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.

For anyone who meets depression, anxiety or stress — in their work, in their family, or in themselves.
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 – Water element
- Anxiety, Kidney, and Astral Body – Air element
- Obsessive-compulsive tendencies, Lung, and Physical Body – Earth element
- Rage, guilt & mania, Heart & Gall bladder, and the ‘I’ – Fire element
How to balance dynamic inner and outer forces for emotional and mental well-being – strengthening the ‘I’ function – supporting salutogenesis.

Online group-work explores

Preparing for group sharing — your art-work, and the ten aspects for exploring mental health issues: observation, the body, the soul-forces, the ‘I’, harvesting, recognition.
Exploring depression.
Exploring anxiety.
Exploring obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
Exploring rage, guilt and mania.
Overcoming nervousness — practical exercises from Steiner’s lecture, and a meditation on the powers of radiance and gravity, soul and body.

BGO-12 MH1 Mental Health Challenges - Holistic Biography Work - Front Page

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Study Guide: 118 pages
Recorded Lectures: 8
Suggested Reading, Journalling, Creative Activities
Independent Study: 40 hours, self-paced
Fee: 90 AUD – counts towards the full course
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Add Facilitated Group-work

15 hours real-time online, in small groups of 3 to 5
Offered once every year – see Course Dates
Fee: 290 AUD – full course 380 AUD
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