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Encyclopedia > Camphill movement

The Camphill Movement is an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities. Unsalaried workers and their families live with people with special needs in village communities. The movement was founded near Aberdeen, Scotland by the Austrian pediatrist Karl König in 1940. It is inspired by the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to promote a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities. ... Aberdeen, often called The Granite City, is Scotlands third largest city, with a population of approximately 202,370[1]. Aberdeen is the chief commercial centre and seaport in the north-east of Scotland. ... Motto: (Latin for No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... Clinical Examination Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents (from newborn to age 16-21, depending on the country). ... Karl König was an Austrian paediatric Doctor who in 1940 founded at Aberdeen, Scotland the Camphill Movement, an international movement of therapeutic intentional communities for those with special needs or disabilities. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Rudolf Steiner. ...


There are over 100 Camphill Communities in twenty-two countries around the world.


Communities in the UK

There are a number of Camphill Communities in the UK, namely Botton Village, Larchfield, Newton Dee, Beannachar, Blair Drummond, Ochil Tower, Milton Keynes, Delrow, The Mount, and Pennines Community, Glencraig (Northern Ireland), Holywood (Northern Ireland), Mourne Grange (Northern Ireland) and Clanabogan (Northern Ireland). Botton is a small village in North Yorkshire, England which is mainly a Camphill Community for people with learning disabilities. ... Blair Drummond (sometimes known as Blairdrummond) is a small rural community near Stirling in Scotland, predominately located along the A84 road. ... Milton Keynes is a large town in northern Buckinghamshire, in South East England, about 45 miles/75 km north-west of London, and roughly halfway between London and Birmingham. ... The Mount is a 2002 science fantasy novel, ISBN 0142403024, by Carol Emshwiller than won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for that year. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Clanabogan is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. ...


External links

  • The Camphill movement in North America
  • The Camphill movement in the United Kingdom
  • Official history
  • Camphill Communities of Ireland
  • Staffansgården - personal impressions of living in a Camphill village in Sweden

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Comprehensive Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (673 words)
Camphill communities are designed to support people over the long-term by creating a real home within a highly-functioning community, where companions can live out their lives surrounded by friends and colleagues, putting down roots and enjoying a sense of family in a setting that provides continuity and exceptional care.
Camphill life is guided by the belief that people with special needs are also teachers and care-givers themselves, able to share their abilities and gifts in ways that earn the respect and gratitude of others.
And in a Camphill community, spiritual life and social relationships are seen as being as important to a sense of well being as providing for the needs of the body, which are also attended to with great care.
A History of the Camphill Movement (1805 words)
The Camphill movement, as it came to be known was founded in 1939 by an Austrian Doctor Karl Konig, along with a group of young helpers.
Camphill is seeking to provide greater provision for the over-nineteens and is actively considering ways by which more help can be given to the mentally ill. In existing centres, standards are continually under review and research continues into new methods and practices.
Camphill depends on individuals and if it is to respond adequately to present and future challenges more people will he needed who are prepared to make Camphill their way of life.
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