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.

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

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.