BGO-12: Mental Health Challenges

BGO-12: Mental Health Challenges – Recognise common mental health issues

Learn strategies to manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.

Look at mental health issues and challenges through various lenses – lived experience, psychological understanding and strategies, clinical definitions, psychiatric considerations, and Anthroposophic Medicine – extremes of the 4 temperaments and relation to 4 main organs. Learn to recognise common mental health issues. Learn helpful strategies to manage mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.

Topics include

Look at mental health issues and challenges through various lenses –
- lived experience
- psychological understanding and strategies
- clinical definitions
- psychiatric considerations
- Anthroposophic Medicine
Learn to recognise common mental health issues – especially symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
Learn strategies to assist with mild to moderate symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress.
Looking at the 4-foldness of the human being in relation to organs:
- Depression, Liver, and Etheric Body
- Anxiety, Kidney, and Astral Body
- Obsessive-compulsive tendencies, Lung, and Physical Body
- Rage, guilt & mania, Heart & Gall bladder, and ‘I Body
How to balance dynamic inner and outer forces for emotional and mental well-being – strengthening the ‘I’ function – supporting salutogenesis.

Online group-work explores

Individual knowledge and experience of common mental health issues.
Helpful strategies to manage mental health challenges.
Steiner’s lecture – Overcoming Nervousness – and practice of exercises suggested.