATOR
Part-time | 6–8 hours per week | Flexible / Remote or On-site | Havelock North
Are you a creative, organised and dynamic social media person who loves creating meaningful content and connecting people with inspiring ideas?
Taruna College is looking for a Social Media & Marketing Coordinator to support the growth and visibility of Taruna, our courses and our online digital programmes.
A particular focus of this role will be helping us grow our online parenting courses internationally, while also sharing the everyday life, activities, courses and community of Taruna.
✨ About the role
You'll help with:
🌱 Planning and creating engaging social media content
📱 Managing content across our social media platforms
🎥 Creating and coordinating photos, video and other digital content
📅 Developing and maintaining a social media and marketing plan
🌎 Supporting the international marketing and growth of our online parenting courses
🏡 Sharing the everyday life, courses, events and activities of Taruna
📣 Identifying opportunities to grow our audience and reach
💡 Bringing fresh ideas and creativity to our marketing

We're looking for someone who is:
Creative, dynamic and confident with social media
Organised, self-motivated and detail-oriented
A strong communicator and content creator
Comfortable working independently
Interested in modern parenting
Ideally familiar with, or interested in, anthroposophy / Steiner education
Able to see the bigger picture of a marketing campaign while also getting the practical details done

💻 Flexible working
This is a part-time role of approximately 6–8 hours per week, with flexibility to work remotely, from home, or on-site at Taruna in Havelock North.
There is potential for the hours to increase as the online programmes grow and the role develops.
If you're excited about helping us share Taruna's work with a much wider audience — both here in Aotearoa and internationally — we'd love to hear from you.
📩 To express your interest, please email:
[email protected]
Please tell us a little about yourself, your social media/marketing experience, and why this role appeals to you.

18/08/2026

Come and visit our local Taikura Kindergarten as they honour a century of Steiner/Waldorf early childhood education and open their doors to our local and wider community.

On Saturday 5 September, come along and experience a taste of our beautiful Kindergarten environment and curriculum. Enjoy wet-on-wet painting, a traditional puppet story, and a delicious classic kindy bun.

Whether you are already familiar with Steiner education or simply curious to learn more, everyone is welcome. Bring yourself, bring your whānau, and come and experience the warmth and magic of our Kindergarten.

For more information, please contact us on (06) 878 7363.

17/08/2026

Calling all home gardeners! 🌱

Join us for an inspiring Biodynamics Weekend Workshop and deepen your understanding of how to nourish and support the health of your garden and soil.

Biodynamics offers a unique and holistic approach to working with the land, plants and natural rhythms of the earth. Come and learn practical knowledge and insights that you can take home and bring into your own garden.

11–13 September (1:30pm Friday - 1:30pm Sunday)
$350 per person

Come along, learn something new, and add the inspiring knowledge of Biodynamics to your gardening toolkit.

To register or for more info, visit our website www.taruna.ac.nz

Taruna is a home of adult learning which offers courses inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.

06/08/2026

It was a delight to welcome our Certificate in Rudolf Steiner Education students back for Seminar Two, last month. Where our focus turned to the lower school years, exploring drawing techniques, child development, temperaments, the soul senses and the working with the Main Lesson, alonside many other inspiring topices.

03/08/2026

Biodynamic Weekend Workshop: 11-13 September
Held at Taruna College, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay.

This workshop is for anyone who is:

Curious about biodynamic and regenerative practices for their farm or garden.

Interested in the wellbeing of both land and people.

Wanting to deepen their connection with land, soil, and life.

Already practising biodynamics and keen to connect with its wider context and community.

We would love to have you! Register at [email protected] or call us on (06) 877 7174. For more info please visit our website www.taruna.ac.nz

Taruna is a home of adult learning which offers courses inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.

26/07/2026

In the Southern Hemisphere, we have recently passed the shortest day of the year. The first fruit buds are beginning to appear, and ever so slowly the earth is awakening once again.

In Waldorf schools, including our own Taikura Rudolf Steiner School here in Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand, this midwinter season is honoured through the tradition of the Spiral Walk. Students take part in this ceremony with their classes, and later the staff gather to experience it together as well.

The gesture of winter is one of turning inward. We can witness this all around us as the trees become dormant, many animals hibernate, and the natural world grows quieter and more restful. As human beings, we are also invited into this same rhythm. Whether we consciously choose it or not, we naturally spend more time indoors by the fire, reading, creating, reflecting, or simply resting as the daylight hours shorten.

This inward season can become an important and transformative time for our inner lives. It offers space to process our experiences, reflect, and discover new insights that can be harder to hear amidst the busyness of the warmer months. Then, as the earth begins to awaken, the days lengthen and the warmth slowly returns, we often find ourselves mirroring nature once again. A renewed energy emerges - a desire to connect with others, spend time outdoors, plant seeds in the garden, and begin creating anew.

The Spiral Walk beautifully symbolises this journey of moving inward, finding the light, and returning outward with it.

At Taikura, a spiral is carefully created from beautiful evergreen foliage in a darkened room. At its centre burns a single candle. Each person is given an unlit candle and slowly walks the spiral path towards the centre. There, they light their candle from the central flame before gently making their way back out, placing their candle somewhere along the spiral. One by one, each person repeats this simple act, and gradually the once-dark room begins to glow with hundreds of small lights.

The central flame can be seen as representing the shared light and consciousness that lives within each of us. As we light our own candle from this single source, we acknowledge the inward journey of winter and the light we have cultivated within ourselves. We then carry that light back into the world as the earth itself begins to awaken.

If we have embraced winter as an opportunity for inwardness, this ceremony can feel deeply moving. It may evoke vulnerability, gratitude, joy, hope, or quiet reflection. There is something profoundly human about witnessing the room slowly illuminate, each individual contributing their own small light to something much greater than themselves.

Of course, we all bring our own perspectives and understandings to gestures such as this, and I'm sure each of us walks away with something different. Yet there is another beautiful way to hold this experience. The Spiral Walk reminded me that we are all part of something larger than ourselves. We share the same seasons, many of the same hopes and fears, and the same human journey. To stand together in silence, each carrying our own light while contributing to the collective whole, is a simple yet deeply meaningful reminder that we are one.

Image sourced via pinterest (Moraine Farm Waldorf School)

20/07/2026

Our Supportive Therapies Workshop (starting 31st July!) is for anyone who wants to bring more intention and loving care into everyday life, whether for themselves, their family, or those they support. If you're a nurse, therapist, or caregiver, this workshop can also enrich your professional practice with fresh inspiration and practical therapeutic skills.

Through biography work, casework, inner development, and therapeutic nursing practices, you'll explore ways to deepen your presence, strengthen your practice, and offer truly individualised care.

Whether you're seeking practical tools, personal growth, or a deeper understanding of holistic healing, this workshop offers a meaningful path to enrich both your work and your own inner journey.

As a mother of two, learning how to weave supportive therapies into my own life and the lives of my children has been a true gift. These gentle, practical approaches have transformed the way I think about caring - not as something we simply do, but as a conscious way of being that nurtures health, dignity, and each person's innate capacity for healing.

There are a few spaces left. Register here: [email protected]

09/07/2026

At the end of this month, we're excited to begin our next Beginner's Art series with Amanda Sowersby. Over this 7-week course, you'll explore the changing seasons through drawing, observational sketching, watercolour, charcoal, and soft pastels.

You'll be gently guided through creative activities that encourage exploration and self-expression, with no pressure or expectations. In this small, supportive group, you'll build artistic skills while enjoying the wellbeing benefits of the creative process.

To register please email [email protected] or call us on (06) 877 7174. We look forward to welcoming you!

06/07/2026

Join us for a three-day workshop exploring holistic nursing and therapeutic care. Learn practical external treatments, healing plants, casework, biography work, and an anthroposophical approach to supporting individualised care.

To register email [email protected] or call us on (06) 877 7174.
We look forward to welcoming you!

Taruna is a home of adult learning which offers courses inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner.

06/07/2026

A beautiful hum was happening here at Taruna as people gathered for our Winter Craft Workshops recently. Thank you to everyone who came along and helped create such a warm, creative atmosphere.