Four short video talks on Threefolding
Joan Sleigh, Tho Ha Vinh, Helmy Abouleish and Sundeep Kamath
To see four brief interviews with people who are inspired by and work practically with Steiner’s ideas on societal health, click here. Once at the site, scroll down to see each of the four (3 to 9 minute) videos. See below for the names and short bios of the people who are being interviewed. Each person answers the same three questions:
What is the Threefold Social Organism (TSO) for you?
What is your practical experience with TSO (the Threefold Social Organism) ?
Challenges: past, present, future?
These interviews are from around 2019.
Joan Sleigh
Joan Sleigh grew up in a Camphill community in South Africa. She has a background in Steiner-Waldorf Education, and, for seven years, she was part of the Executive Council at the Goetheanum, the international center for the Anthroposophical Society located in Dornach, Switzerland. She also co-ordinated the World Social Initiative Forum (WSIF) which she continued to lead and develop from South Africa between 2021 and 2024. The WSIF birthed the Online Academy for Social Art (OASA).
Joan Sleigh is currently acting Managing Director of an accredited S-W teacher training institution in Cape Town, the Centre for Creative Education.
Tho Ha Vinh
Tho Ha Vinh passed away on September 26, 2025.
His death announcement can be found on the October 7, 2025, Plum Village website:
Tho Ha Vinh, the son of a Vietnamese father and a French mother, became the program director of the Gross National Happiness Center (GNH) of the country of Bhutan from 2012 to 2018, demonstrating how the principles of happiness can and must apply to individuals, families, communities, and societies in order to produce the conditions for a truly satisfying life.
Helmy Abouleish
Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt.
SEKEM promotes sustainable development in ecology, economy, societal and cultural life. The SEKEM Holding produces, processes and markets organic and biodynamic foodstuff, textiles and herbal medicine in Egypt, Arabia and internationally. SEKEM also operate educational facilities and is regarded as the Egyptian pioneer in Organic farming.
-from SEKEM web page
Sundeep Kamath
Sundeep Kamath is the secretary of the Biodynamic Association of India (BDAI).
Sundeep has been involved in the movement since the last decade. He is Secretary of the Biodynamic Association of India (BDAI), promoting this spiritual regenerative agriculture throughout the region. Since this year, he serves on the Executive Committee of the Anthroposophical Society in India. He was on the Organizing Committee of the Organic World Congress 2017, creating the possibility for the participation of many small and marginal farmers from the global south for the first time, in this major event.
Sundeep gives contributions around the globe to promote and support organic agriculture & sustainable lifestyles. Currently his main task is to collaborate with federal, regional and local governments on policies and practices to promote organic agriculture.
Click here to view the four short interviews (from ca 2019) with these four leaders. To see the videos, scroll down once you are on the site.
Each person answers the same three questions:
What is the Threefold Social Organism (TSO) for you?
What is your practical experience with TSO (the Threefold Social Organism) ?
Challenges: past, present, future?