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BGO-32: Mental Health Crisis

Holistic Biography Work / International Online Biography Training Program  / Part 3: Guidance and Self-guidance / BGO-32: Mental Health Crisis

BGO-32: Mental Health Crisis & Spiritual Emergency – Understanding mental health crisis from a Holistic, Spiritual Perspective

Understanding the relationship between physical symptoms and mental & emotional well-being

Breakdown, or breakthrough? Learning to differentiate a mental health crisis from a developmental crisis.
Better understand mental health phenomena. Discriminate between a mental health crisis such as a psychotic episode, and a spiritual experience. Understand more serious mental health issues. Know when to refer someone for further support or intervention. Explore how to recognise, understand and contextualise phenomena related to Spiritual Emergency. Learn ethical implications.

Topics include

  • Better understand mental health phenomena.
  • Discriminate between a mental health crisis such as a psychotic episode, and a spiritual experience.
  • Understand serious mental health issues – psychosis, particularly schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, phobias, eating disorders, addiction, and personality disorders.
  • Learn more about the impact of trauma, and managing trauma.
  • Responding to those at risk of suicide.
  • Compassionate approaches in mental health care.
  • Understand relationship between physical symptoms and emotional/mental well-being.
  • Know when someone would benefit from further support or intervention.
  • Explore how to recognise, understand and contextualise phenomena related to spiritual emergency.
  • Ethical considerations.
  • Strategies for self-care.

Online group-work explores

  • Strengthening resilience — physical and emotional well-being, recalled through moments in your own biography.
  • Getting high — the question of addiction in the broadest sense.
  • Strengthening resilience — mental well-being, and integration through drawings of resilience.
  • Spiritual emergency or mental health crisis — reading one journey through the pathology lens and the spiritual-emergency lens.
  • Helpful strategies for spiritual emergencies and crises, drawn from shared experience.
  • Building your own mental health and spiritual-emergency tool-kit across the course.
BGO-32 MH2 Mental Helth Crisis and Spiritual Emergency - Holistic Biography Work -Front Page

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  • Study Guide: 191 pages
  • Recorded Lectures: 5
  • Suggested Reading, Journalling, Creative Activities
  • Independent Study: 40 hours, self-paced
  • Fee: 90 AUD – counts towards the full course
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  • 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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