Camphill Academy, together with Camphill Communities California and the Camphill Association of North America, had the rewarding opportunity to sponsor the 2025 Conference of the Youth Section of North America in Harlemville, NY, over a beautiful week in August. For Camphill Academy, this was not only a chance to support the gathering but also an invitation to explore the inspiring mission of the Youth Section. We warmly encourage you to learn more about their work and how it calls young people to shape a more intentional and meaningful world. The Youth Section in North America is a regional branch of the Global Youth Section, itself one of the 12 sections of the School of Spiritual Science.
The Conference was a chance for participants to come together and explore how they could co-create a more meaningful world. Through conversation, work, art, and craft, participants celebrated ideas and practices that connected them to their most authentic selves and to their future collaborators. Daily workshops included painting, blacksmithing, biodynamic farming, biography work, education, natural building, homeopathy, ceramics, eurythmy, Goethean science, drama, and more. The gathering offered an opportunity for young people working in education, farming, crafts, organizing, art, and many other vocations to meet one another and to form deeper, healthier relationships with the world around them.
The goal of the conference—to celebrate practices and ideas that connect young people to themselves, each other, and community, and to gather in service of building stronger communities with respect for one another and the world around us—flowed directly from the mission of the Youth Section of North America. There are many opportunities to make connections across this worldwide network. The Youth Section seeks to create spaces where young people can meet, collaborate, and discover how to live intentionally. By fostering connection, initiative, and a deeper sense of responsibility to the earth and to one another, the conference became the expression of that mission.
Heenam Kim, fourth-year Academy student from Beaver Run with other conference attendees
