Taruna Online
Online courses to help you navigate your parenting journey
Authentic has recently been the word of the year according to Merriam-Webster, and at Taruna we feel its absence keenly in today's world. Authenticity, along with discernment, is our counter to this.
We recognise parents as navigators, guiding children from the safe harbours of home to the open seas of a world beyond. It can feel like a daunting responsibility, and as parents, we may find ourselves questioning our own abilities. What can give us strength for this important work is learning together, expanding our consciousness as we navigate our own parenting journey, embracing self-forgiveness, and acknowledging imperfection.
As you learn, it is our wish that your parenting may become ever more hopeful, without anxiety, and filled with open questioning, faith, love, reverence, wonder, and gratitude for the unique child in your care.
Taruna College is the home of holistic adult education, offering both professional and personal development opportunities.
Taruna College is a unique place of adult learning. It stands on the work of two remarkable Hawke’s Bay women. Life-long friends and partners, Ruth Nelson and Edna Burbury were dedicated to practical, yet inspired ways, of improving the future of New Zealand. Their passion was education – education that serves the human being and in turn, wider society. Early pioneers of Rudolf Steiner Education in New Zealand, their dream was for Taruna to be a place of inspiration for generations of educators to come. Today it is not only a place of Steiner/Waldorf teacher development and training, it is a hub of adult learning for anyone who wants to learn in ways that connect, nourish and sustain.