From 2012 til today

The property which we bought with the newly renovated glass engraving workshop. A message which we received in December, 2011 initiated a number of changes. Our landlord at the time had filed for bankruptcy and we were faced with the possibility of having to move. We examined possible alternative locations, but in the end, the financial support of two Lichtblick members, a generous donation and an interest-free loan enabled us to purchase our rooms as well as adjoining sections of the building.

Renovation
Our little workshop in Schwörstadt, Germany, which, with the help of friends and our landlord, we had simply and lovingly renovated, was extended. We were also able to plant a small garden which shields us somewhat from the heavy traffic on the street. Further donations and loans have enabled us to transform parts of the building into a glass engraving workshop with six workplaces and to begin the glass engraving training.

In summer 2013 Marianne Altmaier finished a copper red glass for the Raphael Therapy Centre in her new engraving workshop. Through her illness the planned Training in glass engraving had to be postponed. Marianne died in November 2013 just before the graduation of the first group of glass therapists.

The impulse continues
Through the death of Marianne Altmaier it was a question how to find a successor to carry this impulse into the future. At first, Lucien Turci took on the leadership of this project. Since 2015-2023 Friedlinde Meier has been working with Lichtblick. She was responsible for continuing education and metal colour light therapy research. She is a curative eurythmist and metal colour light therapist and was trained by Marianne Altmaier. From 2023, Clothilde Bernard, a trained metal colour light therapist took over this area on an interim basis.

In August, 2014, we began the training in glass engraving. Four course participants started to learn this particular form of engraving from Lucien Turci. In September 2017, one of the participants, Clothilde Bernard, took over responsibility for the glass engraving in Lichtblick. Since 2010, four part-time training courses to become a metal color light therapist have taken place.

The group of therapists and teachers at Whitsun 2019 The metal colour light therapists at the centre
of the impulse
The group of trained therapists has now become the central pillar for the farther development of metal colour light therapy. This has become an important forum for the exchange of experiences. We are doing research, exchanging our results, and contributions are gathered for publications about the healing effect of the glasses. In this group new ideas also arise for the next therapeutic training. Manifold experiences in different therapeutic realms are gathered together and shape the farther development of this therapy. 

Centre for research and development of Metal-Colour-Light-Therapy
Back to our conversion work: Through various conversion measures, we are coming ever closer to Marianne Altmaier's vision of creating a centre for research and development of Metal-Colour-Light-therapy on an anthroposophical basis in Schwörstadt. From the very beginning, everything was available in a very small space: the transformation of basic substances into glass, the subsequent production of a therapeutic medium to its therapeutic application and the training of people. As the impulse continued to grow, the need for a larger meeting room, additional sanitary facilities and a communal kitchen became increasingly urgent.
Planning and implementation of a further construction phase began in 2023/24.
The studio was demolished. In its place, a well-insulated seminar and exhibition room was created with space for more than 30 people. The kitchen was redesigned, and additional sanitary facilities were installed.

Studio Before  Studio under renovation  Studio afterwards

Further training and seminars in glass engraving
In August 2023, the fourth training course began. There are 16 participants from England, USA, Thailand, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Georgia. Since 2023, began a training in glass engraving with 4 women from Germany, Switzerland and France. Quite a number of people come towards us, who are interested to learn this technique of engraving which was developed by Assja Turgeniev together with Rudolf Steiner and which was used to make the windows of the first Goetheanum.

Regular events
On 1-2 weekends a year, we present the various facets of our work to a wider public. All events of our association can be found under the heading ‚Events‘.