Society Winter Workshop 2025 – Introduction to Teens in a digital age – rekindling communication – Recorded sessions
Session with Christian Taylor RSHom
Christian will be exploring how to alleviate the anxiety often expressed about how to talk with (not to), that often-maligned group of people, teenagers.
Christian has spent 20 years as a homeopath working for a charity that provided alternative health care to families and children on low incomes resulting in several thousand children as patients. Christian has talked to many children and teenagers in this time with successes and failures contributing to his knowledge of the family dynamics and how they play out in session.
The teenage years are challenging ones for both parents/carers and the teenager themselves. Often, the teenagers were being brought in in order that homeopathy might modify their behaviour in some way that makes them more amenable to the family expectations (e.g., attending school, not being so rude etc.). The teenagers themselves had to not only negotiate their own highly pressured social environment but also the beliefs of their parents, all while under the influence of raging hormonal shifts at least as extreme as the Menopause. Taking a case in this often polarized, and highly charged environment, can be daunting.
Christian looks at how we can approach the consultation with teenagers in a way that is more likely to produce the kind of open dialogue we need in order to successfully prescribe. This relies on the homeopath having a good understanding of family dynamics and being able to negotiate the, sometimes tricky, interview between unhappy parent and unhappy teenager.
The homeopathic model is the point of reference in the lecture. In the end it was a better understanding of homeopathy giving a perspective from a somatic view (one that unifies the physical experience with the psychological) that allowed Christian to operate out of a place that can avoid side-taking, making the interview much less fraught and more helpful for both parents and teenager.
About Christian
Christian Taylor RSHom is a working homeopath based in Sussex. He has been in practice for over 30 years. 20 of these years were spent at the Dolphin House Children’s Clinic in Brighton. He teaches at the South Downs School of Homeopathy where he is also Co-Principal, alongside Michael Bird.
Recording of presentation:
This is part of our Society Winter Workshop 2025 – Introduction to Teens in a digital age: rekindling communication – with Cori Anderberg, Dr Michaela Glöckler, Lou Harvey-Zahra and Christian Taylor RSHom
