Jan Göschel

Dr. Jan Göschel is a longtime member of the Beaver Run Camphill community near Philadelphia, where he also lives when he’s not traveling for the Council. In addition to his Council duties, he is President of Camphill Academy, an association of curative education and social therapy training centers in the United States and Canada. Before shifting his work primarily to training, he was a high school teacher at The Camphill School. Born and raised in Germany, he spent a year volunteering at Camphill Village Minnesota before studying psychology and Waldorf education in Edinburgh. He later qualified as a special-education teacher in the U.S. and earned a PhD at the University of Cologne, with a dissertation on child study in anthroposophic curative education. Jan also serves as a member of the editorial team for the journal Perspectives.