Michael Shope
Board President
Pilot, engineer, and inventor. Co-founder of Dakota Lithium Batteries and Hilltopper Electric Bike Company under Clean Republic, aligning entrepreneurial work with renewable energy.
michael.shope@cfae.us About
A 501(c)(3) since 1982.
The Center for Anthroposophical Endeavors was founded to educate and innovate new forms of social, economic, and scientific endeavors — work that has only grown more urgent in the decades since.
The Center for Anthroposophical Endeavors (CFAE) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 1982. Through online platforms, published content, lecture tours, conferences, and a portfolio of operating programs, CFAE directs its resources toward developing inclusive, practical, and beneficial paths forward for all. Its current programs include MysTech, Local Commons, CFAE Media, Good2Fund, Threefold Publishing, and Tonalitá / Lautsänger. Together, these efforts form a coherent attempt to renew culture, economy, and science from an anthroposophical foundation — one that takes the human being, not the abstraction, as its starting point. If you are new to CFAE, the quickest entry point is the MysTech program (spiritual science and technology) or the Local Commons program (threefold-order economics). To support this work, see Giving.
Our mission
Educating and innovating new forms of social, economic, and scientific endeavors since 1982. CFAE's core mission is to educate and innovate new forms of Social, Economic, and Scientific endeavors. Through its various organizations — nurtured, sponsored, or supported — alongside online platforms, recordings, published content, lecture tours, and conferences, CFAE directs its resources toward paths forward that are inclusive, practical, and beneficial for everyone.
Short history
CFAE has built up a community over four decades — founding schools and businesses, supporting programs, establishing and promoting organizations, and offering books, lectures, workshops, performances, and artistic training courses. Today its reach is global, and its scope spans the social, scientific, and economic spheres. A fuller chronological history is in development; check back soon.
Board & Leadership
About our visionaries.
The people stewarding CFAE's work today.
Carole Rockne-Powers
Board Secretary
Forty-year career in nursing and the private sector. Active in anthroposophical studies since 1983; previously on the board of the Golden Garden Waldorf School (Seattle) and CFAE in the 1990s.
carole@cfae.usTom Pichard
Board Treasurer
Member of the First Class since 2016 and twenty-year student of Steiner. Princeton graduate with two decades at Microsoft; author-in-progress of "Finding Spirit in the Digital Age."
tom.pichard@cfae.usGolda Joseph
Board Officer
Integrative health-care practitioner with fifty years of experience. Developer of "Psychology for Freedom" based on Steiner's Applied Psychosophy; teaches and practices anthroposophy worldwide.
golda@cfae.usFrank Dauenhauer
Managing Director
Managing Director since 2016. Background in social therapy, fabrication, and information security. Drives the operational and technical side of CFAE's work.
frank@cfae.usWrite us
For program-specific inquiries, reach the leads listed above. For everything else, general correspondence is welcome at admin@cfae.us.
Mailing address
CFAEP.O. Box 251
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
US