Version 1: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: describe in detail the milestones of development in the first three years of life, give examples of how the development of the fourfold human being coincides with changes in body, soul and spirit, describe a wide variety of influences on physical development, discuss ways of developing thinking, feeling and willing, so that they become healthy and balanced expressions of soul life, give examples of how adults can have experiences that allow them to change towards their own self-realization during the second seven-year triad (age 21-42); give examples of illnesses manifesting in the threefold human being, having their roots in the developmental period of the first 21 years of life. Version 2: Students will be able to: develop a dynamic overview of the developmental processes of the entire life span, as well as a basic understanding of the developmental processes being focused on in this course, discuss death as a spiritual process, including the spiritual-developmental process between death and birth, explain significant milestones in the developmental process and recognize the effects when these capacities have not be established, especially with regard to the first 3 years, be able to identify life phases and turning points in biography, become supportive co-creative of the developmental pathways, discuss the importance of biography understanding in curative education and social therapy, develop an in-depth, integrated and meaningful picture of a complex development situation of a person with disabilities, use this picture to develop practical ideas for educational, social and therapeutic support, use art and conversation toward understanding an individual with disabilities’ life story.